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plus, of course, turning all the street lights out

currently just over 7% of the logged visits to road.cc are made from mobile devices, and it is something we're considering quite closely. currently we're trying to work out the best strategy for a mobile site but rest assured, we are looking into it.

i'd be interested to hear anyone's experiences of the current site on their mobile device. let us know what you got, and how well the site performs. for my part i've got an htc desire and the site displays fairly well although it's a bit slow.

Ferries and trains are the only way I travel with my bikes. I would say Eurostar but, even though they've improved their service recently, it is still much more of a hassle and an expense than is justifiable. If all the horror stories recounted here and elsewhere, of multiple bad experiences, show anything, it is that there is a huge market for transporting cyclists across Europe which Eurostar is missing out on.

some good advice there napalm. bar height is certainly hard to fix if it's wrong, especially on a threadless headset. The reach of a bike is important too, you can compensate using a longer/shorter stem but you can quite seriously affect the handling if you go to extremes.

I cannot see any complaint button on the game's page itself. But there is a comments form on the press release page for it, elsewhere on the Directgov web site. Sure, it'll only get sent to some PR schmuck, who'll ignore it, but it made me feel better to post this:

This "game" is appalling on about 5 billion different levels. Why is it the child's fault when they look both ways only to mown down by a, clearly speeding, motorist? Why isn't the street itself lit - was the lighting budget spent on pointless PR stunt web sites like this one? It quickly becomes impossible to "light up" the throngs of kids wanting to cross the road. So why isn't there a proper crossing, or a police officer, giving the hundreds of pedestrians right of way over a few selfish motorists?

Why stop there? how about showing a stab victim and blaming them for not wearing a stab proof vest?

The store has been open the whole week and serves free coffee til tomorrow (30th).

Really can't believe that somebody was paid to come up with this b******s!!! Yes the message needs to be out there to be visible BUT motorists need to realise that there are other roadusers out there. It seems to me that it does not matter how visible pedestrians and cyclists make themselves, motorists still do their damndist to try and run them off the road!!! Only the other day while on my commute with three rear lights, hi-vis jacket and scothlite a bus still atempted torun me off the road missing me by mere inches!!! The sooner motorists remember their responsibilities to other road users the better!! Rant Over

Like I said: when America sneezes, Britain catches a cold.

That probably is reasonable wild man, although they were probably telling them to be careful, I'd guess.

Bottom line is we don't know what happened and the judge didn't rule on whether there was any liability, just on whether a case could be brought against a child of that age for being negligent - which he ruled it can. The next stage is for it to go to court when the dead woman's estate sues her. I suppose in America someone's always got to be to blame and someone's always got to pay for that - even if they're four.

I flew to Faro in late September 2010 with my bike with Easyjet. I would say that generally the whole exercise worked. My rear derailleur got damaged on the way back though - just glad it didn't happen on the way there.

This may seem obvious advice but get someone to take you to the airport by car and meet you upon return. Trying to carry your bike, suitcase and some hand luggage single handed on the train is not something I would want to try again.

Remind me again who pays the wages of these comedians.

Change of government, still the same stupid civil servants at the DfT.