November 12th 13, 08:46 PM
posted to rec.bicycles.tech
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"... I forgot to put batteries in my dynamo."
On Monday, November 11, 2013 8:26:00 PM UTC-8, Clive George wrote:
On 12/11/2013 02:12, Jay Beattie wrote:
On Sunday, November 10, 2013 6:38:28 PM UTC-8, Dan wrote:
Clive George writes:
On 10/11/2013 03:30, Phil W Lee wrote:
Frank Krygowski considered Sat, 9 Nov 2013
09:18:48 -0800 (PST) the perfect time to write:
http://tinyurl.com/cambridge-lights
- Frank Krygowski
All courtesy of the tory blight, which has been inflicted on
Cambridgeshire, (elected by a single figure percentage of voters) and
refuses to take road safety seriously enough to do anything about
dangerous driving, speed limit enforcement, careless driving,
infringement of cycle lanes by motor vehicles, or threatening
behaviour (as long as it's done with or from a motor vehicle). And
note that the car that was stopped without lights only received "words
of advice", despite clearly posing a far greater hazard to the general
public. Clear double standard (if you can find any standard at all -
I doubt if Sir Graham Dim could even spell it).
I don't really mind them having the occasional blitz on unlit cyclists
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it's not a continuous thing, it's a few hours, it gets headlines, and
encourages people to get lights. Note the timing - after the clocks
change, which is when people need reminding.
The fines aren't even fines unless you fail to demonstrate you've gone
and got some lights. That's positive policing, not being miserable
facists.
I don't know. What got me about the article was how there
were too many unlit bikes going by for the blitz squad to
even make much of a dent. And the cops attitude? "Like
shooting fish in a barrel." Does no one think they're
treating people (hoardes of people apparently going about
their business without a problem) people who may have room
for improvement for their own safety being treated as if they
were a menace to society?
"Load up the fish guns and gather 'round the barrel, boys!"
Well, you can give a man a fish and feed him for a day, or give him a gun and a barrel of fish . . .
Anyway, because of this: http://vimeo.com/25717583# We got this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5RdFFlFz9g
I mean you can at least fake following the law -- slow a little, act like you didn't see the sign . . . claim not to understand English. Damn. They even pulled over the girl with the milk crate rack basket! Man, this is a bad day for the Bohemians.
Shouldn't that be a give way rather than stop? That's the way
roundabouts are supposed to work, and why they're a good junction design.
Yes. I think the stop signs went in for traffic calming and pedestrian issues. One could certainly argue that "yield" signs are more appropriate -- and more common even here in PDX.
-- Jay Beattie.
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