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Oh no not the Dutch Reach again. Please will anyone who is still perpetuating this nonsense get into a car, try it and see for yourself that IT DOESN'T WORK. [...] Just tried and it does work. You must have exceptionally short arms if your face is pressed up against the window. Car designs and peop...

Oh no not the Dutch Reach again. Please will anyone who is still perpetuating this nonsense get into a car, try it and see for yourself that IT DOESN'T WORK. Reach over to the door handle with the wrong hand and press your face right up to the window and enjoy a magnificent vie of ... your door pill...

The only bit of the ring road where cycling is banned is over the Dunkirk flyover, near the QMC, and only over the flyover itself. Are you sure? I can't see any signs on street view. Roads with cycling bans can be seen on this map: http://product.itoworld.com/map/151?lon=-1.10930&lat=52.93418&a...

The big thing that stands out is the effect of the 2010 general election. Please leave fallacious comment regarding politics out of the discussion. Not at all fallacious. This forum is about "public policy" - Public policy is set by the government - the government changed in 2010. The pre...

The big thing that stands out is the effect of the 2010 general election.

kwackers wrote:

brynpoeth wrote:Driverless cars on redways, What Madness

The number of cyclists I see staring at their mobiles whilst riding I reckon we're entering the age of the riderless bike.

Given that the pods driving round MK have a maximum speed of 15mph that is effectively what they are.

It wouldn't make sense for an events company to insure against cancellation due to weather. They are better off absorbing the losses themselves. Cancellation due to weather is a reasonably routine occurrence so plan a 5% budget surplus to cover the occasional loss, rather than pay 10% to an insuranc...

That said, I agree that it's not the best measure. I'd suggest the rule of thumb should be to move the car completely into another lane. Then even with narrow lanes, I think you'll still be more than 1.5m away - and seeing as even with wide lanes, you have to put some of your car into the next lane...

To put this in perspective we have yet another police force taking action on close passing - which is an overwhelmingly good thing whatever quibbles we may have about a car door being a good visualisation of enough space. Probably the reason the car door came into it is that part of the training tha...

Given that this: http://www.warringtoncyclecampaign.co.uk/facility-of-the-month/September2018.htm Is an example of the quality of the much hyped Wilmslow Road cycleway - which is designated an "existing" beeline I wouldn't get your hopes too high. That isn't typical & is at the outlyi...

Given that this:
http://www.warringtoncyclecampaign.co.uk/facility-of-the-month/September2018.htm
Is an example of the quality of the much hyped Wilmslow Road cycleway - which is designated an "existing" beeline I wouldn't get your hopes too high.

Anyone under the impression that helmet wearers are in the majority need to look a little further than their immediate circle. I don't know what the true figure is. I did my own small survey a few years ago, in City Road (London). It was 50%. Others have claimed helmet wearing is as low as a third,...

Inter-green stages are most certainly not to long - they are too short. And they are not there to provide an allowance for RLJs. The formula for calculating the length of the all-red stage is based on the time it takes for a car to clear the junction from a standing start. (note: a car not a bicycle...

I wonder what punishment he would impose on this cyclist:

One is that some people at least have a greater tendency to notice cyclists breaking the law than they do motorists. ^^^^ This. It is all about how we cyclists as an "out group" are treated. Everyone infringes the rules to a greater or lesser extent, but there is a tendency to understand/...