Police warning as cyclist garroted by rope in woods; Pimlico Plumbers ‘make citizen’s arrest’ of alleged Bentley bashing cyclist; Vine calls for end to “traffic sewer” on Brighton seafront; Evenepoel sick of Eddy Merckx comparisons + more on the live blog
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Garmin launches 'Pause Training Status' feature
If you’re injured or taking a holiday and don’t want Garmin telling you how little training you’ve been doing as if everything was normal, you can now pause your training status completely and leave it paused until you start up again.
Garmin say there are situations “when tracking your training status can be demotivating or even counterproductive”, so rather than watching your status drain you can just get back on the horse when you’re ready to. Selecting the pause function will also hide feedback such as your VO2 max, fitness trend, 7-day load and recovery time. Daily suggested workouts are also suspended until training status is resumed.
To use the function on a Garmin Edge cycling computer, simply select ‘My Stats’ from the home screen, press ‘Training Status’ and then select ‘Pause Training Status’.
"Why don't you use the cycle lane?"
Expect you to slam into this kerb? pic.twitter.com/XkwJ25XY9u
— Clockwise (@Clockwisesss) August 28, 2020
Another one for the archives.
Remco Evenepoel really doesn't like being called 'the new Merckx'. At all.
STOP comparing, please!
I’m not like somebody else, nobody is like me. Everybody is just him- or herself and that should be respected.
So just please stop it.
Nobody can be a new version of something he or she has never been and will never be.
Merci.— Remco Evenepoel (@EvenepoelRemco) August 28, 2020
It appears the 20-year-old Belgian isn’t too keen on the comparisons with the great Eddy Merckx, venting on social media for everyone to “please stop it” with the wild predictions: “Nobody can be a new version of something he or she has never been and will never be”, he says.
Perhaps a particular interview question or speculative media reporting pushed his buttons, but it’s clear the Deceuninck–Quick-Step rider doesn’t want the pressure and the expectation that will come with being tipped to emulate arguably the greatest cyclist of all time. Some fans aren’t being overly sympathetic on his Twitter page…
STUPID 🙄
— Remco Evenepoel (@EvenepoelRemco) August 28, 2020
Is the young prodigy (as he’d hate to be called) being a little over sensitive here?
Pimlico Plumbers claim to have made a citizen's arrest on a cyclist who allegedly vandalised their CEO's Bentley
Police take action against bike criminal after Pimlico security team make citizen’s arrest.
Click below for more information 👇 pic.twitter.com/A3chM8HxgB
— Pimlico (@PimlicoPlumbers) August 27, 2020
This strange episode has just got stranger, as Pimlico Plumbers have now published a blog post where they claim to have detained a vandal who allegedly damaged the Bentley that belongs to their chairman Charlie Mullins.
Last week, Pimlico published a video showing the alleged culprit in the act, asking social media to help them track him down. The male cyclist, on a Santander Cycle hire bike, appeared to kick out a wing mirror on the luxury car, but some people accused Pimlico of faking it following a number of anti-cyclist comments made by the company on their website and on social media in recent weeks.
The statement says: “This morning the Pimlico security team made a citizen’s arrest of the cyclist who made a ride-by attack on Pimlico chairman Charlie Mullins’ Bentley while it was parked outside the company’s Sail Street headquarters.
“Since the mindless act of vandalism last week where the man rode close to the parked car and kicked and damaged its passenger side wing mirror the team has been on the lookout for the criminal responsible and today they were able to stop and hold him as he rode past on another Boris bike.
“The police were called and the culprit is now being dealt with by the authorities after admitting his guilt to the responding officer.”
Surprised you don’t show the CCTV footage of the citizen arrest you’ve already shown the alleged crime.
Can @metpoliceuk confirm the arrest too as you didn’t strangely tag them to express your gratitude— Doug Mcfarlane (@DougMcfarlane3) August 27, 2020
And the cycling mafia tried to deny he’d done anything !!!! He admitted his guilt to the police.
— WestminsterDragoon (@DavidThurlow1) August 27, 2020
There has been no confirmation from the police that they are involved other than Pimlico’s word, and some continue to accuse them of staging the act of vandalism; but their ‘supporters’ have hailed this as proof that it wasn’t just a publicity stunt.
