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I'd be tempted to experiment with some LED strips for the rear which can be run off a power bank.

Active lighting is always better than reflectives.

If the chair has pneumatic tyres, I would look into getting some with reflective sidewalls.

Sir Harmer is not intereated in helping.

The Welsh 20mph default reduced casualties by 25% and insurance costs by £90m. If done in England expect reductions of 15,000 casualties pa and insurance by £2bn pa. Implementation cost would be approx £0.5bn. For comparison, 1st yr depreciation on new cars registered in England in 2024 was £78bn

I anyone wants to steal a bike from a train station, they just need to wait two hours after said bike was parked and then they can do it risk free.

Thats okay because cycle theft doesn't "harm".

Israel Has Intercepted the Gaza Aid Flotilla. What’s Happened So Far? | Novara Media As the sun rose in Gaza, the Global Sumud Flotilla was still being intercepted, 12 hours after it was first heard Israeli boats were approaching. Charlotte England reports.

Big thanks to Novara for Live Streaming the Gaza flotilla, done with drama, dignity and professionalism
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Thank you all the same.

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Basically......
#WhiteWestComplicity
#Hypocrisy

Perversion of public discourse.

Sick of this ugly charade.

Forked tongue.

Beware the snake.

Photo of a dog lying on a beige carpet, struggling to keep his eyes open

Every morning is an adventure. Followed by a nap.

Those that can be bought have displaced those that couldn't.

The most dangerous people on the world are those who think they know everything.

Good subject matter experts don't stop asking 'what if' or 'why'.

Dead cyclists to poor humour.

Well, you highlight beautifully the problem with amateur radio.

Well done.

In the meantime, thanks again for your display of ignorance.

As for patronising, how about not telling people to "think" when they clearly already do.

Having being driven into twice, seriously injured on one of those occasions, it is extremely hard not to "think".

What evidence? All the evidence you have simply amounts to some time triallists are killed on dual carriageways.

All that tells us is that drivers are dangerous.

It doesn't tell us anything about the actual risk and whether or not it is safer or more dangerous than riding on any other type of road

Oh and btw, riding a bike lots of miles does not make your opinion any more valid than mine. Try living in a new town with abysmal cycling infrastructure and using a bike as a main mode of transport.

I bet your elitism is a delight on air. I certainly won't be acknowledging any of your CQ calls.

There is no minimum speed on dual carriageways, to have a default maximum for cars of 70 mph is insane.

Of the 250 cyclists killed every year, very few are killed on dual carriageways.

Which I have regularly ridden, and encountered other cyclists using.

If you support a ban, you are depriving people of their freedom when it is the danger that should be addressed.

Patronising.

Do you know how many time triallers are killed away from dual carriageways? Are you accounting for exposure?

You do know more cyclists die on country lanes?

You are making the wrong argument.

... social settings because of a minority of men.

I can give you a long list of groups and things I have been involved with and left because of the stress and aggravation caused.

Being friendly is not enough to make friends.

I kind of agree with you in principal, but in practice, thanks largely to patriarchic attitudes, it does not work like that.

Women eye us with suspicion, thanks to a small minority of men. If you aren't an alpha male willing to partake in pissing contests, you find yourself quickly isolated in ...

What is your actual point here?

We know drivers are dangerous. We know drivers kill cyclists, pedestrians, even pedestrians on the footway, children on sports pitches and people sitting on their sofas watching TV.

Is this some sort of sick victim blaming?

Spot on.

Dual carriageways provide good sight lines.

They provide space for drivers to safely overtake, without crossing into oncoming traffic.

I fully understand why they are used for TTs.

I like the colourway.

Not my cup of tea though.

Exactly what I was thinking.

Thank you for expressing it so eloquently.

How long is it until people are subject to stop and search because they have brown skin and then arrested because they left their ID at home?

Whilst the filthy rich go on exploiting us and lobbying/exerting undue influence over Parliament, all whilst avoiding/evading tax?

Rolling this out whilst holding the door open for Reform UK is plain irresponsible.

It is straight out of Tony Blair/Mandelsons playbook.