A corner, a kerb, a double-yellow line, a pair of cycle-clips, a paper-clip and a cigarette-butt.
There are eight million stories in the Naked City; this is just one of them.
Mystery
Mon, Sep 14, 2009 12:47
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Jo Burt has spent the majority of his life riding bikes, drawing bikes and writing about bikes. When he’s not scribbling pictures for the whole gamut of cycling media he writes words about them for road.cc and when he’s not doing either of those he’s pedaling. Then in whatever spare minutes there are in between he’s agonizing over getting his socks, cycling cap and bar-tape to coordinate just so. And is quietly disappointed that yours don’t He rides and races road bikes a bit, cyclo-cross bikes a lot and mountainbikes a fair bit too. Would rather be up a mountain.
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Rendel Harris 7 minutes ago
@Clem Fandango "We don't want to discourage cycling, we just want to stop people doing it," she said.
ROOTminus1 11 minutes ago
@Clem Fandango Imagine if instead of the tired refrain of "as a cyclist myself.. [spouts anti-cycling BS]" councillors shared their Strava / Komoot activity before making any cycling related proposals. It smacks of the deluded entitlement, albeit to a much lesser degree, as 70 y/o men legislating for women's reproductive health. No opinion is entirely invalid, but lived experience and/or extensive unbiased research makes some opinions more valid than others
mdavidford 19 minutes ago
@hawkinspeter Isn't the whole road.cc comments section the Mass of the Fermenting Dregs, at least in the eyes of certain commenters?
mdavidford 20 minutes ago
Yes - they look like the sort she'd be worried about.
Clem Fandango 27 minutes ago
@hawkinspeter - oooh Mol. Must be Tom Boonen's current hustle?
Clem Fandango 31 minutes ago
“We don’t want to discourage cycling – I am a cyclist myself.........,” she said. Busted.
eburtthebike 1 hour ago
The death of this young lad is a tragedy, and my thoughts are with his family. While Adam Hansen is right about the system used to control external traffic on a race, his comments about helmets are misplaced. “One thing we have to look at is helmets,” Hansen said. “They need a major upgrade. Bike helmets only need to meet standard testing like all helmets, EU standard CE EN 1078 is only rated for 19.5kph and I do not believe this is enough for road racing.” He's right that the standard is insufficient for road racing, but it is also insufficient for daily use, as all the reliable data shows that they don't reduce deaths. We don't know what the collision speed was in this incident, but assuming that the driver was doing 50kph and Finlay was doing something similar, a combined speed of 100kph, there is no helmet on earth that would have prevented the death. Even if such a helmet existed, it seems likely that other injuries would have been serious enough to have caused death. Another problem is that any helmet that could prevent brain damage in a 100kph collision would be the size of a transit van and weigh about the same, completely impractical to use. I haven't looked at the figures recently, but last time I did, the helmet rule for professional riders hadn't reduced the death rate, with the obvious caveat that the figures are too small to be reliable. I can understand Adam Hansen's immediate reaction to the needless waste of a young life, I hope calmer reflection will lead to the problems with the system being addressed, not a futile attempt to make helmets effective.
hawkinspeter 2 hours ago
@Clem Fandango - I feel like some of the bands at ArcTanGent belong in this discussion
Rendel Harris 3 hours ago
@mikeclarke Well, no, "pedelec" is not really that helpful a term because it doesn't actually refer to a 250 W 25 km/h electrically assisted bicycle, it can refer to any electrically assisted bicycle where the power is only supplied when the pedals are being turned. In many jurisdictions, including the UK and EU, the power and speed are legally restricted to the above mentioned figures, but that does not apply everywhere plus it's very easy to buy 500 watt or even 1000 watt pedelecs in the UK, they're just not legal for road use. Pedelec has no legal status as a term in UK law, the correct term for a 250W 25km/h electrically assisted bicycle that requires the pedals to be turned before power is supplied is an EAPC.
Secret_squirrel 3 hours ago
At least he sounds like a cyclist and hopefully not just passing through as a step on the greasy pole like the last few.
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The thief was obviously a
The thief was obviously a transvestite smoker on his way home from the office.
Have you been drinking or worse?