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The big 2 discontinuing compatible parts every 5 or so years, forcing people to buy pretty much entire new groupsets, is getting fairly annoying.

...red light jumping **cyclists**... Oh edit option, why hast thou forsaken us?

Even if there's a hundred red light jumping for each phone-using driver (highly doubtful) the driver is still probably more dangerous, so where the focus of attention should be.

My 10-speed Ultegra 6800 series shifter broke the other year. There was no Shimano part that is mechanically (i.e., the original 10-speed pull, not the new 11-speed pull distance on 10-speed, like Tiagra 4700) and aesthetically (i.e., under bar-tape cable routing, to match the other shifter) compatible. I don't know what pull-length Cues uses, but I guess it's the new-10-speed/equal-to-11-speed pull (?). Anyway, I went to aliexpress and found that LTwoo make a range of mechanical shifters that covers pretty much all the speeds and cable-pulls compability. So, thank you China. The LTwoo shifter action is basically SRAM double-tap, and they work fine.

The problem is that there are so many red lights that might not be appropriate for cyclists (e.g. a cyclist turning left at a junction can usually do so safely) and the problem is that this trains cyclists to evaluate exactly what the traffic lights are doing. The fact is that the vast majority of traffic lights are designed purely around controlling motorised vehicles. Ideally, there should be separated infrastructure around the traffic lights so that cyclists don't have to continually sacrifice their energy by coming to a stop just so that they can accelerate away again.

I can only speak for London, but we do have a massive problem now with RLJ cyclists, and it is hard to defend against the complaints from drivers. I've been cycling into London since the early 1990s and I've never seen it this bad. In fact I was saying to one of the cyclists I work with how I'm getting to the point where I'm thinking I should just do the same as everyone else, rather than stopping. Last night for example there was a cyclist who was the only one to stop at a couple of lights next to me, while as many as ten others ignored them. I was going to comment to him at the next set about being the only two people stopping, but he powered through that one on red, and the next one (I didn't see him again).

" He would have put the phone down" and would have ran over that 7 year old that's now obscured by his bonnet🤦

"Nasty", "tell-tale" - you're seventy-nine Kate, not seven.

Who wants zero traffic fatalities? Helsinki has managed this: https://www.politico.eu/article/helsinki-no-traffic-death-roads-eu-accident-finland-driving-transport/

Also, IIRC people take around 20-30 seconds to adjust to their surroundings after using their phone. The problem is that people think that it doesn't take that long due to our brains "filling in" details, but that leads to so many cries of "they came from nowhere". It's like with the Invisible Gorilla experiment - people's attention is far more flawed than you might think. https://practicalpie.com/invisible-gorilla/