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hoefla
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I find it hard to understand how people can bare the choices they make in life. When I'm riding, i can't stand anything to be flapping around hanging off me. In much the same way a badly attached pannier rack would be so unbearable I'd just get the bus.
Today a gentleman cruised passed me at a red light to just the point he couldn't see when the lights changed. One shoe lace was untied, his baggy waterproof jacket and jersey were unzipped, his rucksack belt was undone. His pannier rack, leaning jauntily to one side due to ineffective tethering of the non drive side stay, resplendent with two mostly empty pannier bags complete with shoulder straps trailing worryingly close to derailleur/spokes. A top his head, a helmet, with the chin strap undone!?
As he moved away under the power of his e-bike, there was so much flapping of stuff I decided I couldn't take it, and turned off to go the long way round...How can people live like this in 2016?