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Then again, they also claimed that they were building a stadium and I’ve not seen that happen yet.
The Arena? I think Marvin’s kicked that one into the long grass.
There’s plenty of long grass in Filton…
Yeah, I’d go and help cut it, but there’s no decent transport links…
Rich_cb wrote:
Have a little look at this diagram, does your numbness correlate to any of the shaded areas shown? It doesn’t have to be exact, anatomy is quite variable.I’m glad you said that as I was worried about not having four legs and five feet.
In my experience, cramp on the upper, outer calf is caused by the Bavarian Illuminati, where as cramp on the upper outer calf is due to the influance of The Lizard People – Pains in the buttocks are entirely the work of the ‘deep state’ embeded within the CIA.I would suggest that pain the toes can probably be put down to Prince Philip acting in leauge with David Brailsford.
I’m sorry…… I think I might have spent too long on the internet – I’m going to have a quite lie down now……
You’re close, but you’re not looking deep enough.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jj2Vw5nbZfE
I just checked in on the
I just checked in on the Bristol Post to see if there were any updates to this. It seems that they (Bristol City Council) are claiming that it’s just a timing issue as they are planning to relocate the bike parking to the other side of the road and that they are reducing the number of advertising sites from 64 to 18.
Then again, they also claimed that they were building a stadium and I’ve not seen that happen yet.
I think it’s fairly obvious
I think it’s fairly obvious that Bristol City Council actually hates cyclists despite it being part of their own strategy to increase the number of journeys by bike.
Looking at the “infrastructure” that they’ve put in, not a single bit is of a sufficient quality to be used (possiible exaggeration).
Don’t believe the BS surrounding the pitfalls of wider tyres on narrow rims …I’ve been running some tubeless 3 inch tyres on my mountain bike for years without any issues and they look just ridiculous on some old shimano rims. Slow as shit, though.
Not particularly looking forward to my commute home tonight. 18kmh headwind all the way, 28c!That sounds like the conditions I’ve had all week. I just try to pace myself and enjoy the sunshine and try not to look at my speed (or lack of).
I’m less bothered about their
I’m less bothered about their legality and more concerned with how many collisions they are responsible for. After all, plenty of cars are legal and yet can cause devastating injuries/death, so I’d go with a harm reduction philosophy.
My concerns with them on shared use paths is that (in my mind) e-bike riders are likely to be less experienced than a typical fast cyclist and may be going quicker than they can react/control and thus cause incidents. However, collisions are going to be bad for the e-bike rider and they are unlikely to continue taking risks when they’ve left a lot of skin on the tarmac, so I reckon the riders will end up being more careful.
In short, I’d much rather see people on e-bikes than in cars, so I’m quite happy to turn a blind eye to whether they are going too fast (sounds like a challenge to keep up with them – maybe hang off their rear wheel and double up on the injury risks).
Anti-cycling lobby? They don’t seem to use much logic, so I couldn’t care less about what new thing they’re bleating about.
Actually, seriously, as the OP, I’d like to draw a line under this in much the same way Bryan Adams withdrew his single ‘Everything I Do’ from sale after 16 weeks at the top of the charts. Let’s give it a break and start again on helmets another time.Haven’t Rapha launched something everyone can bitch on about for being grossly overvalued or something like that?
You could always decide to delete the topic. (Please don’t, I’m saving my “Likes” for my retirement).
Why won’t this topic die.We keep beating it over the head, but it seems to have some kind of protective layer.
Cracked a helmet once, dropping it from waist height on to a flat surface. Are there any physics experts that could calculate the sort of energy a 250gram object falling from 1m would generate before impact? I can’t help but feel that it wouldn’t be a lot.Well thinking back to GCSEs
F =MA =0.25 x 9.81 = 2.45Newtons of force
Close, but not quite the right equation there.
I found this site – The Splat Calculator: https://www.angio.net/personal/climb/speed.html
It seems to have trouble with putting in 0.25 Kgs, but it gives this equation for calculating the energy of a free-falling object:
Energy at splat time: 1/2 * mass * velocityÂČ = mass * g * height
which gives: 0.25Kg x 9.8m/sÂČ x 1m = 2.45KgmÂČ/sÂČ = 2.45Nm
Oh – that’s your answer (excepting the units), but only because we’re using 1m as a height.
