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Car flips onto roof in crash
Car flips onto roof in crash near Bristol hospital https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/car-flips-onto-roof-crash-9605690
slc wrote:
Looking forward to not queueing/filtering round bedminster bridges.I often have to navigate that massive roundabout. The biggest problem I have is with drivers using a lane on the left when they want to take the third exit and meanwhile I’m using the right-most lane which means that some of them are undertaking me as I’m trying to turn left to reach my exit.
I hope they do a better job than they did with all the fragmented cycle bits around Temple Meads roundabout. However, I’m still waiting on the livable neighbourhood changes in St George to actually go ahead since they were proposed years ago.
mattw wrote:
Lol.
Lots of smaller errors, such as the line widths.
These are put up by Captain Mainwarings on Town Councils everywhere, though that may have been made by his 5 year old grandchild.
Can’t we just take these down?
T
Yes, feel free to remove them
No sale.Feathers fly as zoo ranger runs half marathon in ostrich attire
https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/somerset-news/feathers-fly-zoo-ranger-runs-9286401
That’s just cheating!
He’s just sat there and letting the ostrich do all the running.
stonojnr wrote:
[quote=stonojnr]Emu spotted walking in road. https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/24590784.emus-spotted-walking-road-hadleigh-suffolk%5B/quote%5D
Advance troop for the coming war?
Another autonomous car
Another autonomous car flipping over
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/car-crashes-flips-upside-down-9556393
When you cycle to the Mathematics Faculty.But apparently don’t have the nous to lock your bike to the concrete-embedded metal post and just lock through the back wheel?
You’d be wanting the Topology Department
Worcester News readers react to proposed blanket 20mph speed limit…James Toghill, was also sceptical, saying: “No to 20mph, cars brake better than they ever have and are designed to hit pedestrians in a safer manner than old cars.”
Can’t we start designing cars to NOT hit pedestrians?
Matthew Acton-Varian wrote:
The bolt holding the outer plate is as tight as I can get it but there is still a small amount of play.
I want to be certain that a new outer plate assembly will fix the issue as I don’t want to waste money on it if the derailleur body overall is also knackered.
Sorry, I can’t provide any certainty. I’d be tempted to try adding a washer to see if that removes the play. With mine, if I tighten up the pivot arm too much, it stops the cage from moving at all, so I have to loosen it very slightly until the cage pivots correctly.
It is not the pivot bolt, that is in order. It is just the cage that has a small amount of play from the body, with about, with enough movement to make shifting slow or skip.The pivot arm comes as part of the outer plate assembly with the derailleur. There is also a T10 bolt that holds it in place.
If it is just the pivot arm and/or T10 bolt that is excessively worn, I can get a replacement, but I don’t want to burn more money on the mech if the internals of the derailleur body are also worn out.
Yeah, I meant the pivot arm that connects the outer plate to the derailleur body. Every few months, my one comes loose (different version derailleur though – mine’s Di2) and when I notice shifting issues, I have to remember to tighten that bolt up. (I don’t think it’s wear related, but more likely due to me mucking around with changing the cage to a fancy after-market one with oversized pulley and then changing it back when it didn’t work very well.)
It’s an interesting one this. I do think there are ‘shades of Auriol Grey’ to it.The location looks to be here:
https://maps.app.goo.gl/dSssfk6dZMtivTfm7It’s a pedestrianised street that allows motorised vehicles for loading and disabled access, overnight between 5pm and 10:30am. The timestamp on the video is 16:55, so a pedestrian might expect vehicles to be using that street around the time of the incident.
Now, clearly this is an illegal motorbike being driven carelessly (if not dangerously), due to the excessive speed. The risks are orders of magnitude greater than a cyclist riding carefully on a shared pavement (or regular pavement). There is a line where force can be used to prevent a crime from occuring, but it’s questionable whether this meets that bar.
If this pedestrian did deliberately knock the rider off their bike and the rider was very seriously injured or killed, then was that use of force proportionate? We would only find out if it had gone to court, but I suspect the pedestrian could have been in a whole heap of trouble.
There’s a clear difference between this and Auriol Grey though in that Auriol moved towards her victim in order to remonstrate/assault, whereas this instance doesn’t show that kind of deliberate aggression.
Personally, I think that if someone is close enough that merely lifting your hand up causes contact, then they’re within your personal space and shouldn’t be travelling at speed as that’s clearly dangerous (to themselves by the look of things).
Could be the pivot bolt that
Could be the pivot bolt that attaches the derailleur to the frame. You’ll need to undo the cage to get to it, but the pivot bolt is just a hex key fitting (careful you don’t displace the spring inside as it can be fiddly putting it in the right place).
Edit: I’ve just had a look at the exploded view (https://dassets.shimano.com/content/dam/global/cg1SHICCycling/final/ev/ev/EV-RD-R8000-GS-4285A.pdf) and I’m thinking of the pivot bolt that attaches the cage to the derailleur body, not the derailleur to the frame.
Sriracha wrote:
That has a “he ran into my fist” sort of ring to it. I can fully empathise with the pedestrian, I’ve had exactly the same impulse in similar circumstances. But I do believe he deliberately caused the crash. https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/teenage-biker-hits-pedestrian-races-29733329%5B/quote%5DWalesonline reports: [Quote]when the pedestrian saw him coming towards him he held out his hands in a “slow down type gesture”. The court heard that as Stanciu raced past the man he struck his victim’s hand before losing control of his bike, falling off, and sliding along the wet road.It’s like when cars close pass – if you can touch them, then they’re too close. I must admit to not having any sympathy for the bike rider and hopefully they’ve learnt an important lesson.
Looks like they’ve already
Looks like they’ve already corrected it to “electric motorcycle rider”. However, they’ve still got the browser page title as “Watch as e-bike rider crashes into pedestrian in Port Talbot”
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/gallery/audi-stranded-flood-water-under-9537534
Pass the wellies!
(That tunnel is prone to flooding – I often cycle through there)
There’s a good action photo of the drain being unblocked:
