The War on Cars podcast makes the point that most bike safety stuff is down at the bottom of the triangle and could be at the top.
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it’s probably not required to be an accessible entrance since its cars only.
“died age 34 in an accident with a car. survived by a daughter, wife, and mother. he was not wearing a helmet” is all too common of a sentence to hear
Yup.
Not really anything jackass here… Just sad. It seems fair that there should be some more visual language deterring E bikes from being piloted by young children.
Then again out in the boonies… There are like five year olds on 50 cc motor bikes That go faster than E bikes so whatever.
they are also suing Giro because… helmets are supposed to prevent all forms of injury??
i guess sometimes theres an insurance angle to these suits, where you have to sue to get the insurance to pay out
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Yeah both parents are litigators… And they think that this is a preventable tragedy but that the blame is on the companies and not on them or their judgment.
From what I can gather this had nothing to do with the bike being an ebike (other than the questionable supposition that they would not have been able to ride up to the top of the hill on an acoustic bike). Sounds like the girl just lost control on a descent and her friend hit her head in the crash. Tragic, but hardly lawsuit-worthy unless the bike came with inoperable brakes or something. Parents may well be jackasses.
We all crashed our bikes more than once as kids… I’m sure I could have killed myself if I got horribly unlucky in a crash.
i am surprised that they aren’t suing the other kids family too
i’m also curious if the bike was built at a real shop or if mom and dad put it together or what. i’ve heard of a lot of these rad power bikes having “issues” like “the bars fell off” “the stem fell off” etc that is bc it was built badly
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???
well that is on the truth spectrum somewhere
a disc brake on a forward-moving front wheel does want to pull the wheel down and back out of the dropout
Usually front disc QR dropouts are angled forward to mitigate this
I vaguely remember some people making noise about this ~10 years ago, but no successful lawsuits come to mind
every bike should have wingnuts
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Many do, but most of them are on the saddle
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The brakes on the rads are incredibly under powered and hardly work out of the box. Even when properly adjusted they will pull to the bar after 100 miles of use. The vast majority of these are also built by the consumer, which means it is never properly adjusted.
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well the general consensus in our society is that the only way to make riding a bike safe is to wear a helmet (riding a bike without a helmet=dangerous, add a helmet=safe), so if you get hurt while wearing a helmet the helmet was deficient.
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let’s also not forget the humongous disc-brake QR recall related to skewer levers possibly getting loose and then caught in the disc
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the amount of time and effort it took me, a pretty experienced bike mechanic, to get my high quality wire disc brakes to stop my bike to a degree I found satisfying would leave me terrified to ride any disc bike that wasn’t set up by a professional.
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The amount of comments I’ve heard lately about cyclists and even pedestrians here in Ohio, even from ‘liberals’, has shown me that most people see getting around in any way other than a car as dangerous. Real bummer. Sometimes I try to point it out, but most people don’t really get it. Like, hey the guy has a protected crosswalk, it’s not dangerous for him to cross. But I guess they realize that it is actually is because drivers are oblivious.
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This. Rad bikes are fucking garbage when assembled by Rad at their showroom so I can only imagine how terrible some rando normie will do putting it together. Honestly, I haven’t been impressed with the brakes on the Tern we had or the Xtracycle: we spent a grand on DH brakes and rotors to make the xtra stop well.
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