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Commuting isn’t always fun
Commuting isn’t always fun and energising, so I’d recommend getting into a routine and just cycle out of habit. That way, you won’t be second-guessing yourself as to whether you want to cycle or not – you just cycle as a matter of course. Once it’s a habit, you’ll probably find yourself enjoying it more as your expectations will be lower (i.e. it’s just a ride to/from work rather than being a fun cycle).
I’ll bite: as others have said, how can we argue pointlessly about this matter unless we have some more detail on what the kid was doing or what the circumstances were of his being knocked off?(I mean, the photos make it look like a breeze-block dropped on his head, and no bike helmet would protect against that!)
The Mirror article makes the briefest possible mention of a van that was involved:
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/policewomans-powerful-warning-after-blood-12829176
There’s no mention of the circumstances, so we can only assume that the van driver was so shocked to see a cyclist without a helmet that they had to knock him off his bike to ensure that it wasn’t an hallucination.
Apparently, “he sustained an
Apparently, “he sustained an incredibly serious skull fracture as a result of not wearing a helmet” so being knocked off his bike was merely incidental.
I’d much rather base my opinions on the emotional reaction of a mum rather than look at all the accumulated evidence around helmet wearing from experts, statisticians and helmet designers.
@Legs_Eleven_Worcester –
@Legs_Eleven_Worcester – sounds like confirmation bias to me.
There’s certainly lots of cyclists around with poor road-craft, but I prefer to celebrate that. Each person wobbling precariously on their bike is a person not sat in a car and is someone getting health/fitness benefits.
It’s easy to predict that a cyclist is going to overtake a slow/stationary bus, so give them plenty of room to do so safely (which usually means slowing down to their speed for passing the bus and then zooming off afterwards).
Overtaking on the left is not a good idea (filtering excepted, though) and to be honest I’m surprised that you have more women doing that to you than men. The usual archetype is that male cyclists are the more aggressive/speed focused gender and the way you describe the undertake makes it sound like a move born out of frustration.
Anyhow, we want people with poor road skills to be going out and about on bikes rather than being cooped up in a deadly tonne of metal. Damage limitation – get as many idiots onto bikes as possible.
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 * velocity² = mass * g * height
which gives: 0.25Kg x 9.8m/s² x 1m = 2.45Kgm²/s² = 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.