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Yeah I can't take all the cyclist at the moment - I'm working with 2-3 near misses a ride now from a combination of crazy bikers and impatient cars. Now that it's late-ish autumn I just want it to get really cold so we dependable cyclists can have most of the roads back. Eesh.
Yeah, im looking forward to my dark and cold 6am ride to work through highgate and golders hill when all the summer cyclists are taking tubes and busses and i can have a hassel free ride in the morning ;-)
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It's not the right thread for this, but if I could ask journalists three things when reporting on cycle crashes, it would be these:
(1) It is generally completely irrelevant whether a victim of a fatal or serious collision was wearing a helmet or not.
(2) 'The cyclist collided with the car' is not what is the case in 99% of incidents. It is mostly the driver's car that collided with the cyclist.
(3) Whether there was 'traffic chaos' in the area afterwards may be a fact, but not one that should be overplayed or even become the main angle of your article.
This is very sad news and my smpathy goes out to the girls family and friends but after reading your post.
It's not generally completly irrelevent whether a victim of a fatal or serious collision was wearing a helmet or not especially. If the rider died or suffered from head injurys.
I was involved in collision once and my head hit the windscreen,smashed it etc. i took my helmet off in 2 pieces. I guess without the helmet my head could have been in 2 pieces. -
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did you read the forum at all before joining?
I did read it yes, but I have just joined, nobody knows me. Would you act like this to a complete stranger on the street? My guess is that lots of people on here think they can say what they like and hide behind their computers.
anyway thats the end of it, I can't be arsed chatting about this any more im gonna go and have a wank over my Brooklyn as I just discovered Ive finished the polish ;-)
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thankyou for the correction Buck