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“How is this even a question?” Cyclists slam “who’s in the right” poll after rider struck by corner-cutting driver; Red light hypocrisy as lorry driver speeds through junction; LTN congestion claims blasted; Pog on the Poggio + more on the live blog

Is it Milan-Sanremo time yet? No, apparently it’s still just Tuesday, so join Ryan Mallon as he counts down the hours to Pogačar’s attack on the Poggio on the live blog

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12 March 2024, 10:34
Driver cuts corner and hits cyclist waiting at junction (Michael Rammell)
Another day, another “who’s in the right?” cyclist versus driver question – with a glaringly obvious answer (while motorists claim “cyclists do this to themselves”)

Ah, don’t you just love it when you’re waiting to turn right at a junction, and a motorist chooses to cut the corner, ploughing straight into you, and then, five years later, some so-called ‘media personality’ shares it on Twitter and asks “whose mistake was this”?

> Mechanic escapes driving ban after cutting corner straight into cyclist

That’s the unfortunate internet fate that has befallen poor Michael Rammell, who was struck by a BMW driver while out cycling in Berkshire back in March 2019, luckily only suffering some “bumps, scrapes, and bruises”.

Rammell revealed at the time that he had been bombarded by anti-cycling trolls after sharing footage of the collision, describing it as “quite chilling just how many people have no regard for road safety”.

Well, as they say, those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it, and almost exactly five years after the collision, it’s doing the rounds again, having been viewed a whopping 20 million times since Oli London posted it on Twitter on Saturday, alongside the caption: “Whose mistake was this, the driver or the cyclist?”

Let’s just say some of the replies are… predictable.

“Cyclist.  He was supposed to stay single file in his lane,” wrote Robert.

“Cyclists do this to themselves—they think they’re invulnerable to the 2000 pound very fast machines around them, and they want to use the same space as those machines. Their collective sense of entitlement is infuriating,” added another user, perhaps forgetting to note that the motorist in the clip in question certainly felt ‘entitled’ to use the wrong lane while taking a corner.

“I’ll go ahead and piss everybody off by saying 50/50. The cyclist is fault because he was in the middle of the road, rather than the middle of the lane or the outside edge. The car is at fault because they cut the turn too close and entered the wrong lane,” said the diplomatic, but still very wrong, TX Dodge Dude.

Thankfully, others had some sense (a rare commodity on social media these days, mind you).

“How is this even a question? Cyclist never leaves his lane, driver cuts the corner,” noted Glenn, helpfully.

“It’s very clear driver was on wrong side of road,” said the very observant Leilani.

“Car clearly goes into the other lane. Car is in the wrong, all day long,” added Matthew.

Alright, that’s enough of that ‘debate’…

12 March 2024, 17:08
‘It’s definitely the cyclist’s fault… because of, err, reasons’
12 March 2024, 17:23
Edinburgh’s cycle lanes strike again!
12 March 2024, 09:08
Lorry driver speeds through red light in Canada (Chris Crond)
“These damn cyclists need to stop before they kill someone,” jokes cyclist, after filming lorry driver ploughing through red light that’s “only protecting pedestrians and cyclists after all”

We’ve all heard it hundreds of times before: ‘Those pesky cyclists never stop at red lights, they’re a danger to everyone around them’ (to be honest, I’ve seen two or three variants of that very phrase on social media this morning).

However, that kind of anti-cycling energy and focus on red light jumping never seems to be transferred to those with the most potential to, you know, cause harm on the roads.

> "Why I skip red lights": Journalist makes the case for cyclists riding through reds

And that’s the message currently being articulated by Canadian cyclist and TikToker Chris Crond who, while riding his bike at night through the wide, snowy roads of Winnipeg, Manitoba, crossed a junction and looked back just in time to see a lorry driver speeding through a red light.

“Did they just blow through?” he says in the clip. “F***ing joke.”

Tagging the City of Winnipeg’s municipal government in his post, Chris wrote: “Let me take a wild guess, there's nothing you can do about your contracted semis blowing through red lights UNBELIEVABLY dangerously?

“I mean this red light is only protecting pedestrians and cyclists after all right?

“And by the way, if you say there’s nothing you can do or don’t respond, I’m going to step out when I have the right of way next time right as one of these guys are blowing though this red light and see what happens. And if I don’t die, I will be suing you.

“And you notice that fence? That very big blind spot before entering this crosswalk when going South. If you’re biking through here and you have a green light, you’re going to be biking fast. I guess our tax dollars are funding the death of our citizens, huh? Great investment.”

