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It's the eyes, the chilling blankness in the eyes that gets me, as they stand in the middle of the road 4 metres from a crossing point, about to walk straight out in front of you.
I'd have settled for seeing the eyes of the chap I hit a week or so back*. Unfortunately he trotted briskly into the road to hail a cab, facing away from me.
*I stayed on (+1 to playing rugby as a kid) and he was very obviously unhurt. To his credit he bounced up and apologised. First time I've hit a ped since I was a kid :-(
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Last time I was looking for spokes, this lot: http://outspokencycles.co.uk/spokes/index.html seemed to be pretty good value.
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They also turn up on hired MTBs in Sicily from my recent(ish) experience. I thought I'd pump up our tyres a bit before we set out in the morning and was a bit baffled by the valve system, but was rescued by one of the vineyard labourers (we were staying at a winemaking Agriturismo) who explained, as I struggled to keep up with his Italian*, that he'd been an aspiring pro rider in his teens and early twenties and had raced all over europe.
*I can understand a bit, speak almost none and Sicilian is a whole other world.
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54.09 at http://www.totalcycling.com, says google. IIRC I paid about £50 for the last lot at BLB.
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Still - cabbies. Bunch of cunts, eh.
Three weeks, three mates taken off by London's world-famous "best taxis in the world". Luckily, the worst injury was a broken hand. This is why I have one of House of Pistard's famous FUCK TAXIS stickers on my bike.
EDIT: oh, and the salt-of-the-earth cabbie on Euston Road who clipped my elbow with his wing mirror to jump a just-turning red I'd stopped at on account of all the peds crossing.
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The problem with cars is - they need to be driven often in order to function properly.
I own a roadster I haven't used since last year. I've noticed during the last MOT the emissions become very high. And the engine will probably pack up soon, as there's no lubrication.
Hence the success of the car/van-sharing schemes. You get a brand-new vehicle which is used every day and only pay per journey and the car dies of mileage instead of rust.
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yup. And honestly I don't want people to be encouraged to cycle past Bow roundabout or over the flyover if they're not already confident enough to do it as we'll just end up with more cyclist deaths.
Problem with that it that if you live one side and work the other, there's your ready-made commuting-two-miles-by-car excuse. The car park at my office is terrifying for this: just north of Old Street roundabout and packed with cars showing residents permits for Islington, Tower Hamlets and Hackney.
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If your quads are getting sore, maybe you're mashing a bit as you get tired? Remind yourself to pedal in circles rather than just stamping on the pedal from 1 o'clock to five o'clock. I have to do this quite consciously at the end of long rides and it definitely helps with both fatigue and aches in particular muscles as it forces you to engage your whole leg.
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The turd location there is most apt. repped