The male syndrome?
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Frood42
I know where my towel is
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Yes, there have been some interesting threads (mainly on cycles for less able people, that just happened to be the topic at the time), where I saw videos of three and four wheel bikes.
The three wheeled hand pedal bike I saw during London FreeRide was quite fascinating (from a technical view point) to see.
Oh, and don't get me started on the trailer thread where in Australia they were all shocked a woman had her child in a bike trailer on the road.
They seemed a bit narrow minded in their views, in that they had a view that she was putting the childs life in danger by towing them in a bike trailer rather than having them in a car...
Misusawa
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- North Shields
You should see some of the inventive and sometimes home made child carrying devices that Dutch cyclists use!
Frood42
I know where my towel is
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- Magrathea, Horsehead Nebula
I have seen some of those bikes with the big wooden basket on the front, where you can fit two children, seen some around London, I thought they were great!
Gravity Aided
Legendary Member
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- Land of Lincoln
Looks like a CETMA bike to me. Pricey, almost $3000.00 US. I think they call that sort of bicycle a Bakfiets or Bikefiets.
Misusawa
Senior Member
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- North Shields
I have seen some of those bikes with the big wooden basket on the front, where you can fit two children, seen some around London, I thought they were great!
That looks like one of the many designs. I'm surprised you have seen some in London, I would have thought the H&S people would have had a heart attack if one turned up with kids in!
gavroche
Getting old but not past it
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- North Wales
Yes there is. You are supposed to signal your way OUT of a roundabout, so that other people know where you intend to leave the roundabout.
DiddlyDodds
Random Resident
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- Littleborough
There is nothing worse than a smoker who has given up , preaching their new found experience to an audience that has known this for ever.
As smoking is now as big a sin as murder its time for cycle converts, to take that epiphany experience, and preach to the world what the world already knows.
I have a white car and to any car hater, it has a footprint the size of a small moon, when in reality modern cars do less damage than McDonalds cows.
As smoking is now as big a sin as murder its time for cycle converts, to take that epiphany experience, and preach to the world what the world already knows.
I have a white car and to any car hater, it has a footprint the size of a small moon, when in reality modern cars do less damage than McDonalds cows.
oldroadman
Veteran
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Simple fact. we are all human and make mistakes. There are alos some poor drivers, possibly arrogant. There are probably, in the same proportion, poor and/or arrogant bike riders as well. A trip to London will reveal all. As driver of a German car (hate mail to xxxxxxx!), I work to the advanced standard to which I have been trained, signalling when it will be useful to other road users (including pedestrians). Explained to me thus: "Signalling is like a conversation between you and the person(s) you are informing of your intentions, if there is no-one to inform then you should not inform yoursewlf, just get on with it. The cavat is, that observation must be excellent with a decent standard of driving/cycling."
Not hard.
Not hard.
Frood42
I know where my towel is
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- Magrathea, Horsehead Nebula
H&S pffftttt
Saw a few at the FreeRide London weekend.
Apart from that only seen a couple on London streets, they seem to be a rare sight, which is a shame.
