Live blog: Video – cat fires bow and arrow while cycling, London Assembly Member wants motorcyclists to be allowed on Cycle Superhighways + more
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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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JLasTSR 2 hours ago
I had actually cycled my first century the week before the accident. I got back on the bike straight away then a hip wore out and was replaced so I missed a lot of cycling in 2024 but I was back to my normal level in 2025 not so sure what has happened this year I am not as enthusiastic as usual I have been on the bike just not cycled far. I will have to do more as I will do a 50 mile ride in September the annual charity ride. Not sure fear is the problem exactly more a feeling that there is less enjoyment.in a bike ride than there once was.
GravelIsNothingNew 3 hours ago
What’s all this MTB palaver? The Tour de France was originally a gravel race. 🙃
Brompton rider 3 hours ago
@wtjs I've sent in 2 close pass videos to kent police, never heard anything back.
ktache 3 hours ago
@Rendel Harris I had wondered how they might be preparing to deal with the expected heat. Got to keep them as safe as possible. My excitement is building, always a nervy first week, too many crashes in the peleton and no amount of down gearing is going to prevent that. From my cloudy memory, the pogecar lad is very rarely caught out on the wrong side of a crosswind split.
Gm_Crop 4 hours ago
Rumor has it that riding the MMR gives you autism.
Rendel Harris 4 hours ago
Well this looks ominous: real possibility of Tour stages being cancelled due to extreme heat. I'll put the link in a reply otherwise this whole comment will be quarantined - it's on the Guardian if anyone wants to search for themselves.
Sedis 4 hours ago
Having used the street multiple times since it was opened just over a month ago, I can report two issues which are preventing the improvements from working to their full potential. Firstly, there is no signage other than the painted bikes on the road itself, so there is nothing to indicate that cyclists have priority. The second is that the double yellow lines stop about two-thirds of the way down the road, meaning that from that point onwards, there are multiple cars parked half on the pavement and not in the designated parking places, reducing the width of both the footpath and the road to what it was before the improvements were made.
Rendel Harris 4 hours ago
@MaxiMinimalist Really? So this applies only to drivers from Bouches-du-Rhône, Haute-Garonne and Vaucluse, drivers from the other sixteen départements that make up the south are fine?
Velophaart_95 4 hours ago
Yeah, it's great isn't it........
7 thoughts on “Live blog: Video – cat fires bow and arrow while cycling, London Assembly Member wants motorcyclists to be allowed on Cycle Superhighways + more”
Box Hill one way?
Box Hill one way?
Downhill I hope! Who needs all that huffing and puffing and nasty uphill pedalling on a bank holiday!
pockstone wrote:
Nope. Uphill only according to CW:
For 2018, the road will be one-way – with no vehicles allowed to descend the Zig Zag towards Old London Road – from Friday March 30 until Monday April 2.
http://www.cyclingweekly.com/news/latest-news/box-hill-goes-one-way-easter-last-years-trial-deemed-success-373853#shV2QuR8gkWVzrVT.99
As it happens, motorcyclists
As it happens, motorcyclists can already use much of the cycle superhighways in London due to their poor design.
Where it is just blue paint on the road, it has no legal standing, as described by the copper in the tragic case of Brian Dorling. He summarised that they were nothing more than a “blue strip of paint”: https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/mother-watches-in-horror-as-cctv-of-her-daughters-boris-bike-death-is-played-to-court-8883576.html
Driving on the cycle superhighways only contrevenes road rules when there is an unbroken line dividing the road and the carriageway – where it forms a ‘compulsary’ cycle lane. It is also legal to drive on cycle lanes where your path is obstructed if they are made up of a broken line*.
But it’s not like Kurten to not know his stuff is it..?
*I’m sure someone with greater technical knowledge and a zeal for pedantry will pull me up on this, but I’ve described some of the essence of faults that the cycle lanes have.
As someone who rides bikes
As someone who rides bikes both motorised and not, that is a monumentaly stupid idea. How about opening all the bus lanes to motorbikes. That will help much more than having some prat on a 1200GS mixing with cyclists. Those lanes are designed for bicycles and as such would be totaly unsutable to motorbikes, as anyone who has been anywhere near a diliveroo rider will atest.
“improve safety for
“improve safety for motorcycles if they could use Cycle Superhighways at less busy times of the day outside rush hours, when there are hardly any bicycles on them, and they lie dormant and empty.”
Dormant and empty; just like his head. Who could have imagined a UKIPer being uninformed, ignorant and stupid?
So if he’s suggesting that
So if he’s suggesting that motorcyclists use the cycle lanes at less busy times of day, then surely the ‘normal’ lanes will also be less busy, so motorcyclists will be in less danger anyway.
Have I missed something here?
grumpyoldcyclist wrote:
Idiot says idiotic thing