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Looks like a fishtailing caravan to me. I always wonder if you get billed for any of the hassle and work this sort of thing causes.
Apparently, it’s being described as a collision between a lorry and a car towing a caravan. It’s creating a bit of a tailback.
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/m5-traffic-live-delays-car-5831276
All traffic being temporarily held and stationary traffic due to accident, a lorry and a car involved on M5 Southbound before J19 A369 Martcombe Road (Portishead).All traffic has been stopped as of 14:25 just after the Avonmouth Bridge. Camera images show the lorry diagonally across lanes one and two. A caravan is facing the wrong way in lane four.
Are you suggesting we shouldn’t care about cyclists’ offences unless and until we have eradicated motoring offences? I fully understand that cyclists pose a much lower risk to other road users, relative to drivers. But the risk of harm is not zero, as illustrated by my example above. Why can’t we try to make both drivers and cyclists better at the same time?I do think that offences should be dealt with according to the amount of danger caused to others and society. Currently, cycle offences seem to be extremely harshly penalised compared to motoring offences and additionally, there is a large amount of abuse given to cyclists both on the roads and in popular discourse. I don’t think we need to increase the amount of abuse that cyclists are subjected to even if some of them are cycling recklessly.
Currently we’re in the situation where the car is king and even when cycle lanes are grudgingly put in place by councils, they seem to be ripped out even quicker. This is while there’s increasing indication that climate change has reached or about to reach the tipping point of no return (i.e. large areas of the world are likely to become unlivable and there will be large numbers of people having their homes destroyed by “freak” weather events) and we also seem to have an epidemic of obesity and poor health brought about by people’s lack of exercise.
What we should be focussing on is encouraging as many people as possible to take up active travel (maybe just swapping a journey here or there with walking/cycling/scootering) and what we don’t need to be doing is creating a climate of abuse and dissent amongst us. There’s also the tribal problem of assuming that all cyclists are a group and as such need to be policing each other (c.f. war crimes of group responsibility).
Personally, I think we should have a change in the road laws regarding cyclists. Implement something like the Idaho Stop whereby red traffic lights can be treated as “Stop” signs (e.g. proceed with care only if your way is clear and give way to everything – that may be what you are seeing when cyclists go through established red lights) or at least allow turn-left-on-red with similar caveats (c.f. the U.S. turn right on red which also allows cars to do the same). I also think one way streets should allow two-way cycle traffic where there is room and it is safe to do so.
I think the problem is also exacerbated by the way roads are designed to prioritise motor traffic and there are often red lights that perform a meaningful function with large vehicles but are unnecessary for much smaller bicycles.
I’m surprised you’ve got any
I’m surprised you’ve got any breath left to shout at cyclists if you’re shouting at every single motorist that you see speeding
How about shouting something
How about shouting something at motorists that speed?
Don’t you hate it when there
Don’t you hate it when there’s a road sign, but no sign warning of the road sign?
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/m5-lorry-car-crash-live-5830500
Coincedentally, I’ve just
Coincidentally, I’ve just seen this article: https://arstechnica.com/cars/2021/08/musk-turns-on-teslas-latest-full-self-driving-beta-says-its-actually-not-great/
I did try to get some cheap
I did try to get some cheap bars like that from AliExpress once upon a time, but they had really poor build quality and cracked whilst tightening up the headset screws (with a torque wrench up to 5Nm). I then removed them without trying them as I’d lost any confidence in them.
These are a different brand and seller, but I wouldn’t trust them at that price.
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I found this on Hasbean:
I found this on Hasbean: https://www.hasbean.co.uk/collections/cleaning-products/products/urnex-cafiza
Haven’t tried it myself as I rarely make espresso and have odd hand-powered equipment for when I do (Nomad or Wacaco).
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Sorry, maybe I should have phrased my question a bit better. The road.cc blog is actually where I saw the video, but as it’s only five days not sure if people had seen it yet. I was just using the bullying van to illustrate my point. Should you always submit when someone pushes in – for safety’s sake – or does that “enable” people to do it all the more?I tend to hold my road position (or even make it more obviously primary) if I’m travelling at the same speed as traffic and am feeling confident, but if they sound aggressive (e.g. excessive acceleration up to that point) then I’d concede that battle. It seems to mainly happen on the approach to traffic lights where they’re probably assuming that a cyclist will filter on the inside of vehicles to get to the front (which I usually do), but it’s annoying when they misjudge your speed so they end up by the side of you.
I had a similar scenario this morning. I was keeping pace with a line of moving traffic and a small van was slowly overtaking me except there wasn’t enough space for him to fit between me and the car in front, so I maintained my speed and position and shot him a derisory look and a not-so-under-my-breathe “fack off” as I do not want to be cycling with a vehicle 1-2 feet by my side. I got back in front and then made sure that I was in primary enough so that he didn’t have room to try that again. I often go along that road and I have no problem with vehicles overtaking me along it, but I’m not having them box me in.
Id not be surprised, albeit based on my admittedly poor sample size, but the demographic of people I see on electric scooters are almost exclusively those who arent legally old enough to drive anyway, or those who most likely cant afford to own a car.Are you sure it isn’t that you’re so old that everyone else looks young?
No, I must have missed that.
No, I must have missed that.
I’m not so sure that it’s a complete fail, as it gets drivers more used to dealing with two-wheeled traffic. Unfortunately, a lot of scooter riders are now getting abuse from a minority of drivers (no surprise to us cyclists, then) which will undoubtedly add a chilling effect to people wanting to change how they commute. I’m hoping that as scooters become normalised, then more motorists might weigh up their finances and decide whether they really need to own a car or not.
I haven’t encountered a Tesla
I haven’t encountered a Tesla, but have seen a few electric cars and haven’t really noticed whether they’re driven well or not (which probably means they were well-driven).
The tyre noise is usually quite noticeable, though I have been surprised a couple of times by using my handlebar-end mirror and spotted a close vehicle that I hadn’t heard approach. Personally, I much prefer a quiet, non-fumey electric car to a noisy, fumey car.
I usually carry a few cable
I usually carry a few cable ties with me on my bike – you never know when they might be useful (e.g. impromptu snow tyres).
They’re most likely paying
They’re most likely paying for that privilege, though