The latest video from Dafne Fixed has been taken at face value by a number of newspapers. You can perhaps make up your own minds about it.
If it’s any help, Dafne Fixed have previously brought us…
Fireworks are nothing anyway. We’ve previously reported on a bike fitted with a handlebar flamethrower and another from which 1,000 rockets were launched.
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Alex has written for more cricket publications than the rest of the road.cc team combined. Despite the apparent evidence of this picture, he doesn’t especially like cake.
I'll counter that by saying the Bryton 750se I have drives me nuts at times. Inconsistantly picks up on routes created on Komoot and the app re-syncs every few seconds when trying to set up the device and sends me back to the home screen. The most infuriating one is that I turned live track on. Once. It now won't turn off and repeatedly flags up the live track is starting, and then disconnecting every few seconds whilst riding. I haven't timed it but it wouldn't suprise me if 10-20% of the time the the screen is covered with an error message. That's been about 6 weeks now. Other than that it's great :/
RE: Police launch road safety operation... by clamping down on cyclists using footbridge Meanwhile in Glasgow, Police Scotland are riding their motorbikes over the pedestrian and cyclists only bridge. https://x.com/FietserGlasgow/status/2065106152917012523?s=20
@Paul J Van Schip certainly seems a bit of a dick, but he's a European and multiple World Champion on the track, pretty sure you don't get there without having some talent in your legs.
Poor Vincent cannot get over the simple fact that given the choice people prefer dedicated cycling spaces, rather than pretending to be cars like vehicular cyclists.
What is the point of the fancy air sensor if it can't account for changing weather conditions?? If all you care about is a delayed approximation of aerodynamic watts in steady conditions, you don't need any special sensors for that. Just your speed on a decently flat course is enough to approximate rolling resistance and drivetrain losses. And the rest must be aero. If you assume a less aero body position at the same watts, your speed will drop while rolling resistance also drops, which means approximated aero watts goes up. And that's enough to demonstrate what you've shown in your testing protocol ("I sat upright and the number went up a little while later").
Your correction is accurate - it's almost always been "the (lack of) thought that (doesn't) count". "Massive" - less than a billion a year spent on active travel (trying to catch up / building a network across the entire country) Not massive - 6 billion every year (2026-2030) spent on road *maintenance* of existing "already built, goes everywhere, very convenient" road network for inactive travel Ultimately the reason "cycle infra" is *needed* is those unbelievably colossal amounts spent every year (and for more than a century now) on making mass motoring not just viable but apparently the "best choice" for most journeys. As the Dutch and others have shown, the majority of people *are* prepared to cycle and even mix with very light, slow local motor traffic *if* cycling is also made safe and convenient for the whole of their journey (including secure parking at both ends). (The history of the financial drivers of the current situation are a complex topic but note that while people complain about "crumbling roads" and underfunded motor infra - with some reason - by us continuing the fuel duty escalator freeze (for example) we're actually helping motorists pay *even less* for that activity / subsidising more of the cost of driving than ever.)
yes, but people will still object - which was my point.
So ' Priority of Road Users' and 1.5 metre clearance at 30mph has been been reduced to 'sharing'? NCN route 2 here in South Hams is an absolute scream with white vans, tractors and total idiots who refuse,or are totally incapable,to reverse on high Devon banked lanes ...means you have to get off and pedal back to a passing place....could be at that all day...so I don't bother...
@MaxiMinimalist Agreed. The big problem I see now is today's parents grew up being driven to their schools, and therefore, see private motor vehicles as the only viable form of transport. The vast majority of UK infant and primary schools have a catchment area that is within easy walking distance from home to school. Yet, the traffic caused by pupils being driven to/from school is astonishing. Banishing the "School Run" should be a priority for all schools.
When I was a kid (that was during the previous millenium when phones were connected to a plug in the wall), I rode my bicycle to school, music academy, sport grounds, parties even during the winter. The government didn't have to spend, correct that, didn't have to think of spending massive amounts of money to build cycling specific infrastructures. Over the past 3 or 4 decades, cars have grown bigger, taller, safer (for their drivers) and faster. Meanwhile, motorists have become abusive, aggressive, hypersensitive to people moving on two wheels, aka cyclists. Spending billions upon billions on new infrastructure won't address the crux of the matter. Sadly.
15 thoughts on “Video: ‘Angry’ cyclist shoots fireworks at scooter rider from homemade contraption on bike”
If only this were real…
If only this were real…
Fake news. So fake. So so
Fake news. So fake. So so fake.
sizbut wrote:
Think you may have been watching Trump too much.
Probably just a few friends
Probably just a few friends havin a laff
Hmmm, I would suggest that
Hmmm, I would suggest that these are much more accurate and indeed will make a bit of a mess of the intended target. http://www.baesystems.com/en-us/product/apkws-laser-guided-rocket
No good if you’re on a bit of a budget though, ex USSR military should still be able to make a big splash and there’s a shit ton of it about at bargain basement prices, failing that a drone with a blow pipe and poison tipped darts would be acceptable
Before you publish an article
Before you publish an article, make sure that people really get what you are trying to say.
Dafne Fixed is quiet famous within the fixed community in Italy – the guy that fires the firework, is sponsored by Cinelli actually. Anyway, I would give everybody the advice to check the youtube channel and maybe you will understand the big mistake he did by publishing such an article. HINT: they are all friends and they are just acting like if he was angry at the guys on the scooter.
Element2k3 wrote:
Wait, what, you mean this is a set up
I want one of those, but
I want one of those, but there needs to be a better system for lighting the fireworks.
hawkinspeter wrote:
Yeah, I was thinking that: surely it could be rigged up to Di2.
hawkinspeter wrote:
You can buy plasma arc lighters in cigarette/cigar/stick form factors on Amazon, which are USB rechargeable; I have a 2 pole stick one and it easily lights paper, melts/burns plastic cord, and is hot enough to melt Silver solder. An extension to the power switch could probably be carefully hacked.
Please tell me folk weren’t
Please tell me folk weren’t taking that seriously….
I think the only thing real
I think the only thing real is that they inadvertently started a brush fire at the end.
Did this on my car many many
Did this on my car many many years ago when I was a stupid gadget freak teenager. Had length of steel tubing under front bumper with bit of insulated wire wool a set length down it which was wired to a switch on my dash board from the battery. Insert rocket in tube, flip switch, wire wool goes red like a cigarette lighter and ignites fuse. Only used on mates cars (no damage done) on deserted roads. Quite funny at the time and surprisingly accurate but horrendous now. Was really annoying to have to stop and get out to reload though.
…like we really needed that
@Element2k3…like we really needed that explaination???
Fake?
Fake?
Never mind – haven’t laughed so much for ages!