[David9694]

A new catch-all Tea Shop thread for those miscellaneous new stories that don’t quite fit with parking, crashing into buildings or trapped/prisoners in their homes. 

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[ktache]

A diamond disk will make

A diamond disk will make fairly short work of it and my Hiplock dx1000.

 

[chrisonabike]

It’s to spare the car blushes

It’s to spare the car blushes – presumably when they’re not crashing into buildings they sometimes get embarrassed by what their driver has done – and it would be unfair to out them for that?

[andystow]

David9694 wrote:

We need to stop listening to whingeing drivers. 

Anger as four Dover town centre streets to shut for Fastrack bus contraflow works

https://www.kentonline.co.uk/dover/news/it-s-insane-four-town-centre-streets-to-shut-over-next-fi-314091/

Doesn’t that red circle sign mean no buses and bicycles in both directions?

[brooksby]

OnYerBike wrote:

brooksby wrote:

[…]  Have bought a Litelok X1 lock (supposedly angle grinder proof…) […]

FWIW the Litelok X1 is angle grinder resistant, not angle grinder proof. It’s still a very good lock (it’s what I use daily!) but it can be cut eventually. It will last longer than any non-resistant D-lock and probably tough enough that most thieves won’t bother trying, but if someone really wanted to get through (and had sufficient time undisturbed, and potentially a spare cutting disc) they could. There’s a pretty comprehensive review here: https://www.bennetts.co.uk/bikesocial/reviews/products/security/motorcycle-chains-and-locks/litelok-x1-lock-review

Sorry – I’d meant that it was resistant enought that They’d probably not bother (which is practically the same thing as ‘-proof’, to all intents and purposes).  I totally understand that given enough time and a bag full of grinder discs, a thief can steal anything…

(edit) And the Litelok X1 is far more grinder resistant than the Kryptonites I’ve been using until now (a Forget-about-it and a Evolution Mini).

[OnYerBike]

brooksby wrote:

[…]  Have bought a Litelok X1 lock (supposedly angle grinder proof…) […]

FWIW the Litelok X1 is angle grinder resistant, not angle grinder proof. It’s still a very good lock (it’s what I use daily!) but it can be cut eventually. It will last longer than any non-resistant D-lock and probably tough enough that most thieves won’t bother trying, but if someone really wanted to get through (and had sufficient time undisturbed, and potentially a spare cutting disc) they could. There’s a pretty comprehensive review here: https://www.bennetts.co.uk/bikesocial/reviews/products/security/motorcycle-chains-and-locks/litelok-x1-lock-review

[hawkinspeter]

brooksby wrote:

Echo wrote:

The complainant claimed because the registration plates and faces had not been pixelated, it was a breach of the code of conduct. 

If you’ve done nothing wrong etc etc.

I don’t understand the obsession with pixellating number plates – if the car is obviously parked illegally/inconsiderately, or is being driven in a dangerous manner, then they deserve the recognition IMO.

Also, there’s often issues where the owner of a specific car denies knowing who was driving it at the time of an incident, so surely the number plate doesn’t actually identify an individual?

There’s also the fact that number plates are easily visible in public places and so there should be no expectation of privacy from the vehicle owner.

[brooksby]

David9694 wrote:

Councillor ‘does job’ (TIFTFY)

https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/24635829.bcp-councillor-investigation-filming-motorists/

Echo wrote:

The complainant claimed because the registration plates and faces had not been pixelated, it was a breach of the code of conduct. 

If you’ve done nothing wrong etc etc.

I don’t understand the obsession with pixellating number plates – if the car is obviously parked illegally/inconsiderately, or is being driven in a dangerous manner, then they deserve the recognition IMO.

[brooksby]

chrisonabike wrote:

brooksby wrote:

I went there the other day to collect my new Cycle to Work bike 

What have you got?

Their Classic Lightweight with an optional triple chainset (so, 3 x 9 gears).  Have bought a Litelok X1 lock (supposedly angle grinder proof…) but I’m waiting for Proofide and security skewers before I actually start riding it in.

[brooksby]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce9j10kd3jpo

Driver complains that she didn’t get sent penalty charges for illegal parking closer to the dates that she admits she illegally parked… 

Miss Hussain started using the car park, which belongs to a takeaway but is managed by Civil Enforcement, as it was opposite Kirklees College’s Dewsbury campus.

The car park is signposted as being for the takeaway’s customers only and limits drivers to stops of no more than an hour.

Miss Hussain, from Batley, said she had been advised to park there by someone at the college and that she was “oblivious” to the signage at the time, believing she could legitimately leave her car.

Although she accepted she was in breach of the restrictions, she has questioned why she wasn’t sent the fines at the time the offences occurred, as she would have then stopped using the car park.

[David9694]

We need to stop listening to

We need to stop listening to whingeing drivers. 

Anger as four Dover town centre streets to shut for Fastrack bus contraflow works

https://www.kentonline.co.uk/dover/news/it-s-insane-four-town-centre-streets-to-shut-over-next-fi-314091/

[David9694]

Councillor ‘does job’ (TIFTFY

Councillor ‘does job’ (TIFTFY)

https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/24635829.bcp-councillor-investigation-filming-motorists/

[chrisonabike]

brooksby wrote:

brooksby wrote:

I went there the other day to collect my new Cycle to Work bike 

What have you got?

[David9694]

HoarseMann wrote:

Heavy traffic “forces” driver to break the law…

https://www.gazette-news.co.uk/news/24631810.colchester-woman-forced-break-law-due-traffic-issues/

Her journey of 0.5 miles is a 10 min walk, 3 min cycle or 4 min drive! (Colchester Institute to Rawstorn Rd).

And this is the way it will head as the number of cars grows – drivers, already seeing compliance as optional, will increasingly see doing things like this as necessity. 

[chrisonabike]

More than just “problems” …

More than just “problems” … probably should be in “Drink drivers and their lack of life bans”:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clyz07rd129o

It’s enough to make you believe the UK has “gone woke”!  Here’s a man of advanced years, recklessly, wildly drunk in “charge” of a truck (so potential to take a lot of people with him), tries to flee from the police … clearly isn’t one of life’s winners but yet our laws can’t see him deprived of his right to drive for life.  Presumably that would be inhumane!

(Or they also realise that there’s precious little keeping people to their driving bans so they’re more like “suggestions”?  But in that case why bother to order a ban at all?)

[brooksby]

This is where Temple Cycles

Talking about pavement parking:

This is where Temple Cycles are based in Bristol – https://maps.app.goo.gl/piQ1xM9S8V7kQ3RGA – their building is at the end on the right.

I went there the other day to collect my new Cycle to Work bike  

I got the bus to the nearest stop then walked to their building.  Except as a pedestrian you have to walk down the middle of the road, as you can see from the picture.

Not Temple’s fault, I know, but clearly the overarching policy around there is, “Nobody’s going to be walking around here, so we don’t need no stinking footways!”.

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