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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Rendel Harris 5 hours ago
In the case of the particular nutter in question, I'm afraid long experience of him under his many different aliases (I think he's been banned under fourteen different names thus far, and those are just the ones I can remember) has demonstrated that he doesn't go away if ignored, indeed if anything he tends to increase his postings, starts to behave as if he is some sort of respected figure on the site and, most tiresomely, draws in other nutters of the same kidney (Martin 73, thisismyusername et al). The only thing that gets rid of him is a ban; site admin are aware of his presence and will ban him when he inevitably steps over the line once again. Until then, I'm afraid it's my personal opinion that his racist, xenophobic alt-far-right filth and lies should not be allowed to go unchallenged. I know others subscribe to the "ignore him and he'll go away" school of thought, and I respect your opinion, but I don't agree.
belugabob 7 hours ago
@jaymack "what’s AI going to do to people’s ability to think when it ‘relieves’ us of the need to exert some brain power to solve a problem or make a decision?" I feel that this is already underway. Ironically, in an era where most people have a device in their pocket that gives them access to previously unavailable levels of information, the levels of disinformation are truly shocking. At the core of this, is an apparent lack of critical thinking skills - just as having a calculator doesn't provide basic mathematics skills, having information at your disposal doesn't provide the skills necessary to distill that information. AI is just an acceleration of that process
wtjs 7 hours ago
Well! Here's cause for thought. I have been on here less recently because of various technical factors on the site and because of the nutters and people holding them here by responding to them. However, I have to look occasionally to find out about cyclist killers and the largely joke suspended penalties. I don't spend much time on the latest 36" wheel or new BB and shoe cleat type trends, or the £12,000 carbon bikes with £4000 wavy profile carbon wheels. I had decided on a Fairlight Secan for next year, but this admirable bike requires much study. This is why we need the site.
perce 9 hours ago
@jackcycles Gosh. Sadiq Khan occupies so much room in your head there's little room for anything else. How sad.
Rendel Harris 10 hours ago
jackcycles 10 hours ago
This is what happens when you import large numbers of unknowns from overseas and export home-grown millionaires due to reckless ideology. Sadiq Khan has wrought more misery on the streets of London than anyone in the history of UK politics, but the issue is that he has enough of a captive market voting for him that he will be difficult to defeat at the ballot box. Don't forget, Khan will be ok as he drives around London in a cavalcade of bullet proof Range Rovers. You? Maybe not so much.
jackcycles 10 hours ago
@open_roads don't forget - throwing a plastic bottle: fast tracked through the court system and 2 years in prison Great comment by the way
jackcycles 10 hours ago
@Rendel Harris wealthy people are already leaving the country in droves due to spiteful class-warrior politics of envy. No entrepreneur wants to have their hard-earned money taken off them, wasted and redistributed to others on these kinds of schemes. These "tax avoiders" in fact pay the vast majority of taxation in the UK. Just today it's been revealed that Sadiq Khan has forced another millionaire to leave London and the UK, Sir Peter Lampl, due to his outrageous anti-growth LTNs. As he stated, London now has the slowest moving traffic of any capital of the world - something no doubt certain commentators here would celebrate - but the net effect is that (along with crime) no sane person wants to live there any more.
This Wreckage 11 hours ago
My local Green party ran a public meeting a few years ago as part of its campaigns for better cycle lanes in the town here in north-east England. They showed a film made by local schoolgirls about why so few of them cycled to school. The main reason, by a long way, was fear of looking foolish and uncool in front of their friends and of boys. How would better infrastructure change that? In the 1970s when I was a child and as readers are well aware, far more children rode without cycle lanes existing.
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.