In another version of the video – complete with music and the sarcastic caption ‘Cyclists always run red lights’, Chris continued, tongue firmly in cheek: “These damn cyclists need to stop before they kill someone. They don’t follow any traffic laws and it's unbelievably dangerous.

“It’s time we license bike use like we do with these drivers. Then our streets will be safe.”

The scary part is the number of people who think that would be the case… Until the next lorry driver blows on by.

12 March 2024, 17:02
2023 Milan Sanremo Mathieu van der Poel - 2.jpeg
2023 season “unique and may never happen again”, says Mathieu van der Poel

As he prepares for his season debut, and title defence, at Milan-Sanremo on Saturday, Mathieu van der Poel has admitted that it will be difficult to replicate his career-defining 2023, a year that saw him a maiden rainbow jersey on the road in Glasgow, along with a ‘cross world title and wins at Paris-Roubaix and Sanremo.

Mathieu van der Poel, 2024 men’s UCI World Cyclocross Championships (Alex Whitehead/SWpix.com)

(Alex Whitehead/SWpix.com)

“Yeah, it was a really special season and it will be really difficult to do it the same or better... is impossible, I think. But for sure, I’m aware of the fact that it was unique and it will maybe never happen again,” Van der Poel, who’s already began his 2024 in style by winning his sixth cyclocross world championships, told the Eurosport Cycling Show, which will air tonight at 5.30pm.

When asked for his favourite moment of 2023, the 29-year-old said: “If I have to pick one, I think the World Championships is something I was always dreaming of, so it was maybe the nicest victory of last year.”

Mathieu van der Poel wins the 2023 world road race championships, Glasgow (Alex Broadway/SWpix.com)

 (Alex Broadway/SWpix.com)

Looking ahead to 2024, Van der Poel reckons his main targets are “mainly the same as I did last year” – with the added bonus of a possible tilt at Olympic gold in the road race or on his mountain bike (or both), with the MTB race coming just eight days after the end of this year’s Tour de France in Nice.

“It’s a bit of a strange year with the Olympics, which is also a goal for me,” the multidiscipline star says. “But yeah, mainly, the big races I target are the same as last year, and then I’ll be at the Olympics.”

In December, Van der Poel told Het Nieuwsblad that he won’t replicate his 2021 season, which saw him leave the Tour early to prepare for the Olympic mountain bike race in Tokyo (one he spectacularly crashed out of in the first lap as Tom Pidcock took gold).

2023 Paris Roubaix Mathieu van der Poel © Zac Williams-SWpix.com - 1 (4)

(Zac Williams/SWpix.com)

“Either I’ll ride the Tour and then I'll only do the road race at the Games,” he said. “Or I don’t ride the Tour and then I do the road race and mountain biking. What I am certainly not going to do is ride the Tour and then leave it earlier, like I did for Tokyo.”

“We had a really good season, especially with Jasper [Philipsen] in the Tour, he was also super successful,” the four-time monument winner tells Eurosport. “So I think we try to improve every year. We will do so next year, but it will be difficult for the team in general to do better than this year.”

Well, despite those cautious words, I wouldn’t bet against Van der Poel emulating his rival and training partner Tadej Pogačar (who won his first race of the season at Strade Bianche) by starting his 2024 with a bang on the Poggio on Saturday…

12 March 2024, 16:59
Giro’s bonkers, “innovative” new time trial helmet makes an appearance… back in 2001

In more ‘there is nothing new under the sun’ news, road.cc founding father Dave – while presumably digging through his old Cycling Plus archives – stumbled upon this dead ringer for Giro’s new “innovative”, crazy, probably soon-to-be-banned Aerohead time trial helmet… being worn by Cyclescheme founder Richard Grigsby way back in 2001.

Richard Grigsby wearing ‘Darth Vader’ time trial helmet in 2001

“John Lafford made it and it fitted over an approved aero helmet,” Grigsby said at the time. “I used it after the excellent ’Get fit for the millennium’ series in Cycling Plus to score my dream of a 20- minute 10.”

Well, at least he got better results out of it than Visma-Lease a Bike have so far (what, too harsh?) And now we finally know where Giro and POC got all their ideas…

12 March 2024, 14:56
Pog on the Poggio (and some questionable wall art)

A well-wrapped up Tadej Pogačar here, helpfully pointing out exactly where he’s going to attack (and warm the hearts of headline writers everywhere) on Saturday, during today’s recon of Milan-Sanremo’s crucial final climb.

