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• Made / Hollander

  in General • 14 years, 1 month

  

  Well, yeah sort of. I guess it was pretty light for a steel utility bike and the kind of bike I'm used to. What I basically meant though is it's lightweight in a bad way - the whole thing just feels flimsy. The 'light', grips and pedals were nasty too. I got instead an old Raleigh 3 speed.

• Made / Hollander

  in General • 14 years, 1 month

  

  I had one of these for a while, bought very cheap secondhand, although the stem and brand name were a little different.

  Cheap and lightweight. The saddle was especially bad.

• 2010-09-29 - Rider Down, Tavistock Place

  in Rider Down • 14 years, 3 months

  

  No, Byng Place is basically finished. I called the council to check. They said they'll review changes in a month or two but the plan is to leave it as it is.

  The idea is to create a shared use area. There's a couple of tiny signs indicating this but funnily enough, no one sees them.

  Hope they're okay.

• Boris bikes and cycle superhighways - your views needed

  in General • 14 years, 4 months

  

  (And no I didn't know that about 20mph, so thanks for the heads up).

• Boris bikes and cycle superhighways - your views needed

  in General • 14 years, 4 months

  

  Then you're not aware that 20mph has made tremendous progress in recent years and is getting increasingly accepted, and that 'proper separate routes' would require far more political and persuasive effort. I agree that stricter liability would be a great thing. Do get involved in campaigning if you're interested in this sort of issue--which borough do you live in?

  If that's the case, I'm glad to hear.

  Politcal capital and goodwill to cyclists seems to me limited. If 20mph is increasingly accepted, and does not require significant amounts of either, then even better. Bring it on. Though if we are indeed referring to "20 mph on all the network", surely this would take some time?

  As for getting involved, no not yet. The problem is no group I've come across is campaigning for separate infrastructure. Until I'm convinced otherwise, I'm inclined to agree with this:

  http://crapwalthamforest.blogspot.com/2010/01/how-integrationist-became.html

  Who knows, perhaps I'm just being naive though I'd prefer to think of myself as idealistic... I live in Camden by the way.

• Boris bikes and cycle superhighways - your views needed

  in General • 14 years, 4 months

  

  @ Extra Forte
  No, it's okay. I wouldn't expect many people to want segregated lanes on this forum. People here are already well used to cycling on the busy roads we've got. And I know people on here want to go *fast. *So do I, in fact. It's just that I want other things too. I'd quite like a city where my future kids can cycle to school or live in a city that doesn't have the worst air pollution in Europe.

  As for the space, yeah, London's streets aren't as wide as some cities on mainland Europe. And our cycle lanes wouldn't be as wide as some of them in Copenhagen. But I refuse to believe building a usable network across the city is impossible. After all, vast acres of our roadspace are occupied simply by parked cars.

  Of course, this is all probably never going to happen, as it would mean taking away some space from motorised traffic. But it doesn't mean I won't ask for it!

  @Oliver Schick
  No, apologies - having re-read my comments above, I wasn't clear. It looks like I'm against against enforcing a 20mph limit. I'm not. Though it might have been fun, trying to argue it in some convoluted way...

  However, it would require a lot of political and persuasive effort. So I don't think it's what I'd demand first. I'd always support first proper separate routes. But given how unlikely that is, I'd probably then support introducing a strict liability law.

• Boris bikes and cycle superhighways - your views needed

  in General • 14 years, 4 months

  

  If you have segragation say goodbye to going 25mph.

  True that. Unless you carry on riding in the road or build fast and slow lanes like I think they have in some bits of Denmark.

• Boris bikes and cycle superhighways - your views needed

  in General • 14 years, 4 months

  

  cycle super highways not so good. ffs. stop spending rakes of money on segregation.

  20 mph on all the network please.

  that is what we want. and much cheaper.

  First time poster here, long time lurker. Apologies, I didn't wish to argue with my first post but the above is complete rubbish.

  The super highways aren't segregated in the slightest; that's why they're crap. You can change the limit to 20mph if you want but it wouldn't make a blind bit of difference in central London where the average speed is more like 10. It also won't do anything about wankers in white vans.

  So please, 20mph is what you want.

  Oh, and it's actually comments like the above that provide TfL and others with a handy excuse for fobbing us off with pointless crap... cycle lanes in the door zone, 'shared use' pavements etc. If they'd be done properly, the super highways could have been great. But TfL said one of the reasons why the highways weren't segregated was because cyclists didn't want them to be.