Grant Shapps announces "first-of-its-kind" pothole mapping project, using data from Deliveroo and Uber
In addition to fixing roads during lockdown, today I’ve announced a first-of-its-kind pothole mapping project, working with businesses like @Uber @Deliveroo @Ocado @Tesco to target nuisance potholes & make roads safer for everyone as people return to the office and school 🛣️🚗🚴 pic.twitter.com/MrlPVQ1ynd
— Rt Hon Grant Shapps MP (@grantshapps) August 28, 2020
The Transport Secretary says that the government have enlisted the help of companies such as Uber and Deliveroo to combat potholes. Information published at midnight on gov.uk says that mapping data will be used from these businesses to identify hotspots for repairs, and the work will be accelerated ahead of schools going back next week to make roads safer for cyclists and motorists. They also claim 319 miles worth of resurfacing works have taken place during lockdown, made possible by the quieter roads.
Not everyone is quite so enthusiastic…
Why don’t you try and construct proper roads in the first place, so you don’t need to spend so much taxpayers money on repairs. Just take other EU countries as an example. Oh wait, we’ve just turned our back on all those…
— Alex 🇳🇱🇪🇺🇬🇧🇵🇱 (@Mul_Alexander) August 28, 2020
I’ll believe it when I see it.
How about funding councils properly in the first place?
— Daniel Winter (@dcwinter) August 28, 2020
If you want to report potholes, you can go directly to the Highways Agency or use apps such as Fill That Hole and FixMyStreet.
Protestors against London Low Traffic Neighbourhood schemes accused of pouring oil on roads to injure cyclists
Please be careful when cycling along Midhurst Ave today, contractors have applied some absorbent material to the carriageway to soak up the oil. @EalingCyclists @SpacePootler @darrenmoore @jamesinealing pic.twitter.com/wfjeLeJnrH
— Robin Williamson 🚴♀️ 🎸🚂 🇪🇺 (@stuntbutt) August 28, 2020
If true, it appears people who have a problem with lower levels of rat-running traffic in their neighbourhood have sunk to a new level of cowardice and stupidity, as there have been various reports of oil on roads where planters have been installed to prevent through traffic in London.
This is the oil poured on Midhurst Road and there is more on Northcroft Road. I’m not connected to any cycling groups but please can anyone who is warn cyclists? @metcc @envagency @xrealing @saddleblaze @spacepootler @cathrosepg @rbourchier @darrenmoore @standardnews pic.twitter.com/Rrja1vYVmc
— Ellie Lock (@ellielockx) August 27, 2020
Full story to follow.
Jeremy Vine calls for an end to "traffic sewer" on Brighton seafront
Let’s be honest, anyone who has visited #Brighton despairs at that traffic sewer that runs alongside the beach. This is probably the moment to close the filthy seafront road completely and let this beautiful town breathe its own sea air at last. pic.twitter.com/99kR8rvGoD
— Jeremy Vine (@theJeremyVine) August 27, 2020
The broadcaster didn’t mince his words when giving his opinion on the future of Brighton’s seafront, which controversially had a 600m section of cycle lane removed yesterday because of concerns over congestion. The council’s lead member for transport Pete West told The Argus: “Congestion on this stretch has had a knock-on for major bus routes and delays to bus journey times – that is unacceptable.”
Of course another way to reduce the congestion would be for people to stop driving so much, but that appears to be a step too far and Brightonians remain bitterly divided over the issue…
I’m from Brighton (born & bred) and I’d like:
– more and better cycle lanes
– more restrictions on cars in town
– better bus routes to help speed up the bus services across town.— Abigail Dombey (@AbigailDombey) August 27, 2020
Scicon launch new Aerowing and Aeroshade sunglasses
The new shades have dropped on the eve of the Tour de France, with Team Emirates, Israel Start-Up Nation and NTT Pro Cycling all rocking Scicon eyewear for Le Tour.
Both are wide and retro-looking as seems to be the norm nowadays, and the Aerowing has a ‘rimless cylindrical shield’ on the face with a vented brow construction to allow for extra airflow.
