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Forum: Improving Road Safety Topic: Hi Viz clothing - is it still effective? |
| Cunobelin |
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Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2005 23:13
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| I cycled the same route each day for three weeks. In week one - I wore a high viz vest In week two - I wore ordinary clothing In week three - I wore a black suit with silver buttons and a party policeman's helmet. For some reason the dark suit was more effective and impersonating a policeman is the... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Do cyclists have to obey speed limits |
| Cunobelin |
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Posted: Sun Jan 23, 2005 22:49
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Forum: Improving Road Safety Topic: Sex effects |
| Cunobelin |
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Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2005 23:47
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InGear posted
Quote: As for me... am I better or worse after a night of passion?
But are you more friendly?
Perhaps this is a whole new ballgame (I KNOW-BAD SEXIST PUN) but do we need to have a whole new definition of "Service stations" |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Social Glue |
| Cunobelin |
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Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2005 23:27
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The intention was really to show that this is an age old problem, and that the answers can be extreme.
What we have to have is a balance.
No matter what the law is there will always be those who suport it or deny it with the same vehemence.
The trick is finding the balance. |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Do cyclists have to obey speed limits |
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Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2005 23:22
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| Nope! I like a reasoned approach, with sensible resourced and substantiated debate. Extreme ideas are exactly that regardless of the source. As before we will have to agree to disagree, my points are made above, and blatantly not what you are suggesting and trying to imply - I presume I am suppose t... |
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Forum: Improving Road Safety Topic: Sex effects |
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Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2005 23:13
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This is mischievious and possibly libellous but with reference to sportsmen......
Does it matter who with?
Did a certain footie player play better or worse after sex with his wife or (alleged) mistresses? |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Harnessing the speed and power of the lizard brain |
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Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2005 22:06
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| I think at this point We wil have to agree to differ.... I feel that in this scenario the driver of a vehicle - any vehicle has a responsibility as an adult and responsible member of society to the child in this scenario. Your opinion is that if the accident occurred it cannot posibly be your fault,... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Parked cars and burglary - a new scam |
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Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2005 21:51
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| I have just been warned of a new scam affecting car parks and work places where cars are regularly parked. It may be worth noting You return to your car to find a small accident has occurrred Luckily the person has responsibly left a mobile phone number You phone and they are very aplogetic and of c... |
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Forum: Improving Road Safety Topic: Hi Viz clothing - is it still effective? |
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Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2005 20:55
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| Slightly off-topic and also probably an Urban Myth but.... The story goes that market researchers found thet many "working class" youngsters did not feel they had drunk enough unless they WERE sick! As a result Newcastle Brown and some of the LAger companies added an emetic (drug which induces Vomit... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Social Glue |
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Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2005 20:47
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| Thomas Hobbes in the 1650's wrote a wonderful book called Leviathan. This outlined the responsibilities of man, society and it's interaction. Althogh 440 years out of date when it comes to some points, one point is still relevant. Man ( as a whole) is not an entity which will behave well if left to ... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Do cyclists have to obey speed limits |
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Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2005 13:08
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| This is I think the problem, which will run for a long time as an argument. The simple answer would be simply to accept that "pavements are for pedestrians" However as pointed out this may not always be practicable, as there are coherent arguments for parking on the footway posted on this site. Wher... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Do cyclists have to obey speed limits |
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Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2005 07:41
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| Thanks, "Pavements are for Pedestrians" is very apt. Like most things there will be extremists who feel that the restrictions do not apply to them. Looking around there are a large number of both cyclists and drivers who refuse to act in a consderate manner and threaten pedestrian safety in this way... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Do cyclists have to obey speed limits |
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Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2005 00:47
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| SO many requests. 1. Exactly as you say the statistical numbers of pedestrians killed by cyclists is low, so many statistical groups will have greater numbers of accidents resulting in fatality, Search this website for figures or check the DfT statistics. I can also give details of the web metasearc... |
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Forum: Improving Road Safety Topic: Hi Viz clothing - is it still effective? |
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Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2005 19:24
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| Couldn't sympathise more - working nights in a Casualty department in Plymouth teaches you to spot the signs, but you can't always avoid the consequences of somenoe else's idea fo a "good night out" One new approach, tried out by a clothing manafacturer is the new inks that are in themselves reflect... |
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Forum: Improving Road Safety Topic: Hi Viz clothing - is it still effective? |
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Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2005 13:22
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| Sory for the break - wanted to select a reference: THe comment about the dark clothed cyclist reminded me of a post on another site. THe same discussion came up and the opinion is often different. On a cycling forum, the discussion between hiviz clothing and the black suit was was met with the follo... |
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Forum: Improving Road Safety Topic: Hi Viz clothing - is it still effective? |
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Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2005 13:12
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Thanks, the replies confirm what I thought, especially about cyclists needing to be highly visible.
Would the reversion to dark clothing with silver buttons or the like break the "familiarity" and imrove the position, or would this be a retrograde step? |
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Forum: Improving Road Safety Topic: Hi Viz clothing - is it still effective? |
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Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2005 09:26
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| A recent article in the Guardian has suggested that Hi visibility clothing for Highway Workers, cyclists, and the Emergency Services has become less effective. One suggestion has even been that the old fasjioned silver buttons on a policenman's uniform will "twinkle in the headlight" and be MORE vis... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Do cyclists have to obey speed limits |
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Posted: Sun Jan 16, 2005 22:06
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Quote: Park, not drive. Quite a difference.
Oooh ... how strong you are!
Being able to lift your car on to the pavement without driving it on or off.
As I said, why is one dangerous, the other not, surely the cyclists are being equaly considerate by aid ing traffic flow in the ame way! |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Do cyclists have to obey speed limits |
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Posted: Sun Jan 16, 2005 20:54
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Excellent
Now that's exactly the reponse I was after:
So it's alright to drive a car on to a pavement, but not cycle on it........
I think that proves just how sensible this argument is! |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: Do cyclists have to obey speed limits |
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Posted: Sun Jan 16, 2005 17:40
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| The figures are interesting, but do not represent a real picture without comparison. I believe that more people are killed each year by individual statistical groups of motorists than by cyclists. One source actually quoted that more pedeatrians are killed by cars on pavements than cyclists! Another... |
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