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Live blog: “Empty” cycle lanes; Student to try and everest Dundee Law; UCI introduces sock height rule for 2019 + more
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Fri, Nov 16, 2018 15:09
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kil0ran 19 minutes ago
I was a few bikes away from the fatal collision during Ride London a few years ago, I barely avoided the victim's dog which was running loose. Definitely one of those slo-mo adrenaline fuelled moments and I was only doing about 40kph. At lead out speeds it really doesn't bear thinking about.
open_roads 22 minutes ago
@Xenophon2 "That’s a lot of batteries to keep track of, to the point that I have a dedicated charger with 3 m USB-C cable in my office, another one at home. Can’t imagine having to deal with another battery such as on the Flight Attendant." Top tip: In reality most of the SRAM stuff lasts a month or two even with pretty heavy usage. I just charge all the batteries on the last Sunday of every month and have yet to be caught out. The SRAM batteries are so cheap / small / light it's also worth keeping a spare in a saddle bag or similar.
ajuk.uk@gmail.com 54 minutes ago
@chrisonabike There does seem to be evidence that 20 mph limits work on roads that already lend themselves to such low speeds, and I do think the lack of a 25 mph limit option is an issue for some roads. Speed limits should especially not be set very low in the hope that many or most drivers will only exceed them by a set amount because, not only is it not true that many people drive like that, the opposite can happen. Instead of targeting the drivers most likely to cause harm, you're putting the prohibition onto the behaviour of more sensible drivers and forcing the police to target them. The DfT guidance used to have a paragraph calling out this presumption. The extent to which road design and conditions at the time dictate traffic speeds is too stark to ignore. I've seen urban roads with signed 40 mph limits have lower average speeds than some roads with posted 20 mph limits. And yes, that road in Gloucester has signs openly inviting drivers to go faster, and almost none of them do: the non-compliance was about 2%. Compare that to over 99% non-compliance on some roads in Wales. What I'm mainly talking about is the increasing imposition of 20 mph limits on much higher-standard main roads. That's where you see extreme levels of non-compliance. In some cases, the average speed has even been known to go up after the limit has gone down. Showing such contempt just brings speed limits into disrepute and my contention is that drivers should take speed limits seriously.
ajuk.uk@gmail.com 55 minutes ago
@chrisonabike There does seem to be evidence that 20 mph limits work on roads that already lend themselves to such low speeds, and I do think the lack of a 25 mph limit option is an issue for some roads. Speed limits should especially not be set very low in the hope that many or most drivers will only exceed them by a set amount because, not only is it not true that many people drive like that, the opposite can happen. Instead of targeting the drivers most likely to cause harm, you're putting the prohibition onto the behaviour of more sensible drivers and forcing the police to target them. The DfT guidance used to have a paragraph calling out this presumption. The extent to which road design and conditions at the time dictate traffic speeds is too stark to ignore. I've seen urban roads with signed 40 mph limits have lower average speeds than some roads with posted 20 mph limits. And yes, that road in Gloucester has signs openly inviting drivers to go faster, and almost none of them do: the non-compliance was about 2%. Compare that to over 99% non-compliance on some roads in Wales. So no, when speed limits match the road, compliance is much higher, but speeds are not. What I'm mainly talking about is the increasing imposition of 20 mph limits on much higher-standard main roads. That's where you see extreme levels of non-compliance. In some cases, the average speed has even been known to go up after the limit has gone down. Showing such contempt just brings speed limits into disrepute and my contention is that drivers should take speed limits seriously.
Rendel Harris 1 hour ago
@jaymack Yes...to an extent, and I'm happy at the moment with my twelve-year-old Dura Ace mechanical, but I must admit when I had Ultegra Di2 I did notice not so much the ease of shifting but the perfect trimming of the gears after every shift so that the chainline was always absolutely perfect and that did enhance the simple pleasure of being outside, for me anyway. At least until that day I forgot to charge the battery which died at the turnaround on an eighty-mile ride and had to ride a very lumpy forty miles home stuck in 50x14...
Rendel Harris 2 hours ago
@Daclu Trelub Well no, given that I object to the use of derogatory slurs against people with mental health issues I think I'll "bother" the person who's using derogatory slurs against people with mental health issues. Have a little think, if capable: if your mother or someone else close to you had dementia or mental health issues, would you be happy for people to be pointing at them mockingly saying, "Looks like she's a few chips short of a fish supper"? Stop it.
