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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Cyclist are the safest road users by a long way, hardly any body gets killed by a cyclist.
Well in the first week of official use, the phone detection cameras caught 3,303 drivers. Just a taste of how bad it is really, when they were trialling the technology they detected 11,000 in one day. Maybe SMIDSY should be updated to SMIDSYIWOTP - sorry mate I didn’t see you I was on the phone…
And there's now a group telling everyone where the cameras are located and how to defeat the system. Apparently this dash mounted 'cover' hides the phone.
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You could have warned us that video contained vertical morons.
And Gareth mate, it is 500 kilometers over Christmas. No badge I'm afraid.
Not newsworthy. Happens more often than we think, usually when the car tries to nip in front of the lorry on a slip road, such as a motorway. There is talk, that on this occasion the lorry moved into the inside lane and nudged the car around.
Biklio: "All your data are belong to us!"
Technically technically technically it isn't emission free because riders may well have had beans on toast for their tea.
Rubber from car tyres is one of the major contributors to plastic in the oceans, they most certainly aren't emissions free, nor are they safe when driven by thenusual bell ends behind the wheel!
https://rate-driver.co.uk/HG09FOJ
i stop by the drivers windows on my motorbikes, lean in and shout THERES A CYCLE LANE THERE MATE! or'' THERES A BUS SERVICE THERE!'' especially if its a driver ive previously been abused by for not using a cycle lane or pedestrian killing road as theyd be better known. The irony is strong- motorists dont use the cycle lanes road tax ''paid for'' right beside the road, but theyre perfectly allright to drive along at less than mph for miles, holding up bikers, bus drivers, cyclists and lorry drivers. So, if a driver gives a cyclist abuse for ignoring a useless cycle lane, and going most likely over 20 mph, the hypocrisy gives the cyclist the right to abuse motoriss who dont use the cycle lane, or the excellent services required. If motorists dont like being told to use a cycle lane or bus, then they cannot tell a cyclist to use one either. If they do, theyve just shown you theyre giving you permission to shout back at them. Cars hold up other cars and EVERYONE all the time, to a standstill most of the time, but a cyclist? we still maintain an average speed faster than a car in town, so actually, are not holding anybody up.
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The thing that gets me about the Bardiani kit isn't that it looks like Barney, it's that it's ciclamino. How will they get away with wearing that at the Giro?
"Sounds lovely but there’s no room to put them in, on roads that were built over hundred years ago so No"
But plenty of space for cars on those roads built before most people had cars, though?
So the Beeb have picked up on the Royal Mail lorry collecting the VW (who knew they collect as well as deliver?) - as the woman in the gilet is actually Ellie Goulding. 'Cause, y'know, celeb an all that makes it newsworthy.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-50819996
The driver shouldn't have sneaked into the trucks blind spots.
Didn't they see the warning notices.
Or are they only on the trailers?
They should make it an offence to drive cars that don't have hi-viz on them - practically invisible.
That lorry video is AMAZING, is it wrong that it makes me happy
Beech Street being electric vehicles only a good thing I guess, it's always a very busy part of the city whenever I go there. I can't help thinking there's a bit of lateral thinking concerning the pollution being worse in the 200 yards of enclosed space (tunnel) under the barbican than outside in the fresh air.. (some bright spark has spun this bit of common sense into a good news story). Anecdotally I'd suggest that the bit of road coming out of the tube opposite Beech Street always seems very 'exhaust fume heavy', closing Beech Street probably won't help that.. but I guess.. baby steps, it all helps