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by mattheus
27 Mar 2024, 2:14pm
Forum: Does anyone know … ?
Topic: GPX devices...Garmin alternative
Replies: 29
Views: 1024

Re: GPX devices...Garmin alternative

Milfred Cubicle wrote: 23 Mar 2024, 5:10pm Can anyone recommend a simple, inexpensive alternative to Garmin devices, mainly for use on Audax events?
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by mattheus
27 Mar 2024, 8:40am
Forum: Using the Forum - request help : report difficulties
Topic: Whether to split the thread 'Cycling using trains (in UK and EU)'
Replies: 10
Views: 429

Re: Whether to split the thread 'Cycling using trains (in UK and EU)'

TrevA wrote: 26 Mar 2024, 9:37pm Why is it UK and EU, and not UK and Europe. What if you want to catch a train in Norway or Switzerland, are you expected to start a separate thread?
Because then some bright spark would moan that "Europe" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe#Li ... erritories )
includes the UK.
by mattheus
26 Mar 2024, 10:05am
Forum: On the road
Topic: Huntingdon: Angry pedestrian guilty of killing cyclist
Replies: 244
Views: 15319

Re: Huntingdon: Angry pedestrian guilty of killing cyclist

Jdsk wrote: 26 Mar 2024, 9:58am
cycle tramp wrote: 26 Mar 2024, 7:53am ...
According to a source on the web, during the police interview the defendant admitted that she 'made light contact with the deceased' however during her trial she advised the courts 'I can't remember'.
...
Please could you share that source.

Thanks

Jonathan
This is a possible: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-c ... e-64747184

She said she "may have unintentionally put" out her hand to protect herself.
Ms Grey believed she had made light contact with Mrs Ward.
by mattheus
26 Mar 2024, 10:03am
Forum: Touring & Expedition
Topic: crazyguyonabike site
Replies: 19
Views: 1645

Re: crazyguyonabike site

MelW wrote: 26 Mar 2024, 9:24am Tbh CGOAB has been left behind as most cycling info we now get is from Youtube. There are so so many excellent people who have created excellent channels. I guess Neil failed to move with the times. He should have launched a CGOAB Youtube channel to run alongside complimenting the journals but I don't really think he was at all interested, stuck firmly in the 1980s early 1990s. The world has moved on.
[my bold]

You may well find useful content on Youtube*, but it's a mistake to think that everyone has moved on from other "old-fashioned" web content.
The world still buys vinyl records, physical newspapers etc
Journalers and readers have used CGOAB for 24 years since the 1990s

[not disagreeing with the rest of your post, BTW ! ]

*personally I find very little on there of use. In fact I'd say very little that is watchable. Would prefer a good words+photos journal any day :)
by mattheus
26 Mar 2024, 9:16am
Forum: Touring & Expedition
Topic: Cycle Travel Question
Replies: 1604
Views: 210964

Re: Cycle Travel Question

richardfm wrote: 25 Mar 2024, 6:39pm I just asked cycle.travel (using Edge on an Android phone) for a route from Lancaster to Grange-Over-Sands but it told me that it can't plot a route over the sea
When I did this, I used the train (from Arnside) to cross Morecambe Bay. (I did the rest of the trip on roads chosen by cycle.travel)

Of course you must stop for refreshments at Carnforth station.

Highly recommend both!
by mattheus
26 Mar 2024, 9:01am
Forum: On the road
Topic: Huntingdon: Angry pedestrian guilty of killing cyclist
Replies: 244
Views: 15319

Re: Huntingdon: Angry pedestrian guilty of killing cyclist

Worth remembering that you don't need to make contact with someone to commit assault (which is a crime and an unlawful act!).
by mattheus
25 Mar 2024, 11:42am
Forum: On the road
Topic: Huntingdon: Angry pedestrian guilty of killing cyclist
Replies: 244
Views: 15319

Re: Huntingdon: Angry pedestrian guilty of killing cyclist

slowster wrote: 24 Mar 2024, 11:24pm Reading between the lines, I presume the unlawful act alleged was common assault. Before directing the jury to consider the question of whether the force used by the defendent was reasonable and thus a defence to a charge of common assault, the judge should presumably have directed the jury to consider first whether what happened was indeed common assault. If it was not common assault, then there could be no conviction for manslaughter.
An unlawful act doesn't have to be a crime.
Going back to the CPS webpage:
Unlawful Act Manslaughter
For the relevant law and jury directions for unlawful act manslaughter, see the Judicial College's Crown Court Compendium, Part I, at 19-5. The prosecution must prove an intentional act (not omission); that the intentional act is unlawful; that it is an act which all sober and reasonable people would inevitably realise must subject the victim to at least some risk of harm.
(Now, please don't ask me to explain the difference between "criminal" and "unlawful", but someone clever did explain it to me recently, and I believe them!)
EDITED with some bold
by mattheus
25 Mar 2024, 11:22am
Forum: Touring & Expedition
Topic: touring wheels upgrade
Replies: 72
Views: 2746

Re: touring wheels upgrade

You can say that tyre/rim weight is unimportant ...

