'Is that safe?'

[Night Train]

No one worries about my cycling in our house, I've always done it so it is accepted. I think I had one, "you have to be careful on these roads, people tear along them" that was when I lived in the Highlands cycling on some of the safest roads I'd ever been on.

I would have thought it would be far more dangerous cycling in the house then outside.

 

[TheDoctor]

I would have thought it would be far more dangerous cycling in the house then outside.

Best to stick to one or the other IMHO. It's tricky going through the door.

 

[Crackle]

I would have thought it would be far more dangerous cycling in the house then outside.

Doh!

 

[Davidc]

I like that. Do you mind if I use it? Without the Norfolk bit, of course, or people will just dismiss me as insane. And I'll have to work on the withering look.

Yes - but you're in Wales and that's full of dragons. I can see them when I look across the Bristol Channel!

With the general view that there are thousands of attacks on women every day, and that several hundred cyclists are klled every day (thankyou tabloids for both) I think you're up against it and can only respond with a bit of reality.

You'll never solve the mother worry bit - I still get that!

 

[Arch]

Perfectly sensible question.

Thro' Otley? Of course it's dangerous. The parapet of the bridge over the river Wharfe is far too low. If you were forced to swerve out of the way of an errant driver you might go over it and drown.

You could always make sure your helmet/body armour has a water sensing airbag fitted.

It's ok, I'm a fairly strong swimmer, which is one up on my Mum, who never learned to swim at all....

The irony is, of course, that if she rings the flat, and I'm not in, she rings my mobile and says "oh, are you out?". If I ring her house and don't get an answer, I can't ring her mobile because she never turns the damn thing on except to make a call! So her worries can always be assuaged, whereas mine can't.

 

[Crackle]

See, now we're all worried about you Arch. I think you should post on here when you're going out, how long you'll be, who we can contact and post again when you get back, so we know.

 

[marinyork]

I thought ICE would mean In Cake Emergency for cyclists. Who you could ring when all the cafes have closed on a sunday afternoon.

 

[Arch]

I thought ICE would mean In Cake Emergency for cyclists. Who you could ring when all the cafes have closed on a sunday afternoon.

We should SO set that up! Someone in every locality who will have cake or biscuits and tea in stock....

OK, Crackle, I'm at the office. I'll be riding home sometime before 7 I think, to go out with some friends. A slight drawback is that in order to log on and let everyone know I'm home, I'd have to go out to campus.... And then when I got home from there, I'd have to go out again to log on...

(although I hope to have internet at home set up very soon)

 

[vernon]

store your emergency contact number on your mobile under ICE - it's what the emergency services will be looking for

They's have difficulty getting past my password to get to an ICE number on my phone. I wonder what proportion of phones are PIN protected making ICE redundant.