"Knocks are not to be trifled with": Doctor warns cyclists of concussion danger after Stefan Küng horror crash; How much could you save by switching from car to bike?; A good ketchup-related day for MvdP; Amusing 20mph chat + more on the live blog

Born_peddling wrote:

Re: Amusing 20mph claims — driving instructor edition; Needs more fuel because of the 20 mph limit? Clearly doesn't how physics or the internal combustion engine actually works 😂, wonder if there's a tiny hamster powering this guys brain running on its tiny wheel? 🤔🤣

Wot brain? There is only a string in 'is back which is pulled to obtain the latest pre-recorded daft-phrase sent 'round to all Toryspivs by their Minister for Distributing Stupid Soundbites; or by the other minister in charge of doing as much damage to everything as possible 'cos they can. (The Bullingdon old boys klub).

Cugel wrote:

Wot brain? There is only a string in 'is back which is pulled to obtain the latest pre-recorded daft-phrase sent 'round to all Toryspivs by their Minister for Distributing Stupid Soundbites;

Utter piffle as usual. Action Man's pants don't come off at all, whereas it was a good job Boris struggled to keep his on as they were frequently on fire.

chrisonatrike wrote:

Cugel wrote:

Wot brain? There is only a string in 'is back which is pulled to obtain the latest pre-recorded daft-phrase sent 'round to all Toryspivs by their Minister for Distributing Stupid Soundbites;

Utter piffle as usual. Action Man's pants don't come off at all, whereas it was a good job Boris struggled to keep his on as they were frequently on fire.

not even Commando Action Man? 

I recall there was the heating engineer we had on Drivers and their Problems  who wouldn't be able to get to so many of his clients (it being 20 mph across all of Wales, except the M4 which is basically a long thin extension of England).

Not sure how any of these whinge stories work if the true loss is 2.9 mph? Another "which is it, drivers?" for me. 

Anyone know the number of driving licence holders in Wales? Has THAT petition exceeded it yet?

chrisonatrike wrote:

Cugel wrote:

Wot brain? There is only a string in 'is back which is pulled to obtain the latest pre-recorded daft-phrase sent 'round to all Toryspivs by their Minister for Distributing Stupid Soundbites;

Utter piffle as usual. Action Man's pants don't come off at all, whereas it was a good job Boris struggled to keep his on as they were frequently on fire.

not even Commando Action Man?

David9694 wrote:

not even Commando Action Man?

Someone pulled your string again?

It's good enough for a second outing though! Perhaps it could be dressed up as a driver this time?

This darn choppy website is getting beyond a joke - lots of duplicate posts from when people get an error message and try again.

More cowbell needed somewhere. 

NotNigel wrote:

Not sure what the relevance is on how he arrived at court...?

As with that Adolf, who was a vegetarian, we can learn that anyone who rides a bike and fails to eat meat every day is certainly a criminal of the worst kind.

This means that, even if the cyclist eats some Kenfuky fried tortured-bird for their lunch, or perhaps a MacFud chemical-filled cow for their tea, they will still be guilty of summick, so all car-driving righteous vigilantes can run them 'over cos they deserve it, innit.

If a cyclist is seen eating tofu and buying The Guardian, they should be run over slowly (perhaps at 20mph) and multiple times, obviously, whilst being shown a picture of Suella (Chief Persecutor) smirking.

Good old-fashioned Bwitish Juztis, that.

Cugel wrote:

As with that Adolf, who was a vegetarian, we can learn that anyone who rides a bike and fails to eat meat every day is certainly a criminal of the worst kind.

This means that, even if the cyclist eats some Kenfuky fried tortured-bird for their lunch, or perhaps a MacFud chemical-filled cow for their tea, they will still be guilty of summick, so all car-driving righteous vigilantes can run them 'over cos they deserve it, innit.

If a cyclist is seen eating tofu and buying The Guardian, they should be run over slowly (perhaps at 20mph) and multiple times, obviously, whilst being shown a picture of Suella (Chief Persecutor) smirking.

