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When they finally start to
When they finally start to put the same level of thought and adherance to quality that they put into new by-passes, large junctions and motorways.
I’m with HP, if they are noticable and quality I might start thinking about using them if they provide me with some benifit, but it will take me a few rides past them to want to give them a go. And if they mean constant halts, having to give way at juctions, being delayed at what are actually pedestrian crossings, changing sides of roads or even just seemingly pointless short stretches that seem like an sfterthought, then probably not. Maybe if that stretch of road or particular junction terrified me. But then that’s the advantage.
We have been given such crap nfrastructure for so many years, we may have come to expect them. The road generally has a better quality surface if nothing else.
The ones in Bracknell were alright as I remember, but lacked signposts and being below normal levels less abilities to locate yourself.
Same with the canals in Birmingham, wonderful way of getting about, but if you lack local knowledge you are riding blind. With the road network it helps if you have local knowledge but there are easy ways of navigating, especially on the bigger roads.
We have seen from the objections to low traffic neighbouhoods that motorists want unhindered access to every tiny bit of the road network, they cannot stand being directed onto the larger through roads.
I love the NCN and have given to Sustrans for too long to even remember, but I’m glad I ride mountain bikes, and even some of my summer tyre chices for them are sometimes not quite enough.
On my route to and from the train station there is a section of cycle path over a bridge, no detour on the way to the station, but there might be pedestrians on it, and it throws me out at an entrance to a roundabout, for which I will have to give way, if I had stayed on the road, much less so. But it can get me past a queue of traffic. On the way home, to avoid the big roundabout and it’s dangers, and from the angles it is, I will get off, press the beg button, cross the urban 4 lane racetrack, push the bike along a short stretch of pavement, observing motorist phone use, nice!, cross another small road and finally get on the bike on the bridge cycle route.Yes, hastle, but for me and my quick mental risk assesment, a benifit, It is also bumpy paving slabs rather than the smooth road, could have pedestrians on it, white line seperates a pavement, and suffers from build up of ice on colder nights in the winter, it is a bridge therefore gets colder having air underneath and as if it would ever be gritted like the road is.
I know school bus drivers
I know school bus drivers have only just got off furlough but…
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Fine rant sir.
Fine rant sir.
Please don’t ever linnk to the Mail, cut and paste the text or give us the gist.
Not going to that nasty place…
The guilt would destroy me.
The guilt would destroy me.
I had been hit so many times that I never, ever wanted to be that person, so I never learned to drive.
I make mistakes, get carried away, let my mind wander. Best not to do that when piloting a tonne or more of metal.
33 years cycle commuting. I do get hit less now that I realise how unbelievable incompetent and awful many drivers really are.
My leg warmers, pearl Izumi
My leg warmers, pearl Izumi water resistant thermals are excellent to have around, sits in the bag when not wanted in the colder months.
I wear baggies, goes with my commuter/utility mountain bikeness. 3/4s in the winter, very cold or wet and I put them on when needed. I even pull my socks up a bit if my shins are getting chilly, like in the beast from the east.
The law was added to in 2005
The law was added to in 2005 permitting certain flashing lights on a bicycle.
Hope you make a quickish
Hope you make a quickish recovery.
Your ride home sounded impressive.
How old is the freehub, were you pedalling or freewheeling at the time?
I’ve had a couple of newer Shimano ones go by becoming fixed gear intermittantly.
I managed to ride home both times, but had to remember to pedal constantly, but they never became permanently fixed gear, would frehub for a bit, then not.
I have also had cup, cones and bearing rip themselves to peices, and a long time ago had a rear spindle break, they all cause the wheel to lock, but there is never riding on.
Don, good to see you again.
Don, good to see you again.
It’s been a while.
Hope you are good.
The bell thing, remember you are an evil cyclist. Whatever you do will be the WRONG! thing. You cannot tell if the other shared path user finds the bell to be a sign of aggression and will hate you for it (even more…), or the other type that appreciates your choice of a Japanese brass bell, chosen for it’s tone and sustain. Then there is the sort, with a bit of an overlap of the two types who will behave in unpredictable and strange ways, jumping in either direction as you get near, with no looking.
Then there is the use of the bell when you first see the others, then again as you approach, still with no looking up or back, let alone say moving to one side. Do you ring again? Is this showing impatience?
How do you know if they have chosen to block their hearing by using tiny earphones? Do you ring lots as you approach?
Best thing, I suppose, is to have a bell, then you can reply “I do have a very nice bell, thank you, and yet you still managed to hear me!”
I apologise that this post is
I apologise that this post is not about the racing, but I think that the choice for Zwift of using Weapon of Choice, Fatboy Slim, as their sponsorship tune is absolutely inspired.
Though getting Christopher Walken on a trainer wearing a suit, now that…
Sounds like a wonderful time
Sounds like a wonderful time to ride past huge queues of traffic, maybe they will twig what the answer might be. Either that or hate the freedom that cycling can bring even more…
Good.
Good.
I often wonder why, if cycling on the pavement (of course, some of which are cycle lanes (schrodingerd cycle lanes?)) is almost evil in some drivers eyes, does pavement parking, for which they must have driven on the pavement is so acceptable.
But then, driving…
Fullset of reflectors and a
Full set of reflectors and a bell.
Good to be fully legal, and/or prepared for riding on our excellent shared use paths.
But more seriously (though that is a very dark grey bicycle if it has the same colour scheme as that reviewed) maybe a set of clip on mudguards if the rest of autumn is going to be anything like the start.
Maybe a nice water bottle cage, hopefully summer might not be over yet.
So very glad Chris is back.
So very glad Chris is back.
I’m just not that excited
I’m just not that excited about this years race.
Maybe after a few stages it might start getting me.
Is it the time of year, which seems to be an early autumn, rather than the glories of the Month of July.
Or is it because of the weirdness of the biggest cycle race in the middle of a global pandemic, and the chances of not finishing it, properly at least?
It’s not going to be normal anyway.