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‘No cycling’ Kensington Gardens
Twitter) (Image Credit: Royal Parks Police / Twitter)

Police criticised for arresting and fining cyclist ignoring ‘no cycling’ signs; Astana end Miguel Ángel López suspension; The “vague personal hierarchy of traffic violations”; Ineos snap up second Hayter brother; Weekend round-up + more on the live blog

It’s a new week and after nine days away Dan Alexander will be trying to remember how this live blog thingy works…
  • by Dan Alexander
Mon, Aug 01, 2022 08:05
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SUMMARY

  • The "vague personal hierarchy of traffic violations"
  • Weekend round-up: Reilly review; Commonwealth crash; History makers; Calls for councillor's resignation + more
  • Ineos snap up second Hayter brother
  • Commonwealth Games 2022: a closer look at the Cannock Chase Forest XCO course
  • Police criticised for arresting and fining cyclist ignoring 'no cycling' signs
  • Astana end Miguel Ángel López suspension
  • Timmy Mallett's UK tour continues
  • 42-metre £2m active travel bridge lifted into place
  • You can't carry a Thetford Porta Potti 345 by bike...
  • Life after July
  • Transcontinental update: Christoph Strasser first over Transalpina Pass
  • A kudos-worthy ride: Annemiek van Vleuten's La Planche des Belles Filles win
  • Pro rider perks
  • Reader reaction
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1 August 2022, 08:05

The "vague personal hierarchy of traffic violations"

Let’s kick off the week with a profound, near philosophical, take on the state of our roads from the great modern temple of public discourse — Twitter.

Stay with me…

People have some vague personal hierarchy of traffic violations. They tell themselves it’s based on safety but it’s mostly about driver convenience. This is extremely clear when you compare public reactions to cyclists running a red light vs a driver parking in a crosswalk.

— Ollie (@Ollie_Cycles) August 1, 2022

Oh lord, straight into red light jumping at 9am on my first day back…

But here are a couple of other additions to the hierarchy of traffic violations…

How about – it’s bad when cyclists run red lights but perfectly normal for motorists to speed up to “make the yellow”. Don’t want to be rear ended!

— Whose lane? My lane! (@Jeffrey99713014) August 1, 2022

My favorite: blocking a bike lane is fine, blocking a car lane is a catastrophe

— Dan Miller (@meelar) August 1, 2022

Any more? 

Anyway, it’s all a great excuse to bring up this vid from the weekend…

Looks like Ken doesn’t know what a crosswalk is pic.twitter.com/cgqgwAh1HM

— UOldGuy🇨🇦 (@UOldguy) July 29, 2022

1 August 2022, 08:05

Weekend round-up: Reilly review; Commonwealth crash; History makers; Calls for councillor's resignation + more

Annemiek van Vleuten, stage 8, 2022 Tour de France Femmes (A.S.O./Fabien Boukla)
Fabien Boukla) (Image Credit: Farrelly Atkinson)
Annemiek van Vleuten, stage 8, 2022 Tour de France Femmes (A.S.O./Fabien Boukla)
Fabien Boukla) (Image Credit: Farrelly Atkinson)

(📷: ASO/Fabien Boukla)

It wasn’t just the Lionesses who made history yesterday, Annemiek van Vleuten did too… but you probably knew that already. The 39-year-old comeback queen dominated – once again – on the slopes of La Planche des Belles Filles to cap off a historic week for women’s cycling.

> History maker: Peerless Annemiek van Vleuten wins first edition of relaunched Tour de France Femmes

Elsewhere on road.cc this weekend, Stu’s been checking out Reilly’s Fusion… and, without too many spoilers, it did pretty well…

Back on the racing scene, Olympic champ Matt Walls suffered a frightening crash at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham (but actually in London) yesterday as he was sent over the barrier and into the crowd at the Lee Valley VeloPark during the scratch race.

Over in the US, cyclists are calling for the resignation of a Jersey City councillor, Amy DeGise, who failed to stop after striking a delivery cyclist – and only reported the incident six hours later.

Oh, and our Bike at Bedtime is the new titanium Enigma Evoke Mk3. Check it out now, or save it for bedtime, or read it now and take a mid-morning nap…the choice is entirely yours…

1 August 2022, 08:05

Ineos snap up second Hayter brother

Why have one promising upcoming British racing talent when you can have two? Bonus points if they’re from the same family. Ethan Hayter — Olympic champ, two-time national TT champion, Tour of Britain stage winner, twice Romandie stage winner, and currently out at Tour of Poland hoping to earn selection for a debut Grand Tour at La Vuelta — has a brother called Leo.

