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It continually reads distance and if this drops below a set threshold it takes a picture and stores it on to an sd card along with the measured distance. Could you change that to sample and record absolute distance frequently rather than using a threshold... that might provide additional informatio...

I bought myself a ultrasonic sensor a while back (jsn-sr04t), I have not tried it on the bike yet but seems to work pretty well and costs around £6 on eBay. This is very easy to link to an Arduino (https://www.makerguides.com/jsn-sr04t-arduino-tutorial/) but I am thinking an esp32 camera module may ...

I was planning to build a electronic distance sensor on the side of my bike to record the distance of passing cars but never actually got round to doing it. Would there be any interest/benefit in this do you think? I thought that whilst never going to be admissible in court or anything like that, it...

I was around 19stone and cycled every day for some years and found the only real issue to be the wheels. I would find that after a while a spoke would break and then if I replaced the spoke others would soon follow. The solution was when I broke a spoke either have the wheel completely rebuilt by a ...

I used to be around your weight and found that the only real issue with my bikes was the wheels. I found that with cheaper wheels eventually a spoke would break and then no point replacing it as the rest will soon follow. The solution I found was to either get the wheel rebuilt by someone who knows ...

I have been a larger cyclist (well over 20 stone at one point) for many years and managed to keep the weight on no problem despite all the exercise I get ;-) The simple fact is that if you eat more calories than your body requires you gain weight, if you eat fewer than your body requires you will lo...

As a 20 stone cyclist (or at least I was until recently) I can confirm that the wheels are the issue. I usually found eventually a spoke will break and then no point replacing it as the rest will soon follow... I usually had the wheel rebuilt by a local cycling shop and asked them to make the wheel ...

Myself being a "large chap" who also carries a lot of luggage, my experience is that the main thing is you will need good, hand built wheels otherwise you will be plagued by breaking spokes (btw - once one spoke goes there is no point replacing it as the others will soon follow). My last o...

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A few weeks back I read something about new laws coming in April this year about close passing cyclists although I have not seen anything since? This set me thinking and inspired me to quickly cobble together a distance sensor to fit to my bike to see just how close cars are passing me although I ne...

I bought three of them myself and was charged tax once

I have a THL Chinese phone which cost me about £100 (although you can get them a lot cheaper these days) I have been very pleased with (particularly like the ability to have 2 sims in it which I don't think any "regular" phones let you do) I know of 4 other people who also bought one after...

As stated above, the cars behind you pose a very serious risk when trying to negotiate tram tracks. This video shows what I find to be a very common event when joining the tram tracks at either end of this road in Beeston. https://youtu.be/LMEpvxWSEmc i.e. just as you make the final turn to go down ...

I agree, I have cycled down that road many times and the best way I have found is to cycle between the tracks. You can then cycle down the road ok but you have to keep in mind that swerving to avoid anything is not an option. If you cycle to the left of them then you can't get through the stops and ...

How about a camera which attaches to the cycle with built in GPS (for location and speed data) and some sensor to detect how close a passing car is (ultrasonic?) then, if a car passes too close it automatically grabs a picture with the cars number plate and this along with info on how fast the cycle...