{"id":11,"date":"2007-03-26T11:19:28","date_gmt":"2007-03-26T11:19:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebikeblog.org\/?p=11"},"modified":"2016-11-20T19:11:29","modified_gmt":"2016-11-20T11:11:29","slug":"ooooooooooooooooo-bikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebikeblog.org\/?p=11","title":{"rendered":"OoooOoooooooooooo BIKES!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just got told which bikes we will be using for the Suitable Transport<\/a> ride [my pic and bio is up on the riders page now btw]. They are going to be these: the “eZee Torq”<\/a>. I think they could have come up with a less cheesy brand name, but the bike specs are sweet! <\/a><\/p>\n

AWESOME! These look a fair bit like the zbike<\/a> I was keen on a few months ago – but these only weigh 23kg<\/strong> – including the battery[the zbike was 50kg, eeek]! Stephen has tested them and says they do pretty well up the hills, and he’s been riding longer than me, and is an electronics engineer, so I would say has a pretty good eye for such things. I’m super excited, if just a little bit trepidous for my bum, which will I expect get a little sore from that much time on a saddle seat.<\/p>\n

Still: WHEEEE!<\/p>\n

And now… here’s an interesting tidbit about bikes and helmets:<\/p>\n

It’s safer to wear a wig<\/strong><\/p>\n

KAMALA HAYMAN – 14 September 2006<\/p>\n

Cyclists may be safer wearing a long-haired wig than a helmet, new research suggests.<\/em><\/p>\n

In England, a Bath University study found drivers gave a wider berth to cyclists with long hair than those wearing helmets. The study, by psychologist Dr Ian Walker, also found bare-headed cyclists were given more room than those wearing helmets. Walker used a bicycle fitted with a computer and an ultrasonic distance sensor to record data from more than 2500 overtaking motorists. He wore a helmet half the time. During his research, he was struck by a bus and a truck \u00e2\u20ac\u201c both times while wearing a helmet.<\/em><\/p>\n

In research to be published in the Accident Analysis and Prevention journal, Walker found drivers, on average, passed 1.33m from his bicycle. However, when he wore a long-haired wig \u00e2\u20ac\u201c to give the impression he was female \u00e2\u20ac\u201c overtaking drivers gave him an extra 14cm. By contrast, when he was wearing a helmet, they passed 8.5cm closer. Larger vehicles also narrowed the gap, with trucks passing 19cm closer than cars and buses, 23cm closer.<\/em><\/p>\n

He wanted to do more research to understand why drivers appeared to give female cyclists such a wide berth. It was possible they were seen as less predictable than male riders because they were not seen on the road as often as male cyclists.<\/em><\/p>\n

He suggested drivers saw cyclists with helmets as more serious, experienced and predictable than those without, and therefore needing less space when overtaking.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just got told which bikes we will be using for the Suitable Transport ride [my pic and bio is up on the riders page now btw]. They are going to be these: the “eZee Torq”. I think they could have come up with a less cheesy brand name, but the bike specs are sweet! Maximum […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,10,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-images","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebikeblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebikeblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebikeblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebikeblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebikeblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ebikeblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108,"href":"https:\/\/ebikeblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions\/108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebikeblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebikeblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebikeblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}