Scicon claim the Aeroshade’s Horizon Adapt system is the world’s first height adjustable nose pad, which allows riders to tailor the field of vision depending on their preferred riding position with a push or pull on the nose piece. Like the Aerowing, they have interchangeable lenses that are impact resistant with 100% UV protection.
The Aerowing is priced at £160 and the Aeroshade is £170, both are available now through Scicon’s website and numerous retailers.
Extinction Rebellion activists arrested after blocking Clifton Suspension Bridge in Bristol
THE REBELLION HAS BEGUN.
Two @xryouthbristol members have locked on the the iconic Bristol suspension bridge. @XRebellionUK @ExtinctionR @XRBristol pic.twitter.com/DCe5Kxdr73
— Extinction Rebellion Youth (@XrYouth) August 27, 2020
Avon and Somerset Police say two females were arrested at 11pm last night on suspicion of wilful obstruction of the highway and conspiracy to cause a public nuisance… and now the police are closing the bridge to all vehicles, cyclists and pedestrians for four days in response.
Site is fully set up with stage and first workshop is now beginning! Come on down 🙂 pic.twitter.com/FkoJlf5J7p
— XRYouth UK (@xryouthuk) August 28, 2020
Extinction Rebellion (XR) are reportedly planning a four day protest, with the Bristol Post reporting that they plan to block motor traffic with an elephant and take over “key sites” in Bristol. XRYouth UK said on their Twitter account: “Police last night took the decision to completely close the Clifton Suspension Bridge, for potentially up to 4 days. XR Youth intended to close it from 7 – 4 for traffic while remaining open to pedestrians and bikes. As a result of the closure we are now by the bridge entrance.”
XR Youth are also holding ‘socially distanced events’ at the site of the Suspension Bridge, erecting a transportable stage and running workshops on the subject of the climate crisis.
Cycling Mikey meets a cycling plumber
I got to meet the awesome Shane Topley, cycling plumber. He does heading too. 07973 558 426. Much better option than cycle-hating Pimlico Plumbers. pic.twitter.com/ucLrVkNU9S
— ⚫ CyclingMikey aka Bike Gandalf 🇪🇺🇳🇱🇿🇼 (@MikeyCycling) August 27, 2020
With a not-so-subtle dig at Pimlico Plumbers, the camera cyclist shows that a plumber can indeed trade without needing a van for the vast majority of jobs.
For those based in the south west, there’s also Pedal Powered Plumbing of Bristol – the website can be found here. Feel free to post more cycle-friendly plumber recommendations in the comments below.
Cycling UK unveil new 350km off-road cycle route in southern England
The King Alfred’s Way loops takes riders on an adventure through Surrey, Hampshire, Wiltshire and Berkshire, featuring gravel tracks and trails with plenty of ups and downs. If you decide to make an epic weekend/week of it and take on the whole route you’ll pass Stonehenge, the Avebury and Iron Age hill forts at Old Sarum and Barbury Castle while taking in some quintessential English countryside.
Cycling UK say they’ve spent three years working on the route, which connects the North Downs Way, South Downs Way, Ridgeway and Thames Path. Some sections were upgraded to allow cycling on existing footpaths, and existing bridleways, byways and quiet country lanes were also added in.
Cycling UK’s campaign officer Sophie Gordon commented: “The pandemic has understandably changed the British public’s appetite for foreign travel but with King Alfred’s Way we’re hoping to at least quench its thirst for adventure.
“There’s no need to fly or, for many, even travel far for a challenging trip. King Alfred’s Way is 220 miles of literal ups and downs looping through a quintessential southern England made up of thatched cottages, Iron Age hill forts and stone circles.”
You can find the online route map here.
Could this self-charging battery revolutionise e-bikes? NDB's nano-diamond creation could last years without needing to be charged
Could charging your phone, e-bike and electric car become a thing of the past? Read more about this potential battery breakthrough from US tech company NDB over on eBikeTips.
