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Riding on rural roads - safety concernsHi
I have been spending a fair bit of time in near Coolah in NSW. I haven't yet taken up the bike but am keen to do some rides there next time I go. BUT the roads are all 100KM/h and often single lane with no marked shoulders. Lovely rides (and a couple of hills I am very keen to ride on) but just wondering if I am tempting fate or are there extra steps I can take to make myself more visible, thinking of one of those safety yellow gilets? While Im asking questions is it worth putting some wider tires on my bike? Its a Cervelo R3 and I run 23mm in the city - wondering it I should go to 25 or 27mm? Probably go for something with more puncture protection too. Thanks Guys
Re: Riding on rural roads - safety concernssafety is an issue, I frequently (several times a week) ride on the open road here in rural SA and at times it can be a little intimidating.... for that reason I ride a MTB with 1.75 touring rubber fitted so I am confident enough to get off the road (safely) in a hurry if needed probably overkill but it works for my peace of mind
I also ensure the light is good so I'm easily seen by other road traffic ie not early morning or late evening rides and I try and go a little faster around what could be blind left hand corners for road traffic approaching from behind, vehicles travelling at 100km/h+ sneak up on you real fast... have also thought of having the rear light on and running as an extra eye catching thing but haven't done that yet... Just an ol' man, riding an ol' bike.... every hill feels like Alpe d'Heuz....
Re: Riding on rural roads - safety concernsi live in a regional/rural area , lots of trucks and fast moving traffic , the trucks do scare the crap out of you but i have had no troubles , drivers give you plenty of distance , but the roads surfaces are pretty crappy
Re: Riding on rural roads - safety concernsI took my mtn bike to central Qld last year - rode around Longreach and Hughenden. The long B-doubles try to give you clearance, but can't move much as the roads aren't that wide and they'll set the bogey to swaying if they try (which could take you out).
MUCH safer on the mtn bike and pulling off to the dirt edge so they have room to pass safely. Not sure about Coolah itself as the main hwys are north and south of you (only passed through the area on the motorbike) but I the hills (blind crests) and corners can make it dangerous at times. Maybe check with the local footy club and pubs to see what roads they think are safe for riding on. Even if they don't ride their kids might. GT Avalanche 1.0 | TCR Alliance 0 | Giant Bowery | BMW K1300R Two wheels good, Four wheels bad
Re: Riding on rural roads - safety concernsAbout 80% of my riding is done on 100kph marked roads, now days I actually feel safer on these roads then I do in Built up areas.
I switch from 700 x 23 to 700 x 28's after about 6 months of riding on these roads and have reduce my puncture rate to almost zero. On the roads with a marked shoulder on ride on the shoulder as much as possible, the trick is to watch as far in front as possible so when the shoulders disappear (as they do) you can get out onto main part of the road safely. As for shoulder-less, depends on the road, I rarely get of into the dirt and find most other road users a happy to go around. The places to be most aware of is the narrow bridges and creek crossings, they usually have double lines but the other road users still pass across the lines, I'm always aware of one day something might be coming the other way There's no where to go so keep you eyes peeled. On some of our Narrow roads I some times come across to bloody great semi coming from opposite directions. No problems I simple get off my bike and move as far as possible off the road. I live in Leeton part of MIA so there are a lot of channels and canals of the side of the roads so I'm always aware that the truck drivers have NO where to go if something goes wrong. I lived in Melbourne for just on 15 years and found it more nerve raking to ride my bike or drive my car down there. Love the country roads and the fresh air. Only place to ride. Martin Never underestimate the power of human stupidity!
Re: Riding on rural roads - safety concernsThanks Martinjs, I think I'll get some wider tyres and give it a go. Wonder how fat I can go on my R3.
Re: Riding on rural roads - safety concernsGreat advice Martin. City traffic is what you get used to though. When commuting on the motorbike to Sydney a few years back I'd have 3 serious near misses a fortnight and think little of it. Now I only go into the city a couple of times a month it feels scary
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Re: Riding on rural roads - safety concernsVirtually all my riding is done on rural roads on mostly 100km/hr speed limited roads.
I'd never ride in an urban area with any sort of traffic nowerdays, just the thought of it freaks me out, let alone the reality of it. My point is that I find riding on rural roads with fast moving rural traffic levels is a comparitively relaxing with my experience being that it involves far fewer 'close calls' than the urban riding I did when I was a teen. My policy is to be incredibly visible, I wear yellow jersey, yellow shoes, yellow helmet even yellow gloves. I may look like Crusty the clown and draw plenty of passing hoon abuse but at least they are seeing me. I've also recently begun using a small but very bright red LED flasher under my seat as I'm riding in the forest often now. I know the Coolah / Cassilis area, very pretty, reasonable road surfaces, nice picturesque rural lanes and yes some good hills and reasonably quiet traffic wise. I'd simply recommend that you make yourself as visible as possible and hold as safe margin from the edge of the bitumen as vehicles approach from behind so you don't fall off the shoulder if a truck blasts past. I'd expect there to be far less puncture causing material to be on rural roads and your current tyres to be just fine for the purpose. I've managed over 5,000km in 3 years without a punture .......yet......... Unless you want more comfort factor I'd stick to 23mm tyres. 3rd class cycling is always better than 1st class walking
Re: Riding on rural roads - safety concernsWhen I get out and ride on the roads for fitness/training, it's usually early morning. I can count on one hand most mornings how many cars pass me. The roads are quiet but I always have my flashing rear light running. There's pretty much 4 common rides in my area to pick from that are ridden often. The roads are 2 lane but narrow, but with the reduced traffic it's not so bad.
