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£420 for a used dolan bike doesnt seem that decent?
I just spoke with the guy at Calshot, they have about 23 Dolan Pre Cursa bikes, new in 2010, recently renovated with new chains and rings. Price includes pedals and tyres mostly tubs but some clinchers. Sizes range from 39 (on 620 wheels) up to 60.
So £420 is not a huge bargain but they are track bikes that have only ever been used on an indoor track and not intensively.

Why would there be VAT charged on 2nd hand bikes!?
If Hampshire County Council is VAT registered it has to charge VAT on sales.

Track Bikes for Sale
http://www3.hants.gov.uk/calshot/calshot-news2.htm

We will very shortly be commissioning our brand new fleet of Dolan track bikes and will be making our existing track bikes available for purchase from 1 May 2013, onwards.
The bikes will be regarded as **sold as seen, **and will be sold on a **1st come, 1st served basis. **
Sizes will range from 39cm to 60cm.
The price will be £420 (including VAT) (£336 ex VAT), including Look Easy clipless pedals.
We have three bikes with 39cm frame, 650-23c wheels and these will be sold without pedals.
Calshot velodrome is inside the old seaplane hangers at the end of Southampton Water opposite the Isle of Wight.

I don't know how many bikes there are or what make and I have failed to get through their telephone system to find out.

what do you do if there is something so clearly stolen on ebay?
Tell the police by sending an email with all the details to cycletaskforce@tfl.gov.uk

a sad tragedy, our love and support for her friends and family

Forum cap just arrived in post, now I will be spotted everywhere.
Ha, I posted that at lunchtime. When I left the office at 2:40 I was DAS'd within 3 minutes at top of Union Street.

Briefly met charlie_lcc at lmnh...good luck with the cap!
Forum cap just arrived in post, now I will be spotted everywhere.

Is the prologue planned as a mass led ride or do people have to find their own way - which could be tricky for visitors to London? A bit of mass ride silliness would be fun and help settle the high nervous tension that extra long rides generate. I might volunteer as a marshal.

Here's the prologue route, so you can gauge roughly how long it'll take
it says
20.2 mi, 6 hours 52 mins
That will warm you up for the start.
If you're going by tube Debden is better than Loughton.

Mary Wynn-Jones on completion of the In Pursuit of Spring ride in 1993. Her account of the ride is in the August ‘93 edition of the Edward Thomas Fellowship newsletter.

Our ride and routes are evolving on the blog ips2013.tumblr.com we are going at Easter, a March Easter but a week later than in 1913.

Another rider, Pat from Laurel Books, is setting out on Friday - the closest Friday to the 100th anniversary of March 21st 1913

nasty accident you've had on that first pano'!

Were the skinhead guys out at the pagoda? They're great guys.
love this

Normah, of .. Watergate Street, Deptford, southeast London, denies alternative counts of causing death by dangerous driving and causing death by careless driving.
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Google street view shows the site, and the flowers http://goo.gl/maps/LYTXF
At around 5pm on 23rd March the Sun, if visible, would be low in the western sky, ie. well to the right in the street view shot.
If the jury buys this defence they will buy anything, not for the first time. Sometimes the prosecution in "traffic" cases are under prepared and overworked and unable to challenge nonsense from the defence barristers.

Sun in my eyes is another of the official "contributory factors" that is often used to defend poor drivers. Often police won't prosecute if they think the defence can get away with this one. In a jury trial it is always worth trying this ploy to get an acquital.

I really hate the 2% figure. It is used by those who want to highlight the negative, fear aspects to campaign for more 'safety'.
As with any dammed statistics you can choose your base to tell a different stories. In London it is a tale of two cities, inner and outer. Cycle use in Hackney is maybe 8 to 15 times higher than in Harrow.

Based on 2011 data:-
Across all London
the cycling share of all trips is 2%
the cycling share of trips by Londoners is 2.7% (excludes visitors)
the cycling share of non-walk trips by Londoners is 3.95%
the cycling share of non-walk, non-rail trips by Londoners is 4.83%
the cycling share of non-walk, non Public Transport trips by Londoners is 6.73%

For people entering Central London in the Morning peak hour:-
the cycling share of non-walk trips is 2.8%
the cycling share of non-walk, non-rail trips is 13.5%
the cycling share of non-walk, non Public Transport trips is 28.9%

Westway will be 2.3 miles of disconnected cycle route in the sky, it only makes sense if there are really good connection routes to the White City / Scrubs area.
I have ridden hardshoulder cycle routes in Sydney, it suits the head down mamil types but I wouldn't call it joyful cycling.
Westway has huge symbolic value, highlighting the decline in car use. (down 22%). In 1970 the opening ceremony was enhanced with protesters' signs saying "Get us out of this hell"http://cache1.asset-cache.net/gc/3290826-28th-july-1970-a-large-banner-saying-get-us-gettyimages.jpg?v=1&c=IWSAsset&k=2&d=Zr%2Fqim4UtM%2BXywKOzLHkRf%2BOxft%2Ff46jjy8d7BdzeJP8aAVB5AgV4OFjkCfy3tUg

So what really is the Westway plan? I scanned the document but it didn't leap out.
It is in section II page 11.
http://www.london.gov.uk/sites/default/files/Cycling%20Vision%20GLA%20template%20FINAL.pdf

Boris writes:-

I will more than double London’s cycling budget – to a total of almost £400m over the next three years, two-and-a-half times more than previously planned. In 2015, we will be spending £145m a year on cycling, or roughly £18 a head, up with the best in Germany and almost on a par with the Netherlands.
Over the next 10 years, cycle spending will total £913m, more than treble the previously-planned levels. There will be particularly dramatic increases in spending earmarked for Outer London. I will change how I spend our money to focus far more heavily on serious, meaningful improvements to routes and unctions. I have appointed a Cycling Commissioner, who has helped draw up these policies, to drive them forward and win support for them from the other bodies whose backing we need.
£145 a year is about 2% of TfL budget, equivalent to the current mode share of cycling 2% of trips in London.
BUT cycling is growing and due to double in 10 years then the rest of the money is spread thinly over the next 7 years of the business plan.

^ the police crash reporting form, STATS19, has an option to record a contributory factor:

**507 Cyclist wearing dark clothing at night **To be used in accidents where, if the cyclist's clothing had been brighter, then they would have been seen in time and the accident would not have occurred.
so they are only meant to record it when they think the crash wouldn't have happened if the cyclist was wearing light colours.

"But the elephant in the room is funding" - Tom Edwards BBC
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-21697423

Is this the east london route

https://consultations.tfl.gov.uk/cycling/cs2extension .
not quite. The 'new' route is combination and upgrade of superhighway 3 Barking to Tower Hill, linked to new route along embankment, then through the parks to Lancaster Gate, Paddington and onto the Westway - they will take out a traffic lane as car use has dropped 22%.
The embankment might look like http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJSvdpoVHBk

^^^ snap

As well as the admirable Lycra-wearers, and the enviable east Londoners on their fixed-gear bikes

Anyone on here?

**Mayor's new Vision for Cycling is "Ground-breaking" says London Cycling Campaign **

Cycling Commissioner Andrew Gilligan said:
"Today's document shows how seriously the Mayor has taken his Go Dutch promise to the LCC and the cyclists of London. Both the Mayor and I pay tribute to the LCC, journalists, bloggers and other campaigners for driving the issue so far up the political agenda."

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thanks for that, I'll do a bit more route googling and see what happens