After much scratching of head and stroking of chin Fringe wins the Day 1 Eurobike caption compo for "bread, sausage and coke three of my five a day. mmmmm" which rather spookily is what I was actually saying. For his efforts we’ll be sending the lucky lad some "glamourous" Eurobike Schwag. Don’t we won’t try and and post you any sausage though.
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Laudable effort. Will a full review of the bike be following?
By their very nature the dockless bike schemes will result in bikes being parked in stupid places. The user has little incentive to find the correct place to park it. More so if they are tourists with a cruise liner to catch and only 3 hours to explore. So, if the operation can't be made to fit within the councils required operating method, then it should be removed. I'm pretty sure another operator will come in and propose a system acceptable to the council if they believe they can make money. I strongly suspect that the current operators can only make money by tacitly allowing bikes to be left where the tourist money wants to leave them, so time to rethink the financial model me thinks!
@bikercub "If they are good enough to be supporting the Groupama-FDJ United World TourCycling team, we should be looking at them as a contender." No, that only means that they paid enough to become a sponsor. Let's put the "pros use better stuff" myth to sleep, finally. And by the way, the trickiest part of a GPS computer is not data collection - that can be done by absolutely all of them. The hard part is the general user interface and turn-by-turn navigation, none of which really matters for a pro cyclist - and that brings us back to why any GPS computer could be good enough for just about any pro cyclist.
@mdavidford Absolutely, I am assuming that the OP means those lanes where it's so tight it's actually impossible for a cyclist to get through if there is a large vehicle, obviously if they can squeeze by each other nobody needs to go back.
You are quite correct about uniform signage. However this seems to be a fairly atypical set up. Having experience and knowledge of it would in theory make mistakes less likely. Part of my job involved writing operating and maintenance procedures for food manufacturing machinery. I quickly learnt that people need to be given direct, simple, non-conflicting, non-ambiguous instructions. If it is possible to make mistakes, then they will be made. The best of of avoiding a mistake is to design flaws out of the system.
I do not in anyway support the Daily Telegraph's continually mad anti-cycling journalism but, it must be said, that this particular section of cycle lane on King Street in Hammersmith has been an absolute disaster ever since it re-opened. It certainly wasn't perfect for cyclists before but ever since they remodelled the cycle lane to run as a two way lane on one side of the road it has become much much more dangerous and confusing for pedestrians, drivers, motorcyclists and cyclists alike. I'm not saying that all cycling infrastructure is badly designed but, on my 12 mile commute from home in South London to work at the West end of King Street, this cycleway is where I feel most unsafe. It's not an inditement on active travel but it should be a lesson in planning because it's been closed on 5 or 6 occasions since to be remodelled to correct issues that should've been obvious before it opened. I have been using this road to get to work since long before the re-modelling and it has definitely, in my opinion, worsened not just the safety of cyclists but also the relationship between drivers and cyclists in this area.
In principle, it shouldn't matter if you're familiar with a particular junction - that's precisely why we have (relatively) uniform signage across the country (I had this from a driver recently - Him: sorry, I don't know the area. Me: but a no entry sign is the same everywhere...). But in practice in a busy environment like this, simply adding another sign saying look out for cyclists is limited help. I don't love cycling on contraflows / a two way cyclelane on a one way street for that reason. In fact there's a crossing I don't love as a pedestrian which is look right (bikes) look left (bikes) look right (cars), island, catch breath, look left (cars), look left (bikes). (Yes, you could wait for a green man, but then it's still look everywhere (Deliveroo)).
I'm not familiar with Jeremy Vine's favourite cycle lane. However I do have sympathy with drivers if they have to deal with "Look both ways for cyclists" as well as "One Way" and "No Entry" signs. Especially if the driver is not familiar with the junction.
@mitsky Alas for a second there I was awarding the motorist in the window there points for wearing hi-vis in their car, then I realised they were also wearing a motoring helmet...
While I understand it in context, I quite liked this to conclude a bike light review: "it’s a reliable set for the price, so long as you aren’t looking to ride in the dark"
19 thoughts on “Eurobike Day 1 caption competition – we have a winner!”
No, I still prefer the 2009
No, I still prefer the 2009 vintage currywurst. I can still taste it now.
“…and this is what Jon-Lee
“…and this is what Jon-Lee and Ben ate the other night, and they were fine?”
OK, but apart from the diesel
OK, but apart from the diesel engine, aspirin, the royal family, Beethoven, Eurobike and sausages, what have the Germans ever done for us?
I think I may have done my
I think I may have done my zip up a bit quick, ‘cos this just came off in my hand!
ah, the first knob gag. i’m
ah, the first knob gag. i’m so proud.
don’t get too excited, it looks like the prize will be a dahon vacuum flask or a tacx towel at this rate…
dave_atkinson wrote:ah, the
To be honest I was surprised it had taken so long, you can’t post a picture of a man holding a Wiener in his hand and not expect at least one knob gag, surely?
Told you German Autobahns
Told you German Autobahns were smooth. Can eat and drink with both hands at 100k.
bread, sausage and coke three
bread, sausage and coke three of my five a day. mmmmm.
well, precisely. i’m
well, precisely. i’m surprised anyone managed to think of anything else, to be honest 🙂
You sure I can’t glue it back
You sure I can’t glue it back on
So who won?
I’m assuming I’m
So who won?
I’m assuming I’m in the top ten…
andylul wrote:So who won?
I’m
we got a bit busy looking at bikes and that, so we’ll draw it tomorrow 🙂
You tell me….does that look
You tell me….does that look like a fingernail in there or what?
I’m not that bothered about
I’m not that bothered about weight myself, but if you cut it off carefully it’ll stay fresh in a bottle of Diet Coke until you’ve finished in the mountains.
Andy Schleck’s party pack
Andy Schleck’s party pack gets its first outing
damn … this is diet – I
damn … this is diet – I ordered full fat …..
Diet coke, bread and german
Diet coke, bread and german sausage at this hour! The wurst way to get indigestion
This is much easier than
This is much easier than riding a bike
marvellous! thanks.
marvellous! thanks.