gobby_wench

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• 2011-02-02 - Rider Down/Fatality, Kingsland Road/Dalston Junction (London)

  in Rider Down • 13 years, 10 months

  

  gobby, not being tribal, but the rider down threads, though not ultimately "private" are a space where information about accidents can be shared, and many friends and family of the person involved in the accident have come to this forum and these threads have done so in the past.
  We all know that in riding bikes, many of these accidents/incidents could have happened to us, so we want to know what happened and that the person involved in it, is okay.
  If in publishing the comments above, the hackney hive make friends and family unwilling to come onto these threads to give us good, or bad news, then we all lose out.

  Are you for real?

• 2011-02-02 - Rider Down/Fatality, Kingsland Road/Dalston Junction (London)

  in Rider Down • 13 years, 10 months

  

  It's a shocking week.
  All our hopes and wishes are for Dan's survival. Condolences for the friends and family of biker at QM.
  I used to live on that corner in Dalston, it's always been nasty there.
  The Gazette

  @gobby_wench Hmmm...

  Your point about it being an open public forum rather misses the point - the point is that people here are talking to people they know care, as oppose to the press directly. Yes, it is a semi-public forum where anyone can (and do) lurk, but most of us on here know to have a bit of sensitivity about these things when we know that people and their loved ones are hurting (as oppose to say writing about it on an advert-laden blog in an attempt to bump up visits and revenue)

  Of course, as someone above pointed out, a real journalist with formal training and a career reputation to uphold would never indulge in such ghoulish behaviour, unlike what has been done at the Hackney Hives but that's the domain of the tinternet 'writers' for you I guess...

  Anyway, let's not derail the thread - it is here for sharing thoughts and best wishes to the injured and his loved ones.

  Tuff. It is what it is. Cyclists blaming everyone and a pack mentality. It's also what the Brits do best..... whinge whine whinge. Get over yourselves.

  Be grateful it's not phone hacking eh?

  ;)

  I wish Dan a speedy recovery

• 2011-02-02 - Rider Down/Fatality, Kingsland Road/Dalston Junction (London)

  in Rider Down • 13 years, 10 months

  

  Don't you think you people are getting a little tribal about your patch? Seems to me it was posted on an open public forum.

• 2011-02-02 - Rider Down/Fatality, Kingsland Road/Dalston Junction (London)

  in Rider Down • 13 years, 10 months

  

  It's a shocking week.
  All our hopes and wishes are for Dan's survival. Condolences for the friends and family of biker at QM.
  I used to live on that corner in Dalston, it's always been nasty there.
  The Gazette

  None of the news outlets have as much information as lfgss
  http://www.hackneyhive.co.uk/index/2011/02/cyclist-in-collision-with-lorry-in-dalston/

• Stolen bikes

  in General • 14 years, 1 month

  

  Absolutely gobsmacked! I don't have a bike but lots of my friends do and my brother has had two stolen in South Hackney.

  I've added a link to this site to my blog.

• Hackney Cycle Crime Unit

  in General • 14 years, 2 months

  

  Glad to see a thread has been started....I guess the link below is old news news. Doing a good job so far. I guess register register register is the operative word.
  http://www.hackneyhive.co.uk/index/2010/10/success-for-unit-tackling-cycle-theft-in-hackney/

• Stolen bikes

  in General • 14 years, 2 months

  

  Small consolation, but it's something, especially thoughts of installing CCTV. http://www.hackneyhive.co.uk/index/2010/09/two-arrested-in-connection-with-bike-attacks-in-de-beauvoir/

• 2010-09-28 - Rider Down, Balls Pond Road

  in Rider Down • 14 years, 2 months

  

  Police confirmed, it was lorry and cyclist. Unfortunately the people I talk to have gone home for the day. Will know by morning if nothing is posted.

• 2010-08-05 - Rider Down, junction of Graham Road and Navarino Road, E8

  in Rider Down • 14 years, 4 months

  

  I am unable to start a thread, so one of y'all may want to use it to start it's own thread. Cyclist being treated for head injuries after crash in Mile End. http://tinyurl.com/36agzmf

• 2010-08-05 - Rider Down, junction of Graham Road and Navarino Road, E8

  in Rider Down • 14 years, 4 months

  

  that junction is a little confusing - the way navarro road is one way in two different directions from the junction, with contraflow cycle lanes on different sides of the road. and in latvia they drive on the right. if she was used to driving/cycling there, and only came here in june, and had just started cycling here, i suspect it was just enough contradictory information to let her look left, out of habit, rather than right, at the junction.. hope she pulls through...

  Spot on.