Live blog: Video of little girl giving safe overtake lorry driver thumbs-up goes viral, London Quietways under fire after latest death + more

"twat" can be found on Wikipedia, "supercilious" sadly not.

And with helmet and reflector laws cycling has not got safer in Canada, it's got worse with more deaths and more injuries since they started forcing helmet wearing/increases in helmet wearing across the country.

Yet another backward society  that focuses on the vulnerable to protect themselves instead of changing the behaviour of those doing the harm. What utter bullshit.

Lovely video of the fab overtake by the transporter, I had a brilliant overtake on a country road a couple of years ago, after a fair few of the usual crud it was a nice relief so I contacted the firm ( not local but family run business) to give praise and they responded back that they got their drivers out on bikes and made particular training sessions for their drivers when in various scenarios where they might come across people on bikes.

We all have to get some place and that means when you're in the bigger/biggest thing out there you need to take more time and care with how you do things to minimise the risk for all concerned including yourself.

Some Canadian Provinces have some strange bike laws.  I lived in Halifax, Nova Scotia on the Canadian east coast and when I bought a bike I asked for a set of lights and the bike shop guy said why ?   "To ride at night" I replied - " Not a legal requirement " he answered -"but you are required to have a helmet - night or day"   

On the Montreal thing:

Quote:

Jabez Adasz had reflectors on his pedals and fork, and his bike was additionally equipped with a flashing light on the back. However, upon being stopped by police he was ticketed for not having front and rear reflectors equipped. The fines added up. Adasz received tickets two fines for not having the proper reflectors and an additional fine for his brakes which did not work properly.

So a bit more to it than just the reflectors...

Yesterday was designated the first ever World Bicycle Day by the United Nations - sorry, but that one passed me right by.  I didn't know that there was a World Bicycle Day.

It's about time someone found the balls to stand up to the brutal cyclists going around with 5 or less reflectors. The sheer number of lives lost to the reckless abandon shown by these cyclists is just astounding.

What it seems like the Canucks have come up with some really stupid legisaltion in Montreal. 

As for World Bicycle Day, I celebrated it by marshalling at a BMX event.