Posts Tagged ‘ right to ride ’

Last week I had one of those days on the bike - repeated attempts by drivers to find the most creative way to kill me, while making it look like an “accident”. The best of these was the learner driver, who bounced off the kerb several times right in front of me, before driving...
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. . . and the driver of this grey Vauxhall Astra cabriolet, registration S2 SCU is busy texting away as the car comes to a stop, . . . oblivious to the green light ahead, she sits there working on her Very Important Text, secure in the knowledge that texting isn’t distracting, and that she’s...
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Tomorrow is my father’s Nth birthday. It’s also the day that he’s giving up riding a bike. I know: “Say it ain’t so!”: His bike is a bit different to any of mine though - it’s a Honda Goldwing. Let’s face it, when it comes to road presence, this thing is more like Judge Dredd’s Lawmaster...
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Last week we had this on the front page of The Independant: On the same day that this article was published, we had the Great AA Helmet Handout: On the subject of helmets, and whether or not they protect you, I read this on the same day: The result of all this Cult of Fear? This via...
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