“That was really exciting!” Longridge local tries out Lancashire’s ‘shortest cycle lane’; Police target speeding cyclists in Toronto parks; Drum and Bass on a Bike… or “some sort of disruptive demonstration”?; Cycling hairstyles + more on the live blog
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“People are getting killed on the street next to the park. It does not make a lick of sense”: Lawyer blasts “targeted campaign” against speeding cyclists in Toronto parks
Last night in High Park #TorontoPolice were out radar gunning cyclists. They did this armed & adorned with thin blue line patches. A day before the Chief is set to issue an apology for disproportionate use of force and strip searches against Black Torontonians, anti-Black racism. pic.twitter.com/FUZWyByyRQ
— The Biking Lawyer (Dave Shellnutt) (@TheBikingLawyer) June 15, 2022
A Toronto-based personal injury lawyer and cycling advocate has criticised what he says is a “targeted campaign” by police officers to catch speeding cyclists in the city’s parks.
Police were spotted earlier this week using radar guns in the Canadian city’s High Park, a popular haunt for cyclists who ride through it to avoid the busy – and often dangerous – bike lanes in the area.
David Shellnut is one of a number of Toronto cyclists critical of the campaign, in place since at least the summer of 2020, which the lawyer argues is a waste of resources, citing the police’s own data on injuries caused by cyclists compared to drivers to support his case.
1 of nearly 17,000 Killed or Seriously Injured (KSI) collisions since 2006 per Toronto police database have been in High Park. None in main loop so popular with people on bikes. This effort is at best a distraction to making our streets safer for all road users. h/t: @dereklind https://t.co/lv3I1iDunB pic.twitter.com/MF07y3OK2m
— MWCC (@midweekcycling) June 16, 2022
“A friend of mine [was] going through the park on his way to work and [was given] a $120 ticket,” Shellnut told blogTO.
“The next week, he was biking in the bike lane adjacent to the park — he likes the park to keep safe — so he’s like, ‘I guess I’ll just go on the bike lane next to it,’ and gets hit by a right-turning driver who fails to yield the right of way and smashes his collarbone.
“The driver gets less of a ticket than my client did for speeding on his 70s Raleigh in High Park.”
Shellnut continued: “People are getting killed on the street next to [the park]. It does not make a lick of sense what they’re trying to do.
“If your guys every year have to ask for another $25 million and resources are tight, what are they doing spending money on things that aren’t actually a problem? There are no stats to back up what they’re doing.”
It’s interesting how it’s always about “the best use of limited policing resources” and somehow policing cyclists was high on that list?
— Brian 🇺🇦 (@Bravado_5) June 15, 2022
The lawyer also told the website that cyclists, especially those from a minority background, were made to feel “sort of uncomfortable, terrorised” by the constant police presence – and the use of a gun-like object – in the park. Last week, Toronto’s Chief of Police issued an apology after a recent study found that racial profiling and discrimination is a systemic issue within the police force.
Shellnut acknowledged that pedestrians can “get a little unnerved when a cyclist blows by in the park. I’m sure that happens, and I’m not discounting anybody’s feelings or experiences, but [seeking] solutions to those problems”, one of which is a possible dedicated morning slot for cyclists in the park to ride to work quickly and safely.
“Just because we have a billion-dollar hammer doesn’t mean every problem is a nail,” he said.
I’m hearing the police at out at High Park again. Sorry to ruin your day. Careful riders.
— The Biking Lawyer (Dave Shellnutt) (@TheBikingLawyer) June 21, 2022
A Toronto Police spokesperson defended the anti-speeding campaign in the park, claiming that it is being carried out “in response to concerns and to help keep the community safe.”
“Members have been working with City by-law officers by stopping vehicles and cyclists witnessed speeding or committing offences such as failing to stop at stop signs. Police officers and by-law officers educate the driver or rider on their behaviour.
“These members situate themselves at stop signs at various locations in the park. This has served as an educational piece for cyclists being advised of the HTA infractions they could face as well as the inherent dangers of going too fast. Toronto Police Auxiliary Officers have also been detailed to patrol the park as well.
