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What kind of name is 'Zoah Hedges-Stocks'?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2351709/Zoah-Hedges-Stocks-The-student-fairground-family-earned-class-degree-Cambridge.html

I might be interested in the woodchippers. I'm looking for some off road drops.

Very handsome bike

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpA6m8pSkWE

6 minutes of fun...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71ufGS8XcUU

I could do with the chain tensioner if it's still available. I'll drop you a PM now.

Mtb forks are threaded?

Well that was lovely. Hungover and had a cold but still stumped round the course. Glorious day for it.

I appear to have gained a meaty avatar.

That super is beautiful. Sadly, at 6 foot I'm probably a bit big for it.

Ands its all on youtube!

Laters productive workday...

Ahh. Stoppit and Tidyup. Damn. Nostalgia.

Gozilla?

Hey wait, What the hell is that?

Half remembered childhood moment...

What a lovely thread to stumble across

Hanuman, could it not also have been avoided if you had both been riding more slowly? Unfortunately, the path is as it is...as my driving instructor said to me years ago, every time I began to moan about something or someone else on the road, as an excuse for something I had done wrong "You must drive appropriately for the conditions as they are, not as you would like them to be"
If you were going fast enough for a "spectacular" crash, and don't really want to moderate your speed, then try the road alternative.

Whilst that is entirely reasonable point of view, I think its fine to call out bad infrastructure if you see it no? Otherwise, how would anything ever change? This is a part of the path that could be really easily fixed. At the moment, it has mirrors to enable you to see round a corner which are next to useless in the dark. (my crash was after 11pm)

Its quite easy to have a spectacular crash at any speed, especially in the dark, on a path with blind corners where the ground drops away steeply. Going more slowly might have helped but there were a lot of other factors involved, most of which would have been fixed by a simple redesign...

That was my photo. :)

It filled up quickly, the point is that there's loads of cyclists using that route now, not that they can't use the road; which they did, Dansky. ;)

It's not the worst cycle lane in the world and it's for sure not the best but if I'm on it I know I'm going to be just rolling slowly behind somebody and sometimes I'm happy to do that. I'm not always wanting to negotiate the shit junctions on those sections of road either so happy to be in the lane and sacrifice some speed for a lazy ride.

Yep. All of the above

...Now I know who to look out for hanuman!

Yeah, say hello

hanuman you dont look like hanuman the monkey God?

You haven't seen me from the front...

Hah

I just tried to give you some rep and got:

"You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to skydancer again"

Pfft.

Ok then, for reference:

So its too narrow so its shit by your comment that "it's not quite there" so:
-use the road, get beeped, put driver on ignore

Or just ride my bike in the way I see fit...

haha. Deleted my comment cos I didn't want to sound like a prick.

Which is because people don't use the road because of being beeped. If drivers got used to cyclists using the road they'd beep less. Do it and get others to do it. You can change people's behavior as has happened in many places where cyclists ride centrally and drivers just accept this like Hackney

There are loads of cycle lanes where I'd prefer to use the road (where they're shit / where I'm going to be going over 15 mph etc) This doesn't really feel like one of them. If the path were wider then it'd be a solid bit of infrastructure. As it is, its not quite there.

I think I'm adopting a noble stance though.

Its really strange to see a photo of yourself appear on someone else's twitter. I guess @roseofwinter was just behind me in the queue.