Live blog: Video of little girl giving safe overtake lorry driver thumbs-up goes viral, London Quietways under fire after latest death + more
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Mon, Jun 04, 2018 13:55
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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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mark1a 2 hours ago
Get some help you tedious fool.
Backladder 2 hours ago
No, now everybody can see the space after your opening bracket!
Backladder 2 hours ago
What he means is there's nowhere to park all day for free! Morrisons has a 2 hour limit and the shopping centre is pay and display.
Mr Blackbird 3 hours ago
villages not villagers. Am I not allowed to edit my crap spelling and grammar anymore?
Mr Blackbird 3 hours ago
Daffodils were out before the end of January in some Cambs villagers. I heard a yellowhammer singing a week ago ( not usually heard before mid March to early April) and saw a very large bumblebee at a garden centre today - it was buying some gardening gloves.
Mr Blackbird 4 hours ago
I wouldn't mind watching live coverage of construction of the artificial hill. As long as it isn't on a TNT subscription channel. (And I hope the event organisers don't employ the pillock in the earlier article from Notts who flattened a cycle path embankment to create a flat area for caravans).
open_roads 4 hours ago
Hope: “here’s our latest frame that shows our amazing craftsmanship in an incredible eye catching finish” Hope: “no you can’t buy it apart from in Black - even at additional cost for the finish” 🤷♂️
Surreyrider 5 hours ago
Agree with that. But it doesn't look that packable from the pictures.
SaneRebel 5 hours ago
I've recently had a rotator cuff shoulder injury which has made signalling with my right arm difficult and painful (but cycling all day has been fine). This got me thinking I might need indicators (but bike mounted). Thankfully my shoulder is improving now, but I would have welcomed them if the only way to keep cycling safety. That, or move to Europe and have the left arm indicate my moves across traffic lanes.
rct 5 hours ago
As opposed to my Steel reynolds frame, where the top, down tubes were bent, and the lugs pushed into the top tube.
7 thoughts on “Live blog: Video of little girl giving safe overtake lorry driver thumbs-up goes viral, London Quietways under fire after latest death + more”
What it seems like the
What it seems like the Canucks have come up with some really stupid legisaltion in Montreal.
As for World Bicycle Day, I celebrated it by marshalling at a BMX event.
It’s about time someone found
It’s about time someone found the balls to stand up to the brutal cyclists going around with 5 or less reflectors. The sheer number of lives lost to the reckless abandon shown by these cyclists is just astounding.
Yesterday was designated the
Yesterday was designated the first ever World Bicycle Day by the United Nations – sorry, but that one passed me right by. I didn’t know that there was a World Bicycle Day.
On the Montreal thing:
On the Montreal thing:
So a bit more to it than just the reflectors…
Some Canadian Provinces have
Some Canadian Provinces have some strange bike laws. I lived in Halifax, Nova Scotia on the Canadian east coast and when I bought a bike I asked for a set of lights and the bike shop guy said why ? “To ride at night” I replied – ” Not a legal requirement ” he answered -“but you are required to have a helmet – night or day”
And with helmet and reflector
And with helmet and reflector laws cycling has not got safer in Canada, it’s got worse with more deaths and more injuries since they started forcing helmet wearing/increases in helmet wearing across the country.
Yet another backward society that focuses on the vulnerable to protect themselves instead of changing the behaviour of those doing the harm. What utter bullshit.
Lovely video of the fab overtake by the transporter, I had a brilliant overtake on a country road a couple of years ago, after a fair few of the usual crud it was a nice relief so I contacted the firm ( not local but family run business) to give praise and they responded back that they got their drivers out on bikes and made particular training sessions for their drivers when in various scenarios where they might come across people on bikes.
We all have to get some place and that means when you’re in the bigger/biggest thing out there you need to take more time and care with how you do things to minimise the risk for all concerned including yourself.
“twat” can be found on
“twat” can be found on Wikipedia, “supercilious” sadly not.