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My bad. It was a truck.

fuck. I go up & down Park lane everyday.

Buses ALWAYS run red lights out of Oxford St then psycho swerve across all the lanes to head round to Holland Park Ave. You really have to be on your toes.

Nighmare.

Bus also killed a guy by Battersea Dogs home a couple of weeks ago.

Ride safe folks.

Yeah - I think WVM gets a bad(ish) press.

They come way above: bendy-bus drivers, sightseeing busdriving cunts, post office vans, cement lorries, rubbish trucks. All of whom are fucktards & asshats to a man (woman).

Glad you're not too badly hurt.

bhf is June 15th.

I think it won't be far. For your average folk nothing over 20mins / 3miles - otherwise more people would cycle here.
You probably want bands - 1k away 60% folk will cycle, 3k away 30% people will cycle, 5k away 10% etc (or something...)

Dunno how much it rains in SK, but covered cycle paths would get a few more folk out as well (seeing as you're planning it from scratch).

If my mates aren't doing the BHF, then I guess I won't need to do it amongst 29999 numpties on hybrids, so...

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It would be like that one they planned for Toronto (but grubbier):

see here for details

I'm going for the 6am start.

Looks like a few training runs will be needed to have any chance of getting up Ditchling. (or lower gearing!)

Morning.

Just about to enter the L2B and thinking I'll probably go for it fixed. I know a few of you've done it & Ditchling is the bad bit. How does it compare to London hills like Highgate West & Fitzjohn's ave? Longer & less steep, longer & steeper, etc?

Just want to get an idea of whether I'll be able to make it up...

Ta.

I think there's also plenty of evidence that it doesn't IIRC.

Anyhow - I ride plenty & have shitloads of kids. Hope that helps!

I'll be along for some Sheldon respect (assuming I haven't injured myself snowboarding the previous week - which is always likely). Now just need to find an eagle for my helmet.

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yesterday on the way home - COOOOOOOL! geared bike I think - too busy checking out the flourescent lit downtube & seattube (like on lowrider cars) in blue. Looked like a Tron bike. Excellent.

hippy
How about getting rid of all the stupid on-road parking on popular cycle routes? Make all those 'advisory' bike lanes enforceable and, shock horror, actually enforce them? It'd be nice if I only had to worry about the numptys driving alongside rather than the numptys swinging open doors as well.

Yes, yes & again yes.

I'm very torn by the whole thing: Money, facilities & priority to cyclists is great. More wobbly cyclists wibbling around slowing down my commute not great. Guess I'm just a nimby.

Even after the weekend's good weather you can see the increase in cyclists on the roads this week - I think summer is going to get very hectic. Mebbe need to find a quieter route.

Yeah - there was some trial and apparently letting motorbikes into buslanes made it safer for bikes & motorbikes. Because they were busier, peds stopped stepping into them without looking or some such nonsense.

So now they are planning to let bikes use them all. (Not that it seems to stop them anyway...)

and 6000 more numpty bikes for fat tourists to wobble around on, stopping to take pictures of each other in front of a quainte-olde-englishe-phonebox or something.

6000!

Ye gods - it'll be madness.

I always wonder about this too.

Ladies do it alot - I assume to avoid hathead. Guys - no idea. If you've been griefed into taking with you, wouldn't it just be easier to wear it than have it rattling around banging on your knee?

flip - respect for the attitude. Make the world a better place bit by bit.

(and nice slipping in of the alibi: 'i'm going up to the midlands with my girlfriend for a family thing' - sure!)

we have the one through Halfords - but they can then get you most stuff - I got my Pearson through them.

Don't think it was any hassle to set up (but then I didn't do it...) might be able to persuade your nerds accountants that they are also a decent business to go through...

Yep - mine arrived a couple of weeks ago. at the same time as some blinging new white-ish shoes & a white gilet for this balmy weather.

I put them all on & my children laughed at me. Little feckers.

I felt goooood out with the pink hat on. But wasn't spotted. So sad.

Now, I never played that rule. But then I heard everyone else did. So now I do.

What a sheep.

Maybe I'll come as a sheep.

Maybe not.

Only uphill behind a bus on one regular bit for me.

Anything else is too nuts - I'm too sensible / much of a jessie. S

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sounds ace. in the diary for me too.

Balham 'gateway to the south' here.

Getting busy down SW way.

I got some gatorskins after 4 punctures in a week on crappy bargain bucket tyres. Put 'em on and punctured on day 1 - grrrr. Arse.

Still - have been ok since, but do find them really sketchy in the wet. Makes for more of an 'exciting' ride in that I ideally like. Need to find something ubersticky & longlasting next - hmmmm.

Can't do this w/e, but if it's going to be a bit of regular action I'll look out for the next one.