Oh, and he also had time during his recce to visit one wall artist’s flattering depiction of the Slovenian superstar (alongside, I assume, Filippo Ganna), located somewhere on the Poggio:

Pogačar on the Poggio during Milan-Sanremo recon (Tadej Pogačar, Instagram)

Yikes.

Rather diplomatically, Pogačar described the portrait as “me in fill ‘sprinter’ version”.

To be fair, Pog in full sprinter mode would be a frightening prospect at La Primavera…

12 March 2024, 14:38
“Maybe the problem isn’t with cyclists, or an ambition for quiet safe residential streets, or Low Traffic Neighbourhoods. Maybe the problem is with too many cars or too many careless drivers”

More from Streatham’s now LTN-less car utopia:

12 March 2024, 13:56
Lambeth Council suspends Streatham LTN trial: The Aftermath

Last week, you may have heard, Lambeth Council announced that it was suspending a controversial Low Traffic Neighbourhood scheme in Streatham Wells with immediate effect, just five months into its intended 12 to 18 month trial period, after opponents claimed that the LTN was causing massive public transport delays (with one three-mile bus journey purportedly taking over two hours) and widespread congestion in the area.

So, with the LTN now gone, I imagine the traffic is flowing freely and smoothly through Streatham?

Or maybe not…

According to the Liveable Streatham Well group, the LTN was suspended on Thursday with “five minutes’ notice”.

“Children went into school in an LTN and came out into this mess,” they said.

“Keep ‘em coming,” added Tom, in response to the group’s video. “Every post shows how blaming LTNs for traffic congestion is ridiculous. They are part of the long-term solution and, while tweaks may be needed, trial periods should run their course and be assessed objectively.”

“Gee, so it wasn’t the LTN that caused the tailbacks,” transport journo Carlton Reid wrote on Twitter this lunchtime. “Who’d’ve thunk it?”

Who’d’ve thunk it indeed, Carlton…

12 March 2024, 13:29
Trek plans to cut spending by 10% and reduce the number of products it offers by 40% – find out why this is important for you, even if you don’t ride a Trek
12 March 2024, 12:56
Decathlon AG2R 2024 kit
Decathlon AG2R unveils another new kit in… errr, March

It seems like only a few months since AG2R joined forces with Decathlon and ditched the iconic, if ever so slightly divisive, brown shorts for a clean cut blue, white, and black look.

Well, that’s because it was only a few months ago.

But today, for some reason – that reason being Decathlon’s quite minimal rebranding and new logo – the French squad has unveiled their second kit design overhaul of 2024:

I have to say, despite the absurdity of releasing a new kit when the old new one had barely made it through Paris-Nice, I quite like its vaguely cosmic stylings.

Although as some people have already pointed out on social media, the varying shades of blue and different coloured sleeve is giving off strong Israel-Premier Tech vibes. And does the 2024 peloton really need another dark blue-dominated jersey?

Bring back the brown shorts, I say!

12 March 2024, 12:37
Wiggle Chain Reaction parent company appoints liquidators

More updates from the rapidly diminishing Wiggle CRC front…

Wiggle down

> Wiggle Chain Reaction parent company appoints liquidators

12 March 2024, 11:55
2023 Hope-Lotus track bike Will Palmer/SWpix.com
“We’ll still make sure we’ve got rounder wheels than everyone else”: Team GB will have better equipment and clothing than any other nation at the Paris Olympics, claims performance director

Team GB will have the roundest wheels, slippiest frames, and most aerodynamic clothing at the Paris Olympics this summer, the squad’s performance director has claimed.

Among the 64 pieces of kit registered by Great Britain and homologated with the UCI at last year’s Glasgow world championships – which marked the cut-off for new pieces of tech and kit ahead of the Olympics – sit a 3D-printed frame, the updated Hope-Lotus HBT bike, and new skinsuits, some of which will remain under wraps until Paris.

“For those of us that are into tech, it’s quite interesting times,” GB performance director Stephen Park says.

“Some pieces of equipment are limited and set by that homologation. Some have some degrees of freedom within them. It’s even more so on the apparel side, the clothing side.”

2023 Hope-Lotus bike

> Lotus and Hope reveal new British Olympic track bike: what’s going on with that seatpost?

Park also confirmed that the new Hope-Lotus bike, which has been raced just once in Glashow, will not be used again until the first race of the Olympics, and that there will “certainly be some 3D-printed products involved in the line-up”.