Leo’s pretty good at riding bikes too…he won two stages and the GC at the ‘Baby Giro’ before adding the national U23 TT title to his palmares in June. He’s got an U23 Liège–Bastogne–Liège to his name too and will be joining his big brother at Ineos, first as a stagiaire until the end of the year, and then permanently in 2023.

⏳ pic.twitter.com/WuDk05mAo1

— INEOS Grenadiers (@INEOSGrenadiers) August 1, 2022

Leo Hayter: “I’m super proud and excited to be joining the Ineos Grenadiers this coming year, moving up to the highest level of the sport in a British team I’ve been inspired by since I started competing. Having participated in some training camps with the team, I already feel really at home here, and now can’t wait to get started.” 

1 August 2022, 08:05

Commonwealth Games 2022: a closer look at the Cannock Chase Forest XCO course

The Commonwealth Games are in full swing, and on Wednesday we get to see the mountain bike racers hit the trails. The race is held at the Cannock Chase Forest and we’ve put together the course information for you. https://t.co/VC0oJwF0Hc
#CommonwealthGames22 pic.twitter.com/rUJlNaKAEg

— off-road.cc (@off_roadcc) August 1, 2022

> Commonwealth Games 2022: a closer look at the Cannock Chase Forest XCO course 

1 August 2022, 08:05

Police criticised for arresting and fining cyclist ignoring 'no cycling' signs

Last night, Royal Parks Police revealed that “in accordance with our Park Priorities” a cyclist stopped in a designated non-cycling area of Kensington Gardens had been arrested after refusing to give officers his details, and was later released with a £60 fine for the cycling offence…

In accordance with our Park Priorities a cyclist was stopped in Kensington Gardens, cycling in a non designated area. Refused to provided satisfactory details and arrested. Once officers were satisfied with details he eventually provided he was released with a sixty pound fine. pic.twitter.com/vP5ttSNgxu

— Royal Parks Police (@MPSRoyal_Parks) July 31, 2022

The reaction to Royal Parks Police’s tweet was mixed — some had little sympathy for ignoring the park’s by-laws — while others argued clamping down on individuals pedalling a bicycle, even where prohibited, shouldn’t be particularly high up the crime-tackling priority list.

One reply called the response “heavy-handed behaviour”, adding: “More heavy-handed behaviour. Please Google ‘proportionality’. It’s still totally out of proportion with the risk associated with the ‘offence’.”

Seriously? and yet you fail to deal w drivers who drive in to #RichmondPk before they’re allowed, commercial vans, close passing, tailgating and speeding!! Slow hand clap. Out of interest why is no cycling allowed there? who does it impact on?

— Ruth Mayorcas (@RuthMayorcas) July 31, 2022

Bloody hell – that was a narrow escape! So great to see the @MPSRoyal_Parks are on the case with this. Clearly it’s a much greater menace than speeding drivers, distracted drivers, drunk drivers, drugged drivers, bad drivers, angry drivers…

— Bang Average 3rd Cat (@BangAverageCat3) July 31, 2022

What a complete waste of time and resources.

— Active Travel Neighbourhoods 💚 (@ActiveTravelNet) July 31, 2022

It’s not the first time the force’s social media output has ended up here on our live blog…

Back in the spring a tweet was branded “tone-deaf” for boasting that one of the force’s officers had managed “not to jump a single red light or ride on a footpath” while cycling to work during a tube strike.

> “I cycled into a work today, managed not to jump a single red light or ride on a footpath”: Royal Parks Police criticised for “tone-deaf” tweet

1 August 2022, 08:05

Astana end Miguel Ángel López suspension

Miguel Angel Lopez (copyright RCS Sport)
Miguel Angel Lopez (copyright RCS Sport) (Image Credit: Farrelly Atkinson)
Miguel Angel Lopez (copyright RCS Sport)
Miguel Angel Lopez (copyright RCS Sport) (Image Credit: Farrelly Atkinson)

Miguel Ángel López has been “provisionally reintegrated” back into Astana Qazaqstan Team following a short-lived suspension prompted by news the Colombian was being investigated as part of a doping probe in Spain.

In a statement, the team concluded that in the absence of any findings by Spanish authorities or the UCI “it was not in a position to continue the suspension”. 

As it was communicated earlier (on 22.07.2022), following the news of Miguel Angel Lopez’s questioning by Spanish Police in connection with an investigation on Dr. Maynar, Astana Qazaqstan Team suspended Miguel Angel Lopez pending clarification of the status of the proceedings.

