09-26-2017, 06:06 PM
(09-26-2017, 04:54 PM)chutten Wrote: For what it's worth, I always assumed there to be a spectrum between (and extending past) "person on bike" and "cyclist" and that no one fits in any one place on it. For me it's a shorthand for communication.
For others? Well, I'm still trying to stop calling collisions "accidents." Words are hard.
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Quote:Priority bicycles
Someone at work described shifting at a standstill and I am enamoured with the idea. The more machinery hidden from my pant cuffs, the better.
Words are hard, but they're also meaningful, which is why we apparently still have fights for them.
FWIW, I try not to bother defining myself as either, my statement was more in how the words we use define others. Certainly there is a spectrum but I try very hard to use "people on bikes" and I fully admit it is because I am pushing a narrative, so...even lycra folks (and frankly, in the summer, I'm one of them) I refer to as "people on bikes".
Internal hubs: Yes, fantastic, they're the best commuter options for sure. When combined with a belt drive or a shaft drive, even better. Being able to shift at frequent stops is fantastic, being unable to shift under load, not as big a deal in traffic anyway. Pretty much all "Dutch" bikes have them if they have any gears. (Where "Dutch" means Dutch style, not bikes in the Netherlands, because of course, there are plenty of road bikes in the Netherlands as well).