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Hand on heart, i can say i **always **check mirrors when turning left to make sure no one is coming on my inside. Cycling in London, and seeing morons undertake left indicating vehicles, has taught me to do this!
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RIP
Poor bloke. Really feeling it for his family!
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Dare I suggest it is somewhat their own fault and compare it to the likes of servicemen getting shot? Comes with the territory, really.
You suggesting we should have a poppy day for cabbies? For their sacrifice in getting bankers and politicians around London ;)
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The Brixton-plod, from what I saw tonight, are a waste of space. Mostly standing around chatting to each other and not even looking at what is going on around them.
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cops on form tonight in Brixton. Loads of them hanging around, giving leaflets to cyclists with lights and helmets, but ignoring the locals cycling through reds with no lights or anything. Too scared to pull up the local thugs?? What a waste of space and money they are.
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Anyone else spot the petrol tanker stuck on the junction of Vauxhall Street and Kennington Oval tonight. Looks like he followed Vauxhall Street from Kennington Lane then at the bottom couldn't turn on to Kennington Oval.
Huge friggin petrol tanker on what is effectively a cycle route ... and they wonder why cyclists get squashed by these things. Idiot followed his sat nav - twonka!!
Be interesting if it's still there tomorrow :)
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Tbh I don't think 15-20 is that bad for the conditions as you say. I suspect if you get most modern cars, especially those capable of carrying 7 people + luggage, and make them trundle along in 2nd all the time the results would be much the same.
They probably don't have access to the cheapest deisel either in the City ... no wonder they are grumpy ;)
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Pre recession, 5+ years ago, we couldn't get a cab home in the evening after beers in the City. Even for a £40 fair we'd have to go to 5 or 6 cabs before one would take us. The past 2 or 3 years not a single cab has turned us down. We get the odd driver who complains about going 'sarf ov the river', but when we say "no worries mate, we'll get that other free cab behind you" they soon change their mind. Big fairs like this are in short demand.
Our next door neighbour is a cabbie and he doesn't do the City anymore but stays out at Heathrow. It's a bit of a gamble, but they can pull in a big fair so it's worth it.
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A traffic weaver on a pink bike with radio blasting out on A21 Bromley Road near Bellingham about 6-45 tonight. Weaving through stationery but about to start traffic at the lights. Gonna get hurt doing that bud ;)
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I read a thing about the Knowledge quite a while ago:
http://blackcablondon.wordpress.com/the-knowledge-of-london-training-to-be-a-london-cabbie-my-experience-of-the-process/Worth a look. Pity so many cabbies loose all empathy with other road users.
This site actually drove my question. I see loads of moped'd (!) people doing the knowledge but never seen a bicycle personage doing the knowledge. Curiosity peeked I stumbled on the same website - which is an interesting read :)
2-4 years to learn the knowledge, on average. Sounds tough.
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They have to learn a number of routes from Charing Cross, about 30 I think. Memorised, street by street.
You need to learn 320 runs, plus about 30,000 points of interest, so not too easy ;)
Research of cabbie's brains (apparently they do have them!) show an increase in size as they study the knowledge. Memory bit increases in size, as does the right wing racist area LOL :) :)
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Anyone do the knowledge on a bike anymore or do trainees only use mopeds/scooters these days? Any pros or cons of using a bike?
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Only two types of people are impressed by trackstanders; kids and people who can't trackstand.
#2 :)
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is track-standing bad?
am i a dick?
Yes you are a dick ... if you can teach me to track stand though, I'll take it back and call you a genius ;) I am so jealous of trackstanders [I must practice more!]
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Stalked a chap from OKR up and over Telegraph Hill, onto Brockley heading to Forest Hill. I was with a pal and we turned off to go through Ladywell Park to Beckenham. Hi if you're on here - you had pink bar tape.
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/\ smelling your own fart ?
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I find Dean Street (and surrounding streets) to be particularly good for road standers. Thursday evenings ride home a highlight of the week.
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Here this morning, about 8-30 : https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?ie=UTF-8&q=waterloo+bridge&fb=1&gl=uk&hq=waterloo+bridge&hnear=waterloo+bridge&cid=0,0,5777623181727400650&ei=aH8KUpKTN42n0wX05ICgBQ&sqi=2&ved=0CKoBEPwS - should show the little cycle path from Strand to Wellington Street.
I was the back end of a 5-6 bike pile up. I ended up over the bars and landed on top of a Boris biker (sorry dude).
We had all come across from Waterloo Bridge, but chap at the lead decided to slam his brakes on at the top of the bike path, to let a cyclist come across to the bike racks. Genius - chap behind his re-ended him, then 3 more, to me, then at least 1 more behind me. I don't think any of us even had a chance to hit our brakes.
No one hurt - scuffed my bar tape, broke my front light. I felt a twat!
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Anybody on here use the Turner / Sony bike racks on Marlborough St? A number of 'on here' looking bikes there ....
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Who DAS'd me while I was locking my bike up outside Odeon in Marble Arch today? I would have obliged except I quickly realised it's impossible to DAS without a bike while stationary.
Just not trying hard enough ... if someone DAS's you, at least try ;) LOL
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About 6-15 this evening I was coming over the fly-over and could see a cyclist down on the slip road coming from the roundabout. Looked like it might have been a girl - some peeps with cyclist had covered them with a jacket. Further up OKR a police car, then ambulance, then police motorbike headed down to the accident.
Hope cyclist is OK.
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One of our 2 wheeled comrades this morning knocked off his motorbike on the OKR near Gervase St. Black hatchback seemed to be involved, and a small white van too. Chap was lying on the floor with head propped up and seemed conscious so hopefully not too badly injured.
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yo, that was me. what were you riding? chuck me a DAS next time!
Green Charge Plug ... I stalked you most of the OKR bu I think we parted after the roundabout underpass. I'll say hi next time.
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Chap this morning on the OKR - black Dolan, radio playing out, pink handle bar tape. Hi dude, you must be on here - turn your rock up to 10 :)
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Hi, I have a Trimline Recumbent Exercise bike for sale. The screen plays up (works sometimes, not others) - probably a loose connection somewhere. Apart from that the bike works very well. Has lots of settings for hills etc and is great for training.
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