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imajez 4 hours ago
@ChrisA the surface make up of a path bears zero relationship to it being a footpath/suitable. I once got lectured on why I shouldn't be riding a footpath by a driver of a Range Rover on a lovely tarmacked road. Another time I was lectured by someone blocking my way on a singletrack path that was built by cyclists, who said I should only be on large wide paths. The parallel wide path was a footpath. But these are very rare exceptions. I ride sensibly and most folk are usually entertained by my polite presence. Also most footpaths would have been paths used by horses in ye olde days, they often conveniently got mislabeled/demoted by rich landowners who failed to get path denied altogether when rights of way were being drawn up.
imajez 4 hours ago
@SecretSam Hence the rise of gravel bikes, which are just less capable drop barred bikes.
miksmith 6 hours ago
You state for the audio for the baofeng that they use an in ear design however they don't ship with any headphones with a mic. What did you use for this?
Rendel Harris 8 hours ago
@eburtthebike One of my best mates, a former rugby teammate of mine, is a Kiwi and a teacher (over here). I can imagine him making precisely that joke and he's a mad keen cyclist! Honestly, if this is the whole story it's a hell of an overreaction to a remark that deserved a mild reprimand about appropriate conduct if that (different if it was coming from a police officer or a driving instructor or similar, maybe). Having worked in a number of schools it's my experience that when senior management take agin someone they'll grab any excuse to get rid of them, I wouldn't be surprised if that was the situation here.
Andrewbanshee 8 hours ago
Hi I wasn't implying the ramps were equivalent to a pump track. I was saying many forestry trails are pretty hairy rather than a well designed pump track. The ramps are definitely not suitable and need replacing, but they are replacing with a new design. I suspect much more tame.
eburtthebike 11 hours ago
Oh dear! With my sense of humour, I should have been sacked a dozen times: every year. The Kiwis I've met all seemed to have a reasonable sense of humour, and one was excellent, but perhaps they weren't working for a school.
ktache 12 hours ago
"neither student laughed..." Well, it elicited a wry smile from me...
Rendel Harris 17 hours ago
@60somethingcyclist Unfortunately there are a couple of problems with that: firstly in order to try to manage some of the chaos in the Italian political system, for several decades when a mayor wins an election in large towns they are automatically given a guaranteed majority of 60% of the council seats, and also if a decree of the mayor's is overruled by the council that automatically triggers a no-confidence vote which then dissolves the council and forces a new election. So in order to vote down this decree not only would opponents need to persuade a considerable number of the mayor's own party to vote against him but also effectively to vote themselves out of office with no guarantee of return.
matthewn5 1 day ago
My first road bike was a Raleigh, too. A 1976 Raleigh Record. I dragged it out of the shed a few years ago and got it working again. 14kg it weighed! A 52/42 crank and a 14-28 five speed 'cluster' at the back made hills pretty hard work...
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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.