Best way to travel 5 miles to a train station?

Mmm, yes. Stick your hand right in front of a microwave transmitter.

I'm not sure I'm dead keen on doing this myself. But then again, my
current plan is to start wearing a sheet of tinfoil under the front of
my gilet...




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Maybe. I only do approx 10K/yr combined car and m/c. But a good proportion
of that is town driving through rush hour so you'd think I'd have a
reasonable chance of seeing them. Maybe I'm just not paying enough
attention.

 

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You'll get another girl friend don't worry. Apparently, there are some
very attractive sheep around this year. Or so I am told.

 

I know - but the thread here has shown that for many (and I did know
this isn't you Andrew - I actually spent some time deciding if it was
fair to respond to you like this) it's not a silly stereotype.


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The same way they can make road cars for £5000 or for £300,000.

Adding lightness, superb engineering and custom componentry.


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True. I'm definitely going to start a jihad against dog-walkers.

 

And eventually, if we spend enough, we could have a system that's as
poor value for money as the Americans have.


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I'll tell you who _really_ gets my goat ... the Queen. Acts like she owns
the fucking road, she does!


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It's the principal of the thing! Function should come before form in a car
but if you can make something aesthetically pleasing, you might as well.
It's no use talking to you lot, you're just a bunch of Philistines

 

No, then it is a thing of beauty and, combined with a rider, the most
efficient form of transport available.

In town it is often the fastest and most effective form of transport as
well.

T

 

Depends Obviously if the object's large enough to work, it might
also be large enough to hit the detector/light, with consequences ;-)

It being out of reach could be a problem though, right enough. You
definitely need to be within a couple of feet of them to make hte
hand-waving work.

(and just to reinforce it, any waving at the detector has to be toward
and away from it, NOT waving side to side at it, as you would if you
were astride a bike and waving both arms up and over your head from your
sides)

 

I'll have to look closer but AFAIK the ones I use have detector loops
buried in the ground and not detectors on the lights. ICWBW. If you
phone them up they will sometimes come out and readjust the sensitivity
but there are enough lights where I've sat through several cycles of the
other directions before giving up and I can't spend all my time on the
phone reporting them

Tony

 

How dare you say we don't do humour ;-)

Tony

 

Where do I sign up?

d.

 

Would motorists consider getting out and walking up to every traffic
light and waving in the hope it would notice them? I don't think so.
So why should other road users have to? If it doesn't detect me making
a normal approach on a cycle, its broken

Tony

 

You must be driving your car at the time then. It's well known that
cyclists are invisible to car drivers.

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Unless the cyclists are without lights after dark. Then car drivers see
loads of 'em.

 

Gonzalez () gurgled happily, sounding
much like they were saying :

Very nice. Now answer the question. Would you drive across a red light in
the circumstances you are happy to cycle across one?

 

Chances are that it's pointing in the wrong direction, or you're cycling
too slowly, or yes, it's broken. I agree, they *should* detect cyclists
as well as cars, I was just pointing out there is something to try and
trigger then rather than going through on red!!!

And FWIW, I've had to jump out the car and wave to trigger a set, so
yes, motorists do that sometimes too. Though you can never be sure if
they were going to change at that moment anyway. And some of them are
set up wrong too, and only on a timer, and one that's far too long. But
that's down to the guys who installed them. If they're not working
right, talk to the LA about them. If someone from the LA visits and
they've not been set up right, knuckles can be rapped quite hard to get
it put right - but not if the compaint is never made.

 

Permanent lights have the induction loops, yes. Temporary traffic
lights don't, they have the units on the top of the lights instead
(though sometimes lower down these days).