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@withered_preacher - I reckon I'll get more use out of Loctite than Beeswax.

Would this work? https://www.sjscycles.co.uk/lighting-spares/schmidt-stainless-steel-headlamp-bracket-for-mounting-schmidt-e6/

I've always found petrol to be the best stuff for removing glue residue. It even shifts duct tape residue.

Ooh, yeah, summat like that, more out than up though. They do others, so I'll have a proper look at dimensions tomorrow.
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Why do people love walking in the road? This morning a guy was walking in a segregated cycle lane, then when he had to get out, chose the road instead of the pavement. I feel like it’s getting worse and worse

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Why not? With the exception of motorways it is allowed and pavements are frequently narrow, cluttered and uneven.

I find it a little bit dangerous, to find a person in a zone that you don’t expect a person to be in. Granted it’s usually the door zone, but I still have to suddenly look behind me to swerve around safely.
But yeah, I wasn’t being rhetorical, I genuinely wonder why people do it. I have thought about the uneven pavement issue but I’ve seen many instances where that doesn’t look to be the case. But what do I know.

suddenly look behind me to swerve around safely

There is an element of it sounds like you aren't looking very far ahead in that case. Suddenly stepping out is different from walking in the road for a while. But I'm playing devil's advocate a bit.

I'll often walk in the gutter on the right hand side of the road where I can see oncoming vehicles if the pavement is crowded. That means stepping back onto the pavement to let a filtering bicycle past.

When I'm walking on the left hand side of the road on a narrow pavement I get a bit annoyed with pedestrians who don't step into the road when it is congested. I don't want to do it because I can't see behind me well. On Tuesday night I was walking west along the south side of Oxford Street and crossed over to the north side so I could better use the gutter and get to John Lewis faster.

Why do people love walking in the road?

Because they wish they were entitled cunts, but it turns out the only real agency they have in their pathetic little lives is to make other people's lives worse. Jaywalking is just one symptom of the collapse of civilisation. As we gradually return to feudalism, expect the peasants to become ever more revolting.

Jaywalking is just one symptom of the collapse of civilisation

With the greatest of respect, bullshit! Jaywalking was invented by the US Automobile industry to make it easier to drive, and therefore sell, cars.

The species has only had to accommodate fast vehicles in our environment for a few generations, and regulations have reduced the selective pressure that would normally occur in the wild.

Ok ok

People walked on roads before there were cars or any other kind of motorised transport.

I find it a little bit dangerous, to find a person in a zone that you don’t expect a person to be in.

At the risk of sounding a bit #cycletraining, might I recommend you read the highway code

With the greatest of respect, bullshit!

I'm aware of that argument, and was expecting it. Within the limits of what I could be arsed to type on mobile, I thought the shorthand would be sufficient and most people would be able to look past the narrow US legal meaning to see the broader concept of walking in the carriageway without regard to the safety or confort of other users.

There is a much graver problem, which I attribute to similar social causes, of jay-driving.

It’s happening a lot more around here too, though in this case it is largely people who have no agency at all; the ultra poor homeless who feel that walking in, across, and amongst automobile traffic at least makes them feel seen, if only to be cursed at.

I would definitely benefit from cycle training and reading the Highway Code, if only to make me more tolerant of others.
I walk in the road when I need to, which is quite a lot. All I meant was it seems to me that more and more people choose to walk down the road next to parked cars, on quiet side streets, with no other pedestrians or visible obstacles on the wide, flat pavement. It doesn’t really affect me most of the time, and maybe only once or twice I’ve had to swerve around because I wasn’t 100% alert in the dark at 5:30am. I just genuinely wonder why they do it.

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on quiet side streets, with no other pedestrians or visible obstacles on the wide, flat pavement

I sometimes do this in the dark as there's less risk of dog shit in the road.

This is the kind of explanation I was looking for. Fully back it

For women at night especially, there’s a bit less risk of being ambushed or pulled quickly into the shadows if they’re walking in the road vs. the pavement.

Tester has it in one. The other morning I was driving down an affluent street. Guy with two massive matching expensive bread dogs walked slowly and diagonally across the road. He took the most acute angle to prevent me from passing for the longest possible time for having the temerity of driving down his street.

Obviously you can say he has the right to walk on the road and as a pedestrian he has priority. Maybe dealing with trees and lamp posts with two gigantic dogs is a faff and the road is easier. But that's not it is it? Not really. It's the same as the hoodied up teen I let cross the road the other day who for the last third reduced their walking pace to a crawl.

I'm not particularly exercised by it. At least with the teen they're at the age where you do that sort of thing and it's part of your development. The dog guy is just sad.