I believe in being courteous to drivers while riding. While not going to the extent of riding off the road, I will certainly indicate if on crests or blind corners, if it is safe to pass, and the opposite, whatever the case may be. As a rider in front of a car, you have a different vantage point from the driver and can let them know if it is safe/not safe to pass. If they have the courtesy to slow down and not pass you on crests/blind corners, you should repay that courtesy and let them know it's safe to pass before they can see. It iritates me to be behind riders I know who will not give any indication to following drivers if they can pass or not. This small gesture goes a long way in the mind of the driver. It's pretty obvious by the courteous wave as opposed to the angry look and mouth rattling off. I am a driver on one of these roads and therefore more sensitive to the issue.
Re: Riding on rural roads - safety concernsI do all my riding on country roads and love it .
I use a MTB with lights on all the time and a fluro shirt and if i hear a Semi coming i get onto the gravel as i have be all most been suck in under a trailer before. The speed limit 110 km but most people are good and leave a bit of road for us.
Re: Riding on rural roads - safety concernsI ride most days on roads that pass through a mix of bush and farmland. I've come to the conclusion that red and even a lighter blue stands out against the background better than flouro yellow or green. I reckon yellow blends into a dry grass background on a sunny day and likewise green into the bush. I often see a couple riding the same roads as me. She usually wears a bright red jersey, black pants and black bike, he a yellow jersey, black pants and white bike. She is very obviously more visible. It's just a thought and an observation but my next jersey order is going to be red.
Re: Riding on rural roads - safety concernsToday on the Queanbeyan River Fire Trail above the Eastern Foreshore of Googong Dam I saw two Eastern Brown Snakes ... but one of them saw me first.
Warren. PS, I've had worse. "But on steep descending...Larson TT have bad effect on the mind of a rider" - MadRider from Suji, Korea 2001.
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Re: Riding on rural roads - safety concernsAfter my encounter with the Eastern Brown Snake I was fine and given the all clear, as if nothing had happened. I spent a couple of days circumnavigation The Rock south west of Wagga Wagga and then I started another ride in the Northern Tinderrys ... then the effects of the snake hit me.
It is now nearly six weeks since being bitten. The amount of muscle damage that I've had to the leg that was bitten, has been non stop and difficult to walk. At least I've now stopped peeing blood and coughing up blood and I can get out of bed and not-spin out when I stand up and my blood pressure is slowly coming down. I don't know what a skeletal muscle damage test is but I'm having one tomorrow ... with another half dozen blood and urine tests, tests that don't have an end in site. I'm also glad that I live in Australia, where the medical bills for this, are like handing over pocket money, compared to somewhere like having this happening in the US. I still haven't received the NSW Ambulance Service fee yet ... 10 years of paying ambulance insurance with NIB, will be covered in one hit, if not being covered for the next 10 years as well, I'm guessing. I'm going for a short bike ride about a kilometre this morning, I'll soon know after 20 seconds, if I'll be able to ride a full kilometre. Have a good Christmas and may I say? ... stay hyper-vigilant. Warren. "But on steep descending...Larson TT have bad effect on the mind of a rider" - MadRider from Suji, Korea 2001.
"Paved roads ... another fine example of wasteful government spending." - a bumper sticker.
Re: Riding on rural roads - safety concernsHeck Warren, a major brown snake bite - what are the odds? Sorry to hear you are suffering what appears to be the full gammut of toxic symptoms. If it doesn't depress you too much keep posting here as to your progress............ for the better we all hope.
Yes, if you had been bitten in America the insuing uninsured medical/finacial catastrophe may have made you wish you bitten by a rattler and had not survived to pay the bills........ I agree 100% with your point re-ambulance subscription. Having been a member for decaces I required a one way meat wagon ride last year which would have set me back $2.8K which for me is major money...... Let us know if you got 1km down. 3rd class cycling is always better than 1st class walking
Re: Riding on rural roads - safety concernsopen roader, thank you Mate and much appreciated. I was reading today that from the middle of October this year, three people have died in Queensland from snake bites. One from a Taipan in mid October and two from Eastern Brown Snakes in the past few weeks. Luckily I was bitten in NSW.
The invoice arrived today. The cost wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. Only $960 for a half hour ride of 53 kilometres. The NSW government paid a subsidy of $471 and NIB will pay the rest of the bill. It costs about $90 for the year, for Family ambulance coverage. I'm still a couple years in credit.
In the US, it doesn't appear as though a person pays for a medical treatment or service, but pays a ransom to be kept alive. On the MTBR Forum one of the members was bitten by a rattlesnake and paid around $100,000 for a doctor's visit. To set a broken finger in the US, again from MTBR, quotes can be between $20,000 to $30,000. To finger splint a dislocated little finger which involved an X-rays, cost another MTBR Forum member $3900 ... rider heal thy self. If I lived in the US, I don't think that I'd like it, going on the number of times I stack my mountain bike. Rarely a day went by when I wasn't washing out when I had on Kenda Small Block 8s. Maybe it was my Small Block 8 technique that was sketchy. Looking for edge grip that doesn't exist. Warren. "But on steep descending...Larson TT have bad effect on the mind of a rider" - MadRider from Suji, Korea 2001.
