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Alejandro Valverde wins 2018 UCI Road World Championship (via UCI on Twitter).JPGLive blog: Alejandro Valverde says "I never tested positive," Frankfurt tow away nearly 800 cars in a month for parking in cycle lanes + 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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one from down under on yesterday's ride - not 100% sure on the law - parking in a bike lane is legal in Victoria unless signs (none) say otherwise - blocking access to/from probably is a parking offence I'm told but at most its around a $95 fine
2018 11 04 Park Rd Donvale car parked start of bike lane.JPG
Footpath parking seems to be default setting for a lot of Drivers, no matter the situation. I have noticed an increase in people parking a few inches onto the footpath in locations where it makes no difference "Emergency Sevices might need to get by" ... Well, don't fucking parking there if Emergency Services are so important to you.
I was almost starting to feel sorry for Valverde, thinking that he was getting a disproportionate amount of stick, but then he goes and says something like this and any sympathy disappears. So he was just storing his blag with a highly notable doctor linked to doping for prosperity?
Valverde: "I never tested positive". Oh well, that has a long history as a valid defence then....
I used to be a bit of a bookie in my early teens and was fascinated with long words, I can't recal many so had to look it up but some of the longer words in every day use are in German, Finnish + Scandanavian words too
Bezirksschornsteinfegermeister - head district chimney sweep
Donaudampfschiffahrtsgesellschaftskapitän - Danube Steam boat river captain
it's a process called agglutination. The second word breaks up quite easily into "Danube steam ship travel business captain".
you'll enjoy this one, which I'm going to practice shouting at recalcitrant drivers, just to disorient them:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lopadotemachoselachogaleokranioleipsanod...
I don't recall seeing that in Auguste Escoffier's Reportoire de la Cuisine, that's a belter!
I think it's not so much the police that wouldn't touch it as local councils.
I love the word Abschleppdienst.
some of the German nouns are pure class. While the compound nouns are in a league of their own. I still break into cold sweats thinking about it and trying to get my tongue around them when I attempted and failed my German O’Level quite spectacularly.
Except clearly the prospect of your car being towed has no effect on driver behaviour as (a) there are dozens of tow companies making a healthy living from doing this already, and (b) inspite of a month of warning, 850 drivers in one city still parked on the bike paths. Useful as revenge, but not sure how useful as a deterrent. Perhaps if the cars were then crushed......
Duplicate post.
Would love to see that happen in places around the UK, but it would be seen as more of the Great War on the Motorist (TM) and no police force would touch it.
Think they would need to build a bigger compound first.
nah, just crush them and deposit the offending cube of scrap metal on their porch.
It's a bit of a giggle commuting (by bike/car/bus/horse/whatever) down Hotwell Road in the morning - any of the cars left in the left-hand lane just get picked up and stuck on the back of a lorry
You realise that they have to do that *every* morning- there are some people down there seem to think that recovery charge is just part of the cost of running their car, it seems...