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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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davids 1 minute ago
@kil0ran Don't you mean "Driving is a privilege not a right"?
Sniffer 14 minutes 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 32 minutes 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 right not a privilege. 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.
ymm 57 minutes ago
This tragedy was so avoidable and this case, its outcome and its impacts should be a huge wake up call to the CPS and the wider justice system, including Police. Society cannot keep excusing drivers, through the normalising of dangerous behaviour, for law breaking and the justice system must lead the way. Society must accept that law breaking is wrong, no matter where it takes place. I am under no illusion as the cultural and societal leap is a big one however the situation of excusing law breakers cannot continue.
mitsky 1 hour ago
Shirley "Spalding Business Improvement District" should face some sort of reprimand for bring a meritless case (ie without evidence), thus wasting the local authority's time and potentially taxpayer funds that could be used elsewhere? It might certainly help prevent others doing the same in the future.
Paul J 1 hour ago
Heartbreaking for Michael Mullins' family. Deepest condolences to them.
BroomBroomBroom 2 hours ago
This case has me seriously thinking about whether I should be riding on the road at all. There are safer ways to travel and to keep fit, and I have two small children at home who need me.
mitsky 2 hours ago
From https://www.warringtonguardian.co.uk/news/26690352.driver-sentenced-murder-michael-mullins/ “Richardson has a significant history of driving offences, the court has heard. In April 2011, he was arrested for careless driving and failing to stop or report an accident. He lost control of a vehicle and fled the scene. In July 2012, driving with excess alcohol and driving while disqualified, he once again fled the scene on foot. May 2013: driving while disqualified and without insurance. He gave officers a false name and date of birth; he was suspected of driving with excess alcohol. November 2014: driving with excess alcohol, dangerous driving, failing to stop and no insurance. He tried to drive away from police and fled at speed before crashing into a vehicle and fleeing on foot. He was found to be over the limit. In February 2023, he was convicted of driving without a licence and no insurance. He was stopped, checked, and gave false details to the officer. He remains on bail for affray, ABH, and possession of cocaine in December 2024, and that case is currently listed for trial.” Will there be a review of why he was allowed to remain outside of prison, thus him believing his behaviours were not serious enough to stop now ending up with him killing someone? At what point in a case like this where someone has a list of previous driving offences does the law say “enough is enough, licence revoked, full stop, do anything again end up behind bars for a long time”…? Each instance of his previous dangerous driving would have been a straight fail on a driving test. Yet he was allowed to continue without any significant punishment or deterrent to future offending. If the law had done something more then this murder could have been avoided. But cyclists.
C3a 2 hours ago
Condolences to Mr Mullins' family. Reading through this article it is beginning to sound like there were opportunities to take Mr Richardson off the road sooner; so many lenient sentences for repeated instances of substandard driving and lawbreaking. The sentences were likely within the rules; perhaps the rules need to change.
mitsky 2 hours ago
“Richardson has a significant history of driving offences, the court has heard. In April 2011, he was arrested for careless driving and failing to stop or report an accident. He lost control of a vehicle and fled the scene. In July 2012, driving with excess alcohol and driving while disqualified, he once again fled the scene on foot. May 2013: driving while disqualified and without insurance. He gave officers a false name and date of birth; he was suspected of driving with excess alcohol. November 2014: driving with excess alcohol, dangerous driving, failing to stop and no insurance. He tried to drive away from police and fled at speed before crashing into a vehicle and fleeing on foot. He was found to be over the limit. In February 2023, he was convicted of driving without a licence and no insurance. He was stopped, checked, and gave false details to the officer. He remains on bail for affray, ABH, and possession of cocaine in December 2024, and that case is currently listed for trial.” Will there be a review of why he was allowed to remain outside of prison, thus him believing his behaviours were not serious enough to stop now ending up with him killing someone? At what point in a case like this where someone has a list of previous driving offences does the law say “enough is enough, licence revoked, full stop, do anything again end up behind bars for a long time”…? Each instance of his previous dangerous driving would have been a straight fail on a driving test. Yet he was allowed to continue without any significant punishment or deterrent to future offending. If the law had done something more then this murder could have been avoided. But cyclists.
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”