Genius or bonkers? The Somerset folding bike + video

@mdavidford : ) but is Strava included in the proposed social media ban law?

@mdavidford Maybe road.cc should have an article with the actual official/legal definitions? So often they are simply assumed or are american specific e.g. 'right of way' “cycle track” means a way constituting or comprised in a highway, being a way over which the public have the following, but no other, rights of way, that is to say, a right of way on pedal cycles [F3(other than pedal cycles which are motor vehicles within the meaning of [F4the Road Traffic Act 1988]] with or without a right of way on foot;

I've never commented on a review, but in this case I need to. This light is phenomenally effective for what it is designed to do. Avoid close passes. I've cycled about 20 years through central London traffic doing 3-5K miles a year and nothing beats this in terms of almost completely eliminating close passes. Makes no sense to compare it to a normal light and for the amount of product you get, it is very cheap. I have 6-7 other rear lights incl. a Garmin radar light, but I would never compare them to this. The weight also has no relevance for most commuters. Yes I would not put it on my light aero optimised road bike. Likewise I'm not even slightly annoyed that my cargo bike would not ride well with 25mm tires. Anyway, love Road.cc. Brilliant normally.

I have this, but no longer use it as the light had a habit of falling off it's magnetic mount when going over more aggressive speed bumps

I'm not sure there is much value in recycling these Bookface comments. Most people won't cycle on an A-road if there's no protected infrastructure, so if you want people to use the route of course you have to build a cycle track.

@PeterF01 I have a pair of their cheap alloy wheels on my winter bike so they see the worst of the weather and get minimal tlc and they have been perfect for the last four winters so I would be willing to give any of their products a chance if they fitted my requirements.

Looks good, but only seems to be available from their website, and they want £5 postage, which is a bit strong.

It seems a little slow... but at 12mph you're exceeding the average traffic speed for central London, and only just slower than the average for Bristol or Edinburgh (apparently 14 / 13.6 mph, but slower at busy times of course). I presume the idea is to protect the 8-80 casual(-ish) cyclists (many on robust Dutch bikes). And that this is in an extremely densely populated capital city, full of people walking, cycling, driving, on trams... Also it's hard for current UK cyclists - for whom the norm is "ride like a car" eg. sprint between lots of long waits at junctions or traffic lights - to appreciate how the Dutch system facilitates good average speed via steady but continuous progress. That involves "network-level route planning" / "disentangling of modes" and better junction design. And indeed where there are traffic lights those make much more use of detection of approaching cyclists and variable phases. There's also the fact that cyclists rarely have to stop for *pedestrian* crossings (those are informal across most cycle paths) and sometimes can ignore motor vehicle traffic lights completely. Personally I suspect that this may be the wrong tool for what they're trying to achieve. But then again perhaps "if you have enough people doing something unfortunately you may get more than enough people doing it badly"?

I've been using a Magene C506 for the past 10 or so months and I've got to say I've been pretty impressed. Does essentially everything I could want a computer to do, never seems to glitch or error, the only thing I wish it could do (or does and I haven't figured out how to) is display a map of where you are without needing to have a preset route loaded in.For the price it's been pretty amazing, and the 606 seems to be equally ideal for the average rider.

Okay, images not working today I see. Briefly: HUNT 40 Carbon Gravel Race: Awarded the prestigious Design & Innovation Award; HUNT Proven Race XC UD Carbon Spoke (29 MTB): Named Wheelset of the Year by Offroad.cc; MASON x HUNT 4 Season Disc: Awarded Best Value (4.5/5) by Cycling Plus; HUNT 50 Carbon Aero Disc: Received a 9/10 Best Value Award from Cycling Weekly; HUNT Proven Carbon Trail H_core: Won Wheelset of the Year on Offroad.cc.