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Four sets of essential points for cyclists to remember
Richard Goodman wrote:
"Iain Jones" wrote in message 52.50... Each morning going to work I pass about 5 buses. £1.20 saved and five minutes faster. I love it! Perhaps the OP meant when you're drafting Oh, yes, I used to do that in my youth. It's quite exciting provided the driver doesn't know you're there. If he/she realises, you're toast when they hit the brakes. |
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Four sets of essential points for cyclists to remember
"Zog The Undeniable" wrote in message
news:40828838.0@entanet... Richard Goodman wrote: "Iain Jones" wrote in message 52.50... Each morning going to work I pass about 5 buses. £1.20 saved and five minutes faster. I love it! Perhaps the OP meant when you're drafting Oh, yes, I used to do that in my youth. It's quite exciting provided the driver doesn't know you're there. If he/she realises, you're toast when they hit the brakes. Well, one can never discount the possibility of an emergency stop I suppose, but I can't imagine any driver with passengers on board, some of whom will be standing, deliberately hitting the brakes very hard just for the specific purpose of causing problems to a drafting cyclist. Rich |
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Four sets of essential points for cyclists to remember
"Zog The Undeniable" wrote in message
news:40828838.0@entanet... Richard Goodman wrote: "Iain Jones" wrote in message 52.50... Each morning going to work I pass about 5 buses. £1.20 saved and five minutes faster. I love it! Perhaps the OP meant when you're drafting Oh, yes, I used to do that in my youth. It's quite exciting provided the driver doesn't know you're there. If he/she realises, you're toast when they hit the brakes. Well, one can never discount the possibility of an emergency stop I suppose, but I can't imagine any driver with passengers on board, some of whom will be standing, deliberately hitting the brakes very hard just for the specific purpose of causing problems to a drafting cyclist. Rich |
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Four sets of essential points for cyclists to remember
"Richard Goodman" wrote in
: "Iain Jones" wrote in message 52.50... Peter Fox wrote in : Joy of the Journey * Speed of commute [Website:] Buses and cycles go about the same speed in towns Each morning going to work I pass about 5 buses. £1.20 saved and five minutes faster. I love it! Perhaps the OP meant when you're drafting Overall I would beat a bus over the same route by a long way on my commute, but between stops there's often an opportunity to travel at the same speed . Rich I've tried drafting but on my route to work there's a bus stop every 100 yards which spoils my fun :-( |
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Four sets of essential points for cyclists to remember
"Richard Goodman" wrote in
: "Iain Jones" wrote in message 52.50... Peter Fox wrote in : Joy of the Journey * Speed of commute [Website:] Buses and cycles go about the same speed in towns Each morning going to work I pass about 5 buses. £1.20 saved and five minutes faster. I love it! Perhaps the OP meant when you're drafting Overall I would beat a bus over the same route by a long way on my commute, but between stops there's often an opportunity to travel at the same speed . Rich I've tried drafting but on my route to work there's a bus stop every 100 yards which spoils my fun :-( |
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Four sets of essential points for cyclists to remember
It blows the cobwebs away, so to speak, and if I've been stuck inside all
day, it's a sheer joy to get in the fresh air. Absolutely. I've had a cycling free weekend but I'm itching to get out and now the clouds are disappearing I might just go for an early-evening whizz round my 10-mile route. If I need an excuse, it's to try out my new specs which arrived from Wiggle on Thursday (complete with sweets - hurrah!) - Madison D'Arcs, cheap and cheerful but with interchangeable lenses, and after getting a fly in my eye at the top of a 17% descent last weekend I know I definitely need them. Specs are something I would now add to any list of essential cycling kit... along with bib shorts. I'm sure it makes me a more considerate driver, as when cycling, I'm a more vulnerable road user, and this helps me, when I'm in motorist mode, be more aware of the needs of non-motorised road users. I've found that too - I've always tried to give cyclists and horses a wide berth but now I find I'm quite happy to sit behind them pottering along at 5mph for a couple of minutes just to make sure that when I do pass them there is *plenty* of room and I'm not just squeezing by. It puts things in perspective - closer to the outside world than when behind the wheel of my car - I hear the birdsong when I'm cycling - I don't when driving :-) I'm gobsmacked to discover how much actual wildlife there really is out there. The most amazing thing I've seen to date is an albino squirrel, which I spotted in a hedgerow just a couple of weeks ago. I had to stop and rub my eyes to check I wasn't imagining it. d. |
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Four sets of essential points for cyclists to remember
It blows the cobwebs away, so to speak, and if I've been stuck inside all
