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It's the left-hand turn immediately after this pedestrian crossing
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I only saw the scene from afar due to the cordon, but 100% sure that the tipper truck was stopped in the junction, mid-way through a left hand turn off Howland St and into Charlotte St. Definitely not the Fitzroy-Maple St junction.
It's a one way system, so the cyclist (and truck) would have very likely been going east-to-west on Howland St from Tottenham Court Road towards Cleveland St in the segregated cycle lane. HGVs are common along there due to all the building work and unfortunately the cycle land stops being segregated at each junction for this traffic to turn left across it.
At that junction you also get traffic crossing N-S from Fitzroy into Charlotte St and drivers trying to dart across there makes the whole junction is a clusterf*** to navigate even as a pedestrian.
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:(
Was hoping it wasn't the case
RIP
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Looks to have been a serious incident at the junction of Howland Street and Charlotte St (near Tottenham Court Rd) earlier this morning.
I passed by at ~08:30am and a tipper truck turning left across the cycle lane into Charlotte St was abandoned in the junction with police/ambulance/fire service all in attendance. Police still have the area cordoned off now some 6 hours later so can only assume it's very serious.
Thoughts go out to the (presumed) rider and any relatives.
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Thanks for the replies.
I had seen that video but thought it was a bit of a weak effort by Halo! Sure, it's easy to run some oil into the gaps and give it a spin, but as I mentioned, my last one was basically packed with mud after winter, so I was looking for opinions on a full strip-down service.
I didn't think mine had any holes/dimples for a pin-wrench (hence the post!) but watching that video again, it looks as though there might be some on the reverse-side so I'll investigate that.
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I have a Halo Clickster on my singlespeed bike and just wondering if any of you guys have any experience of servicing them? It's in good nick at the moment, but this is my commuting bike and it has a hard life of being left in the rain all year round and an unavoidably muddy commute.
I was previously running a Shimano MX30 freewheel and by the time I came around to servicing that at the end of last winter, I found the bearings were packed with more mud than oil and it was beyond help; trying to avoid the same this year with some preventative maintenance!
Any tips?
Edit: in hindsight this is probably a bit judgemental so I've removed