“This has been welcomed by the local community as well those visiting the park.”
Drum and Bass on a Bike takes over Sheffield… causing tram services to be delayed by “some sort of disruptive demonstration”
No one cycles in #Sheffield, it’s too hilly. Why should we waste our council tax paying for infrastructure that no one will use.
Sheffield #cyclists – hold my beer.
Pics @imajez1 @domwhiting #drumandbass pic.twitter.com/ZmuVqHSeFB
— CyclingInASkirt (@CyclingInASkirt) June 19, 2022
Roughly 1,000 cyclists took over the streets of Sheffield on Sunday for Dom Whiting’s latest two wheeled rave.
“It’s all about bringing people together,” the pedalling DJ told the BBC.
“Everyone seems to take it in and embraces it. It’s very rare we have motorists who get annoyed by it.
“It’s just crazy, always brings a smile to people’s faces and Sheffield has quite a big bike scene.
“It’s quite surreal. I can’t see the end of the line, everyone is always having it and there’s smiles for as far as the eye can see.”
The local tram network wasn’t as chuffed with Whiting’s biking beats, however, blaming delays in the city centre on “some sort of disruptive demonstration of pedestrians and cyclist”…
Tram services are suffering delays at various location in the city centre are due some sort of disruptive demonstration of pedestrians and cyclist.
— Stagecoach Supertram (@SCSupertram) June 19, 2022
Cycling Hair Awards, 2022
Can someone help — is he wearing a raccoon hat, OR IS THAT HIS OWN HAIR? https://t.co/4RhPUzCnXj
— Jeremy Vine (@theJeremyVine) June 22, 2022
Looks like Shane ‘The Flying Mullet’ Archbold might have some competition…
Motorist with pint of San Miguel on dashboard arrested after being “too drunk” to take breath test
Any idea what made us stop this one? Driver was too drunk to provide and he’s been arrested and is now in custody. Another selfish drink driver off the roads #syn1 pic.twitter.com/z9fOOIHKTK
— Roads Policing Unit (@MerPolTraffic) June 20, 2022
Merseyside Police later released a statement confirming that the driver was arrested “on suspicion of failing to provide a specimen for analysis, failing to co-operate with a preliminary test, possession of a controlled drug of Class A (cocaine) and using a vehicle without third party insurance. He is currently in custody.”
But at least he didn’t spill too much of his beer…
E-bike brand Mycle offers £100 discount to commuters affected by rail strikes
#TrainStrikes are causing major delays throughout the UK.
Not to Claire though.
Claire goes to work every day on her Mycle eBike. 10 minutes flat, even on a bad day.#ebike #mycle #electricbike pic.twitter.com/wKXXrfNuJc
— Mycle (@MyMycle) June 20, 2022
E-bike brand Mycle (from what I gather, not an homage to the infamous ‘No Bycles’ message featured on the blog last month) are offering a £100 discount on all their electric bikes to commuters affected by this week’s national rail strikes.
To take advantage of the voucher scheme, you just need to email Mycle (enquiries@mycle.co.uk) with a photo or screenshot of any rail ticket from June, up to yesterday, and they’ll send you a discount code.
Adventure cyclist aims to visit 22 countries in seven days
Now this is what you call a cycling holiday.
Ultra-distance cyclist Craig is currently in the middle of a mammoth week-long trek between Greece and what he hopes will be his final destination, the Netherlands.
He’s attempting to break the Guinness World Record for the most countries visited in seven days by bike. The record currently stands at 15 – if Craig makes it all the way to the Netherlands, he’ll have passed through 22 countries (he has to make it to Italy at least to break the record).
“The distance I am planning to cover is just about 2900km om paper (1800 miles) which means I am planning to cover 410km/256 miles per 24 hours,” Craig told us.
“I am doing this self-supported, carrying everything I need along with me on my bike. I’m hoping it will make for a great adventure.”
As well as his world record attempt, Craig is also raising funds for the housing and homelessness charity Shelter.
“It occurred to me that I have decided to voluntarily sleep in the cheapest hotels and rough all week, so I thought it would be nice to try to raise some money for those who have no choice in where they sleep next week,” he says.