Based on the information received, Astana Qazaqstan Team was advised that in the absence of any finding by either the Spanish authorities or the UCI, it was not in a position to continue the suspension or further deprive the rider of his contractual rights. Miguel Angel Lopez is thus provisionally reintegrated as part of Astana Qazaqstan Team and will return to the previously agreed racing plan (Vuelta a Burgos and then Vuelta a España).

Astana Qazaqstan Team has forwarded all the information received to the International Testing Agency, which is in charge of anti-doping investigations on behalf of the UCI. The Team will monitor the situation closely and will not hesitate to take resolute measures depending on the development of the situation.

1 August 2022, 08:05

Timmy Mallett's UK tour continues

The day I met @TimmyMallett on his bike ride around Britain: pic.twitter.com/3lmsmnu3rY

— Stuart Leithes (@LeithesITV) August 1, 2022

1 August 2022, 08:05

42-metre £2m active travel bridge lifted into place

Gooseholme Bridge Kendal (Cumbria County Council)
Gooseholme Bridge Kendal (Cumbria County Council) (Image Credit: Farrelly Atkinson)
Gooseholme Bridge Kendal (Cumbria County Council)
Gooseholme Bridge Kendal (Cumbria County Council) (Image Credit: Farrelly Atkinson)

A crane hoisted the new Gooseholme active travel bridge into place across the River Kent in Kendal last week, a development the council says is a “hugely significant step forward” in the £2m project.

Cumbria County Council, working with contractor Story Contracting Ltd, and in partnership with an extensive specialised project team, oversaw the installation of the 55-tonne structure which was lifted into place. 

The £2 million project is being delivered by Cumbria County Council with funding partners: the Environment Agency, South Lakeland District Council, as well as Sustrans, and is part of walking and cycling charity’s £77m programme, supported by the Department for Transport, to enhance the National Cycle Network.

The bridge is expected to open in the autumn.

1 August 2022, 08:05

You can't carry a Thetford Porta Potti 345 by bike...

…this life chose me. 😉 pic.twitter.com/GR0oO8viNn

— Elisabeth Anderson 🚲🐺 (@velobetty) July 31, 2022

1 August 2022, 08:05

Life after July

So, for the first time since July 1, neither the Tour de France or Tour de France Femmes are on our TV screens to get us through the work day (okay, okay, I know there were three rest days)…

There is some racing in the diary this week, however, over in Poland at the WorldTour (but not broadcast, as far as we can tell) Tour de Pologne. Cav’s debuting his fresh new British national champ’s colours…although things on the bike aren’t going quite as well…

Cav is in a group that has been dropped by the #TdP22 peloton on the hills in the final part of the stage.

Photo: @GettySport pic.twitter.com/noQaCU7s6R

— Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl Team (@qst_alphavinyl) August 1, 2022

Cav’s two top-tens without threatening for the win over the weekend leave us here, on stage three, with Ethan Hayter the best hope for a British stage win on a long day in the saddle back-ended with three sharp stingers and an uphill finish…

1 August 2022, 08:05

Transcontinental update: Christoph Strasser first over Transalpina Pass

Of course there is life after the Tour de France and Tour de France Femmes, and not just the Tour de Pologne (stage three was won by birthday boy Sergio Higuita, by the way), Transcontinental Race has been underway for a week now. Christoph Strasser was first to summit Transalpina Pass and is through the fourth checkpoint…

First up and over the Transalpina Pass and through CP4 is Christoph (100). The weather is turning.#TCRNo8#transcontinental pic.twitter.com/IDEHK1tmqs

— The Transcontinental (@transconrace) August 1, 2022

Ulrich Bartholmoes and Adam Bialek have since passed through as well. Transcontinental has an impressive tracking page if dot-watching is your thing… 

1 August 2022, 08:05

A kudos-worthy ride: Annemiek van Vleuten's La Planche des Belles Filles win

 

According to Strava, Van Vleuten’s winning ride is the most kudosed women’s ride ever, and third most kudosed women’s activity of all-time. Not too late to get that to number one…

1 August 2022, 08:05

Pro rider perks

Here we have it folks…the single greatest thing about being a professional cyclist (for Alpecin-Deceuninck)…

Sleep is the most crucial part of recovery. We are happy to announce Revor as our official sleep supplier. Revor and their ‘mattress carriers’ provide our riders with personalized mattrasses during all Grand Tours and training camps.

Read more: https://t.co/7hX2R0UsCJ pic.twitter.com/9i6ZcZ1ng4

— Alpecin-Deceuninck Cycling Team (@AlpecinDCK) August 1, 2022

Soon-to-be on Ebay — the ultimate in sporting memorabilia — Mathieu van der Poel’s mattress from the 2023 Tour de France… 

1 August 2022, 08:05

Reader reaction

Here’s what you’re saying about Royal Parks Police and our main live blog story of the day…

As a cyclist I think this is right. If people on bikes aren’t punished for not following the rules, it just gives the anti cyclist brigade ammunition.

