Live blog: Deaths caused by drink-drivers on the rise, introducing the Podbike, Robocap, and more
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Would he have performed better on his normal bike?
the National Bus and Rail Union told the Oireachtas (Irish Parliament) the following month, saying the requirements (making the cyclist scum wear helmets and HiViz) would, “make the roads a safer place, as it would make potential hazards easier to spot.” Nothing to do with driver behaviour then? Stagecoach is even putting intimidating threats against cyclists on the side of the buses now! ttps://upride.cc/incident/px60beo_stagecoach41-closepass/
.......the government was focused on the “enormity of the e-scooter problem” Just wait until they find out how absolutely effing gigantic the car problem is. The whole thing is just motornormativity at government level, and while Ciarán Cannon talks sense, Seán Canney is fecking eejit.
40% of fatal road incidents (70 deaths p.a.) in Ireland involve excess alcohol. Pass a law mandating compulsory alcohol interlocks for all motor vehicles and see what that does for road safety first.
@mitsky I didn't say it was applicable in this case or that I thought it should be, I was simply answering your question as to whether anyone had ever shot someone and been charged with anything other than murder or attempted murder, to which the answer is yes.
@perce The new troll, my friend, is solely piss and wind, the new troll is solely piss and wind.
Very correct price for a basic, no-frills frameset. Older and wiser -after a warranty case on a '100 year' Ti frameset that lasted 5 years before a drive side chain stay weld said sayonara- I'll never again purchase a really high cost Ti frame. If the replacement -3999 Euro at retail but I paid 800, which is what it took for them to +- honour the warranty- fails, I'm done. Firstly because they do fail. Titanium is very finicky where welding conditions are concerned and good luck with that warranty, better read the wording very carefully. Secondly, often the price is justified with 'it's a frame for life'. Errrr....yes, unless you decide you want something different after 5 years, it breaks or technology evolves to a point where your frameset becomes aa anachronism and after 10 years you can start hunting for spares(UDH and disc brakes, anyone?). Third: I'm getting a bit tired reading about these so-called 'magical' properties of Ti. The only magical thing about it is the corrosion resistance. All that absorbing of vibrations etc is mainly function of frame design/geometry. If you want vibration damping: larger tires, lower pressure, done.
True,but I can't count thé number of times I've seen him on TV as an invited expert for comments since
"...there was enough suspicion to warrant an out-of-hours knock on the door for the Tour’s then-top two." A generic statement that sounds like a cover-your-arse mumbling. Can they be more specific? Nope. Good to see Vaughters join Lefevere to add up some controversy to the very politically correct pro peloton. In the late 1990s and early noughties, when cycling was becoming a global phenomenom, officials, race organisers and team managers turned a blind eye on doping. Nobody wanted to slay the goose with golden eggs.
Am I missing something. Pogacar would be firm favourite no matter what you did unless you made it a very flat edition which no one would want. Outside of Pogacar its all up for grabs. You can't build a good multi-week race with Pogacar in the form he is in. Take Pogacar out and this would be fine.
7 thoughts on “Live blog: Deaths caused by drink-drivers on the rise, introducing the Podbike, Robocap, and more”
The very best that can be
The very best that can be said about helmet promotion is that it distracts from measures that really work to make cycling safer. As long as most people think that all you have to do is wear a helmet, nothing else will ever get done.
If helmets did work, perhaps they might have a point, but since all the long term, large scale, reliable data shows that they don’t, there is no point to promoting them. Let’s talk about the stuff that works, the stuff that the government won’t actually implement because they spend all the transport money on ego schemes like HS2 and new roads.
I’ve read the whole article
I’ve read the whole article from Applied Mobilities, and while it’s about the US experience there’s sadly much that resonates with policy here (starting with LAs who won’t let kids as much as climb on a bike in their Bikeability lessons without a crash helmet on, the teaching delivered by instructors who are often required to wear a crash helmet as a “good example”).
As well as persuading people that cycling is inevitably dangerous, the more time and energy we spend telling people that they should wear special safety gear to ride a bike, the more we tell anyone averse to wearing that stuff that they shouldn’t be riding a bike.
That Podbike could quite
That Podbike could quite easily become my new winter bike!
KendalRed wrote:
€4500 plus postage and very likely plus import duty+VAT, gonna be nearer £5k and that’s only for the base model. You do get 8% off retail if you pay €2700 up front however. Given the massive subsidies given to potential EV owners why can’t pedalecs like this get a big wedge off too as an incentive?
I’ve been looking for something that is pretty much gadget free, no fancy opening system or like the pod more mechanicals so you can stack it upright (which would blow over in a decent wind if parked up) I don’t want an internal computer just maybe a connection to a phone/device that can show you the charged state.
I just see these pods as being too over complicated, want wheels that can take tyres that you can buy from most bike shops and some space for a reasonable amount of luggage. It should also have a better range, 38 miles is really stingy/not that great given how aero the pod is meant to be.
The Schaffler is more like it but I’d want more low slung – it’s just too upright, it’s too heavy with 4 shock absorbers/4 disc brakes and there’s no space for luggage though I like how tight you can turn it.
As for the Iris E-trike, it’s doubtful there ever will be an end product, there are lots of negative murmerings about how he’s shafted people and other ugly stuff. I’d avoid it like a dose of the clap.
Somewhere, Clive Sinclair
Somewhere, Clive Sinclair spends every day ruing the fact that he was just thirty years ahead of his time. Still a genius.
Suprised that school kid hasn
Suprised that school kid hasn’t had his bike impounded by the school’s Principal (they never seem to be head-teachers at academies) for not wearing hi-vis & helmet and no school issued licence plates!
Good luck Kien.
That’s some bling levers,
That’s some bling levers, brakes and seat post clamp he has there
Good luck son, hats off to you for Jogle!
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