Posts Tagged ‘ vehicular cycling ’

Yesterday, Mikael from Copenhagenize.com posted this Tweet: The thing is, I don’t think he’s right on this. The War On The Motorist is a pretty one-sided affair, and anyone who’d not been through basic training in the guerilla warfare it entails is likely to end up a statistic. Where the problem lies in in promoting Vee-hicular...
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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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Darwin is often mis-quoted. It’s not “survival of the fittest”, but “survival of the least stupid”. No - I’m not picking on everyone’s favourite social outsiders (recumbent riders*), but people who for the safety of future generations, really are just too stupid to be allowed breed: * Of course, I’m only kidding about not picking on...
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You’re riding along in traffic, and a car overtakes you: Sometimes they don’t even completely pass you before continuing on their Very Important Journey: If you’re lucky, it’ll be an ambulance that cuts you up like this - they’ll be able to scrape you off the road and take you to the hospital after: And don’t think...
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