Post by @Pepijn@mastodon.online

2026-10-03 10:03 UTC

So. As us workers were working on the shaded lane of the path I purposely blocked it with the cargo bike and cone. Cue dorky-mc-lycraccountant-during-the-week-road-warrior-during-the-weekend on his electric assist road-bike coming in at speed while distracted by his bike computer. I shouted. He still crashed into the cone. Instantly embarrassed he shouted at the first worker he saw. That worker, age 2, said hi. As I laughed he peddled away angrily. We're becoming pro at this! #biketooter

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@Pepijn@mastodon.online 2026-10-03 10:29

addendum: reaaally Mastodon? Anyway. Yes I AM aware of the Dutch CROW rules. 96b could apply here. We're in Denmark though. So this otherwise excellent bit of bicycling infrastructure transitions (badly) into a car-first gravel path (actually the exit to one) a couple 100 meters away. In the other direction the community placed a metal chicane over half the lane. On a sunny day, cycling away from the sun, it's 100% the cyclist fault for cycling at high speed into a high-viz static object.

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@psneeze@mastodon.ie 2026-10-03 10:07

@Pepijn@mastodon.online 🤣

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@dcz@fosstodon.org 2026-10-03 13:40

@Pepijn@mastodon.online As someone building a bike computer, I am glad to hear this story. I want to try out a design without such a basic function as speed display precisely because I don't want to build a distraction engine. But before I have a prototype, it's kind of hard to decide what is distracting and what isn't.

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