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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?
Didn’t they also get a bit of
Didn’t they also get a bit of a bashing for insisting Evans staff keep working while refusing to take any measures to change practices to provide a safe working environment?
Presumably they judged that it would be more financially advantageous to furlough everyone than to make the changes necessary to run the shops in a responsible way.
Except that, as I said, they
Except that, as I said, they don’t seem to have been any more incompetent than many other countries that you’d apparently be happy to buy from (and why would incompetence at dealing with epidemics be a reason to boycott their goods anyway?). And by your own reckoning, dishonesty is nothing new for them. So where is the reason to be any more diligent now than before?
Well not purchasing from
Well not purchasing from China because you don’t want to support a secretive, oppressive, uncooperative regime that exercises tight control over information is a fair enough position, but that isn’t what you originally said. You said
the virus originated in unhygienic cruel food markets in China, and was not properly controlledwhich was unrelated to any of that.
If the nature of the regime is your main concern, then bringing the virus into it is a bit weird. As you say, they have a ‘track record’ that goes back decades – long before this virus emerged, so I’m not sure why you’d be avoiding purchases from there now any more than you would have been six months ago.
Presumably you’ll also be
Presumably you’ll also be avoiding purchases from the UK, US, Italy, Spain, France, etc., etc., etc. until they apologise for failing to control the spread of a highly contagious virus as well? I think your choices are going to be rather limited.
Not sure how SARS-CoV-2 is
Not sure how SARS-CoV-2 is relevant, though. If you’re worried about catching it off your inner tubes, (a) that’s highly unlikely, and (b) wherever you get them from is likely to have an outbreak (unless you can find a supplier in Kiribati or somewhere like that).
I think it probably depends
I think it probably depends on how much ‘not-riding’ you’re doing in them – how often you need to stop and put a foot down; how much you’re walking around in them off the bike.
My experience of commuting in them – riding most days; typically putting a foot down maybe 6-7 times each way; walking across the carpark between bike shed and office – is that the sole area will be pretty tatty after one winter, and after two they’ll need replacing.
Getting the ones with rubberised or kevlar reinforcement doesn’t really seem to help much, as the protection never extends to the seam area, which is the most vulnerable to damage.
The mass obviously increases.
The mass obviously increases. Because cake stops.
[Though not in the current circumstances.]
I know what you mean, but arguably, if you are assisted on the climbs, you will be fresher on the flat, so logging the whole ride as an ebike would be a fairer option.Arguably, if you started your ride just before the segment, you’ll be a lot fresher than someone who did 100 miles before arriving there, so the whole ‘leaderboard’ thing is a bit meaningless anyway.
That ‘sports cyclist’ really
That ‘sports cyclist’ really needs to do their gilet up or take it off.
For punishment to be
For punishment to be effective it needs to be meaningfully impactful and meaningfully likely.
The problem with punishment for motoring offences is that they generally fall short on both criteria – enforcement is poor, and even when they are enforced, the impact on the offender is often not meaningful. In that situation, it makes sense to call for both tougher penalties and better enforcement.
In the case of these thieves, meaningfully impactful punishments short of using physical violence are available. Escalating the impact of the punishment isn’t going to do much reduce the behaviour. Increasing the likelihood of punishment (through better enforcement) is much more likely to be effective.
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”His focus was on the primary hazard – the cyclist”Hmm – I’d say the primary hazard was the car, or rather, the guy driving it.
On my recent rides it’s been
On my recent rides it’s been less farmers causing issues and more those working on the gazillions of new housing developments springing up. I have some sympathy for the former, as it’s not always going to be feasible to clean down tractors every time they leave a field, but it ought to be a default part of any planning application that the developer make provision for cleaning down any vehicles before they leave the site, with hefty fines for failing to do so.