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Should read:
Should read:
Fuel prices to remain high. Retailers recouping costs associated with previous crisis caused by panic buying motorists, which resulted in additonal tankers being laid on and security staff deployed to forecourts.
The only thing the local FB
The only thing the local FB group is good for is estimating the number of idiots in your village (it’s more than you think!).
Lancashire Constabulary officers must be doing a roaring trade because road traffic offences usually do go awayYou are proving that Lancs Police really ought to have the responsibility for the prosecution of these sort of FPN traffic offences taken away from them.
I think a council enforcement officer type setup would work much better for these sort of misdemeanours. Doesn’t need to be police.
Yep, you could argue that.
Yep, you could argue that. But I think if it does go to court, the fact they’d had a conversation with an enforcement officer would probably sway the magistrate against you. Might be worth a go, but the costs/fine would be a lot more if you lost.
I know when the police didn’t get a response from the first NIP they sent out in my case, they then talked about the DVLA record perhaps having the wrong address, so they would perform a ‘trace request’. Whatever that is! But I got the impression it was a trawl of records associated with the name/address of the registered owner. They came back that utility bills, electrol roll etc all pointed to the same address, so they sent an officer around.
Yep, I think you might get
Yep, I think you might get away with it if it had been a speed camera and arrived out of the blue. But having had a conversation with the enforcement officer, the court would be in no doubt you were expecting something to arrive in the post.
If the council have your details at that address somewhere else, like council tax, or electoral roll, I suspect ignoring it will trigger them to issue it again in the correct name. It’s unlikely to go away.
I’d pay it. You’ve opened the
I’d pay it. You’ve opened the letter, so that kind of negates it not being addressed to you (it’s illegal to open mail addressed to someone else!).
You could have a case to argue poor signage. There is a blue cycle sign to the right which is intended for the cycle lane, but could be mistaken to mean the right side of the paved area.
https://goo.gl/maps/KZJQNQpBNRNuzZn4A
But can you be bothered with the hassle for 75 quid?
I once got a parking fine in a bay that they claimed was for loading, but not marked as such. I complained, but to no avail, so paid it. A year later I got a refund, as someone had contested it in court and won. All previous fines were deemed illegal by the judge and the council had to pay them back!
If it was the police, you might get away with it. I know from a close pass incident, when they didn’t get a response to the NIP, they were going to close the case. The officer I spoke to said it would be an inappropriate use of resources to investigate further. I really had to argue for them to chase it up! I suspect a council enforcement officer would not let it go so easily, as they don’t have much else to do.
Get that right foot shimmed!
Get that right foot shimmed! That’s where I would start, as it seems to be working for the left.
Those Onza’s are a bit unique in having elastomer springs. Maybe that elastomer has gotten a bit slack and is allowing the foot to have a slight outwards rotation, the shim might counteract that rotation.
Some MTB shoes have quite a lot of flex in the sole to allow for walking. You might be better off with road shoes that have a two bolt spd fixing for those longer rides.
He was very unlucky. Crazed
He was very unlucky. Crazed cyclists must be very rare beasts indeed. In all my years of driving I’ve never encountered so much as a slightly miffed cyclist.
Give me my licence or I’ll
Give me my licence or I’ll sack 320 people. Sounds more like blackmail than a mitigation! Maybe the could do him for that?
I think it’s just her foot
I think it’s just her foot slipping off the pedals. But could be a snapped chain. I once went over the bars in a very similar way when my chain snapped as I was giving it the beans out of the saddle. Thankfully it was a steep hill, so I was going slowly and there was a soft grassy verge to break my fall.
Maybe the cyclist had a
Maybe the cyclist had a version of that close pass detector mounted on the bars – but the one that instantly disables the offending vehicle with an electromagnetic pulse!
Sriracha wrote:
before it drowned did your Fly12 at least catch the idiot who drenched you?It will have written the video data to the SD card, but it’s likely the file will be corrupt.
I’ve had success using HandBrake to repair a corrupt Cycliq file and recover most of the video footage.
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They should be as considerate a road user as the motorist.On the mode of transport scale of considerateness, the choice of the motorist is pretty low down the list in my view (well, unless your only consideration is yourself).
For short commutes you could
For short commutes you could probably make the insta work ok (battery life is only an hour and file sizes are huge). It will be a bit more faff than a Cycliq (no loop record, so having to open app, wipe, start recording prior to each ride).
But for longer rides (or less faff regular commuting) you can’t really beat the convenience of the Cycliq. It’s a simple as adding lights to your bike.
To get longer from the 360 you’d need an external battery pack, or stop to swap batteries every hour, not to mention a large SD card and regular manual wiping of footage.
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Struggling to understand the narrative. Was his “failure to maintain his speed” a consequence of colliding with so many cyclists, or did he hit the cyclists because he slowed down?I thought that was strange wording, but it’s just what they call speeding in Texas…
https://mcminnlaw.com/texas-refresher-failure-to-maintain-speed-law/
