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Just install the Firefox extension "KittenBlock" and you'll never have to visit the Daily HateMail or the Daily Express ever again. Saves you from yourself.
I'm not sure where you get the idea I'm a helmet advocate. I'm absolutely against mandated helmet wearing, and believe that most helmet wearing is bad for the cyclist and general populations. However I do believe helmets help prevent some injuries. Like yourself, I use all the faculties I possess to ameliorate the risk to myself and other road users whilst out on my bike. This might include avoiding particularly risk laden road environments. I'm not a helmet advocate.
Just in case you haven't figured it out yet, plastic lids provide very little injury reduction if a car runs into you, so If I thought I was going to die one day walking down a dark alley because of the low lifes that live there, I would find ways to avoid walking down that alley. If I was sure I was going to die on a roundabout because of the behaviour of car drivers there you can be sure I would avoid that roundabout. I would also pester the police and local council to improve the environment in both the alleyway and the roundabout.
The vapour pressure test is un-likely to give a reasonable estimation of the performance of the clothing in real life situations (as a cotton tee-shirt is going to come out best, but provides no protection against wind or rain, which is the normal point of 'breathable' fabrics.)
On Graham Simmons, If I honestly thought I was going to get killed on a particular piece of road.... I would change my route home, or change my approach to the roundabout - Just Sayin'. (as in get off, walk down the pavement and down the road to a safe point, cross there, walk past the roundabout, and then re-mount. However it does appear the local body should get on to the maintenance and design of the roundabout. Those min-roundabouts are a bloody hazard in lots of places.
Surely as a helmet advocate and wearer it would save your life, ergo you would continue on the same route, after-all what harm can come to you given the plastic hat you're wearing?
Other injuries, well as you would know if you've actually read pro helmet papers, they also prevent non head injuries too ...
I applaud what he's doing. However remote the chances of the council or police actually doing something about it, using the roundabout, filming it and publicising it is more likely to attract some attention, and *maybe* get something done.
DF moderators? Censors more like.
I've posted on articles before where my comments were perfectly reasonable, just didn't correspond to the DF world view never appeared, yet another post on the same article from a different computer using a different alias and more aligned to their agenda appeared within minutes.
Anecdata I know, but I'm convinced that the "moderators" only pass a few posts that disagree with them to give the illusion of balance.
Interesting comment by Jeremy Vine about the naming of the 5 pm-7.30 pm show - stop calling it/referring to it as Drivetime. Doesn’t just about every local station have a show so named? When I looked it up in the BBC radio 2 official schedules it’s simply Jo Whiley and Simon Mayo.
i browsed through the Twitter responses to Graham Simmons - he got his posting on the Daly Mail on-line. The Mail has had a change of editor this year, so you never know it might change its approach, although we’re still getting the litany of pedestrians injured by cyclists - it never ceases to amaze me just how inured we all are to “oh, he was killed by a car”.
Low sun and hi-viz my padded shorts! “Oh, the sun’s blasting down on the right, I can’t see properly - I know what I’ll do, I’ll drive on, that’ll work.”
yet again CUK fail to mention that not all collisions are cyclists at fault. The recent government review which tried to hide away the facts by sneakily leaving it to a small print afterthought, it proved that pedestrians are 50% more 'at fault' for their own deaths in collsions involving people on bikes, that's even from the motorcentric, cycling hating police POV (thus the Alliston outcome amongst others) As per the link where the cyclist died, police would have charged him if he had not done so!
There'a a mssive disparity in responsibility yet actually the risk factor and risk posed is not that disimilar between pedestrians and cyclists. And yet on the other foot the responsibility for safety is pushed onto people on bikes when it comes to situations involving motorists and their killing weapon of choice, again, the police will use all sorts of bullshit victim blaming tactics to absolve motorists, basically perverting the course of justice.
We are fucked everywhich way and the powers that be don't give a shit and are happy that the police, CPS, justice sysem/judges, media et al, collude to fuck us over time and time and time again which ends in more deaths, more injuries and more unjustified blame for outcomes that would not occur for other groups.
utterly fucking depressing!