While noting that Team GB will also take advantage of pieces of equipment homologated by other nations, Park maintained – with a not-so-subtle reference to Dave Brailsford’s infamous 2012 remark that Britain’s success on the track owed to the squad’s “specially round wheels” – that the team will “still make sure we’ve got rounder wheels than everyone else”.

“[We’ll also have] slippier frames than everyone else, and hopefully better apparel than everyone else,” he continued.

“I am confident that, when we go to Paris, no other team will have an equipment and an apparel set-up that will be better than the one that we will be able to provide our riders to give them the best opportunity to deliver their best on the day.”

> Halfords donates state-of-the-art wind tunnel to British Cycling

Thanks to the £1 wind tunnel donated by Halfords back in 2021, formerly of the Boardman Performance Centre but now located near BC HQ in Manchester, Park added that “we've been able to run lots more tests and positioning than we’ve ever done before. We’ve been able to offer it to the Paralympic riders, which we’ve never done before. That has provided us with a great opportunity to progress testing.

“You’re still looking for every half a percent. It’s a challenge, but it’s a good one. We’ve got some really smart people doing some really good work in that space. I’d be quite happy if I was a rider.”

12 March 2024, 11:06
Move over Kate Middleton, there’s a new photo-related conspiracy theory in town…

Royal photo scandals are so yesterday, it’s now Visma-Lease a Bike’s turn to have us all jumping down the conspiracy theory rabbit hole:

Wait a minute, just how tall is Matteo Jorgenson? And how incredibly small is Jonas Vingegaard?

Thankfully, it turns out the Princess of Wales isn’t the only one with rudimentary Photoshop skills. Here’s the original photo – presumably taken by Prince William, possibly in December? – of the Paris-Nice and Tirreno-Adriatico winners standing side-by-side (and posing with what appears to be a trophy sponsored by a chamois cream manufacturer)…

That’s more like it (still a sizeable difference though, for two elite stage racers).

Thank goodness as well, because the road.cc office was swiftly turning into that Father Ted scene in the caravan. And no, I wasn’t Dougal, I promise!

12 March 2024, 11:28
Speaking of Dodgy Royal Photogate…

Maybe Kate’s Photoshopping skills were a bit off simply because she was riding her bike at the time?

Kate Middleton

Quick, someone get me Kensington Palace on the phone, we’ve cracked it!

12 March 2024, 10:12
Cyclist who survived cougar attack had face trapped in cat’s bite for 15 minutes before other riders used bike to pin animal down

Jeepers. More shocking details have emerged about the incident in the United States last month which saw a group of five cyclists attacked by a mountain lion, which was eventually shot by a ranger after it had been pinned to the ground by the riders who used a mountain bike to overpower it.

Keri McCorkle suffered severe trauma to her face as well as permanent nerve damage after the cougar latched onto her lower jaw, keeping her head in its bite for 15 minutes while the other riders tried to free her by hitting the big cat with a rock and a multi-tool. The 60-year-old cyclist was eventually freed after the animal tried to reposition its bite, giving her a second to escape.

Keri McCorkle (GoFundMe)

Read more: > Cyclist who survived cougar attack had face trapped in cat’s bite for 15 minutes before other riders used bike to pin animal down

After obtaining a PhD, lecturing, and hosting a history podcast at Queen’s University Belfast, Ryan joined road.cc in December 2021 and since then has kept the site’s readers and listeners informed and enthralled (well at least occasionally) on news, the live blog, and the road.cc Podcast. After boarding a wrong bus at the world championships and ruining a good pair of jeans at the cyclocross, he now serves as road.cc’s senior news writer. Before his foray into cycling journalism, he wallowed in the equally pitiless world of academia, where he wrote a book about Victorian politics and droned on about cycling and bikes to classes of bored students (while taking every chance he could get to talk about cycling in print or on the radio). He can be found riding his bike very slowly around the narrow, scenic country lanes of Co. Down.

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Flintshire Boy replied to chrisonabike | 8 months ago
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LOL!

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Gosh, it's been so long, but still you remember the good times that we had together, don't you, Babe. (Although it does rather seem that you have forgotten my name. All men are beasts, aren't they?)

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OK, here goes, by special request and for one night only:

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'A Lay Ba Council. A Laaaaaay Ba Council.'

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Happy to oblige! Regards, FB.

 

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chrisonabike replied to Flintshire Boy | 8 months ago
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Flintshire Boy wrote:

Gosh, it's been so long, but still you remember the good times that we had together, don't you, Babe. (Although it does rather seem that you have forgotten my name. All men are beasts, aren't they?)