You can donate on Craig’s JustGiving page.
You can also keep tabs on the adventure cyclist’s progress on this tracking site, which tell us that he’s currently close to Hungary’s border with Austria, on his way north to Slovakia.
Craig’s hopefully record-breaking ride was almost over as soon as it started, however, as his Di2 decided to call it quits during the flight to Greece and his new valve core snapped soon after he arrived, leaving the rider with no wheels or gears before he’d even cycled a mile.
Fortunately, a local mechanic was on hand to save the day and – quite literally – keep the show on the road, allowing Craig to set off from Greece as planned on Sunday morning. Phew…
Now that’s how it’s done…
In Amsterdam they built a new school on this road, which had no cycling infrastructure, so they have made the road one way for cars and are currently constructing a bidirectional cycle track so children can safely cycle to school. Before image from Google and the street today pic.twitter.com/2nJ2epvRKc
— Hackney Cyclist (@Hackneycyclist) June 21, 2022
Compare this to the dreadful plans from Hackney Council for Downham Road, which also has a school on it, who want to make cycling even more unsafe by narrowing the road, rather than providing safe cycle tracks, forcing primary school children off the road altogether. pic.twitter.com/qbSXyaJbnt
— Hackney Cyclist (@Hackneycyclist) June 21, 2022
“That was really exciting!” Longridge local tries out Lancashire’s ‘shortest cycle lane’
Move over, Breaking Away and A Sunday in Hell.
This clip from the Lancashire Post, showing pensioner Irene Prescott trying out a new cycle lane outside her home in Longridge, has already shot straight towards the top of road.cc’s list of favourite cycling films.
It has everything you want really: a stupidly short bike lane (measuring approximately 5.5 metres), impeccable comic timing from Irene (“It wasn’t as tiring as I thought it was going to be”), and some brilliant unintentional gaffes (Irene wearing her helmet backwards throughout the video while also trying to pump up her tyres without taking the dust cap off).
And to cap it all off, a motorist decides to test out Lancashire’s shortest cycle lane just as Irene enjoys her well-deserved cuppa:
The Facebook comments were, as ever, a joy to behold. While most users simply enjoyed Irene’s comic stylings and unique two-wheeled fashion sense, some thought her approach to riding her bike would “promote unsafe behaviour” and others pointed out that the five-metre lane would make the junction safer for cyclists.
Dave, however, hit the nail on the head: “Some poor buggers in the council had to fill in thousands of forms to do this…”
But what does Irene herself think of the new pocket-sized bike lane?
“I thought it was a bit strange myself,” the 76-year-old told the Lancashire Post.
“One day we woke up and were quite surprised to see this cycle lane in front of the house. We were all a bit gobsmacked. I don’t really think there’s a need for it. I just can’t understand it.
“It’s just a bit silly I think just to put a short one like that. There’s room for a cycle lane but not like that one. I just want it to be all the way along. It’s common sense.”
Irene’s partner Steve, however, thinks the new lane “hasn’t done any harm”, while making it easier for him to get out of his drive.
Charlie Edwards, Lancashire County Council’s cabinet member for highways and transport, defended the lane, pointing out it “replaces an area of hatched markings which were previously at the same location and, by narrowing the road width for vehicles, encourages drivers approaching from Longridge to slow down as they enter the junction, as well as offering increased protection for cyclists.
“While I agree that this may not be a long cycle lane, sometimes it’s the smaller improvements we can make to junctions that have as much of an effect on everyone’s journeys as installing miles of cycle paths on country roads.”
It’s the little things that count, after all.
