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How was your cycle commute?

gentlegreen said:
At least Chris "look at me in my brand new Jag" Froome hasn't joined in yet ...
There is precious little in common between that sort of "cyclist" and the rest of us.
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Froomestrong's F-Type is low rent compared to Tom Boonen's F12berlinetta...

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The yellow calipers are a bit much but otherwise an excellent choice.
 
gentlegreen said:
At least Chris "look at me in my brand new Jag" Froome hasn't joined in yet ...
There is precious little in common between that sort of "cyclist" and the rest of us.
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A lot of cyclists also drive.

Stop trying to drive wedges between people.
 
Just saying.
I mistrust bling.

But Jag aside, what they do is insane - especially road racers.
As for the track cyclists - they're a bit like the amateur MTBers you get on online forums complaining about being held up by cyclists on their commutes - i.e. cycling is something a sensible person reserves for the weekend when the bike is clamped to a car and taken somewhere out in the sticks.

Chris Boardman's OK - but then he does have bikes to sell...

EDIT :- no that's not fair - just went back and watched one of his interviews - he's very OK. :)
 
I did a bit of a TT this morning of almost exactly 12 miles, and managed it in 42 minutes. It was fairly flat and I got lucky with all the traffic lights bar one.
 
My lighting battery has finally been retired to emergency use after several years. I think the car horn was the final straw.
So I have fitted what is actually a much newer battery - there will be several weeks of bouncing around to make sure it's fully tested before I really need it to work.
 
Another short one this morning, but with a nasty* 10% climb about 1km long.

*Nasty meaning challenging and fun, and 10% is only the average. It's steeper in some parts.
 
My commute tonight will be longer and slower than usual as I will be joining the LCC protest ride. If anyone's interested, gather under London Eye at 6 - for a 6.30 off, and the route heads off round by Houses of Parliament etc.
 
Helmets will not stop people from being killed in many types of collision, but it surely helps avoiding serious concussions/skull breakage in a lot of cases... Make it compulsory? I can't see that happening.
 
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girasol said:
Helmets will stop people from being killed in many types of collision, but it surely helps avoiding serious concussions/skull breakage in a lot of cases... Make it compulsory? I can't see that happening.
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you're right.

no it doesn't

lets hope so.
 
Crispy said:
Really? I came off my bike at speed once, landed on my head, scraped it along the pavement. My helmet looked like it had been on a belt sander. My head was uninjured. I was very glad of it.
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Yeah, me too, the only time I fell off I landed on my head quite hard. no injury, would have been a different story if I wasn't wearing my helmet. I think I posted it here on this thread a few months ago.
 
Not good. The man pulling out of a side road and making me swerve ("I would have been in front of you" he shouted when I remonstrated, leading me to wonder why I'd needed to swerve) set the tone for the rest of the day. And the traffic was apocalyptic.
 
RTI on the south lambeth road this evening, pull up to make sure it's not a rider down, as you do...

pf: Hi, not a cyclist i hope?
pig: No, tho we've had enough of you lot today
pf: Excuse me?
pig: Caught a load of you lot jumping red lights earlier
pf: I see - did one of them cause this? (points to minicab that had clearly t-boned a 4x4
pig: Wouldn't surprise me if it was, *snort*
pf:
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pig: move along now please,
 
Crispy said:
Thousands upon thousands on the LCC protest ride this evening. A rousing sight (and everyone got blinded by the sun shining directly over Westminster Bridge).
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Yeah, it was lovely to see such a long trail of cyclists snaking around Parliament. We were near the front and from Lambeth Bridge we could see thousands coming over Westminster Bridge. Nice.

Not a commute though *slinks away*
 
There was moderately dense fog this morning.
The number of cars without lights was spectacular.
One of them required telling to stop tailgating me down a hill at up to 20MPH.
The safe braking distance at 20MPH may or may not be the 40 feet they used to specify in the highway code, but add the idiocy factor and it's certainly a lot more than practically zero.
 
The schools are still on an in-service day here today. Tomorrow will be the day when I start having to weave around Nissan Qashqais on the hill up by Temple Moor and making sure I stay out of the door zone again.
 
fuck sakes. that's on my route.

GET THE FUCK OFF THE FUCKING ROADS YOU MURDERING CUNTS

and the comments are the same predictably asinine, speculative, victim blaming fuckwittery one can expect from a cycling death related story in the ES.

depressing horseshit
 
A decent number of well reasoned comments too, mind, on why the roads are designed to endanger cyclists, and why these sort of lorries are driven so badly.
 
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