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I've seen Boris pedalling through Clerkenwell a few times.
csb etc

Well, as I always tell people, the last time I saw him on a bike he was riding the wrong way down Pall Mall, back when it was a one-way street. I suppose that was before he became such an evangelist for obeying the law.

• If a cyclist is caught committing an offense – a choice between a fine and cycle training/cycle safety course
  
  
  

I have reservations, to put it mildly, about cycle training being used as a punishment. And no matter how much we might dress it up as education, in that situation it would be seen as punishment. It's bad enough with surly teenagers whose parents have made them come along.
On the other hand I would, judging by what I read every day, get to meet a lot more forumengers face to face. It's lose-lose, really.

Few things have made me as angry and despairing as this

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/family-of-nineyearold-radwan-uddin-killed-by-speeding-car-say-their-world-has-been-torn-to-pieces-8953485.html

Is there a list of arranged fixtures anywhere? It's difficult to keep track on this thread.

I suspect he was asking for dieting tips.

Well, I was teaching a ten year old lad to cycle today. Sort of, he could go in a fairly straight line if you gave him a good push. Anyway, after an hour he was whizzing round the playground and when he stopped he said "I'm definitely getting a bike for Christmaa now!". Didn't do much for my own cycling mojo, which left the house saying it was just popping to the shops some time ago and never returned, but it cheered me up.
a reminder of the strength and pain
Of being young; that it can’t come again,
But is for others undiminished somewhere.
as Philip Larkin said.

Man In Search Of Mojo, 2013.

http://www.velonation.com/News/ID/15836/Armstrong-implicates-Verbruggen-Ferrari-for-first-time-over-doping-matters.aspx

Locomote? Perambulate is on foot.

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Mud. Great slow film, stunning performances from the two young guys. Highly recommended

Are there any films you* don't *like?

What snotters said.

Isn't it just to make applying the law simpler - by banning use when stationary the police do not then have the burden of proving that the vehicle was moving?

I've had a dude stick their hands down my trousers without any kind of reaction .

You mean he didn't scream or have to throw up?

Money talks.

Combining any gerund with driving is a bad idea - eating, texting, fisting, there is no way to concentrate on the road.

Does the risk of cycling is lower after recieving Cycle Training?

The risk of me finding you and inserting my track pump up your arse and out of your mouth increases every time you bang on about cycle training. And I say that as a friend and cycle trainer.

There has been no cycle training at schools since the 80's.

This is a dismaying misconception. In an hour I will be at a primary school in Hackney for the second week of the five week cycle training course that is being run there. As will be many of my colleagues at all the other schools in Hackney that run courses every term. And it's the same in other London boroughs and around the country.
There's a discussion about the merits of running these courses in Year 5 and 6 rather than in years 7 or 8 (which many of us would prefer if the school curriculum allowed) but they do exist.

I I prefer not to be told how to express myself.

Jimmy, don't take it so personally. When training nervous or novice cyclists on road you would be surprised what a difference this simple change in terminology makes. And it's weird; people see themselves as drivers but they do not think it is drivers that they are scared of - it is cars or buses or trucks. When you encourage them to think about the people in those vehicles, drivers just like themselves, it helps to alleviate their fears. It encourages them, for example, to realise the why it helps to look behind, to make eye contact where possible or at least show their face - because they realise that cars are not driven by robots and cyclists need to communicate with the person in the car, a person just like themselves.
It's noticeable even when teaching children - they are less afraid, or less irrationally afraid, of motor traffic when you get them to think about and talk about the people in those vehicles. People like their parents, who they know are not out to hurt anyone. So if their parents aren't, why should anyone else be?
Maybe you are not convinced Jimmy, I would agree that it sounds implausible and even trivial, but it is not. It is a small distinction that makes a big difference.

Maybe, still seems an odd response to me.
The pics are from DigitalGlobe's FirstLook service, the idea being to provide up to date pictures quickly, so possibly they don't go through the same post-processing that their normal pictures do.

The problem with couriering is that the riders earn far too little, are almost always 'self-employed' (but without any of the real control over their work that genuinely self-employed people have), get no holiday pay or sick pay, in a job that is dangerous at times, do not have employment rights and and are mostly treated as disposable. Overall the courier industry is a sewer of lies, greed and exploitation, both from the courier companies and from clients.
If your app can rectify that then you will have couriers queueing up to be part of it. If not, you will just be a new part of the problem.

I'm not sure the unfairness of the situation lies in the levels, really.

Go Jamaican would be an interesting angle for the LCC to explore.

http://photoblog.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/11/12/21424364-typhoon-haiyans-impact-revealed-in-before-and-after-satellite-images?lite&sf19394788=1