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On Oct 8, 9:44*am, lardyninja wrote:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/london/h...id_8293000/829... LN -- Never knowingly understood Oh! That's pretty flipping good looking! Sturdy but not too clunky, but yet not too plasticky. 3 gears, blinking LEDs. I like that very much! Silly paragraph about "the fear of more accidents". What fear? Would they say that at the launch of a new car or opening a new road? Cycling in London up 83%, accidents have halved in the same period! I like that bike, that's very exciting. |
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lardyninja wrote:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/london/h...00/8293273.stm LN Apparently one of the criticisms is that there aren't any helmets as well. Who ever said that isn't actually thinking about the concept of the hire scheme. The idea is that you turn up, wave your credit card (or pre-booked over the interweb)at the machine and get a bike. First off - where are the helmets to be kept while waiting for hire if the scheme doesn't have yer actual humans loitering to help customers. Second - by not providing helmets that are not checked for size and if they are fitted correctly you remove the possibility of ambulance-chasers bleating about 'clients not supplied or informed correctly'. The bikes look like they will be O.K. on the plains of Central London but not exactly what you'd want for negotiating the surrounding hills. Not that that's a bad thing as it will prevent them being taken out of the area as it'll be just too much hard work. Can't wait for them to arrive -- if there are moans now about CM, wait until all them forriners start aimlessly meandering around the streets n the centre of London. -- Its never too late to reinvent the bicycle |
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On Oct 8, 11:49*am, Keitht KeithT wrote:
lardyninja wrote: http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/london/h...id_8293000/829... LN Apparently one of the criticisms is that there aren't any helmets as well.. Who ever said that isn't actually thinking about the concept of the hire scheme. The idea is that you turn up, wave your credit card (or pre-booked over the interweb)at the machine and get a bike. First off - where are the helmets to be kept while waiting for hire if the scheme doesn't have yer actual humans loitering to help customers. Second - by not providing helmets that are not checked for size and if they are fitted correctly you remove the possibility of ambulance-chasers bleating about 'clients not supplied or informed correctly'. The bikes look like they will be O.K. on the plains of Central London but not exactly what you'd want for negotiating the surrounding hills. Not that that's a bad thing as it will prevent them being taken out of the area as it'll be just too much hard work. Can't wait for them to arrive -- if there are moans now about CM, wait until all them forriners start aimlessly meandering around the streets n the centre of London. -- Its never too late to reinvent the bicycle I understand in Paris there's an imbalance because so many people leave them at the bottom of hills. |
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"lardyninja" wrote in message
... http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/london/h...00/8293273.stm The baskets on the Velibs look better, and I'm a little concerned about the line in the report saying "LED front lamp" - what about the rear? |
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On Oct 8, 12:43*pm, "Clive George" wrote:
"lardyninja" wrote in message ... http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/london/h...id_8293000/829... The baskets on the Velibs look better, and I'm a little concerned about the line in the report saying "LED front lamp" - what about the rear? Dynamo LEDS, apparently. |
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spindrift writes:
I understand in Paris there's an imbalance because so many people leave them at the bottom of hills. Hills? Paris? I guess there's Monmartre, but it's hardly Mont Ventoux |
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Paul Rudin wrote:
spindrift writes: I understand in Paris there's an imbalance because so many people leave them at the bottom of hills. Hills? Paris? I guess there's Monmartre, but it's hardly Mont Ventoux I always noticed a big drop-off in the number of cyclists just before Archway Hill. The prospect of tackling the Norf Lundun Massive appeared to be too much for many distant potential cyclists. Not that that put off others but the difference in numbers of cyclists was noticeable. But still they came and tested themselves against a gentle slope having got knackered whizzing past everyone else on Holloway Road, leaving the older and wiser to overtake their sweating heaving bodies just before the false summit at Suicide Bridge. -- Its never too late to reinvent the bicycle |
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On Thu, 08 Oct 2009 09:44:11 +0100, lardyninja
wrote: http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/london/h...00/8293273.stm 05.25 of the second film clip. Did someone really walk through the water squirters that I hoped would soak the slick Mr Ranger? |
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On Oct 8, 6:11*pm, Tom Crispin
wrote: On Thu, 08 Oct 2009 09:44:11 +0100, lardyninja wrote: http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/london/h...id_8293000/829... 05.25 of the second film clip. *Did someone really walk through the water squirters that I hoped would soak the slick Mr Ranger? Larger picture of the London hire bike: http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standa...bike-design.do which looks completely different to the beeb one. |
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