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Wed, Nov 14, 2018 15:37
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wtjs 9 hours ago
@FionaJJ These officers deployed next-level stupidity, and it must be difficult for the police to find people this dim. It doesn't even need rolling-roads or whatever, just a reputable bike computer on a quickly changed mount for the difficult cases where a proper EAPC has been modded, although you would need to look hard in Lancashire to find a police officer who knows how to make a pedal cycle go. Most illegal electric motorbikes are immediately obvious, not least because the crim is wearing a face mask. I saw an obvious one tonight coming out of Garstang Sainsbury's, not pedalling but without a face mask because everybody knows that the police only come into the town to hide away in the police station 200 yards away.
bikeman01 11 hours ago
Gustav Gullholm.. that's not a good look mate
mdavidford 13 hours ago
@Chris RideFar I think what you meant to say was "REMOVE this and put it on PODCAST CC".
jaymack 14 hours ago
As Mary Whitehouse never said - one doesn't have to read the article if one doesn't want to read about an off-road bicycle.
Rendel Harris 15 hours ago
@FionaJJ In London they're allowed to stop on single and double yellows to deliver packages or empty pillar boxes; in practice they take this as carte blanche to park wherever and whenever they want, such as this chap on the Brixton Road who pulled into the bus/cycle/motorcycle lane without indicating, as I approached at 20mph, to park on a red route, response to a remonstrance, "I suppose you never get post delivered do ya?"
FionaJJ 15 hours ago
@Rendel Harris We have a pavement parking ban, but around here at least, royal mail vans are already exempt, subject to certain caveats, such as allowing at least 1.5m, and only being stopped to do their work.
FionaJJ 15 hours ago
It was already embarrassing for the police that they made such a mess of their attempt to determine whether a bike was legal or not, but I had assumed it was a group of well intentioned, but under-trained officers acting on their own initiative, having spotted something they thought looked not quite right. I'm now discovering this was a planned activity, something sufficiently organised to have been given a name - Operation FRISLEN, designed specifically to identify and remove illegal e-bikes and scooters. It's apparent that the officers were sent out without adequate training, never mind the kind of equipment that should be used for this sort of work. I'm not saying they always need specialist equipment to spot all illegal bikes, but at least if they'd been given a demonstration with that equipment, they'd have realised why their approach was not going to end well.
Geoff Ingram 18 hours ago
Have put drop bars on a 2001 B1 mtb, a 2007 stumpy hardtail and a 2010 stumpy full suss. In all cases fairly basic conversións leaving gearing and wheels broadly the same and concentrating on correct positioning of bars and fit. Oddly, with all 3 I was happy with the result when recently done, but after a few months found that the extra speed on easy trails was more than offset by the lack of ability (probably mine) on tougher routes and finally preferred flat bar with slammed and inverted stem as best overall compromise. Good fun playing around, though.
mark1a 18 hours ago
The photos in this review look they are for a different bag?
mattw 19 hours ago
This is a strange reactionary knee jerk overall. But what is this "are essentially motorbikes in disguise" waffle? "One letter claimed that high-powered electric ‘e-bikes’ were “essentially motorbikes” in disguise, with many being used without lights, helmets, or any hi-vis clothing." Surely, they simply ARE motorbikes?
11 thoughts on “Live blog: Team GB limited edition chain for £250 anyone? Bristol Council’s decision to force L-Dub Community Bike Project to stop operating could leave 40 children without bikes for Christmas, Evans vouchergate resolved, + more”
Re the Instacrash clip – look
Re the Instacrash clip – look at his forks, his right (our left) looks out of place. Apply braking, and…
The cable sticking out 8
The cable sticking out 8 inches to his left hurts my eyes even before he goes A over T
Yep, that fork does not look
Yep, that fork does not look right. The sticky out brake cable looks very wrong too. I think it’s a triathlon bike with the front brake caliper behind the fork crown. Nasty fall.
Looking at Hoarseman’s still,
Looking at Hoarseman’s still, looks like a triathlon arm rest tucked under the handlebars too.
I suspect this wasn’t his first crash of the day — attempting to ride home on a broken bike instead of sucking it up and making the call to the significant other to come pick you up.
Good reactions from the third
Good reactions from the third wheel though, narrowly avoided a bike wheel in the face
“Highways England will pump
“Highways England will pump £3 million in funding”
£3m is basically a rounding error in this context…
That’s a Giant Propel he’s
That’s a Giant Propel he’s riding, so has carbon forks which don’t really bend, they are either intact or broken, unlike metal. I think it is camera parellax that makes it look bent, as those forks have an outward curve from top to bottom.
I think he grabbed a handful of front brake at the same time as turning, which caused him to high-side. The Propel has a kind of linear pull,V brake type of affair, so maybe he was unfamiliar with the braking characteristics of it (as am I to be honest).
As said before, everyone else was riding on point, even if he wasn’t!
Away with you and your bike
Away with you and your bike identification/physics based explanation for the dodgy looking fork!
“Highways England now working
“Highways England now working with Sustrans to improve National Cycle Network”
Just how will an organisation whose only experience of cycling is to make it worse, improve the NCN. That’s HE I’m talking about, not Sustrans. Will they be putting in dog legs, barriers and interminable wait crossings? £3m; you’re having a laugh aren’t you. That’s one fairly minor road engineering project; loose change that HE found down the back of the sofa.
£3M hardly pays for
£3M hardly pays for consultation on a minor road engineering project.
That’s £3M of cones to block
That’s £3M of cones to block off a few routes to make it easier for the workers to park up their transits and drink tea.