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Lots of A roads already have cycle paths on one side. Has it helped? No. They are poorly designed, and seldom have safe provision at slip roads and junctions where cyclists are most likely to be at risk. They are bumpy, poorly maintained and accumulate rubbish and broken glass faster than it is rem...

"On loads of money being spent on cycling facilites" .... Cyclenation, the federation of UK cycling campaign groups reported in its March 2010 newsletter that in England, outside the cycle spending hotspots, an average of 70p per head per year is spent on cycle specific facilities. Assumin...

Thanks for all the leads.

If / when another falls out, I'll try the Duct tape on the inside of the handlebar and then work up to the more expensive ideas.

I'll also keep hold of any wine bottle corks/plugs that come my way.

ersakus wrote:I have used a glue similar to epoxy resin flexy and very strong. Glues plastic to metal very well. I don't remember what type it was but I can have a look for you.

Thanks, but I don't think it needs to be flexible. Just OK on plastic - I'll roughen the plastic before use.

I haven't had much success with wrapping more around the plugs, as the wrapping tends to be pushed towards the end of the bar on pushing the plug in. Perhaps I should have tried putting the wrapping on the inside of the bar rather than on the outside of the plug. The design of the plugs I have been ...

Thanks, I wasn't using a good search term.
These Hope brand models seem to be almost the same dimensions to the old white rubber one pictured above. 28mm diameter outside the tube, 20mm inside.

I find that plugs like these: Handlebar tape bung (Custom).jpg often come out of the handlebar. Which can lead to this: Handlebar tape bung crushed (Custom).jpg Does anyone know where the old-fashioned ones with screws can be bought? An example: Handlebar tape bung with screw (Custom).jpg With these...

Just looking on the map at Coventry, [...] Junction 3 on the M6 is near to one rail line, could a park and ride by rail, about 4 miles into the centre reduce road traffic to Coventry and Nuneaton There's a long-term aim of Warwickshire & Coventry councils to set up a frequent railway service be...

Whatever way the standards are written, it doesn't overcome the problem of the size of the number obtained by dividing the costs of a standards-compliant solution by the number of new cycle journeys it is likely to create. Australia is not known for its high level of cycle use. It is known for havin...

Are the UK DoT guidelines much different than the Austrialian? Are the published Sustrans standards much different? Isn't the real problem that making paths up to standard costs too much? So the proponents of cycle paths are faced with the dilemma; either a path which doesn't meet the standards or n...

Nottingham named England's least car-dependent city

[...]Nottingham's investment in 30 miles of cycle tracks
[...]Milton Keynes has 270km of cycling and walking routes [...]The lonely life of a cyclist in Milton Keynes

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Segregation might work in people's dreams, but surveying the practice leads one to appreciate the remark " Every nightmare starts as a dream " Nevertheless we do have an uphill struggle trying to convince people that traffic reduction is practical. One idea for city centres is to move car ...

[...] surely that should be spelling out a message to those at the centre who dream up these less than useful campaigns. More on touring and less on largely irrelevant issues please Is much effort being put into the campaign by people working for the CTC? Or is it the case that the effort is largel...

If it's a case that excellent design features for cyclists are as abundant as the rubbish we all chunter about, the only problem for somebody editing "brilliant cycle facility of the month" would be selecting the best. Some people say that you learn more from your mistakes than your succe...

As ever for a cycling project (and I'm not having a dig at CTC in any way) there are plans afoot but it's a case of as and when the funding becomes available. Doesn't the Cambridge Cycle Campaign have something (cyclestreets) that allows something called geotagging? I.e. linking a photo and some so...