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  • in reply to: Plastic rim strip issue? #1021549
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    hawkinspeter wrote:
    Sounds odd to me – I’d doubt that the plastic rim strip would cause a puncture. I’d guess it’s more likely to be some fragment of metal or glass that’s somehow got in.

    I couldn’t see anything. Each puncture was a millimetre or two long, and longitudinal to the tyre. It seems odd that the last time this tyre was opened before Friday’s puncture was three months and 1000 miles ago, so if it was the same bit of debris it took that long to make the first puncture, and less than 50 miles to make the next one.

    in reply to: Plastic rim strip issue? #1021545
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    Action shot.
    Action shot.

    https://cdn.road.cc/wp-content/uploads/roadcc/PXL_20240506_222135733.jpg

    in reply to: Plastic rim strip issue? #1021543
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    Also, this is not the cause,
    Also, this is not the cause, but there’s a pretty good burr here, and it’s disappointing that this one ugly spoke hole made it past QC. I ground it off with a Dremel after taking this photo.

    https://cdn.road.cc/wp-content/uploads/roadcc/PXL_20240507_013501400.jpg

    in reply to: Bollards: Why & What #1021537
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    A similar thing happened in

    A similar thing happened in Boston.

    in reply to: Bollards: Why & What #1021533
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    in reply to: Drivers and their problems #1004239
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    Hirsute wrote:
    Good job the telescope was on a massive bollard plinth otherwise a few KSIs.

    This kind of instant justice is even better than when a nearby police car turns on its flashing lights right after a driver goes through an [established] red light.

    andystow
    Hirsute wrote:

    She seemed a bit upset about a minor misjudgement that could have killed someone and is going to cause months of stress and inconvenience.

    in reply to: Drivers and their problems #1004175
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    Hirsute wrote:
    Usual nonsense in the comments

    “I understand his frustration but he leaves himself open to litigation. If a motorist, speeding or otherwise, reacts in a way which can be proven to have caused an accident then I’m afraid that this chap may find himself in front of the beak.”

    I doubt there’s any rule against a bird nesting box or bat house being yellow. Is there any bird/bat he could attract there that would make disturbing the box illegal?

    in reply to: Drivers and their problems #1004151
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    We’re doomed.

    We’re doomed.

    Silicon Valley roundabout has drivers in a spin.

    The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) said the intention was to reduce the severity of collisions and fatalities at the intersection.

    However, the first official report on its performance has recorded a crash at the roundabout every two and a half days on average, compared with every eight days before.

    Footage from the roundabout shows people driving round the British way – clockwise – and running into oncoming traffic, and others riding roughshod over the three-inch-high lane dividers to get where they think they need to be.

    in reply to: Drivers and their problems #1004051
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    Court case thrown out after
    Court case thrown out after attorney can’t find parking near courthouse.

    https://abovethelaw.com/2024/04/case-tossed-when-lawyer-cant-find-any-parking-near-the-courthouse/

    in reply to: Pictures of your Bike #685399
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    I couldn’t get that to work.

    I couldn’t get that to work.

    https://cdn.road.cc/wp-content/uploads/roadcc/mini.jpg

    in reply to: Pothole Claims – British Cyling, no dice #1020945
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    Rendel Harris wrote:

    Rendel Harris wrote:
    I wrote back to the council asking if I would face no sanction if I knocked somebody down when riding with malfunctioning brakes provided I could prove that I knew they were malfunctioning and intended to get them fixed, for some reason they never replied.

    in reply to: Manchester’s Tesco Value Susan Hall getting rinsed #1020883
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    brooksby wrote:
    It doesnt really matter what your house is worth unless you are planning on selling it or getting some sort of secured loan, IMO.  YMMV.

    I am planning on selling it within the next few years. I’m fortunate/unfortunate to live in a city with relatively low housing prices and have paid off my house. Mine has appreciated some in the ~20 years I’ve owned it, but if I move to nearly any other city it would buy maybe half of a smaller house.

    in reply to: Manchester’s Tesco Value Susan Hall getting rinsed #1020879
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    chrisonabike wrote:
    …and causing a SLUMP IN HOUSE PRICES!

    Any time I read “slump in house prices” I try to mentally replace it with “improved housing affordability.”

    Unless it’s my house, of course.

    in reply to: Drivers and their problems #1003797
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    hawkinspeter wrote:
    https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/driver-ignores-bridge-closure-signs-9196105

    A car crashed on the M48 Severn Bridge this afternoon after a driver foolishly ignored signs indicating that the bridge was closed. High wind speeds forced officials to close the bridge between Bristol and Wales this afternoon, Thursday, March 28, but that one driver decided that the closure did not apply to them and attempted to make the crossing anyway.

    Meanwhile, in Baltimore…

    Baltimore officials are in a frenzy as the Francis Scott Key Bridge has collapsed after being hit by a cargo ship. Search and rescue efforts are underway to locate people who might have fallen into the water during the collapse, and a key thoroughfare to the second busiest port on the eastern seaboard has been severed. But none of this has stopped people in cars who just need to get where they’re trying to go, no matter what.

     

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