I’m not one to moan about the police as a rule. But clearly I am setting out to do just that right now. Last night a strike team were stopping cyclists with no lights at a crossroads on Caledonian road. This is a good thing and almost certainly designed to pick up people taken by surprise by the darker evenings, and spread a safety message. I wasn’t stopped, but I saw several people pulled over at the lights. What slightly confused me, however, was that while the police focussed on the bikes they seemed to entirely ignore something more dangerous and blatant.
Basically as I waited at the lights a silver Vauxhall Vectra pulled up next to me, right over the Advanced Stop Box (pretty common in itself) but then paused briefly before driving straight on through a red light. How the police didn’t think this was an issue with the risk it put pedestrians and cyclist at, I don’t know, but it was let go while an inadequately lit cyclist was given a talking-to.
In more heart-warming news, a man has been reunited with his bike from 26 years ago. Bikes mean more their physical thing to anyone who loves them, so I can understand his feelings.
It’s always nice to stop with brakes and I’m going to do just that as some computer scientists have developed a prototype wireless brake system. This has the potential to eliminate all the wires and cables on a bike and even single-handedly put the gyro detangler market out of business. I look forward to more finished models in the shops for a horrendous price soon.
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