And today's commuting highlight is...
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E36GUY said:
Borderline too hot in all my winter gear this morning! Wonderful!!
Yeah I may need to take the thermal liner out of my jacket at this rate... 
Seeing loads of bikes out now that I've not seen on the commute in the last few months. A 125 cruiser on L plates every morning, and I followed an 02 plate R1 this morning going quite slow and not filtering at all...
Bob_Defly said:
I agree, it makes total sense. Yet reviewers seemed to not like it at all for some reason.
Whilst i get the idea i prefer having it separate, for me the kill switch is only for emergency use, i do not use it day to day by choice. There have been two times I've genuinely needed to use it in anger, the one that sticks in my mind when the gear change linkage dropped off my Aprilia Falco at speed, bike stuck in 5th gear, change rod noisily flapping around luckily still attached to the output shaft, slowed down brought it to a halt clutch in, right thumb engine kill. Fixed it at the roadside with toolkit under the seat and carried on. Basically no thread lock applied at Dealer PDI basically and it vibrated loose.
Two surprising ones this morning...
Riding through West London in the outside lane of a 4 lane, 30mph stretch along Hyde Park, when the lady driving instructor in the nearside lane decides she wants to be in the outside lane...even though I'm alongside her. She was in a fully liveried up BSM car, thick glasses, no checking of blind spots, no indicating. Cue her panicking and doing one of those wibbly-wobbly correction manoeuvres. I could see it coming but still...
This brings me on to the next one. I was riding along a one-way, two lane section through central London, only to find a minicab driver (checked for the giveaway yellow 'special driver' disc in the rear window) who had just decided he was going in the wrong direction and was trying to do a 3 point turn on a zebra crossing...fortunately he gave up.
Not sure where he got his skills from but there might be some connection between the two.
Riding through West London in the outside lane of a 4 lane, 30mph stretch along Hyde Park, when the lady driving instructor in the nearside lane decides she wants to be in the outside lane...even though I'm alongside her. She was in a fully liveried up BSM car, thick glasses, no checking of blind spots, no indicating. Cue her panicking and doing one of those wibbly-wobbly correction manoeuvres. I could see it coming but still...
This brings me on to the next one. I was riding along a one-way, two lane section through central London, only to find a minicab driver (checked for the giveaway yellow 'special driver' disc in the rear window) who had just decided he was going in the wrong direction and was trying to do a 3 point turn on a zebra crossing...fortunately he gave up.
Not sure where he got his skills from but there might be some connection between the two.
My highlight being stuck behind an L plated piaggio scooter on lower thames street at the opposite end of the L plated spectrum i.e. bloody mobile roadblock unable to read the road/space and remotely filter well the guy almost causing me to be hit by a truck due to his slow reactions and failure to move into a huge space and free lane to his right, I was stuck right in the trucks blind spot with no where to go - worse thing that happened luckily a blast of the truck horn. Anyway the rider got the point as I swore at him repeatably and he heard it I was shouting so loudly.
In other news the warmer weather commuters are starting to come out seeing bikes today that haven't been around the past 6months or so.
In other news the warmer weather commuters are starting to come out seeing bikes today that haven't been around the past 6months or so.
Mosdef said:
This brings me on to the next one. I was riding along a one-way, two lane section through central London, only to find a minicab driver (checked for the giveaway yellow 'special driver' disc in the rear window) who had just decided he was going in the wrong direction and was trying to do a 3 point turn on a zebra crossing...fortunately he gave up.
Not sure where he got his skills from but there might be some connection between the two.
Sub-Saharan Africa usually.Not sure where he got his skills from but there might be some connection between the two.
Crossflow Kid said:
Mosdef said:
This brings me on to the next one. I was riding along a one-way, two lane section through central London, only to find a minicab driver (checked for the giveaway yellow 'special driver' disc in the rear window) who had just decided he was going in the wrong direction and was trying to do a 3 point turn on a zebra crossing...fortunately he gave up.
Not sure where he got his skills from but there might be some connection between the two.
Sub-Saharan Africa usually.Not sure where he got his skills from but there might be some connection between the two.
Mosdef said:
Crossflow Kid said:
Mosdef said:
This brings me on to the next one. I was riding along a one-way, two lane section through central London, only to find a minicab driver (checked for the giveaway yellow 'special driver' disc in the rear window) who had just decided he was going in the wrong direction and was trying to do a 3 point turn on a zebra crossing...fortunately he gave up.
Not sure where he got his skills from but there might be some connection between the two.
Sub-Saharan Africa usually.Not sure where he got his skills from but there might be some connection between the two.
