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Jaygee and I are doing the ride but starting from Yarmouth (we'll be staying in Lymington on the other side of the water).
I can't wait! I had an amazing time last year, although the weather was tough and I was on my own most of the time.
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@origamist: it is not a TfL study but TRL for DfT.
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OUT!
house viewing
^This is a cut and paste from last week!
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hahaha! (I love that "robot" for lights). In France we simply call them "fire".
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you know Ed, to avoid the dangerous vehicles that are only be found at lights.
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In! (and early for a change)
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I think it is a contour HD.
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Will, yes I agree he should have taken the lane but the cement lorry to his right is also a bit scary so I am not sure if I would have liked to be closer to it either. And yes Gaz shouts and swears a lot, I am sure he knows he has to work on that bit.
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Expand the experiment BMMF, get a wig and flowery dress on.
Looking forward to a full report next week! Oh and good luck :)
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Joyeux Anniversaire Julia! Thanks for the lovely lemon cake last week. Have a great time. x
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How does one collide with a traffic light? By riding on the pavement? tutut
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Tell him that cyclists should not be used as advertising boards for the AA.
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And from the Evening Standard. Cyclists have had an easy ride.
The best bit:
Do not be misled by the propaganda. Bicycling is as hazardous as the man or woman behind the wheel. I know. The last time I rode a bicycle I collided with a traffic light. -
I hope that they have a big sticker on the helmet saying something like:
"The AA cannot be held responsible if this helmet fails in any way to prevent damaged to your head cause by one of our over zealous members".
hahaha!
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I also like the "hugely smaller" hehehe
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If I'd got the train my carbon footprint would be hugely smaller, as I'd have burned through maybe 10% (if that) of the calories?
As if people who don't exercise eat less!
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What colour are the vans? Ocado texts me the day before delivery "Martin in the raspberry van will deliver your shopping". Can you offer the same service?
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what about all the laminated driving licences you had to pay for?
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aaargh, I've just started ordering fornightly delivery with Ocado for big items. Delivery vans are the fastest growing apparently with the growth of internet shopping.
On another note, I've just passed a future Starbucks shop that had a poster "shared planet". ;(
Time to watch the Age of Stupid again.
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But car drivers are slower than cyclists. They're only fast at those junctions and get stuck in traffic jams 500m away. Do cyclists shout at drivers for creating traffic jams?
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The reasons for a 20mph for motor vehicles would be entirely different than for bicycles, notwithstanding the difficulty of enforcing speed limits for bicycles.
Given than the average speed limit around London is around 12mph, and that lowering the maximum limit to 20mph could well increase that average (albeit counterintuitively), it's a little churlish to suggest that 20mph "sucks". Perhaps it does indeed suck not to be able to smash down the loud pedal between jams and lights, but then being a grown up is not always peaches and cream for tea.
I assume you mean the average traffic speed rather than speed limit.
What I'd love to see happen is cyclists riding well together (instead of competing) and on difficult/dangerous junctions, eg Vauxhall to ride 2-3 abreast to calm the motorised traffic behind and also look after cyclists who are not so fast/confident.
During commuting hours cyclists are blocked /forced into dangerous positioning because of heavy traffic. The majority of the vehicles are private cars carrying only one person. But the attitude is still that one driver has priority over 5+ cyclists. It is very odd.
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The "news" here is surely more about why the MP feels the need to introduce legislation to combat a problem that simply does not exist.
*Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies. *
Groucho Marx
LFGSS
London Fixed Gear and Single-Speed is a community of fixed gear and single-speed cyclists.
I like the bit where they say drivers give more space to "stunt" cyclists than to "everyday" or "professional" cyclists.
Last week I saw on a Balham High road in busy traffic, a guy who carried a woman on top tube and large shopping bags on the handlebars. Looking at the traffic behaviour, I am deducting that they were "stunt" cyclists as described in the report.
I must stop being so professional.