Mainstream Motorcycling

I'd always assumed from the way the lycra clad fools proceed in
defiance of any signing that the road signs, highway code etc were
optional.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Boots Blakeley

Indeed. Maybe we should cross-post this in the cycling froup and wind
the pedalphiles up again.

Nah... It's too easy.

--
Wicked Uncle Nigel - Manufacturer of the "Champion-105" range of rearsets

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Seems so, I've watched Brighton cyclists make their way through red
lights at busy junctions. Sheer luck that so far, that none I've seen,
have been splatted or caused an accident.

 

It crossed my mind to do a "TOG" but since I wasn't off on holiday I
didn't.

 

Perzactly

 

Dan White wrote:

[Advanced stop lines]

It's not always easy to get to them on a motorbike though. Generally
there is a left hand cycle lane to allow them to the front but this
narrows the other lanes making it harder to filter on a motorbike.

I saw some nutter filtering on a recumbant[1] bike this morning. This
was approaching the M5 roundabout at Almondsbury so not exactly a minor
junction. He followed me down between lanes 1 and 2. If anything had
changed lane at the wrong time he would have been flattened, orange
flag or not. Anyway I duly stopped at the stop line and he pulled up
right behind me breathing in all my lovely fumes.

And they say cycling is good for ones health.

[1] Or whatever those lay on your back things are called.

 

Aye, I've seen that loony. Cloth panniers over the front wheel, further
obstructing vision?

He was riding it like a **** when I saw him last week. I don't imagine it's
going to be too long before he's the filling in an HGV sandwich.

 

^^^^^^^^^^^

I like that

 

Maybe, I didn't notice. The thing just seems so vulnerable.

 

I've seen him too, and even I think he's a loony.

 

Well... never having met you, I did wonder...

 

It's one of these:

http://www.windcheetah.co.uk/

or something very similar. You can't see it from a car if it's alongside of
you, apart from the whip aerial with the yellow burgee. I keep watching for
him changing lanes under a lorry...

 

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember "platypus"

HOW fucking much?

I recall a group of us passing a recumbent cyclist and Tel (one of our
number) doing a recumbent cyclist imitation at the next fag stop by
lying on his back and pedalling furiously... funny as ****, it was.

--

Dave

GS 850 x2 / SE 6a
SbS#6 DIAABTCOD#16 APOSTLE#6 FUB#3
FUB KotL OSOS#12? UKRMMA#19 COSOC#10

 

That's cheap for a decent bicycle, let alone a recumbent.

Can't see the point myself though.

 

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the

Thing is; I just can't see where the money goes, in them... I suppose
the cycle parts are high quality, but there's a helluva markup going on
there.

--

Dave

GS 850 x2 / SE 6a
SbS#6 DIAABTCOD#16 APOSTLE#6 FUB#3
FUB KotL OSOS#12? UKRMMA#19 COSOC#10

 

It's like the conversation about Ohlins versus stock shocks. It's a
small manufacturer building specialist frames and a few other bits to
make a recumbent by hand. The labour in welding the frame together is
a fair bit.

 

They are huge fun to ride and very fast; I once spent a few hours trying
out a whole range of recumbents at the Herne Hill cycle track.

People generally either stop dead in their tracks from shock or else
laugh their heads off when you go riding by. My only real worry was
being so low down would mean motorists could fail to notice you -
particularly in London traffic.