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Really sad news. RIP.

Don't like the black logo, RIP lady cyclist :(

Sailing is not a stupid sport! You probably don't understand it. It does make for shit tv though.

Experimented with fixed on my old Kona a few years ago. Vertical drop-outs so chain tension was a problem, I used a half link to get it pretty good but as soon as the chain started to wear it became slack until it started to skip. After a few months I eventually reverted to single speed with a chain tensioner.

Cycled to work at 11:30 this morning rather than my usual 7:45. Think i encountered only 3 other people cycling and far fewer cars on my route from Sydenham to Aldgate. Much more pleasant, especially with the sun shining. Tower Bridge was as busy as ever though.

Isaw two people in shorts with bare legs this morning. wtf. it was -3 degrees when i left my house, do they not feel the cold?

Meanwhile TFL have just sent this to my inbox
*Cycle Superhighway Route 5, which runs from Oval to Pimlico via the Vauxhall gyratory, has now launched. This is part of the Road Modernisation Plan and is one of the ways we reinvest all our income to run and improve your services.

The route provides a more direct journey with a number of innovative safety features including:

• A fully segregated two-way cycle track across, separating cyclists from motor traffic along the route, at signalised junctions and at bus stops
  
• Connections to Cycle Superhighway 8, which runs from Wandsworth to Westminster, at Vauxhall Bridge Road
  
• Wider footways and new and upgraded pedestrian crossings*
  
  

Perhaps its worth emailing TFL with your experience of the new CS5 so that they might realise the errors in their planning.

the "Alert today...alive tomorrow" part of the sticker on the Sainsbury's lorry is very patronising in my opinion.

yeah probably, will wait and see if anything comes of it

I've had a reply about my complaint, hopefully they actually take it as seriously as they say they will.

"Thanks for your email of 6 October about the poor standard of driving on bus route number75. I’m sorry for the poor standard of driving that you experienced at Mayow Road.
Poor driving or driving without due care is simply unacceptable. I’ve made Stagecoach London, the company that runs this route for us, aware of your concerns. The driver will be identified and then interviewed by a manager. Afterwards, appropriate steps could be taken to address the behaviour you experienced.
The safety of our customers and road users is our highest priority. We go to great lengths to train our bus drivers to very high standards.
We continue to monitor driving performance, to ensure that high standards are followed and maintained. Every month we carry out over 600 Driver Quality Monitoring surveys. This provides us with technical assessments of their driving skills. Drivers are assessed on acceleration and braking, as well as the use of mirrors and road positioning.
Once again, I’m very sorry for any distress and inconvenience this caused you."

its a number 36, no idea what its for.

Had a run in with a No75 bus driver this morning. Sent the following email to Stagecoach and TFL.

*Today at about 7.55am I was cycling along Mayow Road in Forest Hill, London in a northerly direction as I do every day when I had an encounter with a Stagecoach operated No.75 bus being driven in a dangerous and inconsiderate manner.

As I was approaching the roundabout on Mayow Road where it meets Dacres Road and Queenswood Road at a distance of 50m – 75m from the roundabout the driver of the bus decided to overtake me leaving less than two feet between the side of the bus and myself. The driver then pulled across in front me and braked sharply as he approached the roundabout. I had to brake hard to avoid colliding with the back of the bus. If the driver had waited about 5 seconds for me to clear the roundabout first my safety would not have been put at risk by needlessly driving in this impatient and dangerous manner.

Shortly after the roundabout the bus driver then pulled into the bus stop outside Forest Hill School (stop W) to allow passengers to board and to get off. As I passed the bus I knocked on the driver’s window to get his attention and said “Thank you” somewhat sarcastically through his open window (I was rather shaken at the time), to which the driver of the bus replied “Fuck off”. He did this in front of passengers, many of which were school children. The driver’s actions during his unnecessary manoeuvre put me in great danger and his retort to me suggests that he has a complete disregard for the safety of more vulnerable road users such as cyclists. I would have thought that Stagecoach would train their drivers appropriately so that such incidents do not occur and that their drivers are aware of the risk they can pose to other road users when driving a vehicle the size of a double decker bus.

I continued to the next bus stop along Mayow Road, just after Inglemere Road and waited for the driver to pull in there for more customers so that I could take a photo of the number plate with my phone as I felt that this incident needed to be reported. As I was taking the photo I noticed the driver had lowered the sun visor in front of his face presumably to hide his face from my camera. He kept it pulled down as he drove off from the bus stop and it was clear that it was obscuring his vision, it appeared to me that he thought that hiding his face from me was more important than being able to clearly see where he was going.

I attach the photo of the bus that I took, the registration number is SN14 TWP. I apologise for the poor quality of the photo; my hands were shaking due to the frightening experience I’d just had. I imagine that the cctv on board the bus will have picked up at least some of these events and would suggest you investigate this further. I also attach a Google Streetview image of the location where the driver chose to overtake me.

I would be very interested to hear what steps you will be taking to address the poor driving and attitude displayed by the Stagecoach employee. His actions reflect very badly on Stagecoach and on TFL by association.
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Wet. Very wet.

That's ridiculous, what a bunch of lazy fucks the police are. You've reported your stuff stolen and found out where the thieving scrotes are, yet the police can't be arsed to go and do their job.

just saw this on the guardian website http://www.theguardian.com/environment/bike-blog/2015/aug/11/how-to-overtake-cyclists-the-video-all-drivers-should-watch

This sort of thing really needs to be broadcast on TV at prime time slots such as Corrie, X-Factor etc rather than being relatively hidden on a you tube channel of a driving instructor.

Looking forward to seeing this, I love my old steel Fire Mountain. I single speeded it a few years ago and had lots of fun zipping around London's streets on it.

Well yes but it's also worth observing and understanding that views such as theirs may be quite commomplace, widespread and ingrained and will take reasoned and balanced reponse if progress is to be made, rather than telling them to fuck off which doesn't make anyone look good.

Whilst I don't agree with @Fignon's views, it is perhaps useful to try to understand that attitudes like his/hers exist and why they exist. Therefore his/her contribution to this thread is useful in that it is maybe indicative of the sort of opposition any campaign against the use of attractive females in prize giving situations may generate. I would say though that the language used in @Fignon's post was deliberately inflammatory and perhaps was intended to troll those posting here.

I think Tower Bridge should be made "car free", and turned into a pedestrain, cycle and the occasional bus crossing. Send all the car drivers and their vehicles over London Bridge and make them pay the congestion charge, or east to either the Rotherhithe or Blackwall tunnels.

compression springs?

how the fuck can Froome be so much further ahead of everyone else? he's completely destroyed everyone

Hear, here

Good piece about cortisol and the MPCC on inrng a couple of weeks ago

http://inrng.com/2015/06/abolish-the-mpcc/

R.I.P. rider, thoughts with family and friends.

Thoughts with family and friends, RIP.