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ktache wrote:

One less psychopathic BMW driver on the road.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-51065720

A proper ban when he finally gets out too.  Shame it couldn't be lifetime.

A shame also that he was still on the road to do this after 13 [courtroom vidiprinter: THIRTEEN] previous offences.

mdavidford wrote:

ktache wrote:

One less psychopathic BMW driver on the road.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-51065720

A proper ban when he finally gets out too.  Shame it couldn't be lifetime.

A shame also that he was still on the road to do this after 13 [courtroom vidiprinter: THIRTEEN] previous offences.

Sorry - my mistake - 13 convictions - 28 [TWENTY-EIGHT] offences. 

judda6610 wrote:

"It's true that 'road cyclist' is largely a more accurate description, unless you're a mountain biker who genuinely rides up and down mountains. As a regular Bristol and Bath railway path commuter, I am now a proud path biker..."

The French have a more apt description, VTT: Velo a tout terrain (All terrain bike). 

A stroke in MTB (mountain/trail bike) would also do, I reckon, unless you are being particular about what a trail is.

judda6610 wrote:

"It's true that 'road cyclist' is largely a more accurate description, unless you're a mountain biker who genuinely rides up and down mountains. As a regular Bristol and Bath railway path commuter, I am now a proud path biker..."

The French have a more apt description, VTT: Velo a tout terrain (All terrain bike). 

A stroke in MTB (mountain/trail bike) would also do, I reckon, unless you are being particular about what a trail is.

Cyclolotl wrote:

That Ineos kit, did they just copy and paste from CCC? 

Maybe, but it's just training ride kit, Trek Segafredo do similarly with their dayglo yellow training version of their normal road kit.Ineos announced last year their main team coloured kit wasnt changing for 2020 except for the addition of the new uci world tour logo

ktache wrote:

Perhaps these drivers that find roundabouts a bit too complicated might want to avoid them.  Perhaps, and maybe going a bit too far, get on a bike, I've never found a roundabout "too complicated, and of course better vision, no need for a blind spot warning on my arse, or find a different route that avoids them.

You can get poor infrastructure that does lead to increased risk and needs to be redesigned. Can't say I have ever found a roundabout too complicated. Even if you have roundabouts around a roundabout, you just treat each one as you come to it and ignore the rest.

Perhaps the driver was one of these people who can't lose face by going around a roundabout more than once due to missing the turn or being in the wrong lane and instead have to force their way into the lane they want.

hirsute wrote:

ktache wrote:

Perhaps these drivers that find roundabouts a bit too complicated might want to avoid them.  Perhaps, and maybe going a bit too far, get on a bike, I've never found a roundabout "too complicated, and of course better vision, no need for a blind spot warning on my arse, or find a different route that avoids them.

You can get poor infrastructure that does lead to increased risk and needs to be redesigned. Can't say I have ever found a roundabout too complicated. Even if you have roundabouts around a roundabout, you just treat each one as you come to it and ignore the rest.

Perhaps the driver was one of these people who can't lose face by going around a roundabout more than once due to missing the turn or being in the wrong lane and instead have to force their way into the lane they want.

I know the roundabout in question (https://www.google.fr/maps/@55.0229519,-7.3388255,229m/data=!3m1!1e3?hl=en) and it's an odd one TBH. It's not the number of exits, which isn't excessive at 5, It's more the shape/orientation - sort of elongated/egg shaped as can be seen in the satellite view in the link above. It's a busy roundabout, and when coming on to it from the main approaches (Buncrana Rd either direction in the link above) it seems to have a fairly gradual bend which gets then gets suddenly and appreciably sharper at the apexes to the east and west and can come as a surprise to the unwary. I've no idea why it's not just round - it's not like it the don't have the space (could even do so in the current space it occupies)

I've never had the pleasure of going round it on the bike, but it doesn't strike me as a pleasant piece of infrastructure to negotiate at busy times

dgmtc wrote:

Here's that missing part of the Belgian CX Championship course...

 

I like how they've got someboy in the water waving their arms  about just after the corner. Presumably their bike is now on the bottom of the canal? 

CygnusX1 wrote:

dgmtc wrote:

Here's that missing part of the Belgian CX Championship course...

 

I like how they've got someboy in the water waving their arms  about just after the corner. Presumably their bike is now on the bottom of the canal? 

So there's some bike riding. And some running. And now they've got to go swimming.
Kick your socks off and Sharpie some numbers on your arms, we've got a triathlon, people!