The new Longridge lane (or should that be Shortridge? Alright, I’ll stop now) is a monster compared to some of the UK’s other offerings, such as this 3.9m one in Wolverhampton or Leeds’ classic merry-go-round right into a puddle:
When Leeds boasted (arguably) Britain’s shortest cycle lane https://t.co/SYIX8NLN5T #Leeds #cycling pic.twitter.com/E2W62NprgI
— Andrew Hutchinson (@AndyHutchYPN) May 19, 2022
Although this absolute whopper in Stroud, Gloucester, unveiled in 2015, may just have the beating of them all, totalling a massive 2.4 metres (or one whole pedal stroke…):
Couple goals
Rein Taaramäe earned our 15th victory of 2022 😍
Icing on the cake, his wife @HannaTaaramae also won the Women Elites Estonia Championships Time Trial 🇪🇪 🥇
Congratulations to both 👏 pic.twitter.com/ajIazPM6pT
— Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert (@IntermarcheWG) June 22, 2022
Ineos launch new cycling academy in Kenya
Ineos Grenadiers are partnering with Eliud Kipchoge to set up a cycling academy at the marathon world record holder’s training centre in Kaptagat, Kenya.
Kipchoge, a double Olympic champion who became the first man ever to run a sub-two hour marathon as part of the Ineos 1.59 Challenge in 2019, hopes the expansion of his centre to include cycling will allow Kenya to identify and develop a generation of cyclists similar to the country’s world-class distance runners.
“I’m proud that we are expanding our Kaptagat based training camp from a purely athletics focussed training camp towards a wider kind of sports academy,” Kipchoge said.
“The Ineos Eliud Kipchoge Cycling Academy is a very natural fit with great potential to enable our young talented cyclists to make the next steps towards the top level of cycling.”
Ineos Grenadier’s team principal, and the chemicals company’s director of sport, Dave Brailsford said: “This is a significant and exciting development in world cycling – it has the power to drive lasting change by developing new riders from Africa.
“We all know the talent is there – we’ve seen it this year with Biniam Girmay’s history-making successes at the Giro d’Italia and Gent-Wevelgem, and I saw it first-hand in the inspiring young athletes I met in Kaptagat.
“Their passion, dedication and love of sport is a perfect fit with the INEOS Grenadiers’ spirit of giving it all to race and be your best. Together I believe we can achieve something unique and important for cycling in Kenya, Africa, and the sport itself.”
The new cycling academy will be overseen by Valentijn Trouw, who has 30 years of experience managing and nurturing Kenyan athletes.
Two of Trouw’s athletes, Susan Chepkemei and former world indoor 1,500m champion Abeba Argawi, have tested positive for banned substances, though in both instances their bans were either reduced or struck off completely.
Kipchoge himself has never tested positive or been implicated in any wrongdoing. In 2016, he welcomed a new anti-doping law which allowed the country’s athletes to compete in that year’s Olympic Games, after Kenya missed two WADA-imposed deadlines to establish a funded anti-doping agency which complied with the world anti-doping code.
Despite 40 Kenyan athletes testing positive for performance enhancing drugs between 2012 and 2016, Kipchoge insisted that most of his compatriots were competing clean.
“I invite you guys to Kenya, come to our training camp, see our sessions,” he told journalists at the time. “You will see that people are working hard.”
Longridge to host 2024 Tour prologue?
Next year’s Tour Prologue
— Crown Green Bowler (29) (@29Crown) June 22, 2022
Forget Florence, a 5.5 metre bike lane time trial as part of a Lancashire grand depart – that’s what the people want…
Or maybe we could pitch the bleak beauty of this Highlands ‘cycle route’ to ASO?
The B851 cycle facility in Strathnairn is unbeatable. https://t.co/wJfkUYLhea pic.twitter.com/amXJFbwKSR
— 𝙾𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚕𝚊𝚗𝚍𝚎𝚛 (@overlandertheb1) June 22, 2022
Micro-TTs – that’s the future of bike racing right there.
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@Backladder Oh I think I can guess - the nearest indoor velodrome to road.cc HQ looks to be some distance away in Wales, whereas Odd Down Cycle Track (where this test was conducted) is just 2 miles away.
