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  • in reply to: What do you look for when planning a new route? #988219
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    mdavidford

    What I’d really like, and

    What I’d really like, and haven’t been able to find yet, is something that does a decent job of taking (a) a point I want to pass through, and (b) a distance I want to do, and then finds me appropriate circular routes.

    mdavidford

    I was assuming ‘unift through

    I was assuming ‘unift through drink’ and ‘[unfit through] drugs’ were separate offences.

    in reply to: Don’t Have a Crash #988279
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    mdavidford

    Or even just random innocuous

    Or even just random innocuous looking stretches of road after a light mizzle following a dry period.

    I’ve twice gone down taking corners in a leisurely fashion because I’ve unexpectedly found myself trying to cross an oil slick.

    mdavidford

    That’ll teach ’em not to

    That’ll teach ’em not to deliver those Christmas cards on time.

    in reply to: Guided cycling holidays #988099
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    mdavidford
    AlsoSomniloquism wrote:
    Sorry, I couldn;t resist writing that when I saw the contact the tavel partner form. 

    There’s no need to wine about it.

    in reply to: Anyone know… #987791
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    mdavidford
    chrisonatrike wrote:
    I’ve no idea where you might look for the answer especially on a cycling forum.

    https://www.electricpedals.com/hire-us-cinema

    [and others]

    in reply to: Virtually impossible to stop repeat offenders #987579
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    mdavidford

    I read that as meaning that

    I read that as meaning that they shouldn’t bend to media demands to ‘make an example’ out of someone just because they happen to be a celebrity – that if we deny someone access to a rehabilitative route because they’re in the public eye, then we undermine our use of it for the ordinary Joe.

    in reply to: Virtually impossible to stop repeat offenders #987577
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    mdavidford

    Not much, no – particularly

    Not much, no – particularly with addiction-related offences. By the time someone’s in the situation where they’re about to commit the offence, ‘what will happen if I’m caught?’ isn’t generally top of their mind.

    in reply to: The perfect front and rear cycle camera !! Can you help.. #987639
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    mdavidford

    A design that protects from

    A design that protects from muck and water spray, and an ability to quickly shed any that does hit it would be high on my list.

    in reply to: No wonder they can’t gauge a 1.5m overtaking clearance #987483
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    mdavidford

    Maybe it says something about

    Maybe it says something about our car-centric / self-centred society that we’ve all shifted our thinking from an observer’s perspective to a driver’s perspective. 

    in reply to: No wonder they can’t gauge a 1.5m overtaking clearance #987475
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    mdavidford
    wycombewheeler wrote:
    Captain Badger wrote:
    shoko wrote:
    …., with the unforgiving bollards added about 10 years ago.“

    That would be the necessary protecting of people on the footway

    I think bollards at 7’6″ would also protect people on the footway, unless they were walking along the kerbstones

    Except the original bollards were apparently forgiving. So they may have looked the other way while people were run over.

    mdavidford

    Looks like it had a few big

    Looks like it had a few big nights out while it was in Wales.

    in reply to: No wonder they can’t gauge a 1.5m overtaking clearance #987447
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    mdavidford

    Yeah – I always have to stop

    Yeah – I always have to stop and think about it. It’s not the most helpful nomenclature – near to who? Maybe it made more sense in an era of carriages, or something?

    in reply to: Monte Carlo or Bust – 10 days, 10 metric centuries #986763
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    mdavidford

    Even your avatar looks tired.

    Even your avatar looks tired.

    in reply to: No wonder they can’t gauge a 1.5m overtaking clearance #987433
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    mdavidford

    Do you mean on the nearside?

    Do you mean on the nearside?

    There’s some suggestion that this is because people are running up the dropped kerb in front of the nearside bollard. Whereas it doesn’t happen on the other side of the road because they get guided into the gap by bouncing off the kerb. Which kind of says it all, really.

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