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See the light [Letter by Mr A.Moss sent to cycling weekly on the 5/11/09] I ihink you may have something here which will keep cyclists safe.
Posted on November 7, 2009 by fastrunrobbie
Seen the Light
I’VE just finished reading your article in the 22/10 issue about winter and commuting, and couldn’t help but notice how ineffectual the rear lights were on the picture featured and how they blended and disappeared in the town traffic.
I have managed to solve this problem, however, what I am about to say is probable quite illegal and is down to you and the readers decide if they want to go down this route.
While browsing a very well known internet auction site, looking for the latest super rear cycle light, I happened to come across o blue flashing rear cycle light in the mould of a cat’s-eye red rear light. The problem with commuting in towns is bike lights get lost in the amount of red car lights that surround us. However on seeing a combined red/blue flashing brightly, what would your first reaction be as a driver of a vehicle?
Mine and probably 99.9% of the population – would be to slow down and take appropriate action, because they think it’s the emergencies services and, in fact, in my experience this is definitely what happened: drivers do show much more courtesy. In fact when I am using this red/blue combo, vehicles actually overtake me and indicate too, letting the following cars know there’s an obstacle ahead, instead of leaving the statutory 12 to 18 in. When I go back to red its back to trying to kill me. I have received no abuse and no honking of horns; in fact, on several occasions drivers have pulled over and said what a good it is and some have even asked where I got them. I’m almost sure they are not legal, however the last 3 winters I have been overtaken by the police/ambulance/fire vehicles and no one has ever stopped or approached me in any way to say my lights are illegal. I presume the police are turning a blind eye, and would rather me use the lights and be very visible than sweeping me up from the side of the road.
ANDY MOSS, Hartlepool [in the letters section of cycling weekly 5/11/09]
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Girls on Film
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Homebase selling red cycle lights for £1
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A Cycling Weekly reader recomender a blue and red rear light, is it legal, that is the question, however it may keep you safe FRR thinks it worth the risk, are the fuzz going to ticket you for trying to keep safe.
Posted on November 7, 2009 by fastrunrobbie
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FRR’S new picture
Posted on November 6, 2009 by fastrunrobbie
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The Plum Smuggler or as I call him “The Sugar Plum Fairy and his cycling mates dancing around”
Posted on November 6, 2009 by fastrunrobbie
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Chapaue to you Boris
Posted on November 3, 2009 by fastrunrobbie
Boris Johnson saves woman from street attackGreen filmmaker Franny Armstrong pays tribute to ‘my knight on a shining bicycle’ Buzz up! Digg it Helen Pidd guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 3 November 2009 18.22 GMT Article history Boris Johnson cycling in London. Photograph: Rex Features Boris Johnson rescued a woman from three “feral kids” who were wielding an iron bar, chasing them away on his bicycle, it emerged tonight. The mayor of London was cycling through Camden, north London, on Monday night when he answered the cry of Franny Armstrong, a documentary maker and environmental activist who was surrounded by a group of hoodie-clad young girls. Johnson stopped and chased the girls down the street, calling them “oiks”. He then returned to walk Armstrong home. “He was my knight on a shining bicycle,” she said today. Armstrong directed the film The Age of Stupid, and is the founder of the 10:10 campaign, which aims to cut 10% of carbon emissions in 2010 and has attracted support from leading firms and personalities. “I was texting on my phone so didn’t notice the girls until they pushed me against the car, quite hard,” Armstrong said. “At first it was quite funny, because they were only about 12. Then I saw that one of them had an iron bar in her hand. It was more than a metre long. It was as big as her. “Then along came a cyclist. And I thought, ‘Good, he’s a big bloke,’ and shouted, ‘Can you help me please?’ “He stopped and turned around and I thought, ‘Oh, my God, it’s Boris Johnson.’ “He asked the girls what was going on, and at first they didn’t move, so I said, ‘That’s the mayor of London!’ and they ran off. They must have thought they were going to get in trouble. One dropped the bar, so Boris picked it up and cycled after them. He returned a few minutes later and walked me home, and we talked about 10:10.” On her Twitter feed she described her attackers as “feral kids”. Armstrong admitted she did not agree with Johnson’s politics, and had voted for his rival Ken Livingstone in the mayoral elections. But she added: “If you find yourself down a dark alleyway and in trouble, I think Boris would be of more use than Ken.” A spokeswoman for the mayor confirmed that he had intervened to help Armstrong, but declined to comment further. Johnson is something of a magnet for action when out and about. Earlier this year, he was nearly hit by a speeding lorry while out on his bicycle scouting for locations for new cycle routes. And in July, he fell in a river in Lewisham, south-east London, while trying to help a clean-up operation.
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A great look at Peugeot Cycles
Posted on November 1, 2009 by fastrunrobbie
