Live blog: Video – cat fires bow and arrow while cycling, London Assembly Member wants motorcyclists to be allowed on Cycle Superhighways + 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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mdavidford 6 hours ago
Isn't the opposite of someone who's homogenised split personality disorder?
GravelIsNothingNew 7 hours ago
AI is cancel culture Anyone who thinks it’s good has no talent and wants to be homogenised into a world of bland sameness.
Car Delenda Est 7 hours ago
@chrisonabike also a lot easier to wrap up when the 'hurty words' are telling people to burn down hotels hosting asylum seekers and then people go and do exactly that.
Defblade 8 hours ago
"The spokesperson for the Metropolitan Police said the force was unable to comment on this recent spate of reported bikejackings because “they are not linked, given they are in different areas”." Because crims on mopeds _definitely_ can't travel to different areas of the city, very easily?
ktache 8 hours ago
@Pub bike I run nokons on the Good Bike, very little compression on the outers, both xtr brake and gears. For the several years I will keep the well lubricated quality nokons inners I will have to adjust to take the little slack out of the rear a few times, just to make the shifts crisp. Ceramic brakes so pad wear is negligible, the rear will need more adjustment over time than the front, presumably as it's a much longer cable run. Nokons cables on the rohloff on the Ultimate Commuter, have had to take some slack out, mainly out of the getting lower gear cable, I'm guessing as I often trying to find the non existent lower gear on the hard climb.
Pub bike 9 hours ago
@imajez Brake adjusters mainly deal with pad wear whilst gear adjusters fine tune shifting during set-up and after fitting a new inner cable. Brake outer housing is spiral-wound and compressible giving compliance at the lever and the false impression that the inner cable somehow stretches whereas the metal strands in gear outer housing are laid axially and as such the outer housing doesn't easily compress over time keeping shifting precise. I find that a previously well-adjusted rear derailleur system that needs adjustment likely needs a new inner cable.
OkCarl 10 hours ago
I ride expensive bikes wearing expensive helmets, my bike equipped with an expensive bike computer, fitness watch and cell phone. I carry my debit card. I worry. You would expect anyone living in Chicago to worry about bike jacking. Yet, for some strange reason. The Chicago land criminal community has not caught on to bike jacking. They like retail break ins and ATM smash ups.
chrisonabike 10 hours ago
@mattw "footpaths" Hmm... true this is an underappreciated resource and indeed in danger. But I think this is very location dependent. If we're taking in urban locations, are you talking alleys - narrow almost always no room for expansion? Or "footways" - also often not ample and we're back to "fighting over scraps" with pedestrians or even forced-conflict with "shared use"? In the countryside - perhaps? If what goes in NL applies more generally (and why wouldn't it - they're humans too) more people may be prepared to travel on bikes there than UK opinion holds. ("people depend on their cars... nobody cycles or walks ... the non-existent footway beside the A-road!"). Although that may depend on "cyclists and walkers get the direct route" which isn't always how we do it...
imajez 10 hours ago
@james-o Cable brakes and gear shifters have have barrel adjusters to deal with the inevitable cable stretch, that most certainly occurs over time.
7 thoughts on “Live blog: Video – cat fires bow and arrow while cycling, London Assembly Member wants motorcyclists to be allowed on Cycle Superhighways + more”
Box Hill one way?
Box Hill one way?
Downhill I hope! Who needs all that huffing and puffing and nasty uphill pedalling on a bank holiday!
pockstone wrote:
Nope. Uphill only according to CW:
For 2018, the road will be one-way – with no vehicles allowed to descend the Zig Zag towards Old London Road – from Friday March 30 until Monday April 2.
http://www.cyclingweekly.com/news/latest-news/box-hill-goes-one-way-easter-last-years-trial-deemed-success-373853#shV2QuR8gkWVzrVT.99
As it happens, motorcyclists
As it happens, motorcyclists can already use much of the cycle superhighways in London due to their poor design.
Where it is just blue paint on the road, it has no legal standing, as described by the copper in the tragic case of Brian Dorling. He summarised that they were nothing more than a “blue strip of paint”: https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/mother-watches-in-horror-as-cctv-of-her-daughters-boris-bike-death-is-played-to-court-8883576.html
Driving on the cycle superhighways only contrevenes road rules when there is an unbroken line dividing the road and the carriageway – where it forms a ‘compulsary’ cycle lane. It is also legal to drive on cycle lanes where your path is obstructed if they are made up of a broken line*.
But it’s not like Kurten to not know his stuff is it..?
*I’m sure someone with greater technical knowledge and a zeal for pedantry will pull me up on this, but I’ve described some of the essence of faults that the cycle lanes have.
As someone who rides bikes
As someone who rides bikes both motorised and not, that is a monumentaly stupid idea. How about opening all the bus lanes to motorbikes. That will help much more than having some prat on a 1200GS mixing with cyclists. Those lanes are designed for bicycles and as such would be totaly unsutable to motorbikes, as anyone who has been anywhere near a diliveroo rider will atest.
“improve safety for
“improve safety for motorcycles if they could use Cycle Superhighways at less busy times of the day outside rush hours, when there are hardly any bicycles on them, and they lie dormant and empty.”
Dormant and empty; just like his head. Who could have imagined a UKIPer being uninformed, ignorant and stupid?
So if he’s suggesting that
So if he’s suggesting that motorcyclists use the cycle lanes at less busy times of day, then surely the ‘normal’ lanes will also be less busy, so motorcyclists will be in less danger anyway.
Have I missed something here?
grumpyoldcyclist wrote:
Idiot says idiotic thing