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I’m still waiting on them to fix the Cheesegrater Bridge.
Privately owned, the developer never really wanted to let bikes on there anyway… You do know that’ll *never* happen, right?
I reckon it’ll happen, but will take a long time (already has taken a long time). Presumably, the lorry’s insurance company is arguing about how much it’ll cost to fix, so they’re getting a few quotes.
Sod the insurance! They ought to go after the trucking idiot personally! (didya see what I did there?)
I doubt that the trucker would have the money to repair the bridge (hundreds of thousands?) so they’d never fix it if they went down that route.
I know. I just wanted to use my “trucking idiot” pun
I’ll have you know that this is a serious cycling forum with no room for puns, jokes or other amusements.
By the way, just spotted an update on the Cheesegrater: https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/cheesegrater-bridge-near-bristol-temple-1857303
The insurance claim will shortly be settled!
(I hope it’s soon as I don’t like the other bridge so much)
Does anyone else use the tactic to move latterally across the road when approaching a car at a junction?My theory is that: 1) the different axis of movement give the driver’s brain another movement to detect, movement being the thing that brains are more developed to sense.
And 2) I think that being more towards the middle of the road gives me better scope for avoiding them if they do pull out, perhaps I have a better angle to turn left and skirt round their backside.
I do that whenever it looks like they might not stop or are going unusually fast.
You have to be careful that you don’t suddenly veer into the path of someone behind you, though, so I don’t do it if I’m not sure what traffic is behind me (tiny mirror for the win).
My thinking is that I’m increasing the time for me to brake/evade them if they do pull out and I can give them a hard stare whilst doing so (see picture a few posts above).
Like this ?:So you’re the guy who’s been following me, then?
Just an observation, but when I changed from standard blackish sunglasses on my commute into London to a pair with gold mirror lenses people didn’t pull out on me as much – ‘eye’ contact seemed better B-)It’s well worth trying to make eye contact with drivers who are about to pull out. If you can make eye contact, then they’ve definitely seen you and hopefully won’t pull out anyway (I’ve never had a driver pull out on me when I’ve made prior eye contact).
Sorry but this is absolutely untrue, do not ever, ever rely on this bit of misinformation. So many times people including myself have looked at drivers (and indeed pedestrians) and thought they were looking at you but far too often you’ve got your invisibility cloak on and they don’t see you at all.
NEVER believe that a person has seen you because you’ve ‘eyeballed’ them!
Maybe my stare is intimidating enough to stop them in their tracks, but so far it has worked for me. I don’t assume that they won’t still pull out, so I do maintain caution.
It wouldn’t surprise me if some drivers see cyclists and yet don’t care at all and still pull out despite making eye contact, so you make a valid point. I still think it’s worthwhile trying to make eye contact, though.
…angry ranting at Steve Austin…your arguments are that of a madman. non sensical, circular, drifting and completely without any possibility of being anywhere near wrong as they cover so many wild tangents, that you will always hit something right with your daft splatter gun posts. discussion with you is like playing chess with a pigeon, you will knock over all the pieces, shit all over the board, and strut about like you won.
i dont even think you’re a real account. just a shill account meant to drum up interest in this site.
There have been many accusations cast at BehindTheBikesheds, but I think we can all agree that he is not a shill for this site.
Just an observation, but when I changed from standard blackish sunglasses on my commute into London to a pair with gold mirror lenses people didn’t pull out on me as much – ‘eye’ contact seemed better B-)It’s well worth trying to make eye contact with drivers who are about to pull out. If you can make eye contact, then they’ve definitely seen you and hopefully won’t pull out anyway (I’ve never had a driver pull out on me when I’ve made prior eye contact).
good tips and advice here folks, thanks for all the help. Definitely need to look into some of this stuff. I figured my triban 520 wheels wouldn’t be the ideal steal for thieves but as someone else said, it if can be quickly stolen people will take anything!The wheels are not the target for the thief, they take the wheels to imobilise the bike and then come back later when it is quieter to take the rest of the bike.
I would recommend getting security skewers, they are a good deterent but you will still want to use a cable in high risk areas. The hex key ones are not much of a deterent and the ones with a special tool needed may put you in a situation where you get a puncture and you forgot your tool. The gravity ones are probably the best to go for. With these you just need to put your bike upside down and you can remove the skewers with a hex tool. These work because if you lock your bike up securely a thief would not be able to turn your bike upside down.
