Hi, well I have carried some strange things in my time but this is a 1st! If anyone can guess what I am carrying there is a spot prize? Flo K
Commuter diaries – strange luggage
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eburtthebike 48 minutes ago
Farage has said at least one thing that is true "Never trust a tory. I'll repeat that, NEVER trust a tory." And he was right, which is why Refuk is full of ex-tories.
chrisonabike 1 hour ago
@mdavidford while it can, I think of nonsense as more of a "pick your own" (hence bunch-servings) affair rather than BS, which is more like to arrive by itself in a steaming mess, or pile/heap.
mdavidford 2 hours ago
I thought nonsense came in piles, rather than bunches.
chrisonabike 2 hours ago
@EastLondonCyclingNut I wouldn't be keen to find non-cyclists in my shoes - there wouldn't be room, even though they're fairly "walking-friendly" SPD ones. Not sure if public hire bikes change much. But I do think ultimately things only change when there's a significant fraction of the population with "skin in the game" - either because they cycle regularly themselves or more likely because they know their friends and *children* / other relatives do...
lesterama 3 hours ago
"Christie continued to follow the victim and drove the van into the back wheel of the bike."
stulemanski 3 hours ago
Generally, I get off my bike and walk in pedestrianised areas. Cyclists and pedestrians in close proximity do not mix well. I'd be pretty pissed off if cars decided it was okay to use a cycle lane because they didn't want to use an alternative, legal route.
wtjs 3 hours ago
@EastLondonCyclingNut I'm going for 'very suspicious' on this one- Trollfinder General Is this the increased sympathy where the driver attacks the cyclist causing serious injuries and is rewarded with the joke non-custodial sentence; or where the driver murders the cyclist in the most horrible manner and the Shyster Defence Barrister offers the mitigation that 'he didn't intend to do it and expresses remorse'?
yodhrin 3 hours ago
@Rendel Harris Unfortunately the idea that subjective "lived experience" trumps everything else in every situation is now quite popular and widespread. I once had an extremely depressing conversation with someone who insisted my opinion on a matter - a matter in a subject on which I'm well educated and have spent a great deal of time carefully considering my positions on - was worthless, incoherent, and irrelevant since I was straight. No attempt to engage with the substance - I was straight, so nothing I said could possibly be correct. It got more depressing still when I pointed out that actually I'm Bi I just don't go around draped in a Pride flag at all times, and the numpty came back in to work the next day and had completely changed his mind and decided actually I was stunningly insightful - I asked how he could rationalise thinking the same argument was wrong one day and right the next despite the argument, the evidence, and the person making it being completely unchanged expecting some kind of attempt to obfuscate or explain, but nope he just came out and said "but I didn't know you were Bi then, now I do, so it's valid now". They live among us.
qwerty360 4 hours ago
@mitsky afaik most 100 point cases are dodgy businesses where the keeper regularly gets 3-6 points for failure to identify because they make no effort to know who is driving pool cars. And either don't actually drive (hence not worrying) or are on company policy that covers anyone... I suspect the solution to this would involve seizing vehicles when they 'don't know who was driving'...
EastLondonCyclingNut 4 hours ago
I think one of the biggest factors in increased sympathy for cyclists is the fact that so many people increasingly Lime and other hire e-bikes. It’s an easy and attractive gateway into cycling that suddenly puts non-cyclists in the shoes of cyclists, and naturally makes them understand their perspective.
13 thoughts on “Commuter diaries – strange luggage”
Once carried a chainsaw on
Once carried a chainsaw on the back of a bike… but, that looks more like a mop. :B
chainsaw, impressive. Mop,
chainsaw, impressive. Mop, alas not.
Flo
Sink plunger perhaps?
Sink plunger perhaps?
it’s good but it’s not right
it’s good but it’s not right – Roy Walker
It’s your new broomstick?
I
It’s your new broomstick?
I saw a woman carrying a swivel chair on her Cannondale MTB on the way home. She’d strapped the seat cushion onto the side of the carrier so that the rotating base was sticking out. It looked kind of odd and I did wonder if she’d bashed it off anything on the way.
When I lived in Nigeria I regularly saw people carrying strange things on bicycles. As I sat sinking a beer in a roadside bar, one guy pedalled slowly past with a tree on his head on one occasion. And no, I wasn’t drunk.
We also moved house by bicycle, balancing our kitchen table across my mate’s bike and having placed all our furniture (coffee table, beds and living room chairs, paraffin cooker and all the other smaller bits and pieces) on top of the table. There were four of us supporting the kitchen table and one steering the bicycle handlebars and we moved everything in just three loads.
Good work. Did you do that
Good work. Did you do that move over here or in Nigeria?
Dave Holladay, (one of the unsung heroes of cycling) once told me how he’d moved a wardrobe on a Brompton.
is it a lampshade stand?
is it a lampshade stand?
Is it one of those ‘invisible
Is it one of those ‘invisible dog’ leads?
or is it something long
or is it something long wrapped in a plastic bag?
Clue – I could have ridden it
Clue – I could have ridden it home in a pythonesque manner.
Flo
easy – Pogo Stick!
easy – Pogo Stick!
a 3-speed Holy Grail?
a 3-speed Holy Grail?
close. A Hobby Horse!
Flo K
close. A Hobby Horse!
Flo K