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If its against law then so they should.

— Brian Muir (@brianrobertmuir) August 1, 2022 

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49 thoughts on “Police criticised for arresting and fining cyclist ignoring ‘no cycling’ signs; Astana end Miguel Ángel López suspension; The “vague personal hierarchy of traffic violations”; Ineos snap up second Hayter brother; Weekend round-up + more on the live blog”

  1. CyclingInGawler
    August 1, 2022 at 8:17 am
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    Re. “Crosswalk”; I’m sorry,

    Re. “Crosswalk”; I’m sorry, but that’s the funniest thing I’ve seen in quite a while!

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    • Rendel Harris
      August 1, 2022 at 8:25 am
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      CyclingInGawler wrote:

      Re. “Crosswalk”; I’m sorry, but that’s the funniest thing I’ve seen in quite a while!

      — CyclingInGawler

      Superb isn’t it? I’ve long wanted to do a Starsky-and-Hutch-style over-the-hood slide on drivers who stick their noses over the stop line, never had the guts.

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      • brooksby
        August 1, 2022 at 9:42 am
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        There’s a zebra crossing I

        There’s a zebra crossing I regularly use which is on a junction.

        https://goo.gl/maps/1LgqDT1pT9GWCRKcA

        Practically every motorist decides that they have to wait to get out of the junction, sitting across the zebra crossing (even on Streetview!)

        I used to just walk behind them, but now I either walk veeeeeerrrrrry slowly in front of them or else just wait, right by the car, with my arms folded.

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        • Mary Willoughby
          August 1, 2022 at 11:34 am
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          Remind me…what’s the name

          Remind me…what’s the name of the building immediately opposite that zebra crossing.

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          • brooksby
            August 1, 2022 at 11:40 am
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            Mary Willoughby wrote:

            Remind me…what’s the name of the building immediately opposite that zebra crossing.

            — Mary Willoughby

            To all non-Bristolians:  the building to which Mary alludes is the inner city headquarters of Avon & Somerset Police.

        • IanMK
          August 1, 2022 at 2:23 pm
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          I was crossing a (rather wide

          I was crossing a (rather wide) junction (on foot) over the weekend when a driver coming out of the junction literally just pulled up at the juction no more than a couple of feet in front of me. I considered several options, including walking in to the side of the car or knocking on the window, which was within touching distance, to explain rule H2, but as the driver looked like she might be somebodys Grandma I decided to leave it smiley

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          • AlsoSomniloquism
            August 1, 2022 at 2:39 pm
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            I was waiting to cross at

            I was waiting to cross at these lights the other week. Lights turned red for traffic, green for me. Then a white car undertook the two lanes of stationary traffic and sailed through. I had noticed it, and it wasn’t close but as they passed I shouted as loud as I could “OIIIIII, LIGHTS”. Driver looked shocked and I noticed them slow down at the next set further down. However I had my phone in my hand, so I wonder if they thought I was filiming them. (Unfortunately I wasn’t as was meeting the wife at New Steet Station and had just started a Find My search when at the lights). They didn’t go straight away when next lights went green until beeped at by the traffic behind. 

          • Mungecrundle
            August 1, 2022 at 4:18 pm
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            “as the driver looked like
            “as the driver looked like she might be somebodys Grandma I decided to leave it”

            Great advice. Only pick the fights you know you can win.

          • NOtotheEU
            August 1, 2022 at 4:25 pm
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            Mungecrundle wrote:

            “as the driver looked like she might be somebodys Grandma I decided to leave it” Great advice. Only pick the fights you know you can win.

            — Mungecrundle

            ???

          • HarrogateSpa
            August 1, 2022 at 6:00 pm
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            YEStotheEU.

            YEStotheEU.

    • OldRidgeback
      August 1, 2022 at 8:57 am
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      I’ve seen the video before

      I’ve seen the video before and it is amusing.

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    • panda
      August 1, 2022 at 9:14 am
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      I’m sure there was a similar

      I’m sure there was a similar one many years ago whereby an impatient driver tried to hurry some old lady who was crossing too slowly for their liking; she kicked the bumper and the airbags went off?  I’ll try to find it …

      … found it.  I can’t tell whether it was staged or not.

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2zgr_Gg11U

       

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      • brooksby
        August 1, 2022 at 9:39 am
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        panda wrote:

        … found it.  I can’t tell whether it was staged or not.

