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Live blog: 75-year-old Mike Burrows to make attempt on human-powered speed record; everesting the Kemmelberg; ram raiding + more
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Pub bike 10 minutes ago
@Pub bike Ah - forget being knocked off by a pedestrian wandering into the road without looking. That's still only 7.
Pub bike 11 minutes ago
I could only think of six things. 1. being rear-ended by a car 2. being t-boned by a car pulling out of a junction as you pass 3. being t-boned by a car turning into a side road across your path 4. head on collision in a narrow section you were already in because the car did not yield 5. being close passed/side-swiped by a car 6. Being knocked off by a passenger throwing an object at you Were the other two made up?
lesoudeur 24 minutes ago
Only the brainwashed still watch television.
quiff 44 minutes ago
"The brakes and wheels also mirror the Mk I. I find this a little surprising. A traditional titanium fork was replaced with a carbon one, while a rim brake stayed in situ." I think Brompton have decided that adding disc brakes compromises the famous compact fold, which is really its USP. If you want discs, they also make the G-Line. Though some might say that distinction is a deliberate marketing decision rather than an engineering one. Kinetics do disc brake conversion kits for Bromptons, but fitting them requires both a new fork and a new rear frame, at which point you're not left with much original Brompton (or money), and the end result doesn't fold quite as small.
Boopop 55 minutes ago
I considered replying to the 8 things that cause cyclist injuries post, but then decided if I did that I'd be feeding Meta/Facebook. In my experience facebook is just as happy to push hatred towards cyclists as the Mail/Telegraph etc. Replying to such posts just feeds the beast that pushes more hatred on to us.
chrisonabike 2 hours ago
RE: bus stop bypasses again. Daily Mail? That well-known accessibility-campaigning paper, which regularly demands streets have motor diets to better protect those with disabilities, children and the old? That Daily Mail? In a sense you can't really fault the campaign of the "National Federation of the Blind of the UK" - they're a tiny group eg. compared to the RNIB and yet they've managed to get massive prominence for their rather odd take... Anyway - councils and other groups working with RNIB hopefully can move things forward positively for all.
mdavidford 3 hours ago
When ice is liquid, don't we usually call it 'water'?
OnTheRopes 4 hours ago
Yes let's focus on the negatives shall we rather then celebrate what a magnificent career he had and became a great ambassador for the sport.
mdavidford 5 hours ago
You forgot to include giving yourself a dose of heatstroke by riding all day in mid-40s temperatures.
11 thoughts on “Live blog: 75-year-old Mike Burrows to make attempt on human-powered speed record; everesting the Kemmelberg; ram raiding + more”
Were they wearing a helmet?
Were they wearing a helmet?
Yorkshire wallet wrote:
I hope so otherwise he will be facing a 60 NZ dollar fine as well as a broken shoulder
I hope he was wearing hiviz
I hope he was wearing hiviz also – it would have been a tragedy had he been injured.
leqin wrote:
Actually thinking about it, maybe the shop should have been hi-viz?
Was the shop wearing a helmet
Was the shop wearing a helmet?
I thought perhaps he was
I thought perhaps he was coming down a big hill and failed to get round the corner but a quick Google shows its flat.
https://goo.gl/maps/yXVVmKfJFup
It does look like they were actually trying to break the window, how dumb is that? It could so easily of killed him. That would of been a classy Darwin award right there.
Had to laugh. Directly oppisite that window on the other side of the street is a Health and Sports Central Injury Clinc
https://www.healthandsportcentral.co.nz/
https://goo.gl/maps/Foedfq4jv112
Re: Footballer cleared of hit
Re: Footballer cleared of hit and run.
“He was accused of driving too quickly, undertaking another motorist and hitting Robert McKelvie so hard that the wing mirror came off.”
I wonder if he asked for his wing mirror back.
Something is not right about
Something is not right about the Ade Azeez case, did the police not investigate anything? If his wing mirror came off, surely they could trace that to his car? The witness got a letter wrong on his reg, but was she to be expected to be able to identify car makes, at speed, they all look alike to me.
It appears that his defence lawyer has told him to keep quiet, knowing that the system is loaded in his favour of he does so.
I also note that on Azeez’s Twitter profile, he describes himself as ‘Christian’, I wonder how his chosen deity views his actions…
nappe wrote:
That the only letter identified incorrctly was a U and a V so extremely similar gives us ammo to say the sheriff is a cunt.
nappe wrote:
I know that Scottish law is different, but check the reg the witness gave, probably came back ‘no trace’. Have a tinker through possible combinations – as BBS pointed out ‘U’ and ‘V’ is an obvious one. Hey presto! a very similar car presumably registered in the area (or not if leased)
Ask the owner who was driving at the time, if not one and the same, speak to the driver. Check the car for recent damage. What went wrong?
Apologies, schoolboy error.
Apologies, schoolboy error. If there’s a link in the article, always read before posting
Accident was on 24.10.16, police interview driver 07.12.16 the delay being either tracing through a lease company or police incompetence. Driver admits driving along the road at the time, but apparently nothing else; a poor interview? No mention of the car being examined.
The defence would appear to be ‘prove it was him’.
Poor result.