“Arrogant” driver who reversed into cyclist on protected bike lane, before accusing him of trying to “break” his car, offered educational course

Assuming they entered the bike lane at the junction, they missed an awful lot of cues that it's a bike lane. Not a mistake. Just shit inattentive driving.

Inattentive and sh1t driving most definely but given where they stopped I'd give them the benefit of the doubt untill that reaction from them :-o  Then again I don't know the area and despite its looks on camera it may be an obvious drop of point and then its definitely not a mistake!

I see this all the time in Lincoln. Especially in front of the train station. Taxi's park opposite blocking the cycle lane. They do get aggressive if you confront them. More needs to be done when idiots like this put vulnerable people at risk.

Motorbike gloves with Kevlar knuckles. Helps protect your hands when having to weave through gaps you shouldn't have to weave through. Else I'm constantly skinning my hands on walls, trees, ...wing mirrors, ...car windows.

On an entirely unrelated note, when I worked as a carer, one of my service users found it hilarious and encouraged me to push his wheelchair through gaps we both knew it wouldn't fit through when people parked on double yellow lines over dropped kerbs.

ROOTminus1 wrote:

Motorbike gloves with Kevlar knuckles. Helps protect your hands when having to weave through gaps you shouldn't have to weave through. Else I'm constantly skinning my hands on walls, trees, ...wing mirrors, ...car windows. On an entirely unrelated note, when I worked as a carer, one of my service users found it hilarious and encouraged me to push his wheelchair through gaps we both knew it wouldn't fit through when people parked on double yellow lines over dropped kerbs.

The wheelnut on the outside of your wheelchair seems weirdly sharp. Should we file that down or replace it?

No. 

Patrick9-32 wrote:

ROOTminus1 wrote:

Motorbike gloves with Kevlar knuckles. Helps protect your hands when having to weave through gaps you shouldn't have to weave through. Else I'm constantly skinning my hands on walls, trees, ...wing mirrors, ...car windows. On an entirely unrelated note, when I worked as a carer, one of my service users found it hilarious and encouraged me to push his wheelchair through gaps we both knew it wouldn't fit through when people parked on double yellow lines over dropped kerbs.

The wheelnut on the outside of your wheelchair seems weirdly sharp. Should we file that down or replace it?

No. 

like this statue to an early campaigner against pavement parking in London?

https://www.google.com/maps/@51.501151,-0.1238152,3a,74.5y,142.18h,114.39t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sONOfRS206ApHfzXRIoenFg!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu

Patrick9-32 wrote:

The wheelnut on the outside of your wheelchair seems weirdly sharp. Should we file that down or replace it?

No. 

Merely taking a leaf out of that Iceni heroine's book, Bouddica.

Well done.

Patrick9-32 wrote:

The wheelnut on the outside of your wheelchair seems weirdly sharp. Should we file that down or replace it?

No. 

Find some like the ones truck drivers like to use as lug nuts.

For unused braze-ons on a bike, Velo Orange sells these. I'd probably keep scratching myself on them, though.

Or how about a bit more plausible deniability?  OEM part, right here!

chrisonabike wrote:

Or how about a bit more plausible deniability?  OEM part, right here!

Those look just like the ones on my Trek District. I wonder if they come with the Alfine.

I've got them on mine (Alfine 8, Cube Travel Exc - the picture's not my one).  Think they're that out of the box on the Nexus also.  Sturmey Archeralso seem to favour this style - at least on the 8 speed.

Happy scratching!

andystow wrote:

 

Those look just like the ones on my Trek District. I wonder if they come with the Alfine.

Those are the standard Alfine nuts, They have to be torqued up pretty high to allow the mechanism to function properly, even with the non turn "tongue" washers behind them. 

Patrick9-32 wrote:

Those are the standard Alfine nuts, They have to be torqued up pretty high to allow the mechanism to function properly, even with the non turn "tongue" washers behind them. 

So would it be a bad idea to replace them with Pitlocks? I've been considering it.