Next time you are at a set of traffic lights on the bike look down and it is highly likely you will see a strip of blackened tensile steel, app 150 - 180mm long, app 3mm wide.
What are they?
Mystery object
I use to think they were weight sensors but have since been told they detect metal, therefore prompting the traffic lights to change in ones favour.
Of course in practice, we know this never works.
Of course in practice, we know this never works.
I think you'r thinking of the wrong bits of metal. Richard is talking about the loose bits that are usually found on the road, more off to the side and in the gutter. they look like bladed spokes, but shorter and thinner. you can find them all over the place
Lizanne is right
The ones I am talking about look like loose pieces of broken black aero spokes and can be found all over the road but tend to congregate around intersections. No idea what they are off.
If you were handy you could probably make one of those cool little African thumb organs using them
The ones I am talking about look like loose pieces of broken black aero spokes and can be found all over the road but tend to congregate around intersections. No idea what they are off.
If you were handy you could probably make one of those cool little African thumb organs using them
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How thick are they? They are most likely broken bristles off a street sweeper truck.
Those brittles are dangerous. Hazard for us cyclist.
Who knows what can happen ....
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Must of dug hard to find the picture from 2009
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I was fat in 2009
Looks like there was something wrong with my knee, but that was just some missing bark. Where the real injuries were, there's no skin damage.
Looks like there was something wrong with my knee, but that was just some missing bark. Where the real injuries were, there's no skin damage.
Googled term 'impaled cyclist' in Google (images) and you appeared in the second line of pics.Must of dug hard to find the picture from 2009
Wasn't looking for you. Thought it was funny that a pic of a DHBC member came up.
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