A Bar Joked About Cycling Accidents Weeks After Waller County
The bar’s proximity to a busy bike path and the recent incident in Waller County could have been good reasons (among many others) to refrain from making the “joke,” but Truck Yard went ahead anyway, and then proceeded to display its marquee sign on the internet — which is both public and subject to significantly more criticism.
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The negative backlash from the cycling groups was enough to prompt the business to limit social media users’ ability to engage with the bar online, per Eater, and Truck Yard issued the apology pictured below on Monday:
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The “joke” message has since been taken down and replaced, and pictures of Sunday’s marquee have been scrubbed from the bar’s social media channels.
When’s the best time to start your career as a rally co-driver? As with most things, I’d assume the younger the better — and that’s just what this dad has done with his daughter.
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This video comes from Ridonkulous Rally Sports, a YouTube channel that shares videos of a family-run team’s efforts to conquer the local rally world. There are tons of great in-car shots from domestic American rallies for those of you that love events like the Southern Ohio Forest Rally or the Sno*Drift Rally that takes place in the winter.
But there are also plenty of videos of the family having fun, and that’s just what we have with this co-driver clip:
The short video is worth a watch. In it, a young girl has a book on her lap and takes it upon herself to direct the driver where he needs to go. She calls out a series of directions and numbers from her Things That Go book, occasionally agreeing with the driver when he lets her know they have to take a hairpin.
It ends with a wonderful sentiment: “When the kid wants to help, you let her help. When she asks to ride in the car when you’re pulling it in the shop for the night, you give her a ride, even if it’s only a 20 sec ride. When she climbs in and turns that red light on and then pulls out her pace notes all on her own, you always 100% take that freakin ride! Never get so busy that you miss the little things. The most important things.”
Kudos to you, dad. It sounds like you’re raising a future rally champion! And for everyone else at home: get your kids involved with your cars. Many of my favorite childhood memories revolve around being included in my family’s automotive pursuits. Bring the little ones in and have some fun.
Unveiled a few weeks ago, the Sondors Metacycle hit the world with some pretty impressive specs for a commuter motorcycle. With a claimed top speed of 80 miles per hour, and up to 80 miles of range (admittedly not at 80 mph), it seems like a great machine for the daily city rider. This bike, for example, could do pretty much everything I do with my Leaf. When those specs came out, some were incredulous of the possibility.
Sondors decided to post some video of a real-world range test in an attempt to prove it was possible. Now obviously this video isn’t scientific proof, and it’s possible that the company could have edited around something that would indicate it was lying or falsifying range claims. For the record, I believe that this kind of range is possible and I don’t think they have any reason to be lying, but as “proof” goes, this is a little thin.
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You can watch the paraphrased road trip at the Vimeo link below.
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The video follows a rider on a two and a half hour ride from Irvine, California to the Long Beach aquarium. In watching the video we can see the rider exceed 60 miles per hour at least once, but most of the ride is at legal speeds on surface streets, meaning range will be pretty good. Sondors claim that the route was 48 miles in total, and speeds averaged 45 mph. That already doesn’t pass muster, because two and a half hours at 45 mph would be around 112 miles of distance. Perhaps they meant 45 mph was the moving speed average and the rider sat in 90 minutes of traffic or stopped for lunch or something?
In any case, the company also claims that the bike had 20 percent charge remaining when the rider got to the final destination. That means you should be able to get around 60 miles of real-world range in real world traffic at real world non-highway speeds. Considering the Metacycle’s 4 kWh battery, that would translate to around 12 miles per kWh, which is around double what I saw on the Harley LiveWire cruising at 70. Yeah, if the bike is actually as light as Sondors claims, I could see that being true.
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The Metacycle would have to be highly efficient to achieve those numbers, and the rider probably employed some hypermile techniques to make it happen, but I’m pretty well convinced that these numbers are at least within the realm of possibility. I’m not sure the video did anything to prove its case, but it was kind of fun to watch.
