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| Syntax Error:
--- Quote from: AndyC_772 on May 16, 2020, 09:45:00 pm ---Lockdown has certainly prompted a boom in bike sales --- End quote --- Just what our essential HGV drivers need, lycra clad families wondering all over the road - as they livestream on Zoom. It's bad enough for our HGV drivers having to remember to use hand sanitiser once a day, but avoiding a MAMIL who last rode a bike 30 years ago, is taking social distancing too far! I'm writing to Boris. Hang on, that MAMIL is Boris! |
| james_s:
--- Quote from: Syntax Error on May 17, 2020, 12:10:17 am ---If you think that's bad, post-Covid Japanese anime (animation) movies will now be a static image of a character just blinking, for 20 minutes. Which isn't any different to pre-Covid come to think of it. We may have to get used to NOT binge watching box sets, just to make the episodes last to Christmas. Sorry Netflix. --- End quote --- There's ~60 years of TV shows out there in the world, most of which any one of us have likely never seen before. I still haven't seen any shows made within about the last 3-4 years. |
| Zero999:
--- Quote from: Syntax Error on May 17, 2020, 12:24:32 am --- --- Quote from: AndyC_772 on May 16, 2020, 09:45:00 pm ---Lockdown has certainly prompted a boom in bike sales --- End quote --- Just what our essential HGV drivers need, lycra clad families wondering all over the road - as they livestream on Zoom. It's bad enough for our HGV drivers having to remember to use hand sanitiser once a day, but avoiding a MAMIL who last rode a bike 30 years ago, is taking social distancing too far! I'm writing to Boris. Hang on, that MAMIL is Boris! --- End quote --- Cycling isn't that dangerous, it's mixing bikes with motor vehicles which is the problem. The government have said there will be more cycle tracks and some roads closed to motor vehicles, so more people can cycle safely. I hope they stick to this and do it properly. One of the problems I've had is some cycle lanes are narrow strips along the side of the road and are often more dangerous to use, than cycling on the road. The trouble is the cycle lane is on the left hand side of the road, meaning cyclists will undertake slow moving traffic, for those in other counties we drive on the left here, causing accidents when motorists have to turn left and don't see the cyclist because they're in their blind spot. I just cycle along the middle of the road, when the traffic is slowly moving and nothing is coming the other direction, or the road is wide enough to safely do so. Cyclists should be separated from motor vehicles, as much as possible and ideally kept away from pedestrians: I've had a near miss with pedestrians on a cycle track because it's dark, windy and pouring with rain and they're dressed in black. I didn't hit them because I had the sense to have nice, bright lights. Some idiots cycle in the dark, with no lights, dressed in black. What's more silly is there's enough room to make the path wider and put a fence in the middle to separate the pedestrians and cyclists. |
| bd139:
@Zero999: thanks for the pointer to the Kona. That's a pretty nice bike for the money. May look in that direction :-+. @Syntax Error: Better a MAMIL than a Covid statistic :-DD Anyway on topic again for a minute. OpenReach are digging up the bloody road again today, on a Sunday. Third time this year now. There is nothing more anxiety-building at this point in time than an a couple of OR vans parked up the road when you're a home worker. For the non UK residents, they are the guys here who manage the "last mile" from the exchange to our houses. POTS, ADSL, Copper, fibre, the lot. They consist of a few thoroughly competent individuals and an army of morlocks. A few years back I had a line fault (noise) and the guy came out and buggered the entire line. Said he'd just go back to the van and be back in a minute and drove off. :palm: :palm: :palm: |
| EEVblog:
--- Quote from: AndyC_772 on May 16, 2020, 09:45:00 pm ---Talking about the impact of the virus on business - according to the BBC: "Lockdown has certainly prompted a boom in bike sales. --- End quote --- I went to several bikes shops the other weekend looking for a new bike for Sagan, lines were out onto the street and they were turning away all bike servicing customers. One store hired a new employee just to answer the phone full time, and she couldn't even keep up with the volume. One big chain store has suspended all inter-store deliveries and on-line orders, they just couldn't keep up. |
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