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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Milfred Cubicle wrote: ↑23 Mar 2024, 5:10pm Can anyone recommend a simple, inexpensive alternative to Garmin devices, mainly for use on Audax events?
Because then some bright spark would moan that "Europe" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe#Li ... erritories )
This is a possible: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-c ... e-64747184Jdsk wrote: ↑26 Mar 2024, 9:58amPlease could you share that source.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'.
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Jonathan
[my bold]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.
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)
An unlawful act doesn't have to be a crime.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.
(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!)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.
Indeed, and this is an aspect many people ignore;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).
... and if P&O do not comply, the french will block the channel with their tractors.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
It's mostly on the 'Gram. Man.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.
Here's a tangential question: will the narrower chain run better/worse on those chain-rings? And shifts be slicker/worse? More fussy?
Well, he tried to win a sprint finish this time, and he came pretty close!