Cyclist fined for crash after doing U-turn at the top of Winnats Pass

Valbrona wrote:

don simon wrote:

Valbrona wrote:

Atkinson is said to have screamed “my brakes have gone” shortly before hitting a drystone wall, but police found 'no significant issues'.

Muslim man shouting "Allahu akbar" drives vehicle through crowded pedestrian area in Melbourne, but police say incident 'was not terrorism-related'.

Can't keep your racism down, can you? Why don't you fuck off?

It doesn't surprise me that someone who can't string a couple of sentences together without using either the f-word or c-word thinks that Islam is a race.

Have you never met an African or an Oriental or a European Muslim?

Take your hateful accusations of racism somewhere else, you nasty piece of work.

Valbrona, you have my sincerest apologies for calling you a racist. You crack on shoehorning your fear and hatred into posts. It marks you out as exactly the same as the terrorists that you should be identifying as the bad uns, you don't have the brains to recognise that Muslims are not the bad guys, it's terrorists and they come in all sorts of colours, nationalities, religions and races. By trying to turn everything into Muslim bashing makes you no better than the terrorists, indescriminate in you hatred towards everyone of a certain religion.

I image you hate the Welsh for  Meibion Glyndwr, the Irish for the IRA, or is it the UDA, the Spanish for ETA, Germans for Baader Meinhof, etc, etc.

You stop posting you're hatred and I'll stop calling you out for being a racist. How does that sound? I don't believe in banning you as not only do we have free speech, but people need to see you for what you are.

Merry Christmas.

Eid milad saeid
 

Nadolig Llawen

Felices Fiestas

don simon wrote:

Valbrona wrote:

Atkinson is said to have screamed “my brakes have gone” shortly before hitting a drystone wall, but police found 'no significant issues'.

Muslim man shouting "Allahu akbar" drives vehicle through crowded pedestrian area in Melbourne but police say incident 'was not terrorism-related'.

Can't keep your racism down, can you? Why don't you fuck off?

You do realise Islam isn't a race?

mwaterfield wrote:

don simon wrote:

Valbrona wrote:

Atkinson is said to have screamed “my brakes have gone” shortly before hitting a drystone wall, but police found 'no significant issues'.

Muslim man shouting "Allahu akbar" drives vehicle through crowded pedestrian area in Melbourne but police say incident 'was not terrorism-related'.

Can't keep your racism down, can you? Why don't you fuck off?

You do realise Islam isn't a race?

You do realise that "black" isn't a race? You do realise that "white" isn't a race?

Racism can be a discrimination on others based on culture as well as outward appearance, see link:

https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/8591660

Hate is hate, whatever you call it.

SteppenHerring wrote:

Presumably this will mean that London Taxis who do sudden u-turns and cause cyclists to hit them will also be punished.

 

Yeah, kidding.

Black cabs are a law into themselves.

Only by hitting them in the pocket e.g. Uber do they change.

Thelma Viaduct wrote:

I sold my bike with Ultegra calliper brakes as they were terrible in the wet on fast descents. Hydraulic disc brakes are like night and day in comparison, excellent braking in all conditions. I suspect callipers tested in the dry confines of the police station may well appear ok, put them on a wet descent and the story will be much different.

Disc brakes are amazing aren’t they! I spent 30 odd years of road cycling hurtling off cliffs and having head on collisions will all manner of walls/vehicles/livestock. I was never out of A&E. They even named a ward after me. Thankfully now that I’ve got a bike with discs I’ve given the NHS a well needed break (excuse the pun). Best cycling innovation ever!

God bless disc brakes and all who modulate with them!

alan loves froome wrote:

Disc brakes are amazing aren’t they! I spent 30 odd years of road cycling hurtling off cliffs and having head on collisions will all manner of walls/vehicles/livestock. I was never out of A&E. They even named a ward after me. Thankfully now that I’ve got a bike with discs I’ve given the NHS a well needed break (excuse the pun). Best cycling innovation ever!

 

God bless disc brakes and who modulate with them!

Post of the week  !

Thelma Viaduct wrote:

I sold my bike with Ultegra calliper brakes as they were terrible in the wet on fast descents. Hydraulic disc brakes are like night and day in comparison, excellent braking in all conditions. I suspect callipers tested in the dry confines of the police station may well appear ok, put them on a wet descent and the story will be much different.

Sounds like a set-up/pads issue - I've never had any problem with my 105/Ultegra callipers, including down some pretty big descents in the wet in the Alps.

I generally consider you will run out of grip on the road long before you run out of brakes.

And that comes after many, many years of hydraulic disc brakes on my mountain bike.

Thelma Viaduct wrote:

I sold my bike with Ultegra calliper brakes as they were terrible in the wet on fast descents. Hydraulic disc brakes are like night and day in comparison, excellent braking in all conditions. I suspect callipers tested in the dry confines of the police station may well appear ok, put them on a wet descent and the story will be much different.

Perhaps you should read the article which you are commenting under. This has nothing to do with brakes and the case of the lady who died a few years back was merely commented on because of the location.

DrG82 wrote:

Thelma Viaduct wrote:

I sold my bike with Ultegra calliper brakes as they were terrible in the wet on fast descents. Hydraulic disc brakes are like night and day in comparison, excellent braking in all conditions. I suspect callipers tested in the dry confines of the police station may well appear ok, put them on a wet descent and the story will be much different.

 

Perhaps you should read the article which you are commenting under. This has nothing to do with brakes and the case of the lady who died a few years back was merely commented on because of the location.

No, perhaps you should better understand which person/incident I am referring to.

Thelma Viaduct wrote:

DrG82 wrote:

Thelma Viaduct wrote:

I sold my bike with Ultegra calliper brakes as they were terrible in the wet on fast descents. Hydraulic disc brakes are like night and day in comparison, excellent braking in all conditions. I suspect callipers tested in the dry confines of the police station may well appear ok, put them on a wet descent and the story will be much different.

 

Perhaps you should read the article which you are commenting under. This has nothing to do with brakes and the case of the lady who died a few years back was merely commented on because of the location.

No, perhaps you should better understand which person/incident I am referring to.

Read the headline.

"Cyclist fined for crash after doing U-turn at the top of Winnats Pass"

What does it say?

Nope, still nothing about brakes.

If you want to comment about the lady who died when her brakes may or may not have failed then do so under the article

http://road.cc/content/news/232524-cyclist-screamed-%E2%80%9Cmy-brakes-h...

But you'll probably want to read all the comments already made because pretty much every possible scenario has already been hammered out and it's all pretty old having people blathering on about caliper brakes being lethal and disc brakes being the only solution, despite the fact that in some of the articles related to the story the bike in question did have disc brakes. Making your comment about caliper brakes being the cause of this lady's unfortunate accident totally redundant

Thelma Viaduct wrote:

I sold my bike with Ultegra calliper brakes as they were terrible in the wet on fast descents. Hydraulic disc brakes are like night and day in comparison, excellent braking in all conditions. I suspect callipers tested in the dry confines of the police station may well appear ok, put them on a wet descent and the story will be much different.

Who said it was wet ?

Who said she was on calipers ?

Personally I've been using calipers for 35 years plus now and haven't had any issues. I'm in no rush to change to discs. Yours must have been a set up problem ?

Yorkshire wallet wrote:

Compulsory hi-viz for motorcyclists!

Yes, and they should have their own dedicated motorcycle lanes and be forced to use them.