day, it's a sheer joy to get in the fresh air. Absolutely. I've had a cycling free weekend but I'm itching to get out and now the clouds are disappearing I might just go for an early-evening whizz round my 10-mile route. If I need an excuse, it's to try out my new specs which arrived from Wiggle on Thursday (complete with sweets - hurrah!) - Madison D'Arcs, cheap and cheerful but with interchangeable lenses, and after getting a fly in my eye at the top of a 17% descent last weekend I know I definitely need them. Specs are something I would now add to any list of essential cycling kit... along with bib shorts. I'm sure it makes me a more considerate driver, as when cycling, I'm a more vulnerable road user, and this helps me, when I'm in motorist mode, be more aware of the needs of non-motorised road users. I've found that too - I've always tried to give cyclists and horses a wide berth but now I find I'm quite happy to sit behind them pottering along at 5mph for a couple of minutes just to make sure that when I do pass them there is *plenty* of room and I'm not just squeezing by. It puts things in perspective - closer to the outside world than when behind the wheel of my car - I hear the birdsong when I'm cycling - I don't when driving :-) I'm gobsmacked to discover how much actual wildlife there really is out there. The most amazing thing I've seen to date is an albino squirrel, which I spotted in a hedgerow just a couple of weeks ago. I had to stop and rub my eyes to check I wasn't imagining it. d. |
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Four sets of essential points for cyclists to remember
davek wrote:
I'm gobsmacked to discover how much actual wildlife there really is out there. The most amazing thing I've seen to date is an albino squirrel, which I spotted in a hedgerow just a couple of weeks ago. I had to stop and rub my eyes to check I wasn't imagining it. Same here. I've lost count of the number of squirrels and rabbits that have run across the trail in front of me. That's not even counting the hundreds of sheep, that I forget are just a few hundred feet away from the house. -- Keith Willoughby http://flat222.org/keith/ "I've seldom seen a horny player walk into a bar and not let out exactly what he did for a living." - Johnny Bench |
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Four sets of essential points for cyclists to remember
davek wrote:
I'm gobsmacked to discover how much actual wildlife there really is out there. The most amazing thing I've seen to date is an albino squirrel, which I spotted in a hedgerow just a couple of weeks ago. I had to stop and rub my eyes to check I wasn't imagining it. Same here. I've lost count of the number of squirrels and rabbits that have run across the trail in front of me. That's not even counting the hundreds of sheep, that I forget are just a few hundred feet away from the house. -- Keith Willoughby http://flat222.org/keith/ "I've seldom seen a horny player walk into a bar and not let out exactly what he did for a living." - Johnny Bench |
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Four sets of essential points for cyclists to remember
If I need an excuse, it's to try out my new specs
which arrived from Wiggle on Thursday (complete with sweets - hurrah!) - Madison D'Arcs, cheap and cheerful but with interchangeable lenses, and after getting a fly in my eye at the top of a 17% descent last weekend I know I definitely need them. Specs are something I would now add to any list of essential cycling kit... along with bib shorts. Quotes like that, you bad boy, means you are unlikely to be considered good by the PSF, which means no sweeties for you from now on *and* a slabbing ;-) I've found that too - I've always tried to give cyclists and horses a wide berth but now I find I'm quite happy to sit behind them pottering along at 5mph for a couple of minutes just to make sure that when I do pass them there is *plenty* of room and I'm not just squeezing by. Yup, I think any of the pontificating twits in Another Place, who put the woes of travel at the feet of cyclists & who moan about speed cameras as an unfair tax should be nailed by the gonads to a Real Man Saddle as made by Sheldon Brown. The gonads should only be removed from the saddle when they've learnt how to be considerate road users. If they refuse to learn and remain selfish, gonads should simply be removed... Oops, sorry, forgot, they don't have real gonads to start off with ;-) I'm gobsmacked to discover how much actual wildlife there really is out there. The most amazing thing I've seen to date is an albino squirrel, which I spotted in a hedgerow just a couple of weeks ago. I had to stop and rub my eyes to check I wasn't imagining it. It's lovely isn't it, when life is at that quieter, slower pace, and you are still in contact with what is going on around - not insulated from it in a motor vehicle. You do *see* more of what is going on around. My favourite wildlife experience is when I sometimes get a barn owl flying alongside me when I'm cycling a quiet lane - even if the owl is there for a fleeting moment, it's quite special. The only albino I've seen was an albino male pheasant - quite spectacular, but I actually did see that one when I was driving down a very remote country lane Cheers, helen s --This is an invalid email address to avoid spam-- to get correct one remove fame & fortune **$om $ --Due to financial crisis the light at the end of the tunnel is switched off-- |
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