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2zgr_Gg11U

        — panda

        I really REALLY want that not to be staged 😀

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        • NOtotheEU
          August 1, 2022 at 12:19 pm
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          The airbags and the Porsche

          The Mustang airbag and the walk through Porsche video were both staged, both were very funny though.

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          • HarrogateSpa
            August 1, 2022 at 6:01 pm
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            YEStotheEU.

            YEStotheEU.

          • Rich_cb
            August 1, 2022 at 6:10 pm
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            Not fussed?
            Not fussed?

    • ErnieC
      August 1, 2022 at 6:52 pm
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      CyclingInGawler wrote:

      Re. “Crosswalk”; I’m sorry, but that’s the funniest thing I’ve seen in quite a while!

      — CyclingInGawler

      looks a tad staged to me but still funny. 

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  2. Hirsute
    August 1, 2022 at 9:10 am
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    From last night

    From last night

    needs a bit more hazard perception !

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    • brooksby
      August 1, 2022 at 10:03 am
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      That second one, with ‘going

      That second one, with ‘going through a deep puddle at speed’, was terrifying.  Can’t imagine what was going through the head of the driver of the oncoming vehicle…

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      • IanMSpencer
        August 1, 2022 at 11:23 am
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        I can, nothing – though in
        I can, nothing – though in reality there probably was a bit of “Landyitis”, but if I were the cammer, I’d have sent that footage to the police if there was a readable plate as it was certainly without due care and consideration, could so easily have caused the cammer to crash.

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    • pockstone
      August 1, 2022 at 2:30 pm
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      Love the John Shuttleworth

      Love the John Shuttleworth voiceover on that one.

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  3. brooksby
    August 1, 2022 at 11:12 am
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    Is it possible that the

    Is it possible that the cyclist didn’t realise that the Royal Parks Police are “real” police, and thought that they were just Percy the Park-Keeper?  Hence not cooperating…

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    • Rendel Harris
      August 1, 2022 at 12:50 pm
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      brooksby wrote:

      Is it possible that the cyclist didn’t realise that the Royal Parks Police are “real” police, and thought that they were just Percy the Park-Keeper?  Hence not cooperating…

      — brooksby

      You wouldn’t blame them, I have it on the authority of a real Met copper that up until 2005 the Royal Parks Constabulary (when the RPC became part of the Met) was where people went if they failed the entrance procedure for the Met, after 2005 they became Met officers by default, so if you meet one aged over about 37 s/he most likely was originally a Met reject, and my encounters with them have certainly tended to bear this out.

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  4. Mungecrundle
    August 1, 2022 at 11:33 am
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    “Back in the spring a tweet
    “Back in the spring a tweet was branded “tone-deaf” for boasting that one of the force’s officers had managed “not to jump a single red light or ride on a footpath” while cycling to work during a tube strike.”

    Why are we criticising the Police for this policy? Sure, they might start with small wins but imagine how much safer people will feel when they can work up to confidently say that all of their Officers managed to get to work without abducting, raping and murdering a member of the public.

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  5. nosferatu1001
    August 1, 2022 at 12:59 pm
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    So right above a permanent

    So right above a permanent plaque saying “cycle here” you have temporary paint saying “no cycling”. How is that fair?!

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    • brooksby
      August 1, 2022 at 1:17 pm
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      Isn’t it a bicycle in a red

      Isn’t it a bicycle in a red circle, so ‘cycling prohibited’?

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      • BalladOfStruth
        August 1, 2022 at 2:27 pm
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        brooksby wrote:

        Isn’t it a bicycle in a red circle, so ‘cycling prohibited’?

        — brooksby

        Yeah, I think it’s meant to be this sign, except it’s greyscale so it probably causes some confusion. I imagine that’s why the “no cycling” has been added too…

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        • IanMK
          August 1, 2022 at 2:47 pm
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          Surely a hot shot lawyer with

          Surely a hot shot lawyer with expertise in road safety could have got the cyclist off that fine. If only we could think of someone that fits that decription.

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          • brooksby
            August 1, 2022 at 3:22 pm
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            IanMK wrote:

            Surely a hot shot lawyer with expertise in road safety could have got the cyclist off that fine. If only we could think of someone that fits that decription.

            — IanMK

            You mean “a Top Lawyer (TM)”? 😀 😉

          • IanMSpencer
            August 1, 2022 at 4:23 pm
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            If it was a council park,

            If it was a council park, then there are all sorts of possiblities for trying an appeal, if the colour had been lost on the decals so you believed they were marking a cycle route and the writing looks so suspiciously amateurish that you assumed it was vandalism (see the exhibit from a couple of months ago of “No cycing” or whatever it said). Councils are compelled to be reasonable by law – not that they always are.