There are a number of causes of "the divide between motorists and cyclists". Only one is to do with the technology (of bicycles and cars) and that's the nature of the car, which is designed to induce the sort of dangerous and careless behaviours that providing humans with a lot of power and glamour fetches out of us. Other causes are much more insidious - A culture of hyper-individualism bordering on solipsism, with violently ultra-selfish and aggressive anti-heroes being promoted in every mass media channel as the ideal. A "news" media that overwhelmingly seeks, creates and offers pariahs and scapegoats to the rabid individualists, which pariahs and scapegoats includes all kinds of those perceived as less powerful and therefore easy victims, including cyclists. The near complete lack of any curb upon the dangerous antics of vast numbers of media-maddened motorists by the forces of law and order, many of whom are actually members themselves of the mass media maddened motorist ilk. ******** No amount of a more rational discourse about active travel or the means of making it safer will change these root causes of the vast numbers of deaths and maiming due to inept, incompetent and deliberately violent antics of vast numbers of motorists allowed their dangerous "weapons of choice". Yet many other highly damaging aspects of modern societies would be solved by a much more effective curbing of mass media mob-building and goading along with a serious attempt to prevent motorists and a whole range of other damagers from behaving as badly as so many do. It'll not happen, of course. Large and powerful elements of the modern world obtain far too much ultra-riches and power from current conditions for them to allow any significant change. And vast numbers of the population have long had their minds, attitudes and behaviours captured and directed by various oligarchical monsters and their mass media propaganda horns. About the only chance of safe active travel becoming extant is for the population at large to become mostly too poor to afford a car, ironically one other likely outcome of the machinations of those same power and money-mad monsters that have created the car-issue in the first place. Their need for zero-sum socio-economic arrangements degrades everything, including the wallet-contents of the masses.
@Astralstroll The hierarchy of road users does not mean priority of road users except in certain circumstances, e.g. stopping to let pedestrians cross junctions before turning. It doesn't mean that cyclists have priority over motor vehicles at all times any more than the pedestrians have priority over cyclists at all times. It certainly doesn't mean that you have priority in the circumstances you describe; personally, unless the driver is being a complete dick, on a narrow country lane I accept that it is easier for me to turn around and go back to the nearest passing place, which is never that far if you're on a bike, than for a tractor or other large vehicle to reverse back down the road for my benefit.
If you were spending that much money on the device the obvious thing to do is to book a couple of hours in a velodrome for testing in a stable environment, I can't understand why Road.cc tried to do it outdoors.
@chrisonabike 'Minimisation' please!
@Astralstroll The Hierarchy of Road Users, announced with great fanfares in 2022, has been rendered into complete fiction by the attitude of the police: there is this hierarchy/ priority list but we don't take it seriously and if drivers ignore it we don't care! The same applies to the ludicrous notice of close-passing - No KSI'd cyclist = No Offence ttps://upride.cc/incident/lwa190_minicooper_hierarchy/
Hope Barcelona keep the transport improvements (they've been making for a while) coming! Better streets, more infra to help active travel where necessary. And while it's a major investment (though can be lower operating cost than busses) maybe more trams where they can. That may be more effective in making places active travel friendly and replacing taxis than mass public bike hire. They've a good start with 6 lines already.
I think this is a positive story. They're not getting rid of public hire bikes - they're expanding their in-house one. They're merely kicking out cowboys who've shown they've a lack of interest in the game they claim to be playing. It seems logical that companies whose business model is to extract (venture capital) money by invading public space are even less likely to make the efforts to keep things in order than a local "in house" scheme. (After all the "bikes and riding" part of these schemes always *costs* money, they don't generate it.) So not surprising their experience shows those firms are not particularly motivated to follow the rules - especially when scrapping for "market share". It's nice the European Cyclists’ Federation is thinking about tourists also (i hesitate to say "follow the money...") - as they note, where it's safe to cycle locals will largely get their own bikes. Tourists aren't going to stop coming because lack of public bike share - I think this is mostly a "nice to have" ("hey - why don't we go on one of those bikes there? ").
Harm minimization - at least they're not driving...
I'll counter that by saying the Bryton 750se I have drives me nuts at times. Inconsistantly picks up on routes created on Komoot and the app re-syncs every few seconds when trying to set up the device and sends me back to the home screen. The most infuriating one is that I turned live track on. Once. It now won't turn off and repeatedly flags up the live track is starting, and then disconnecting every few seconds whilst riding. I haven't timed it but it wouldn't suprise me if 10-20% of the time the the screen is covered with an error message. That's been about 6 weeks now. Other than that it's great :/
41 thoughts on ““That was really exciting!” Longridge local tries out Lancashire’s ‘shortest cycle lane’; Police target speeding cyclists in Toronto parks; Drum and Bass on a Bike… or “some sort of disruptive demonstration”?; Cycling hairstyles + more on the live blog”
Surprised you didn’t include
Surprised you didn’t include the Hulk – cycling mikey’s new buddy !
