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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FragileBoris 2 hours ago
My dad had an experience of operation snap driving up the hill in great Malvern, he patiently waited behind two weaving bikes going up the hill, single file but all over the place, when he cleared the part where there were parked cars on the left hand side he deemed it safe to overtake and the rear cyclist decided he wanted to ride two abreast forcing my dad virtually off the road. The cyclist and his wife shouting at him when he was overtaking, repeating his reg plate. Sure enough West Mercia police sent a letter of intended prosecution as the footage from his go pro showed him passing close. I intervened and asked for the footage they had to be Forensically investigated for digital manipulation and told them my dad had the dash cam footage of the incident. I told them I wouldn't provide the dash cam footage as I was relying on that for a civil claim against the malicious allegations by the cyclists. Needless to say they didn't give me details of the cyclist or pursued the £60 fine. Didn't have any reply at all.... It was an ex copper that told me to ask about having the footage investigated, the cops won't spend ££ on something minor like this as forensic investigation is expensive
GravelIsNothingNew 3 hours ago
Well said. Without better crowd control, there will be a more serious incident. Then, we’ll lose the mountainside crowds altogether.
GravelIsNothingNew 3 hours ago
…exactly, then the spectator might be dead!
GravelIsNothingNew 3 hours ago
Good article Ryan. …and….crickets. In pro-cycling, wilful ignorance rules.
GravelIsNothingNew 3 hours ago
The 2026 TDF was brilliant. No question. …but to the most pertinent question…oh, “It’s too hard to answer, for tomorrow maybe!” This is THE answer given by the vast majority ignoring the climate emergency. ‘Not my problem. Tomorrow…maybe’. Tadej, Remco, et al, as ambassadors for cycling, feigning ignorance just doesn’t wash. The ASO needs to urgently answer this question too - what are they doing to mitigate the climate emergency? Let alone getting their heads out of the sand re start times in the hottest time of the day! As do all the fossil fuel sponsors who think they’re greenwashing their brands via pro cycling. In reality they’re just trading on Tadej, Remco and everyone else’s wilful ignorance. “It’s too hard to answer, for tomorrow maybe!” Really? Great, it’s now tomorrow…Tadej? Over to you.
GravelIsNothingNew 3 hours ago
Finally some good news in this ridiculous world of junk consumption. Everyone. Just stop buying this crap.
Albionrt 4 hours ago
There is a pressing need for a kitemark type scheme for ebikes, their charging system and their batteries. We are regular users, touring in the UK and abroad and have problems both with transport and accommodation (trains and hotels etc) due to the lack of such a scheme
pockstone 7 hours ago
I have vague recollections of cases not being brought against careless/dangerous road users because..."we haven't received a complaint from the injured/aggrieved/close passed victim..." The police's zeal in seizing upon this minor infraction suggests one thing and one thing only...(over to you, little onion.)
GravelIsNothingNew 8 hours ago
The orchestra of the alpe…nice story Ryan. I reckon the madness is more rock concert than football stadium. Whatever, it’s the best stadium in the world! …more containment would kill it, yet some more effective policing of idiots might prevent someone dying one day. …But as you say it’s the tension that makes it. That’s d’Huez’ rock n roll.
Slartibartfast 8 hours ago
I genuinely don't see how the police can consider this an offence. The rider goes no closer to the parked car than one would when filtering, so is that now an offence? The 1.5m rule is confusing for idiots on Facebook but you would hope the police would understand what it's there for.
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