Hope that helps
I once had a pair of wheels taken from my mountain bike left at Temple Meads station (just by the transport police office) and a pair of crappy ones left instead (one of them had been almost fitted).
I’m not convinced that these
I’m not convinced that these studies are of much use.
There’s a cognitive theory that basically says that brains are always running predictive models and things that don’t fit the predictions cause spikes in brain activity and presumably attract more attention. This would suggest that it’s the unexpected that will draw attention rather than specific colours, so if everyone wears hi-viz, people will just expect to see it and thus not focus attention on it.
(Here’s a nicely readable summary of the ideas: https://www.quantamagazine.org/to-make-sense-of-the-present-brains-may-predict-the-future-20180710/)
The trick to being seen is thus to behave erratically. The number of car drivers that will complain about cyclists weaving dangerously would re-enforce this view as they can’t usually spot cyclists that behave predictably.
That’s the rationalisation that I use for wearing a squirrel suit and cutting up as many cars as possible.
I’m still waiting on them to fix the Cheesegrater Bridge.Privately owned, the developer never really wanted to let bikes on there anyway… You do know that’ll *never* happen, right?
I reckon it’ll happen, but will take a long time (already has taken a long time). Presumably, the lorry’s insurance company is arguing about how much it’ll cost to fix, so they’re getting a few quotes.
Sod the insurance! They ought to go after the trucking idiot personally! (didya see what I did there?)
I doubt that the trucker would have the money to repair the bridge (hundreds of thousands?) so they’d never fix it if they went down that route.
I’m still waiting on them to fix the Cheesegrater Bridge.Privately owned, the developer never really wanted to let bikes on there anyway… You do know that’ll *never* happen, right?
I reckon it’ll happen, but will take a long time (already has taken a long time). Presumably, the lorry’s insurance company is arguing about how much it’ll cost to fix, so they’re getting a few quotes.
The only shared space that I’ve seen is the little part behind Bristol Temple Meads (just by the Gromit). Initially I thought it was a really dumb idea, but I’ve got used to the idea of being more relaxed and making sure that I don’t ride over people in my haste to catch a train.I think it’s just a matter of time before some kid runs out into the path of a cyclist or motorist and gets injured.
In the original drawings, all that new gubbins on the Centre was supposed to be shared space to make a wonderful friendly environment for pedestrians (and was supposed to look like Exhibition Road in London).
By the time they finished building it, they ended up with a normal – and very busy! – black tarmacced road right through the middle (from Baldwin Street to opposite the Hippodrome) with a single toucan crossing.
In the interests of full disclosure, I actually read about this Strategy in the Bristol Post, and they have a real bee in their bonnet about all of that work done on the Centre, and especially the bike lane and paved area around the Cenotaph. Mind you, as you know, they also hate it if the council builds separated infrastructure, so I’m not exactly sure what they want done…
I just saw that article on the Brizzle Post: https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/shared-spaces-stopped-because-danger-1841385
They still seem to be building that Temple Meads area (seems to be called “Friary” on google maps), so I wonder what they’ll do with that. It’s not a great are to try things out as there’s a lot of unpredictable foot traffic from the station on weekends and evenings (e.g. drunken stag parties).
I’m still waiting on them to fix the Cheesegrater Bridge.
The only shared space that I
The only shared space that I’ve seen is the little part behind Bristol Temple Meads (just by the Gromit). Initially I thought it was a really dumb idea, but I’ve got used to the idea of being more relaxed and making sure that I don’t ride over people in my haste to catch a train.
I think it’s just a matter of time before some kid runs out into the path of a cyclist or motorist and gets injured.
Have you tried turning it off and on again?Failing that, put it in a bag of rice.
That’s not helping!
clearly ‘cos there’s no squirrel in the picture. If that doesn’t work check with BTBS to see if there’s a helmet angle to the issue.
This seems to have fixed it.
Have you tried turning it off and on again?Failing that, put it in a bag of rice.
That’s not helping!
Have you tried turning it off
Have you tried turning it off and on again?
