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Live blog: Michael Woods dedicates Vuelta stage win to stillborn son, law firm says cycle safety review means more cash for infrastructure + more
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Wed, Sep 12, 2018 11:25
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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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ktache 4 hours ago
@Mr Blackbird It's quite a skill.
chrisonabike 4 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 4 hours ago
@mdavidford or the highly skilled cycle football / radball players...
chrisonabike 4 hours ago
@No Reply dunno about childish, but I haven't heard that one since the 90s. Can't say I miss it.
mdavidford 5 hours ago
Bit harsh on the BMXers.
mdavidford 5 hours ago
@No Reply Er, nope - there are no age restrictions on the site. As previously noted, though, if it were restricted to adults, your choice of language would seem to mark you out as someone who shouldn't be on it.
No Reply 6 hours ago
@Mr Blackbird This is an adult forum. If adults are getting so worked up over the term bum chum, then they need to get a grip. People have a right to be offended, people have a right to offend. But if someone finds offence in something, it doesn’t mean its offensive. It means they are offended. Two different things. I am as free to offend as you are to feel offended. Freedom of speech. Do you want to silence freedom of speech? Or just silence things you don’t like?
Mr Blackbird 6 hours ago
@No Reply You obviously have a lot of knowledge of cyclo cross and make a valid point, but why detract from your comment by using a phrase that is probably offensive to the majority of readers?
Terry Hutt 6 hours ago
@chrisonabike I think the important message here is that your head will fly 20% further if you are wearing a collapsible helmet. Has anyone researched how far your head will fly if you're not wearing a helmet at all? Seems worthy of a research grant.
Mr Blackbird 6 hours ago
Any cyclist caught cycling backwards (on a non-fixed wheel bike) should be jailed for at least 2 years and have their bike confiscated. Such a despicable manoeuvre is dangerously confusing to motorists and pedestrians.
5 thoughts on “Live blog: Michael Woods dedicates Vuelta stage win to stillborn son, law firm says cycle safety review means more cash for infrastructure + more”
What a great idea from
What a great idea from Edinburgh Council. Built a new velodrome in Craigmillar. You’ll cycle there, have your bike nicked by the local neds and then have to get a new one, which will then be nicked by the local neds. And so on.
Edinburghhas planety of parks. Why build the centre in a place a lot of people won’t want to go? Err, just because it’s cheapest?
OldRidgeback wrote:
Because it could also be a catalyst for the area’s regeneration. This in itself is good, but from the councils perspective, it may also open up grant funding opportunities (although thanks to Brexit, the EU related regeneration/depreived area grant schemes are no longer going to be available).
If new stuff only ever gets build in ‘OK/good/low problem’ areas, inequality widens which in time results in more crime and other social issues.
Hmm: Crack down on those
Hmm: Crack down on those dangerous cyclists vs Throw money at those car tax dodging bl00dy cyclists… I suspect that the Govt would prefer to be seen to be cracking down rather than building infrastructure.
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How charmingly naive! Or cynical: yes, the Government may “promise further funding” but the chances of this being delivered, and particularly this actually resulting in additional high-quality infrastructure rather than just more of the existing crap, is very low.
While I’m fully in favour of
While I’m fully in favour of optimism, I’m afraid “Leading law firm DAC Beachcrofts” suggestion that we’ll be getting better infrastructure is unlikely, and experience says otherwise, but I suppose they only say that the government will promise more infra, not actually deliver it. Still, the proof of the pudding etc, and we could end up with cycling strategy worth the title rather than the almost useless CWIS.
I really hope I’m wrong and they are right, but remembering what started this review of cycling safety, the Alliston case, and all the previous failures, my optimism is tempered with huge slices of reality.