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Mr Blackbird 33 minutes ago
Having visited Spalding several times, my greatest fear is entering some of the shops.
andystow 36 minutes ago
@This Wreckage oh, I'm well aware. They still do it here in the US.
andystow 37 minutes ago
@rgriffith7 I don't know where you live, but having ridden quite a bit in both the US and the UK, I'd take the UK any day.
kil0ran 45 minutes ago
@davids oh yeah. It's been a long day already here. I'll see if I can edit, thanks
rbrtribble 2 hours ago
@Sniffer great comment, I reckon five years (no parole) in prison for driving while banned will keep them off the road when convicted.
rbrtribble 2 hours ago
Obviously the law is not worried about the standard of driving by individuals with prior convictions. All accidents including eg: a touch of a bumper should be reported to the police and an interview with a traffic cop before driving away from the scene. Driving away from the scene of an accident after being involved should instantly receive a lifetime ban (no matter how long you have to wait for a a traffic cop to come). Liberalism in driving must not be tolerated.
vontitan666 2 hours ago
Last year I designed the poster with a mouse. This year I thought I’d try something different and use AI. No brief, no rules, no budget. I don’t have a huge amount of spare time, but I’ve always been happy to put my hand up and help out. I looked back at previous posters (varying widely in quality, concept and execution) and wanted to do something a bit different. I had an idea, gave it direction and worked with AI to mock it up. Was I going to sit there for 8+ hours and scrawl away with markers or pull out the letterpress? Hell no! Is AI perfect? Absolutely not. Clearly not an acceptable “tool” to everyone either… but I enjoyed the process, liked what I created and was happy to contribute. Didn’t expect a cross poster to cause quite such a stir. I’m actually rather chuffed that something I knocked together in my spare time was enough to put someone off riding their bike. Trust it to be an illustrator. We can be precious types. But at least we’ve now established a standard and some consensus on what’s acceptable. The real test will be the next poster, and the one after that. That’s assuming people still have the time and enthusiasm to organise events once we’ve finished setting rules and raising standards for those volunteering to help. I look forward to seeing the creativity and effort that goes into them.
davids 2 hours ago
@kil0ran Don't you mean "Driving is a privilege not a right"?
Sniffer 3 hours ago
@kil0ran as I understand it he drove while banned for a number of the previous offences. While I don't disagree that there was lots of evidence that he would continue to drive dangerously, and should not have been allowed behind the wheel even before this horrific incident, I think it is naive to think a lifetime driving ban would have kept him off the road.
kil0ran 3 hours ago
LIFE DRIVING BANS NOW & get rid of the points system. Banging him up for 25 years is a sledgehammer to crack a nut. Time and time again we get this situation where someone dies because a dangerous driver wasn't permanently removed from the road. Implement an instaban for anything which would usually get 3 points and enforce it with a suspended sentence. First breach leads to 3 months jail time. Next 12 months. Next 4 years, and so on. Ankle monitor them to help enforce it. Can be a Cat C/Open prison or some form of home curfew. Driving is a privilege not a right. They should be rightly mindful of the risk of an offence and if it puts them off driving then so be it. I drove like an absolute &(^()^T&_ as a teenager and I guarantee I wouldn't have behaved that way if there was a risk of jail time and a criminal record.
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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.