Solarbird :flag_cascadia:

@Showroom7561 @BearOfaTime (My _suspicion_ is that they see the slower initial acceleration of a manual bike and something in their brain decides “walking speed” and they make very, very bad and very, very wrong decisions based on that. But now I’m _really_ just guessing and have no real idea.)

@Showroom7561 @BearOfaTime On a motorcycle, you have that initial acceleration like a car _all the time_, just like an automobile has.

I’m pretty sure it provides you a little bit of extra production analogue/standard bikes don’t have. And I suspect - don’t know, but _suspect_ - that an Idaho Stop emulates the same thing.

That initial acceleration is one of the many differences between bikes and motorcycles and maybe something to think about.

(I also used to ride a motorbike. I know cars don’t respect them. And because I know what that feels like, I know from personal experience that _this_ is different, and worse.)

@Showroom7561 @BearOfaTime It doesn’t matter what my speed is halfway or 2/3rds of the way through the intersection. They are _way_ more likely to try to nose in around me, or merge into me, or fuck knows what else if I _don’t_ have that initial fast acceleration.

I’m pretty sure it’s not with intent. And obviously, it’s not all the time. But it’s real.

I started experimenting with this after doing the quick-acceleration at high-volume road intersections just to get the hell out of there faster. I decided _not_ to do it for a few days and see how that went. I wasn’t going slow, I was still doing a good speed manual acceleration and not taking meaningfully more time than cars.

Didn’t matter. The difference in driver behaviour was _stark_.

@Showroom7561 @BearOfaTime This got boosted onto my timeline so I’m gonna drop in something which I’ve had confirmed by other bicyclists:

Motorcycle guy: you accelerate like a car. You don’t accelerate like a bike, particularly not a standard (non-electric) bike.

A bike which does an “Idaho stop” has a perceived entry into the intersection a lot more like yours than like that of a bicyclist starting from a full stop. We can agree on that, right? You’re already at a fair speed when drivers see you.

Now here’s something I’ve noticed as someone with an eBike.

If I turn on assist and do a high-acceleration entry into an intersection from a full stop, CARS TREAT ME LIKE A CAR, and respect my right of way.

If I _don’t_ do that, they _don’t_.

@maegul oh hells yeah, bring 'em back!

@maegul @test Well, it was a searchable recognised hashtag here on my mastodon instance so if that’s not what you mean then even with the issue it seems okay? but i may be confused about what you want idk.

@maegul @test sure does! :D

@fedops @mibzman If you want to grab this purchase-advice reddit post before the walkout for later reading (or come back to it on Thursday), it isn’t bad at all, even if OP’s hate-on for Creality is overwrought. (It’s also not completely insane, but.)

https://www.reddit.com/user/richie225/comments/rnillw/generic_fdm_printer_recommendations_2022/

@fedops @mibzman Oh, it does! But ones from Mastodon don’t make it, alas. (Maybe because I posted two pictures? idk)

@fedops @mibzman PHA is _pretty interesting_. More heat tolerance even than HTPLAs, but definitely also more flexible at all temperatures, which can be a plus or a minus - it’s kind of like a less-flexible but more-durable nylon, I think? I haven’t worked with nylon but from descriptions.

It also really wants a 0.6mm nozzle, though I have found - and this is what I did for these temperature towers - that the non-wood-infill PHAs can be consistently successfully printed with a 0.5mm nozzle, if the model is sliced for 0.4mm.

Also: Sure! I’d expect the pictures to work on actual Mastodon. But they didn’t make it to Lemmy replies. Don’t know if Lemmy even supports pictures in replies locally tho xD

@mibzman Link to photos since the embeds didn’t make it over:

https://mastodon.murkworks.net/@moira/110526824459593703

@mibzman (Hi from Mastodon! Replies work, yay! But the photos don’t show up. Dang. xD )

@mibzman Mostly temperature towers, honestly. I’ve been playing with PHA, so I printed temperature towers for two new colours of that, and also I subscribe to the protopasta “endless filament” programme (at 150g/month, supersized samples really but I like it) and those showed up so needed one for each of them.

I _really_ like the bottle colours they sent out this month, particularly the blue. Just gorgeous.