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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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tomlew 2 hours ago
What's the point and purpose of this bike, then?
jackcycles 7 hours ago
The problem with roadcc's coverage of Nick Freeman is that it's focusing too much on his controversial hot takes, rather than the well-known work he's done road safety campaigning. For balance, Nick has been very vocal recently on the dangers posed by electric cars for cyclists and pedestrians, writing (on X): "Pedestrians, cyclists and other vulnerable road users often rely on hearing an approaching vehicle. That’s why I believe EVs should emit synthesised warning sounds at all speeds, not just low speeds. Road safety must always come first." I think we can all unite around that sentiment rather than the more divisive number plates argument which I disagree with. Nick thinks that "accountability" comes with identifiability. I agree to some extent, but you have to balance the risks posed by a form of transport with the loss of freedom and increase in state power resulting in having mandatory identity numbers. Cycling doesn't even come close.
Xenophon2 10 hours ago
@HarrogateSpa : Exactly. Clickbait articles such as this to keep the advertisers happy.
chrisonabike 10 hours ago
@hawkinspeter Hmm... while there is sensible stuff in there it's even better where the design and human nature carries more of the weight than rules or guidance. Speed limits being one; if it was just on the rules that would be a lesser way of ensuring safety than the road / space design. (Of course just changing a number on a sign *does* work to some extent, presumably in part via the "anchoring" effect and "when in Rome"). I'm thinking more of what we have in eg. UK motorway-design-level thought and applying that *. One example would be the Dutch taking the observation that a certain fraction of people will make dangerous overtake no matter the rules, paint or even considerations of their own safety and a muffed overtake can have very severe consequences ... and then simply banning overtaking on some classes of roads (and even bringing in physical barriers some places). Hey presto - a whole class of problems they don't have! (It's not perfect of course, lots of legacy roads there). * Only some classes of vehicles allowed, everyone going the same direction with no crossing traffic or stopping / parking, rumble strips at edges, energy absorbing crash barriers, curved layout to stop people falling asleep...
ktache 11 hours ago
I liked his graphs.
Rendel Harris 11 hours ago
And yet not three weeks ago you were actively canvassing likes. Good liars need good memories, Nigel.
hawkinspeter 11 hours ago
@chrisonabike - the Highway Code is a good example of fool-tolerant rules. The emphasis is on how to minimise causing danger to others, but also avoiding collisions even if the other road users are being arseholes (e.g. not running over cyclists even if they're blatantly cycling on the wrong side of the road)
jackcycles 12 hours ago
Bless you, I didn't realise you place your self-worth on the number of likes you receive on an internet forum. I've never yearned for the approval of others, I'm just satisfied in the knowledge that I've constructed a coherent and noteworthy post. The best one I've done so far was the one I gave with your pipe, ale and suggestion to move to my leafy cul de sac. I have to admit I cheekily read it back to myself a few times and chuckled *every single time*!
chrisonabike 12 hours ago
Yeah, I think you're right, it did get a bit more "oh yeah? Well what about this?!" latterly. There's a lot more polarising going on. I blame myself. And the unicyclists.
mdavidford 12 hours ago
"They want us all locked in our homes...!" "Not all, only some..."
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.