Live blog: London bike cop’s supermarket sweep, Canadian PM’s wife’s bike school run in the snow & more
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Simon joined road.cc as news editor in 2009 and is now the site’s community editor, acting as a link between the team producing the content and our readers. A law and languages graduate, published translator and former retail analyst, he has reported on issues as diverse as cycling-related court cases, anti-doping investigations, the latest developments in the bike industry and the sport’s biggest races. Now back in London full-time after 15 years living in Oxford and Cambridge, he loves cycling along the Thames but misses having his former riding buddy, Elodie the miniature schnauzer, in the basket in front of him.
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mark1212123 18 minutes ago
The story about "Michael Vanthourenhout squares up to Cameron Mason" comes across as gossipy. Like the low kind of gossip that sits a millimetre above the kind of sewery gossip No Reply above is currently being text chided for. As an aside, I'm wondering if Rendell Harris could explain a little their voices moderatory energy? I've read your comments for a long while now, I'm very interested in the structure that sits behind your voices public positioning. Anyways, I am a cyclist, not a duck limpet sucking on and selling the mild story of two cyclists bumping in a competition and one going 'yah yah yah' afterwards and the brit going 'yah yah yah' but with a distasteful pasting of the mid 20th century around his performance to camera afterwards. No wonder cycling journalism currently sits in a café, in a desert, miles from anywhere, hawking aldi teabag tea to cyclists who cant stretch to £12,000 for a bike. Hahaha, the madness is mint. The contradictions feeding on our hopes, in the hope, any story will lead us to clicking on an advert.
Rendel Harris 50 minutes ago
@No Reply So you've used a pathetic juvenile homophobic slur and now anyone calling you on it is a snowflake and trying to silence your freedom of speech. They're not, you know, they're just telling you to grow up and stop using the language of a prepubescent bigot.
Rome73 53 minutes ago
Older people nearly ‘wiped out’, teenagers cycling backwards, residents ‘scared’ to come into town because of cyclists . . . But no evidence, as usual. Just lies, exaggeration, misinformation, hearsay. Politicians - what are they good for?
Rome73 1 hour ago
I have seen a few of these ‘robot cars’ in London and haven’t felt intimidated or worried, yet. (Things may feel different when there are thousands of them on the road) Whenever I am near an Uber or Black cab I’m cautious as they u-turn, pull over, block cycle infrastructure at will and without signalling. The uber drivers are always looking at their phones and the cabbies are always frothing at the mouth about immigrants or the EU or sunnink. So at least the Robot Cars won’t be listening to Talk Radio and getting wound up.
Global Nomad 1 hour ago
having seen and been regularly around these cars in London whilst riding, the issue is their erratic behaviour, particularly on narrow, i.e. normal uk roads - its is exactly the sudden swerving or unexpected stop/freeze that is the problem for all other road users...human drives will mostly hold their line as you move past on inside or outside, these shift out of the way suddenly, over reacting to normal positioning.
ktache 10 hours ago
@Mr Blackbird It's quite a skill.
chrisonabike 10 hours ago
@Terry Hutt good point, although while doing testing without a helmet I broke my shoulder and have suffered various other contusions. So I suggest the control should not be "no helmet" as in my experience that adds the confounding variable of your other limbs and appendages as (for some) instinct will mean you sacrifice them to protect your head...
chrisonabike 10 hours ago
@mdavidford or the highly skilled cycle football / radball players...
chrisonabike 10 hours ago
@No Reply dunno about childish, but I haven't heard that one since the 90s. Can't say I miss it.
mdavidford 11 hours ago
Bit harsh on the BMXers.
11 thoughts on “Live blog: London bike cop’s supermarket sweep, Canadian PM’s wife’s bike school run in the snow & more”
Staggering story from Seattle
Staggering story from Seattle, a complete waste of money and effort, and I wouldn’t mind betting there are plenty of places the cycle parking is actually needed.
Next time I want some cycle parking installed, I’ll lie down on the pavement for a few days.
burtthebike wrote:
wouldn’t be surprised either if they took the money out of the cycling budget…
but those four cycle riders
but those four cycle riders are taking up exactly the same space as a car or tractor…
That “one peen” water bottle
That “one peen” water bottle system? Sure, I’ll replace my bit of bent wire which is universally compatible with pretty much every bidon, for a big lump of plastic compatible with nothing else apart from a bottle from the same vendor.
And the argument about small frames? Do Side loading bottle cages not exist in Oz?
Drinfinity wrote:
But it “looks good, and its fast” – I’m in ….
(stitches)
Bike parking 3 blocks away
Bike parking 3 blocks away and then has the gaul to say they can’t put bike parking there because they need planning or some BS excuse. So not only using the excuse of this being parking for bikes despite it never ever going to be used but coming up with BS excuse as to why it isn’t actually near where it’s needed to cover up the fact it’s intended use was to prevent homeless people from sleeping there.
Mut be related to Valbrona #CUNT
How do those bike racks stop
How do those bike racks stop the homeless, there’s loads of space on the pavement.
Also I see an opportunity for a hammock!
On narrow two-lane roads, I
On narrow two-lane roads, I can understand how it may be a delay for vehicles to pass 2-abreast cyclists while maintaining the minimum legal passing distance with oncoming traffic. However, on bigger roads where there is at least two lanes in the same direction of travel, I think it should be law where motorists must completely move over into the next lane.
I live in rural countryside, and some tractors (harvesters) can be as wide as an entire 2-lane road. Not one motorist has a problem pulling off the road and stopping to let the harvester by. But as soon as they see a cyclist, they act like the world is ending having 10 seconds of inconvenience. Everyone has to have something or someone they hate.
PC Knellar’s Sainsbury’s
PC Knellar’s Sainsbury’s Strava segment is unfair, I may have to challenge it hanging off a trolley
I think this is the Tooting
I think this is the Tooting video:
http://www.facebook.com/1797224600303573/videos/2300255640000464
I hope the Daily Mail don’t get hold of it…
That policeman riding through
That policeman riding through the supermarket at full whack seems really reckless. What if a small child had run out in front of him, even if he had time to react or wouldn’t make much difference on the polished surface.