"Paved roads ... another fine example of wasteful government spending." - a bumper sticker.
Re: Riding on rural roads - safety concerns
Are you up to pedaling any distance yet? 3rd class cycling is always better than 1st class walking
Re: Riding on rural roads - safety concernsFunny this thread should pop up again. On my way to coolah for Christmas. After last trip have abandoned taking up roadie and have borrowed a mountain bike. The traffic is too fast and the roads too narrow.
Hope recovery is fast Warren. Might rack the snake gun on the MTB.
Re: Riding on rural roads - safety concernsGreat thread.
I ride mostly on country roads too, I'm a noob roadie (12 months) and I choose quiet roads, mostly with a shoulder to get some kms up. I've never had any probelms with traffic, other than lazy motorists who dont give enough room. Passing at 100km/h and only giving a cyclist a foot clearance when there is nothing coming the other way is stupid, any i normally let them know just by throwing my arm up. Trucks are good - I can hear them behind me splitting down a gear which gives me plenty notice as they then accelerate around. I've also been taking my 11 year old out with me on his new Hillbrick. I then position myself behind him, and about 1 foot further onto the road. Biggest danger I think is sunglare. I try not to ride into the glare, cos' cars behind me wont see me. Biggest annoyance is stock crates - pigs can stink for about a km! Even with a shoulder I ride just inside the white line where the road is smoother. cheers!
Re: Riding on rural roads - safety concernsI am not too far from you as far as country distances go, a little to the east is where you will find me. My advice is avoid the state roads. regional and local roads are usually good. I ride to and from work each day 45km one way in 100km/h traffic. You will also notice that rural drivers tend to drive to the condition of the road, which may be greater than 100 or less than 100 km/h. Most drivers I know don't accelerate through a crest for example. Anyway, after 6 months of commuting, everyone on my route knows me and expects me. They will give you a wave and not the finger
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Re: Riding on rural roads - safety concernsJust a reminder to City folk who plan on biking in the sticks this summer. Please remember to carry plenty of water! Most places away from the coast are very dry, already this year a couple of people have died in Cars that broke down.
I love riding around the Riverina, but even my commutes to work in the mornings (Average 25k's) I can use up to 1 litre of water. Martin Never underestimate the power of human stupidity!
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open roader, no. I bought a rear quick-release that suits the Mimoura trainer and I've put the MTB on the trainer in front of the air conditioner. It will most likely stay there for the majority of the summer and I'll try to keep flexible on the trainer. I've got a road bike and when I stop damaging muscles, which keeps happening, I'll do some early morning rides. Even today just slowly walking 50 metres around a garden centre, I did damage to my so far undamaged other calf muscle. One of the nurses told me that venom can effect the muscle fibres adversely for a long time. I'm finding this out daily. One of our friends who's family has a property in the Darling Downs, the manager of the property was bitten by a King Brown an Inland Taipan and it was 6 months before he was able to walk freely. Apparently when the bloke was bitten he became black across his entire body, from a massive creeping haematoma. At least that hasn't happened. At the end of February I'm hoping still to cross the Brindies from Canberra to reach the Murray and then make my way west for a month. Taking it easy of course but all in its own good time, that will happen, I guess. Warren. "But on steep descending...Larson TT have bad effect on the mind of a rider" - MadRider from Suji, Korea 2001.
"Paved roads ... another fine example of wasteful government spending." - a bumper sticker.
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Bugger....... Life is 4/5 about waiting. Chin up, Merry Christmas and all that jazz but most importantly I wish you a Happy New Year for 2013...... 3rd class cycling is always better than 1st class walking
Re: Riding on rural roads - safety concernsBack in the saddle now, proper. Thanks Open Roader.
I've covered good ground over the last few weeks. Riding and hiking the bike out on the back tracks, near home. The early post dawn hours are comfortable ... no thanks to the all-time prolonged record heat wave we are experiencing, in this neck of the SE. With the heat, we're all in the same boat? The grasslands of the BNT in the NW of the ACT. \ Warren. "But on steep descending...Larson TT have bad effect on the mind of a rider" - MadRider from Suji, Korea 2001.
"Paved roads ... another fine example of wasteful government spending." - a bumper sticker.
Re: Riding on rural roads - safety concernsHey - hey back in the saddle....... excellent news Warren!
Maybe this ridiculous heat is a good limiter to your initial exercise recovery, no point in pushing the boundaries this early in your recovery. Nice photo - a picture tells a thousand words............ 3rd class cycling is always better than 1st class walking
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In a frustrating season, he has pitched well when he has been healthy. But two trips to the disabled list limited Fister to 26 starts.
But he's pitching his best at the right time. In his last seven starts, he's 5-2 with a 2.86 ERA. He faced the A's just once this season, on the road on May 12, when he allowed one run in six innings.
