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HaRuMaN:

--- Quote from: ChadTower on January 09, 2009, 02:30:06 pm ---Best arrangement I've seen is when someone has a workplace with a locker room.  Then they can bring clothes in a bag, shower there, and hopefully store the bike someplace safe.  It sucks to be on the far end of a ride and have something cause you to walk home.  Biking to work that distance, in your work clothes, really isn't feasible.  Too much road grime or bike grease to look presentable if you work in an office or someplace like that.

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My work has that, along with a shower.  My coworker sometimes rides his bike in (about 20 miles, one way).

ChadTower:

My work has one shower.  For like 1000 people.  I've never seen anyone use it.   :P

patrickl:

--- Quote from: ChadTower on January 09, 2009, 01:35:16 pm ---
--- Quote from: patrickl on January 09, 2009, 01:22:56 pm ---In the Netherlands it feels like we have more bike paths than roads for cars.

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Yeah, I've heard that.  Lots of places do.  Not so here, though.  I'm about 12 miles from work so that commute on a bike for me would be a simple one in terms of work.  Problem is that it's all twisty back roads that idiots texting on cell phones are doing 50 in a 35.  The shoulder is probably 12" wide and it's mostly stone walls and hazards just off of it.  I would be dead in a month.

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Yeah, I've been in a lot of places all over the states and (apart from the big cities) usually there isn't even a sidewalk. I couldn't even walk to the nearest store without risking my life.

ahofle:

--- Quote from: ChadTower on January 09, 2009, 01:14:45 pm ---Bicyclists are targets, plain and simple.  Best case you're ever going to get is someone ignoring you.  People will gun their engines at you, cut you off intentionally, throw stuff at you.  I learned from the triathlon community that most bicycling injuries aren't accidents.  They are caused by motorists, either intentionally, or just by screwing around with you and making you dump off the bike.  I have been lucky so far that this hasn't happened to me but I have had close calls and I've seen it happen to other people firsthand.

Commuting to work on a bike sounds like a nice idea but from a safety standpoint it may be the least safe method mentioned in this thread.

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We have bike 'lanes' on quite a few roads around here.  What is it about cyclists though that makes them ride RIGHT on the line as close as possible to the cars?  I mean I see it all the time -- there is usually several feet of bike lane unused and they are right on the bike lane divider.  You literally have to go into the other lane to safely avoid them.  It's no surprise to me that so many cyclists are hit by cars.  Seems way more dangerous than riding a motorcycle or scooter to me.

TOK:

--- Quote from: ChadTower on January 09, 2009, 01:14:45 pm ---Not sure how I missed this thread the first time.  Must have been during my hiatus.

If you think people don't respect scooters on the roads you should try riding a bicycle regularly.  When the weather is appropriate here and I'm in training I do ~25 miles a couple times a week.  Bicyclists are targets, plain and simple.  Best case you're ever going to get is someone ignoring you.  People will gun their engines at you, cut you off intentionally, throw stuff at you.  I learned from the triathlon community that most bicycling injuries aren't accidents.  They are caused by motorists, either intentionally, or just by screwing around with you and making you dump off the bike.  I have been lucky so far that this hasn't happened to me but I have had close calls and I've seen it happen to other people firsthand.

Commuting to work on a bike sounds like a nice idea but from a safety standpoint it may be the least safe method mentioned in this thread.

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They probably just do that because they know its you.  ;D

Cakemeister, it sounds like they're just doing a valve adjustment, where they use a feeler gauge to adjust the clearance of the valves to the valve seats in the head when they're in the closed position. Its a simple job thats totally common now that high performance small 4 strokes have taken over the 2 stroke market.
If not adjusted properly, the valves will beat on the seats and eventually wear them out. Loose valves or worn seats will both cause low compression and poor performance.

Very tough to guess at something like this with the available information though, but it sounds like maybe they can't get the valve clearance in spec for some reason and they're just hoping to blow you off.

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