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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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lesterama 33 minutes ago
Sick to my stomach at these horrible events and the Mail-reader pile-on that followed it.
eburtthebike 8 hours ago
@jackcycles I'm hoping that you're being ironic in your defence of DM readers, but on reflection, maybe not. Anyone who posts 'People love their cars, and quite rightly so.' is a fool or perhaps AI. As the Dalai Lama said "People were created to be loved, and things were created to be used; the world is in chaos because we love things and use people" If you love your car, be careful you don't burn your foreskin on the exhaust.
OldTom 9 hours ago
@jackcycles Here he comes again, blaming lefty cyclists for a 'culture war' and roping in all manner of things unrelated to the matter at hand. You don't get to go 'Oh, those people are bad. But you know what? I've got an explanation for why they are.' No, you haven't. Because none of your made up drivel would explain the comments even if they weren't made up drivel. They'd be an excuse. So you're little better than those horrorshows.
chrisonabike 10 hours ago
@jackcycles And the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids?
jackcycles 10 hours ago
Let's be clear, anyone defending that collision is either trolling or a complete idiot. That said, cycling has been on a wrong side of a culture war for years now, used by left wing warriors and revenue-hungry YouTubers to make either outrageously self-entitled or anti-freedom statements. People love their cars, and quite rightly so. They are ingrained as part of a societal normality which embodies democracy, the rule of law and personal freedom and responsibility. An attack on these precious values - by activists who want 15 minute cities, state control of every facet of our lives, or preferential treatment for one group of road users - provokes a strong, and sometimes hyperbolic, reaction. That context helps explain comments like those in the Daily Mail, even if they are unjustified.
Rendel Harris 10 hours ago
@Blackthorne83 Or it implies that cycling is unfair because although her fiancé deserves his millions she ought to be getting something like the same? I did look on Instagram to see if he'd come back with some explanation but couldn't see one nor his original comment. What is slightly surprising is that Urska picked that comment out of a rich selection of patronising sexist tripe, if I were to choose one I think the guy who said "Your injury is God's sign that it's time to prioritise looking after your husband and not your career" was most deserving.
Slartibartfast 10 hours ago
It's all meaningless. Ride where you want as long as you're not taking the piss. The bridleway/footpath distinction is often entirely arbitrary. In my experience there are very few people who actually care about cyclists on footpaths and those people's opinions are definitely not worth worrying about.
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?