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chrisonabike wrote:
Has the revolution started? I missed the announcement… first horses charging though the streets, now cows. (Loose beasts all immediately lose against the horsepower and bull-bars of their replacements).
Footage shared with the BBC
Footage shared with the BBC shows a cow running loose on the streets of Surrey, and later getting to its feet after being struck by a police car.
Surrey Police said in a statement that after attempts to safely capture the cow “over a period of a number of hours” failed, “the decision was made to stop it using a police car”.
The cow was hit twice by a marked vehicle which the RSPCA said “appears disproportionate”.
The force released a statement saying that the cow’s owner had been located and its injuries assessed by a vet, who was overseeing its continued treatment and recovery.
It also said it would refer itself to the police complaints watchdog.
Oh God, another helmet evangelist. I haven’t seen the video, so far it’s light on any detail of what happened.Helmets are fine for overhanging branches and brambles, and that off you suffer from that patch of wet leaves/ loose gravel. Not going to help you much if there’s a car involved.
Fortuntate for him that he can afford to go to the emergency room.
There’s no mention of another vehicle, so I reckon it might well have been some loose gravel. Even so, there’s other lessons rather than just “wear a helmet”, but that’s what the MSM wants to publish. (“Listen Gordon, you might want to tell people about fast descents on unknown roads, but we’re only going to print it if you make it about helmets instead”)
I recently added Mariposa Vitamina CL (a powder) to my tubeless sealant. The difference is amazing, the tires hold pressure far better than before, just like a tube. (Of course, that begs the question, why is this powder not already added to the sealant by the manufacturer ?)For a minute, I thought you’d been adding Vitamin C powder to your tyres so that you’d get a refreshing orangey smell when you punctured. Then I remembered that I was looking at that stuff the other day and wondering if it was worthwhile.
I don’t think they can add it to their sealant as it’d block the valve and so it needs to be mixed inside the tyre.
I’ve now ordered some (Swinnerton Cycles) to try it out myself.
Drivers angry about e-scooter and bike bays in Southampton“Having had a car written off after a driver crashed into his vehicle while it was parked, and claiming drivers speed down the road at 50mph, he felt the bay was also an accident waiting to happen.
He said: “Not only do we all struggle to park on Priory Road but we have seen people travel up to 50 miles per hour – they will go straight into those bollards.””
https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/24380839.drivers-angry-e-scooter-bike-bays-southampton/
That’s motonormativity right there. Complain about the bollards (All Praise The Mighty Bollard!) rather than the drivers speeding down the road. Personally, I’d rather that roads have more hazards if they can help reduce driver speeds and get them to pay more attention.
I’ve had no problems with
I’ve had no problems with GP5000s and Caffélatex sealant, although I do find that the sealant needs topping up every few months to replace any that’s dried.
I have had a couple of tricky punctures where there was some glass or debris still stuck in the tyre. It’d seal whilst riding, but would then make itself known when pumping the tyre up to over 70psi, but then seal again with a little persuasion such as spinning the wheel.
I’ll just leave this here:
I’ll just leave this here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjmmrwexv4ko
A Reform UK candidate claimed the country would be “far better” if it had “taken Hitler up on his offer of neutrality” instead of fighting the Nazis in World War Two.Ian Gribbin, the party’s candidate in Bexhill and Battle, also wrote online that women were the “sponging gender” and should be “deprived of health care”.
In posts from 2022 on the Unherd magazine website, seen by the BBC, he said Winston Churchill was “abysmal” and praised Russian President Vladimir Putin.
A Reform spokesman said the comments were not “endorsements” but “written with an eye to inconvenient perspectives and truths”, while his remarks about women were “tongue in cheek”.
Mr Gribbin declined to comment.
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/silly-season-cornwall-kicks-car-9331305
The unofficial start of Cornwall’s tourist season has kicked off. Not with the sun breaking through the clouds, but with the annual tradition of a vehicle getting stuck on a sandy beach.
A silver Subaru Forester that found itself lodged in the soft sands of Constantine Beach near Padstow, despite its all-wheel drive capabilities.
I’ve bought some (not
I’ve bought some (not necessarily cycling) stuff from AliExpress recently and the cheap stuff is really bad, but the more expensive items seem to be the same as you’d buy in this country, but cheaper as it goes through less middlemen. As a guide, I paid just under £60 duty on a £350 laptop and cheaper stuff seems to escape duty fees.
I’ve been intrigued by a bunch of cheap carbon wheels with carbon spokes on sale there, so how about you buy a set and let us know how you get on with them?
Trains cancelled between
Trains cancelled between Exeter and Bristol due to cows on track:
https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/trains-cancelled-between-exeter-bristol-9318022
chrisonabike wrote:
Yeah, hug a heifer doesn’t appeal, but neither does support squirrel squeezing or stroking for psychological succour – due to their well-documented aggression (and indeed attacks – what are the government doing about that?). Cycle psychotherapy for me, despite some posters’ repeated slurs about pointy and even dirty bikes!https://www.thecut.com/2018/10/emotional-support-squirrel-delays-frontier-airlines-flight.html
The Miami Herald reports that the woman had no problem boarding Flight 1612. It was only when another passenger noticed that the animal in her bag was a squirrel, that officials were notified. According to an emotional-support animals website, Frontier Airlines permits cats and dogs on its flights, but not rodents — information that infuriated the woman when the airline asked her to get off the plane. When she refused the budge, police were called, and the entire plane evacuated.
Car crashes into building in
Car crashes into building in Cow Lane in Wincheap at Canterbury (no cows or driver involved):
https://www.kentonline.co.uk/canterbury/news/wincheap-car-crashes-into-wall-16656/
Cow cuddling: Cognitive considerations in bovine-assisted therapy
https://www.cabidigitallibrary.org/doi/10.1079/hai.2024.0016
“Koeknufflen” is the Dutch term that translates directly to mean “cow cuddling” or “cow hugging”. In the Netherlands, there is a tradition of traveling from the cities to the countryside to spend time with farm animals in order to decompress and emotionally recalibrate (McGiffin, 2022). Formally we would call this type of planned interaction between a human and an animal, for therapeutic gains, an animal-assisted interaction (AAI) (Fine et al., 2013). The Dutch have long known about the psychological and physiological benefits of spending time with cattle, yet the vast majority of research into AAIs is based on companion therapy animals (dogs, cats, etc.) and in formal therapeutic settings.I’ve been close to the cows on Lundy Island and they are scarily massive – they’re not at all aggressive, but I think I’d be very cautious about hugging them.
A lightning strike in Colorado killed a rancher and 34 of his cows in Jackson County on Saturday, adding to the death toll of devastating storms that have swept across the US over Memorial Day weekend.
But that blatent utilitarian function is helpfully outweighted by the FACT that every single Deliveruber rider is trained to ride fat bikes with 7kW motors at spine-chilling speeds along the footway and through every traffic light (but only on red).We are also obliged to overlook the economic pressures that encourage both work-related cycling and delivery van drivers* to take shortcuts with the rules in order to bring home the bacon.
(* their defence is, of course, that they are doing a hard day’s work, and where would your Amazon tat come from if every 3rd vehicle on the road wasn’t a delivery van #waronmotorists)
Therefore, riding for work is a Bad Thing.
I’d interpret all the bad behaviour by Deliveruber riders as being an indictment of our roads and how designing them primarily for cars isn’t working as well as we’ve been promised. If you want to get around the place quickly (and cheaply), then a car isn’t going to be of much use.