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snooks

Member since Oct 2008 • Last active Nov 2011
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    I'm after the wedge bolt for tightening the clamp to the bars.

    This fella

    Does anyone have a spare one kicking around?

    Seems the stem I bought off fleabay has already had this bolt replaced, and in the quest to tighten up the bars after a people carrier left hooked me, I've knackered it.

    If I can't find one I'm going to get a replacement metric one machined.....from somewhere

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  • in Complete bikes and frame & forks
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    Thanks, but my rse is Flite shaped...Good luck

  • in Complete bikes and frame & forks
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    Any more info on the Selle Italia Saddle?

    Condition/scuffs? and is it the Flite Gel flow ?

    Cheers

  • in General
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    Hi Bill, Thanks for taking the time to reply, I didn't mean to sound ignorant (or arrogant for that matter), and I certainly don't believe that all the incidents could have been avoided by the cyclists involved. I apologise if what I wrote was taken to mean that. Not what I intended at all. Sorry.

    My post was meant to highlight that there are an awful lot of cyclists out there who would benefit from education - whether it's a case of shouting "Mate don't go up there, he's turning left", leaflets or stickers whatever. Just to point out, I'm not implying that those have died were lacking education, this is just an observation I've made. I'm sure everyone on here sees other cyclists putting themselves in vulnerable positions, up the inside of HGVs or vehicles turning left etc. like the vids I posted. It's these people that it would be easy to target and get a message across.

    This by no means relinquishes the HGV diver of a duty of care of other road users around them. Although I can see how the stickers on the back of trucks would been seem to pass the onus of responsility from the HGV to the cyclist, this is not what I had in mind.

    Sadly there will always be incidents when through no fault of the party involved they will end up injured, fatally or otherwise, and that's not saying that no one is to blame either.

    Unfortunately as you pointed out when there is blame, they get naff all punishment, a case in point: http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/cn_news_home/DisplayArticle.asp?ID=451662

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    Maybe I'm being a bit thick here, but the link just directs to:
    http://81.21.76.62/seemesaveme.com/index.html

  • in General
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    Fuckers... they don't use the bloody mirrors they have. You could wear all day-glo stuff and still be flattened by them.

    Grrr.

    Like it or not, they do have a point tho.

    It is up to us to look after ourselves. If we as cyclists don't put ourselves in vulnerable positions (up the inside or in front of a hgv/bus/whatever indicating or not) they can't get us. It's that simple

    Yes they have mirrors, but they don't want to squash us and they don't try either. They just have to be looking in the wrong direction for a second when a cyclist goes up their inside into their blind spot and through no fault of their own a cyclist has put themselves in a dangerous position, and the driver is non the wiser.

    It's people like this: we all need to help:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03GGcZ8dA8c

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-lZPeAWye4

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    Sorry I can't make it tonight, However I started a facebook group some time ago to try to raise awareness, but ran out of time to run it properly

    http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=28903548493

    Feel free to use it to promote the cause/spread the word etc

    Has anyone contacted any other cycling forums?

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    Great work :D

    I posted it up on Bike Radar Commuting to spread the word a bit further

    But have you seen the price of watermelons recently??? joke

    A photographer here if I can help and I'm not working

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