"Bluecold" (Bluecold)
10/28/2013 at 15:29 • Filed to: bestintentions
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"Bluecold" (Bluecold)
10/28/2013 at 15:29 • Filed to: bestintentions | 1
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This happened today at the Technical University of Delft, at the EWI (stands for electrotechnics, math, computer science) faculty. That corner of the faculty is notorious for having very strong winds when it's not actually very windy. If it is windy, that corner is absolute terror. Observe:
and this one
(also reported on jalopnik
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The second one was when the rest of the region was at 7 bft. The TU acknowledged the problem and hung up a sign stating that cyclists should dismount at hard winds. Today, there were peaks of 8-9 bft. And the sign gave way. I love it.
CCC (formerly CyclistCarCoexist)
> Bluecold
10/28/2013 at 15:48 |
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Oh kinja please, it's called riding slower. Not dismounting.
RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
> Bluecold
10/28/2013 at 16:16 |
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Several of the buildings in the mechanical engineering area of the campus of Georgia Tech are placed oddly, and I was told in a class in the department that the reason for that was that original plans were projected to cause in one isolated point between the buildings gusts of perhaps 60 mph in mild wind.
Paul, Man of Mustangs
> CCC (formerly CyclistCarCoexist)
10/28/2013 at 16:17 |
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You did watch the cyclist riding very slowly in the first video right? Or all the cyclists trying to ride slowly in the second video? Did you watch it? If you did, you'd see how they were leaning 20-30 degrees! If the gusting stops, they fall over! If they don't dismount, they're going to fall or get blown away!
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Bluecold
> RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
10/28/2013 at 16:23 |
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Yeah, they didn't check that before building the EWI faculty. You would guess they would do that since the aerospace engineering faculty is one of the largest in europe. I especially like the fact that they cobbled up sign to warn people because they forgot to check how the new building would behave if there was any wind, and when making the sign, they forgot to check how the sign would behave if there was any significant wind.