Do you have to be sarcastic when all i did was offer my own view ?Clearly you have a dislike for my previous profession, which is entirely your choice so i’ll leave it at that.
You must be new here.
More seriously, police get a bad reputation with cyclists as they are seen to be pushing a helmet-wearing agenda. It seems that when a cyclist is involved in a RTC, one of the first questions asked is “were you wearing a helmet?” no matter the relevance to the situation.
It also doesn’t help when cyclists are pulled over by police for imaginary reasons (e.g. cycling 2 abreast) although that’s quite rare in this country which might be to do with the under-resourcing of police.
Wouldn’t it make sense with shared paths to have some sort of protocol like on a 2 way road? i.e. stay on the left unless overtaking.Yes, that does make sense – to cyclists. As far as I know, there’s hardly any “walking” rules (apart from a couple of mentions in the Highway Code and they only seem to apply to road use) so it’s not reasonable to expect peds to follow protocol – especially kids. This is why shared use paths aren’t very good for cyclists wishing to go fast.
A few weeks ago, I was
A few weeks ago, I was searching EBay for a Di2 cable and happened across a whole bunch of complete bikes up for auction at very low starting prices. I put on a couple of ÂŁ50 bids on a pinnarello and some other top brand model just to see what would happen (these were complete Di2 bikes, mind). I spotted that the same seller had about 10 different bikes all with really low bids and no previous history of selling bikes so I assumed the person’s account had been hacked. I checked the next day and all those auctions/bids had been removed.
You just saved yourself a lot of trouble getting your ÂŁ85 back. If it’s that good a deal, then it’s obviously a con.
I couldn’t agree more with those who have written in supporting the use of helmets. I watched the video, which tries to give a balanced view. I feel some things are so self-evident that they do not require evidence! In any type of impact to the head, the better protected the head the less severe or absent the head injury. Accidents do not occur only in road traffic situations. A fall can occur while swerving, sneezing or failing to see an obstruction. In such a situation I know I’d rather be with than without a helmet!Many years ago I watched on a children’s programme a watermerlon being dropped on the floor from a height and spattering all over the place. Another melon was dropped from the same height inside a cycle helmet. It came out intact!
Do you wear one whilst walking?
no I carry one, so it’s ready to deploy when using stairs and crossing the road obvs đ
but its a lot harder to do this while riding
my big dimena is how to address the increased risk in the shower, when i need to wash my hair
???
(I do actually wear one while cycling, not because I think it will save my life, but because concussion would be quite annoying, as would severe grazing of one of my ears.)
The obvious answer is to shave your head or to KickStart a helmet with some kind of rinse cycle.
This last crash was the one that convinced me to NOT wear a helmet for my daily commute. Not because it failed to protect my head, not because I got a neck strain, but because it happened while I was taking risks. After the crash I got checked out by the paramedics and continued. I slowed right down partly because my chance of qualifying was out the window, partly because I had lost a fair bit of skin elsewhere but mostly because I did not want to risk crashing again with a damaged lid. I realised that wearing a helmet causes me to ride in a more aggressive manner, however sub-conscious that may be. Each of my helmet destroying crashes have been self inflicted whilst partaking in risky behaviour.For many years I rode a motorbike and I too shared your view that that when I felt ‘safe’ in my leathers and boots I rode more wrecklessly that when I felt vulnerable in Jeans & trainers.
However I eventually realised that my safety wasn’t one directional and I couldn’t control others behavour. As such I realised that I could just as easily have an accident even when I drove less wrecklessly.
As such it was preferable to wear safety gear.
Seeing that helmets obviously reduce head injuries on impact I’d say it is foolish not to wear one.
I’m assuming you didn’t bother watching the video about helmets (maybe you watched it and were too stupid to understand it).
Yeah of course I just shared my opinion just so you could retort in this childish manner, dickhead.
Maybe you need to re-watch the video to get a better grasp on the finer points of the debate.
The important factors to consider is whether wearing a helmet makes you more likely to be in a crash. There is some good evidence that drivers do overtake with less space on average when a rider is wearing a helmet and also good evidence that wearing a helmet makes the rider take more risks. The extra protection that a helmet provides seems to be out-weighed by these other effects, though there is variable evidence of this as we can only really measure numbers of head injuries over time versus the ratio of helmet to non-helmet wearing cyclists.
I do appreciate the irony of you referring to my childish retort and then resorting to name calling.