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@Chris RideFar main benefit for me is that it frees up space in the boot as I have a baby and dog and gives my wife the option to go by herself. If I was put our current tent on a roof rack she would struggle to get it down by herself. However, the price is ridiculous, at that point I think I would rather start looking at a van

@Robert Hardy I would also hazard a guess that cyclists are involved in more "I didn't look before I walked into the road" collisions because a shocking number of people don't seem to look in the road before they walk out. I assume they just listen for the sound of cars. Had a chap pushing a motorbike into the road from behind a parked car the other day that had I not been paying attention, would have taken out myself and my 2 children on the back. I cannot believe that he didn't check at all before doing that. If a car hit him doing that at 20mph he would have been in serious trouble with the motorbike smasking into him and probably landing on top of him.

@Robert Hardy I have heard this but does this actually account for where drivers rack up the majority of miles, ie. motorways where pedestrians are generally quite rare...

Seems like a genius innovation to me. It's always a frustration when you want to ride the trails, but you have to cover a bunch of road to get there. Now you can do the first stretch on your drop-bar bike, switch out for flats for the trails, and stash the bars you're not using under the saddle.

A new category! Wobbly Generic 😳

@Robert Hardy The argument is not as simple as "cycles cycles are not fitted with speedometers", it is that there is currently no legal requirement for cycles to be fitted speedometers. If you were to now introduce a legally enforceable speed limit, you are also requiring every bike owner to go out a retro-add a speedometer in some form. Which leads to the question ... what form would that take? For many people recording data from their rides, the phone in their pocket or backpack will be recording the data (so the rider can't see the speed), or their watch on their wrist, or a dedicated computer on the handlebars. Does that need to be standardised? Do they all need to be the same type, with the same specs? Should they register speed using GPS or (more likely) wheel fitted speed sensor? Is it going to be illegal to be out longer than you intended and your phone/watch/computer runs out of charge? Like many things in this life, it seems simple ... make cyclists obey a legally enforceable speed limit. In reality that is only the start of a long and technical conversation about how that is achieved in practise.

@Motivated @ Rendel .... I like your comment and fully agree. It's fun to think about though :-)

@Motivated You're using an utterly meaningless single statistic there with so many variables it proves nothing. What were the weather and wind conditions for each time? What was the race context? How far had each ridden that day? With all due respect to Demi, if you put her and Tadej racing against each other on the Mur on the same day having ridden the same distance to get to it at the same speed she's not coming within one second, or even 10 seconds, or maybe even 20 seconds of him.

PS re the cyclist ringing a bell (or as a sports cyclist more likely shouting a warning), they would have no reason to: the lady wasn't "approaching the road", she had got to the island in the middle of the road and was standing still, then she stepped out. As far as I can see there was no reason to think anything but that she had seen him and was waiting for him to pass before crossing the lane.

@bensynnock We, and car drivers, must indeed exercise the utmost care for vulnerable road users, but if you take it to the logical extreme the only way you can absolutely guarantee never hitting a vulnerable road user is not to cycle or drive at all under any circumstances. As the Highway Code makes clear, "The hierarchy places those road users most at risk in the event of a collision at the top of the hierarchy. It does not remove the need for everyone to behave responsibly." In a case like this where the pedestrian has made an absolutely suicidal move by stepping onto the roadway into the path of a fast-moving cyclist when they were two metres away you can't say that the cyclist has failed in their duty of care, the cyclist was approaching on a clear straight road in good visibility, the lady was standing still on the island then suddenly stepped out when he was so close that he had no time to make any reaction at all, let alone brake or swerve round her. She, sadly, for unknown reasons, failed in her "need to behave responsibly". Unless duty of care encompasses coming to a complete stop when one sees a pedestrian waiting to cross (when there is no marked crossing) I don't think it was breached here.