The A's are a dramatically different team since then, but if Fister is getting his offspeed pitch in the strike zone, he's good enough to shut anyone down. For an aggressive team like the A's, he could be an especially challenging matchup.
Milone is getting the ball from A's manager Bob Melvin, even though he was 6-6 with a 4.83 ERA on the road this season and 7-4 with a 2.74 ERA in Oakland.
"We feel comfortable wherever he pitches," Melvin said. "I think this ballpark is a lot like ours. It's fairly big, pretty deep to center field. But based on some of the injuries, we just felt like he's the right guy, period."
The A's consider this part of the growing process of a young pitcher. His workload has been managed carefully. He threw the 190 innings over 31 starts.
He faced the Tigers twice in 2012, and the A's won both games. Milone went seven innings for a victory on May 11 in Oakland. He gave up three earned runs in 4 2/3 frames in Detroit on Sept. 20.
The A's won the game after Milone had been knocked out. In his last seven starts, Milone went longer than six innings just once as Melvin monitored his workload. That'll probably be the case in Game 2, as well.
"I'm pretty sure that my heart's going to be going," Milone said. "But just try to keep your composure, keep your poise. Go out there, kind of slow the game down."
Tigers manager Jim Leyland will use Gerald Laird at catcher. Fister's ERA was almost a full run better with Laid behind the plate.
He'll also start 21-year-old outfielder Avisail Garcia, who made his Major League debut on Aug. 31 and batted .319 and hustled his way onto the roster down the stretch. He helped fill one of the holes in Detroit's lineup.
Everything begins with Fister. The Tigers got more than they expected last season after acquiring him from the Mariners, but this season has been one filled with frustration.
All that frustration will be forgotten if he pitches the Tigers to within a victory of an appearance in the AL Championship Series.
"There's been some ups and downs and trying to continually fine-tune and take the steps in the right direction that I need to," Fister said. "Unfortunately this year I've had some injuries that have kept me out periodically."


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"He knew the society of those small Burma stations -- a nasty, poodle-faking, horseless riffraff." AND "As for social duties of all descriptions, he called them poodle-faking and ignored them." George Orwell, Burmese Days, 1934; the "he" is an upper-class speaker.
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Old RAF term meaning a bit of a ladies man
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Moron Motorists #3Re: Moron Motorists #3Yes, I've had a couple of near misses at Theodore St as well but it's usually drivers hurtling down the hill a and not giving way at the bottom. Glad you are OK. I will keep a look out for green bubble cars with stupid woman driving. Maybe you need one of those AirZound horns to get their attention. Or a Smith and Wesson...
Re: Moron Motorists #3Saw a "P"rofessional driver this afternoon on the way home. The young woman driving the car, adorned with Green P-Plates, was such an expert driver that she has mastered the art of driving with no hands, holding a mobile phone whilst tapping away with both thumbs on the device. Not looking out the windscreen at what is going on around her, sails straight through a pedestrian crossing without a car in the world, texting on her merry way.
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Re: Moron Motorists #3Doesn't get much closer. My socks were fitting for the occasion. And someone mentioned was the camera view useful?
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Needs less crotch!
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what was the "conversation"?
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Chicks dig it
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At least the legs were shaved
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Something like this... "Mate f--king look" *points two fingers at eyes*
Re: Moron Motorists #3Got my first recorded idiot P plater yesterday...the passenger obviously thought it was very funny going by the smile on his stupid dial. Video clearly shows they altered their line for the purpose of trying to scare me
Re: Moron Motorists #3What is it with me, Milsons Point and utes . . .
Yesterday arvo a BIG red Amarock VW ute does the 'come out halfway out before looking' thing just as I 'm coming past Someone is trying to tell me to start going the other way and climb more hills I think. The world is round, so what seems like the end may actually be the beginning.
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holy hell that was WAAY too close, scary just watching it When man invented the bicycle he reached the peak of his attainments- Elizabeth West.
Re: Moron Motorists #3Geez that was close Crawf!
I had a motorist (4wd) try to do a U-turn while I was riding along the bike lane. I had plenty of room to avoid a collision but still had to hit the brakes and alter my line (to avoid what looked like a potential collision - he obviously did see me though).
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Holy heck, too close!
Some guys probably do as well. I had my first idiot driver yesterday too. Rolling up behind a little 4wd (RAV4 or Benz GLK style thing) stopped at a side street junction waiting to turn onto the main road, she then decided to engage reverse. Just as soon as she did that, she decided to put on the brakes. No harm done.
Re: Moron Motorists #3Damn that was close Crawf.
Had a reminder of how stupid some drivers are yesterday. Riding the Riverloop and some woman who could just see over the steering wheel instead of reversing a bit in her parking spot and then merging at a better and easier angle decided to pull a very quick tight and sharp right to get out of her parking spot just as I was going past. After I passed I looked behind and she didn't even tap the brakes and continued like nothing happened. In the process of getting out of the parking spot she basically ended up running about half a cars width along the gutter on the opposite side of the road. If there were parked cars there she would have needed to do a multiple point turn or hit a reset button.