Tour de France socially distanced team presentation ceremony
An eyewitness clip of ISN’s @LeTour presentation ceremony , brought to you by our own @Neilands_K . The best angle in the house! pic.twitter.com/RBSWjmoyZg
— Israel Start-Up Nation / Israel Cycling Academy (@YallaIsraelSUN) August 28, 2020
Presentación de equipos en Niza, las tres semanas más intensas de la temporada empiezan mañana!
Team presentation in Nice, the three most intense weeks of the season start tomorrow!@LeTour @Movistar_Team 📸 @bettiniphoto pic.twitter.com/iyVhYxjc1b
— Enric Mas Nicolau (@EnricMasNicolau) August 28, 2020
Compared to the party that road.cc attended in Brussels last year, things were obviously quite different at the 2020 ceremony in Nice, with spectators and media sat apart at a safe distance. Find out all your need to know about the Tour that nearly never happened in our stage-by-stage guide.
Great Britain para-cyclist Liz Clarke-Saul dies from rare bone cancer
It is with great sadness that we received the news that para-cyclist Liz Clarke-Saul has passed away. The thoughts of everyone at British Cycling are with Liz’s family and friends.
Read the full tribute here: https://t.co/0VqefGlvLB pic.twitter.com/VM4IdO1q4H
— British Cycling (@BritishCycling) August 28, 2020
British Cycling say in their statement that Clarke-Saul passed away on 20th July, having suffered from a highly rare bone cancer called adamantinoma since the age of 12. After having her leg amputated because of the cancer age 14, Clarke-Saul joined the Great Britain para-cycling team in 2014, competing in the 2015 and 2016 Para-Cycling Track World Championships. Her cancer returned in 2018 and was incurable, which prevented her from competing at the 2018 UCI Road World Championships.
British Cycling’s Head of Para-cycling Jon Pett said: “Liz was a valued member of the para-cycling squad since she joined us in June 2014, and I know I speak for all of the para-cycling staff when I say she was a pleasure to work with.
“She was a great person to have on the team – always happy, always upbeat and an amazing attitude towards life, despite everything she was facing.
“The Great Britain team riders and staff who worked with Liz have been saddened by the news, but I know it will make us more determined than ever to perform to the best of our ability, in Liz’s memory. Our thoughts at this time are with Liz’s husband Jack and her family.”
To find out more about the Liz Clarke-Saul fund to raise money to support pioneering research into adamantinoma, click here.
Police warning in Thetford after cyclist is garroted by a rope
In yet another depressing incident of extreme violence that appears to be aimed at cyclists, Norfolk Police have issued a warning after a cyclist was garroted by a rope strung between trees.
Police say the 25-year-old man was left with “extensive lacerations” across his neck after falling victim to the trap in woods next to Edinburgh Way in Thetford. Shockingly, wood containing nails was also placed at head height down alleyways that are regularly used by cyclists from Edinburgh Way and Durham Way used by cyclists.
PC Nike Harris commented: “We are concerned as these throughways are sometimes used by cyclists on their way to from work. We do not know why the rope and wood has been put in place but it may be in attempt to discourage cyclists and bikers.
“We would ask you report anti-social behaviour in the areas to police rather than take matters into your own hands if this is the case. Although we know these routes are not strictly meant for cyclists or bikers we do not want to find people are being seriously injured.”
Norfolk Police have asked anyone with information to contact PC Harris on 101, quoting crime reference 36/60081/20.
Deceuninck Quick-Step selling 'Wolfpack' baby clothes
After their ‘Back to School’ range launched recently, Quick-Step’s merchandise push appears to know no bounds with their new Wolfpack Baby collection. There are baby socks, bibs (as in a bib bib, not bib shorts) and a romper available, with the latter featuring ‘TheLittleWolf’ embroidered across the front, with a number on the back just like the pros in races.
All are for sale now on the Deceuninck Quick-Step website.
28 August 2020, 08:50
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Near Miss of the Day 465: NZ bus driver in punishment pass
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28 August 2020, 08:50
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I've had a Komoot subscription for a few years. I won't be using the ChatGPT thing as everything about AI is objectionable, but that apart, the remark above about 'don't send me down a muddy gravel track' is absolutely on the nose. I first got Komoot as a way in to my local off-road routes, which did work, so if I'm planning a road ride I have to examine the Komoot route carefully as it does default to the shoddiest surface available. I think Komoot was always off-road focussed so this is simply in its nature.