Good old-fashioned Bwitish Juztis, that.

Hold on a minute, Adolf really hated cycling after his bicycle messenger stint in The Great War.

hawkinspeter wrote:

Cugel wrote:

As with that Adolf, who was a vegetarian, we can learn that anyone who rides a bike and fails to eat meat every day is certainly a criminal of the worst kind.

This means that, even if the cyclist eats some Kenfuky fried tortured-bird for their lunch, or perhaps a MacFud chemical-filled cow for their tea, they will still be guilty of summick, so all car-driving righteous vigilantes can run them 'over cos they deserve it, innit.

If a cyclist is seen eating tofu and buying The Guardian, they should be run over slowly (perhaps at 20mph) and multiple times, obviously, whilst being shown a picture of Suella (Chief Persecutor) smirking.

Good old-fashioned Bwitish Juztis, that.

Hold on a minute, Adolf really hated cycling after his bicycle messenger stint in The Great War.

Somewhere there will be an "historian" who will discover evidence (of a kind) that proves Adolf really liked his bike and was just annoyed that a tommy scratched it with a badly-aimed shot. The Brooks saddle may also have been a secret Bwitish weapon.

Anyroadup, all that sauerkraut without any rost bif certainly seems to have had an effect when conjoined with his probable saddle boils.

What does Cruella eat and not eat? (I suspect, myself, that she is like that infamous Bishop of Bath & Wells). She seems to have criminal tendencies so must ride a bike, obviously (but perhaps in secret). 

Looking at the whole report on HullLive there is some relevance to the fact that he arrived by bike each day rather than on public transport in that part of the defence's claim for leniency was that since being released from prison for previous offences he had isolated himself from society to stay away from temptation, so one assumes that was why it was mentioned. Admittedly it does look very odd in isolation!

Looking at the whole report on HullLive there is some relevance to the fact that he arrived by bike each day rather than on public transport in that part of the defence's claim for leniency was that since being released from prison for previous offences he had isolated himself from society to stay away from temptation, so one assumes that was why it was mentioned. Admittedly it does look very odd in isolation!

Thanks for that Rendel, that'll teach me not to read the full article and jumping to assumptions that there is some agenda behind the captioning.

I think our local farmers have had their phones surgically attached to their ears, I can't remember when I last saw one not on the phone while driving a tractor!

gazza_d wrote:

... I really need something that tots up strava commuting trips for cost as well as carbon savings 

If you're using Strava, have you looked at or tried Veloviewer? It provides many, many ways of analysing your existing Strava data, including the ability to export activities based on any filter you can think of, including the commute flag, for further use elsewhere. It would be trivial to produce a spreadsheet on which you could import the raw activity data onto one tab, and do a simple calculation on another. Just use the HMRC approved figure of 45p per mile (a notional amount which at some point represented the cost of driving including depreciation, fuel, insurance, tax, wear & tear, servicing, although it's probably way more than that now), and you'll see the figures mount up.

I've just done this myself (using 45p) and it's surprising.

I wouldn't get too excited by the 45p/mile number - you're unlikely to see that sort of cash returned to your pocket, unless you are actually cancelling a new car purchase and cycling instead.

Sriracha wrote:

I wouldn't get too excited by the 45p/mile number - you're unlikely to see that sort of cash returned to your pocket, unless you are actually cancelling a new car purchase and cycling instead.

I'm not getting excited by it at all, I was just responding to gazza_d's query regarding converting Strava commute activities into a monetary value rather than just CO2. The mileage cost could just be tweaked to suit, the main point was just to export data via Veloviewer and proceed from there. 

For me personally, I don't really care so much about saving ~£3 per trip, my main motivations for riding to the office were the physical activity, predictable journey times and setting an example as part of a wider company policy to encourage more active travel. 

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Don't forget to add the economic and social costs to both you and society of you reducing health implications of inactivity (or the costs of going to the gym if that is what it has replaced) and air pollution (to which car occupants appear to be more exposed).

Housekeeping!

But don't forget to take off the costs of cycling-related cake