Live blog: Green Oil bike featured in Dragons’ Den stolen, new Wiggins bike, journo in anti-cycling tweet shocker + more
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Wed, Mar 14, 2018 08:55
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Simon joined road.cc as news editor in 2009 and is now the site’s community editor, acting as a link between the team producing the content and our readers. A law and languages graduate, published translator and former retail analyst, he has reported on issues as diverse as cycling-related court cases, anti-doping investigations, the latest developments in the bike industry and the sport’s biggest races. Now back in London full-time after 15 years living in Oxford and Cambridge, he loves cycling along the Thames but misses having his former riding buddy, Elodie the miniature schnauzer, in the basket in front of him.
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quiff 12 minutes ago
In principle, it shouldn't matter if you're familiar with a particular junction - that's precisely why we have (relatively) uniform signage across the country (I had this from a driver recently - Him: sorry, I don't know the area. Me: but a no entry sign is the same everywhere...). But in practice in a busy environment like this, simply adding another sign saying look out for cyclists is limited help. I don't love cycling on contraflows / a two way cyclelane on a one way street for that reason. In fact there's a crossing I don't love as a pedestrian which is look right (bikes) look left (bikes) look right (cars), island, catch breath, look left (cars), look left (bikes). (Yes, you could wait for a green man, but then it's still look everywhere (Deliveroo)).
Mr Blackbird 27 minutes ago
I'm not familiar with Jeremy Vine's favourite cycle lane. However I do have sympathy with drivers if they have to deal with "Look both ways for cyclists" as well as "One Way" and "No Entry" signs. Especially if the driver is not familiar with the junction.
chrisonabike 36 minutes ago
@mitsky Alas for a second there I was awarding the motorist in the window there points for wearing hi-vis in their car, then I realised they were also wearing a motoring helmet...
quiff 47 minutes ago
While I understand it in context, I quite liked this to conclude a bike light review: "it’s a reliable set for the price, so long as you aren’t looking to ride in the dark"
mitsky 48 minutes ago
@Bungle_52 My note on the description states "CD20 Driving without reasonable consideration for other road users" I've chased the police to explain which specific action this relates to, close passing and cutting me up or driving onto the pavement near pedestrians.
Bungle_52 54 minutes ago
@mitsky Do happen to know what offence the points and fine were for?
mitsky 2 hours ago
@Mr Anderson Agreed. Perfect example is this parent doing an, approximately, 700 METRE school run. I worked t out by finding where the vehicle was parked on the residential road when I first encountered it. Whilst I can't be 100% sure, I am certain the children had no physical disability that would prevent them walking. https://youtu.be/R-dp-G6W8Jk
quiff 2 hours ago
"Old Man Mountain kit is built tough, and comes with a lifetime warranty – which really matters, when it may well be subject to being battered over many tens of thousands of miles of awful terrain, carrying the equivalent weight of a small-ish child." Obviously it depends how the manufacturer applies its warranty, and OMM might be great - but worth noting that "lifetime warranty" is often less generous than it initially sounds - it's the reasonable lifetime of the product, and only warrants against manufacturing defects. So being battered over tens of thousands of miles is not necessarily going to be covered.
mdavidford 2 hours ago
0.8m of cycleway does seem an extremely selective focus. Do we know which side of the junction those 80cm fall on?
8 thoughts on “Live blog: Green Oil bike featured in Dragons’ Den stolen, new Wiggins bike, journo in anti-cycling tweet shocker + more”
Imagine if this was regarding
Imagine if this was regarding a video of a woman being assaulted and a male journo tweeted
Sounds bad, until you see the film and can’t help cheering. We’ve all longed to do it to the women.
Yorkshire wallet wrote:
Absolutely. Utterly incredible that this kind of bias and incitement to violence is allowed. YW is right; in any other circumstances this “journalist” would have been instantly dismissed and the story would have been huge, but because it’s a cyclist, hardly anyone has noticed.
burtthebike wrote:
Surely it’d count as incitement to violence, which would be a criminal matter? A sacking would be appropriate.
She writes for The Spectator
She writes for The Spectator – what do people expect? Tolerance?
She keeps digging: “it was
She keeps digging: “it was going into a ditch with that concentrated look on his face that amused me”.
I can only imagine she’s short of a few quid so has taken a page out of the Katie Hopkins play book. Both of them have worked for the Daily Mail.
Advocating thuggish behaviour that could be life changing to the victim beggers belief.
Jane who?
Jane who?
Queensland; 30 years behind
Queensland; 30 years behind the civilised world. From my visits, I’m amazed at the mindset.
CS6 cyclists dropping out of
CS6 cyclists dropping out of hyperspace there.
I won’t be smoking all day.
This blog thingy really is being updated every five minutes. Leg shaving, I only got the legs out of wraps yesterday; it’s too early for shaving.