Can it go lower than that? Also, what's the maximum rear cog one can configure? One would assume with a virtual set up like this that the range is more or less infinite but "up to" makes it sound as though there are limits.
Correct. The Guardian is not a source of scientific data. It is a newspaper that REPORTS on the findings of scientists. And scientists are almost unanimous that anthropocentric global warming is real and represents a thereat to humanity. Anyway, this article isn't from the Guardian, so I don't know why you're wanging on about it.
Have the people complaining actually tried the ChatGPT for Komoot app? It doesn't sound like it to me. Because if they had, they would have much more specific complaints about how crap it is. (I'm going to confess I'm a bit of a hypocrite - I haven't tried it myself, as I don't have a ChatGPT account (I do have a Komoot account). But plenty of examples on the internet of people trying it and getting routes that have seemingly little relationship to the prompt supplied).
“planning the race for the morning hours and avoiding the afternoons could substantially increase rider and spectator safety” but it would reduce the appeal to sponsors and TV broadcasters, who pay the bills and so are far more important than the riders and spectators. It's therefore not going to happen. Even making a last-minute switch in extreme situations probably won't work because of the amount of logistics and people involved - the TdF is SO much bigger than the Tour Down Under.
Ah, the scientific rigour of the climate-change-denying right, a blank assertion with no evidence offered coupled with an insult. Pathetic.
Or, in higher temperatures, use ice jackets and ice bundles which can be replenished from the support car.
A cooling sleeve cools you down for maybe 30 minutes and then it becomes a hassle, it also prevents heat leaving the body as an "empty" sleeve now becomes an extra layer. It does make some sense for a time, but in the long run it's just problematic to use. It's just much easier to just pour water over your body.
This kind of journalism makes me laugh. As climate change brings ecological breakdown and migration on a biblical scale and international food security puts the price of food out of most people's pockets then there isn't going to be any bike racing in the morning or any other time. Get an allotment and learn how to protect it. Good luck everyone.
I often wonder why they don't wear cooling arm sleeves and cooling hats under their helmets. At a guess it's probably something to do with 'the rules', as this is road racing. Headsweats caps and similar make a big difference to how hot you get and you avoid getting your head sunburnt through the gaps in your helmet.
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Why is twitterer Clockwise
Why is twitterer Clockwise wearing one brown and one black shoe?
Because they’re “Like a
Because they’re “Like a maverick only different.” Apparently.
I think he has ‘a thing’. In
I think he has ‘a thing’. In his profile he is wearing one red and one blue.
With the actual lane though,
With the actual lane though, I’m guessing the drop kerb installtion team are well behind the splash car proof paint on the floor team. I wonder when the shared path sign erection team will arrive to drop the pole at just level where the cyclists would mount the pavement.
Edit. Looks like it is a oneway road with new added contraflow. That top end looks like it could be abit tight.
Re: Pimilico. So if he DID IT
Re: Pimilico. So if he DID IT etc, to ride past again seemed strange unless he just had not seen the news from before. Also, a citizens arrest is very vague and they could easily have been done for holding someone against there will. But as the owner parks his car illegally anyway I suppose that is something they will be let off for.
The stench of bulls**t is
The stench of bulls**t is very strong on this story. I’m definately not inclined to believing conspiracy theories, but this has more holes than a swiss cheese.
If you start out with a pack
If you start out with a pack of lies, it’s very hard to stop as the falsehoods unravel.
An encore here for the actor concerned?
Come on Met Police, tell us what’s really going on here!
It’s just crap attempt at
It’s just crap attempt at some internet advertising. It also just proves how gullible people are. Same people that will get ripped off when their ‘reverse flow pipe actuator’ needs placing at great cost.
It’s just crap attempt at
It’s just crap attempt at some internet advertising. It also just proves how gullible people are.
