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Hi poloistas,

If you don't know me, please ignore this. If you do know me, but think I'm a total dick, which is entirely understandable, then see the previous sentence.

If, on the other hand, you have spent the last X years muttering (or even yelling - I am going deaf in my dotage) about what a boring old so-and-so then this is the event for you!

Yes, I am going to be 50. So if you want to buy me a decent beer, from some decent people, and listen to some decent sounds, then please come along to Canopy, and chill. No big deal, no craziness, just a chilled evening.

The real craziness will be at the barbecue the next day.

Would be happy to pool resources, although I am not the best at helpful mechanical advice.

Yeah seen, are you doing it Good Friday or the Thursday before?

Ok, so here's what I'm going to do. Do you think I should make it a forum event?

http://www.londonersonbikes.org/billbuffalo/queen_street_place_by_the_bicycle_traffic_lights

The kind of road-users that want you out of 'their' carriage-way, and into the bike lane are likely to be the same kind of people that shouted at Klaus Bondam (former deputy Mayor for Transport of CPH and current chief of the Danish Cycling Union) & I to get off the road when he was here 2 years ago. Presence of infra, decent or not, will not make a jot of difference to these knuckle-draggers.

I don't know if this is a re-post but this is a pretty shocking watch because it shows how little progress had been made up until 2013, and also that we were only 10 years behind the Dutch & Danish in 1984

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmR5t2RELns

I wrote this, which is sort of aimed at a typical forumenger:

https://buffalobillbikeblog.wordpress.com/2016/03/11/boris-new-bike-lanes-are-not-for-me/

It's quite long, so here's the last 3 paras:

"Because I now get it. I get that if I want to see a civilised, cycling city in my lifetime, ordinary people, people who would otherwise drive to the shops, or to the school with the kids, or get the bus or the train to work, need to feel safe on their bikes on the road, which they do not now. They need to feel that there is a safe space in which to cycle. Training alone will not do it. I have lost count of the number of times that I have heard friends & acquaintances say something like, I’d like to ride, but I just don’t feel safe, or, I used to ride but stopped after I was (nearly) knocked off by a bus / lorry / car.

Under Boris’ leadership, Andrew Gilligan and his team have made a great start. I know that all of the roadworks have been a pain, although there have been one or two upsides: we all immensely enjoyed Nigel Lawson’s assertion “that [the cycle lane construction program] has done more damage, and is doing more damage, to London than almost anything since the Blitz”. But it’s only a start.

If we aren’t careful, this summer will mark the high-water mark of cycling advocacy in London. At TfL the bus is king, and all this cycle-lane stuff has been, in their view, a bit of a distraction, and a bit of a waste of money, but, hey, now the box marked ‘cycling’ has been ticked, they’ll be able to get back to the real world of buses and trains. Also, cuts to funding are looming, and that will mean it is likely to get a lot harder to get any money spent on cycling, never mind increasing it.

Cycling in London has momentum. After several years of flat-lining, modal share has started to nose up again in the last couple of years. The new lanes will surely accelerate the upward trend. But the job’s only just begun. And if we don’t carry on pushing, the vocal but statistically small anti-cycling caucus will get the airtime and the audience, and cycling will be pushed back to the margins from where it is now, virtually centre-stage in London politics."

Went to see Andrew Gilligan chat to the LCC Policy Forum Monday. Seems pretty concerned that all of the momentum that has been built up in the last 3 years will be lost after the election, irrespective of who gets in, as both principal candidates are only hearing the 'anti' side, and the 'pro' side (a majority in most surveys) aren't making themselves heard.

@Greasy_Slag tears in my eyes. "Look at it as one of your 5 a day".

One of the most decent, witty & warm men it has ever been my pleasure to share a road or a coffee with. And a proper bike rider too. Miss you already.

+1

Maybe. The RB-1 needs a bit of tic before I can tho.

Ha!

Wow! What happened to the polo threads? Used to be the most active on this forum, now it's like tumble-weed town.

I would love to come along & try to put Badger into the fence one more time! Shame I can't make it.

Classic. Not your fault, all you did was supply enough rope...

This in reply to @Shinscar was pretty good as well

to those who helped thanks veyr much.

to shincar, i saw your pink bike. you shouldnt be throwing stones.

Was Saxondale a Tynan alias?

I don't think we ever got to the bottom of whether @saxondale was unintentionally hilarious, a random troll or an alias. It was the time of rampant aliases.

This is still my favourite post ever on the forum:

"thanx. but id ont want my biek to look like that. yours looks like a raindeer."

Indeed! That thread never fails to cheer me up.

Actually 2nd bestest thread - this is the best thread ever.

oh wow, I did not know this thread existed.

Best thread on the forum.

@cornelius_blackfoot Thanks! I'd like to pretend that I am proud to be a bridge monkey, but that would be a lie.

So spuds can sod off to MK.
Good riddance, please don't come back.

Maybe they could do a groundshare with Charlton?

Thanks! Looks great.