Post #3901510

@ascentale@sfba.social @uxMark@cosocial.ca @cainmark@mstdn.social @bikenite@fedigroups.social A6. I'd like to add a caution about cycling in the vicinity of bushfires. The winds on such days are often huge. So if the road has a section where you need to cycle into the wind, you can be making inadequate progress no matter how fit you are. If you think car drivers are stupid normally, bushfires add a big gulp of the red cordial drink. When in smoky conditions driving away from a fire you want to be doing about 40Km/h, as realistically the greatest danger is running off the road or hitting a fallen tree or stopped car -- then you are in a car which is not drivable, with smashed windows, with an approaching fire. But YouTube has no shortage of drivers 'escaping a bushfire' at 120Km/h along a smoke-covered country road. I don't want to overstate this. Since using a bike to evacuate in a threatened periurban area may make sense. #bikenite