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2 guys on brakeless steel track bikes on the Brighton beach front last Sunday, they had come down from London in 3.5 hours.

nice bikes!

'fing about Brazil is they always try and walk it in..............to their own net

What was Hodgson thinking, putting Wilshere on that injured?

Fuck Fabregas. It's the World Cup lads.

GET HYPE

WILLIE LINDO - MIDNIGHT - YouTube

Asian guy on a fixed wheel, black London cycle cap, Mill Lane NW6.

Haha, I m alone rider, didnt join the mofoxprez

Ofcoz know briankwan, he is a great rider in hong kong

Cool, nice to hear, he's a top bloke.

Do you know briankwan? Ex-londonfgss'er now based in HK.

Ghost in the Machine, by Koestler. Worth a read?

Nope. They were spreading yet more dis-information and missing big opportunities to push useful advice.

How many people can they realistically target with useful advice though, given they also wanted a stop and chat? Stopping a few hundred cyclists on a bridge during a morning rush hour, while it's nice they're being somewhat proactive, looks to me like the actions of a police chief wanting to be seen 'doing something' after a few road deaths and sending a unit out.

How effective are those 4th mirrors? Can they be improved upon - made twice the size as currently? How well does it cover the fatality zone by the wheel arch? Can they be improved be replacing them with more of a concave shape at the bottom, for added visbility? What kind of penalties are in place for not keeping them in good working order, and do they work? May be worth investigating! Then it can be tackled right at the root.

in fact, we should try to move the focus away from cyclist actions entirely. a key point would be to assume all collisions where a vehicle hits a cyclist are caused by dangerous driving on the part of the

I don't think it's fair, and this will just promote animosity from drivers. I'm generally against measures that set us apart from regular traffic andturns us in to a distinct breed that needs extra protection. Insurance premiums will also probably go up across the board, causing many problems. It would probably start a call for all cyclists to be licenced, insured and MOTd. In saying that i'm all for a more efficient way road traffic collisions are handled, just not with one side automatically presumed innocent.

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We'll probably have driverless cars before this becomes a reality. ID cards were shelved due to high costs, privacy issues and government mistrust in handling of the information, will drivers accept a compulsory retrofit? Sounds like a GCHQ/NSA wet dream.

6th in 2 weeks, very sad to hear.

Unfortunately the 'top comments' on articles these deaths are invariably victim blaming. One I read today was something along the lines of 'probably on his mobile phone, smoking a cigarette or listening to music'.

This is what happens when you mix the relative anonymity of the internet, comment ratings, and a fundamental human desire to be popular amongst your peers. It inevitable tends towards a competition to see who can appeal to the most people, within people's limited attention spans of a sentence or two. Big problem.

RIP rider.

There was a similar thread to this one made a few years ago after a spate of HGV/cyclist deaths, iirc there was an ex-HGV driver who gave his thoughts on one thread. Reading through this thread after the terrible news of a sixth death in a fortnight I have to generally agree with this point

Be rigorous about the cost/benefit analysis of any intervention

I'm convinced if we as riders want to enact any sort of change we need to start small. I don't think aiming to ban HGVs from inner London during rush hours will get us anywhere, it will face too much opposition and will like mdcc said have many knock-on effects. I think doing a multitude of small things will be both practical and will get support from both the haulage/construction industry, government, and riders. Things that are not going to be too problematic for either camp. Some thoughts:

1. Mirrors. How has the tech come along in the last few years? Needs to be something big, that offers width and curved at the bottom to let the driver see down by his farside wheel arch. Increasing the visibility of this blind spot,with these newer mirrors may go some way to stopping future needless deaths. If it isn't made law to have them retrofitted it must be cheap enough for construction firms to buy them and fit them. If not there could be an appropriate insurance premium deduction for HGVs fitted them, forced by law, for an important economic incentive. Sensors too, but sensors are not as fit&forget as a good mirror.
   
   

Driver training. I'm not sure what kind of tests these guys need to pass and I assume it's fairly rigorous, but could there be an added cycle-awareness element to the theory/practical test? Could be as simple as a few extra questions or something on a hazard perception test.

Hi-Viz. Isn't this stuff cheap enough to pretty much give away now? TfL could run a scheme giving it out to cyclists at junctions in a package, along with a leaflet warning riders to hold back where there are HGVs and not to go down the inside. Pictures too, as plenty of cyclists in London are from abroad. Hi-Viz could also be given free with every bike purchase, or given free/cheap to riders via bike shops. I really think hi-viz clothing makes a big difference in being seen, so this could help prevent a lot of injuries or near misses too.

Lights: OK these won't be given away free but maybe a model could be govt subsidised? I heard of a scheme in Holland where police would stop riders with no lights and force them to buy+fit a pair from the police themselves. I know London isn't Amsterdam and not sure if plod would go along with this but it's an idea.