Alas... as the bishop said, my apologies.

Yet each man kills the thing he loves,
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By each let this be heard,
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Some do it with a bitter look,
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Some with a flattering word,
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The coward does it with a kiss,
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The brave man with a sword!

... but the smart money just runs it over with a car.

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Flintshire Boy replied to chrisonabike | 8 months ago
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Nice one, Chris, but don't you be going Wilde with me!

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All in good spirit (unlike some!). 'preciate it.

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chrisonabike replied to Flintshire Boy | 8 months ago
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Not bad, but IIRC Stephen Fry topped yours when interviewed about his role in an Oscar biopic - "I was born to be Wilde".

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Rendel Harris replied to chrisonabike | 8 months ago
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chrisonabike wrote:

Not bad, but IIRC Stephen Fry topped yours when interviewed about his role in an Oscar biopic - "I was born to be Wilde".

Very good, Oscar himself was fond of a pun: he once boasted when giving a talk that he could make a pun on any subject; someone in the audience shouted out "the Queen" and he replied "Oh but of course the Queen is not a subject."

Shame Fry didn't win an Oscar for the film (I've known worse performances win it), he could really have gone to town with the puns then.

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MattieKempy replied to Left_is_for_Losers | 8 months ago
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Quite possibly, as a Conservative council wouldn't even have trialled an LTN unless some corrupt Big Oil, Big Tech or stupidly rich tw@t businessperson/industriallist/thief had paid them to do so.

Oh, and I'm still a Woke, Snowflake, Left Loser FYI!

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SimoninSpalding replied to MattieKempy | 8 months ago
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You missed out racist and mysoginist from your list of Tory donors.

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IanMK replied to SimoninSpalding | 8 months ago
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SimoninSpalding wrote:

You missed out racist and mysoginist from your list of Tory donors.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-politics-68546206

So even Tory MPs agree that at least one of their donors is exactly that.

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Hirsute replied to SimoninSpalding | 8 months ago
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It's not racism if you do a lot of business in Jamaica, Malaysia and Bangladesh.

In fact, some of my best friends are black.

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Left_is_for_Losers replied to MattieKempy | 8 months ago
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MattieKempy wrote:

Quite possibly, as a Conservative council wouldn't even have trialled an LTN unless some corrupt Big Oil, Big Tech or stupidly rich tw@t businessperson/industriallist/thief had paid them to do so.

Oh, and I'm still a Woke, Snowflake, Left Loser FYI!

Good to see LABOUR pull yet another u-turn on something. 

As Boris said, they've got more flip flops than Bournemouth beach

Also sorry to hear you're still heading down the rabbit hole of woke leftness, good luck picking up the pieces when you find out what a flop it is. 

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Hirsute | 8 months ago
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Can't beat Rhondda Pickering for cutting corners!
https://road.cc/content/news/near-miss-day-842-298401

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brooksby replied to Hirsute | 8 months ago
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I'd forgotten about that one!  Thanks, hirsute!  4

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mitsky | 8 months ago
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Regarding the corner cutting...
I think the question to ask is "Would the driver's manouver have resulted in them failing the driving test?"
Given how dangerous it is, I would say "Yes."
In which case, anyone denying it is the driver's fault should burn their own licence.

Ultimately, it is worth considering that if a driver's actions caught on camera (or with other conclusive proof) would result in a failed test... should the law be that they immediately lose their licence?

I also remember this one from a few years ago.
I was legally waiting in the ASZ/bike box to turn right when an approaching tram driver thinks I'm in the way...
https://youtu.be/7mOl-62dSbo

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mattw | 8 months ago
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Interesting that the corner cutting tweet replies are full of Yanks pulling their puddings.

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wycombewheeler | 8 months ago
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at a time when inflation seems rampant in the cycling industry, it's good to know there are still bargains to be had

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Thanks to the £1 wind tunnel donated by Halfords back in 2021, formerly of the Boardman Performance Centre but now located near BC HQ in Manchester,

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IanMK | 8 months ago
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“Cyclists do this to themselves—they think they’re invulnerable to the 2000 pound very fast machines around them, and they want to use the same space as those machines. Their collective sense of entitlement is infuriating,”

I don't think there's a single cyclist that considers himself invulnerable to the 2000 pound  very fast macines* and, yes, as a taxpayer I do feel entitled to use the space that those taxes have paid for. **

* if we were only dealing with vehicles that weighed just 2000lbs (approx 900kg) perhaps we would feel less vulnerable.

