Arriving at road.cc in 2017 via 220 Triathlon Magazine, Jack dipped his toe in most jobs on the site and over at eBikeTips before being named the new editor of road.cc in 2020, much to his surprise. His cycling life began during his students days, when he cobbled together a few hundred quid off the back of a hard winter selling hats (long story) and bought his first road bike - a Trek 1.1 that was quickly relegated to winter steed, before it was sadly pinched a few years later. Creatively replacing it with a Trek 1.2, Jack mostly rides this bike around local cycle paths nowadays, but when he wants to get the racer out and be competitive his preferred events are time trials, sportives, triathlons and pogo sticking - the latter being another long story.
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I believe it is time to test speed safety once and for all. Let's experiment by picking one street in London, completely at random, and switching between enforcing a return to the days of cars having to drive behind a man waving a flag, and on alternate days setting a minimum speed limit of 50mph. Then, after say ten years of recording how many people are knocked down under each condition, we'll have plenty of data to draw some conclusions. I've got a map with me now, and I'm closing my eyes and pointing... Oh, look at that, my finger has landed on Tufton Street, what a coincidence.
Are these 'tax' dodgers supported by the US Embassy? I really don't understand the thinking of the far right; they really just want to sit in their castles whilst the world dissolves around them.
Not funded by the US state, but by US 'special interest groups'.
Make the world Merica, and all that.
Small state politics - lower taxes, the state has no income so cannot pay for any social type stuff. Health and social care and law enforcement all paid for by private subscription or insurance, the rich can afford it so they don't care. Any taxes are an imposition on the freedom of the rich to become richer, so should be done away with.
(Yes, the poor will get poorer, and can't afford the insurance, and the state isn't there as a safety net or to pay police or empty the bins, but that's just the law of the jungle or something isn't it? What are you: some sort of communist?)
Comrade!
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Tax Payers' Alliance? Given who funds them, shouldn't that be the Tax Avoiders' Alliance?
What's a protected cycle lane?
Presumably a bit more than a bit of signage.
The only good car is a crushed car.
The only good car is a crushed car.
The only good car is a crushed car.
I disagree...
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In a nutshell, that is rather a tasty car interior!
I've got VW. It's on its third turbo. It's needed two new brake calipers, the central locking keeps going faulty, an electric window packed up, it's required work to the ABS, a new fuel filter housing. The alloy wheels corrode and the bodywork is rusting.
So much for German engineering. Somehow, if it were a Citroën, I would not be so piqued by the rubbish quality.
So for ferrying bikes, maybe a Citroën Berlingo next time. Can't be worse than a VW!
Though I no longer drive it (parked in the garage for the last 20 months) my Passat estate has been brilliant, 2001 B5.5 model, the only issue was the clogging up of the stupidly placed drain plug under the battery (which is a bstd to get out) that causes the passenger footwell to get wet if you don't periodically unblock it.
Other than that I found it to be a bloody brilliant car, same turbo after 130k, no clutch problems, replaced an electric window internals for £50 by buying the whole thing and 30 mins work by a local garage but that was when it was 120k/14yrs old. Some say those PD engines are just getting run in at 100k and I tend to agree, I had an Isuzu engined Astra before that with a garret turbo, that was bombproof as well, maybe I've just been lucky.
As a bike carrier it's superb, always inside, 2up you can carry two bikes and absolutely loads of kit with room to spare, far more than the vast majority of SUVs, IF I ever replaced it/decided to drive again, I would want a large estate and I would very likely consider another Passat.
I'd quite like a cycling specific car, preferably one that comes with a driver willing to hand fresh cool bottles and food out of the window, give me a new wheel when I puncture, carry the endless supply of wet weather gear I seem to carry in Scotland, oh and drive at a 25mph in front of me for all of those long drags home into a block headwind...
Good news for Kew Road, and looking at the tweets a lot of great stuff about to happen in Richmond.
A car with a washing machine, well that's a new one on me.
There was a previous LiveBlog that featured a bit of victim blaming from skoda
https://road.cc/content/news/259906-live-blog-mp-calls-minister-cycling-...
and the specific website
https://www.welovecycling.com/wide/safety/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_med...
I saw the Skoda story via 'influencers' on social media who took it for a test spin. Zzzzzzz.
Nothing more nausiating than people fawning over brands because they got a few bits of free kit etc. I've unfollowed most of the people that are now doing this sort of gig.
Skoda previously offered a two bike internal fork clamp mount for the Yeti. Not everyone has kids. I don't. So the internal bike rack comes in very handy and it's safer than on the roof.