Re: Moron Motorists #3There are lots of them (moron motorists)
http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/fatigue-and-m ... 2ay5n.html
For god's sake, why exclude these??? They are still deaths resulting from abuse of the privilege to drive a motor vehicle on our roads. Riding bikes in traffic - what seems dangerous is usually safe; what seems safe is often more dangerous.
Re: Moron Motorists #3disagree. suicide results from the decision to end your life, heart attack results from physiological factors. they're not attributable to motoring or road safety efforts.
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Medically and/or psychologically unfit to operate a motor vehicle sounds reasonable to me. 2012 Oppy A4
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Re: Moron Motorists #31: Completely failed brake test. He was looking in his rear view mirror smiling the whole time. 2: This morning up at Mt Mee. We were riding 2 abreast (just 2 of us). Mate was basically riding in the gutter so it was pretty much the same room as 1 rider would take up. The passenger yells out for us to get off the road. Mate yells out something about loving them (no homo). They stop. Driver tells me single file only. I tell him it's legal to ride 2 abreast. He swears. Passenger swears. They attempt to hook the trailer into my mate.
Re: Moron Motorists #3Pretty good shots of the plates there Purt... Hope lots of people get to see them...
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Re: Moron Motorists #3You should really consider reporting that second incident mate.
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Shouldn't consider it, you should do it. Road rage and menacing behavior.
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+1, and make sure they know they were being filmed, might make them think twice before doing it again. When man invented the bicycle he reached the peak of his attainments- Elizabeth West.
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I wonder, with some of them the fact they are being filmed just stirs them up even more. Better to just let them get a surprise visit from the Police later on IMO. Disgraceful behaviour from the ute driver!
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That's disgusting! Some people are just complete scumbags.
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You could fit a widescreen TV in there to keep up with the basketball scores during a gig.
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The factory is closed today. Maybe we should just pick up with this thread next week?
No private stock friday omg.
What, you don't have the keys???
I'm gonna go through some serious withdraws today without my PS friday!! I need to find something else now to get me through the day. Man this sucks.
The factory is closed? Omg now where am I going to get my psf from,.? I may have to drink today, then I'll soon become an alcoholic , waste all my money on booze. All because you Shawn do not want to go to the factory today. Prs will have to pay for my rehab and long journey to soberville. Shame on you all lmao
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Love, Hate, and Empathy: Why We Still Need Personas
UX is a relatively nascent discipline: a boisterous, hopeful, opinionated, and insightful young adult who sometimes lacks perspective.
Need evidence? Just yesterday personas were a UX designers' BFF, but today? Well, not so much.
There's been some gossip about how they are 'fakes' and really don't help build empathy.
Some have even called for their total abandonment. What's behind this trajectory from love to hate? Is there hope for personas as real empathy builders?
A Brief History of Personas
30 years ago, Alan Cooper talked with actual software users and leveraged the insights from these conversations when designing user interfaces. This was the birthplace of personas as we known them. Recalling these people's traits, characteristics, and abilities helped Cooper imagine their responses to his design ideas. (Click timeline for full-sized image.)
Other creatives joined in. In 1993 Olgilvy wrote about "Customer Prints," using marketing characteristics for representative users. That same year, Verplank, Fulton, Black, and Moggridge presented "Observation and Invention: the use of scenarios in interaction design" at InterCHI which introduced "characters" based on direct user observation.
Over the next 10 years, Cooper, Kim Goodwin, and others wrote about personas and how to create them. The software industry adopted personas slowly: first the pioneering HCI folks took interest, then forward-thinking agencies picked them up as a way to understand users. Personas spread as an integral way of representing users during the design and development process.
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As their use spread, the distinction between marketing and UX personas blurred, for several reasons. This blurring sowed seeds of discontent around personas that erupted in the maturing UX world in 2007, calling into question personas' purpose and usefulness. Here's what happened:
Half-Baked Personas
Early persona-adopter designers and researchers soon learned how hard it was to sell design research both within an organization and to outside clients. Research can be expensive, it's hard to show immediate ROI, and it takes precious time at the beginning of the design and development process.
This led to the first type of problem persona: the half-baked persona. Research was gathered as it was possible—maybe instead of getting 15 contextual inquiries, five user interviews were performed. Or, if that wasn't possible, two quick phone interviews and a reliance on available marketing data.
These personas weren't entirely made up, but they weren't built on a wealth of first-hand user research. It was easy to produce deceivingly authoritative personas based on this thin information. Details pulled from the consumer studies available were used and embellished upon. Assumptions were made and logos were pasted under "Brand Affinities." Designers wanted the feeling of having rich personas, but they didn't have the design research findings to back them up.
Empty Personas
Worse than the half-baked persona is the second type of problem persona: the truly fictional one. Based only on marketing data or the opinions of company stakeholders, whether they'd ever met a real user or not, fictional personas poisoned the pool.
They had no grounding in direct user research, were usually drenched in superfluous details, and they could be smelled from across the office. When presented with a fictional persona, product development teams usually take one look, smile sadly, nod, and get on with their business. And so, the hatred of "BS personas" was born.
Looking for the Fix
Even if designers are able to get funding for their coveted research, there are still problems. When creating personas, it's easy to take shortcuts during analysis and the personas wrung out of it are shoved into user categories that are irrelevant to the current design problem.
