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tbh I don't think they even need a photo with the screens and mangled bike visible, that's pretty upsetting in itself.

Still think companies that operate lorries that don't provide all-round visibility should be held up on corporate manslaughter charges. Not going to speculate that it's a contributory factor here, but it's happened way too often. If you can't move several tonnes of metal without seeing what might be in the way then you really ought not to be moving it at all. You wouldn't allow this on construction sites and have strict rules about banksmen etc. to protect the workforce - why isn't the public afforded the same protection?
 
Took me a while to figure that one out with them riding on the left - presumably a contra flow bike lane on a dual carriageway.

I was fucking furious recently when there were some roadworks narrowing the road in town here, with temporary light (for about 100 m only) and a big sign saying 'cyclists dismount'. Fuck right off, no reason at all for it. Wouldn't have held anyone up over that distance, I was halfway through before the driver at the front even got into gear.
 
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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Didn't realise you were there - I was too!

Had fun. It was a bit tame though (compared to usual Critical Mass shenanigans) but good all the same. We made a point. Whether it does anything is another matter.
 
this overly-aggro, needle-dicked, sorry sack-o-shit liked having his picture taken almost as much as the cyclist he tried to push over whilst riding down KPR liked nearly stacking into a parked car.

don't you just want to smash those twatty sunglasses into his piggy little face?

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cunt. hope you fucking die.
 
I am forever amazed how many people are just arse holes to other road users.:mad:
You would think after 40 years of cycling I would be used to it.:(
 
Well, we better enjoy last day of summer, 10 degree drop in temperature tomorrow... Although I hear September has potential for pleasantness...

Dense fog this morning, even turned my light on, so did all the other cars!
 
Dogsauce said:
Took me a while to figure that one out with them riding on the left - presumably a contra flow bike lane on a dual carriageway.

I was fucking furious recently when there were some roadworks narrowing the road in town here, with temporary light (for about 100 m only) and a big sign saying 'cyclists dismount'. Fuck right off, no reason at all for it. Wouldn't have held anyone up over that distance, I was halfway through before the driver at the front even got into gear.
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Those red or blue ones are advisory only - not that stops you getting the ire from motorists when you cycle on the road.

If you want to put your rage to use here's a start for you http://thecyclingsilk.blogspot.co.uk/2010/07/car-sick-highway-engineers.html

Or you might just find the sign vanishing overnight. ;)
 
girasol said:
Well, we better enjoy last day of summer, 10 degree drop in temperature tomorrow... Although I hear September has potential for pleasantness...

Dense fog this morning, even turned my light on, so did all the other cars!
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I much prefer cooler Autumn weather for cycling. I don't like this heat atall. Sick of getting work all sweaty and red.
 
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I much prefer cooler Autumn weather for cycling. I don't like this heat atall. Sick of getting work all sweaty and red.
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Yep, not great for cycling - but then again sweating is good for the skin. Looking forward to faster cycling times though, been a bit slower lately, due to heat
 
Lovely mist coming off the sea the last couple of days, cooled me right down. No wind either, obviously.

Still need to replace my pedals & fit lights.
 
Great visibility up here, on a flyer going into town, almost certainly best time along the dual carriageway and another tiny segment later on. Stopped to check my progress at a crossing in the centre of town and noticed there was no phone in the mount on the front of my bike, which I hadn't zipped shut properly. Checked I didn't have it in my rucksack (though remembered starting it) and then started tracing my route back. About a mile and a half back I found the phone intact in the cycle lane just before the dual carriageway (at the exit of a petrol station) with the bumper case next to it. Slight scuff on the top corner of the case which took the impact (I'd have been doing 25-30 mph at that point), phone is fine.

Unbelievably lucky that a) phone survived impact; b) nobody ran over it (bike or car); and c) nobody found and kept it in the ten minutes it was sat there.

Think I'll be a bit more careful zipping up in future! Think I'll also rotate the case so the zip closure is at the top rather than the bottom, so it'd be less likely to fall out if I was ever useless enough to forget again.
 
String - you know it makes sense !

My cheapo phone is in a soft wallet with a bootlace attached but it stays in my armpit bag - to which it is sometimes also tied - my bike camera has a loop of string - though amazingly it's yet to bounce out of the handlebar mount.
 
Onket said:
Still need to replace my pedals
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I've always remembered the thread direction by imagining it getting tightened as I pedal, but I learned the other day that that is the opposite intention and that precession actually tends to undo them - or rather won't tighten them so they will never come off.
I learned that to my cost the other year when I used copper grease, but no spanner and the pedal on the crank with the riveted cogs attached worked loose and tore out the threads. :(
 
fredfelt said:
Those red or blue ones are advisory only - not that stops you getting the ire from motorists when you cycle on the road.

If you want to put your rage to use here's a start for you http://thecyclingsilk.blogspot.co.uk/2010/07/car-sick-highway-engineers.html

Or you might just find the sign vanishing overnight. ;)
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It was only there for a day or two, for a cordened off area around a mobile crane that was dismantling a tower crane. There was also a sign further back saying 'cycleway closed' even though there isn't a path/lane on that bit of the road. Fuckwittery of some sort I think.
 
If I cycled in a city with those sorts of vehicles where the drivers had attitudes like that, I imagine I would be somewhat less strict with myself about traffic lights and pavements - within reason.

I would like someone to clearly detail the circumstances of all these "accidents" so we can see if incautious cycling had anything to do with them.
 
Never jumped a red light on a bike in my life. I have frequently jumped off and onto the pavement because a big truck has pulled up behind me at a red light though. Sometimes your spidey sense tingles and it's best not to ignore it.
 
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