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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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eburtthebike 6 hours ago
Farage has said at least one thing that is true "Never trust a tory. I'll repeat that, NEVER trust a tory." And he was right, which is why Refuk is full of ex-tories.
chrisonabike 6 hours ago
@mdavidford while it can, I think of nonsense as more of a "pick your own" (hence bunch-servings) affair rather than BS, which is more like to arrive by itself in a steaming mess, or pile/heap.
mdavidford 6 hours ago
I thought nonsense came in piles, rather than bunches.
chrisonabike 7 hours ago
@EastLondonCyclingNut I wouldn't be keen to find non-cyclists in my shoes - there wouldn't be room, even though they're fairly "walking-friendly" SPD ones. Not sure if public hire bikes change much. But I do think ultimately things only change when there's a significant fraction of the population with "skin in the game" - either because they cycle regularly themselves or more likely because they know their friends and *children* / other relatives do...
lesterama 8 hours ago
"Christie continued to follow the victim and drove the van into the back wheel of the bike."
stulemanski 8 hours ago
Generally, I get off my bike and walk in pedestrianised areas. Cyclists and pedestrians in close proximity do not mix well. I'd be pretty pissed off if cars decided it was okay to use a cycle lane because they didn't want to use an alternative, legal route.
wtjs 8 hours ago
@EastLondonCyclingNut I'm going for 'very suspicious' on this one- Trollfinder General Is this the increased sympathy where the driver attacks the cyclist causing serious injuries and is rewarded with the joke non-custodial sentence; or where the driver murders the cyclist in the most horrible manner and the Shyster Defence Barrister offers the mitigation that 'he didn't intend to do it and expresses remorse'?
yodhrin 8 hours ago
@Rendel Harris Unfortunately the idea that subjective "lived experience" trumps everything else in every situation is now quite popular and widespread. I once had an extremely depressing conversation with someone who insisted my opinion on a matter - a matter in a subject on which I'm well educated and have spent a great deal of time carefully considering my positions on - was worthless, incoherent, and irrelevant since I was straight. No attempt to engage with the substance - I was straight, so nothing I said could possibly be correct. It got more depressing still when I pointed out that actually I'm Bi I just don't go around draped in a Pride flag at all times, and the numpty came back in to work the next day and had completely changed his mind and decided actually I was stunningly insightful - I asked how he could rationalise thinking the same argument was wrong one day and right the next despite the argument, the evidence, and the person making it being completely unchanged expecting some kind of attempt to obfuscate or explain, but nope he just came out and said "but I didn't know you were Bi then, now I do, so it's valid now". They live among us.
qwerty360 8 hours ago
@mitsky afaik most 100 point cases are dodgy businesses where the keeper regularly gets 3-6 points for failure to identify because they make no effort to know who is driving pool cars. And either don't actually drive (hence not worrying) or are on company policy that covers anyone... I suspect the solution to this would involve seizing vehicles when they 'don't know who was driving'...
EastLondonCyclingNut 8 hours ago
I think one of the biggest factors in increased sympathy for cyclists is the fact that so many people increasingly Lime and other hire e-bikes. It’s an easy and attractive gateway into cycling that suddenly puts non-cyclists in the shoes of cyclists, and naturally makes them understand their perspective.
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.