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I managed 2:23. Two years ago I broke my hip and was on crutches for 3 months. I reckon I'm recovered. Moreover, I am flippin' delighted!

Hello, I'm not sure if this warrants its own thread, so I have decided to start here.

On August 6th last year, I crashed on the new cycle lane going north at Kennington, on the junction of Kennington park road, and Kennington road. A section of the cycle lane is raised, and a section is not and it's hard to tell the difference. I hit the kerb and landed on my left side, breaking my hip. I have been commuting on this route for 15 years and negotiated this junctions 1000s of times with no problems before this new lane was introduced.

Breaking your hip is much worse than breaking your leg. I was on crutches for 3 months, walking stick for another 3 months and have only been cycling again for a few weeks. There is still a small risk that my hip will die and need to be replaced.

My problem is with TFL. Here is what has happened;

1. I reported the accident via their website upon discharge from hospital. This was ignored.

2. I wrote to the CEO of surface transport, Leon Daniels and received no reply.

3. I raised an FOI request asking how many cycling complaints had been ignored. Suddenly a reply. I was told their would be a full investigation, that standards of safety are high, and that there would be a full safety audit of the oval triangle cycle tracks in January 2016.

4. The full investigation has never materialised - at least no one has been in touch with me, and I fail to understand how the investigation is full without that.

5. In April 2016, I asked for a copy of the safety audit and a list of changes made as a result. I was told that the audit has been delayed, and that I would hear in "a few weeks". To date I have heard nothing.

My confidence in TFL and this process is rock bottom. It's just appalling. The tracks are badly designed and dangerous. Moreover, TFL provide no proper way for reporting accidents, and clearly have no process for managing or handling. The emails are all polite, but the inaction is verging on negligent.

I have limited energy to pursue this as it makes me angry and sad. I am genuinely concerned however that there will be a serious accident caused by the new facilities, and I would like this to be taken seriously.

Any suggestions as to which brick wall to bang my head on next?

Ha ha. Bike (10 year old condor pista) completely unscathed!

Have three screws holding my hip back together which is considerably better than a hip replacement, which was a possibility. Managed to stand with a zimmer and take some steps this afternoon. Might be a while before I'm sprinting up the stairs!!

Ambo on the new cycle lane was me. 15 years of commuting and it's my first proper crash. Broken hip. Surgery in a minute. Morphine is wicked!

So I in St Thomas after crashing on the new Kennington park facility. Tried to cross from road to the lane. Didn't see the kerb... Straight down on left hip. Some contributory negligence here but still a crap facility with an invisible kerb

Cliveo cleat-walking along Cheapside.

I was off to buy a jelly mould so that we can set someone's mouse in jelly for when they get back from leave. #stoleitfromtheoffice

I want an amp, bedroom practice size but with enough poke for small gig backline at a push. Something with a great clean sound which can also make ears bleed when I want to go metal.
A knowledgable friend has suggested Fender juniors, I guess I'm limited to second hand as they seem pricey (for my budget, not overall).
Any recs from you geeks?

You could do a lot worse than the Blackstar HT-5C http://www.blackstaramps.co.uk/products/­ht-5c/ assuming you want a combo. It's "only" 5 watts, but in the same way that an AC30 is "only" 30 watts.

Gigsounds in Mitcham Lane are a main dealer.

@dubtap; get out early! woke up at 04:45 this morning and hit the road at 05:15. covered 8 miles in about 25 minutes. Nodder count; 2!

Fairly chuffed given how slow the first two laps were. Seems I've split the scobles, will bad things happen now? Determined to get under an hour.

Anti-Clockwise___________

• 6pt - 53:20 (F - 84")
  
• 6pt - 53:30 (G)
  
• Bouncy - 56:21 (G)
  
• Bainbridge - 58:58 (G)
  
• FixedCheese - 59:24 (G)
  
• T-V - 59.30 (G)
  
• adoubletap - 59.30 (G)
  
• Damo - 59:39 (G)
  
• FixedCheese - 59:42 (F - 74")
  
• Pharoahsanders - 1:00.15 (G)
  
• dancing james - 1:00:34 (G)
  
• Hovis - 1:00:43 (G)
  
• Bouncy - 1:00:54 (F - 72")
  
• Olly398 - 1:01:00 (G)
  
• smiff - 1:01:27 (G)
  
• william1984 - 1:02:30 (G)
  
• toby.d - 1:02:45 (G)
  
• edscoble - 1:03:45 (G)
  
• willski - 1:04:30 (F - 76")
  
• edscoble - 1:04:50 (SS)
  
• Dan - 1:05:07 (G)
  
• smiff - 1:06:15 (F)
  
• Sam - 1:07:06 (G) - pootle, chatting for 90% of it
  
• Damo - 1:07:06 (F) - pootle, chatting for 90% of it
  
• vunugu - 1:09:11 (F - 75.6")
  
• Sparky - 1:10:23 (G)
  
• Sparky - 1:12:05 (F - 48:18)
  
  
  

Clockwise________________

• HÏnáta - 00:59:21 (G)
  
• muleboy - 1:00:57
  
• jimmyjazz - 1:03:00
  
• webof - 1:13:15
  <- Trispok of Regret award for inappropriate wheel choice
  <- the FixedCheese Babybel of Speed award for fastest fixed rider
  <- the EdScoble Brompton of Insanity award for fastest time on a foldable bike
  

But Margaret Thatcher did more to bring the UK into the modern world as a social and fiscal power then any PM since Churchill (who was also a conservative).

