Oooh, you guys are scraping the vertical paint for zippers. Our city dabbled with zippers, but immediately had to put orange cones up, as drivers just ran over them. Zippers would be much more effective if they were rotated 90° so that they were head on instead of a glancing blow to cars.
But at that point, you might as well throw in concrete crash barriers or orange construction barriers instead. Zippers don't really do much.
Or flexposts covered in anti-slip, high grit sandpaper.
The speed, too, is a safety issue. Studies show that differences in speed between vehicles sharing a road are a statistical cause of crashes, and many of New York's streets are shared between bikes and cars. A bike that can do the 25-mph speed limit is safer than one that can't.
The future of personal mobility shouldn't be autonomous EVs, it should be e-bikes. E-bikes that are lightweight, that don't spew tire microplastics into the environment, that require little power to move a person from point A to point B.
This is the sort of safe, common-sense stuff that should be a boilerplate on every article.
Also, the triangle part is just really cool as well. I love both, but the progress pride one feels much more officially flaggy to me :)
Gearing, tires, and geometry make all the difference in the world.
My Transition Sentinel is only geared for mountain biking. It's a terrible city bike. Tons of shock, high torque gears for steep hills, cannot go very fast. But it's insane when you need to climb or descend mountains. It has knobby, 2.4in tires.
My city bike is an ebike, and even though it's a single speed, it's pretty comfortable going between 10-30mph on that gear alone. The battery allows me to haul lots of groceries or baggage (and climb steep hills), and it's tires are wide enough to not get stuck in tram rails or gaps in the concrete road. I have knobby tires to avoid popping tires, but smoother, thinner tires will be more efficient.
Edit: if you have a shock, try locking it out if it has lockout.
I'd also recommend checking out city bikes, such as road, gravel, and upright bikes. There's an incredible amount of diversity, and a downhill mountain bike is about as far from a road bike as one can get. One can roll over a rock the size of a watermelon, the other can coast for meters off of a pedal stroke. Ebikes also are phenomenal as car replacements (or even just as car offsets), but generally cost $1,500+ with tariffs.
I lived too close to a hospital. Apparently, the road I lived next to was the road that all fire, EMS, and police used. Tons of sirens at all hours of the night and day. I toured the place on a quiet day, so it never occurred to me about the noise. That was a bit of a suffer fest.
One funny thing about that place, someone always swore consistently on the street between 17:00-20:00 each evening. It was always someone new, but it was like clockwork. Guests wouldn't believe it at first, but it became a thing, lol. Sometimes it was someone on a skateboard eating shit in the protected bike lane, other times it was a pissed off pedestrian, someone having an argument, someone having fun, or someone clearly off their medication. No apartment has had that before or since.
The book is so good, I don't know if I wanna see the movie.
Black mesa is worth it, full price. I played both the OG and black mesa back to back. Fantastic game!
Sweater weather. I already didn't like the downtempo vibe, but it got painfully overplayed back in the day. Unfortunately, I still hear it occasionally. Anything but that, please.
And the orange menace's POS daughter is attending, as icing on the cake.
It's interesting to see other people rock them with a slightly different look. Little bit wider in the chest and riding slightly higher on the hips.
(Btw, thank you for finding these!) <3
Oh yeah, I've bought non unisex clothing before and I'm used to the different cuts. That's just the world we live in! Sometimes you get baggy spots where your hips are thinner, or narrower in the chest.
Poor man. I wish the Project Veritas "journalist" a very interesting life for inflicting so much pain and suffering on some normal person.