... as long as you can also - honestly - say that you don't care AT ALL about weight on the bike/luggage.

Everyone will have some sensitivity lower limit!
by mattheus
22 Mar 2024, 8:24am
Forum: Touring & Expedition
Topic: forums
Replies: 16
Views: 1029

Re: forums

Ron wrote: 21 Mar 2024, 4:44pm
mattheus wrote: 20 Mar 2024, 10:19am It's mostly on the 'Gram. Man.
Telegrams are back?
Shock horror.
Everything comes round again, given long enough!
by mattheus
21 Mar 2024, 10:02am
Forum: Does anyone know … ?
Topic: Would it be unreasonable … ?
Replies: 42
Views: 1692

Re: Would it be unreasonable … ?

freiston wrote: 20 Mar 2024, 6:12pm I usually shield my eyes with a hand to make it obvious that I'm adversely affected by the light; I will even exclaim about how bright/dazzling the light is as we pass.

I hardly ever use it on the bike now, but I have a 1000 lumen torch that I would strap to the handlebar (as a secondary lamp to my StVZO lamp) with a rubber block and velcro straps, switching it on for rare off-road or even on-road moments out in the middle of nowhere, usually winding single-track lanes. The light was mounted pointing more or less straight ahead. If ever a road user came the other way with a dazzling light, I would switch it on. Car drivers often quickly went from full beam to dip and I would then switch it back off. I didn't see many cyclists then but I'm half tempted to put it on the commuting bike next winter for the bike lane - all those super-bright helmet lights!

I dislike very bright flashing lamps, especially front ones - I find them not only dazzling but distracting almost to the extent of disorientating (especially if there's several of them).
Indeed, and this is an aspect many people ignore;
imagine if every cyclist that wants to be more visible started using flashing lights. It would be chaos in many locations/roads.

(Hopefully it will be obvious to everyone how bad it will be when/if car users start using the things as well ... )
by mattheus
20 Mar 2024, 10:23am
Forum: The Tea Shop
Topic: P&O Ferries
Replies: 204
Views: 20382

Re: P&O Ferries

Jdsk wrote: 18 Mar 2024, 11:29pm New: the president of Brittany Ferries says the French government will sign a decree tomorrow which will force P&O Ferries to pay the French minimum wage.
It’s not clear how long the company will be given to comply.
UK government hopes to implement similar law “in the summer”.

https://twitter.com/ITVJoel/status/1769846261740409142

Jonathan
... and if P&O do not comply, the french will block the channel with their tractors.


But seriously - well done France. This is the sort of thing they're good at.
by mattheus
20 Mar 2024, 10:19am
Forum: Touring & Expedition
Topic: forums
Replies: 16
Views: 1029

Re: forums

Nearholmer wrote: 20 Mar 2024, 10:12am There is a big following for “bike packing” (cue string of assertions that it’s just a recent marketing ploy, reinventing what we all did the old days under a new name, etc), involving lightly loaded, often but not always fairly short-duration, touring, often largely off-road, but the socialisation around that tends to go on via Facebook, rather than forums of this style.
It's mostly on the 'Gram. Man.

Do keep up!
by mattheus
19 Mar 2024, 10:15am
Forum: Campaigning & Public Policy
Topic: LTN politics
Replies: 54
Views: 3589

Re: LTN politics

Oxford clarion response to the Gov Review, and a local motion to restrict LTNs:

https://oxfordclarion.uk/the-politics-of-ltns/
by mattheus
18 Mar 2024, 12:38pm
Forum: Bikes & Bits – Technical section
Topic: 8 speed chain on 10 speed chainset ?
Replies: 19
Views: 1020

Re: 8 speed chain on 10 speed chainset ?

Brucey wrote: 18 Mar 2024, 12:22pm
...
However, in practice lots of used 8s chainrings have at least 1/128" worn off them on the side of every tooth, so will happily work with the narrower chain. This means that it is usually possible to run 9s chain etc. on used 8s chainrings.
Here's a tangential question: will the narrower chain run better/worse on those chain-rings? And shifts be slicker/worse? More fussy?