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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Ride London yet again informing people of rejection by sending out a load of unwanted paper bumph, despite being asked not to on my application.
Apparently, I can still get a place if I raise an unfeasibly large amount of money for a mainstream charity. Got to fund the CEO's salary somehow, I suppose. No thanks, would rather do ten rides for my local hospice instead.
Riding on the road is wonderful until, in one moment is spoilt or destroyed.
I had a lovely 80miler ride last year in the summer on my own. I went early to miss traffic and arrived at my cafe. On my return the wind was on my back the sun was shining, a lovely relaxed ride until 6 miles from home where I had to use a 1 mile section of A road. I was welcomed with a driver flying passed @60mph with 6 inch gap between my elbow and his wing mirror. Whole ride spoilt because of this punishment pass.
There is a massive boom with indoor training, wonder why?
The Flectr rim reflectives are overpriced and similar to an Instagram ad I saw a few months back which gave me an idea for something similar. I purchased 1m of 50mm diamond grade white reflective tape and cut it into 40mm lengths and bent them in half and stuck them on my front rim exaclty like the Flectr idea, total cost £3. Diamond grade reflective is what they use on the side of vehicles so will long lasting.
What proud parents they must be...
or maybe they are just pig, scum in uniforms.
It isn't only cyclists who don't get justice in our legal system. Two pedestrians mown down by a driver high on canabis and he can't even be named because he's got rich parents, both police, and he's under 18. https://metro.co.uk/2019/01/30/son-wealthy-couple-killed-two-audi-crash-...
We seriously need a thorough review of road laws.
WTF he didn't even get charged with any "Death by ... Driving" offences, despite both dying instantly, that looks awfy like some serious strings being pulled in my simple thinking
As for not naming him, is that not the norm when under 18
For anyone who has low blood pressure, these are pertinent quotes from the Metro's article:
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"The court heard how the boy had even been stopped by police just weeks before the tragic crash and had also been at the wheel after taking cannabis.
The youth was awaiting a hearing before magistrates when he knocked down and killed two men who were crossing a road to return to a hotel.
The JPs were told that the boy, who lives with his family in a £1 million home in affluent Ascot, Berkshire, had admitted a charge of driving a motor vehicle with a proportion of a specified controlled drug above the specified limit."
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"He was given a 24-month supervision order, a £105 fine, which his parents said they would pay, and banned from driving for two years."
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"Sentencing the boy, presiding magistrate Penny Wood said: ‘We need to tell you that our initial thinking was to sentence you into custody. It can’t be right to drive your car and knock down two people, innocent pedestrians and kill them.
‘However, there are no charges in relation to the standard of your driving on that day. But we can begin by saying so it can be heard by anyone in the court, that we take this extremely seriously.’"
What the actual shit?
Should be a lifetime driving ban at the very least. Driving is a privilege and that kidult should not be given another chance to kill. However "privilege" does come from "private law", and that's clearly what's at play here.
Absurd that a 17-year-old can legally drive but can't legally be named when he screws-up with the car. Utterly inconsistent. If you aren't adult enough to be identified, you aren't adult enough to be trusted with a motorised vehicle.
They should either raise one age or lower the other.
Also, it's another case to compare-and-contrast with the Alliston one. Double the number of fatalities, but no custodial sentence. And 'cannibis' seems on a par with 'no front brake' as far as compounding factors go.