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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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Interesting that the QLD police state that cyclists should obey all motorists laws if they wish to cycle on Queenland's roads, so operating their vehicle without a helmet is okay then as that is what you allow motorists to do. Basically you want them to obey other rules which doon't protect them, has a hefty fine attached to it for not obeying said rule so by definition is discriminatory as you aren't applying it to the other vehicle operators and from that your enforcement of such breaks your sworn oath you bent criminal cunts. No wonder cycling is going backwards numbers wise in oz!
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"Dorset Police smash misconceptions about cyclists and the law"
Clearly not. Just click on the link and read the comments; every single driver myth about cyclists is paraded. Every. Single. One.
Gave up reading after the first 5 or so. They need their license taken away asap. Depressing as usual...even when they're told something by the people who are upholding the law they make up their own shit and carry on...
Do Brisbane police charge the same if a motorist is using their phone? Although its presumably more difficult to pull over a phone-using motorist...
Well, the Rachel McKinnon debate is over, then. If Katie f-ing Hopkins opposes something, you know that 'something' is alright
Bollocks
The bloke below competed in the womens weightlifting, now tell me again that anything Katie Hopkins opposes is alright.
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Am I showing my age/privilege/*something* if I do admit how difficult I find the current trans debate? My only comment to that picture is, "Errr..."
(But I do still think that you can generally work on the safe presumption that Katie f-ing Hopkins is wrong about everything
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It’s ok to find it difficult - it is difficult. The problem is that you’re not expected to rule on it, but the Internet expects you to have an opinion on it, and it better be a strong one, and you need to be real angry about it.
I don't think she knows what febrile means - it makes no sense in that phrase.
I'd normally agree with you about Katie Hopkins.
But this example does make me scratch my head a bit about the point of having separate male and female sporting events if the line between male and female is increasingly blurred.
Cornwall police want to speak to this man.
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Ah...that would explain...
"I just wish sometimes I could control these FUCKING MOOD SWINGS!"
I hate those mats. Send the wrong message - personal experience from a close pass "discussion" - "You're not supposed to be more than 75cm from the kerb mush, get the fuck out of the middle of the lane" (this on a country lane not wide enough for two vehicles to pass side by side, when I was doing 27mph according to Strava)
That was my fear when they introduced these mats. That without the police officer explaining the inconsistancies with the measurements, they'd end up being prescriptive.
Both the 75cm and the 1.5m measurement are wrong but Cycling UK went ahead with the mat anyway.
Many of us CUK members told them that, they ignored it, I've seen an Australian version that was made up and it stated the word 'minimum' for both the 75cm and 1.5m part. This distinction is massive in terms of the message it would portray.
Also the distance is only suitable up to 30mph, for 40 and over it should be minimum of 2metres, i.e. overtaking in the opposite lane for most scenarios.
I am actually in favour of punishing cyclists who are using their phones. In Copenhagen, there are far too many people texting or calling while cycling, and it is very obviously making them terrible cyclists.
As well as being a distraction, it makes it much harder to keep control of the bike itself by having just one hand on the bars. They drift around in the bike lane and are a hazard to people overtaking because they aren't paying attention to what's going on around them. If you absolutely need to make a call, at least use earphones so both your hands are in control of the bike (even if you're still not listening to what's going on).
Yep, phone using cyclist is a bad cyclist. No excuse for it, especially when pulling over and stopping is a hell of a lot easier on a bicycle.