I mean, surely a few reminder
I mean, surely a few reminder signs for cyclists being put up around the park entrances and along the most popular routes would be at least as effective and significantly cheaper?
The few that will ignore the signs are likely to ignore the police presence too
That’s clearly a human
That’s clearly a human-squirrel hybrid.
I don’t know if it’shis
I don’t know if it’shis strange 360 camera, but Jeremy’s bars seem quite wide for a commuter?
ktache wrote:
I think it’s the camera doing a fisheye – I see him around Kensington and environs quite often and he rides a pretty standard hybrid, as far as I can tell.
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The Schrodinger’s cyclist strikes again – too slow for motorists, too fast for pedestrians. Or is that the Goldilocks cyclist? I can’t keep up.
I had fun having this very same discussion with the charming lady on the (shared-use) Greenway today, chiding me for ‘racing past’ her two tiny terriers walking off-lead despite me being visible for nearly 300m ahead of her, the route being straight and wide and my speed being…..16kph.
vthejk wrote:
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The former. Goldilocks would imply that there was a speed that was “just right”, which we know isn’t true.
The implication of
The implication of ‘Goldilocks’ is that, somewhere, there is a ‘just right’ speed that will satisfy everyone, but finding it is tricky if not impossible and comes with a very high risk of being killed by angry hairy animals.
I think it is supposed to be
I think it is supposed to be possible, though – as Goldilocks found a just right solution in each case. The risk of being killed by angry hairy animals did not actually occur until after she’d found the right balance in each case. It came from over-sleeping, which is never a good thing to do on your bike.
I may be over-thinking this.
Applying ‘elf and safety
Applying ‘elf and safety perspective – bears are a hazard to goldilocks when present. When not present there is no risk from them. However a risk assessment would have identified the likelihood of the bears will returning to their house. This would show that going to sleep there makes it high risk as there is no monitoring for approach of bears.
Working up the hierarchy of controls Goldilocks could have carried a trauma kit, taken bear spray, posted a lookout, locked the bedroom door, gone to sleep in the one of the houses of the three little pigs instead or best of all arranged to have the bears kept in a bear pit.
Do health and safety risk
Do health and safety risk assessment rules apply to trespassers?
(We’re both over thinking this, clearly.)
Good question! Sounds like
Good question! Sounds like the “broken glass on top of wall” / “free-running bears behind fence” thing. I imagine you could be liable under some tort if an “accident” was foreseeable. If a landlord installed the bears in a cottage in the woods with porridge cooling and the doors open and little girls wandering about presumably that would be “attractive nuisance” territory?
What about if you surrounded your private wood with (locked) bear-filled houses? Could you “sign it better”?
Honestly I never thought my
Honestly I never thought my confused metaphor of Goldilocks would ever stretch so far, but here we are
vthejk wrote:
Must have got a bit confused with Rapunzel.
mdavidford wrote:
Mission accomplished: Have made this thread entirely about children’s stories. I can now let my hair down.
Aha! I thought I saw
Aha! I thought I saw something lurking under the bridge…
As long as it’s not a rickety
As long as it’s not a rickety bridge over a boiling lake of lava.
There’s a 20km/h speed limit
There’s a 20km/h speed limit in High Park, which isn’t unreasonable as it’s a recreational space. I don’t really see why anyone, cyclists included, should object to it being enforced every now and again.
AidanR wrote:
Because the majority of purely recreational and commuting cyclists won’t have speedometers, so won’t be able to tell if they are transgressing or not. It would be much more useful in these sort of circumstances if the police forgot their obsession with trying to treat cyclists like car drivers and instead focused on promoting courteous and sensible cycling and stopping, speaking to and if necessary sanctioning those who aren’t. Who is it more important to stop, a person riding 25 km/h when the path is completely clear of pedestrians or a person riding 19 km/h who is slaloming in and out of a crowd?