Re: The Plumbers. That was a name for a covert White House Special Investigations Unit, established during the presidency of Richard Nixon and which led to Watergate. It appears to me that the present Plumbers are displaying commensurate levels of truthfulness. We all know that getting any action out of the police for close passing, red-light crashing etc. requires photographic proof for it to get beyond the incident number allocation stage. Therefore The Plumbers would have had to prove to the police that an offence had been committed- a load of disputable pictures which do not include at least this minimal proof that the wing mirror was damaged would get nowhere- and that’s even before you get to the stage of proving that this ‘cyclist’ did it. It seems improbable that The Plumbers would not include the damage ‘proof’ in all the publicity, if they had it. The police, of course, are not obliged to tell us anything- so it’s up toThe Plumbers to give us some convincing evidence that their story is being acted upon by the police before we need to take their crude attempts seriously. For now, it’s safe to assume it’s a rather pathetic con.
AlsoSomniloquism wrote:
As well as being made up…was the footage really good enough for them to do this arrest? And for him to immediately confess?
Pimlico plumbers were widely hated in non cycling circles before this btw, let’s not make it a cyclists vs dickheads argument
A bit daft to attempt a
A bit daft to attempt a citizen’s arrest on an unknown individual who vaguely matches a grainy CCTV picture. Could lead to charges of assault.
(If any of it happened).
The owner looks like an
The owner looks like an Aliexpress Alan Sugar. LOL at those two ‘security’ men. Very scary.
Thats the head of security in
Thats the head of security in the centre, the owners appearence is like a plastic-wrapped Rod Stewart Lookalike contest entry.
Good to get more active on
Good to get more active on potholes, but why oh why do councils insist of throwing tonnes of gravel onto nice quiet lanes perfect for cycling in the name of road repairs..
I had to hold on tight yesterday on a descent with upto 15% sections covered in dressed stones.
The troble is how will they
The trouble is how will they detect them. If it is something like SEE Sense where it monitors via a giro, then it can easily throw false positives or miss ones that the vans don’t hit or react to. (the long skinny cracks just the right width for a 30C tyre for example).
And if it uses laser measuting of some description, how far across the road will it “see”. Again some of the worst ones are next to drainage covers which some cyclists cycle by too close giving the car overlords more space so they are spared any wrath and judgement.
Not just on nice quiet lanes.
Not just on nice quiet lanes.
Bristol CC have just road-dressed Queens Road in Clifton.
This is what it looks like on Streetview (before road dressing, obviously, because you can’t see the drifts of loose gravel…):
I fully agree with you. I
I fully agree with you. I suspect the contractor gets paid by the length of road dressed. So quiet country roads are easy money for them. They will also leave the harder roads till last. Around here, the roundabouts are awful, full of holes that occasionally get splatted with a spade full and then slapped a few times. It’s not great dodging the holes and the drivers.
I thought you had to do a
I thought you had to do a citizens arrest there and then – I didn’t realise that you could run a full citizens investigation, then a citizens stakeout, and only then do a citizens arrest…
Isn’t that called just being a vigilante?
(Or a liar, in this case…).
I think you’re correct:
I think you’re correct:
Section 24 PACE 1984
Arrest without warrant: other persons
(1)A person other than a constable may arrest without a warrant—
(a)anyone who is in the act of committing an indictable offence;
(b)anyone whom he has reasonable grounds for suspecting to be committing an indictable offence.
I see on the Twitter thread
I see on the Twitter thread they refuse to accept this as law.
Someone else claims there is a de minimus amount for criminal damage and so a citizen’s arrest was not lawful in if caught in the act and not a week later.
IanMK wrote:
Clearly none of this applies to a militia group like Pimlico Security. I look forward to reading about them being sued for illegal arrest.
Why do they need security
Why do they need security anyhow ???
I wonder how many customers’
I wonder how many customers’ (I’m sure entirely-reasonable but nonetheless deeply resented) call-out charges went to pay for said Bentley? Perhaps that’s why they feel the need for security.
Quote:
In the interest of fairness, I have added the rest of that section and highlighted the three bits that potentially make it legal. However I’ve also undelined the one that probably doesn’t. Unless his wing mirror costs more then £5000, it is not indictable I believe. (Although it is a pissing bentley so who knows).
