chameleon

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• Bike Anti-Porn - When Things Go Wrong

  in Bikes & Bits • 6 years, 6 months

  

  Electric bikes.. but.. my eyes..

  http://www.gogobicycles.co.uk/product-ca­tegory/racer-ebike/

• Stolen bikes

  in General • 8 years

  

  Found abandoned on Finchley Rd this evening (the Raleigh in front..) - name the book on the back carrier and it's yours..

• If you support segregated cycling infrastructure in Hackney

  in General • 8 years, 1 month

  

  @dancingjames

  link to experiments?

• If you support segregated cycling infrastructure in Hackney

  in General • 8 years, 1 month

  

  @skydancer

  everyone makes mistakes from time to time (just some more than others). it is good to organise things so they are not lethal. this has nothing to do with women and men, unless you think it's possible to rape by mistake.

  @brokenbetty yes, or perhaps they protect pedestrians by restricting motor traffic movements to narrowly defined through routes and crossing opportunities, leaving the rest of the road for free pedestrian movement. the exact degree of priority and amount of space given to pedestrians is entirely a political decision, and has nothing to do with the benefits of separating traffic of different speed and momentum.

• If you support segregated cycling infrastructure in Hackney

  in General • 8 years, 1 month

  

  @dancing james... , @edscoble

  i am sure drivers would crash into and kill many more people on foot if there were no footways. similarly, protected space on main roads would reduce the number of people on bikes killed and injured. nobody's saying that it'll be prevented entirely...

  (and, sure, better law/prosecution will help too. but it doesn't do much for incompetence..)

  i am not sure 'ghetto' is an accurate term here, btw. these are protected lanes on main roads. do we talk about the footway as a 'pedestrian ghetto'? or bus lanes as 'bus ghettos'? or the east coast main line as a 'train ghetto'? sometimes it's just safer to separate traffic of different speed/momentum..

• If you support segregated cycling infrastructure in Hackney

  in General • 8 years, 1 month

  

  multigrooves, vanneau

  you can cycle as predictably as you like, be as experienced as you like, wear flashing lights, and still there can be some incompetent driver who drives into you from behind:

  http://www.standard.co.uk/news/cycle-dea­th-daughter-may-prosecute-driver-9925170­.html

• If you support segregated cycling infrastructure in Hackney

  in General • 8 years, 1 month

  

  exactly. placefaking. the actual (motor) traffic is pretty similar.

• If you support segregated cycling infrastructure in Hackney

  in General • 8 years, 1 month

  

  Disagree. I cycle both quite regularly. The A5 through Kilburn and the A10 through Dalston Kingsland are pretty similar. The A10 has a bit of added placefaking... but more or less the same levels of motor traffic. Both routes will need protected lanes and junctions to allow cycling by the majority of current non-cyclists.

• If you support segregated cycling infrastructure in Hackney

  in General • 8 years, 1 month

  

  This is interesting:

  http://www.theguardian.com/environment/b­ike-blog/2014/dec/11/mass-cycling-social­-justice-equalities-case

• If you support segregated cycling infrastructure in Hackney

  in General • 8 years, 1 month

  

  I guess, you don't find it intimidating, but many other people do?

  This is the key issue with cycle campaigning - the people who already cycle are the ones who aren't intimidated - and they're also many of those involved in campaigning. A lot of people tend to think, well, if I can do it, everyone else can - but that's not necessarily true.