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imajez 4 hours ago
@ChrisA the surface make up of a path bears zero relationship to it being a footpath/suitable. I once got lectured on why I shouldn't be riding a footpath by a driver of a Range Rover on a lovely tarmacked road. Another time I was lectured by someone blocking my way on a singletrack path that was built by cyclists, who said I should only be on large wide paths. The parallel wide path was a footpath. But these are very rare exceptions. I ride sensibly and most folk are usually entertained by my polite presence. Also most footpaths would have been paths used by horses in ye olde days, they often conveniently got mislabeled/demoted by rich landowners who failed to get path denied altogether when rights of way were being drawn up.
imajez 4 hours ago
@SecretSam Hence the rise of gravel bikes, which are just less capable drop barred bikes.
miksmith 6 hours ago
You state for the audio for the baofeng that they use an in ear design however they don't ship with any headphones with a mic. What did you use for this?
Rendel Harris 8 hours ago
@eburtthebike One of my best mates, a former rugby teammate of mine, is a Kiwi and a teacher (over here). I can imagine him making precisely that joke and he's a mad keen cyclist! Honestly, if this is the whole story it's a hell of an overreaction to a remark that deserved a mild reprimand about appropriate conduct if that (different if it was coming from a police officer or a driving instructor or similar, maybe). Having worked in a number of schools it's my experience that when senior management take agin someone they'll grab any excuse to get rid of them, I wouldn't be surprised if that was the situation here.
Andrewbanshee 8 hours ago
Hi I wasn't implying the ramps were equivalent to a pump track. I was saying many forestry trails are pretty hairy rather than a well designed pump track. The ramps are definitely not suitable and need replacing, but they are replacing with a new design. I suspect much more tame.
eburtthebike 11 hours ago
Oh dear! With my sense of humour, I should have been sacked a dozen times: every year. The Kiwis I've met all seemed to have a reasonable sense of humour, and one was excellent, but perhaps they weren't working for a school.
ktache 12 hours ago
"neither student laughed..." Well, it elicited a wry smile from me...
Rendel Harris 17 hours ago
@60somethingcyclist Unfortunately there are a couple of problems with that: firstly in order to try to manage some of the chaos in the Italian political system, for several decades when a mayor wins an election in large towns they are automatically given a guaranteed majority of 60% of the council seats, and also if a decree of the mayor's is overruled by the council that automatically triggers a no-confidence vote which then dissolves the council and forces a new election. So in order to vote down this decree not only would opponents need to persuade a considerable number of the mayor's own party to vote against him but also effectively to vote themselves out of office with no guarantee of return.
matthewn5 1 day ago
My first road bike was a Raleigh, too. A 1976 Raleigh Record. I dragged it out of the shed a few years ago and got it working again. 14kg it weighed! A 52/42 crank and a 14-28 five speed 'cluster' at the back made hills pretty hard work...
24 thoughts on “Live blog: Study: Cycling reverses ageing but weight training has no effect, Jeremy Clarkson back on his bike in The Grand Tour +more”
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Even if he hadn’t been carring a big-a$$ knife, it seemed like a clear-cut case for assault, I’m afraid. Carrying the knife? Not sure how this was a suspended sentence.
And, the media is calling him a cyclist. That’s like saying a bank robber was a motorist or a pedestrian and, you know what, they don’t do that.
And, and, why is it called a zombie knife anyway? Last time I checked, there was no such thing as zombies IRL…
brooksby wrote:
Clearly you’re not prepared for the zombie apocalypse, foolish man! I have a full detailed escape and survival plan.
peted76 wrote:
Worryingly – I don’t know if you’re yanking my chain…
brooksby wrote:
He was kidnapped by people who in all likelyhood would do it again, so I can see why he might turn to carrying a knife for protection. I am not saying in any way shape or form that it is right, but I can see the logic.
In the video it looks like the car in question pulls out without indicating and knock the guy off the bike and crashes into a car in trying to get away (hit and run).
It is after he has been assaulted by a weapon (the car) that he retaliates with the knife that he is now carrying around with him for protection.
Given this series of events I can see how mitigating factors can be a factor in the sentencing.
If I had just been knocked of my bike by a car I would be pretty mad too!
ClubSmed wrote:
This was no road rage attack. If you watch the vid, the bike pulls up alongside the car *before* the car pulls out. Reckon the bike rider and driver knew each other. The erratic driving says to me the driver knew he was in trouble before the knife gets pulled out.