It appears that there are
It appears that there are Strava sections in the park and it’s used by some for training rides, which is (a) inappropriate and (b) they clearly know how fast they’re going. Also, the guy doing the complaining has a helmet camera. Do you not think he’d have a speedo too?
Moreover, the police *are* doing what you’re suggesting, which is why they’re at a stop sign. I don’t see why that precludes them also checking how fast cyclists are going.
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Do you actually ever post
Do you actually ever post about bikes anymore Flint, or just come on to moan about the site and posters on the site? For someone who once posted not to denigrate other posters, you never seemed to follow that advice.
AlsoSomniloquism wrote:
Did s/he ever? Admittedly I’ve only been round these parts four years or so but I can’t ever remember them commenting on cycling except as a tangential means of whining about woke lefty libtard snowflakes.
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I don’t have a speedo on my
I don’t have a speedo on my commuting bike but have a helmet cam. However it does seem a bit of a storm in a teacup as the Police state they are there for the Stop sign enforcement for both cyclists and cars. And when asked if ticketed any cyclists, they replied “no, just educated them”.
AlsoSomniloquism wrote:
Though a quick Google shows that at other times they’ve been rather more stringent: on two days in February they apparently handed out 126 tickets to cyclists for speeding or running the stop sign in the same location, though reports don’t say in what ratio.
It still a public road
It still a public road therefore the rules of the road need to be followed. I always stop at stop signs or light when I ride my bike Simply because that what I’m suppose to do on the road just as I do with my car
Mybike wrote:
Quite right too, so do I. I was simply commenting on the fact that a cyclist without a speedometer has no way of knowing if they are transgressing the speed limit, that’s why in the UK speed limits don’t apply to cyclists (although excess speed can form part of a dangerous and furious cycling charge).
Nice piece of half-arsed
Nice piece of half-arsed research by the stagecoach supertram twitter person
Some kind of complaining
Some kind of complaining prole? who knows these days, I didn’t want to risk them touching me so I didn’t ask.
Theres something a bit odd
Theres something a bit odd about the Toronto story. If the police are speed gunning cyclists then why are they doing it at a stop sign where anyone would be slowing anyway? It seems from reading it they’re actually there ticketing the stop infraction, the speed gun might be just habit? Also, I’m not familiar with the Canadian highway code – are cycles even subject to speed limits as per the UK HC?
Welcome to the Daily Outrage,
Welcome to the Daily Outrage, travelling thousands of miles for an excuse to be upset like a Leftie on a Sunday night on Twitter…
Come on, back tot he actual cycling stories. We’re about a week away from Le Grand Depart and you’re too busy firing up the whining Leftie ranters to tell us what’s happening in cycling.
Roulereo wrote:
You’re confused – that’s not ‘actual cycling’ – it’s professional sport – a whole different thing.
Bore off Nige.
Bore off Nige.
Nah, he was here when Nige’s
Nah, he was here when Nige’s last dud account was got rid off. And is also a Yank Republican Conspiracy Theorist so should be called Marjory or Cawthorne.
That’s exactly the kind of
That’s exactly the kind of Dutch thinking for cycling infra I wanted to see last week and that we know wont ever be delivered in the UK, because UK road planners arent that bold enough to say let’s completely rework this, it’s always well got to keep the traffic on the road here, so let’s just widen the path a bit for a shared space instead.
What’s the old (bad taste)
What’s the old (bad taste) joke?
“Don’t Drink and Drive….you’ll only spill it!”
What really annoys me about
What really annoys me about the Longridge cycle lane is they’ve stuck give way markings on the end of it.
I suspect that Irene does not
I suspect that Irene does not normally wear a helmet while cycling.
That is on backwards, right?
andystow wrote:
She’s having a chuckle, bless her, if you look closely you can see that she also clips her pump onto the valve without removing the dustcap. Legend!
A Canadian “thin blue line”
A Canadian “thin blue line” patch. I wouldn’t have imagined that would be A Thing, but there it is.