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Why do you have shifters at the end of your bars??
Increased police presence.
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glenn forger
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Because that's how the bike's constructed.
deptfordmarmoset
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Because the added length means you can scratch your itchy knee with them.
I like bar end shifters, particularly using the friction setting.
glenn forger
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Some people prefer brifters. Bed-wetting shoplifting mouth-breathers, mostly.
One advantage of the current crackdown is that cars & motorbikes are actually respecting ASLs (so apparently they do know what they are after all). OK, only the particular ASLs being watched by a copper/PCSO at the time (eg Chelsea Bridge north end this morning, PCSO watching one ASL, the other 3 ASLs at the junction all had scooters in them), but at least we now know what it takes to achieve ASL compliance: 4 coppers per junction...
Dmcd33
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Shoulder checking and indicating do make cars aware of your intentions and I believe make you safer. But having driven for some years in London also. Indicators are becoming an optional extra as I said in an earlier post. The law is the law and none of us have the moral authority to ignore or change it for our own purpose. Drivers, cyclists and pedestrians.
RedRider
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No idea, I noticed the lad had headphones on but didn't hear the conversation so don't know whether this was why he was stopped. As you imply, there's no legal problem wearing headphones.
Seemed part of the drive to 'educate' cyclists that's been going on this week. Feeling pretty pissed off about it myself.
glenn forger
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100 cyclists stopped and lectured about stupid plastic hats.
20 lorry drivers stopped and fifteen were breaking the law-one had been driving for ten hours straight, and was trundling around the capital in a twenty ton lorry.
Where should the cops devote resources?
20 lorry drivers stopped and fifteen were breaking the law-one had been driving for ten hours straight, and was trundling around the capital in a twenty ton lorry.
Where should the cops devote resources?
glenn forger
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Why? Unlit cyclists killed nobody in the last year, lorries are responsible for half of all cyclists deaths. It's about making the roads safer, right?
It's totally about making the roads safer but I don't believe that the police should solely concentrate on those behaviours that have directly led to someone dying.
I have made the assumption that you read the whole post and not just highlighted the 'unlit' bicycle aspect. Cycling at night with no lights and wearing dark clothes is not just suicidal, it's against the law and of course the police should do something about that, the same as they should do something about any other law that's been breached. However, this incident isn't just about the 'I couldn't see him until I was a few feet away' aspect, it's also about the fact he was also jeopardising the safety of a child. To be honest, if I was a policeman and I'd caught him doing that, I'd be ringing Social Services.
glenn forger
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Then how come such behaviour is implicated in just 2% of accidents? Early cyclists didn't have lights-it was up to drivers to watch the road and anticipate them, now we're in an arms race of mega-watt lights and cyclists dressed up as if they're driving a frigging bulldozer.
Let's none of us wear lights and dress like ninja's and sod the law then.
I don't get this attitude, sorry.
Early drivers were fewer in number and had fewer cyclists to deal with, the world has changed and in London the amount of people on the roads has exploded.
glenn forger
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That's what I said, yes.