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These are so annoying. I was cycling in front of a Boriser the other night and the stupid green cycle fairy was flitting all over the place in front of me. Very distracting and I can't imagine they have any impact for drivers.
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H&F Council have installed MASSIVE speedbumps on the cycle lane through bishop's park. This has given me commute depression, as I usually cut through there from Putney Bridge and go up Gowan Avenue > Bishop's Road to get to Fulham Broadway as it's less annoying than Fulham Road. It seems like needless cyclist negativity to me - I never really saw anyone going fast on there as it's heavily trafficked by pedestrians.
They're seriously massive. I wonder how a wheelchair user would deal with them.
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Got undertaken by someone in full kit on a Cervelo this morning, who I then promptly rinsed in a straight line about 3 seconds later. Also it's proper sunny. 9/10 (-1 for undertaking man).
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Fulham road is becoming ever more perma-clusterfucked the more I ride it. There was a traffic jam pretty much from Fulham Broadway to SKen today.
I rode past an accident, but hopefully it wasn't too bad. Motorcyclist had been taken out at a crossroads (his priority; I imagine he filtered as someone else flashed a waiting car to cross the road). Didn't look like it could have been too high speed but the car involved looked pretty totalled. It did make me reflect that this exact situation has nearly happened to me at that spot a number of times - so many drivers volunteer priority trying to be nice but forget to check their mirrors. No idea who is at fault in the situation, but one to think about.
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McClaren had more than 30 provided you count cup competitions (knocked out at first go in the FA cup, he at least had 2 games in the League cup).
Though it is a total shambles nonetheless and I can't see Rafa changing that. A good opportunity to add some miracle-worker brinksmanship to his CV without risking any negative associations, though.
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Got home last night and realised the battery on my rear light had run out :s It was on when I left the office.
It was proper dark too :s
Felt like a dick.
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It does seem bizarre. Looks like the decision not to prosecute was made very early, before the revelations about his medical record etc. As I understand it the inquest cannot result in criminal proceedings (which is good in some ways as it helps the truth come out and lessons be learnt). It's a real shame to see a reasonable proceeding be corrupted by the fact it was all human error, though. If the lorry had failed in some way and it was a common fault, then this no-criminality inquest would be a good way of exposing the problem and fixing it. But because it turns out he's just a dickhead who lied about his health problems and ended up killing six people, it looks like a joke.
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Cycling behind a lorry this morning. It slows down and indicates a left turn with plenty of warning just outside Chelsea & Westminster Hospital. I slow down and wait. Guy on a Boris Bike comes piling along at a fair pace and looks like he's going to shoot down the inside of aforesaid left-turning lorry. I decide I must take action and bellow 'it's turning left' just as BB guy nonchalantly skids to a stop, whereupon he turns around and glances disdainfully at me before joining me in waiting for the lorry to complete its manouevre. I felt a bit of a prat.
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The 'get oot the way' bell ringers have scared loads of pedestrians on my route. This morning as I was coming in, I was making a right turn into a side road. There was a woman crossing from the right hand side of that road, but a bit further back than the entrance. I had seen her and was slowing down to come to a stop to allow her to cross when her friend, who was on the main road I'd turned off shouted 'Sarah, WATCH OUT!!!' causing her to simultaneously jump and freeze. I came to a stop and waved her to cross, but the pair of them were obviously alarmed at potentially having someone on a bike come near them.
I do wonder if all these bell-ringing twats make pedestrians scared of cyclists. It definitely pisses me off when I'm walking if I'm crossing a road without/against a signal and some comes charging up on a bike screaming at me to move - even white van drivers don't do that!
The graveyard bit there is pretty cool, though last time I cycled through there in the summer I encountered a dishevelled looking bloke wearing y-fronts and a wasitcoat. Not sure if he's a fixture or whether it was a one-off.