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I don’t know if you can get
I don’t know if you can get them in the UK, but 3M Tegaderm come in very large sizes and work great. You just clean the wound well, carefully apply one, and leave it on for a week or so. Much less pain and scarring.
Trapped at home by an
Trapped at home by an elephant seal!
What should the UK do?
What should the UK do? Hopefully better than Australia.
My wife’s electric car, a
My wife’s electric car, a first generation Leaf, would qualify. And of course my MINI easily would.
Even my previous car, a 2006 Forester, would be okay.
Starting to think that we on here should all commit to taking a cycling holiday in Wales next year.I’m planning a LEJOG next year, but unfortunately the sensible routes don’t go through Wales. I will try to work in a visit before I get to my start at Land’s End.
“Next up Brian, the qualifiers from this heats round will be removing and refitting a rear Schwalbe Racer on a 6 speed Brompton with mudguards at the roadside in the rain. I don’t know where this is going to go. There could be tears before we get to the medals. Remember the call of shame home is instant DQ.”#beenthere
I’ve been there too. In the dark.
Why are people waiting at a
Why are people waiting at a bus stop “pedestrians”? Were they walking around to stay warm?
Not so lucky this timeFowey town centre blocked after lorry gets stuck between buildings
Not again…
https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/fowey-town-centre-blocked-after-8860278
“The lorry became stuck in Fowey around 12:40pm and has baffled onlookers ever since.”
Who would be baffled? The lorry is too wide, and it’s stuck. It’s obvious that it didn’t teleport there or fall from the sky.
If it was on the roof of a building, or upside-down, that might be baffling.
Half a mile is about 800m, which can be walked in well under 15minutes. #carboundWell, well under. I did 24 minute miles last weekend hiking on steep off-road paths carrying a 35 pound pack. Earlier in the day, 16:33 per mile with no pack. On flat ground, 800 m is probably seven minutes.
Here’s 18 minute miles, up a decent hill, with my less fit brother.
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I mean all credit to people in the US – that’s pretty much the world benchmark for King Car (bar maybe some bits of the middle east oil states) … in a lot of places the notion of adding *pedestrian* infra in towns and residential areas is a bit of a new thing…True for a lot of areas, but this is in an early 1900s neighbourhood / first ring suburb, so most of it does have pavements.
It’s about time they just pulled down that ‘woke’ bridge that’s getting in the way of hard-working, put-upon drivers. I bet it wears lycra in its spare time and joins Greta Thunberg’s protests.I wish I was a bridge, able to damage the cars of terrible drivers then be fully repaired afterwards. Or maybe more like this guy.
I have a Burley Travoy trailer as well. If you don’t need to transport kids it is a great option. Quickly attaches to any bike and folds down for storage. A big advantage is that you can take it into shops with you. It means that if a supermarket has the handheld self scanners, you can do 1 touch shopping from the supermarket shelf to the fridge/cupboard at home. You also don’t have to worry about the security of your shopping if you are going to multiple shops.Also use it for trips to the tip. Amazing how much you can carry using a few bungees.
Did you get Burley’s expensive bags for shopping into? If so, how do you like them? I haven’t pulled the trigger on those yet, I’ve just been lashing reusable shopping bags onto the trailer, but it’s a couple minutes of extra faff.
Some of it’s clearly not
Some of it’s clearly not needed, but when the direct route is a nightmare for cycling and there’s no reasonably direct (say, 15% more distance or less) it can be a game changer for cycling.
A friend of mine brought me a pamphlet last night, the neighborhood got a grant to improve this road that she lives on, and she asked if I was worried that the plan prioritised pedestrians over cyclists. I said I’d always put pedestrians first if there’s a conflict.
The plan is to add nice pavements, but there’s also talk of bike lanes. This road is a relatively quiet residential street, 40 feet (12 m) wide including the pavement, with stop signs every few blocks, an is already one of the most used in the area by me and many other cyclists according to the Strava heatmap. There’s a parallel four-lane road with fewer stops a quarter mile to the east for the drivists.
I’d rather have no bike infrastructure than the door zone bike lanes or sharrows they’re likely to put in.
The worst day for Exeter commuter traffic (it’s Wednesday)Exeter has the nation’s second-largest travel-to-work population
Mr Knight acknowledged that different days of the week now offer distinct challenges to ensure sure buses are on time and not impacted by congestion.
He explained that keeping buses to schedule all week would require a bespoke timetable for each day, but stated that this was “impossible” operationally and is not something that the firm is considering, because passengers expect a Monday-to-Friday schedule, with different timetables at weekends.
interesting to hear a bit about the impact on buses of too many cars – another issue you have to deny if you’re a car driver
https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/worst-day-exeter-commuter-traffic-8838596
Does Wednesday actually have more travel? Or is this a historical accident where traffic is worse on Wednesday which means the busses are slower so more people drive on Wednesdays and the traffic is worse so the busses are even slower so more people drive on Wednesdays?
Cannabis-filled van crashes into Chingford house with man insideAn occupant in his early 60s was treated for shoc
https://www.essexlive.news/news/essex-news/cannabis-filled-van-crashes-chingford-8837207
So apparently vans can’t drive [themselves] competently on THC either!