Innit cute when Americans try to do British history? Churchill was a great war time leader but was a bit of liability in peace time. His attempt to reintroduce the gold standard in 1924 led to deflation and mass unemployment that led to the general strike - hardly a great fiscal power. Likewise his period as PM from 1951 to 1955 was punctuated by ill-advised attempts to maintain an empire that was already crumbling - not exactly bringing the UK into the modern world.

It was Harold Wilson that introduced the grant scheme so that everyone could have an inside bog. In my book this means more than Margaret Thatcher rolling out a few tax cuts while the stock market rallied.

"*My witness testified that on three separate occasions he attempted to explain and give his details to the arresting officer but was dismissed each time. This same arresting officer assured me, in his squad car and later at the police station, that he had taken the details of that witness. *

Two months later, when that same officer informed me I was being charged for assault, I was horrified to discover the police had no record at all of my witness. My arresting officer denied that he had ever spoken to me about the witness and then suggested the witness was a figment of my imagination. "

Not so much Kafka as Billy Hayes.

"a kafka-esque nightmare"? did he slowly metamorphose into a gruesome bug while waiting for the verdict?

I tink someone has confused Franz Kafka with William S Burrows....or perhaps this is loaded with Swiftian irony that's gone over my head.

He..he. This thread has made me dig out some of my old Loop and Spacemen vinyls. Just dropped the needle on "Straight to your heart" and the doorbell rings. It's two christians inviting me to a bible class - what better sound track to have while you explain that you're not interested. I'm off to cue up "Vision Stain" - vinyl's such a faff.

I did, Jimmy-didn't-read-the-thread.

I stand corrected. Although you also admit to liking their second and third albums - which is nothing to shout about.

I played a gig with a Slowdive spin-off band called Blind Mr Jones in 1991. I leant them my electronic guitar tuner because the they didn't have one. Then they asked me to tune their guitars for them, because they had never used an electronic tuner. Bless. Six weeks later they were signed to Cherry Red and in the NME. Nuff said.

Slowdive. Can't believe no one has mentioned Slowdive. First band on the bandwagon once the genre was defined. They ticked all the boxes;

1. From Reading/Maidenhead - check
   
2. Fringes covering their eyes - check
   
3. Hung out at the Camden Falcon - check
   
4. All the songs sounded the same - check
   

The Midsommer Murders Murders

Fly on the wall doc following Dancing James as he murders everyone involved in the TV series "The Midsommer Murders"

The One Show

An in-depth documentry following people into public toilets while they do a "number one"

Dragon's Den

Four angry old women fight for the custody of Leslie "Dirty Den" Grantham. The winner gets to watch his web-cam.

Without question it's something that sadly casts all of us in a bad light

It's this notion of collective responsibility that I don't get. If someone does something stupid on a bike it's not your responsibility just because you are on a bike as well. I often walk places, and I drive a car as well, when a numpty ped walks infront of you, or a car swerves to close to you are they giving me a bad name? No - the notion is ridiculous. Aside from that I doubt that calling out is likely to make much difference - I got a lecture from someone a few years ago after a move that I admit was not my finest hour. I just thought he was a patronizing twat - which he was.

and maybe, just maybe, if you even bothered to so much as *look *at me these days I wouldn't need to drink. What about *my *womanly needs?

Well maybe if you bothered to put a bit of make up on and make an effort once in a while I'd be a bit more inclined to look at you.

Pretty unlikely since the milk was *off *this morning. Two guesses who left the fridge door open....

Well maybe if someone hadn't broken the fridge door when they came stumbling in drunk, there wouldn't be the need for all these "micro-rides"

I'm popping down the shops in a minute; going to do it fixed. Anyone want to join me? Easy pace.

Can you get some more milk, since it was you who drank the fucking last lot.

So how did this story end? Did Lynx ever pick up the truck, or is the whole thing some kind of wind-up/in joke that I'm too stupid to understand?

Well, here is the start of my nerdy monitoring:

Date_____Fat%Bone MassWater%Muscle%Weight
9/7/2010_18.52.8__60.8_41.8__81.6
3/8/201019.42.9__60.243____82.5

So, going to the gym a lot and cutting out the booze seems to have made me both fatter and slightly more muscular.

Arse

You've also grown some more bone mass as well, which is cool. Where's it gone on?