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  • Members: 414
  • Category: Cycling
  • Founded: Dec 11, 1999
  • Language: English
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22529 Darrell Noakes
borealisoutdoor Send Email
Jun 2, 2006
10:38 pm
A new report says that injury-related deaths among children 14 and under have fallen since 1994, but Canadian kids still face many hazards. Safe Kids Canada...
22530 Michael Graff
michaelgraff86 Send Email
Jun 2, 2006
11:09 pm
... Oops, I guess that makes me a Bad Father. My kids were way younger than 10 when they first took to the streets with me, as I taught them the basics of VC....
22531 Darrell Noakes
borealisoutdoor Send Email
Jun 3, 2006
12:29 am
A regular cyclist I know, who is a traffic engineer, cycles on the the road regularly with his 5-yr-old son. I'm sure this will help his son become a competent...
22532 Darrell Noakes
borealisoutdoor Send Email
Jun 3, 2006
12:31 am
I was just thinking -- at age six and seven I rode to school every day along British Columbia Highway #3, a major highway through the southern interior of the...
22533 John Forester
biketransengr Send Email
Jun 3, 2006
10:13 am
Darrell Noakes asked, about the Safe Kids Canada 2006 report and the referenced article "Improving Bicycle Safety ..." "Does anyone know of any research or...
22534 Jim Baross
jimbaross Send Email
Jun 3, 2006
10:15 am
Ready for a paradigm shift? Many motorists are allowed to operate legally with two and even three people abreast - seated side-by-side in the front or...
22535 Herman I. May
kempiweb Send Email
Jun 4, 2006
2:12 am
... Your example is not a shift in paradigm; it is a comparison of apples and oranges. While I will not dispute the lack of logic prompting jurisdictions to ...
22536 Jim Baross
jimbaross Send Email
Jun 4, 2006
2:53 am
It makes a difference to me, but not to you... hence the opportunity for shifting your point of view/paradigm for the sharing of public road space....
22537 John Forester
biketransengr Send Email
Jun 4, 2006
9:40 pm
The discussions about how much roadway width to allow cyclists, or may be taken by cyclists, are largely irrelevant to cyclists, being little more than...
22538 chainguard@yahoogroup... Send Email Jun 4, 2006
11:53 pm
================================== THE CHAINGUARD LIST IS NOT INTENDED AS A CHAT ROOM, FORUM OR BULLETIN BOARD FOR BICYCLING CHIT-CHAT OR DISCUSSION OF...
22539 kob2@...
kob22225 Send Email
Jun 5, 2006
12:09 pm
... Though Pennsylvania does still represent a success on this point, I believe? Yes, Mr Schubert? Ken ... mail2web - Check your email from the web at ...
22540 CRKJLAW@... Send Email Jun 5, 2006
3:31 pm
In a message dated 6/2/2006 7:10:08 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, michael.graff@... writes: Oops, I guess that makes me a Bad Father. My kids were way...
22541 Doug Huffman
dhuffman_98 Send Email
Jun 5, 2006
4:01 pm
I suspect, from the name similarity, that this is a parallel of an American effort. I am familiar with the American organization from its efforts to disarm...
22542 Darrell Noakes
borealisoutdoor Send Email
Jun 5, 2006
4:58 pm
What concerns me about publications such as the Safe Kids report is that if they remain unchallenged in the public record, they become the de facto standard....
22543 Schubley@... Send Email Jun 16, 2006
2:38 pm
Hi all, One of my typically late replies follows. ... Thursday. ... ride on the road. It was my impression that children between 8 and 10 are capable of riding...
22544 chainguard@yahoogroup... Send Email Jun 18, 2006
6:23 pm
================================== THE CHAINGUARD LIST IS NOT INTENDED AS A CHAT ROOM, FORUM OR BULLETIN BOARD FOR BICYCLING CHIT-CHAT OR DISCUSSION OF...
22545 orum Send Email Jun 18, 2006
8:10 pm
Chainguard members, John Scott has posted many messages to this group, so I wanted to ask your help. He has been reported missing since early June, so if any ...
22546 Lauren Cooper (Dances...
cyclemedia@... Send Email
Jun 19, 2006
9:14 pm
80% Safer = how many "times" safer? (4x, 5x,...) Thanks. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the...
22547 Wayne Pein
wawa42p Send Email
Jun 19, 2006
10:45 pm
... I believe 100% safer would be the same as "twice as safe," so 80% is 1.8 times as safe. Wayne...
22548 Doug Huffman
dhuffman_98 Send Email
Jun 19, 2006
10:45 pm
80% = 80/100 = 0.80 <1 ... From: "Lauren Cooper (DancesWithCars)" <cyclemedia@...> To: <chainguard@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Monday, June 19, 2006 2:25 PM ...
22549 bob.bayn@... Send Email Jun 20, 2006
12:49 am
No, Doug, that would be "80% as safe" but "80% safer" adds a safety increment to the existing baseline amount so it's 1.0 + 80/100 = 1.8...
22550 Wayne Pein
wawa42p Send Email
Jun 20, 2006
12:49 am
... That would be true if the statement was "80% as safe." Wayne...
22551 Doug Huffman
dhuffman_98 Send Email
Jun 20, 2006
12:51 pm
I think that it is as funny as if 1 + 1 = 2 got some sort of retort. As so often done here, logic/math/engineering doesn't mix well with rhetoric. Again I...
22552 Jack R. Taylor
jacktaylor Send Email
Jun 20, 2006
12:51 pm
... Lauren, Here's another take entirely. Although the simple answer to your direct question is that 80% safer is 1.8 times safer, in common usage it can be...
22553 Doug Huffman
dhuffman_98 Send Email
Jun 20, 2006
7:48 pm
Masterfully done and gently. Bravo. Are the hazards of bicycling comparable to those otherwise accepted in daily life? Absolutely, I believe, and less than...
22554 Serge
ljserge Send Email
Jun 20, 2006
8:28 pm
Any news about John? This is awful. Serge...
22555 David Takemoto-Weerts
twotired1 Send Email
Jun 20, 2006
11:45 pm
There has been no news here in Davis since the original News 10 story and the same information published in Friday's Davis Enterprise, the local paper. I'll...
22556 Lauren Cooper (Dances...
cyclemedia@... Send Email
Jun 21, 2006
12:29 am
I'm going from Forester's figure of 80% fewer collisions for VC-trained ... accidents is five times safer than 100." So I guess my answer is that you will in...
22557 Curtis L. Russell
timetrialler Send Email
Jun 21, 2006
11:50 pm
Unless they are using language carelessly, it shouldn't be four or five times safer - it should be 1.8 times safer. The first establishes a base of 100% and...
22558 Lauren Cooper (Dances...
cyclemedia@... Send Email
Jun 21, 2006
11:54 pm
MODERATOR'S NOTE: Lauren had sent this file earler but it was sent as attachment and the attachment was bounced. The original message was seeking list member...
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