_haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.worksM to micromobility - Bikes, scooters, boards: Whatever floats your goat, this is micromobilityEnglish · 4 months ago“Cycle paths aren’t for every journey”: Phone driver blasts cyclist for riding on road instead of “million-pound bike lane” deemed “useless”; Reform’s Lee Anderson vs “flashers on bikes”, plus more.road.ccexternal-linkmessage-square5linkfedilinkarrow-up115arrow-down11
arrow-up114arrow-down1external-link“Cycle paths aren’t for every journey”: Phone driver blasts cyclist for riding on road instead of “million-pound bike lane” deemed “useless”; Reform’s Lee Anderson vs “flashers on bikes”, plus more.road.cc_haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.worksM to micromobility - Bikes, scooters, boards: Whatever floats your goat, this is micromobilityEnglish · 4 months agomessage-square5linkfedilink
minus-squareHawkelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·4 months ago The surface is loose stones, it’ll shred a road bike tyre. No cyclist was consulted when they chose the surface type. What is this even talking about? Road tires work just fine on gravel, it’s not like they surfaced it with broken glass. Does “loose stones” mean something very different than “gravel”?
minus-squareCortlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·4 months ago Does “loose stones” mean something very different than “gravel”? They’re saying it’s not a hard packed gravel. Someone got lazy and didn’t finish their job. If the stones aren’t locked together by being packed down, they skip and slide across each other, which makes for poor ‘road’ conditions
What is this even talking about? Road tires work just fine on gravel, it’s not like they surfaced it with broken glass.
Does “loose stones” mean something very different than “gravel”?
They’re saying it’s not a hard packed gravel. Someone got lazy and didn’t finish their job.
If the stones aren’t locked together by being packed down, they skip and slide across each other, which makes for poor ‘road’ conditions