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This, in turn, reinforces the
This, in turn, reinforces the “drivers vs cyclists” narrative
It’s not a ‘narrative’, it’s the truth. Cyclists, and I even include ebikers in this because they are subject to the same driving behaviours, experience this every day or multiple times every day. Forget all this homely ‘why can’t we all just get along’ bollocks, we are under attack from aggressive, thoughtless, cyclist-despising b******s like the driver of Nissan Juke SL60 KCC who never even considered not overtaking me, but instead cut in right in front to give considerably more clearance to oncoming Jaguar than the 20-30 cms allowed to me- that’s less than 1/5th of the recommended distance
no need to lie about them
no need to lie about them
No lying involved, not by me at any rate, and I rather take exception to the allegation. I went onto the website as I described and there was nothing about the batteries there, as I described. You are an e-bike enthusiast, so I’m quite prepared to take your statement about replacements at face value and just wait for stories about irreplaceable parts to appear. As for your claim about a ‘weird obsession’, we have been through this before and I don’t need any of your condescending tips- I rarely think about e-bikes because I never see them far from power sources or in less than ideal conditions. I did see one motor past me last Thursday on the big hill out of Lindale in the South Lakes when I was heaving the trusty trailer for 4 days above Coniston- full motor power, effortless upright position versus gruelling effort for 7 hours. Cool, but a completely different activity
Maybe something like a
Maybe something like a bicycle powered by electricity could be invented?
Yes, and they could even mention the price of replacement batteries and how you fit them to that sleek ‘disguised e-bike’ frame. An e-bike branded by some nominally Italian (owned by Volkswagen, I recall) marque was recently advertised on here where the flash marketing didn’t mention either of these factors, and I couldn’t find any on the website either. That means you’re not going to be able to get a replacement or fit it.
one of your “against cycling”
one of your “against cycling” was on a NMOTD claiming the cyclist moved out deliberately into the path of the vehicle over taking without you even noticing the van parked on the road the cyclist needed to move out to overtake
Standard nutter members of the public are not the only ones to try this ‘cyclist deliberately moved into the path of the motorised vehicle’ dodge as a method of victim blaming. Lancashire Constabulary does this regularly, despite knowing that the footage is from a headcam. In that case, when you glance right because you hear and see a vehicle coming far too close the very stupid police officer claims you have swerved in the space of a couple of seconds deliberately into the path of the vehicle. You wonder how the police manage to find people this thick to recruit.
What difference is a letter
What difference is a letter in the post going to make these types of people ?
None, unless it comes in handy if there’s another pandemic and toilet paper crisis. You can’t even be sure that a warning letter goes ‘on their police record’ to stop them getting a series of them to no effect- when the authorities are vague about this, I suspect that no record of warning letters is kept. On the other hand, the points on the licence system is also failing when the real villains retain their licences for ‘hardship’, so what’s the alternative? In Lancashire the joke driving course is even more of a joke because it’s online- or was, the last time I looked into it.
the point they’re trying to
the point they’re trying to make in this case is that if the first stop line was passed on amber (and there was not time to stop safely – a judgement question) there is no offence
An entertaining, but incorrect, attempt to adapt Aesop’s Tortoise and Hare to distort Rules 175 and 178 by ignoring the If the amber light appears you may go on only if you have already crossed the stop line or are so close to it that to stop might cause a collision bit, and converting it to a more offender-patatable accelerate as rapidly as possible so that you can say you were unable to stop if the light turns red. This was the situation when the light turned amber
All this has been done, years
All this has been done, years ago!
How are you responding?
How are you responding?
It appears that, even after all this time, people are reluctant to believe how bad and how bent Lancashire Constabulary is. Their main tactic is to simply refuse to respond.
This is from the manager of the laughably named Lancashire Safer Roads Unit at 1pm on Thursday 24th March, copied to the Sgt. in charge of day to day running of OpSnapLancs and to the Inspector who seems to be actually in charge:
Insp Jones will be responding to you; he is currently on rest days but will be in touch.
A week later, and he still seems to be on ‘rest days’ and has not been in touch. Neither has anyone else. I will write again today, and will receive no reply until the 14 day period has expired. This is a simple case, easily solved by HC Rule 178: If your vehicle has proceeded over the first white line at the time that the signal goes red, you should stop as soon as possible and MUST stop at the second white line.
Dealing with passive resistance like this is difficult- there is essentially no Professional Standards Department and the Office of the Lancashire PCC is a comic-opera council do-nothing operation which simply advises complainers to seek independent legal advice. There is no supervision of Lancashire Constabulary, and no oversight. Almost all complaints to OpSnapLancs result in no action with the routine letter that ‘action is not in the public interest’. Even the action letters are deliberately evasively written (even they are not that accidentally incompetent) to include the possibility that they might decide to do nothing at all or give ‘words of advice’. However, I just keep collecting the evidence.
Well, no sign of any
Well, no sign of any reconsideration of NFA’s at Lancashire Constabulary!
The footage, including still, shows the HGV crossing the first solid white stop line whilst the traffic signal is amber. The further solid white stop line is for bicycles, as is clearly marked. There are no offences disclosed from this footage and therefore no further action will be taken
It’s now a week since they came up with a radical new interpretation of the Highway Code (which, as usual gets the HGV driver off) and TSRGD schedule 14 part 1 -see Part 1 Section 30 and Part 2 Item 49, and they’re sticking to it!
Coming from Lancashire, I’m
Coming from Lancashire, I’m not surprised by the brush-off from the police. They simply decide at the outset that they’re not going to do anything because nobody has been killed or injured, and then make up complete tripe to justify the decision. They then have to waste more time rejecting the complaint, and because they’re pretty dim they trap themselves into continuing. They’re insisting that YA67 HMU had a valid MOT at the time of an offence on 4.2.22, even though DVLA and DVSA keep insisting that it didn’t. The Police know they’re wrong because they resort to rubbishing the DVSA, and saying the Police National Computer is the only source to trust, when the DVSA get the MOT result as soon as it’s finished and actually give the dates of the MOT tests when the police refuse. Lying by the police is now routine!Is it any wonder that the
Is it any wonder that the only frequent users appear to be those who get a free bus pass
Guilty!- but my conscience is clear as I cycle everywhere in the Leyland, Preston, Lancaster, Preston region.
People underestimate the cost
People underestimate the cost of driving by 50% according to this paper in Nature
And this willing self-deception, and complicity with the manufacturer, is most evident in the oft-heard ‘I get X mpg’, where ‘X’ is the largest number displayed by the already absurdly optimistic trip computer when travelling downhill.
Truer than true! These people
Truer than true! These people, some of whom were featured in a recent dispute between an Edinburgh golf club and scum wishing to cycle past safely, would rather die than be seen on a bus or bike. I concur with at least part of their aspirations.
I wondered what those signs
I wondered what those signs were out for!
I had it done a year ago and
I had it done a year ago and I’m so glad I did
An alternative view is:
Vision is really good, and glasses are not too bad. You’re in it for the long term, and ‘a year ago’ isn’t. The probabilty of something going wrong after these laser procedures to could well be very low, and I have no experience other than 50 years of glasses. The consequences of something going wrong are very bad.