** and I am legally entitled to use.

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spen | 8 months ago
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Why are you giving that utterly digusting oxygen thief london publicity?

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SimoninSpalding replied to spen | 8 months ago
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I've never heard of him. I take it from your comment you wouldn't recommend I spend this afternoon going through his back catalogue? 

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Clem Fandango | 8 months ago
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I've been on the end of that exact corner cutting situation myself a few years ago.  Driver (not the car) in question was cutting the corner even more extravagantly and wasn't even looking ahead & only looked up (presumably from his phone) as I began to shout rather loudly having identified the "oh sh1t" moment and realised that as I was at a standstill there was absolutely nothing I could do.  I think I got as far as "OH FUUUUUU...." before the impact.   Broken ribs & a dislocated shoulder.  Fortunately only superficial damage to the bike.  Equally fortunately there were witnesses & a passing paramedic and it ended up with said driver going on an awareness course.

How anyone can think that the cyclist is any way at fault beggars belief, but just speaks to the prevailing attitude on the road.

“Cyclists do this to themselves—they think they’re invulnerable to the 2000 pound very fast machines around them, and they want to use the same space as those machines. Their collective sense of entitlement is infuriating,” 

Totally arse about face.  The car is the invasive species in a public space. When driving we are wanting to use the same space as other, more longstanding and more vulnerable, road users.  It's the driver & their car that pose the danger (not the road) - hence the requirement for a licence and insurance, and all that infrastructure that's needed to make roads usable by motor vehicles (the very visible presence of which every inch of the way being what makes the non cycling, non walking, angry drivist belive that "roads are for cars").  The collective sense of misplaced privilege & entitlement.......

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NotNigel | 8 months ago
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The car cutting the corner is a result of the driver looking for the gap instead of the road that they're turning in to (clearly on the wrong side).  Had similar nearly happen to me although the driver saw me last minute and had to swerve on to the right side of the road.  Clearly in a trance waiting for the gap coming from the opposite direction.

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chrisonabike replied to NotNigel | 8 months ago
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This.  People are only looking for other large motor vehicles - that is the "threat" and (human nature) they focus most on that.

How we get beyond that?  Perhaps:

a) having an appreciation of the kinds of poor driving which are apparently inevitable (when we have mass motoring) and

b) when designing infra it needs to be very very clear about what to expect where.  (It also needs to be standard).  Especially where different modes of transport interact.  Think level crossings... we've collectively learned the hard way there that you can't be too clear and salient.  (We've also increasingly realised that it may be better and even cheaper overall to avoid different modes interacting altogether).

Currently cyclists on the roads are still a very rare occurrence (most places).  A proportion of drivers "do not expect..." and some "look but don't see".

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IanMK replied to NotNigel | 8 months ago
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Had a mother dropping her precious off at the local school do the same to me. Luckily she pulled up just in time. She then scowled at me until I moved out of the way. Now that's entitlement!

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Legin | 8 months ago
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Re cutting corners; never mind it being a problem when on the bike; it's a problem full stop. I can guarantee when I'm out in the car, stopped at a junction, a driver will cut the corner. I blame The Bell End School of Motoring!

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Hirsute replied to Legin | 8 months ago
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Plenty of corner cutting shown in dashcam videos.

Replace the cyclist with a car and driver and no one would be saying the driver was in the wrong place on his side of the road.

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brooksby replied to Legin | 8 months ago
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All the people saying that the cyclist ought to have been in the middle of the lane, or over to the left (to turn right?) and yet you can guarantee that if the road had been slightly wider then motorists would have been happily waiting side by side to come out of there… 

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essexian replied to Legin | 8 months ago
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Have you seen Mr Neal's latest cycling video on Youtube.... now we know who runs the school of motoring you name.  The bloke has not got a clue!

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wtjs | 8 months ago
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The obvious fault of the driver cutting the corner, not bothering to look for a cyclist and hitting him was just what happened to me (imagine the cyclist waiting to leave the Sainsbury's exit road in order to turn right onto the main road), except that the offending vehicle was going faster to avoid an oncoming vehicle. I was lucky in being only hit by the offside mirror. The police said 'it was only a momentary loss of concentration-NFA'. So began my headcam career and the increasingly dispiriting dealings with the unapologetically anti-cyclist, pro-motorist LancsFilth

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mitsky | 8 months ago
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Bywaters Skip lorry driver going through red light in London next to a CSH bike lane, years ago.

https://youtu.be/3hNGrZqAck8

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