road.cc live blog: Team Sky’s Christmas video, London’s ex-cycling commissioner rips into Sadiq + more

Yes, it uses the same technology that is used to prevent that behaviour by motorists...🙄

@SecretSam yeah, the same one you find in cars

@SecretSam yeah, the same one you find in cars

I have an idea who it might have been.

Apparently this pavement in Wales has proved too narrow for at least 3 drivers! https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9w4vdxrz9do .. Although apparently this is an "accidentally put a walking route in the sat-nav" issue.

@chrisonabike It'll get a lot more unfit if we don't change our ways. This vote was nothing more than councillors worrying about losing votes. We need to change our ways urgently, for the sake of our health and our survival as well as for economic reasons. In short, the UK needs some tough love. Burnham needs to have the moral courage to force local authorities to make these changes in the same way as the Dutch did in 1973. The then Dutch PM's words are still relevant today:- "The world from before the oil crisis will not return. We will have to adjust to a permanent shift in our way of life and our economic management." We need to change, like it or not.

@60somethingcyclist yes, and a fair amount of that is 3 miles or less, and there are even lots of "one mile or under". But... with any aging and increasingly unfit (in many ways) population 3 miles there and then back seems a big deal. Particularly since the mental model is still "drive or walk" for most. Of course use of "cycles" helps ameliorate several of these issues. But it's a change not only in thought but in "how society works" (where you're expected to get to, carrying what) AND usually the built environment (with high- value items like those shops, schools and hospitals we've increasingly centralised.

@Destroyer666 Silca occupy the super-premium market. Muc-Off, while upmarket, is definitely lower tier. Yes, chemical engineering and R&D are expensive. Still, Muc-Off products simply are not that good compared to many other brands, hence my BS comment earlier.

If you go check the prices for similar stuff made by what I consider the number one in this field, Silca, Muc-Off's is notably cheaper. And you get a brush. Cheap these cleaners still are not But either we are getting ripped off by more companies than just Muc-Off, or the chemicals, research, etc that factor in making these things actually cost more than many seem to understand.

I really wonder how a company as bullshit-loaded as Muc-Off has made it into the mainstream.