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A mid-month mixed bag
Cycle-friendly trucks, cycling gardeners, the boot wheel and trains once again failing to take the cycling strain
Huw from Australia pointed out this article on the grown-up MTBing website, Singletrack: it's some interesting initiatives from a truck company to make their machines more cyclist-friendly:
http://singletrackworld.com/article.php?sid=1219
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And on a much greener note yet Patrick Vickery from Scotland writes in part:
"Just to let you know about an article - written by me - that may be of interest to your readers/web site visitors. It is called the "Half-man, half-garden blether" and can be found at:
http://www.yourgarden.com/article/blethers/halfblether.htm
Well worth a read! To check out Patrick's further bletherings try http://www.yourgarden.com/blether/.
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Thanks to Ruedi Jenner for sending Velo Vision this fine christmas e-card: the link to it probably won't work shortly so here's a screengrab:
Splendid! Anyone know more about the bike?
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Finally, Sue Archer writes:
Heard on the radio at lunchtime that the participants in this year's London to Brighton bike ride will have to be bussed back to London, since the special trains normally laid on will not be run. Apparently the new rolling stock does not have removable seats and cannot accommodate enough bikes. Couldn't find it on the BBC news page, only a brief reference on the You and Yours site, where you can listen to the clip: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/youandyours.
Another triumph of integration...
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Posted on 15 January 2004
Your comments ...| From: sue ([email protected]) on 16 January 2004 |
| Love the boot bike! Are the boots removable? If so you could have wellies for the floods, sandals for summer and flip flops for the beach... |
| From: Nick Harvey ([email protected]) on 16 January 2004 |
| Bike Week national co-ordinator Nick Harvey commented: '1,500 cycling events will be run during Bike Week from 12 to 20 June, of which the popular annual London to Brighton ride is just one. Any cycle owner who wants to raise money for charity by participating in a Bike Week event is advised to choose a local ride. For example, in June there will be many Bikeathon events to raise funds for Leukaemia Research, Bike Week's new national charity partner. Please phone 01243 527444 or email [email protected] for details.' |
| From: John ([email protected]) on 16 January 2004 |
| Good for RMC Readymix for their initiative. Personally, I find big trucks the least of my worries - it's the little ones that seem to be driven by lunatics. However, I make a point of never riding up the inside of anything bigger than a Range Rover, and people I see making this manouvre make my hair stand on end. I prefer to pass on the other side where people expect you to overtake. I don't even use ASL cycle lead-in lanes on the LHS of vehicles unless I can be absolutely certain the traffic is going to remain stationary for long enough e.g at a set of lights where I know the sequence. |
| From: sue ([email protected]) on 16 January 2004 |
I agree - I once made the mistake when I was a rookie cyclist of cutting up the inside of a bus on a left turn where there were pedestrian safety railings on the corner. After I straightened out my handlebars, I knew not to do it again.
Nice to see the effort RMC are making. Did anyone scroll down through the comments? I loved this one:
"I really like the idea of a truck which gives a verbal warning. That's what I call an articulate lorry :o)"
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| From: Huw ([email protected]) on 27 August 2004 |
Unfortunately it now looks like there was a lot of 'spin' in RMC's announcement:
http://www.blagged.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/citycyclists/hgv.html
(Warning - upsetting story) |
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