Cycling UK Forum

Dr Huppert, MP for Cambridge, has been a victim of the hammering the LibDems received in the General Election. He was narrowly defeated by Labour. The new MP, Daniel Zeichner, seems a plausible pro-cycling MP. (See http://www.camcycle.org.uk/elections/2015mayparliamentcambridge/cambridge/ ) If he is...

I sometimes carry a laptop in a pannier. I put it inside a laptop bag, in the pannier. No problems (so far).

I don't wear rucksacks on bikes.

The idea sounds useful for hill-walkers, especially on a walking/camping tour with limited opportunity for charging gadgets.

DUAL. NETWORK. EVIL. BAD. WRONG. Yes. The common design goal for UK "dual networks" seems to be as somewhere for kiddies to play, away from the big dangerous motorists, ensuring kiddies don't hold up (adult) motorists. I'm not against providing facilities for real kiddies. That's great. T...

I cannot figure out how any oversized roundabout aka 'gyratory', constructed usually by imposing one-way flow on existing streets, has actually improved the traffic flow. I have no solid information, but I can imagine how they might . When a conventional (Tee or crossroads) junction carries one roa...

Oh dear oh dear. Techno-gadgetry to inform drivers that there are cyclists about. And when the techno-gadgetry fails, the driver has the perfect excuse for driving into a cyclist. This is an amazingly stupid idea. From the video, it seems a very car-friendly gyratory. Very large radii for the motori...

If it's jammed in somewhere, or blu-tacked or taped or glued or in a holder ... and it doesn't have to be held to turn it on or whatever, then it isn't hand-held. But a court might need to be convinced of this.

The legislation is The Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment) (No. 4) Regulations 2003 . The offense is slightly wider than I had thought. (1) No person shall drive a motor vehicle on a road if he is using— (a)a hand-held mobile telephone; or (b)a hand-held device of a kind specified in pa...

I've heard that radar can see through fog, so the robots will be zooming along in (human) non-visible conditions. The robots will be held back by weakly humans. Ha! But even if driverless cars are the next best thing, why should taxpayers fund the development? Are manufacturers so cash-strapped that...

... is using a smart watch, other than to see what time it is, ipso facto using a mobile phone? I think the relevant wording is "hand-held communication device". If nothing is held in the hand, that offence isn't committed. It could be a distraction, of course. "Not in proper control...

Re: the helmet issue and its (ir)relevance. I have no idea what is acceptable in criminal trials. Could someone shed some light? Would the defence be allowed to argue that someone is not guilty of causing death by ..... driving because the deceased ought to have worn something which would have prev...

Why does it need any government funding?

It was a 30 limit. So they increased the speed limit to 40 and found the average speed of vehicles dropped. Speed limits (if they are the maximums) and average speeds are inversely correlated when the road is busy. Congested motorways are given temporary speed limits, which raises the average speed...

BeeKeeper wrote:Class 3 vehicles ... cannot be used ... in "cycles only" cycle lanes.

I never knew that. I suppose it applies to Classes 1 and 2 as well. Next time I encounter one in a mandatory cycle lane, I'll know what to do.

Enforcement is currently done with a detector loop under the road after the second stop line, and a camera pointing at that area. These could be moved to the first stop line. Technically, not difficult. It would take motorists some time to realise that a red light means "don't cross the first s...

That's because a peleton of bikes were doing the same journey in the opposite direction.