Lest we forget
08-26-02 | 07:09 PM
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It's in my blood
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Lest we forget
https://bikexprt.com/massfacil/cambri...one/laird1.htm
Bike lanes are not designed with the same safety as car lanes. To treat a bike lane as you would a car lane is a miscalculation.
Bike lanes are not designed with the same safety as car lanes. To treat a bike lane as you would a car lane is a miscalculation.
08-27-02 | 01:58 AM
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From: North Queensferry Scotland and London (and France)
Bikes: Custom (Colin Laing) 531c fast tourer/audax, 1964 Flying Scot Continental, 1995 Cinelli Supercorsa, Holdsworth Mistral single speed, Dahon Speed 6 (folder), Micmo Sirocco and a few more
Interesting and well thought out.
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1985 Sandy Gilchrist-Colin Laing built 531c Audax/fast tourer.
1964 Flying Scot Continental (531)
1995 Cinelli Supercorsa (Columbus SLX)
1980s Holdsworth Mistral fixed (531)
2005 Dahon Speed 6 (folder)
(YES I LIKE STEEL)
2008 Viking Saratoga tandem
2008 Micmo Sirocco Hybrid (aluminium!)
2012 BTwin Rockrider 8.1
plus je vois les hommes, plus j'admire les chiens
1985 Sandy Gilchrist-Colin Laing built 531c Audax/fast tourer.
1964 Flying Scot Continental (531)
1995 Cinelli Supercorsa (Columbus SLX)
1980s Holdsworth Mistral fixed (531)
2005 Dahon Speed 6 (folder)
(YES I LIKE STEEL)
2008 Viking Saratoga tandem
2008 Micmo Sirocco Hybrid (aluminium!)
2012 BTwin Rockrider 8.1
08-27-02 | 03:00 AM
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From: Great North Woods
Bikes: Vittorio, Centaur triple; Casati Laser Piu, Chorus Triple.
It can happen to anyone.
Tyler Hamilton's season is over because the same thing happened to him on Sunday while practicing for the Grand Prix Eddie Merckx. Fortunately he only suffered a broken collarbone and severely lacerated face.
Cheers...Gary
Tyler Hamilton's season is over because the same thing happened to him on Sunday while practicing for the Grand Prix Eddie Merckx. Fortunately he only suffered a broken collarbone and severely lacerated face.
Cheers...Gary
08-27-02 | 08:46 AM
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Originally posted by poululla
This article brings home an important fact, and that is that not everybody out there knows how to ride a bike correctly i.e. safely. It seems that a little common sense could have saved her life....
This article brings home an important fact, and that is that not everybody out there knows how to ride a bike correctly i.e. safely. It seems that a little common sense could have saved her life....
"Ms. Laird could have understood that the relative risk of riding in the "door zone" from "dooring" collisions and other crashes is many times higher than the risk of being struck by overtaking vehicles. She might then have ridden at the very left edge of the marked bike lane, or outside the lane."
Yes, this quote is among others, and is taken out of context. However, if Ms. Laird would have been riding @ the very left edge of the marked bike lane, moving autos would have been the issue.
Yup, the bike lane configuration sux - but the fault is that of the SUV driver who didn't look before opening up his/her door. That's the obvious bottom line for this guy.
08-27-02 | 12:33 PM
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I hope that you'll don't mind if I keep my beatup old bike and carcass is the dead-center of the big road and just fight it out with the Oldsmobiles and Freightliners. It looks a he!! of a lot safer than what happened to that woman.
Terry
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