Thread: Bike Porn - Regardless of the motor, Show off your "two wheeled" beasties

Originally Posted by gadgetman

I generally just used the treadly for transport, but did a few races and trails too. My aim was to be barely able to stand when I got where I was going. Fastest time to uni (10km) was not on the motorbike. I'm calm as with any motorised transport, but on the bike...the roads mine. Could not stand anything else beat me across an intersection controlled by lights. Put way too much torque into the crank and twisted out the rear spokes. Taught myself to respoke wheels and still have the frame I made to make it easier.

To be fair, the average Christchurch driver is glacially slow at noticing the light has in fact turned green, and that they should drive off in order to allow other road users to clear the same intersection. I have often wondered if it is a Christchurch thing, to get off the light and through the intersection as slowly as possible in order to prevent as many as possible from getting through. The average Christchurch driver also has zero situational awareness and a complete inability to identify and track the moving variables in their operating zone. Must be scary as a pushbike operator in that environment, the drivers in this town are far too retarded for me to do the pushbike thing, even though it makes sense to do it.