            However, I have a suspicion that Royal Parks are literally a law unto themselves and common sense and reasonableness might not legally be in their tradition, old charter or something. (I may of course be talking a load of old toot).

        • brooksby
          August 1, 2022 at 3:21 pm
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          I think it would have made

          I think it would have made more sense to have the roundel up on a post, though, not inset into the pavement… 

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  6. brooksby
    August 2, 2022 at 8:06 am
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    https://www.swindonadvertiser

    https://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/20587832.watch-moment-screaming-cyclist-thrown-car-bonnet/

    Motorist “clips” e-bike (hard enough to damage the bike) then throws the bike out of the way to carry on going.  Cyclist stands in front to stop him, so he drives into him and carries on with him on the bonnet.

    The judge said that whilst it was “an offence which clearly passes the custodial threshold”, he posed “absolutely no danger to the public”.  He got 12-month sentence suspended by 18 months, was banned from driving for one year and ordered to pass an extended re-test before he can get his licence back, and paid £500 victim compensation.

     

    (Meanwhile, in other news, a couple who buried their deceased dad deep in the Welsh woods in accordance with his wishes have both been sent straight to jail for four months each.  Discuss).

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    • chrisonabike
      August 2, 2022 at 9:04 am
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      These new (old) burial

      These new (old) burial customs always attract controversy:

      Perhaps because he named his infant son Jesus Christ, but more likely because he tried to cremate him on top of a particularly scenic local hill in 1884, Dr William Price faced some rather fierce opposition from his neighbours.

      https://www.affertons.co.uk/2022/03/04/the-controversial-birth-of-cremation-in-the-uk/

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    • chrisonabike
      August 2, 2022 at 9:08 am
      0

      Personally when I’m gone you

      Personally when I’m gone you can stuff me and mount me, posed making a suitable gesture, on a pole outside your least favourite local party / council office / parliament with a sign saying “it’s what he would have wanted” *.  Because I’ll be dead…

      * Bonus points if this leads to specific legislation to deal with such protests.

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    • hawkinspeter
      August 2, 2022 at 9:17 am
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      brooksby wrote:

      https://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/20587832.watch-moment-screaming-cyclist-thrown-car-bonnet/

      Motorist “clips” e-bike (hard enough to damage the bike) then throws the bike out of the way to carry on going.  Cyclist stands in front to stop him, so he drives into him and carries on with him on the bonnet.

      The judge said that whilst it was “an offence which clearly passes the custodial threshold”, he posed “absolutely no danger to the public”.  He got 12-month sentence suspended by 18 months, was banned from driving for one year and ordered to pass an extended re-test before he can get his licence back, and paid £500 victim compensation.

      (Meanwhile, in other news, a couple who buried their deceased dad deep in the Welsh woods in accordance with his wishes have both been sent straight to jail for four months each.  Discuss).

      — brooksby

      Speaking for myself, I live in constant fear that I’ll be buried alive in Welsh woods, so that’s probably the biggest danger to the public.

      What’s that? He was dead when they buried him? Oh, well maybe that’s just their first taste of wild burying and it’s almost certain they’ll escalate to live burials if not locked up.

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      • chrisonabike
        August 2, 2022 at 9:34 am
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        Wouldn’t the biggest danger

        Wouldn’t the biggest danger to the public be if they buried you … but you came back?

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        • hawkinspeter
          August 2, 2022 at 9:46 am
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          chrisonatrike wrote:

          Wouldn’t the biggest danger to the public be if they buried you … but you came back?

          — chrisonatrike

          It’s always a risk

          https://i.imgur.com/KReSTP8.jpeg

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        • brooksby
          August 2, 2022 at 9:51 am
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          chrisonatrike wrote:

          Wouldn’t the biggest danger to the public be if they buried you … but you came back?

          — chrisonatrike

          TBH I was really glad that didn’t come out of the coronavirus pandemic.  At the beginning, there was a lot of newswatching, watching for the first reports of the dead rising…  Luckily, apocalypse averted 😀

          This time…

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          • chrisonabike
            August 2, 2022 at 10:27 am
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            brooksby wrote:

            …watching for the first reports of the dead rising…  Luckily, apocalypse averted 😀

            This time…

            — brooksby

            But are you sure it’s not to early to say?

    • joe9090
      August 2, 2022 at 9:29 am
      0

      brooksby wrote:

      (Meanwhile, in other news, a couple who buried their deceased dad deep in the Welsh woods in accordance with his wishes have both been sent straight to jail for four months each.  Discuss).

      — brooksby

      Correction: they only got a suspended sentence.

