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North Carolina reminds of when we went there on holiday once. Picked up hire care from Rayleigh Durham airport to drive out to Kill Devil Hills on the coast. Got a bit lost trying to get on the right road out of the city and it took a couple of goes to get the hang of cloverleaf junctions. Navigation is always harder when you are driving on the wrong side of the road trying to avoid collisions in busy traffic. Ended stopping at a diner to get directions from a friendly helpful policeman who was on his break.

Many years ago I was going to Newcastle upon Tyne by coach and missed it because I was waiting at the wrong coach stop - Newcastle under Lyme.

Could take your seat post to metal fabricators and get them to weld in and extension.

I have an Edge 800 but have only used it occasionally. I probably need to use it more to get used to following it's directions and paying attention to the road ahead. It makes little bleeps as you approach junctions, but in busy traffic I often didn't hear them and missed my turning.

If they were rubbing against the frame as you describe, you must have noticed the extra effort required to pedal the bike - if you didn't I salute your fitness level.

I got my bakfiets cycle coded by the police - it would interesting to find out if there were any figures on how many bikes that have been coded get stolen and what percentage get recovered.

I guess if you were going to allow cycling on the pavement you would have to have rules or guidelines about doing so. There are after all plenty of people on mobility scooters these days and a lot of shared used paths. In some places I would say pavements would be too narrow for a cyclist to use them safely and on busy shopping streets during the hours of business. There is a section of pavement near me that I might consider using if were legal to do so as it is an uphill section and it would get me out of the way of impatient motorists. I would want it to be a one-way path though - on route I used to cycle I tried there shared use path for the same reason but gave up on it because of bikes coming down it at speed, it was only about 4' wide.

hamster wrote:Thorn do a triplet.

Circe Helios also available as triplet

I don't know about there slippiness in the wet - I prefer to ride on the road. From experience as a pedestrian on these paths most people don't seem give a flying toss about there intended purpose with peds and cyclists on both paths weaving around each other. I have even on occasion seen only peds in the cycle path and only cyclists on the foot path. And that is why I prefer to use the road, less unpredictable.

barrym wrote:

Elizabethsdad wrote:You didn't notice the police car which must presumably have passed you shortly after the van then?

Forgot to mention it was a plain Volvo. No blues visible when I got there so no idea how he stopped the van.

I think the police have 'plain clothes' traffic cars where the only blue lights are behind the front grill

As it was in Birmingham you could send the video to West Midlands Police - close pass people. The driver was too close and the road in front of him wasn't clear. From the video I couldn't see if you indicating you intention to move out of the left filter lane so I didn't know from that that you where going to go straight on. That is I think largely irrelevant, even if you were going to follow the left filter I don't think the car should have overtaken you. Report it.

drossall wrote:I too have always believed that drivers love jams, for the same reason that they will take significant risks to join one sooner.

Red lights, whether it is the red traffic light or the brake lights of the car 20 ft in front of you, the car be hind has to shoot past and get to them before you - even if that then requires an emergency stop.

You didn't notice the police car which must presumably have passed you shortly after the van then?

Or, you can always turn to the darkside...
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The Greenspeed delta trike uses differentials made by Samagaga. I contacted them some years back and they sent me one of their units for a quadricycle project I had going.