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They are good shoes by all
They are good shoes by all accounts!
As for tips.. mine would be to practise clipping in and out on grass before you get on the roads.
.. and expect to fall over at a set of lights at some point.. we’ve all done it, it’s the embarrasment factor which hurts the most.
Thank you both.Â
Thank you both.
I did wonder about heading NW on the way out.. I can’t see a ‘nice route’ to get to and through Bournemouth.
I’ll take a look and see what I can work out. Thanks again!
Cycling is without doubt more dangerous, but I’ve never been close to being hit in 30+ years of cycling on the roads. What does this tell you? and it’s not that I’m just lucky! I don’t need better infrastructure (although it would be nice for the less able)I’m always told that a majority of cyclists are drivers, well if that’s the case I can tell you a majority of drivers are poor. Anyone in this thread up for a free assessment drive with me? Time to put your cards on the table.
I’m not sure many drivers in the UK would pass their driving tests today, so maybe your offer is a little loaded.
As a driver, a weekend cyclist and jobbing commuter I can tell you that I consider myself ‘hyper aware’ when cycling. I’ve never caused an accident in a car, but I’ve been hit a couple of times (while stationary), I’ve also had a car pull out on me when riding my bike through my local town which led to some lasting injuries for me, a couple of dented panels on the Jaguar and a very apologetic driver. I have no malice towards the driver, he just didn’t look properly when he pulled out of a junction, a minor infraction, a couple of seconds of innattention for the driver, a potential major injury for me the cyclist. If I wasn’t ‘hyper aware’ of the situation it would likely have been a lot worse, within a couple of seconds I’d slowed, shouted and made an evasive manoeuvre to lessen the impact.
I’m not sure if you are saying that you have been a road cyclist for 30 years or if you have ridden a bike for 30 years? I personally have been riding on roads for 40years and have driven for 20 would I pass my test today, who knows.. but I do know that I’m ‘aware’ of my own inattention when driving at times, it’s a concious decision I make, I’m fully responsible for my own actions in a car and I believe that the self awareness is learned from riding a bike, far too many ‘jeezus christ that was close’ moments and the odd truly aggressive driver acting with malice.
If you want to assess my driving, you’re welcome to come to Leamington, but I really don’t understand what it’d achieve for you, I, or anyone else. I feel it’d be far better for you to join me or one of my road.cc pals on one of our daily commutes. Not in London, that’s an odd place, but a normal ‘could be anywhere’ town. I think everyone’s point on here is that our safety (as a group which considers themselves law abiding and even righteous cyclists) is compromised often daily by bad drivers. And the stats of cyclists being injured and or killed on the roads each year define that danger.
Ian’s point about 5000 miles in a car compared to 5000 miles on a bike is an interesting one. We’d be on the roads about four times longer than a car would be to cover the same distance. And in that time we’d see much more traffic, maybe consider that we actually do have a better perpective of road saftey than a motorist? It’s certainly a different one.
I’ve only seen that one video of yours with the horn the other month, it was just fine up to that point, honestly, beeping a horn close to a cyclist is more often than not a bad thing to do, it basically makes us jump and fires the adrenaline instantly. I’m sure I saw an article a while ago which was about a brand of HGV trucks having two horns, one for other steel wrapped drivers and one for pedestrians and cyclists (one being quieter obvs). That’s the sort of good beeping idea which I can get behind.
The route from Warwick to
The route from Warwick to Evesham is pretty straight forward, (and flat which is harder to achieve than you might think getting out that way..) however between Evesham and Tewksbury is frankly awful. Past Tewsbury is fine and roady.. but from Chepstow it’s fire roads then roads through Newport, then from there it’s all amazing traffic free!
Here you go Ian –Â https:/
Here you go Ian – https://cycle.travel/by/peted76/2_day_leamington_to_swansea_route
Private vehicles for human
Private vehicles for human transport width should be limited to.. 1.8m including mirrors. Anything wider should be banned. Or make people take an extended test to be classed as fit to drive one.
That Q7 is 2.21 meters wide, it must impossible to park in a modern car parking space.
‘Thick wind’ mentioned in the
‘Thick wind’ mentioned in the first three stages at least twice..
‘The tour won’t be won in the first week, but it can be lost’ – exact phrase used by every different channel commentating at least once a day.
Carlton talking about a nice wine at least five times in the last two weeks.
Sean Kelly prounnuciations… they get worse when he gets excited
Bradley on a moto talking to (at) a rider in a French ‘accent’ (whether they are French or not)..
Gary Imlach’s hair billowing around like it’s doing a wasp dance.
Ooo so excited for it all, I can’t wait!!
Mandatory intelligence tests for all Facebook users!!Hasn’t Facebook just become a low intelligence trap? Surely anyone with sense or a social conscience has closed their account after the Cambridge Analytica scandal?
I don’t need any intelligence for the groups I’m in 🙂
I’ll have a watch of that
I’ll have a watch of that tonight Ian, cheers for posting.
I believe they are talking about the Lias Line improvements which have been touted for years and secured funding a few years back, there’s a PR here about it.. if they see it through it’ll be an ‘awesome’ and much needed local route.
Shocking moment Ferrari SF90 hypercar worth ÂŁ500,000 smashes into three parked carshttps://www.thesun.co.uk/motors/18727170/moment-ferrari-hypercar-smashes-parked-cars/
The … clip shows the supercar suddenly appear before propelling directly into a white vehicle parked up on the street.And it showed no sign of slowing down after the initial impact, but instead created a domino effect of destruction.
The car, worth half a million pounds, then careered into two other vehicles – causing quite a costly amount of damage.
The dazed driver can be seen crawling out of the shiny red hypercar after the high speed smash, before cops and fire crews rushed to the scene at 7.40pm.
Final passing mention of a driver getting out. All agency appears to be ascribed to the car itself…
Clearly it wasn’t the drivers fault.. The Sun was in his eyes 🙂
@TRIDODDYTRIÂ –Â I get that
@TRIDODDYTRI – I get that this encounter has knocked you a bit and I get that being called a tnuc might not have been the most polite of exchanges.
What you need to understand is that clearly the cyclist was ‘in that position’ regardless of whether it was concious or unconcious (no-one in their right mind would purposfully put themselves in the way of a car). Also regular cyclists are reguarly put into danger, their level of tolerance for being greviously harmed may be lower than other road users (surprisingly).
Regarding the language, 1) some people swear like it’s normal, 2) some don’t 3) the cyclist would have likely had an adrenaline spike so I tend to be a little more forgiving in those circumstances.
Clueless twunt.
Clueless twunt.
I brought the stans when it
I brought the stans when it came out becuase it was cheaper than the dynaplug one at the time and I wanted a contained easy to use unit (after bad experiences with old school slugs).. I still haven’t used it.. I’m sorta looking forward to it, one day..
The Dynaplug one is supposed to be the one to have, buy that one.
You can get away with it…
You can get away with it… you’ll soon develop a cast iron gooch and what’s a bit of ischial tuberosite bruising to superhero who’s putting in the miles in his lunchhour 🙂
Ah.. so now we know what it
Ah.. so now we know what it takes.
He’s only 22.. so he must have avoided custodial sentence twice previously before actually killing someone on his third attempt.
The law seriously needs to change, sentances must be prevent people from committing crimes. This is sickening.