Posts Tagged ‘ Assassination Attempts ’

This via cyclelicio.us: You can read the full story and the excerpt from the police blog over on Cyclelicio.us, but to summarise: A driver rear-ends a cyclist He tries to leave the scene A bus driver who’s seen the crash in his rear-view mirror blocks the road to prevent the driver’s escape Big hat-tip to that bus driver. In general,...
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How about this video via a well-known price comparison web site: Other price comparison web sites are available. Avoid the whole mess of having to hunt around for a better deal on your car insurance by ditching the car altogether and going by bike instead. HT to @darlobikegirl on the Twitter for this video. Follow her...
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A few weeks ago I got a new a front light. It’s one of those SSC-P7 LED units that turns night into day when you’re riding out in the country, and has a strobe setting that I use in town, and defy any driver to claim he hadn’t seen. From about a mile away. Even...
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There must be something in the water. Or maybe that picture of Philip Hammond that’s hanging over my desk is starting to have an affect on me. You’ve got to admit, it’s very persuasive, isn’t it: Whatever. Take a look at this: You’d probably think that this is another one in the long list of helmet...
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A pair of amateur-night close shaves for me this evening riding home - two assassination attempts by the same driver. Not deliberate as such, but indicative of a crass, thoughtless attitude to anyone else on the road. First up, he edged alongside me in the narrow next to the traffic island on the way into...
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The Nice Weather is here at last! Gentle breezes, sunrises over the sea, no rain. And the temperature - just perfect Goldilocks warm. Stuff like that. So today, seeing as it was such beautiful cycling weather, I played a new game with the homicidal eejits with whom I have to share the road. It’s called, Not Getting...
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By "Cyclist ", I don’t mean "one who rides a bike", but "one who hates cycles - in the same way that a racist hates people of different races from themselves." Here’s how it works - in the absence of using actual physical violence against road users, people resort to trying to scare...
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From the letters page of The Northern Echo : READERS afflicted by pavement cyclists may be interested in a device my brothers and I made a few years ago for a TV programme. It consisted of a steel plate studded with spikes and hinged at one end which could...
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There’s this from yesterday’s Sydney Morning Herald : The cyclist-friendly car STEPHEN OTTLEY May 18, 2010 - 4:18PM Subaru has developed a new system that can detect and avoid cyclists and pedestrians. Subaru has developed new safety technology that can detect and avoid pedestrians, cyclists and other cars on the road. Pedestrians...
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