Cycling UK Forum

Yes! scrap them! I've thought this for a while now. The biggest reason is cost. I can't find anything on the cost of making a penny coin, but if it's a similar situation to the states, we could save ourselves... alot. each 1 cent coin costs about 1.5 cents to make. Thus, they actually lose money in ...

Found this while playing around on the website and wondered if anyone here might be interested.

http://www.lakedistrict.gov.uk/aboutus/vacancies/job-cycling-adviser

I'd phone them up and ask what the heck they're playing at. It seems they need to give you an important bit of information in order for you to fill it out "properly" and "completely". I have no dealings with the particular organisation you refer to, but I believe SAAS and the Nor...

my fiance and I were out on Sunday, cycling beside eachother on an A road. And then a gritter overtakes with not much space between me and it, and then pulled back in with so little space that we got the full blast of the gritter! We tried very hard for the next thirty mins or so to laugh, but we ju...

Alas very little evidence that any of these have much effect. Will anecdotal do? :p I've been getting a cold for the last few days... Last few times I felt a cold coming along, I had some nettle tea with some honey; symptoms vanished the next day. AFIR, I probably had my normal sleep (either >6 hou...

Echinacea, Zinc and Vit C to boost the immune system. Alas very little evidence that any of these have much effect. Will anecdotal do? :p I've been getting a cold for the last few days... Last few times I felt a cold coming along, I had some nettle tea with some honey; symptoms vanished the next da...

a virus that burns your whole hard disc? that sounded incredibly unlikely to me... Thanks for the link, lollykat

Sorry to hear that. that's rubbish. Glad that you're ok though - and will be back on the bike asap. I tend to avoid the back roads on mornings like this one: i always figure the main ones are safer as the traffic will have got rid of the worst of the ice. Traffic I can deal with; ice, not so much. T...

Sorry to hear that. that's rubbish. Glad that you're ok though - and will be back on the bike asap. I tend to avoid the back roads on mornings like this one: i always figure the main ones are safer as the traffic will have got rid of the worst of the ice. Traffic I can deal with; ice, not so much. T...

There are bike stands at Central Station but maybe not enough. I remember being pleasantly surprised at how many there are - a few years ago, there were the same sort of number as in Waverley. I'm not sure what it's like now; but I don't imagine the security has got worse: I've left my nice bike th...

tourer is named Raju, after the camel I spent two days on in India. The name therefore conjours up reliability and comfort (but not necessarily speed). I spent about three years settling on a name - i tried Erin for a good while but it didn't really fit. My road bike was quickly named Hilda, because...

Or perhaps include the Dutch exclamation "Oi - Oi!" as & when appropriate? Found it quite effective & well received in last minute emergencies. Although there's always the risk of being mistaken for a radical skinhead themed genre of music I suppose :D or Oi,Oi,Oi,or is that an ol...

I agree that trains can be ridiculous. For instance, with my railcard, I recently very nearly bough some train tickets (leaving throughout the day) from Edinburgh to Leeds at £7*. On the other (serious, empathetic) hand, my friend paid once paid £60 to get from Aberdeen to Oxford; I was travelling f...

Pretty worrying - thanks for the link. According to the beeb "On Tuesday night, his bicycle was spotted propped against a wall, a mile outside the village" (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-16419493) It's always weird when people go missing for no apparent reason... hoping for...

This is slightly old news now, but it's not been posted here - maybe there's a very small Northern Irish contingent; but there's fears for the safety of an experienced cyclist who went out on Sunday and hasn't been seen since... thoughts?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-16385946