Posts by Zach Bagnall
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Very cool study. If you take out the "annoyance" reports leaving just threats to safety, the numbers improve somewhat but not radically. The correlation between shorter/slower journeys and problems encountered seems particularly important for getting people started.
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The only decent cycling injury I've sustained in the last 8 years was last year, when I left a shared path to go around some pedestrians (no bell) and bollocked up the transition back to the path from the grass - wound up with a fractured arm. Now I have bell. Bells are good.
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Hard News: Fear of Cycling, in reply to Russell Brown,
Key takeaway: The average UK cyclist will bike 8000 years before a fatal crash but experiences a "very scary" near miss every week and some kind of incident daily.
Curious about the sampling and methodology of that study because reeeally not buying the every day / every week stat for the UK. I rode every day from SW to Central London for 5 years, before and after the rollout of cycling lanes and sure as hell wouldn't have continued if I was getting a "scare" every week, let alone every day. What kind of lunatic would?
Completely agree on the perception of risk by non-cyclists though. I'm sure everyone has had the "are you mad?!" response when you tell someone you cycle to work in a big city.
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Hard News: Superannuation: Back to the Future, in reply to Russell Brown,
Independent but fairly relevant given the sums of money at play, if they are also the cohort with the most wealth (in aggregate). Point taken though.
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Hard News: Burning down the house to…, in reply to Ben Austin,
Of course NZ's rules are only generous if you can afford to come back every three years
Yep, that's me. I'll move back eventually, but I can't afford a $,$$$ trip every 3 years. Interestingly the May govt have been making noises about scrapping the UK 15 year rule and allowing expats to vote for life.
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Hard News: Burning down the house to…, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
I'm a kiwi living in the US, and can't vote in either country! UK has generous voting eligibility though who knows how things will stand come 2020.
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Hard News: Burning down the house to…, in reply to Bart Janssen,
A lot of people firmly believe that small government is best government, and the smaller the better. When they see Trump burning it all down, they anticipate a libertarian utopia, not apocalypse.
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Believe me, I want it to be four years (with a shake up at the midterms in 2018! yeah!) but expect this is probably going to be the full eight.
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Remember, the insurance companies increased their premiums in the weeks immediately before the election. Perfect storm.
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My local - looking NW toward Boulder, CO on the 18 mile US36 Bikeway