I'm pretty sure Cycling UK would have mentioned that very pertinent fact, but as has been pointed out many times above, they don't control what the Mail says. Just like the BBC, which has a blanket ban on mentioning the overwhelming benefits of mass cycling, despite daily reports on relevant subjects.
Personally, I'd be criticizing her much more for cycling while wearing rubber flip-flops (or, 'thongs', to our Aussie readers
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Give the girl a break, she's riding a beach cruiser along Miami Beach- flip flops (thongs) seems appropriate.
But while on the subject of her clothing, anyone know what brand of tights she is wearing? I've watched the clip on repeat but haven't made it out yet
Typical Daily Mail bullshit. Article refers to the woman pedestrian who was hit by an e-bike recently. Forgets to mention that it was entirely her own fault as she walked out in front of the bike when the traffic lights were green. Also, the usual twats in the comments section - third post in mentions 'Road tax'.
You must have a stronger constitution than me - not only reading the DM article but the comments section. Chapeau, sir.
Actually, it was surprisingly enlightening!
I was shocked to see only 5 comments (one of which seemed to be pro-cycling) on what should be, after all, a clarion call for the anti-cycling mob. And, none of them called for death to cyclists.
I'm feeling quite uplifted!
Well, I've submitted two comments, but neither have appeared. Perhaps the number of comments from cyclists has crashed their moderating system.
Interesting. I too put a comment on this DM article pointing out the confusion between "serious" and "life threatening". It didn't appear either. Keep making your points in the DM & don't let any abuse put off.
Or perhaps they are filtering the pro cycling comments! I might try posting an anti cycling rant and then edit it once it’s got through?!
Or perhaps they are filtering the pro cycling comments! I might try posting an anti cycling rant and then edit it once it’s got through?![/quote]
Nope. Latest comment was 9 hours ago.
Nope. Latest comment was 9 hours ago.
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Tardy moderators more likely then. Oh well, it’s the weekend I suppose...
Tardy moderators more likely then. Oh well, it’s the weekend I suppose...[/quote]
I commented on something there a few weeks ago (takes that long for the horrible feeling to go away after reading an article to risk another one) and it took over 24 hrs for comments to appear . . even some "anti-anti-cycling comments" were posted...
The Daily Fail, where readers really do still believe they pay "Road Tax"
There was another hit during an official race near London when she ignored the marshalls and walked in front of the competitor.
Wasn't that one, "Dammit I have to walk my dog over there and I have to do it NOW!"
I don't think they forgot to mention it - they actively don't mention it as it doesn't fit their reactionary agenda. As normal.
We should just ignore anything that comes out of this right-wing pamphlet, don't even give them the oxygen of publicity - that's how fascists grow stronger (look at that pondlife Trump - he has a war with the media but couldn't possibly thrive without them, and they play right into his tiny hands)
Once again I'm left fuming.cycling used to be a truly pleasurable experience,but now I feel like public enemy number one.
The only question about the Mail, and most British news media, is should it be redefined as entertainment, 'cos it sure ain't factual.
Funnily enough, the Mail features quite a lot in this list of EU myths https://tompride.wordpress.com/2017/12/05/see-20-years-of-fake-news-abou...
I made the mistake of looking at the article, and it makes some of those EU stories pale in comparison. Just one quote "There have been 29 pedestrians killed in accidents with cyclists and another 830 seriously injured in just eight years." No mention of how many have been killed by cars in the same time, or the number tripping over pavements cracked by cars driving on them. No mention of who was to blame for the collision, and having to dodge pedestrians who are seemingly oblivious of their surroundings while looking at their mobile phones, I'm pretty sure any rise is due to the peds.
I keep trying to explain this to a friend of mine who has a thing about cyclists on pavements. Oddly, he's the opposite of a Mail reader - more of a long-haired hippy.
But without context this is irrelevant
You could easily say increasing the number of cyclist will resust in more injury and deaths
Huh?
Given that it's the motorists that are causing lots more injuries and deaths than cyclists, I fail to see how that follows. Getting someone out of a car and onto a bike will surely increase safety.
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