Good point Pete. I believe
Good point Pete. I believe Hawkinspeter has an entire underground bunker with years of food and supplies and an army of thousands of highly trained anti-zombie special forces squirrels ready to take on the hoards of the undead.
StraelGuy wrote:
What, just one?
Cracking legs to the person
Cracking legs to the person in the top pick wearing a black jacket and the green brompton.
Scoob_84 wrote:
Didn’t notice – too busy looking at the well developed glutes on the left..
This one is pretty insane:
This one is pretty insane:
Cycliq Fly6 – Roadrage in Scotland
cdamian wrote:
I’ve had similar to that in the past. No point trying to argue the toss with a nutter.
Hope the cyclist was ok and some action was taken against the driver.
In another scenario the
In another scenario the driver gets stabbed/shot, would be no fucking great loss either.
BehindTheBikesheds wrote:
Yorkshire wallet wrote:
as seen very recently some people are taking weapons with them, in places like London, Manchester/NirthWest, Glasgow, West Yorks, all places that have high rates of weapon carrying. As I said, another scenario is one where the assailant gets a deadly weapon used against them. You never know in these times particularly in certain areas where it would be more prevalent for young men to be tooled up.
BehindTheBikesheds wrote:
— Yorkshire wallet as seen very recently some people are taking weapons with them, in places like London, Manchester/NirthWest, Glasgow, West Yorks, all places that have high rates of weapon carrying. As I said, another scenario is one where the assailant gets a deadly weapon used against them. You never know in these times particularly in certain areas where it would be more prevalent for young men to be tooled up.— BehindTheBikesheds
Guns for cyclists? Just for defence like.
You would only take a weapon
You would only take a weapon if you were expecting trouble. People who expect trouble usually have no problem in finding it.
Mungecrundle wrote:
As it happens you hear often on forums about arming up and to take a D-Lock or a chain so that one can smash it through the windscreen/against a person, are these wrong uns just going out to look for trouble?
And your comment ignores what I said, on another occasion the outcome could be very different, particularly in areas where knife and gun crime are prevalent. Would it be common place, of course not, but that’s the thing, can you absolutely be sure what any one person is capable of, how they might react in a scenario as per the video?
Can you tell by looking at someone who is going to be violent in a confrontation, who might be carrying a d-lock and smash it in your face and beat you to within an inch of your life, or a knife/gun/solid bar and do you serious harm? Is it that hoodie wanka on a BMX or is that just a kid going to see his mates. Is it that tattoo adorned emo looking person on a fixie, maybe that white middle aged man with a helmet and carbon bike who actually turns out to be a bit of a pscho and will punch you so hard his victim dies? That will be the Paul Lambeth case if you want to look it up.
That criminals and wrong uns do use bikes is a twisted confirmation that cycles really are the transport machine of the masses and for all types of scenarios. IF they whilst using a bike to get wherever they are going to are carrying a weapon and someone they do not know takes umbridge at them being in their way/riding like a prick/doing something else that has pricked their driverwanka, a likely scenario isn’t one of a chase but one of driver gets out, driver gets threatened with knife/gun. depending on said youths state of mind that could end really badly for them.
In cases like this where the assailent is hell bent on assaulting the victim you find yourself wishing that the assailent does get the rough end of it.
BehindTheBikesheds wrote:
Not sure I have any particular disagreement with your straw man argument. Just saying that people who prepare for trouble, at least to the extent of arming themselves, are either actively looking for an excuse or on something of a hair trigger to retaliate, maybe due to previous experiences or for whatever reason.
The fact that this news item
The fact that this news item is a news item shows how scarce knife violence is in reality. It does happen, but it seems pointless to arm yourself unless there’s a specific reason you might be targetted (e.g. gambling debts, drug deals, forcing crappy Brexit deals through, squirrel smuggling etc.).
Just be prepared to defend yourself and you’ll almost never have to.
hawkinspeter wrote:
That’s a Masonic greating if ever I saw one.
Mungecrundle wrote:
Well, one variant possibly.
I prefer to use this handshake to identify myself:
Your Gif unfortunatly
Your Gif unfortunatly features no squirrels, and the squirrel reference in the text doesn’t quite cut it.
Isn’t his saddle a little bit far forward? I think he needs a bike fitting.
ktache wrote:
I was queueing up the squirrel pic for a response, so I do apologise for disappointing you.
Ooooh! Proper Top Gear’s back
Ooooh! Proper Top Gear’s back.