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Broken ankle from a low speed pothole? That's pretty unlucky. Heal up quick, and make sure you do your physio.

Most erowid trip reports are navel gazing hippy crap, but the trainwreck ones are occasionally fantastic.

http://www.erowid.org/experiences/exp.php?ID=17700

This is one of the best. Datura is bad, mmkay?

Women are more precise and like to measure things using a vernier scale?

Be along early, probably from 6

Commuting has definately turned into interval training since Strava came along! On quite of few of the segments on my commute, the biggest influence on timing is how heavy the traffic is and whether or not the lights fall in your favour. Tend to ignore those segments, thereby avoiding the temptation to take stupid risks, and concentrate on the safer segments.

Yeah, take care. I used to treat my commute as a TT, and it was a contributing factor to the accident which left me with a broken ankle that's still not 100% after 18 months. Riding flat out every morning certainly got me fit, but being off the bike for four months didn't.

Stick to sprinting the hills.

Convenient for anyone going to Norths, you can ride to the pub and claim it as "doing something". The ultimate in slacktivism.

You'd be well sorted if you were working in that caff up Snowdon

http://app.strava.com/segments/701786

I suppose the core question you need to ask is "how many hipster chicks am I going to meet along the way" because clearly if the answer is "a lot" then a vintage road bike will be very useful.

Otherwise, not so much.

Didn't snap, those tubes go into a clamp which wasn't properly tightened on either side. The panniers were fairly heavily loaded - 8 bottles of beer, change of clothes and tools, but nothing like the rack's rated limit of 40kg. Glad I discovered this on a one day jaunt to Cambridge rather than somewhere more remote.

ETA: And it's a lucky the rack caught the mudguard rather than swinging all the way off and hitting the floor, which would probably have been no fun at all.

Another quality example of bike assembly from the experts at Evans.

Dont know, but half of my ride titles are in Arabic.

Don't be surprised if you start seeing black helicopters circling on your commute, especially if it goes past anything "sensetive"

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Ooh, joined. Where are the big hills in south London? Sadly I don't live in the Alps so I'll have to just go up and down a hill repeatedly.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest_points_in_London

Just had a very long day constructing and using my own all grain home brewery. Got a London Pride clone currently getting towards the end of the boil.

Best race of the evening (which I watched on the internet) was the womens elimination race as part of the omnium. Did anyone else see this? It was on after 9pm after the coverage on BBC2 ended. It was brilliant. Laura Trott must have avoided about five or six eliminations by a close whisker and managed to hang on, eventually ended up winning it, beating Tara Whitten from Canada who is a very strong contender. Amazing stuff. I think she is only 18 as well. Definitely one to watch in the future.

Saw it on the red button coverage on the telly. Epic effort and fantastic tactical riding. Was hilarious hearing the presenters totally misunderstanding her strategy.

I'm not familiar with the sentencing guidelines for GBH and / or dangerous driving, and the sentence may well have been at the top end.

The question become, therefore, was the charge appropriate, and should the pustulant fucksack have been charged with a greater offence, such as attempted murder.

Pointing a 10 tonne speeding steel machine at someone strikes me as a deliberate act, and you have to expect that doing this is likely to kill, or maim at the very least.

http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/+/http://www.sentencingcouncil.org.uk/docs/Assault_and_other_offences_against_the_person_accessible.pdf

The sentence is in line with the guidelines for a GBH conviction. GBH with intent would have been more like 5 years.

It's actually a fairly strict sentence considering he pleaded guilty and was previously of good character. He'll think twice before doing it again now that he's lost his job and will be spending at least 9 months in prison. What's needed to stop more of it happening is not the occasional draconian sentence (which in any case would be appealed), but the consistent following up and prosecution of cases like this. Good to see that he was charged with GBH as well rather than just dangerous driving - too often the vehicle-as-weapon / deliberate assault aspect is ignored.

I'm sure some of you will mark me down as some frothing reactionary, but I don't see why a serious and potentially lethal assault like this should be punishable by less than a year in prison. The fact it's on the road and involves a cyclist isn't what makes me think this, I'd hold the same view on any assault that resulted in someone being permenantly injured, as this apparently did.

And what possible argument can there be for letting someone who behaves like this ever drive again?

Hahah should've guessed I'd get "don't lean"

I've wanted to do this one for a while, good idea.

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2. tom k&e
   

The latest addition to the "tom k&e's many crashes" thread

Slippery adverse camber corner that I take every day, lowsided. I usually take that corner really slowly, because I've had some hairy moments getting loose at the back around it before. I'm not sure if I was just going too fast today, or if it was just more slippery

My knee feels worse than my face. Helmet probably needs to be replaced, front wheel's slightly out of true.

Might be along if it's stopped raining by the time I finish in the gym. Anyone else going to be there early? it's still far too miserable to handle 12 miles each way to Brixton

4/4+4-4.50/14
4/4+4/4.Object
(4+4+4)/4.Hillbilly
√4(4+4)/4.Fussballclub
√4+√4+4/4. BenJam
(4+4+4)/√4.pt
4+√4+4/4. Oliver Schick
4+4+4-4. joe smith
4+4+4/4. Soul
4+4+4/√4. Velocio
((4+4!)/4) + 4. OLC
4+4+√4+√4. Edmundro
(4/4)+(4!/√(4)). Lady Liz
4*4-(4/√4). ian (cnkr)
4*4-4/4. Dammit
4+4+4+4. mountaingoatmatt
4*4+4/4. tom k&e

And you think tom k&e doesn't know this?!

If you hear of a small nuclear explosion in the Isle of Man anytime soon, it will have been Clarkson's head exploding when he reads this news;

Ministers have been urged to look into allowing cyclists to go through red lights, in an attempt to cut fatalities and serious injuries.

     Baroness Gardner of Parkes urged them to look at a pilot scheme which has just been approved in Paris.
     The Tory peer suggested more women were killed than men by  lorries turning left at junctions because they "wait at the red lights  and men go through them".

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-16942781

More on the Paris experiment

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/9067129/Paris-cyclists-given-right-to-break-traffic-laws.html