Scraper bikes… coming our way, or already here?

@kingleo MGIF ... that's why. It happens regularly - e.g. dangerous overtake, just to have to stop at the entrance to the fuel station, because the forecourt is already rammed (and can be seen to be, from a distance)

Forgive my paranoia but one would assume that users of Garmin bike computers probably self-sort into a group one could easily name as "owners of expensive bikes". Surely there's a risk of scrotes using it to ambush cyclists and nick bikes?

Ah, that's a shame. Personal service was good from them in my experience (up there with Fairlight) and the bikes looked the part. The original Classic Electric was a perfect UK city/further bike with a powerful motor coupled to a surprisingly elegant and light frame. They've not be accepting bike orders for about three weeks - which is to their credit as it hopefully means fewer customers will lose out due to the closure. I was all set to order from them as I was in the market and was disappointed to see they were closed for new orders .

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Ah yes, Waze. That "community-driven app" that's owned by Google. Of course, they're famously "community-driven". The app that sells itself on being able to drive places faster by using cut throughs and rat runs down residential streets. The app that features alerts of where drivers might be caught speeding, rather than alerting drivers they are speeding. And you can now use audio apps, even news apps, directly through Waze. While driving. More of this is not making anyone safer.

@Backladder I'd thought of that one, but I'd want to be sure that the councils would a) not have cocked their own side up legally and b) stick to their guns once the first letters from M'very expensive friends arrived (and if the likes of a Mr. Loophole has already one once and hammered some hapless LA ...) Bureaucracies can be extremely bureacratic ... but they can also get risk-averse (and let those with disabilities / cyclists / pedestrians worry)

@the infamous grouse Another variaton on Audi's "cellular vehicle-to-everything communications" solution for alerting drivers of nearby 'things'. :-(

@Simon Withers That's a pretty stonking sum to have raised for a fairly obscure business. I looked at a Temple bike a few years ago, but concluded that it wasn't really value for money. Sad to see them go.

@Rendel Harris Classic Roadcc commenter........I knew you'd take that opinion. Give your head a wobble - this is all on Vine - rode straight into trouble. Cyclists are never going to get any sympathy when people ride like this idiot. I don't have too much problem with the bus driver - ideally he'd wait - but he'd never get anywhere if he drove like that.

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