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Tonyf33 wrote: You'd be a great candidate for my stern, wrinkly CTC magazine front cover picture, care to model for me an i'll take the pic

Was this the sort of photo you had in mind?

Three and a half months after someone has the barefaced audacity to post an off-message comment, there are still people indulging in dim-witted prattle about it.

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For situations like these I have a sticker on my motorcycle helmet that reads: "If you find this helmet with a head in it, leave it alone, call an ambulance". Many years ago, when I rode motorcycles, I read that it wasn't a good idea to put anything on a motorcycle helmet as it might incr...

if it is possible to teach children to deal with the risk presented to them by cars then it should be possible, maybe even easier, to teach them to drive cars instead. I don't think it is possible to teach children to deal with the risk presented to them by cars. Not with the way that cars are driv...

Since most cyclists are drivers, most cyclists will have passed a cycling test after a few decades of it being compulsory for drivers. Having a cycling test as part of the driving test would raise the status of cycle training. At the moment if cycle training were compulsory for would-be cyclists it ...

What about the disabled? Exemptions for those whose physical condition precludes cycling. what about the approximately 34.5 million drivers* who are already licenced? The driving test has become progressively more stringent over time. ( Link ) ⋅ 1903 Licences introduced, but no test was r...

I just don't think alanbr's position that he wears a cycle helmet because cycling is dangerous is logical going by the facts and compared to his other pastime of motorcycling. Ah but what a person means by the word "dangerous" varies from person to person. Some people use the word to indi...

Uninvited touching is wrong, whichever way you look at it. If someone touched me in a way I didn't want them to, they'd have to deal with the consequences and I don't discriminate. Equal opportunities comes with equal obligations. The streets are full of women out to grope provocatively dressed men...

Numbers are from the DfT "Transport Trends, current edition" pdf then selecting "Section 7: Safety (210 kb)" then selecting "Trend 7.1b" The numbers are in the xls file. Not the pdf. Pity the numbers show that, per mile, car users have only 1/12 the fatality level of c...

I see that the TRL report refers to a case review of over 100 British police cyclist fatality reports. From the 100+ those cases where the cause of death had nothing to do with head injury were excluded. Then those cases where wearing a helmet would clearly had made no difference. Out of the remaind...

Won't insurance companies charge a lot more for events described as races than those described as audaxes? As in a race people are inclined to take bigger risks. In my opinion cycling in a peloton is taking far more of a risk than cycling without a helmet. Motorists are told to keep at least 2 secon...

Less vehicles would be using rat runs and cut throughs to avoid jams which improves the safety of these for cyclists and pedestrians and quality of life for the residents of those areas. Blocking up rat-runs is the most effective way of cutting their traffic. Cheap as well. They also make the best ...

The idea of banning private cars from motorways is based on the fact that they are a very inefficient way of moving people. Coaches would take less a lot less space and energy. The most efficient way of moving people long distances is to cycle to the railway station or motorway intersection, catch a...

I'm just worried that answering correctly a test question along the lines of "how much space should you allow when overtaking a cyclist" might not get it through to the would-be driver how threatening a close encounter with a car is to a cyclist. However, having such questions in the test ...