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Live blog: hit-and-run driver who killed cyclist caught after Reddit user identifies part of its headlight, Tom Pidcock switches to new British CX team, Brompton unveil ltd edition Nine Streets bike +more
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60somethingcyclist 29 minutes ago
Arrogant obnoxious Tory.
Rendel Harris 37 minutes ago
How do you see them then? Do you regularly drive into black cars?
eburtthebike 55 minutes ago
@Blackthorne83 He'd love to, but some bastard's taken out the cycle lanes.
kil0ran 2 hours ago
I was a few bikes away from the fatal collision during Ride London a few years ago, I barely avoided the victim's dog which was running loose. Definitely one of those slo-mo adrenaline fuelled moments and I was only doing about 40kph. At lead out speeds it really doesn't bear thinking about.
open_roads 2 hours ago
@Xenophon2 "That’s a lot of batteries to keep track of, to the point that I have a dedicated charger with 3 m USB-C cable in my office, another one at home. Can’t imagine having to deal with another battery such as on the Flight Attendant." Top tip: In reality most of the SRAM stuff lasts a month or two even with pretty heavy usage. I just charge all the batteries on the last Sunday of every month and have yet to be caught out. The SRAM batteries are so cheap / small / light it's also worth keeping a spare in a saddle bag or similar.
ajuk.uk@gmail.com 3 hours ago
@chrisonabike There does seem to be evidence that 20 mph limits work on roads that already lend themselves to such low speeds, and I do think the lack of a 25 mph limit option is an issue for some roads. Speed limits should especially not be set very low in the hope that many or most drivers will only exceed them by a set amount because, not only is it not true that many people drive like that, the opposite can happen. Instead of targeting the drivers most likely to cause harm, you're putting the prohibition onto the behaviour of more sensible drivers and forcing the police to target them. The DfT guidance used to have a paragraph calling out this presumption. The extent to which road design and conditions at the time dictate traffic speeds is too stark to ignore. I've seen urban roads with signed 40 mph limits have lower average speeds than some roads with posted 20 mph limits. And yes, that road in Gloucester has signs openly inviting drivers to go faster, and almost none of them do: the non-compliance was about 2%. Compare that to over 99% non-compliance on some roads in Wales. What I'm mainly talking about is the increasing imposition of 20 mph limits on much higher-standard main roads. That's where you see extreme levels of non-compliance. In some cases, the average speed has even been known to go up after the limit has gone down. Showing such contempt just brings speed limits into disrepute and my contention is that drivers should take speed limits seriously.
ajuk.uk@gmail.com 3 hours ago
@chrisonabike There does seem to be evidence that 20 mph limits work on roads that already lend themselves to such low speeds, and I do think the lack of a 25 mph limit option is an issue for some roads. Speed limits should especially not be set very low in the hope that many or most drivers will only exceed them by a set amount because, not only is it not true that many people drive like that, the opposite can happen. Instead of targeting the drivers most likely to cause harm, you're putting the prohibition onto the behaviour of more sensible drivers and forcing the police to target them. The DfT guidance used to have a paragraph calling out this presumption. The extent to which road design and conditions at the time dictate traffic speeds is too stark to ignore. I've seen urban roads with signed 40 mph limits have lower average speeds than some roads with posted 20 mph limits. And yes, that road in Gloucester has signs openly inviting drivers to go faster, and almost none of them do: the non-compliance was about 2%. Compare that to over 99% non-compliance on some roads in Wales. So no, when speed limits match the road, compliance is much higher, but speeds are not. What I'm mainly talking about is the increasing imposition of 20 mph limits on much higher-standard main roads. That's where you see extreme levels of non-compliance. In some cases, the average speed has even been known to go up after the limit has gone down. Showing such contempt just brings speed limits into disrepute and my contention is that drivers should take speed limits seriously.
Rendel Harris 3 hours ago
@jaymack Yes...to an extent, and I'm happy at the moment with my twelve-year-old Dura Ace mechanical, but I must admit when I had Ultegra Di2 I did notice not so much the ease of shifting but the perfect trimming of the gears after every shift so that the chainline was always absolutely perfect and that did enhance the simple pleasure of being outside, for me anyway. At least until that day I forgot to charge the battery which died at the turnaround on an eighty-mile ride and had to ride a very lumpy forty miles home stuck in 50x14...
Rendel Harris 4 hours ago
@Daclu Trelub Well no, given that I object to the use of derogatory slurs against people with mental health issues I think I'll "bother" the person who's using derogatory slurs against people with mental health issues. Have a little think, if capable: if your mother or someone else close to you had dementia or mental health issues, would you be happy for people to be pointing at them mockingly saying, "Looks like she's a few chips short of a fish supper"? Stop it.
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I would naively expect the
I would naively expect the police to do the detective work rather than the public. At least they caught the scumbag though – now they just need to lock him up and throw away the key!
Christopher TR1 wrote:
Do you really believe it would be practical to run a team in a police department dedicated to identifying obscure car parts?
vonhelmet wrote:
If they suspect anyone has been run over by a mk2 golf I could help.
Yorkshire wallet wrote:
Why – who did you run over ?
It’s got to be a great outcome to the investigation. It’s clearly ludicrous to expert the police to be experts on all cars – and to put it out on the web makes a lot of sense. As this proves.
fenix wrote:
They can anything on CSI, I’m with the op on this.
don simon wrote:
Why – who did you run over ?
It’s got to be a great outcome to the investigation. It’s clearly ludicrous to expert the police to be experts on all cars – and to put it out on the web makes a lot of sense. As this proves.
— fenix They can anything on CSI, I’m with the op on this.— Yorkshire wallet
If it were CSI they’d not only recognise the part, they’d have a purpose-written software suite dedicated exclusively to car part recognition, complete with an entirely unnecessary and incredibly-elaborate virtual-reality user-interface in which you wandered around a fully rendered 3d car-part store while parts leapt off the shelf and compared themselves to the part you were holding.
Our cops are clearly in the stone-age compared with the Yanks. Though at least they are much less likely to shoot you for no reason, so its swings-and-roundabouts.
FluffyKittenofTindalos wrote:
Be a bit of a shit show, this new breed of cop show.
Cop A: Alright Bob.
Cop B: Alright Dave! What’ve you got there?
Cop A: It’s that frangment we found at the scene.
Cop B: Christ! I can hardly see it, stick it on Twitter while I stick the kettle on.
Cop A: good thinking Bob.
Cop B: nice cuppa, Dave.
Cop A: Cheers Bob.
Cop B: Hey Dave we’ve got a hit, it was that shifty looking bloke!
Cop A: Book him Danno.
Cop B: But my name’s Bob and ‘e’s nicked!
More exciting shite at the same time next week.
Likely to be 2nd degree
Likely to be 2nd degree murder charge due to leaving the person to die (intent), hope that sticks.
UK justice system take note!!!