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Live blog: Tory MP accepts constituent’s bike ride invitation after THAT tweet, bigger HGVs for London? + more
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Tue, Aug 21, 2018 13:50
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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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yodhrin 2 hours ago
Apparently I was confusing them with journalists.
GravelIsNothingNew 2 hours ago
A vacuous Colnago advertorial if I’ve ever seen one.
Didsbury 8 hours ago
When I worked for DWP I could locate just about anyone with only a name and date of birth from the JSA, UC or child benefit records if required. There is no excuse for not being able to find this particular scrote, DVLA will have his vehicle history, the health service his medical records.
chrisonabike 9 hours ago
Are you confusing road.cc with eg. Private Eye?
chrisonabike 10 hours ago
I think you could be on to something - that resembles the alien face-technology deployed by Count Binface.
Rendel Harris 10 hours ago
@mikewood With that type of person, the "if" is a big one here. There are an estimated two million people in the UK working cash in hand, he looks the type, with that level of aggression, who might be doing door work if not outright criminal stuff and doesn't declare anything.
yodhrin 12 hours ago
So, are road.cc just going to whinge about it or are they going to Do A Journalism and start firing off FoI requests to establish: what evidence was used in this review? who was consulted as part of the review? what criteria were used to assign relative risks? what specifically were the relative risk factors the review established for different items? was a direct comparison of risk made between folding and non-folding ebikes and on what basis were folding ebikes exempted? was a direct comparison of risk made between other devices powered by lithium batteries and ebikes and on what basis can ebikes be considered a fire risk but not laptops, phones, or other devices containing lithium batteries not be? etc etc. Don't just report their press release and shrug; investigate, interrogate, force them to reveal their justifications assuming they have any. You have access to contacts and resources we don't, please start using them for more than just clickbait. Edit: sod it I'll do it myself.
Bungle_52 13 hours ago
One interesting thing here is the fact that, if I have understood correctly, they initially decided on NFA for the close pass but then included it in the charges. Surely it was either an offence before they found out about the assault or it wasn't. It was based on the same video evidence. I find inconsistent outcomes from my reports which are pretty near identical frustrating but this is different outcomes for the same report, that takes some doing.
mdavidford 13 hours ago
😲 The end times truly are upon us!
mikewood 13 hours ago
He'll have an NI number and if he's paying tax, HMRC will know who his employer is. Just need to turn up there.... They can find him if they need to but it's obviously not a priority!
13 thoughts on “Live blog: Tory MP accepts constituent’s bike ride invitation after THAT tweet, bigger HGVs for London? + more”
So flexible articulated
So flexible articulated lorries? I’m sure they won’t have any blind spots at all. If we’re lucky, they’ll put a yellow “cyclists don’t go anywhere near this vehicle” sticker on the back.
That Rock Bar is quite simply the most pointless thing I’ve seen in ages. Couldn’t you just drink the same weight of water and carry the weight in your stomach? Wear a backpack? Reduce tyre pressure?
As has been demonstrated time
As has been demonstrated time and again, TfL is run by a bunch of idiots who are not fit for purpose.
zanf wrote:
Or are benefiting from a powerful transport lobby, which is not benefiting the people they represent.
Breathing in all those fumes must be affecting decisions they’re making.
You couldn’t make it up
As has been demonstrated time
[removed as double posted for some reason]
zanf wrote:
Can’t be repeated often enough!
That rock bar looks like a
That rock bar looks like a liability. Handling would go to pieces.
Just as an aside, I was in
Just as an aside, I was in Cornwall for a week long break with the family a couple of weeks ago. There were plenty of people on the beaches we went to. In fact, Cornwall is chock-a-block with tourists right now and the beaches are crowded. Of note is that many were doing active sports and as you can probably guess, surfing is uppermost amongst those.
There were quite a few cyclists. But although we took our bikes, we hardly used them. Keen cyclists though we are, the thought of riding some of those twistry and narrow country roads along which the locals race in their cars didn’t seem very appealing.
Is it usual for the riders on
Is it usual for the riders on a LCC Protest ride to ignore pedestrian crossings?
Bowks wrote:
I’m desperately hoping there was a police officer out of sight waving them through. Otherwise this footage looks pretty awful for cyclists – those pedestrians were completely ignored!
Oooh, I’ve got some stories
Oooh, I’ve got some stories for Cycling UK 🙂 Got a letter this week from the Met, they won’t be investigating the taxi that hit me then made off… Even though I caught up, stopped him and took pictures, etc. As I was calling the police because he was refusing to give details, he tried to beat a hasty retreat and smashed into the taxi behind him. That karma cheered me right up. He gave his details to the other taxi driver, but still refused to give me his details.
The rock bar isn’t a very
The rock bar isn’t a very smart idea. Placing extra weight on the bars won’t help high speed handling. I discovered this the hard way on a descent on my heavily laden bike while cycling in the Picos in Spain. Luckily the shimmy I experienced was a lazy fishtail type rather than a bar slapper.
It hasn’t been well thought through. Its designer appears to have no understanding of the importance of correct weight distribution on a bicycle and how this affects handling. Don’t buy one. Use saddlebags with the weight low down or use a diver’s weight belt instead.
That Rock Bar looks just the
That Rock Bar looks just the thing for balancing the weight of my daughter’s rear-mounted bike seat and making the bike a bit less wheelie-prone when I’m wheeling it around.
I got left-hooked by a Tesco
I got left-hooked by a Tesco delivery lorry earlier this year.
Police response was to be that because he didn’t hit me, even though I might have had to slow down a bit to avoid a collision, they weren’t going to take any action.
Tesco were initially sympathetic, but rapidly descended into various excuses of inability to view the video footage, despite various attempts to post it for them, and then just stopped replying all together!
Anyone from Road.cc want to post it for me?