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Live blog: Arnold Schwarzenegger: “I want to bicycle all over the world”, nearest of near misses as Dutch cyclist nearly hit by passenger train; NZ cyclist uses cardboard box to keep dry +more
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Simon joined road.cc as news editor in 2009 and is now the site’s community editor, acting as a link between the team producing the content and our readers. A law and languages graduate, published translator and former retail analyst, he has reported on issues as diverse as cycling-related court cases, anti-doping investigations, the latest developments in the bike industry and the sport’s biggest races. Now back in London full-time after 15 years living in Oxford and Cambridge, he loves cycling along the Thames but misses having his former riding buddy, Elodie the miniature schnauzer, in the basket in front of him.
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60somethingcyclist 29 minutes ago
It's good to see that there are bike shop owners with principles. I was in a bike shop recently when some of the Deliveroo fraternity brought their bikes in. The staff saw that the bikes were illegal and refused to touch them. Fortunately the riders didn't cause any trouble, although this might have been because there were another 4 guys in the repair shop, with a lot of spanners and wrenches in easy reach! Illegal bike are a real problem, whether they're modified e-bikes or electric motorbikes. The Police and councils to occasionally run operations to try and catch them but they won't chase them. In my area they're being used for drug dealing.
60somethingcyclist 54 minutes ago
Perhaps the friendly approach might work?
Xenophon2 58 minutes ago
I don't believe tall stories about invincible bike locks, period. Even IF it could withstand an angle grinder, what happens if the thief doesn't use a grinder but another means? Say he douses that hard but brittle lock with refrigerant spray and gives it a good whack with a hammer? Or -what happened to me but fortunately with a low value bike- they don't manage to cut the lock and out of spite they attack the frame and cut through it?
ajd 2 hours ago
This is one of the worst written articles I have seen. Dozens of typos and grammatical errors. Did anyone proof read it?
Steve K 2 hours ago
David Icke rides a bike.
mdavidford 3 hours ago
Would you like to take another run at that?
mdavidford 3 hours ago
That's what Big Brother tells you...
mdavidford 3 hours ago
Can only go on what's in the article myself - can't actually read the report itself as none of the links on that page seem to work - how did you get to it?
markrjl 3 hours ago
1984 was written by George Orwell not Orson Wells.
chrisonabike 4 hours ago
Very brief look at this but I'm not sure it says anything much new, or particularly useful. Yes, they point to "some women who rode a hire bike possibly didn't ride before but might ride after". OTOH the *number* of women vs men surveyed didn't appear to be stated (except for one graph with a n=... - which was a lot less than the 5000 mentioned, and there only about half as many women responding there). Otherwise I think it just covers what regularly comes up (albeit perhaps it has to be repeated): - much fewer women from minority ethnic backgrounds. - Women care about socially safe parking locations far more than men do. - Women feel less safe on the roads due to external issues that they have no control over: traffic, road conditions and infrastructure, and harassment.
10 thoughts on “Live blog: Arnold Schwarzenegger: “I want to bicycle all over the world”, nearest of near misses as Dutch cyclist nearly hit by passenger train; NZ cyclist uses cardboard box to keep dry +more”
Clearly thinking outside the
Clearly thinking outside the box….
Woke up this morning
Woke up this morning
Closed in on all sides
Nothing doing
I feel resistance
As I open my eyes
Someone’s fooling
I’ve found a way to break through this cellophane line
Cause I know what’s going on in my own mind
Am I a squirrel in a box?
Am I a squirrel in a cardboard box?
Am I a squirrel in a box?
Am I a squirrel in a cardboard box?
Am I a squirrel in a box?
I don’t know whether to be
I don’t know whether to be glad or sad that German transport professionals are as bad as ours.
As for the NZ rider in a carboard box, it has nothing to do with getting wet, it’s so that they don’t get fined for riding without a helmet.
Those Berlin artics aren’t
Those Berlin artics aren’t eighteen-wheelers. Double axle tractors units are becoming rarer on European roads.
Hope the lane gets changed.
Flâneur wrote:
What’s worrying is that in the UK, many councils would probably think that was a great little piece of infrastructure…
brooksby wrote:
It’s pretty terrible, yeah – almost designed to get you squished.
If the roads leading up to it were designed such that this were a specific delineated segment and, say, had lights immediately before with advanced release for cyclists, and phased such that it were incredibly improbably a cyclist and a driver to be on this same section at the same time?
It might not be as awful! Unfortunately, that’d be a bit of functionality that’d break the second there’s traffic.
As it is, that’s going to get somebody killed.
Dutch reach?
Dutch reach?
ktache wrote:
Dutch courage?
Was that Catherne Tait as a
Was that Catherne Tait as a guest on the NZ show?
If Arnold would like to visit
If Arnold would like to visit the UK, I’m sure road.cc readers could provide a list of drivers to be terminated. Might take him some time though, a list that long.