24 January 2010

Pathetic polluting cyclist

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Northbourne Debris

Spotted this from my bicycle on the nature strip of Northbourne Ave a bit up from Space if I recall correctly. This kind of unthinking rubbishing of the landscape is typical of a small number of the lycra brigade who cannot be bothered to take their detritus with them but no doubt would scoff and point and anyone doing the same with a Maccas bag.

The valve is a Presta style, normally used by the lycra warriors, rather than the ordinary car type of valve used by the casual cyclist.

Pathetic really, cyclists normally pride ourselves on being environmentally conscious, but obviously not this self-absorbed specimen.

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Err puncture resistant tyres not tubes…

Clown Killer2:30 pm 28 Jan 10

Maybe these road cyclists need to sactifice a little bit of weight* for reliability

Reminds me of the old saying when it comes to bike stuff: Strong, Light, Cheap. Pick any two.

Postalgeek said :

Judging from the thin presta tube it’s been left by some wnker roadie cursing at all the broken glass that’s ruined his Very Important training

I roll on prestas and ride a hybrid – Reason being is that my rims are built to withstand +110 PSI. Prestas were invented so that you have more structural integrity on a thin rim, because the valve stem is considerably thinner than schraeder (Your typical car valve)

Higher PSI = lower rolling resistance – v/improtant for a +100kg dude like me.

Not everyone who rolls on prestas is some kind of closed mind elitist tool.

Standard practise for me is to carry a ready to inflate spare tube and if I get a puncture is a straight up swap and pump w/ a C02 canister without any need for roadside puncture repair. The flat tube replaces the good one in my spares saddle pack and gets repaired on arrival at my destination.

Now that I roll on continetal gatorskins, I am yet to have a puncture on my daily ngunnawal-braddon-ngunnawal commutes. It used to be every 60km or so, and twice in 16km on occasions. Maybe these road cyclists need to sactifice a little bit of weight* for reliability

*puncture resistant tubes by nature of kevlar lining/sidewall belts weight more.

typical of a small number

.. and the detector becomes the emitter! It’s a shame that you had to spoilt it with this contradiction.

I actually agree with you trollsniffer. It’s bad enough having slobs throwing crap out of cars, without cyclists undoing the work that’s been put into cycle advocacy. All my cycle circles, roadie and mtb, frown on discarded tubes.

Judging from the thin presta tube it’s been left by some wnker roadie cursing at all the broken glass that’s ruined his Very Important training, who then decides that an act of contempt should be met with another act of contempt. As he obviously doesn’t like to patch, I’m sure karma will catch up with him and he will have forgotten to replace the spare when the next puncture comes along. Hopefully that will be past Tidbinbilla.

In the meantime, trollsniffer, a word of advice. If you want people to remained tuned to a post related to cycling, drop the lycra BS. It’s not elitist, many casual cyclists wear it, and if we all thought it looked cool we’d wear it to the pub. It’s functional, comfortable, and safer than loose clothing. Be at peace with that fact.

The cyclist probably forgot to pick it up. Better to assume “no environmental malice intended”. Or perhaps it was dropped by a non-cyclist who was carrying it somewhere, for some purpose. I can think of several uses for a bicycle tube. In fact, if I had come across it on a nature strip I could well have been pleased with the opportunity.

Well, that settles it then: all cyclists are obviously vicious sociopaths.

Holden Caulfield10:54 am 27 Jan 10

I wonder if it rained on Troll-Sniffer’s wedding day.

Here we go again. Rioters taking the “bait” from the “baitee” so much that I wait (“albeit” other chores) with “bated breath” for the weekly slanging “cycle”. This topic is so close to being “deflated” of interest, that we should just “dispose of” the topic thoughtfully!

Oh my God. Litter. That’s almost unheard of in this city.

I choose to believe it is a charming balloon animal and there is a 5 year old somewhere crying cause he lost his toy.

We all have read these issues countless times. Bikers V Cars, Southsiders V Northsiders, Canberrans V The rest of planet earth. Can we halt more posts where topics have already been discussed and where similar comments are repeated?

I rode a bike once… true story…

well did you pick it up and bin it?? or leave it for your type of specimen stare and point then take a photo and keep walking and then start one of the most pathetic threads I have ever seen

There’s a plastic bag on the side of the road near me.

I wonder how many cigarette butts are visible in the full resolution version of that image.

On making our exit from the roundabout that has the road works onto the bridge. We had to dodge a cardboard box that had what looked like bike tyre tubes on the road.

Clown Killer10:23 pm 24 Jan 10

I think this would be even slightly relevant if it wasn’t possible to walk to a major road anywhere in the country, randomly point a camera at it and find that the resulting image didn’t have some bit of crap in it that fell off (or out of) a car or truck. Close but no cigar.

Mike Bessenger9:53 pm 24 Jan 10

I use old inner tubes as tie downs in the back of my ute. I lost one today along northborne. Oops sorry.

Ooh let me have a go too.

Every time I cycle to work I have to dodge broken glass bottles smashed along the side of the road. “This kind of unthinking rubbishing of the landscape is typical of a small number of the car drivers brigade who cannot be bothered to take their detritus with them”.

imarty said :

Here we go again…

Except it’s now the ‘casual cyclist’ vs. the ‘more than casual cyclist’

Did anyone care to consider the ‘less than casual cyclist’ or the ‘more than the ‘more than casual cyclist’?!?

This abomination can not be permitted without a cow, some unpasteurised and 10 beef burgers.

Alternatively, what Troll Sniffer is mandating, is that he will buy every lyrca brigade cyclist (it’s like the fire brigade, but lycra brigade members simply pee or squirt water from water bottles onto spot fires) a set tubeless wheels and tyres to match.

It’s like Rudd’s free $900, but more than $900.

sexynotsmart9:26 pm 24 Jan 10

Someone seems to know an awful lot about valves… hang on, you’re one of them!

As much fun as it would be to lynch a cyclist over this, there are a lot of humans out there who just dump their garbage wherever they want.

A presta valve you say? Well, I’ve certainly heard enough. Come on boys! Let’s have a lynchin”!

definitely terrible. as any littering is. but doesn’t really stack up against all the exhaust fumes polluting northbourne and surrounds though, does it?

So did you see a cyclist ditch it or may have it come loose from a bin?

Maybe somebody used it to choke someone for smack, after all, that area is plagued with junkies.

Here we go again…

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