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by OldRidgeback
Fri, Jan 24, 2020 09:58
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How best to make cycling safer? This article is worth a read...

https://ecf.com/news-and-events/news/road-safety-and-road-user-behaviour...

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mdavidford | 4 years ago
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That 'sports cyclist' really needs to do their gilet up or take it off.

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hawkinspeter | 4 years ago
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Thanks for posting that.

Since the site redesign, I'm having issues with some links that go through skimresources.com, though I'm running AdBlock Plus and NoScript on a Firefox on Linux install, so I'm not the most typical user. Your link doesn't work for me whether or not I allow scripts on skimresources, so I'm going to try posting a working link here to see if it works in my browser:

https://ecf.com/news-and-events/news/road-safety-and-road-user-behaviour-how-can-we-make-cycling-safer

Edit: my link doesn't work for me either.

Edit2: I tried it on windows VM running chrome and that has exactly the same issue with go.skimresources.com reporting ERR_TUNNEL_CONNECTION_FAILED. I think it's something to do with accessing the internet through a Squid proxy server.

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OldRidgeback replied to hawkinspeter | 4 years ago
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Curious - your link and my link both worked for me.

Here's the first para:

The starting point of any behavioural intervention regarding cycling should be to put aside the myth that cyclists are somehow one simple homogeneous group. People who cycle do so for a wide variety of motivations and with a wide variety of different behaviours/preferences and are far from identical in their needs!. The Dutch, for example, have categorized the users of bicycles into 6 main groups, each one with different needs and behaviors.

 

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hawkinspeter replied to OldRidgeback | 4 years ago
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Thanks, though I was able to figure out the URL without the skimlink shenanigans, so I have read the article.

It looks to me as though road.cc uses skimlink/skimresources which acts as a kind of transparent proxy that presumably tracks users etc. At work, we've got some squid proxy servers that we use to give internet access to servers and a few privileged users, but the skimresources link is confusing the issue and redirecting to an invalid resource (I think it redirects to the local machine which goes to the squid proxy server rather than my browser).

I get the same issue if I try to click on the Daily Deals adverts (one of the few ads that gets through to my screen), so it's not your (or my) link that's causing the issue. Meanwhile, if I try it on a direct internet link (e.g. my phone) then the skimresources redirect works fine.

Edit: I just figured out why my Squid proxies weren't working properly. I'd previously set up a DNS blacklist of tracking domains, so anything on the list gets referred to 0.0.0.0.

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