Now that’s what I call luggage. Travelling the UK on his way to Cornwall.
Flo K
Commuter Diaries – luggage # 3
Help us to bring you the best cycling content
If you’ve enjoyed this article, then please consider subscribing to road.cc from as little as £2.49. Our mission is to bring you all the news that’s relevant to you as a cyclist, independent reviews, impartial buying advice and more. Your subscription will help us to do more.
1 Comments
Read more...
Read more...
Read more...
More Opinion
Latest Comments
HoarseMann 7 minutes ago
Well, this is viewpoint I never thought I'd see in the DM!... "I've just finished writing a book called 'The Madness of Cars'. Our society has become totally dependent on mass car ownership, and people often ask me how they could possibly manage without one. But it doesn't have to be like this." https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16081353/Video-PETER-HITCHENS-driving-obsession-destroying-Britain.html
chrisonabike 9 minutes ago
Tricycles and quadricycles? Have you been on a Belgian beach holiday recently? 😉 For me 20mph is a bit high, unless you're restricting these to roads (so mostly not on cycle paths). And not sure if the plan is for them to *mix* with the buses, but if so that would be a bad idea. Very different patterns of movement plus even small buses are quite a bit larger than cars (with attendant visibility problems etc). Buses are also much better at damaging surfaces. All the local bus stops are identifiable for the waves of tarmac which are then a hazard to cyclists. Keep the two separate.
chrisonabike 17 minutes ago
Well there are certainly selfish humans here. But I'm curious whenever people use this as an explanation (or positive exceptionalism) - do you think it is something specific in *these* humans in *this* place? Or "UK culture" - but why do people eg. pay taxes and help others in different contexts? Or ... could there be other explanations why eg. ordinarily selfish human beings in eg. Amsterdam don't seem to be causing these issues, but ones in the UK are?
chrisonabike 22 minutes ago
@mattw I hope, but like previous governments "we have more important things" still seems to apply. And if stories in Private Eye are to be believed Burnham's administration is just as lobby-happy as others of not more so. I would be for "fewer" e-things while accepting that EAPCs have a place. But of course it's not only people who can't walk or only those who have hundreds of miles to cover who drive that journey in a car, so I will be on the losing side there!
Robert Hardy 31 minutes ago
Though smaller automated buses might be better in a mix in which the private conventional motor car is removed altogether to be replaced by 20mph limited tri and quadricycles.
chrisonabike 37 minutes ago
Yes, you're correct, I had overlooked that he got it for review. IIRC he didn't do a bad job with the vid.
Robert Hardy 44 minutes ago
An attitude shared by many on bicycles, often the 'my other bicycle is an Audi TT" variety.
Robert Hardy 48 minutes ago
No, its very poor behaviour, and what is shocking is that it has clearly become an ingrained habit amongst the vast majority of riders shown in the clip. My own experience if cycling in the City if London matches this experience, its not just a carefully selected sequence. The reason why such infrastructure works in many European countries is because cyclists there are not stupid selfish dicks! I was set to find fault with the peer, and her language might be better chosen but she is absolutely right to be shocked by the behaviour shown. We as cyclists do need to stop denying our faults and excessivly virtue bonbing everyone else.
mattw 55 minutes ago
This is a silly decision by Mersey Rail, allowing some batteries on folders then banning the identical batteries on pedelecs. Then allowing far larger Lithium batteries on mobility scooters and wheelchairs. It is not about fire risk. It is because: 1 - The policy was written by a bonehead, and they do not want to put the work in to build a sensible policy. 2 - They just want to reduce the number of bicycles no their trains, any way they can. 3 - They have been spooked by the Daily Mail etc, or their insurer, spouting nonsense. We already have ISO standards for what makes a safe battery including the fire prevention features, and certification. I have been involved with a case where a mobility aid certified as OK for going on aeroplanes was banned from a student's flat by the University - their storage access mechanism required a 20-30 minute process to get it out each time and their demands that it be placed in a shed damaged the £500 battery, as well as wrecking the student's social life. What we need here is a precedent setting legal action to rule: 1 - Pedelecs are legally mobility aids when used by a disabled person as such. 2 - Pedelecs made in accordance with the correct standards must be treated as a pedal cycle, which is what they are, for all purposes.
mattw 1 hour ago
People who ride motorcycles routinely call them bikes and talk about "biking". See for example the Youtube Channel of the Motorcycle Action Group. I think "pedelec" is probably the best term rather than "EAPC", which is too complex. A normal bicycle is well known as a "pedal cycle" when we are talking about law, so to me pedelec seems appropriate.
1 thought on “Commuter Diaries – luggage # 3”
hell’s bells. good luck in
hell’s bells. good luck in cornwall with that lot! recumbents aren’t the fastest up hills as it is…