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If your light die, try and be more visible by taking primary more often, it's easier for drivers to see a cyclists ahead of them than hugging the kerbs like a nodder.

What? Get off the road.

Totally nuts to endanger yourself and others for the sake of carrying a few spare AA.

Any idea how invisible a bike without lights is in the dark? Cars and peds can't see you. Not everyone has perfect eyesight. Oncoming traffic makes it harder to see dark bikes. I've driven up behind riders and not spotted them until less than 10 metres - you really want that risk? And coming out of a side road? or being undertaken? I will not see you.

No lights, and any accident will automatically and always be the rider's fault. Hit a ped and it might end up as assault with weapon.

The idiots with only helmet mounted lights are just as bad (illegal btw), when they are looking around, might as well have no lights.

And remember to tip your super-bright lights about 5 degree below the horizontal, or they are just dazzling everyone and that is bad for the rider too.

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But I'd be using the new bike at weekends too.

see above. it's been explained a couple times now.

My dunce mind is slowly figuring this out. So if I want to be completely honest, which I do, I could keep the beater going and ride to work on that, keep the shiny new carbon at the studio and use that for meetings and work related travel, and then claim 70% of it back.

Or setup the cycle to work scheme for my company, which is apparently possible but more of a admin-ball-ache I imagine.

no. if you have two bikes, and only used the new one on freelance work you'd claim 100%. It's based on use of that one bike.

you have to justify it. think like this. if you had a car, you'd not get away with a second car unless it was very different use, a van would be very different.

I met a chap who claimed his motorcycle as plant machinery so fuel, repairs and everything are write-offable or other tax wordy type stuff.

All legal

Unless it was only used on private land, and never on the road, he'd have a hard time explaining that during an audit.

So if I'm using the bike on a daily basis for meetings etc 5 days a week, and riding it 1-2 days over the weekend for fun, does claiming a 3rd of it still make sense?

no. that's 70% if you only ride on 5 days for nothing but meetings.

just calculate how much of the bike use if for self-employed work.

This is getting complicated. I think I really need to speak to an accountant don't I!

it's quite easy, i did it myself for years. I only have an accountant now as it's cheaper than my time spent doing it.

my accountant advised me to claim a third of bike cost and a third of anything spent running/maintaing the bike... it's based on much of my week is freelance work (obviously a third) verses going to a PAYE job. This is much easier to work out.

But mileage, cycle to work, etc should all be taken advantage of in my opinion, as it's cash you're entitled to.

no. you can't claim to work only for work.
think in terms of when you can claim back a train ticket, use same principle.

you can only claim the full cost of bike if it's only used for work. If a third of the use is work, offset a third of it's value.

Is this map still being actively updated?

"Updated 4 days ago"

Any cyclist without a front light in the dark.
Any cyclist who's only lights are on their head.

Have they released the info on how much money Barclays has actually paid towards the scheme yet?

£25m. The scheme set up being total £140m

Absolutely agree that there's an absolute fuck-ton of better things for coppers to be doing.

I can imagine that the collection and administration of said fines probably takes up a lion share of the amount collected once it's been seen through to completion.

I agree with the sentiment they could be busting rapists and other nobs, but how are the Police to respond to public calls for crackdown on dangerous cyclists? When people ask what the met are doing, they can produce a list of enforcement areas and figures on fines.

They also do boring stuff like this when they've got no intel on drug dealers and robbers to act on.

The full economic cost, if you consider all costs beyond the plod standing there (radio system, control centre, admin staff, office buildings, tea and biscuits, paperwork, archives, computer systems, pensions, NI... list is rather endless), will be far outweighed by any return from fines.

Nice ride. Which charity is this for?

Is there a second lock on the rear wheel?

If there isn't, that is truly beautiful.

absolutely nowhere to lockup round kingsx, those lampposts are thick as trees.

bum

grey F. Moser for sale £400, located in Berlin, can transport to Birmingham end-September. Will sell for €400 if collected in Berlin.

more photos here

Frame / Size / Year:
F. Moser [unknown], Oria ML25 molibdemo mannesmann tubing / 21" / [unknown]

Handlebars / Stem:
3ttt mod competizone / 3ttt F.Moser

Fork / Headset:
Slisi Oria ML25 / Shimano HP-500

Front Wheel / Hub / Rim / Tire:
Shimano Santé / Ambrosio 19 extra élite / Michelin Krylion Carbon

Rear Wheel / Hub / Rim / Tire:
Shimano Santé / Ambrosio 19 extra élite / Michelin Krylion Carbon

Crankset / Bottom Bracket:
Shimano Santé, Shimano Biopace (52+42) / Shimano

Saddle / Seat Post:
Campana / Campagnolo

Pedals / Chain:
[none] / Sedis

Shifters / Derailers:
Shimano Santé / Shimano Santé

Brakes / Brake Levers:
Shimano Santé / Shimano Santé

Gearing / Chainring / Misc.:
Shimano Biopace 52+42 chain rings, 7 hub

£7 via PayPal and I'll post them out today. Won't be around next week.

otherwise, gotta go to someone who can collect this w/e >>>>>>>>

sweet i'll take them, can i pick up tomorrow?

no word, so levers are back out there.

will do deals to clear this gear over tonight or over the weekend

bike just gone to aboutseven, pleasure doing business. enjoy.

I could pick this up today, £130?

emailed.

sure - PMed

I'll wait more than 4 hours before splitting - but, everything has a price if the price is right.