I don’t think a week after
I don’t think a week after you can claim ‘reasonable grounds for suspecting to be guilty of it’ based on a CCTV image which could be any old bod.
Was there any evidence of a broken mirror ?
hirsute wrote:
Given their otherwise clear and crisp CCTV switches to an extremely blurry snapshot for the “moment of impact” which appears to be to hide the fact there was no contact, NO there is no evidence of a damaged mirror.
Watching the video, the cyclist never wobble, the pedestrian crossing the road never looked around to see what the noise was. I cannot see there was any damage.
I don’t know if they have
I don’t know if they have fixed it now, but less than 50 metres from the location of photo of the cycle lane in Croydon there is another issue. They have two cycle lanes side by side, with the arrows telling cyclists heading south to use the right hand lane. At the other end of the cycle lane about 100 metres on the cyclist riding north are directed to ride in the same cycle lane). Thus if people ride in the lanes the paint tells them to ride in they will have head on collisions. I did email the council about it, but have had no response. Clearly the people installing the lanes in Croydon don’t really think….
Surely, Brighton Pavillions
Surely, Brighton Pavillions is a Green Party seat and Brighton and Hove UA are controlled by the Greens. How can someone think this is just a “tiny minority of weirdo greenies, that more often than not aren’t even from Brighton”.
I think their “complaint” is
I think their “complaint” is that those pesky Green voters aren’t real Brightonians as they don’t come from Brighton and are only there studying for a few years. No true Brightonian would want clearer, less polluted roads …
I live just north of Brighton (not born there so my views don’t count, of course) and it’s a traffic mess and has been for years. A few bike lanes aren’t going to have suddenly created congestion.
All normal Bristolians want.
All normal Bristolians want. Is to understand. How to use punctuation?
Punctuation? Difficult, it is
Punctuation? Difficult, it is.
The considerate thing to do
The considerate thing to do would be to stop and ask if they are in need of a punctuation repair kit.
mdavidford wrote:
There was a prog on R4 yesterday about punctuation; apparently it’s threatening.
eburtthebike wrote:
In what way is punctuation threatening? And, threatening to whom?
brooksby wrote:
I was only half listening, but in twitland, where punctuation is rare, using it is threatening.
brooksby wrote:
Full stops in text messages, specifically. Apparently the younger generation (*sound the sweeping generalisation klaxon*) who’ve grown up not using them see them as conveying aggression (presumably in messages to each other – I don’t imagine they think granny is being aggressive when she texts them “Happy birthday, dear.”).
We are the knights who say
We are the knights who say ‘full stop’.
Really? They’d hate me, then.
Really? They’d hate me, then. My text messages usually have full stops, semicolons, and the Oxford comma.
It’s a DOOR mirror, not a
It’s a DOOR mirror, not a “wing” mirror.
Are we really going here
Are we really going here again, so soon?
swldxer wrote:
i see the needle is still stuck.
On the King Alfred’s Way,
On the King Alfred’s Way, there was an article about it in today’s Grauniad.
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2020/aug/28/like-cycling-through-history-220-mile-king-alfreds-way-launched
My favourite bit was
I mean – this new route has just opened, with the Cycling UK imprimatur no less, and the journalist reporting on it had to walk through a ford because a footbridge was blocked?
Not the journo, the press
Not the journo, the press officer for Cycling UK.
There’s a place for rough,
There’s a place for rough, off-road rides, but I really wish they would concentrate their efforts on accessible-to-all traffic-free tarmacked paths.
They would have a much wider appeal and draw more people into riding bikes.
The Route along the cyclable
The Route along the cyclable part of the Thames Path from Reading to Goring has some proper off road sections, there is a valley just after Whitchurch that is stepped on one side, almost unrideable up or down. And the Ridgeway, I’m very pleased I had 2 inch knobblies and it was almost bone dry when I rode it.
I like the idea of the route and will at some point ride south from Reading to Farnham, easy train back from North Camp.
NR 68 in Northumberland has
NR 68 in Northumberland has some very tricky areas which for my tiny level of off road skill needs chunky tyres. Even on my gravel bike, admittedly with quite a worn rear tyre, I had to walk up from one ford a few weeks ago. I was with my son who had his road bike with 25mm slicks and road shoes – he didn’t even bother trying to ride up.
