Live blog: Video of little girl giving safe overtake lorry driver thumbs-up goes viral, London Quietways under fire after latest death + more
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Simon joined road.cc as news editor in 2009 and is now the site’s community editor, acting as a link between the team producing the content and our readers. A law and languages graduate, published translator and former retail analyst, he has reported on issues as diverse as cycling-related court cases, anti-doping investigations, the latest developments in the bike industry and the sport’s biggest races. Now back in London full-time after 15 years living in Oxford and Cambridge, he loves cycling along the Thames but misses having his former riding buddy, Elodie the miniature schnauzer, in the basket in front of him.
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chrisonabike 6 minutes ago
@mdavidford It was the Hun wot started it, invading Gaul again...
chrisonabike 12 minutes ago
Actually if it's done properly, as part of a network of cycle infra, with "disentangling of modes", motor traffic reduction, proper junction treatments where necessary (eg. with detection loops for cyclists ahead of the junction)... ... then it's for *everyone* cycling and nobody sane would choose the road over it. Apart from possibly pros / hardy "never did me any harm, squabbling with drivers, dodging potholes and grates while sprinting between long stops at traffic lights " types raised in 3rd tier cycling environments (like most of the UK). Of course - has it reached that quality yet? Almost certainly not. But I'd probably give it a go at least; and if the transitions to / from weren't bad use it. For one it's probably going to remain in better condition than the road...
mdavidford 14 minutes ago
Although, not anywhere in the actual blog item. 🤔
Rendel Harris 18 minutes ago
This is road.cc. Please put this story where it belongs on bizarreelectricmountainbikescooterhybrid.cc. Sheesh.
HoarseMann 33 minutes ago
I wonder if the bloke who posted this video on Facebook will ever realise the cycle lane is not intended for that cyclist in his video, as that cyclist already seems confident on the road - it's for the likes of himself, who perhaps don't cycle on the road because of safety fears.
matthewn5 48 minutes ago
Errr.. did you really install them on the *outside* of the cranks? How did that last? Sheesh.
mitsky 1 hour ago
- "London infrastructure is not set up to deal with the volume of bikes we are currently seeing,” said one of the new study’s authors - Presumably we can also state: " London infrastructure is not set up to deal with the volume of cars we are currently seeing,” ...
Rendel Harris 1 hour ago
@chrisonabike To which list you can add hiding-in-mummy's-basement-behind-the-keyboard hard men who seem to have misunderstood the meaning of "stop the boats" and so block people from getting on the channel ferry.
chrisonabike 1 hour ago
Mostly pootling about doing urban transport-type cycling I swear by my safety beanie in winter (possibly combined with some neck-sock affair for draft-exclusion). And I'm rarely without a cap in summer, being a bit pasty. Can't tell you they've saved my life, but they've possibly helped me keep my concentration on the job. (Apart from one time where a gust caught my cap and in putting my hand up to grab it I went down. Cap tethers/chinstraps, folks...)
7 thoughts on “Live blog: Video of little girl giving safe overtake lorry driver thumbs-up goes viral, London Quietways under fire after latest death + more”
What it seems like the
What it seems like the Canucks have come up with some really stupid legisaltion in Montreal.
As for World Bicycle Day, I celebrated it by marshalling at a BMX event.
It’s about time someone found
It’s about time someone found the balls to stand up to the brutal cyclists going around with 5 or less reflectors. The sheer number of lives lost to the reckless abandon shown by these cyclists is just astounding.
Yesterday was designated the
Yesterday was designated the first ever World Bicycle Day by the United Nations – sorry, but that one passed me right by. I didn’t know that there was a World Bicycle Day.
On the Montreal thing:
On the Montreal thing:
So a bit more to it than just the reflectors…
Some Canadian Provinces have
Some Canadian Provinces have some strange bike laws. I lived in Halifax, Nova Scotia on the Canadian east coast and when I bought a bike I asked for a set of lights and the bike shop guy said why ? “To ride at night” I replied – ” Not a legal requirement ” he answered -“but you are required to have a helmet – night or day”
And with helmet and reflector
And with helmet and reflector laws cycling has not got safer in Canada, it’s got worse with more deaths and more injuries since they started forcing helmet wearing/increases in helmet wearing across the country.
Yet another backward society that focuses on the vulnerable to protect themselves instead of changing the behaviour of those doing the harm. What utter bullshit.
Lovely video of the fab overtake by the transporter, I had a brilliant overtake on a country road a couple of years ago, after a fair few of the usual crud it was a nice relief so I contacted the firm ( not local but family run business) to give praise and they responded back that they got their drivers out on bikes and made particular training sessions for their drivers when in various scenarios where they might come across people on bikes.
We all have to get some place and that means when you’re in the bigger/biggest thing out there you need to take more time and care with how you do things to minimise the risk for all concerned including yourself.
“twat” can be found on
“twat” can be found on Wikipedia, “supercilious” sadly not.