These personas are often too specific, focusing on traits that don't inform design decisions. For example, when redesigning customer support tracking software, do we need to know if Customer Service Sue is married or single? Isn't it more important that first-hand user research surfaces insights that not all support reps seem to have the same motivations? Inexperienced reps are focused on their performance numbers—the number of tickets they can close in a day—while experienced reps pay little attention to their stats: they are confident about their performance and instead focus on providing great customer service. These are the sorts of revelations that can lead to real innovation.
How to Get Back to that Loving Feeling
Good personas that enable us to have extended role-play with our users serve a need that isn't currently filled by anything else. If the design community throws personas in the trash, they're back to square one: the standard old argument around the product team table based on everyone's personal opinion. The user is lost in the equation.
So, how can we get back the persona love?
Get Grounded
Good, solid first-person research is at the heart of all useful personas. This includes careful preparation and participant recruiting across a wide variety of potential users. The resulting observations require thoughtful, creative analysis and synthesis that not only boils down what the users are doing and expressing but finds out why: why is this observation true?
While design researchers advocating best practices have encouraged the addition of personal details to make personas feel more real, Jonathan Grundin wrote about how traits change and that personas should focus on goals, motivations, and expectations. This is especially true when real users switch personas as their context changes. Tying personas to personal characteristics and preferences doesn't help us in these situations, it distracts us. There's a fine balance between the goals/motivation/expectation focus and the information that increases the humanity of our personas. This balance must be struck carefully for each design problem—each time personas are sussed out of our messy set of user data.
The resulting personas are the opposite of BS. Real personas get at the core, using the users' own words heard during research. Real personas are not made in some cookie-cutter template but have morphed and changed through the analysis process to reflect the situation and mindset of a particular user group.
The role-playing conversation held with these motivated characters—whether through scenarios, storyboards, or in discussions—is used to make decisions on feature prioritization and to craft usable designs. The personas talk back. A persona can say, "I don't care about that. This is what's important to me."
Round Out with Real Voices
The presentation of personas should facilitate a deep understanding as well as the ability to scan, parse, and leverage information. Placemat personas are often looked at once and put away forever. Don't consign your poor users to this fate: there must be an effective vehicle for sharing research findings about targeted end users.
If direct research can be shared, allow actual users to tell their own stories. Use real photos, audio, or video of people in their environment. Instead of inventing stories to bring imaginary people to life, lean on journalistic or documentary techniques to let users have their say in their own words. See how The New York Times lets a woman speak for herself.
User researchers can employ similar methods, bringing together users with similar goals or motivations to tell a collective story. It will be far more memorable to a development team to hear four interviewees describe a goal in similar terms than to scan a single PDF that gets filed away. If the entire team believes in the personas and who they represent, personas are much more likely to be loved and used.
Evangelize Your Personas
Beyond letting the personas speak through real users' voices, they can be kept alive within an organization by laying some groundwork.
- Name and empower an internal champion to keep personas alive and involved in the process.
- Create persona signifiers for continued use throughout the organization. Despite sometimes feeling goofy, we've found giving personas memorable names helps them stick in team member's minds.
- Create cardboard cutouts, photos, or hats with the personas' names on them to use when speaking with their voice.
- Present personas to key departments and even the entire company.
- Pair personas with visual storyboards and scenarios as design moves forward.
- Use role-playing and Q&A with personas to answer questions the team has. This helps establish a "culture of asking" instead of making things up based on hearsay or personal opinions in the team.
These steps—solid research, creative analysis, and compelling presentation and rollout—can bring teams back around to a tool that they badly need. Feel free to dump the shallow personas that people roll their eyes at. It's time to reengage with empathetic work by making your users real, and letting their real voices be heard.
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I was reflecting on my own (often poor) experience with personas and found this article very useful. The comments have been interesting as well... thanks!
And I like "I don't care about that. This is what's important to me." I sell personas to designers as design constraints. As a way to help narrow down the space of possible solutions to those that will be useful, useable and engaging for the customers/audience/staff.
And finally, thank you for the emphasis on actually using the personas. I'd like to add a couple more that have worked for me:
• in new staff induction, use your personas to help people them get up to speed with product/service users
• in vendors/technology selection, ask candidate suppliers to show how their solution will meet the needs of your personas, ask them to demonstrate your personas following your stories/journeys/scenarios to achieve their goals
Great article guys. Love that last line - "solid research, creative analysis, and compelling presentation and rollout".
On proto-personas, I have used them successfully in organisations that have a good base of existing data. You create proto-personas from the existing data see where you have gaps in understanding and focus your further research on those areas. The danger, of course, is that you never do that research and make up stuff to join the dots.
It's also great that your article has the word 'empathy' in the title. I see too many personas that go no further than bullet points, attributes gauges, etc. To create empathy our personas need to be real characters that tell their story. A bullet point saying a persona is 'time-poor' is one thing. A couple of sentences in their story showing how their lack of time impacts their life is gold.
I agree with the article and with Ben & Andrew's points about persona development sessions with stakeholders. I'm curious about the rallying cry. We seem to all agree that the ideal scenario is more robust research, but in the world of Lean and Agile we have less time today than ever before. How do we avoid the same challenges that plagued personas the first go round?
Great article, and I'm liking this discussion, too.