What it would be like with a laden tourer, or recumbent or something, I can only imagine. It would be useful to have more information on route signs if the path is unsuitable for road bikes. But then the signage needs a lot of improvement across the network and that isn’t cheap.
HarrogateSpa wrote:
can’t it be both? the budget for constructing and maintaining tarmac cycle routes will be barely touched by creation of this route which is mostly research and discussions with landowners.
certainly they could not create a route of this scale in the manner you suggest, without major government funding.
I like tarmac.
I like tarmac.
Every time I ride on the Pill Path out of Bristol I think “I’m sure its not as bad as I remember” and every time, it is.
Did I say I like tarmacced surfaces…?
Isn’t that place the Stray
Isn’t that place the Stray after the world championships set it all up for ungrateful locals?
My bad
My bad 🙁
The route goes right past my
The route goes right past my front window in Farnham and there is a permanent locked gate at the end of the street to stop rat running which means getting off to go round on the pavement. It was put in ten years ago and still most days there is traffic that has to reverse to back out. There is also a subway crossing under the A325 they appear to use that is cycling prohibited as well. I’m quite looking forward to trying the route as I have a natural start and end point.
Surely the biggest question
Surely the biggest question us why is the person taking photos of the cycle lane kerb trap wearing odd shoes?
Literally first post in the
Literally first post in the comments wycombe.
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Funny, being as it caused serious injuries and could have lead to a death, I would suggest it is there to kill and not to discourage and when the culprit is found, they should be charged with attempted murder.
And anyone sent the story to Rob Liddle yet? I’m sure he might reward the offender.
With those powers of
With those powers of deduction, he’s not going to make detective any time soon, is he?
I would read that as the
I would read that as the police are aware of some local tensions about use (or should that be misuse) of that part of woodland, and the cyclist was unfortunately caught up in whatevers been going on there of late. I dont beleive its an anti cycling thing fwiw.
Pimlico are now claiming that
Pimlico are now claiming that the perp has agreed to pay for damages so they will not prosecute him, thought that was the cps’ job, conveniently.
But they handed him over to
But they handed him over to the Police, so nothing to do with the Plumbers what happens to the alleged criminal.
Any news on the illegal parking ?
I don’t know, I believe they,
I don’t know, I believe they, as alledged victims could tell the police not to take it any further. It does depend on the crime though but I think they also realised they could be looking at costs and potentially counter damages depending on how the Citizens Arrest was potentially performed.
I’m treating the whole thing as potentially really happened rather then definitely fake though until proven one way or the other. However I would also like to know about the parking, but that is council enforcement and not Police.
Pimlico are now claiming that
Pimlico are now claiming that the perp has agreed to pay for damages so they will not prosecute him
Still looks like an inept con. I wonder if the plumbing is as bad?
wtjs wrote:
We need someone in the security office to leak.
The truth needs to be flushed
The truth needs to be flushed out.
King Alfred’s Way: Excellent!
King Alfred’s Way: Excellent! I’ll go and do it- it’s several decades since I walked the South Downs Way, and I’ve hardly been round the area since. Surreptitious campsites may require all my clandestine skills.
Couple of things. Councils
Couple of things. Councils must stand strong in the face of opposition to LTNs. The only thing that would improve active travel is political will.
Second thing – that photo of the Pimlico Plumbers ‘security team’ looks a bit Village People. You can easily imagine a feathered headdress, a biker’s helmet, a workman’s tool . . . . . . Anyone any good with photoshop?
I’m lucky enough for my
I’m lucky enough for my street to have become a LTN as part of these measures. All they have to do is listen to the residents, which they are doing via the ongoing online consultation during the trial. Even those who initially opposed it or were against it in principle are now seeing the benefits of cleaner air, less noise and no fast/aggressive traffic in the neighbourhood, easier parking.
although I thought the
although I thought the superfluous comma in your second sentence was sacrilegious to the English language
Not as heinous as the crimes against spelling and grammar exhibited by the complainant.