#MyCyclingWeekend with Decathlon – Smile, you’ve punctured

Are they, though? Are they more dangerous per person (given the population is increasing), or per person-hour on the roads (or per billion passenger-furlongs)? And - since when? Pretty sure that the 70s were a boom time for eg. dying on the roads, and we've got a lot better since. Haven't checked the trends over the last few years but I think that it's all pretty small changes comparatively. Different types of risks / relative size of risks of course.

Given that the reporting of whether a cyclist is wearing a helmet or not is, to say the least, patchy and unreliable, your data is suspect and so are the conclusions. Unless there was irrefutable proof of the lack of helmet at the time of the incident, then you're making assumptions. Even if you have that proof, those figures are so small as to be at best, not robust. Not to mention, of course, observer bias. How many children were admitted in the same period for other activities?

FFS what is it with journalists? Are they really that clueless? “Other modern details include a T47a bottom bracket.” Threaded bottom brackets are an admission from so called high end bike makers that they can’t make a round hole - basic engineering. It’s not modern. A press fit bottom bracket is. And when done properly is much better than threaded and the galvanic corrosion it brings. Stop cosying up to the brands. Start calling them out.

Then change the law.

Cheating will be part of life for ever. How shocking!

They have made those complaints for decades. The same complaints about road tax. Its just parrotting the bollocks they heard on the daily mail. Cyclist behaviour has fuck all to do with it. If behaviour had any logical bearing on opinions then drivers would be absolutely despised because so many of them are awful and dangerous.

Is the Armed Cyclist a Trump supporter...? https://youtu.be/Rshp_mpPvhE?t=1003

Foreign readers may wonder why Brits pay taxes for since roads are becoming increasingly dangerous, on and off the bike.

I still don't know how this guy squeezed between me and the car but it is the speed that he goes through the red light that is worrying. There is no guarantee that he can see that the way is clear and a small child isn't crossing... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pb_TckLrCl4

The laws that exist to allow pedestrians to cross the road safely are very definitely applicable to cyclists. I couldn't care less if somebody makes a cheeky left turn on red or goes straight on at a T junction against the light if there are no pedestrians there, unfortunately, in London at least, a lot of the red light jumping involves people going through red lights at pelican crossings and other places where pedestrians have a green light, often swerving in between them on the crossing and even (and this really beggars belief) swearing at them for being in the way. If we could trust all cyclists to behave responsibly and only run reds when it's sensible and safe to do so I'd say go for it, but there are just as many arseholes on bikes as in cars (and that goes double for people on Lime bikes, I'm afraid) and it's a certainty that if red light running was allowed in certain circumstances many people would take that to mean it was allowed in all circumstances.