Arriving at road.cc in 2017 via 220 Triathlon Magazine, Jack dipped his toe in most jobs on the site and over at eBikeTips before being named the new editor of road.cc in 2020, much to his surprise. His cycling life began during his students days, when he cobbled together a few hundred quid off the back of a hard winter selling hats (long story) and bought his first road bike - a Trek 1.1 that was quickly relegated to winter steed, before it was sadly pinched a few years later. Creatively replacing it with a Trek 1.2, Jack mostly rides this bike around local cycle paths nowadays, but when he wants to get the racer out and be competitive his preferred events are time trials, sportives, triathlons and pogo sticking - the latter being another long story.
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A cycling proficiency course and test should be part of National Curriculum in schools and the successful completion of one should be a requirement to obtaining a license to operate any motor vehicle.
There was a comment from a Motorcyclist, I used to ride a motorbike and did the Ride Safe day with the London Met which was a great day and learned a lot. They should have something like that for cyclists, not just at school but for anyone.
That is literally a pavement that they have slapped a blue circle on.
I told an older bloke on a scooter this morning, when we conicided again, that he hadn't given me much room (a matter of a couple of inches). He then went off on one and we had an entertaining discussion over the following mile or so. His responses were predicatbly basic - I am, it would seem, a few choice four letter words in rotation. I suggested to him that he seemed very aggressive for someone in the right, and that he was perhaps temperamentally unsuited to riding a motorbike.
He then brought up the subject of tests and how he had passed one and we, cyclists, had not and that we should therefore four letters etc. He made offers of a scuffle on the pavement, so that he could "Show me what else he was good at". "Walking? I thought, but the moment passed.
One minute later, in the big blue ASL at Stockwell, I observed to him that having passed a test he should perhaps know that ASL's were not for him. More four letters. I confess to delight at this outcome.
Presumably only his one day of CBT and possibly a theory test. Or was this the only scooter in the country that doesn't have "L" plates on the back? (BTW, I don't have a problem with careful scooter riders with L plates, I just seldom see one).
As common as unicorns.
I ride a motorbike as well as cycling a lot. Trust me, most bikers get really irritated by twunts on scooters. I'm not talking about the old boys on classic Lambrettas and Vespas, they can ride properly. No, I mean the twunts on those horrible twist and go scoots, sometimes with L plates and sometimes not. Those three wheeled Piaggio models (two wheels at the front) can be ridden on a car licence and the riding standards of people on them are really poor as they don't have to do a motorcycle test. The poor riding standards of scooter riders really shows. One of them nearly took me out once when he did a close pass on me at speed, and I was on my classic Suzuki at the time.
What on earth has cycling regulation got to do with medicine?
Was there something going on that we don't know about on that Baker Street clip? I mean, none of those drivers were even pretending to think about it, they were all just going straight through as if the lights had never changed. Utterly mad.
I was thinking the same on that and the Lower Thames St clip. I see drivers amber-gambling all the time and often one or two will squeeze through after a light has just changed to red, but I've never seen that level of flagrant disregard for a solid red from drivers. Are they just both junctions where drivers get held a long time for no apparent reason with no oncoming traffic?
I suspect it's worse than mere impatience,if you stopped any of those drivers afterwards they wont even recall seeing the light and would then probably swear it was green anyway,it looks from the outside to be classic symptoms of brain in autopilot driving mode and simply following the vehicle in front, it didn't stop therefore it was ok to carry on and there wasnt any additional stimulus/blockage to prevent it
And here we have a doctor, and a cyclist, who thinks that cyclists should be registered, insured etc, because obviously it so works for drivers.
https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2019/09/11/richard-smith-time-to-regulate-cycl...
Fortunately, he gets royally shafted in the comments.
Great find burt
I love it that he gets demolished by good arguments and data and all he can say is
"and somehow the hostile responses to my blog might make that more rather than less likely."
Disagreeing with me by hard evidence = hostile
Clearly all those drivers were cyclists who had temporarily become drivers. Perhaps we should have some system of registering motor vehicles so that the drivers could be traced?
But we must be imagining it. Cars can't possibly be breaking the law, because they all pay road tax and have registration...
That intersction is bad for people running the red light when it changes and then blocking the cycleway, especially from the right hand side and usually its busses, which is extra infuriating
That RLJ junction is an absolute nightmare. I was hit by a car doing just that, right there last year. After having wiped me out, and knackering my rear wheel, he started shouting about his car getting scratched. Some parts of London are just like that, unfortunately.
I'm not sure if it'd be able to check the number plates of those vehicles from the video clip. That is appalling though. I haven't gone that way for ages but if I do, I'll be sure to take care.