Cycling UK Forum

mjr wrote:

Bmblbzzz wrote:It's not working for me. The map zoom is unusable; either showing the whole of the British Isles or zooming in very close on random places. No user controllability. Windows 8.1, Opera.

Similar experience for me. Firefox forty-something (latest) on debian 8. The 12 page table-of-contents for instructions that open when I click "Route" is rather off-putting.

Psamathe wrote:However, my impression is that MGs don't actually provide the sort of rides that beginners would be interested in (or would risk putting them off if they did go on one). Certainly for the MG I used to go to, their rides would have been unsuited to somebody starting cycling (though I never went on one, the distances would be too far for most people starting).

Christopher Mallett, 35, of Clyde Place, Bletchley has been sentenced to four years’ imprisonment after he was found guilty of causing the death of a seven-year-old boy by dangerous driving.
Mallett He pleaded guilty to causing death by careless driving but not guilty to causing death by dangerous driving.
He was found guilty of causing death by dangerous driving on 18 February this year by a jury at Aylesbury Crown Court (sitting at Amersham) in front of Judge Sheridan in a two day trial.
Today (7/3) at Aylesbury Crown Court again in front of Judge Sheridan he was sentenced to four years’ imprisonment, a three and a half year disqualification from driving with an extended driving test to pass.
The sentence follows an incident on 20 March 2015 at 2.17pm on the A4146 Stoke Hammond bypass near the junction with the B4032 Leighton Road. At that time a lorry driven by Mallett collided with a stationary silver Toyota Rav 4 on the southbound dual carriageway.
Police, fire service and air ambulance together with the ambulance service attended.
Sadly a seven-year-old boy, Mohammed Ali Ahmed, who was a passenger in the car, died at the scene.
PC Sandra Terry from Bicester Serious Collision Investigation Unit said: “This is a very sad case where a young boy has lost his life following a lack of concentration from the driver of another vehicle. This moment has caused a lifetime of loss for Mohammed’s family.
“I hope that this case makes drivers of all vehicles think about the responsibility they have in relation to other road users.”

reohn2 wrote:

jochta wrote:...... If there was no priors (which the cyclist says) then this incident is incompetence rather than malicious IMO, probably texting or fiddling with something. It seems odd that they forgot the cyclist was there unless their otherwise engaged brain had assumed he had taken the first exit at the roundabout.

And the driving off leaving the victim in the road in agony,would that be incompetence,or malice of afterthought?
And the refusal to declare who was driving,that would be incompetence too?
And the sentence,is that incompetence?

Or they didn't know there was a rear facing camera fitted on bike they ran into and thereby thought they were anonymous.

Samuel D wrote:

Dave855 wrote:There are accounts on this forum of people using the E-Werk to charge decent size cache batteries. Assuming you set the E-Werk at it's highest output of 13,3 Volts, presumably this would always give a better charge to a cache battery than any of the competition (regular Werk, Revolution, Reactor, Plug etc) because they all max out at 5 Volts. Am I right in this theory?

No. You can’t just increase the voltage to charge faster. That quickly becomes dangerous with lithium-ion batteries. If I wanted to charge a battery pack that accepted power via USB port, I’d just get the USB-Werk. Busch & Müller makes a cache battery for the E-Werk if you prefer the flexibility of powering different things with the latter. I’d opt for the B&M battery over a third-party one unless there was a very good reason to need a different energy capacity.