I’ve had several cars keyed, excluding the occasions when it was people annoyed with me for personal matters it was because I had parked inconsiderately.

I take more care now so it hasn’t happened for a few years.

Wrangler Texas Stretch, great jeans for cyclists, a bit skinny cut though so perhaps not for supersize thighs.

Yes, I can and I’m not easily parted from money or overly susceptible to marketing.

Good deals on Genesis Vapours at the mo.
Still seem to be around £1k mark in most places.

That’s a £200 reduction ! Google harder there’s more.

Actually its not even you who wants one so whats the point in your post?

Good deals on Genesis Vapours at the mo.

Its not really a rip off though is it? Just better priced to reflect the true cost of using it. Some, as this thread suggest belive that could be even higher.

Sitting at my desk looking out a ground floor window at cars accelerating up a town centre road 40mph + isnt going to encourage anyone to use alternatives.

Hike the price up to cover the indirect damage, make the alternatives more appealing, all nudges in the right direction.

There will be some pain, but the overall effect will be positive, one person unable to get to a job is a vacancy for someone else.

I can relate to the victim which makes ready the article even more difficult.

Prosecutions, Sentencing, Speed limits, Education, Road design, Technology, Regulation we need to use all levers possible to reduce the dominance of vehicles and put people back in the ascendancy.

With any luck someone will pull the plug on oil supply or a similar to force the situation.

It’s always possible construct or quote an extreme example to argue a point.

Your friends circumstances appear unfortunate. If its his only option for the moment he should of course do what he has to, but for his sanity and long term work life balance look to reduce his travel.

Its costing time and money that would otherwise be spent with and on his family.

sooner we get self driving cars like in Irobot the better IMO.

These are on the way…telematics for insurance is finally coming though, they will be in all cars soon(5/10yrs) then it’ll be a small step to pay as go cars lined up at the road side.

Get in one, tap in a post code, swipe your card and of you go. Google is showing some software that works out the best routes and even accounts for lights changing etc.

I reckon 20/30 yrs.

Only problem will be establishing our social status when no one owns a car!

Recently got some Pearl Izumi InR Cool Elites after destroying several pairs of Endure FS260’s. They are a different league.

Parking on pavements particularly pi**es me off, not just because its inconsiderate but because its really stupid.

Theres no logical reason, the roads often still aren’t wide enough for two cars to pass if you park completely across the pavement so why park a bit on it? You just increase the risk of getting damaged by someone try to squeeze a buggy past without reducing the risk of getting it struck by a passing car.

People just use the pavement as an extension of their property without consideration of anyone who may want to do that strange thing of actually walking to get somewhere.

I have a drive that I could park half a dozen cars on but still park fully on the road most of the time, it slows passing traffic and no one has knocked a mirror of in the last 10 years of parking this way and I get more private space as garden.

More power to the cornflake army, go girl.

If you park on pavements you run the risk of upsetting people, personally I don’t blame them, even the cereal offenders.

Quite nice to know I’m not missing anything by not being on Facebook.

get some balls man, buy the real thing.

A cars ability to safely negotiate a stretch of road is not the only reason to set a speed limit.

Just started..forget the web for an hour.

Eu directive to have all new cars installed with telematics devices from 2018 (date from memory) hopefully you’ll all just explode as soon as the limit is exceeded have your speed electronically limited after that.

Ed,

The subject matter is irrelevant, it’s the back and forth of repeated arguments for one opinion or another that defines these threads.

Your view and the alternatives are clear but these go on and on and on …

(Fwiw i dont even know how much fuel is, I barely use a car, live and work in close proximity and enjoy the lifestyle that allows very much).

Top candidate as the next ten pager pointless thread.

Yep, everyone (well most)is nice if I am. 🙂

Like this..

B&Q clear, yellow, tints. £5.95.

Managed a 29.5kph average over 50 miles of sandy, pot holed, Suffolk farm roads using an Exposure Diablo with single piggyback battery.

I know they seem poor value compared to the imports but I do think they make a really good product and IME provide good service should it be needed

Probably go for a Strada next time there money in the bike fund.

Poundland

Buy three rear lights and a pack of six alkaline batteries for £4.

They come with a bracket which is ok, but also a very good little clip which works fine with saddle bags etc or to clip on a jersey pocket.

Honestly very good.

Advance stop zones and the feeder lanes on the left of queing cars/trucks etc are the work of madmen and should be ignored.

**** no, it’ll be all fat.

Don’t think the name on it matter much.

Does it fit/feel right.
Does it do what you want, mudguards/ no mudguards et
Does it look good enough to make you ride it.
Do you trust who your buying it from.?

If yes then it’s the dogs b’ s

People are getting stupider, the proportion who spend there time in tin cans are the bottom of end of the scale.

Just taken out two o2 30 day sim only deals £16pm for me, £11pm for the daughter.

We both have phones but if we didnt you can buy new from handtec etc new or fleabay s/h.

You can have similar deals on 12 month contracts for roughly 25% less per month.

6 miles each way 5 days Feb to Oct, hit and miss in Winter.

Relaxed dress code means I can get away with riding in Jeans and T shirt then wearing them. I have a spare shirt, socks, etc at work but don’t usually have to use them

My riding style on the commute is very steady though, non of that commuter racing for me. The goal is to get there without breaking a sweat.

Smartphones a bit of a misnomer for something that just clever enough to let you update your status but cant tell me which are the best tyres for Cannock.

Isn’t it getting dark early?

or

Whats your name? when I ask for a flat white.

Young man riding a bso who drifted through the junction, chatting on his blackberry, sorting out his next drug deal or telling his mum he was going to be late depending on which paper you read.

Either way he way riding with a disregard for rules that was so complete I kind of envied his nonchalance.

It also caused the young lady waiting next to me in the asz to comment which started a conversation that lasted the next 5 miles. Not often I get that much young lady time, so thank you young punk.

Whilst the old man in me would like to reprimand you, the memory of a younger guy says get away with what you can and the Sid James says thank you very much.

My next commuter, tourer- Fargo, Vaya, CDF, LHT et al will be disc because I want to stop quickly at the bottom of a hill in December when I’m still a bit tipsy and its raining etc.

I have no need for em on my road bike because it just needs to go faster that’s all that matters, I will have hydraulic assisted legs not brakes on that one please .

I would suggest if they offered a better, safer and faster route than the road then we wouldn’t be having this conversation as other cyclist would come to the same conclusion.

They (cyclist) don’t because the cycle paths are not better, safer or faster, they are to one degree of another worse in one or more respects than using the road the difference may be subtle, including all the points mentioned in this thread and others but whatever the reasons are the message is clear they don’t get used because they not the best option.

And why shouldn’t I use the best option for me, it’s mine paid for by my taxes, I’m using it thanks.

Mini

grum – Member
Terrible article but there are far too many ‘serious cyclists’ who seem to think that cycle paths are beneath them. Quite a few of them post on here.

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And today’s troll award goes to …..Grum!

Standard local paper nonsense.

Im with haze on this one, theres less of an advatage on the road. Braking is generally a failure best avoided at all costs.

Get 20 from poundland with enough batteries to run them for next two years.

There’s no yes and no, if she owns the car it has to be insured on its own policy. DOC only applies to cars you DON’T own or have legal contract with such as hire or lease agreement.
@njee your using the term “insured” that doesn’t make it clear if you mean a policy specifically naming the vehicle or by extension of another policy so I’m not sure what your saying really.

Either way for the op she’s not insured I would ask her to ring her insurer on the other car. Not much more than that you can do really other than dob her in which will probably not help in the long run.