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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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mdavidford 57 minutes ago
@SVXY Again, it doesn't say that riding three or more abreast is inconsiderate. That's just your opinion, which counts for nothing.
ajd 1 hour ago
Black bike in a black room with minimal lighting. Marketing people eh?
Blackthorne83 2 hours ago
That’s honestly the best 32” bike I’ve seen yet. Avona’s road bike is also beautiful except for the tall stack height, if they ever release a race bike I’m in.
jaymack 3 hours ago
32 inch wheels are here to stay until the next new wonder product hits the market...
AidanR 3 hours ago
@Gd29 Redshift regularly have sales with 25% off, so you should be able to pick them up for under £40 at some point
Rendel Harris 3 hours ago
@SVXY Yet again it's highly impressive how are you know the exact circumstances of this incident, now down to the exact type of footwear Ms.Tanton was sporting at the time. There are numerous types of all-terrain/hiking sandals that have far better grip than a standard pair of trainers. And once again do explain how having shoes without gaps in the uppers would have prevented Dick from driving straight into her from behind? No actually, don't bother.
SVXY 4 hours ago
@SVXY Of course because cycling on a 60mph road is far more dangerous than cycling in a 30mph zone and you need footwear with the strongest grip to react quicker if needed
Rendel Harris 6 hours ago
@SVXY So sandals are permissible footwear for cycling if you're riding at 15 mph in a 30 mph zone but they are not permissible footwear for cycling if you are riding at 15 mph in a 60 mph zone? I'm afraid this is how trolls always give themselves away because clearly no human being with the capacity to operate a computer with sufficient adroitness to post a reply could genuinely be that stupid.
SVXY 7 hours ago
mdavidford It says you can ride 2 abreast and must have consideration for other road users. So if you ride three or more abreast you could be prosecuted for careless cycling with your inconsideration for other road users under the highway code used as evidence by the CPS
Rome73 8 hours ago
I’ve got a G-Line. I quite like the look of some of that bling. I can’t imagine any of it will be cheap though. :( It’s already quite an expensive bike.
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.