Live blog: British rider breaks European cycling speed record, sabotage warning to Shropshire riders + more
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Tue, Jun 19, 2018 14:23
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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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chrisonabike 7 minutes ago
@andystow yeah, apparently four needed, two for each pedal: one visible from rear, one from front. (Road Vehicles Lighting Regulations I believe). For several reasons I'm technically stuffed on the recumbent. Although I guess I could strap an extra pair of pedals with them to the sides (they'd be like epaulettes). I'm guessing amputees who opt not to bother with one of the pedals also don't legally have a leg to stand on...
ChrisA 14 minutes ago
@andystow Illegal if sold without a bell, but quite legal to use without said bell, I understand.
Aluminium can 25 minutes ago
I would assume Starbucks have video cameras. Although it will just show someone in a grey hoodie.
chrisonabike 29 minutes ago
@flowboy just keep cycling! And if you're not cycling and still have time, online there are the blogs / videos of bicycledutch, notjustbikes (also "urbanism" and general transport), "a view from the cycle path" (David Hembrow), or more locally to you hedgehogcycling (from Harrogate, posts here)... oh, and road.cc! If you prefer a book, check out Peter Waker's "Bike nation - how cycling can save the world", Carlton Reid's ouvre (dives into particular cycle-related points in history eg. "Bike boom", "Roads Were Not Built for Cars" etc), or there's Laura Laker's "Potholes and Pavements" about the UK's NCN. If you want to be social IRL your city / region may well have a local cycling campaign group...
andystow 1 hour ago
@chrisonabike only illegal at night without them, right?
Mmitb 1 hour ago
I work in the city and go home from Paddington, east to west. I used to go through Oxford street years ago but it was a nightmare of buses and oblivious pedestrians. Then I found the cycle superhighway and never went that way again. It’s really easy not to use Oxford street. Why are the council being such twats?
chrisonabike 1 hour ago
@andystow and was it sold with pedal reflectors?
chrisonabike 2 hours ago
@Mr Blackbird ah, but you've no idea how badly decapitated they would have been if they hadn't been wearing a helmet!
chrisonabike 2 hours ago
@mark1212123 "you’ll have to dispense with thinking your small thing is a massive thing while cycling to work in the winter?’" I find things tend naturally to shrink in the cold... Having "the big debate" with any given person is almost always pointless. We've all got our to-do list for that day/week/year that we're struggling to get through, using the familiar transport tools we spent time and money to acquire. And if we could really introspect we might find out that a shocking amount of life is delegated to autopilots or essentially reacting to external prompts. But - *given* that someone is at a point to actually discuss (rare!) - I think the Chris-Boardman-style works eg. "are you happy with (the congestion / your kids not being able to get themselves to school / all the cars parked all over your road and the pavement / hearing that the local authority can't afford to fix stuff)?" And "if you are, fine - your area, you own the consequences, good or bad (but ... it likely won't get better). If you're not, tell us about one of those pain points and let's work together to explore some solutions". (And no, those aren't going to be a personal bypass which takes you in your car past all the other traffic and yet doesn't cause your nice street to become a motorway. Because everyone else wants that *their* way not yours and anyway we can't afford it).
Mr Blackbird 2 hours ago
One definite conclusion to be drawn from the lab tests is that no cycle helmet can protect against decapitation.
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“Livee blog”? http://road.cc
“Livee blog”? http://road.cc/show/tags/livee-blog/161011
You had one job!
http://rustyspokes.com/facts
http://rustyspokes.com/facts.html
“Contributing to their demise might have been … the high price which ranged from $30 to $45. “
So HD are keeping tradition going in more ways than one. (I wonder how much that price will increase once Trump’s barmy tariff war starts to bite.)
“When you see a horse on the
“When you see a horse on the road – slow down to 15mph.”
Does that mean we slower riders should put a bit of a sprint on when we see a horse?
(No. No, it doesn’t.)
“You had one job.” Judging
“You had one job.” Judging by the apparently fresh material on the ground around the posts of this cycle rack, I reckon that local drivers dug it up and turned it around, creating some desperately needed car parking.
Cycle rack location- I found
Cycle rack location- I found out where it was by the incredible investigative skill of clicking the Twitter link, and the second post explained the full story behind it. Copenhagen.
Drinfinity wrote:
“It was because of the car, parked next to the site.
When the car moved, they just turned the rack, not the posts.
From 2015 in Copenhagen.”
Got to be honest, that’s an entirely reasonable and really quite boring explanation…
Quote:
Sooner or later, blockchain bollocks infects everything.
“This will really help
“This will really help cyclists know which part of the road is theirs to use. #cycling”
Cyclists already know: all of it . It’s the other maniacs that don’t seem to know
That video of the old boy
That video of the old boy getting on the exercise bike after the kid video’d his old route, beautiful
#onions
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The Spanish at the end roughly translates to ‘help the neighbour to be happy it’s one of the greatest pleasures of life. Good training.’
BehindTheBikesheds wrote:
I’m impressed with the translation, especially as I believe it’s Portuguese. It certainly isn’t Castellano.