Joeman

Yeah, and watch out for angry snowmen!

Well I was out in a very packed London city pub last night, the place was rammed full and overflowing onto the streets. Loads of people talking about the Paris attacks, but the general feeling was that people werent going to let ISIS get in the way of afterwork drinks! One bloke said at least if they blew the pub up he'd die with a pint in his hand... Then when going to the toilet there was a queue for the gents!! One bloke at the back shouted "we're queing like women, ISIS would have a few words to say about this" and all the blokes had a good laugh... Just great to see London not giving up and sticking the middle finger up to terrorism. It was the same after the 7/7 bombings - people out having fun defying the terrorists. Lots of very inappropriate jokes flying about and lots of drunken conspiracy theories, but that's peoples way of dealing with it.

Is it really easier? 1. Stop at lights, leave foot on brake. Let off and press throttle to go. 2. Stop at lights, press button. Press again and press throttle to go. In fact with mine, if the handbrake is on if I press the accelerator it releases itself so don't even need to take it off! What bugs me is the reverse light flash between park and drive. Would be very easy to only light the reverse light if in reverse longer than maybe half a second.

What could be easier? Stick it in drive and move away, and put it in park at the end of your journey and optionally apply the handbrake before you get out. My Audi A6 has the same electronic handbrake. Just a little switch. I only ever use it when I park, never at lights or in traffic, theres just no need to use the handbrake.

Don't worry everyone a bunch of Football hooligans are going to sort out ISIS for us. Keep calm and carry on.

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Auto drivers dont apply the handbrake either. no need, just hold the car on the foot brake. it a very easy/lazy way to drive a car...

That's anyone with an auto gearbox. Get used to it because more and more cars are being sold with auto boxes. Or just put it in park? Don't drive an auto but that's what I'd do. Haha, no you wouldn't. The point of an auto is to make life easy, not faff about changing gears! Brake on to stop, release brake slowly to crawl along in traffic. At no point does the average auto driver consider putting it into park whilst in traffic. Besides, the reverse light would flash each time they change from drive to park and back again, and that would drive you equally insane!

Was speaking to a guy at work who's sister lives in Paris. She said about an hour before it all kicked off, the street sellers who are always there selling tat to tourists had all disappeared.. She'd never seen that before...

That's anyone with an auto gearbox. Get used to it because more and more cars are being sold with auto boxes.

Genius idea

Like I said, cameras are cool. I've captured a lot of good stuff on mine, but I never once thought they made me safer, and i ride (when i get chance) with one on the bike and one on my lid.

What a drama queen! If you really want to improve your safety, why not just have two cameras?? 200% chance of not getting hit then... If you really dont come back, ride safe... Don't let your stubbornness and unwillingness to listen make you just another statistic that impacts the rest of us.. But if you do, make sure you get it on camera

Cameras are cool, but they don't make you any safer. If anything it seems they lull some into a false sense of security... People don't look at you and suddenly behave themselves because they spot a camera! Most road users don't see it, and the ones that do don't know its a camera.

Mine is mounted on the right. Still gives reasonable views of junctions to the left.

FFS, You don't need beepers on a bike!! who has those?? Just get in the habit of pressing the cancel button a few times after completing a manoeuvre. It should be second nature to you after riding 15years. This is the worrying part... You don't just change lanes regardless, that's how you get knocked off!! If you're in the wrong lane and its not safe to get in the right lane you continue in the wrong lane and sort it out later - that's why they teach you how to do u-turns! I've done it loads of times when lost in the car and on the bike, the rest of the traffic doesn't suddenly stop because you're in the wrong lane and need to change!! You need to consider the impact of your actions on other road users and be mindful that they are in thier own little world oblivious to you and your actions.. Besides accident avoidance, if you find yourself having to make split second judgment calls, its a good indication that you've not planned ahead properly. Sorry, but it really does sound like more training is required. I suspect you have 15years of bad habits that need unlearning.

Delivered to your room so you can enjoy it in bed??

probably about time to wake up now....

it has to be a pretty hard drop to damage a helmet with no head inside. my personal opinion on this is that to compress the inner foam of an empty helmet (without the weight of a head inside ) the drop would need to be hard enough to deform the outer shell and this would leave visible marks in the paintwork.

Ah, but if the cyclists demanded it, the UK.gov would bend over backwards to spend money building them whatever infrastructure they wish for just to be seen to be promoting green transportation.

Big enough in case the entire internet turn up?

People learn from thier mistakes, but clever people learn from other people's mistakes

There's some fact about the whole NASA space program being dictated by the size of a horse and carriage. Basically train tracks replaced horse and carriages and are roughly the same dimensions. Most of the rocket parts needed to be built to fit on a train, through tunnels etc. So the size of rocket parts was effectively determined by the size of 100+year old horse and carriage tracks! Useless fact of the day.

And no large loads ever carried by road as they wouldn't fit through the tunnels!

Fixed it for ya.