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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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burtthebike | 5 years ago
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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.

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BehindTheBikesheds | 5 years ago
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Was that Catherne Tait as a guest on the NZ show?

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ktache | 5 years ago
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Dutch reach?

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burtthebike replied to ktache | 5 years ago
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ktache wrote:

Dutch reach?

Dutch courage?

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Flâneur | 5 years ago
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Those Berlin artics aren't eighteen-wheelers. Double axle tractors units are becoming rarer on European roads.

Hope the lane gets changed.

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brooksby replied to Flâneur | 5 years ago
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Flâneur wrote:

Those Berlin artics aren't eighteen-wheelers. Double axle tractors units are becoming rarer on European roads.

Hope the lane gets changed.

What's worrying is that in the UK, many councils would probably think that was a great little piece of infrastructure... 

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Crippledbiker replied to brooksby | 5 years ago
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brooksby wrote:

Flâneur wrote:

Those Berlin artics aren't eighteen-wheelers. Double axle tractors units are becoming rarer on European roads.

Hope the lane gets changed.

What's worrying is that in the UK, many councils would probably think that was a great little piece of infrastructure... 

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.

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burtthebike | 5 years ago
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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.

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hawkinspeter | 5 years ago
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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?

 

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Yorkshire wallet | 5 years ago
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Clearly thinking outside the box....

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