According to pink bike on Instagram, they decided to scrap it.
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I more or less fee that adults should be able to do what they want to do re this kind of stuff.
I suspect that a lot of riders were balking.
i guess i agree that adults should be able to do what they want in this regard, but there’s definitely a level of coercion that happens when you’re a sponsored rider attending an event. like, i don’t know the ins and outs of what it’s like to be a pro athlete, but if your sponsors are determining whether or not you’re able to put food on the table, it seems like there’d be a lot of pressure to participate in these sorts of things regardless of your personal level of comfort
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sounds like you and a friend need to post up and do the invisible rope trick
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fuck it- work on that circuit live. it’s kinda what you signed up for as an electrician. you know how to be safe, right? do things in the right order and the 277v won’t bite you. boss says it’s gotta get done and we can’t shut it down cuz it’s a hospital or something.
nah we don’t need to LOTO that machine- just get in there. we all know how to be safe and nobody is gonna turn it on while you’re in there. shift change is soon, but we’ll let them know
i honestly never thought about OSHA and extreme sports until now but yeah that thing is sketchy as fuck and i’ve done a lot of stupid shit because the unpaid peer pressure was there. imagine getting to the point in your career where your specialty is huck shit harder than any human should and knowing that you have the best hucking shit job and knowing that if you don’t send it over this canyon that you might be at a dead end
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I genuinely hate these things, and I don’t understand why they’re not just a standard red/yellow/green setup that’s always green until a pedestrian hits the button. Drivers know what to do with those already, why are we overcomplicating it?
Drivers see the yellow flashing light pop up out of nowhere and don’t know what to do, and once everyone finally stops half the drivers don’t seem to understand that when it transitions from solid red to flashing red it’s now effectively a stop sign and they can proceed when safe.
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I agree with you that the design is pretty stupid and it should just be a standard red light, but I’m not gonna have any sympathy towards people running red lights.
We need better driver’s education, and people should have to pass a driving test every x years to keep their license.
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yeah zero sympathy. there’s one of these that I have to trigger sometimes on my way home from work if traffic is heavy, and it’s maddening how often people blow through it AFTER it’s turned red. And then they get caught by the “real” red light half a block away, perfect location to have a good scream at them while they’re captive in traffic.
oh boy yep. Just did a road trip from Nashville to Denver with a rather elderly driver and it was genuinely alarming how timid and erratic their driving was in any sort of city-ish environment. Gritted my teeth the whole time to not backseat drive.
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Nah, I’m with you. It’s hard to articulate where to draw the line, but it’d be nice if more comprehensive safety measures didn’t require a death or dismemberment first.
I think its also different intensity of peer pressure and different responsibilities of organizers when it’s a competition, vs someone who goes on their own to do risky stunts.
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The vids were from before the event. Afaik the riders were pals of the organizers since they’re local to Wales, so they were gonna do some testing. And test they did.
There’s canyon gaps at Rampage every year now. Yeah I mean these Red Bull events aren’t my favorite thing to watch either. There is this whole freeride world tho that likes to risk becoming a pareplegic for our entertainment.
How different is it from ye olde tight-rope walking, bull-riding, etc?
Oftentimes while riding mtb I do think that maybe this activity will be banned eventually or criticized the way that American football is for tbi. Then again people have been doing downhill skiing for a long time too and no one bats an eye at that, eh.
Combo breaker!!1!
We have a crosswalk that we use daily and maybe once every year someone blows through it when it’s red.
Not all drivers are assholes. But the ones who are are dangerous
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I imagine that someone like BK would be doing shit like this even if no one was watching…. Or drugs… like it’s this or drugs right?
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Okay, had a real moment today on my way home from work.
Riding on the two-way bikeway that runs along a mostly one-way car route. I got to an intersection that commonly has crosswalk blockers. Today there was one so I executed a “love tap” where I tap lightly on the car, just to let them know they’re being a bit of a tosser. Usually this is pretty consequence free, but not today!
First I heard someone yell “hey!” But wherever. Keep riding.
A minute or two later the guy comes roaring alongside me and shouts “HEY DID YOU TOUCH MY CAR!”
I say “yep”
He says, “I need your name.”
Uh oh. “I’m not going to do that.”
“Pull over. I need your FUCKING name becuse you touched my car!”
Yikes. Obviously this is a situation that is going to escalate dangerously. Fortunately, the road next to the bike path is a one-way. I engage in evasive maneuvers and turn around. I hear the roar of the guy’s luxury SUV as he accelerates to the end of the block.
Oh shit. What next? I turn off the road and immediately dive into an alley. Go a block, turn right. Ahead I see a very busy road with a curb preventing cars from crossing it. Perfect!
I force my way across the busy street and go another block. I turn and I see the guy, a couple blocks back on the other side of the road. Shit.
I turn right and go out of view. Stop, wait a few moments then turn around and head back then turn right and head for the pedestrian bridge across the freeway. Make it across and I don’t see the guy again.
Fuck, pretty frightening honestly. Very extreme response to the tap, and more evidence that you literally never know what someone is going to do.
On the other hand, I can’t ignore the frisson of smug satisfaction of the awesome superiority of bicycles — a fat, 40 year dad was able to outmaneuver a bro in a 365hp luxury SUV without even breaking a sweat. Hell yeah.
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You know he’s rage posting on assholesuvdrivers.com right now
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this is why i gave up holding drivers hostage with my love taps. jk but in all seriousness if telling them to have a blesséd day doesn’t work i don’t have much of a backup plan. glad you’re ok. people get absolutely bonkers at the thought of the thing they leave outside all the time being touched by a sentient hot dog. boggles my mind.
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Man… should have just given him your name. Can you imagine him screaming at some cop to go do something and track you down.
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especially when your name is Mike Hunt.
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lol I love touching cars when the driver does something dumb. You can’t get away with that “don’t touch my car” nonsense in New York.
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One of my greatest moments on brianforums was when I wrote a poem called “the touch” about running my hand along the hood of a car (that had just done a super close pass) while it was stopped at a light and I was splitting lanes on my way to work at a bike shop. It was the first time anyone ever used “ftw” to respond to me and I didn’t know what it meant.
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It was a long time ago so I’ve probably shared this before.
A driver stopped at a light was well into the bike lane and I meant to give his side view mirror a love tap, but ended up giving it a pretty good thwack. He pulled up beside me with words and I felt genuinely bad about it so I invited him to pull over. He declined; pretty sure he thought I wanted to fight.
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