Daclu Trelub 2 hours ago
@Rendel Harris Go and bother somebody else with your opinion.
jaymack 2 hours ago
I'm sure electronic gears, pedals, seat posts etc. are each a modern marvel but they all seem to solve a problem I've never encountered. However I have encountered others faffing while searching for batteries, cables and even a firmware update. All of which just gets in the way of cycling's simple pleasure - being outside
Rendel Harris 2 hours ago
@Daclu Trelub Yeah...that sort of expression is OK when being jocular about someone who's a bit dense or slow on the uptake, is it really appropriate for someone who quite obviously has mental health/dementia issues?
Xenophon2 3 hours ago
I'm a bit on the fence. Currently riding a gravel bike with a Force AXS XPLR groupset, Favero assioma pro powermeter pedals, Garmin varia rear light, lupine front light, Edge 1040. That's a lot of batteries to keep track of, to the point that I have a dedicated charger with 3 m USB-C cable in my office, another one at home. Can't imagine having to deal with another battery such as on the Flight Attendant. BUT....everything's dead easy to set up, no cables to route through the frame, no cable stretch, no derailleur adjustment.....
15 thoughts on “Live blog: “Empty” cycle lanes; Student to try and everest Dundee Law; UCI introduces sock height rule for 2019 + more”
UCI introduces sock height
UCI introduces sock height rule for 2019
I think it’s great that the UCI have solved all the important problems in regulating pro cycling and can now move on to trivial stuff like this
Yep I saw that about sock
Yep I saw that about sock heights on the Cycling Weekly website, what a load of horseshit. I mean, the excuse about riders getting marginal aerodynamic gains comes across as utter drivel with regard to socks.
In BMX we have other stupid rules foisted on us from the UCI, like racers not being allowed to wear jeans any more.
OldRidgeback wrote:
The aerodynamic gains from long socks are well documented and the UCI are just making sure riders in time trial stages don’t end up looking like a lot of the UK’s domestic testers with socks up to their knees!
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The aerodynamic gains from long socks are well documented and the UCI are just making sure riders in time trial stages don’t end up looking like a lot of the UK’s domestic testers with socks up to their knees!
Mark.
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But long socks are available simply and cheaply to anybodt that wants them, so it’s not like they’d be getting an advantage that others wouldn’t be able to get such as with custom made handlebars etc
That tree is First Street,
That tree is First Street, Manchester outside Junkyard golf. It’s quite short but
iswas quite handy for turning left from Whitworth St onto Albion St (especially when lights at the junction are on red!).I used it all the time when commuting to/from Piccadilly (well, from – its useless from the other direction)
Now we sorted socks out I
Now we sorted socks out I think we need to move on to sunglasses.
Just been looking at the
Just been looking at the plans for the Chorlton route. Slightly annoying that there isn’t a zip file with all the PDFs rather than multiple clicks to get to each one in turn, but…
Initial thoughts are that its promising. One comment I have is that the ramps on Copenhagen style bus stops need to be less severe than the one in the example photo.
Would the student’s Everest
Would the student’s Everest attempt qualify if he’s riding a circuit rather than up and down the same hill?
MrB123 wrote:
I’d hate to see this young man waste his efforts on an attempt that won’t be ratified so let’s hope he’s read the rules.
mike the bike wrote:
Proper everesting can’t be done in a circuit, you have to go up and down the same hill, but if it’s for charity who cares!
mike the bike wrote:
He wouldn’t qualify for the grey stripe if he was doing circuits up the hill and down the other side
but he might just be interested in the donations and the challenge. Agree that i’d hope someone’s had word with him if he does want it to count officially as an everesting though, i’ll have a look and see if I can find him…
fukawitribe wrote:
He wouldn’t qualify for the grey stripe if he was doing circuits up the hill and down the other side
Given there’s only one road up “The law” itself he has to go up and down that, but depends where he’s starting from and I would guess that to get height that may be down at almost sea level by the river Tay.. Dundee is known as a veritable rats nest of one way systems thet they build (from memory) in the late 80s and early nineteys . . it’s rumoured some locals that went shopping in 1994 are still trying to find their way out the one way system in the centre of town.
mike the bike wrote:
You mean his socks might be illegal?
Shouldn’t that tree have a
Shouldn’t that tree have a sign “Merry Christmas to all cyclists”?
UCI obviously just ratifying
UCI obviously just ratifying “The Rules”