Anyone got any good mixes on soundcloud?

Trying to convert A lumicycle HID one to LED. The choices with Cree lights is astonishing! Advances in the tech have come by leaps.

In other news. Love my Moon Comets. Solidly built and bright lights with great clamping system (Seat clamp and rubber wrap around mounts) but if you're not strobing, don't expect them to last much! In fact, charging them every night is a strong possibility.

Do these Cree LEDs come in a model without an external battery pack + maybe USB rechargeable? That would be brilliant - I'm not sure I see it as progress if you have to constantly recharge the lights. One of the reasons I ride fixed is because if choose to I don't have to mess about fixing/adjusting things. I'm only riding in town so something just a bit better than a standard Cateye that takes a pair of AAs would be fine for me anyway, if the trade-off is I can fit and forget for a few weeks or so. And easy to remove is a big plus.

Amazing value those 1440p Korean monitors. Apparently they're made in the same factory as those high end Dells + Cinema Displays, but they're A- graded, so didn't pass QC for some reason. I picked one up about a month ago, it's the Catleap Q270 1440p. Picture quality is fantastic, no dead pixels, really stunning display.

There's a mega thread on overclockers and apparently 60Hz models can be overclocked to refresh at 100Hz but I think it was a hardware modification. Mine's the Q270SE, what model's yours? I don't game on it so not important for me.

Stand is unbelievably poor though, the monitor leans forward at an angle, and it wobbles like mad, but for the most part it's not a big deal. Just put a paperback under it to get it horizontal :) from what I read changing the stand seems to be a massive hassle too.

This is a massive, massive problem now. It's gotten a lot worse in the last few years and I can only foresee it getting even worse. Modern smartphones are designed to hold your entire attention, with a high res display, messaging apps, notifications, unlimited data plans means if you choose, you can program your phone to go off all the time. You also have a tiny digital keyboard, meaning you need to actually see the screen, whereas before you could probably text someone with less visual attention. I know it's illegal to dick about with a mobile at the wheel but it's ridiculously unenforceable, I see so many people at it.

As a side rant people in general seem to be obsessed with their smartphones these days, I think it's genuinely an addiction. It's so neurotic.

My trusty Cateye EL-130 appears to have given up the ghost, after riding it through some heavy rain the other week.

I have a pair of 10W halogens for off-roading that I bought years ago and never used (Cateye ABS-20). They take a pair of NiCd batteries, which now when fully charged only give about 15m of light! Originally they only gave about 90m charged which isn't all that great. Question is can I bin these useless old batteries and opt for a smaller battery pack, that will last at least 12hrs or so per charge? Or is that unrealistic.

Anything less and it starts to become a hassle. Re-charging a battery pack every 48hrs doesn't really chime with my idea of fixed wheel low-maintenance.

does there exist ..

1. a front light that attaches to the underside of a stem or headtube, takes normal (AA/AAA) batteries, and is has a wide, bright flash mode? USB rechargeable is a bonus. i know there's a thread on this but I don't think it was resolved (velcro/cable ties not really appropriate as i'll need to remove it when locking up and removing batteries.)

2. a rear light clamp that allows me to affix a standard cateye to my saddle rails?

Looking at some details of the tripod it has a quick release system built in. You should have a detachable piece at the top of the tripod which you screw into the base of the camera. Then you can snap the plate which is now attached to the camera in and out of the tripod top.

If you bought it second hand and don't have the plate which screws into the camera you might have a problem finding one.

Hi yes it's 2nd hand. I don't know much about these things and was hoping the QR size was universal. Oh well!

Hi thread! Can anyone tell me what size QR plate do I need for my cam? Tripod is a jessops tp323, the interface is kind of rectangular looking. Is there a universal size for this type of thing? What do I search ebay for? Thanks!

Wow just seen this one too.

The junction is a bit of a dodgy one in that it's designed with pedestrians in mind, and so the entrance to Delancey St. has been made quite narrow, causing lorries to turn slightly right before turning left. Sad to hear this, hope the rider makes a full recovery ASAP.

Just logged in because I also saw this at around 2015 ish. It looked bad heading south on Kingsway, you could see the bike on the floor and a blinking light from the bike on what was maybe a front basket, but hard to tell in the dark. The vehicle looked like a small sized white coach from where I was, left indicator still on, and the bike was about half way up it on the floor, not under it or anything, so I hope that means the bike or rider weren't crushed in any way.

I hope the rider gets well soon.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7a2RcIhTiQ&feature=youtu.be

Giroud's chip from last night vs Aus [with Wenger commentary]. Pretty nice touch for a big lad.

You have 10 seconds to explain why Arsenal won't win the Prem this season.

OK, i'll get on that, cheers!

I might be after one of these, if anyone has one FS send me a PM.