I've had good success with proto-personas, and like Andrew have run workshops under low-budget conditions to 'draw' them out of clients. For me the value in proto-personas is actually mostly to get clients to understand how *little* they know about their own customers. They might know target demographics and the types of *roles* customers might have (particularly ones who run member-based organizations), but they're often in the dark about their customers' real motivations, tasks and scenarios.
So it's mostly a learning exercise - a 'come along the user-centered design journey with us' exercise - for clients, than for us as UX designers to get good, meaty, authentic personas. We definitely need proper research to get that. :)
But it gives us insights into what clients *think* about their own customers, that's for sure!
Andrew: I'm feeling the need to clarify. :) I think ad-hoc personas don't enable the role-playing conversations we try to have as designers because they're more profiles and not underlying motivations and goals. Ad-hocs can focus team conversations on key roles and tasks but I'm unconvinced they support truly fresh problem *setting* which can lead to entirely different solutions -- this is what makes a deeper persona so powerful.
I grant that every project isn't going to have 6-12 weeks of dedicated research (oh, user research heaven!), but I think there's usually room in even the smallest budgets to do some guerrilla research and actually speak with end-users. I've had good luck doing this with early phase start-ups and it's always eye-opening to the founder-team to hear what users are saying and feeling in their own words. It's also really fun. And yes, then they start doing it themselves and I get like a proud parent. :)
Thanks for your reply, I'm glad people really think and care about how their users are represented to the broader team.
Kyra: I think we are both on the same page. The article seemed to take a strong position against ad-hoc personas (probably strategically to stress the importance of user research). But, it sounds like you still believe they can be useful when used properly (emphasis on *properly*).
I guess my point is that it is impossible for every product to have a well-researched set of personas behind it. While the number of user researchers is growing every day, there is not enough of us to cover all of the products in the world. This is similar to Steve Krug's proclamation that it is better to have a usability test on a product done by an amateur, than to have none done at all. It is still controversial, but I am on Steve's side of that argument (unless you are conducting a usability study on a control panel for a missile).
When I am working with a client with a small budget, I would prefer to base my content/design decisions based on ad-hoc personas than to not have any focus. I do inform the small budget clients of the importance of user research, and sometimes they will do surveys or interviews on their own. I am very proud of them when that happens :-)
Again, great article. Thank you for your response.
Hi Andrew,
Thanks for the thoughtful comment. It's always good to learn about other folks' process and how tools are being used.
It was actually our use of ad-hoc personas and our dissatisfaction with them that led us to re-think our entire persona process. There may be a time and a place for them, but in my experience is that it's with design problems that have been solved repeatedly usually for a broad consumer audience. In these cases the terrain is better known to all stakeholders. Ad-hoc personas can do a fine job of aligning the business and product teams to be on the same page about user roles or tasks and then moving the conversation forward about scenarios, features, user recruiting and testing, etc.
For new products in a new space, more complicated product ecosystems, or for a company that hasn't had a lot of contact with their end-users (and I've worked with plenty of companies like this - where knowledge of end-users is hearsay except from the frontline customer support folks), we think it's important to do the first person research and find out actual end-users' motivations and goals. It can reveal to some surprises and those surprises may be the insights that lead to a new product, feature, or a shift in focus.
Like you, we too use hypothetical sketched personas based on company and product knowledge as we enter research. Then they're proven and elaborated upon, disproven and scrapped or morph depending on what we hear from the participants.
Good article--I especially like the recommendations to evangelize your personas at the end.
However, I use proto-personas (or ad-hoc personas) regularly and I do not view them as "BS personas". With small 10-hour budgets for UX strategy, I find a proto-persona workshop as a very useful activity that lasts 2 hours or less. At the end of the workshop, we have 3-5 specific personas complete with a sketch, demographics, needs, and solutions. I also organize them in a persona map, so that we know who are primary, secondary, and tertiary personas are. It is risky to work from proto-personas, but I strongly believe that it is better to design for someone we think exists than no one at all.
With larger budgets, I still view proto-personas as a great starting point. They are a hypothesis of who the users are that can be proven/disproven later. Recently, I worked on a project that started with proto-personas and then we revised them later based on survey data.
Tamara Adlin discuss "Ad Hoc Personas" in a UIE Virtual Seminar https://www.uie.com/events/virtual_seminars/ad_hoc_personas/
Also, Jeff Gothelf wrote a great article last year on using proto-personas for executive alignment (and he is following up on this in Chapter 3 of his Lean UX book):


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Democrats, and extreme cynics.
Not sure... maybe scrap the idea for this book, and start over with a new story.
Sarah Palin
It's too bad when fiction writers need to inject their real-world political opinions into their fictional stories. Stephen King does that too sometimes, and it almost always lessens the quality of the novel.
I'm no fan of Sarah Palin, but putting her in this book and making her such an awful character not only rubs a lot of people the wrong way, it distracts from the storyline. But the story in this book wasn't very good anyways, so even if he left Palin out, it would still be a terrible book.
To Josh Bazell: I might give you one more chance if you write another novel, but if you pull the same stunt again and write such a comically bad story, well... never again.
"Waste of a credit."
