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Live blog: “Empty” cycle lanes; Student to try and everest Dundee Law; UCI introduces sock height rule for 2019 + more
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Fri, Nov 16, 2018 15:09
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HoarseMann 31 minutes ago
This has nothing to do with the type of bike - it's the type of behaviour that's the problem. Banning the sale of such bikes will not curtail the behaviour. They'll just find another type of vehicle and continue to drive dangerously as there's such a lack of enforcement. I'd sooner see them ban the bally. But really, all that's required is an improvement to roads policing.
AidanR 41 minutes ago
The EAPC Bill is welcome, but full of holes. What's to stop an overpowered but temporarily limited e-bike being sold and subsequently delimited? This is often a trivial process.
Sredlums 2 hours ago
@KiwiMike Yeah, in my over four decades of riding all over Europe I've never 'been for a ride in the countryside'. That must be it. Or, and I know this is a wild concept, you just accept that I just voiced my personal experiences and never missed a kickstand, like I wrote. Anyway, what's the big horror of laying your bike on its side for the very few occasions where there is nothing to lean your bike against?
mdavidford 2 hours ago
They may have looked, but did they see?
jackcycles 2 hours ago
Ds2025: where they are going wrong is that they are crushing the motorbike rather than the person sat on top of it. If they did the latter this issue would be solved in less than 24 hours.
Rod Marton 2 hours ago
I came this way today with the car boot sale in operation. There was a marshal at the entrance, who stopped a car turning right across the cycleway as I was approaching. So that certainly works. I think it necessary for the marshal to be there, I couldn't say if the driver would have turned if he hadn't been there but you always have to suspect the worst. Unfortunately there is no marshal at the exit, and there was certainly a car stopped across the cycleway as I was approaching it. But he pulled onto the road before I reached it, and the following car stayed off the cycleway as I went through. Ideally there should have been a marshal there too. On the whole, though, it's a really high standard piece of infrastructure. Just a pity it doesn't extend a bit further.
eburtthebike 3 hours ago
“absolute carnage” So right! Just look at the bodies piled up, blood running in the gutters and injured people limping away. It's a bit of a problem with a road, delaying some people for minutes at a time: it isn't carnage, let alone 'absolute carnage'. Anyone who exaggerates so ridiculously really shouldn't be allowed to comment in public, unless they want to demonstrate their idiocy to all and sundry.
Jakrayan 3 hours ago
I'm criticising them for not riding in secondary position, not primary. At least 60cms (2 feet) from the edge of the road as the HC explicitly recommends. Leaving aside the small minority of riders who find mounting and dismounting a bike difficult - which sounds suspiciously similar to the motorists "but, but what about disabled drivers?" when talking about LTNs - what's wrong with able bodied riders walking the few metres over that narrow, Victorian bridge? Sure, if there's clearly no-one on it I wouldn't condemn anyone for riding it slowly, but if it's not clear forcing pedestrians to stop and squeeze to the side is, frankly, a rather entitled opinion. Plus it's easy to hold a road bike a little ahead of you and hold the saddle - normally no need to hold the bars if it's straight - so you're really not taking up much more room at all. There's a railway underpass near me that links to a shared then segregated path. It's narrow, and the path approaches at an angle so you can't see if it's clear, but many riders still choose to pedal through despite the clear 'no cycling' signage. Why?? Personally I don't go that way, except on foot, preferring the surrounding roads.
bensynnock 4 hours ago
I think you're giving drivers too much credit. Many would not think twice about blocking the road if it makes their life easier, such as when turning right onto a busy road.
bensynnock 4 hours ago
They might have to, but they won't. What they will do is pull out over the cycle path while they wait for a gap in motor traffic.
15 thoughts on “Live blog: “Empty” cycle lanes; Student to try and everest Dundee Law; UCI introduces sock height rule for 2019 + more”
UCI introduces sock height
UCI introduces sock height rule for 2019
I think it’s great that the UCI have solved all the important problems in regulating pro cycling and can now move on to trivial stuff like this
Yep I saw that about sock
Yep I saw that about sock heights on the Cycling Weekly website, what a load of horseshit. I mean, the excuse about riders getting marginal aerodynamic gains comes across as utter drivel with regard to socks.
In BMX we have other stupid rules foisted on us from the UCI, like racers not being allowed to wear jeans any more.
OldRidgeback wrote:
The aerodynamic gains from long socks are well documented and the UCI are just making sure riders in time trial stages don’t end up looking like a lot of the UK’s domestic testers with socks up to their knees!
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The aerodynamic gains from long socks are well documented and the UCI are just making sure riders in time trial stages don’t end up looking like a lot of the UK’s domestic testers with socks up to their knees!
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But long socks are available simply and cheaply to anybodt that wants them, so it’s not like they’d be getting an advantage that others wouldn’t be able to get such as with custom made handlebars etc
That tree is First Street,
That tree is First Street, Manchester outside Junkyard golf. It’s quite short but
iswas quite handy for turning left from Whitworth St onto Albion St (especially when lights at the junction are on red!).I used it all the time when commuting to/from Piccadilly (well, from – its useless from the other direction)
Now we sorted socks out I
Now we sorted socks out I think we need to move on to sunglasses.
Just been looking at the
Just been looking at the plans for the Chorlton route. Slightly annoying that there isn’t a zip file with all the PDFs rather than multiple clicks to get to each one in turn, but…
Initial thoughts are that its promising. One comment I have is that the ramps on Copenhagen style bus stops need to be less severe than the one in the example photo.
Would the student’s Everest
Would the student’s Everest attempt qualify if he’s riding a circuit rather than up and down the same hill?
MrB123 wrote:
I’d hate to see this young man waste his efforts on an attempt that won’t be ratified so let’s hope he’s read the rules.
mike the bike wrote:
Proper everesting can’t be done in a circuit, you have to go up and down the same hill, but if it’s for charity who cares!
mike the bike wrote:
He wouldn’t qualify for the grey stripe if he was doing circuits up the hill and down the other side
but he might just be interested in the donations and the challenge. Agree that i’d hope someone’s had word with him if he does want it to count officially as an everesting though, i’ll have a look and see if I can find him…
fukawitribe wrote:
He wouldn’t qualify for the grey stripe if he was doing circuits up the hill and down the other side
Given there’s only one road up “The law” itself he has to go up and down that, but depends where he’s starting from and I would guess that to get height that may be down at almost sea level by the river Tay.. Dundee is known as a veritable rats nest of one way systems thet they build (from memory) in the late 80s and early nineteys . . it’s rumoured some locals that went shopping in 1994 are still trying to find their way out the one way system in the centre of town.
mike the bike wrote:
You mean his socks might be illegal?
Shouldn’t that tree have a
Shouldn’t that tree have a sign “Merry Christmas to all cyclists”?
UCI obviously just ratifying
UCI obviously just ratifying “The Rules”