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Only if you have permissions
Only if you have permissions to install apps and change file associations, which a lot of people don’t on work computers.
Definitely go rack and
Definitely go rack and panniers – makes the experience so much nicer than a sweaty rucksack. Your laptop should be fine in a half-decent sleeve.
If you can, keep your work clothes at work, rather than lugging a full change in and out. My approach is to cycle through e.g. Fresh shirt one day, underwear the next, etc. To minimise what I’m carrying.
Investing in SPD pedals and shoes is well worth it, particularly once you’re cycling on the odd wet day. That might be something you want to leave until you’ve tested your commitment to it though, as it requires a bit of extra cash and some practice at clipping in and out to get comfortable with it.
If you haven’t already, learn how to change a tube (once you’ve practiced a couple of times it’s easy) and carry a spare, mini pump, and levers.
Enjoy it – mix it up and explore a variety of routes if you can.
If you’re looking to create
If you’re looking to create the actual RL route, bear in mind that RGT will currently only allow you to ride a route that you’ve created if you can get at least 4 other people to ride it at the same time.
Rouvy or Bkool will allow you to upload the route and ride it. In theory, Bkool will generate a 3D landscape for you to cycle through while you do it, but it’s really finicky about what routes it will accept for this, so you’ll likely be stuck watching yourself move across a map. Rouvy gives you more of a Google Earth view. Rouvy are currently running a free beta of the new version of their software; Bkool will give you a free limited time trial.
The RL organisers have hinted that they’re looking at organising some sort of virtual challenge, so there may be an official option on the way on one of the platforms that will give you more of a 3D or video experience of the actual route – keep an eye on their news updates.
The regs state a maximum height for lights, so a single head mounted light would not be legal.I think the regulations also state that one front and one rear light must be actually fitted to the bike (rather than to a bag or to the rider).
What if you’re clipped in? Wouldn’t they then be attached to the bike, with you as a mount?
Get off the road
Get off the road
A rear light and reflector
A rear light and reflector can be combined in one, but a rear light doesn’t automatically count as a reflector if it doesn’t include a reflector that meets the standard.
Well presumably they didn’t
Well presumably they didn’t send in the footage of all the periods when there weren’t cars coming the other way every few seconds, because it didn’t reinforce their perception that cyclists are ‘holding up traffic’ (as opposed to being traffic).
1. A tandem – Sure being the stoker isn’t the glamorous perch to take, but get a driver, female preferably, with a great ass and enjoy the view.1a. A quick-release tilt system for the rear seat of your tandem, for jettisoning the sexist boor behind you.
Joe Totale wrote:
..the kind of mild off road you get with a NCN cycle route.I guess you haven’t seen the routes around my way.
Not quite – you have to use a
Not quite – you have to use a setting to override the default and put it back to chronological order, and then occasionally it gets confused and falls back to showing things in Strava-enhanced throw-it-all-up-in-the-air-and-see-how-it-falls order.
They did row back on the ‘partner content (don’t call it advertising)’ in the feed though.
People seem to be talking
People seem to be talking about different things:
Cycle lane – part of a road reserved for the use of cyclists: strictly speaking, the speed limit would be whatever the speed limit for the rest of the road is, but since limits aren’t enforceable on cyclists and no-one else should be using them, effectively there is no speed limit; it’s probably sensible to suggest that if you think you might be exceeding you should maybe knock it back a bit though.
Cycle track – separate facility reserved for the use of cyclists: there are no speed limits.
Shared-use path – where cyclists are permitted to use some or all of a space also used by pedestrians: no speed limit, but advice has been issued in the past that you should consider using an alternative route if you wish to travel more than (I think) 16mph. Also, pedestrians have priority, even if they are in an area that has been specifically designated for cycle use (e.g. white dividing line and cycle symbols), and you should give way to them.
Better still is the comment
Better still is the comment underneath that “Some cyclists are Very argonaut”.
It still contains this
It still contains this statistically illiterate claim:
The number of collisions with cyclists has gone up from 20% to 27%Numbers of collisions and percentages are two different things; one can go up while the other stays the same, or even goes down. They need to be reported to the More Or Less police.
Rick_Rude wrote:
tbh some aren’t safe/confident enough to be out in regular traffic.Well we were all like that once – the only way to get safe/confident is to get out there and do it. If the roads are clearer now, this seems like the ideal time.
This is looking at things backwards anyway – the problem is not that some people aren’t confident, it’s that other road users aren’t accomodating of the less confident.
Tour of Hubei?
Tour of Hubei?
