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| bio | website | recumbent.co.uk |
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| location | Consett, United Kingdom | |
| age | 48 | |
| visits | member for | 2 years, 9 months |
| seen | yesterday | |
| stats | profile views | 26 |
Developer and manager of Developers
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Dec 2 |
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Android/EVO bike mount recommendations Might be worth changing it from "Evo" to "large smartphone" to make it more generic... |
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Dec 1 |
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Is there a All-In-One Bike that I can use for several types of riding? Agreed - one of the joys of bicycles is that you can have several, so I have both a recumbent and a Brompton because they solve radically different problems (and, erm, a few other bikes to other purposes...) |
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Dec 1 |
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Safety data: Which is safer, head/tail lights which blink or emit a steady beam? I hate flashing lights... but that's not data... |
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Nov 22 |
answered | Is pollution a problem in urban cycling? |
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Nov 21 |
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My wife has Cerebral Palsy (CP) so can’t balance on a normal bike, what are the options so she can go cycling with me? Correct spelling is recumbent (with an "e"). |
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Nov 18 |
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How to weight pedals? @Neil Fair point (-: |
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Nov 18 |
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Arguments for/against bike lanes? You are willfully missing two points - one: that I don't necessarily disagree with much of what you've said and two: that the problem is with other road users not with politicians and will exist even if the implementation of the facility is perfect (it may even be a greater problem in this case). |
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Nov 18 |
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How to weight pedals? I agree, it doesn't really answer the question, well not to you get to the point where it says "I am looking for a pragmatic solution above all" - most pragmatic of which, in my view, is "go buy pedals" |
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Nov 17 |
answered | How to weight pedals? |
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Nov 12 |
awarded | Good Answer |
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Nov 12 |
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Arguments for/against bike lanes? Sigh its nothing to do with politicians. There is a significant chunk of MOTORISTS that think that cycles do not belong on the road - in these motorists cycle lanes encourage and reinforce this belief. Yes, this is an education problem, no its not right but sadly it is a fact (not helped by poor behaviour of some cyclists in disregarding traffic regulations). |
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Nov 11 |
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Arguments for/against bike lanes? @neilfein - well I could, I suppose, but I'm afraid I'd mostly be repeating other people... but that doesn't make the opening statement right which is a shame because the rest is valuable (which is why I haven't downvoted it). |
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Nov 11 |
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Arguments for/against bike lanes? @Huygens - far too philosophical. Can a cycle lane (a well implemented, safe, sensible, useable cycle lane) be bad? Yes if it engenders in the motorist an opinion that cyclist should never be on the road and, sadly, in the UK it does in some. So emphatically yes cycle lanes can have cons. You're being far too clever and this is actually quite simple. |
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Nov 10 |
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Arguments for/against bike lanes? No, actually it isn't an overstatment - you state, "there are no cons" and I state one that exists in a great many places regardless of quality of implementation (I agree that its by no means universal, I know from experience that in Denmark and Holland the relationship between motorist and cyclist is much better so its not the case). Cycle lanes are good in theory and when done properly and when integrated into the traffic system as a whole and when the attitude of the motorist is sympathetic to the cyclist. When we get to "separate but equal" it works rather less well. |
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Nov 10 |
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Arguments for/against bike lanes? You're wrong - simply because bike lanes encourage in the motorist (as group and in at least in some countries) the belief that cycles do not belong on the road at all. |
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Nov 9 |
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Is it ever legal in the UK not to have two brakes on a bike? We're arguing semantics - but the problem I have is that the answer is misleading in that its only legal because the back wheel is (in effect) a brake. So the answer is still no. Doesn't really matter that its not a brake in the sense of something that has cables and levers and pads (a back pedal brake would also not be a "brake" if we take that definition). Yes, you explain why but I still disagree with the answer starting "Yes" when in fact the answer is No, but the definition of "brake" means that a fixie only needs one rim brake (or similar) |
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Nov 7 |
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Is it ever legal in the UK not to have two brakes on a bike? So the answer is, in fact, no - given that the fixie is acting as a brake? |
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Nov 6 |
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Why don’t fixed gear bikes have brakes? In the UK the requirement is two independent brakes - so you'll see that (legal) fixies have a front brake (the lack of freewheel providing braking via the rear) |
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Nov 5 |
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Really big panniers and other baggage Trailers are wonderful - you trade added width and of course drag for massively increased (and simplified) capacity. I've used (various) trailers for Children, touring, shopping and general haulage. There are some rather nice cargo bikes and trikes too though! |
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Nov 3 |
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Really big panniers and other baggage Made it a bit more readable! |