      Daughter in court for way she buried dad in woodland for pagan funeral

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      • brooksby
        August 2, 2022 at 9:48 am
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        Mea culpa – I must have

        Mea culpa – I must have misread it.

        But still – four months for burying a body in the woods vs twelve months for driving a living person along on the bonnet of your car in anger….  Doesn’t really seem proportionate, to me.

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        • Hirsute
          August 2, 2022 at 9:55 am
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          I don’t see how he is allowed

          I don’t see how he is allowed to drive if he is PSTD and is triggered so easily. How are the public protected ?

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    • NOtotheEU
      August 2, 2022 at 1:23 pm
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      brooksby wrote:

      The judge said that whilst it was “an offence which clearly passes the custodial threshold”, he posed “absolutely no danger to the public”.

      — brooksby

      He doesn’t pose any danger to the public, just those stupid, annoying, entiled cyclists and no one likes them do they?

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  7. brooksby
    August 2, 2022 at 8:11 am
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    https://metro.co.uk/2022/08

    The ‘world’s shortest cycle lane’ is 8ft long – and sends bikes onto pavement

    Birmingham City Council claim it is not a cycle lane but ‘guidance’ for cyclists.

    A spokesperson said: ‘These are not cycle lanes but are guidance for cyclists to leave the carriageway and dismount.

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  8. joe9090
    August 2, 2022 at 9:16 am
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    I got stopped many moons ago

    I got stopped many moons ago in Kensington Gardens wheeling along a path (at a jogging pace) and got pounced on by an agressive WPC. After some discussion and apologies, she let me off with just a verbal warning not to do it again. I have a feeling the cyclist who was fined could have achieved the same result if they had wanted to…

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    • Simon E
      August 2, 2022 at 9:59 am
      0

      joe9090 wrote:

      I got stopped many moons ago in Kensington Gardens wheeling along a path (at a jogging pace) and got pounced on by an agressive WPC. After some discussion and apologies, she let me off with just a verbal warning not to do it again.

      — joe9090

      A warning for jogging on a path…

      Was there a 5mph speed limit?

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      • joe9090
        August 2, 2022 at 1:36 pm
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        Duh wut? Wheeling = cycling.

        Duh wut? Wheeling = cycling.
        There, I hope I clarified your comprehension!

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        • Rendel Harris
          August 2, 2022 at 2:11 pm
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          joe9090 wrote:

          Duh wut? Wheeling = cycling.
          There, I hope I clarified your comprehension!

          — joe9090

          I think the vast majority of readers would interpret “wheeling” to mean pushing your bike; in British English wheeling is defined as pushing or pulling a wheeled object. In American English it is sometimes used for cycling but I’ve never heard it or read it used by a British person, so quite understandable that a British reader would not get your meaning.

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        • Simon E
          August 2, 2022 at 5:15 pm
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          joe9090 wrote:

          Duh wut? Wheeling = cycling.
          There, I hope I clarified your comprehension!

          — joe9090

          Wheeling is not cycling in most people’s usage. In addition your poor grammar did not aid my comprehension.

          Wheeling = pushing one’s cycle alongside, rather like wheeling a trolley, and not astride the vehicle e.g. https://www.cyclehoop.com/product/access-infrastructure/bike-wheeling-ramp/

          Scooting is in between that and cycling (i.e. astride a bicycle), usually with one foot on the pedal nearer you.

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Police sergeant claims “under current legislation e-bikes are deemed to be motor vehicles” after targeted crackdown on illegal “nuisance” vehicles
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60somethingcyclist 10 hours ago

@chrisonabike True, things went back to normal once the pandemic was over. In this case, however the problems are still ongoing, and aren't likely to be resolved in the near future. If anything, they're going to get worse. Food shortages are predicted because of the effect that the heatwave has had on crops. This is bound to push prices up. The Straits of Hormuz aren't likely to reopen anytime soon and the strategic oil reserves are running low. Russia is having to import petrol because its own refineries have been badly hit, so that's even more competition for an even more scarce resource. I think that more and more people are going to see cycling as a way of cutting household bills.

