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- 13 Feb 2015, 12:35pm
- Forum: Campaigning & Public Policy
- Topic: Bedford turbo roundabout - it is done
- Replies: 433
- Views: 69718
Re: Bedford turbo roundabout - it is done
So, of course it now looks like a conventional UK design. This should have been welocomed by those who spent most of this thread arguing that the proposed turbo design would have been cycle hostile. That really is a most disgraceful suggestion. Is this really your idea of adult debate? To suggest t...
- 12 Feb 2015, 5:58pm
- Forum: Campaigning & Public Policy
- Topic: Bedford turbo roundabout - it is done
- Replies: 433
- Views: 69718
Re: Bedford turbo roundabout - it is done
I spent half an hour or so watching the traffic flow in the "rush hour" around this roundabout last time I was in Bedford and it seemed to be working quite well - traffic was flowing calmly, unlike the rest of the road system, and cyclists were either using the shared used pavement or tur...
- 12 Feb 2015, 5:40pm
- Forum: Campaigning & Public Policy
- Topic: Bedford turbo roundabout - it is done
- Replies: 433
- Views: 69718
Re: Bedford turbo roundabout - it is done
I see the job is done. Anyone got any detail on whether it's any good in practice? All I've seen is a picture on Twitter, from @hesterkw, of a particularly naff transition from footway to carriageway via an angled kerb - didn't fill me with confidence that the rest of the execution would be much good.
- 4 Jan 2015, 2:49pm
- Forum: Bikes & Bits – Technical section
- Topic: 20 inch Wheel Road Bikes
- Replies: 19
- Views: 4174
Re: 20 inch Wheel Road Bikes
Best 20" wheeled bike in the UK? This gets my vote: http://tapatalk.imageshack.com/v2/15/01/04/e93090a5b41417b6146d64b3d7eebafd.jpg An oft-overlooked advantage of twenty inch wheels is that, especially on suspension bikes, they can be built very stiff (VERY stiff), which makes them much less li...
- 7 Sep 2014, 12:05am
- Forum: Does anyone know … ?
- Topic: Town centre fun hill climb?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 1212
Re: Town centre fun hill climb?
Great info - thanks everyone. Does anyone know if this has been done in Lincoln? It has a really steep town centre hill called, logically enough, Steep Hill. It's steep (naturally) narrow and cobbled in places. I saw a really good video of a fun hill climb up a road like that, which really gave a fl...
- 2 Sep 2014, 6:31pm
- Forum: Does anyone know … ?
- Topic: Town centre fun hill climb?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 1212
Town centre fun hill climb?
Anyone know of hill climb in a town centre, open to the general public? I'm sure I saw a video of one of these, and wonder whether my town could do something similar to encourage local cycling.
- 15 Aug 2014, 6:45pm
- Forum: Campaigning & Public Policy
- Topic: Bedford turbo roundabout - it is done
- Replies: 433
- Views: 69718
Re: Bedford turbo roundabout - BMF wades in
No, the auditors didn't understand it at all. I'm sorry, but in my option, they DID. The auditors understood that, with the originally proposed lane dividers, the only safe way for it to function was for cyclists to be forced off the carriageway. That the designers were originally, erroneously sugg...
- 15 Aug 2014, 1:59pm
- Forum: Campaigning & Public Policy
- Topic: Bedford turbo roundabout - it is done
- Replies: 433
- Views: 69718
Re: Bedford turbo roundabout - BMF wades in
Alan in Wales has said it - the auditors understood this better than the council. Again from the RSA:

M J Ray (@mjray on Twitter) deserves a medal for his FOI request.

M J Ray (@mjray on Twitter) deserves a medal for his FOI request.
- 22 Jul 2014, 11:17am
- Forum: Campaigning & Public Policy
- Topic: Bedford turbo roundabout - it is done
- Replies: 433
- Views: 69718
Re: Bedford turbo roundabout - BMF wades in
Good blog update on this - http://aseasyasridingabike.wordpress.co ... s-weirder/
- 3 Jul 2014, 9:01am
- Forum: Campaigning & Public Policy
- Topic: Bedford turbo roundabout - it is done
- Replies: 433
- Views: 69718
Re: Bedford turbo roundabout - BMF wades in
Sustrans is defending its continued support for this mess:
http://www.sustrans.org.uk/blog/keep-pu ... e-progress
http://www.sustrans.org.uk/blog/keep-pu ... e-progress
- 28 Jun 2014, 7:59am
- Forum: Campaigning & Public Policy
- Topic: Bedford turbo roundabout - it is done
- Replies: 433
- Views: 69718
Re: Bedford turbo roundabout - BMF wades in
Pete Owens wrote:Actually it is very much worse than that. It is not just the lane dividers, but ALL the cycle-freindly design features appear to have gone.
Ah no, fair's fair. Presumably they'll still be installing eight dropped kerbs to give access onto pavements, and eight 'Cyclists Dismount' signs, perhaps...
- 27 Jun 2014, 1:42pm
- Forum: Campaigning & Public Policy
- Topic: Bedford turbo roundabout - it is done
- Replies: 433
- Views: 69718
Re: Bedford turbo roundabout - BMF wades in
Here's more. From the BMF, in favour:
http://www.ridermagazine.co.uk/the-bedf ... oundabout/
and from MAG, against:
http://invictamoto.blogspot.co.uk/2014/ ... t.html?m=1
http://www.ridermagazine.co.uk/the-bedf ... oundabout/
and from MAG, against:
http://invictamoto.blogspot.co.uk/2014/ ... t.html?m=1
- 27 Jun 2014, 1:14pm
- Forum: Campaigning & Public Policy
- Topic: Bedford turbo roundabout - it is done
- Replies: 433
- Views: 69718
Re: Bedford turbo roundabout - construction commencing July?
Well Bedford's cycling officer was right - the turbo-roundabout will indeed be constructed in July. It appears that the problems have been 'solved'! http://www.transportxtra.com/magazines/local_transport_today/news/?id=38406&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter They've obviously had a q...
- 5 Jun 2014, 11:56pm
- Forum: Helmets sub-forum
- Topic: Cycle helmets and sun cream
- Replies: 48
- Views: 2453
Re: Cycle helmets and sun cream
My job means I'm out on the water all day, every day (lucky me!) If I don't wear sunscreen, I burn. Then I have to go out on the water the following day - and I burn more. Without wearing sunscreen I couldn't do my job, it's as simple as that. It has nothing to do with avoiding skin cancer and every...
- 3 Jun 2014, 10:18pm
- Forum: Campaigning & Public Policy
- Topic: Crash not Accident
- Replies: 19
- Views: 5247
Re: Crash not Accident
Surreal, isn't it? Language is sometimes so corrupted that phrases like "non accidental accident" take on a spurious legitimacy.
Your link shows us that the indiscriminate use of 'accident' to describe all RTCs is wrong, very wrong.
Your link shows us that the indiscriminate use of 'accident' to describe all RTCs is wrong, very wrong.