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Campaigners must be careful neither to accidentally talk down the cause for which they are working by communicating an unrealistic image of 'danger', nor to invoke some sort of unrealistic ideal
The demographic we now want to add to the cycling revolution, you know people other than the thoughtful and fit chaps such as dominate this forum, aren't going to be sweet-talked into facing down HGVs by a bit of self-censorship on our part. Quite the contrary - if children and mothers and other 'non-cyclists' are ever going to get on a bike, they rely on us to kick up a fuss and sort the roads out - to atleast create roadspace and layout and priority in proportion to the huge percentage of vehicular traffic that is not bike in central london. Check out RAC figures - in many inner london boroughs there are more cycling commutes than commutes by taxi car and van put together. With the brave already on a bike, now's not the time for softly softly. Now's the time to point out that London Cyclists are a big block that save the city megabucks and deserve better than blue paint. For all the noise, Boris's instructions to transport planners seem aimed at anything other than providing a decent sodding junction
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some blogs/campaigns:
http://aseasyasridingabike.wordpress.com/about/
http://www.aviewfromthecyclepath.com/2011/02/all-those-myths-and-excuses-in-one-post.html
http://bicycledutch.wordpress.com/
http://departmentfortransport.wordpress.com/
http://cyclelondoncity.blogspot.co.uk/
http://www.voleospeed.co.uk/
http://saferoxfordstreet.blogspot.co.uk/
https://www.facebook.com/rethinkingchildhood?directed_target_id=0
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what puts people off is that the road design isn't attractive to newbie cyclists, not that campaigning reminds people of this problem. there's been a campaigns upsurge after the spate of deaths not simply in response to the deaths themselves but in response to the outrageous victim-blaming narrative that Boris & co tried to weave around those deaths, which was far more likely to put people off than pointing t the real problem. by continental and NYC standards the blue paint is a dangerous joke. if it at least did not have cars parked in it and motors stopping in the ASL boxes without the slightest idea what they are for or fear of enforcement, that would be another small advance from spin to reality
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I arrived at my Christmas destination with a broken axle - (it broke on the last mile into Bedford). I'm blaming thousands of miles trouble free service and/or bad surface and/or presents in panniers.
Hub is the later nuovo tipo without the grease hole & cover, just campy, not record. Curved 'campagnolo' lever on skewer, no ring in the nose on the other side. Campagnolo 36 hole small flange rear hub for threaded freewheel, dropouts 121.5mm, quick release hollow axle was 122.5mm with various spacers -between the nuts. Threaded axle itself runs to 127/128mm as accurate as I can measure, and on both sides about half spans the lands of the dropouts.
Looks like some new cones would be no bad thing, if anyone has them.
Maybe someone changed out the qr axle for a solid axle and kept the qr hollow in a box?
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well said dancing james. and lets have bikeability training for some transport planners too
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They protested just there because there's an on-pavement cycle-way which ends exactly at the junction.
correction "in proportion to the huge percentage of vehicular traffic that is now bike in central london"