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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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Benthic 11 minutes ago
Well, that didn't last long. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/environmental-improvement-plan-2025/environmental-improvement-plan-eip-2025
Homebaker 16 minutes ago
Any risk assessment is a balance of risk. If closing path means cyclist takes the road, the reduction in one causes a massive increase in the other, harm on the road is much more severe so therefore needs eliminating first. We are however such a motor normative society it's difficult for them to see that. (Also : √-1 : I'm not sure why I'm replying to you because you're imaginary. I might finally have popped!)
Homebaker 19 minutes ago
Traffic control of the polluting vehicles is the only sensible solution.
mctrials23 21 minutes ago
@GMBasix amazing isn't it. Driving is full of these little mysteries isn't it. Like how you can not be done for dangerous driving when clearly your driving was dangerous because someone was hurt or killed. Or when you use the defence that you are an incompetent driver who didn't see someone for hundreds of metres to prove that your driving wasn't unsafe.
leelang229 27 minutes ago
Nice one Jo. I was looking at that challenge on the website recently, and I might have a crack next late Spring. Looks fun!
sizbut 52 minutes ago
But at least they've extended the coverage for today, the Ventoux stage. Yes, extended by all of 15 minutes!!!
Aluminium can 54 minutes ago
The fact it inflates in moving air like a parafoil tells us that it is, in fact, some kind of parafoil.
GMBasix 59 minutes ago
“I’m sure I’m not the first to say that if the traffic seldom moves faster than 20 you don’t need a mandatory 20 limit. Unless, of course, you want to get lots of lovely income from speeding fines.” [Petrol sniffer] Schödinger's Motor Vehicles: seldom exceed 20mph but invoke lots of fines for doing so.
GMBasix 1 hour ago
@mdavidford The Commer was a van whose only aspiration in life was to reach 20mph.
GMBasix 1 hour ago
Sometimes you don't need the science bit to know something isn't right. A casual glance and you can just tell - it doesn't pass the unfortunately named sniff test. And I was just about to go out and not buy one.
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?