Not curmudgeonly, just incandescent 🔥😠🔥. Parked at the garden centre was a bike with a Heath Robinson contraption front and rear used for the transport of children. There was a tiny seat behind the saddle,apparently for a baby, and a wooden bucket effort at the front with aircraft like seatbelts and a bench, probably for toddlers. They shouldn't be regulated, they should be illegal!! Why are there no rules for cyclists, no number plates, no insurance? - nothing
Sounds like human airbags for the person using the bike. Probably some bearded sandal wearer in home knitted clothes!
Probably. I only see plants when I'm in the garden centre. I remember once asking a mother whose toddlers were playing in my work car park whether she had a few spare children at home.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-57055882 And so it goes on. I wonder if it's pure coincidence that the same David Ross's Neville Holt Opera received £80,000 in Covid funding? Cynical? Moi?
I can't be the only one who thinks that politicians declaring that they've received bribes doesn't change the fact that they're receiving bribes. It just amazes me that we even need a system to make sure that all bribery is legal and above board. Having an ongoing investigation into who bribed the Prime Minister by paying for his wallpaper rather than the Prime Minister actually just telling everyone doesn't seem the best way to go about running a country. Treating bribes as 'donations' and using the money to fund targetted, misleading advertising on social media using stolen data? Why are people acting like this is all OK?
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
I can't be the only one who thinks that politicians declaring that they've received bribes doesn't change the fact that they're receiving bribes. It just amazes me that we even need a system to make sure that all bribery is legal and above board. Having an ongoing investigation into who bribed the Prime Minister by paying for his wallpaper rather than the Prime Minister actually just telling everyone doesn't seem the best way to go about running a country. Treating bribes as 'donations' and using the money to fund targetted, misleading advertising on social media using stolen data? Why are people acting like this is all OK?
Even when MPs write their own rule book on standards, they still find ways of getting their snouts into the trough and getting away with it.
They are only as safe as the motorists around them. In Denmark and Netherlands they're very common. Indeed Dutch can have three kids or even more on they're bikes. Some Dutch bikes come with rear rack that has a leather pad for up to two kids to sit on. Also a similar pad on the Cross bar for kid to sit on. Plus you can then add front of bars starts too. I've seen three kids and an adult on one bike in Netherlands. I've seen four late teenagers riding on one bike too!!!
They have a lower accident rate than the UK for cyclists because they design roads for them. Belgium too. Indeed many places are better than UK for cycling.
If you want to be incandescent about anything try lack of spending on cycle infrastructure. How about a legal and social culture of looking at cyclists as sub human and by default the I've at fault. A culture where that ex Brexit party tawt tweeting a video of cars blocking an ambulance on a call as being the cyclists fault when the cycle route wasn't even wide enough for cars let alone ambulance. Or where the ridiculous argument about cyclists not paying road tax which lost all connection with road building or maintenance in the early part of the 20th century. It's general taxation pot that pays for that and cyclists probably pay for more as they're most likely motorists too.
BTW since they stopped the fuel tax elevator the link between cost of motorised vehicle use and damage to the environment has been lessened. I saw research that showed motorists are not paying for anywhere close to the real cost of using their vehicle when environmental costs get factored in. Also not really paying enough for the road maintenance neither. I'm happy to pay for the damage my bike causes the road if motorists are willing to probably double the cost to drive and pay for their fair share.
Oh and it's still illegal to have custom number plates with illegal number and letter groupings and sizes which can have the effect of my being easily readable. Or being kept dirty or disguised to speed cameras or other tricks car drivers use to avoid being caught by the non existent traffic cops.
IMHO everyone who uses any public highway should be tested, as well as any equipment / animals, as fit to do so and be fully insured. Cars, cyclists, horse riders, mobility scooters the lot. If folk don't want to pay: keep off the roads.
Because they do it in Holland and Denmark doesn't mean it's safe. Just because you can buy a factory made one doesn't mean it's safe. Just because there isn't a law against it doesn't mean it's safe.
@NorthernJoe What I get incandescent about is when large amounts of money IS spend on new cycleways and the lycra louts still insist on using the roads until they reach traffic lights and then cycle across the pedestrian crossings. Either that or they simply ignore the lights completely.
Where my parents lived there was a 'goat man' living nearby. He was a mess but his goats were all very healthy Anyhoo, trying to pull out of the dangerous junction onto the main road was always a bit of a game in a car. I watched him do it one time on a push bike, which had a 5 feet long pole balanced across the handle bars with a bucket on each end (presumably to carry his shopping) and a goat sitting across his shoulders which he was holding with one hand. Had to admire the ambition, really.
It seems that the fact that Boffle lies all the time is 'priced in' to the electorate. We all know he does, and if we care we don't vote for him but most people just don't care, so he gets lots of votes and media storms about his, er, factual inaccuracies have no impact whatsoever
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Sounds like human airbags for the person using the bike. Probably some bearded sandal wearer in home knitted clothes!
I only see plants when I'm in the garden centre.
I remember once asking a mother whose toddlers were playing in my work car park whether she had a few spare children at home.
And so it goes on.
I wonder if it's pure coincidence that the same David Ross's Neville Holt Opera received £80,000 in Covid funding?
Cynical? Moi?
https://www.cyclesprog.co.uk/carrying-kids-on-bikes/bike-seats/front-bike-seats-kids/
https://www.cyclesprog.co.uk/carrying-kids-on-bikes/bike-seats/rear-bike-seats-for-sale/
They are only as safe as the motorists around them. In Denmark and Netherlands they're very common. Indeed Dutch can have three kids or even more on they're bikes. Some Dutch bikes come with rear rack that has a leather pad for up to two kids to sit on. Also a similar pad on the Cross bar for kid to sit on. Plus you can then add front of bars starts too. I've seen three kids and an adult on one bike in Netherlands. I've seen four late teenagers riding on one bike too!!!
They have a lower accident rate than the UK for cyclists because they design roads for them. Belgium too. Indeed many places are better than UK for cycling.
If you want to be incandescent about anything try lack of spending on cycle infrastructure. How about a legal and social culture of looking at cyclists as sub human and by default the I've at fault. A culture where that ex Brexit party tawt tweeting a video of cars blocking an ambulance on a call as being the cyclists fault when the cycle route wasn't even wide enough for cars let alone ambulance. Or where the ridiculous argument about cyclists not paying road tax which lost all connection with road building or maintenance in the early part of the 20th century. It's general taxation pot that pays for that and cyclists probably pay for more as they're most likely motorists too.
BTW since they stopped the fuel tax elevator the link between cost of motorised vehicle use and damage to the environment has been lessened. I saw research that showed motorists are not paying for anywhere close to the real cost of using their vehicle when environmental costs get factored in. Also not really paying enough for the road maintenance neither. I'm happy to pay for the damage my bike causes the road if motorists are willing to probably double the cost to drive and pay for their fair share.
Oh and it's still illegal to have custom number plates with illegal number and letter groupings and sizes which can have the effect of my being easily readable. Or being kept dirty or disguised to speed cameras or other tricks car drivers use to avoid being caught by the non existent traffic cops.
Incandescent rage over with.
Cars, cyclists, horse riders, mobility scooters the lot.
If folk don't want to pay: keep off the roads.
It seems that the fact that Boffle lies all the time is 'priced in' to the electorate. We all know he does, and if we care we don't vote for him but most people just don't care, so he gets lots of votes and media storms about his, er, factual inaccuracies have no impact whatsoever
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”