recumbentpanda
Veteran
The small wheels = have to pedal faster thing is amazingly prevalent. I once tried to explain: ‘Big cog go round once, little cog go round many times.’ They looked at me as if I was talking about witchcraft.
Now, I'm sure I've read something along those lines. Something about speed records being taken on Moultons. One of those things that makes me go "that doesn't sound right ... but what do I know? Maybe it is true"
Sadly it won’t catch the most polluting vehicles from abroad, the hoards of Eastern European Artics that roam our fair land with huge long range fuel tanks down both sides of the tractor unit, driven by people under strict instructions not to buy diesel in the UK, it’s too expensive and you’ll be fired if you do, go back on the ferry and buy it in Europe where it’s cheaper. These things, I think can carry about 1000 litres of diesel on one side and 500 on the other, but it’s illegal to fill the 1000 litre to the maximum, so that would give around 2,600 miles range at 8 mpgI've long maintained that VED should be scrapped in it's present form of being collected and put onto the price of fuel. That way, the drivers pay in proportion to the number of miles they drive; the heavier the vehicle, the greater the fuel consumption and the greater the road and environmental damage. Also, the 'tax' is undodgable, so it also catches drivers from abroad.
Having a Brommy, I'm fully aware of the fact that I can accelerate faster and brake more effectively than a full size wheeled bike, at least over short distances. But once you begin to try and explain what is basic physics to most folk, their eyes just glaze over with incomprehension - !The small wheels = have to pedal faster thing is amazingly prevalent.
Why do us motorist's have to pay car tax through the nose for the upkeep of the road's ...
was you talking to @SkipdiverJohn
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Was that in the UK? That leaves what, three to five days a year? Must be a majestic sight, all the cyclists taking to the streets at once like a monarch butterfly flock.
This thread just reminded me - where is @ragingroadkill ? (aka "user/guest").
Some years ago before the current bike trend popularity, a cyclist was waiting for his friend at a corner who then showed up (a pedestrian) who then said "hey you're on a bike! who do you think you are, laaaance armstrooong?" with a haughty laughter.