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Drivers and their problems
A new catch-all Tea Shop thread for those miscellaneous new stories that don't quite fit with parking, crashing into buildings or trapped/prisoners in their homes.
If you're new please join in and if you have questions pop them below and the forum regulars will answer as best we can.
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- PenLaw 28 min 55 sec ago
Land ownership in England is a complete farce. Riverside walks are out of bounds and for cycling, the craziest situation is the Lambley viaduct...
- quiff 52 min 39 sec ago
Your phrasing suggests you/we don't already do this which makes us part of the problem!...
- old bod 57 min 5 sec ago
and for flying mosquitoes in ww2 films
- ACyclingGuitarist 1 hour 38 min ago
Very sad news this, I rode with this lad once on a new group ride I was trying out last year. He was very welcoming and I could tell he was a kind...
- Steve K 2 hours 28 min ago
Agreed, and I'd contribute....
- BPhillips 2 hours 36 min ago
Thanks for your thoughts David. Argos is looking a good bet.
- mdavidford 2 hours 48 min ago
I'm pretty sure this is at least the third time the BBC have had a story on this - not sure why they keep forgetting that they've covered it.
- cyclisto 3 hours 40 sec ago
Watching sports seems super boring to me, so not a problem....
- Secret_squirrel 3 hours 11 min ago
Wattbike are notorious for releasing products before the software is ready. Likely long term it will be fine....
- Secret_squirrel 3 hours 16 min ago
That is a horror show. A gravel racers bike but since it has a motor no racer can use it....
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Oddly satisfying outcome.
A cornucopia of tales in the Shropshire Star this week! And these don't include the car (a 21-reg Kia, I think) that crashed through a roundabout in Shrewsbury and came to rest on the shared path (spotted by my son and a colleague's mate).
3pm on Friday afternoon - getting them in early - a driver escapes injury after a Toyota Aygo hits a telegraph pole near Shifnal [link]
Man detained after a stolen car crashes into two other vehicles in Wellington on Saturday morning. [link]
The driver of a 44-tonne lorry that crashed through Newport roundabout at 1.50am on Saturday had 'complained of chest pain' [link]
At around 11.30am on Saturday morning a car crashed into a bus stop, damaging another vehicle [link]
Emergency services were called after car crashes into a tree in Sutton Maddock, Telford at about 8pm on Sunday [link]
Around 2.30pm on Sunday a car ended up on its side in the village of Myddle, north of Shrewsbury. No mention of any other vehicle being involved [link]
3 people airlifted to hospital after a collision on the A458 Shrewsbury to Welshpool road at at 11am on Tuesday [link]
So much for Shropshire being a sleepy rural county!!
Cars given go faster decals
The council put up a tiny "no parking" sign, then gave all the parked cars tickets....
Can't park there mate... oh, someone else did?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-south-scotland-65625831
Must be spring, more of these cars gambolling about. This just by me this afternoon. 30mph limit on the road (it's hardly a "main road" either), at this point it's straight with clear sight lines.
Hope all OK - probably too soon to have reached the news / not at all unusual...
Annual invasion of cockchafers has begun across the UK
People report the loud bugs flying round their homes and 'whacking' them in the face
One to look out for here. In other news, it's now warm enough for me to break out the ill-fitting cycling shorts.
https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/uk-world-news/annual-invasion-cockchaf...
Boy, 12, suffers leg injury after being hit by car on a pedal bike
Oh no, cars are now riding bikes!
First of all, I hope the boy is ok. I am in no way commenting on the actual collision, I am only commenting on the headline (which looks to have been changed on the actual page, so the screenshot is from Google).
https://www.sthelensstar.co.uk/news/23533858.young-cyclist-suffers-leg-i...
I forgot I had a trailer
More stories of road hooliganism and van-dalism published today (Friday) by the Shropshire Star:
New research shows obese patients cost NHS twice as much as those who aren't
Thu 18 May 5pm • Imperial College London has released new research that shows obese patients cost the NHS £1,375 a year - whereas non-obese patients only cost £638.
https://www.itv.com/watch/news/new-research-shows-obese-patients-cost-nh...
School bus gets stuck under low bridge again
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-65633762
I think the 'again' is the point here, but doesn't say if it's the same 'professional' driver
Another hover parent. I can't tell you how much I wanted my parents OUT of my life at that age.
Some people just can't make their minds up. Complain about people buying cars designed for off-road capabilities and only driving them on the road; and then complain when they take them off road.
What a lovely, welcoming front garden that is. At one with nature.
"According to First buses, an investigation has been launched in order to find out what the cause of the incident was."
https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/somerset-news/bus-smashes-railway-br...
you crashed into a bridge - £10 please
methu parcio yno ffrind
"...a number of fans on social media said they should have been exempt to normal parking rules"
I'd love to see how they seek to justify that.
Reading that article and the language he uses, I'd wager that "Roger Whitmore, part of local action group 70percent" is also opposed to vaccines and is seriously thinking about voting for the Reclaim Party (Lawrence Fox's bunch of
nuttersconcerned citizens).Ah, the joys of "local" news. A story published on Bristol Live about something that happened in Worksop...
I never imagined the Archbish driving around in a Golf. Had always assumed he'd have something bigger and more flash, and driven by someone else.
Jeez, wasn't expecting that...kind of expected her to move just in time or something along them lines, pardon the pun.
Those old cars are great though - I love seeing unusual vehicles like that driving around as it's such a change from the monoculture of modern cars.
Absolutely no where near making it...fucking idiot.
The driver of a 44-tonne lorry that crashed through Newport roundabout at 1.50am on Saturday had 'complained of chest pain'
I can only comment like this because I know nothing about the incident: this is the lorry driver building himself an excuse 'because chest pain has to be taken seriously and may have been the cause of the driver failure', whereas it's really because he was eating/ drinking/ smoking/ on the phone/ too experienced to need to bother paying attention etc.
Something something wing...
Impressive!
Is that shadowmanonatrike in the bottom picture?
Cockchafers ... see what you did there, bravo!
Does Yoda write for the St Helens Star?
Those links don't work for me, but I've found the article: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-65633762
The reporter's name is Caroline Lowbridge - I wonder if she specialises in these topics?
"Football", innit
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