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A coroner has demanded an “urgent” safety review of the blue paint used on cycle superhighways after a motorcyclist skidded into a bollard in the rain and suffered fatal injuries.
Dr Fiona Wilcox issued Transport for London with a prevention of deaths report months before she concludes an inquest into Milan Dokic’s death.
Mr Dokic, 49, crashed in Battersea Park Road, at the junction with Forfar Road, on March 1 last year after losing control of the motorbike in wet conditions at about 1pm.
He had entered the CS8 lane — one of the first non-segregated superhighways introduced by Boris Johnson — to undertake a van.
In her report to TfL, Dr Wilcox wrote: “The CCTV clearly shows the motorcycle losing grip and sliding along the road. Sadly, Mr Dokic came off and hit a bollard, sustaining injuries that led to his death at the scene.”
Full story http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/coroner-call...
Yesterdays commuting highlight... Doing 40, slowing down to 30 right before Limehouse tunnel, watching 4 angry car drivers get angry fore slowing down, overtake me, still doing 40, into the tunnel, just to get flashed by speed camera!
Today's commuting highlight... Misjudging gap on roundabout... Thanks God for a nice taxi driver that slowed down letting me change lanes 10cm infront of his bumper...
Today's commuting highlight... Misjudging gap on roundabout... Thanks God for a nice taxi driver that slowed down letting me change lanes 10cm infront of his bumper...
Andy XRV said:
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A coroner has demanded an “urgent” safety review of the blue paint used on cycle superhighways after a motorcyclist skidded into a bollard in the rain and suffered fatal injuries.
Dr Fiona Wilcox issued Transport for London with a prevention of deaths report months before she concludes an inquest into Milan Dokic’s death.
Mr Dokic, 49, crashed in Battersea Park Road, at the junction with Forfar Road, on March 1 last year after losing control of the motorbike in wet conditions at about 1pm.
He had entered the CS8 lane — one of the first non-segregated superhighways introduced by Boris Johnson — to undertake a van.
In her report to TfL, Dr Wilcox wrote: “The CCTV clearly shows the motorcycle losing grip and sliding along the road. Sadly, Mr Dokic came off and hit a bollard, sustaining injuries that led to his death at the scene.”
Full story http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/coroner-call...
CoolHands said:
Andy XRV said:
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A coroner has demanded an “urgent” safety review of the blue paint used on cycle superhighways after a motorcyclist skidded into a bollard in the rain and suffered fatal injuries.
Dr Fiona Wilcox issued Transport for London with a prevention of deaths report months before she concludes an inquest into Milan Dokic’s death.
Mr Dokic, 49, crashed in Battersea Park Road, at the junction with Forfar Road, on March 1 last year after losing control of the motorbike in wet conditions at about 1pm.
He had entered the CS8 lane — one of the first non-segregated superhighways introduced by Boris Johnson — to undertake a van.
In her report to TfL, Dr Wilcox wrote: “The CCTV clearly shows the motorcycle losing grip and sliding along the road. Sadly, Mr Dokic came off and hit a bollard, sustaining injuries that led to his death at the scene.”
Full story http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/coroner-call...
It wouldn't surprise me one little bit if somewhere in Palestra House the discussion went something like:
"So we've narrowed it down to a couple of suppliers, only snag is the paint is lethal when wet and would pose a serious risk to heavier two wheel machines"
"Hmm.....interesting. You mean they might fall off?"
"Fraid so"
"Well these silly motorcyclists best think twice before coming in to town then, simple as that"
Bunch of narrow-minded blinkered Communist cretins who won't rest until we're all rammed on tube trains or wobbling round town on communal bicycles.
Private ownership of a motor vehicle is theft from the masses. Or something.
Andy XRV said:
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A coroner has demanded an “urgent” safety review of the blue paint used on cycle superhighways after a motorcyclist skidded into a bollard in the rain and suffered fatal injuries.
Dr Fiona Wilcox issued Transport for London with a prevention of deaths report months before she concludes an inquest into Milan Dokic’s death.
Mr Dokic, 49, crashed in Battersea Park Road, at the junction with Forfar Road, on March 1 last year after losing control of the motorbike in wet conditions at about 1pm.
He had entered the CS8 lane — one of the first non-segregated superhighways introduced by Boris Johnson — to undertake a van.
In her report to TfL, Dr Wilcox wrote: “The CCTV clearly shows the motorcycle losing grip and sliding along the road. Sadly, Mr Dokic came off and hit a bollard, sustaining injuries that led to his death at the scene.”
Full story http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/coroner-call...
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