Respect for cyclists

re: occasions when police needlessly pavement park... You only need to watch Police Interceptors and the like to see how unbothered they are. Usually, when they pull over a motorist, said driver mounts the pavement (and cop often does the same), yet there's never any mention of the illegality* or needless manner of their parking. (*Highway Code infraction, even if not against the law in the location being shown). I'm very much pro-Police, but that particular issue only serves to normalise pavement parking.

(Before the days of blatent angle grinder use) At my first job, my boss wouldn't allow me to bring my bike indoors, despite there being room. I had to lock it to the railings on a busy street. Came out one night to find it still there... but with signs of attempted theft. Unable to defeat the lock, they'd cut my cables (clearly with proper cutters), purely out of spite😠 Nothing missing - they'd just been petty. At least it persuaded my boss to relent: bike was indoors after that.

I can only guess what it's been like in Europe but it's been hot in the UK for 2nd time right now, 1st time hot now similar tho after the 1st that got you used to it with a smack in the face. I said to a friend, after I rode in the day when it was about 25'c air temp when riding, it saps your energy, tho I used to race in the evenings with high temps 🤷

Enjoyed this and might go down the same route. My Tripster AT is 8 years old in Arran Blue, still gets comments. It’s my no.2 bike - 650B wheels it’s a MTB, 700c it’s commuter, tourer and winter road bike. Just a bit bored of it!

@chrisonabike And just imagine if you have a dynamo as well what the maths looks like.

@chrisonabike You can vary the assistance level on an e-bike so does that mean you can be for example 75% cyclist and 25% motorcyclist?

This bike is on grass, what's it doing on road.cc, etc etc

But I should have added I enjoyed this piece (pee-ce?)

@Jack Sexty that was an intentional (if obtuse) nod to another typo in the article: "Expect this time, I couldn’t even wave an angry fist..."

E-bike as only an EPAC might be common parlance amongst cyclists, but I really don't think it is limited to that amongst much of the general public. That's why you get terms like "illegal e-bikes" that the above article rails against. The article claims that the term e-bike is being used incorrectly. It isn't. If people are going to be pedantic about terminology, they ought to be right.