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chrisonabike 11 hours ago

I think if "grown up" cyclists * are quibbling about ASLs we've very much missed the road safety point anyway. (Not to mention the wider "better transport choices" picture). ASLs are poor-to-useless "cycling infra", even for their design intent. If the idea is "for less confident cyclists" then a design that requires that you re-position in front of the motor traffic - waiting to accelerate - seems unhelpful. Of course they're only designed to help when traffic is stopped, and you can reach the front in time and if vehicles aren't already occupying them. As we're noting here drivers frequently ignore them - whether that be deliberate, a lack of road craft, because they were concentrating on following the vehicle in front, or because the paint has rubbed off. * Aside: shouldn't cycling also be safe and accessible for kids? Or should they only be allowed to do this when accompanied by sufficient qualified adults? Or be limited to parks and otherwise being driven around by their carers? Perhaps there is another way...?

in: Camera cyclist Dave Sherry laughed at by GB News presenters for correctly pointing out speed limits do not apply to cyclists during 20mph ‘debate’
Ben Graham 13 hours ago

Hi Bungle, I saw you follow-up comment. I can't imaging there's a tolerance of 4 seconds on camera enforced lights, seems an odd decision - an offence is committed if a vehicle starts crossing on a red, any tolerance is discretionary. There does seem to be some odd thinking about 'advanced stop lines' where the rules relating to them are identical to a regular stop line, as explained correctly elsewhere in the Highway Code. It does seem a regular offence. Where I live it doesn't help that some of them are very faint and disappear in rain.

in: Camera cyclist Dave Sherry laughed at by GB News presenters for correctly pointing out speed limits do not apply to cyclists during 20mph ‘debate’
Rendel Harris 13 hours ago

@ktache Not sure he's totally ruled out of the worlds yet (though I think it would be best if he doesn't), normal recovery time is about eight weeks but surgery can halve that...depending on the nature of the break he could be just about fit to ride by the time of the elite men's race, but he'll have missed a lot of training. Hopefully his managers and team will persuade him to wait until Lombardia, if not just to knock it off for the rest of the year.

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Rendel Harris 14 hours ago

@Bungle_52 The Met told me a couple of years ago when rejecting a submission that they needed a clear three seconds of red visible before they would consider it for an RLJ prosecution. I pointed out to them that this meant that at 30 mph a driver could see a light change to red from 40 metres away and still get through without sanction, or 55 m if they accelerated to 40 as most do. They just replied "them's our rules..."

in: Camera cyclist Dave Sherry laughed at by GB News presenters for correctly pointing out speed limits do not apply to cyclists during 20mph ‘debate’
Bungle_52 15 hours ago

@Ben Graham I have just checked the footage from my report. The driver crosses the 1st stop line 4 seconds after the light turns red. All on camera from behind the vehicle. No further action. So I assume the margin is at least 4 seconds.

in: Camera cyclist Dave Sherry laughed at by GB News presenters for correctly pointing out speed limits do not apply to cyclists during 20mph ‘debate’
chrisonabike 15 hours ago

Oh, and active travel funding per head (in England at least) is laughable compared to other places. Plus it is delivered intermittently. It's more like a Blue Peter contest...

in: “Impressively dumb” narrow cycle lane criticised as “box ticking exercise” after repainted lane barely covers double yellow lines; Steep gravel climb awaits Vuelta peloton + more on the live blog
chrisonabike 15 hours ago

Yup, I see those opportunities being missed all the time in Edinburgh. When it gets really bad, dig it all up and put it back down again how it was. Contrast with what seems to happen in NL - when things are dug up the whole thing seems to get a "let's redo this according to the current standards" treatment. They even coordinate with the utilities, so that after a refurb the street isn't immediately dug up again because of leaking pipes / we suddenly realised the new estate being planned for round the corner will want broadband etc. Pros and cons of course - you may wait longer there for changes as smaller changes may be deferred until a major redo is due. (Though in the UK case you likely wouldn't get them at all...) It seems we "can't have nice things" in the UK in part because a) we have greater motor traffic speeds/volumes spead across "streets" / within urban areas b) the funding and organisational responsibility differs. Are we in the "Sam Vimes boots" territory (being too poor to afford better products which not only save money over time but actually work)? There is long term money pressure on LAs and it seems that due to poor construction and maintenance we have to regularly pour money into (pot-)holes in the road. And it seems there's no budget to check up on or enforce adequate standards from utilities work or even private building.

in: “Impressively dumb” narrow cycle lane criticised as “box ticking exercise” after repainted lane barely covers double yellow lines; Steep gravel climb awaits Vuelta peloton + more on the live blog
ktache 16 hours ago

Shame about the world champs defence. Speedy recovery. https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/aug/30/tadej-pogacar-vuelta-a-espana-cycling-crash-hospital-stage-nine

in: “Impressively dumb” narrow cycle lane criticised as “box ticking exercise” after repainted lane barely covers double yellow lines; Steep gravel climb awaits Vuelta peloton + more on the live blog
mdavidford 18 hours ago

I believe the accepted form for this kind of argument is "I know you are, you said you were, but what am I?".

in: Camera cyclist Dave Sherry laughed at by GB News presenters for correctly pointing out speed limits do not apply to cyclists during 20mph ‘debate’

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