I really wanted to like this book. I loved older books written by Straub, like Ghost Story and Koko. Ghost Story is still one of the best horror stories I've ever read.
But Peter Straub began to slip some time in late 80's or early 90's. His books became strained, vague, and uninteresting. He completely changed genres. So I basically gave up on Straub.
With A Dark Matter, I decided to give him another shot, hoping that he had returned to some form of horror. I shouldn't have wasted my credit. I should have known better.
This story is boring and repetitive. It simply explores several characters' bizarre dreams and imaginations (I think). It was frankly difficult to follow. I gave up on the book before I finished it. I just couldn't hang in there. I can't tell you if the ending was any better because I never got to the end.
The only good thing about this book is the narrator. Robertson Dean is excellent, I've listened to some of his other narrations, and he never dissappoints.
"Ruined by the narration."
First of all, let me say how much I hate the voice of this narrator. He has a high voice, and sounds like a 16-year old. And he runs his sentences together without a proper break. No talent at all at voices. I don't know how he got into audiobook narration, maybe he's related to a producer or something... this is a classic case of a bad narrator ruining a decent book.
The story is only decent. I loved The Crime Writer and The Program, both excellent. But this book seemed to be too similar to other thrillers I've read (e.g., Harlan Coben, etc). It just seemed formulaic, and it never grabbed my interest. It gave me the feeling that I'd read the same story somewhere before.
I will remain a Gregg Hurwitz fan, and will try to read all his books. I know he will write better books than this one. I just hope his future books aren't mutilated by the narrator as this one was.
"*Yawn* ...typical late King."
First off, I am a huge fan of the "early" Stephen King, what he wrote in the 70s and 80s... The Shining, Christine, Pet Cemetary, It, Misery, etc. All excellent top-of-the-genre horror novels.
Since the early 90s, King has softened up quite a lot. Books like "Dolores Claiborne", "Duma Key" and "Lisey's Story" make me just scratch my head and wonder if this is really Stephen King writing.
He's written consistently "soft" novels since the early 90s, and "Under the Dome" is no exception. It's not horror, not a thriller either, but more a story about political and religious corruption, and lust for power. Many of King's recent novels have his own political ideas injected into them, and this one is no different. It gets tiresome after a while. If I want politics I'll turn on CNN.
King does a very good job with characters, I'll give him that much. But this book is so long, it drags. After the first 20 hours, it was very hard for me to keep interested. The book became totally predictable, and the novelty of the "dome" completely wore off.
It's also pretty sad how every Christian is portrayed as a complete nutcase.
About the narrator: I'd never heard Raul Esparza before, and I must admit I didn't like him at all. For some reason his voice sounds too young to me, and didn't really fit the story. He made the doctor Rusty sound like a 17-year old surfer dude. The voice he used for the little girls made me cringe. Yikes! Awful... I think he's just new at audiobook narration, and obviously needs more practice. This book would have benefitted from a more mature male voice.
To sum up: it starts out interesting, but gradually tapers off and I lost interest as the hours passed... and passed... and passed.
I wish the old Stephen King would come back and write something scary. I want to be frightened again.
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I like McCarthy's writing style, but its never been better than in The Road. The setting is a bleak future, a man and his boy holding on to each other despite having absolutely nothing to live for. The story moves along well, with McCarthy's brilliant prose, but the bleak atmosphere is not something all will appreciate.
Many criticize this book because of the lack of sophisticated dialog. In fact, a man and his son travelling along a road in the cold of winter probably would not have many deep, philosophical discussions.
The story is simple, but it's what McCarthy does with it that gives its complexity.
There are some moments in the story that are some of the most memorable I've ever read; particularly the man's remembrance of the final conversation he had with his wife.
The author manages to introduce a fair amount of realistic suspense into the story. I cringed at what the man found in the basement of that house...
McCarthy is one of the most brilliant writers, and he is at his absolute best here. But you'll probably either love it or hate it.
Oh yeah, Tom Stechschulte's narration is perfect for this book.
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I like Morrell. The Protector was excellent, and so was Creepers. But I just could never get into this one. Mystery lights in the wilderness mess with people's minds. There isn't a whole lot to this story in the way of plot. It probably should have been a short story. It's slow and fairly boring. It's also a little unbelievable, the way so many people fall under the control of these "lights". Skip this one, and try some of Merrill's other books.
Where has this autho been all my life? I'd never heard of Jack Ketchum till recently, and took a chance on this book. I am partial to this type of story, and the genre in general, but I didn't expect the book to be as good as it was. Very, very intense, graphic violence, but for a good reason. The antagonists (the family of cannibals) are truly froghtening, even the children. If you can deal with the violence, I highly recommend this book. One of the most frightening stories I've read in a long time.
"Perfect follow up to a perfect book."
Rarely do I say this about a sequel, but in this case, the sequel is even better than the first book (The Girl with the Dragon Tatoo). I recommend reading the first book before reading this one, though. Both are interesting, and very intelligent novels. Plenty of suspense, intrigue, mystery in each, with outstanding characters. Narration by Vance is top notch.
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I love Harry Bosch, and have read every book. This one is a nice departure, as it involves the Chinese gangs, and part of it takes place in Hing Kong. Nobody writes crime like Connelly, and this book is no exception. Highly recommend.


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