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How was your cycle commute?

joustmaster said:
Turn that gear cable adjustment thing half a turn.
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thanks, will try that (do you mean the screw on the derailleur? or something else?)

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gentlegreen said:
I have yet to encounter anyone else in Bristol with DIY lights. and I know of only one path user with a properly configured German standard dipped beam.
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What point are you making here?
Why would anyone have DIY lights?
People buy what they can afford from bike shops.
 
Orang Utan said:
What point are you making here?
Why would anyone have DIY lights?
People buy what they can afford from bike shops.
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The worst offenders spend hundreds of pounds in the bike shop and are then determined to shine them in my eyes.
My front light which illuminates the ground and gently tickles reflective clothing cost me £10 plus batteries.
 
gentlegreen said:
As I'm getting tired of pointing out, I was cycling to work on that path before most of them were born.
Unlike others around here, I don't ignore bad behaviour - littering, graffiti, vandalism generally.
This is Suburbia, not central London.
I tackle cars head-on. I formally reported a bus driver yesterday.
If no one does anything it gets worse.
If that someone is me, so be it.
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And yet, ironically, your most serious cycling injury, as far as I can recall from your posts here, was due to your own negligence when your steerer tube snapped. No ninja, moton, cager, idiot, Audi driver or cunt played any part in it.
 
DownwardDog said:
And yet, ironically, your most serious cycling injury, as far as I can recall from your posts here, was due to your own negligence when your steerer tube snapped. No ninja, moton, cager, idiot, Audi driver or cunt played any part in it.
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Had several very near-misses though. You can judge for yourself from my videos.
My ability to survive in spite of the efforts of others doesn't remove my responsibility to attempt to educate at least one idiot now and again.
I have 35 years on two wheels, your average wobbly n00b may come a cropper.
Do you think I should not have reported that bus yesterday ?
 
Hello. :)
When I'm not being the sweariest cycle-cammer in the West, my personal obsession is with optimal DIY bike lighting.

(I'm not a laydeee by the way ;) )
 
Seems counter to all sense to ride so low in heavy traffic. You yourself have already confessed it might kill you
 
Sorry old chap but you're a bit mistaken. My commuting is on an upright bike. I do long-distance rides on the recumbent.

For what it's worth I feel much safer on the recumbent; being such an unusual sight drivers definitely notice the recumbent more.
 
a_chap said:
It's very cool to ride one. :cool:

And after a while you even become immune to the mocking laughter. :mad:
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Come on, admit it. You thrive on the mocking laughter. hehehhe

Do you have one of those flags, just like they put on the C5?

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Out of interest is it a recumbent bike or trike you ride?
 
fredfelt said:
How did you get to know this path user who has a properly configured German standard dipped beam?
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I kept seeing him going up and down with front and back panniers and asked him if he was in training - but the panniers may well have been filled with manure.
He has muscle-wasting disease so his obsession is power input and efficiency.
I rode the 9 miles home with him once in the dark.
The B&M 1 watt dipped beam jobbie is very good - but expensive - and a tad underpowered for me. Since I have the battery to supply 6 watts or more, why not ?
 
I suspect I'm about to report a taxi for doing what the bus did a couple of days ago, but the idiot driver that followed was even worse.
I'm not sure about the third car that came the closest to hitting me - my road positioning was probably a bit off for such a narrow road....



Two minutes, half a mile .... it had all started so well - getting all the way home in daylight.
 
This little lad in a buggy (about two or something, too young to speak properly anyway) being pushed by his mum, pointed at me as I went past proper exited going "Ook at is weews, mummy, ook at is weews". I've got them silver reflective efforts on me spokes which must be what he was looking at.

And a guy in a BMW at a roundabout stopped and gestured for me to go on across his path even though it was his right of way.
 
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