Raketemensch

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• 2x Olympic Track Cycling tickets

  in Miscellany • 6 months

  

  Done

• 2x Olympic Track Cycling tickets

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• Paris Olympics 2024

  in General • 6 months

  

  Anyone here going to be in Paris on 8 August? I've got two tickets for the track cycling I need to shift https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/398110/#comment17465299

• 2x Olympic Track Cycling tickets

  in Miscellany • 6 months

  

  I've got two spare tickets for the olympic track cycling in Paris on 8 August. There will be medals in the men's omnium and women's keirin, plus men's sprint QF and minor places. Tickets are category D (cheapest).

  €100/£85 each (face value)

  Velodrome is in St Quentin en Yvelines which is just outside Paris https://maps.app.goo.gl/Tg51V9gb5MjTG3Uc8

• Getting HGVs to stay out of cycle track

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• Getting HGVs to stay out of cycle track

  in General • 11 months

  

  Ha that's interesting. Yeah I'm not going to waste any energy tugging on heartstrings

• Getting HGVs to stay out of cycle track

  in General • 11 months

  

  Yeah I tried talking to the owner a while ago, I thought quite politely and conductively, but he just started shouting and swearing at me and I couldn't get a word in edgeways.

  Let's see if the bollards or flats arrive first. Personally I have no problem with the company being there, as long as they stay out of cycle spaces and don't silt the drains up with all the crud that comes off their trucks. But I know a lot of people want them gone and flats instead

• Getting HGVs to stay out of cycle track

  in General • 11 months

  

  Yeah he's still there some of the time, but not that effective in my opinion. The drivers don't seem to want to wait for him so they are often doing their own thing. And he obviously only does it for the O'Donovan vans, which aren't actually the only culprits

  Apart from the principle that just because they are in a big van they don't have to keep to the rules it never used to bother me either. Younger kids lack the sense to share space with them though, and the whole point of the cycle track is that they shouldn't have to.

• Getting HGVs to stay out of cycle track

  in General • 11 months

  

  Thanks all. Will contact councillors and school governors. Does anyone know chapter and verse for which rule they're breaking by entering the cycle track?

• Getting HGVs to stay out of cycle track

  in General • 11 months

  

  Yeah, is that from experience?

  I need to figure out what rules they're breaking, who is responsible for enforcing, and then I'm prepared to commit to being so annoying that they actually get enforced.

  It shouldn't be this hard to stop 6 year olds having to share their bike lane with skip lorries!