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carbon29er

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  1. Absolutely. I don't think they take responsibility for safe roads in the same way cycling federations in other countries do. Which is a pity.
  2. Maybe processing his R20,000 insurance claim for medical expenses assuming he is a member?
  3. I went straight into the hurt locker on the first ride on the back of my tandem. And stayed there for 2 hours. But I did get 9 PB's for the outing Kenilworth to Simon's Town. Not sure I was expecting the first ride to be so hard. Not because a tandem is that hard to ride but we are accustomed to having an easy ride first up to check set-up.
  4. What court? All the documentation was fake. The driver is gone. Never existed. From what I read.
  5. My commitment is not to comment on which I think it is. Other than to say it happened on Wednesday and a press release was issued on Friday. Despite being all over social media on Wednesday. Which again is factual.
  6. Why does a heart rate monitor miss the beat?
  7. I just posted a reply to The Sheriff on the taxi takes out cyclist thread about reporting offenders at https://safelyhome.westerncape.gov.za/reports. They do take it very seriously. Offenders get quite a shock when an officer turns up with some evidence of wrong doing. After a few posts about my bad attitude I committed to myself not to make any more negative comments about PPA in this thread so I can't answer your last point.
  8. I think I've had one issue with a bus in the past 3 months, out of an average of 6 that pass on every ride. And that was in the toll area where I was in the cycle lane about to hit the pavement but couldn't wait. He then passed me further up before pulling off to the right to stop at the lower viewing site. When I stopped to talk to him he was categorical that I had no right to be on the road. Clearly he was one bad apple. To me buses are not the real problem as they are only allowed up from Hout Bay where the shoulder is acceptable to cycle in and they descend slower than we do on the Noordhoek side. The problem, in my opinion, is the ascent from Noordhoek once you get over little Chappies. There is no shoulder at all, recognized by a 20 kph speed limit and no passing allowed. But that is where the bakkie and SUV driver thinks it's fair game to rub up against cyclists. I really think it's time we lobby for average speed prosecutions in the 20 kph section to the top of Chappies.
  9. No alerts. No axe to grind. I'm distressed that my kids don't want to ride on the road and am looking for ways to make them safer. And everyone else who rides a bike on our roads. Ironically I feel quite safe and can handle myself in traffic. Personally I don't care if I get a few centimetres or a few metres. I think you'll find a common theme over quite a few years about cycling safety in my posts. PPA has a responsibility to all cyclists, it's in their constitution. I'm just a little tired of the sole focus on mountain biking and the ramping down of the Safe Cycling Initiative going from requesting more space, stay wider, to begging to allow us on the roads. The rest is fact, I merely post what I see. I don't doctor the screen shots of photos taken while driving or the direct quotes from a press release telling me "If you want to be treated like a road user, you need to act like a road user." I don't need to, as unbelievable as it may seem, they are published. I just copy them.
  10. Saturday and Sunday would be enough. Well not really but motorists could live with that.
  11. Or take photos for social media? A twitter exchange a short while ago by the CEO of PPA on his favourite blame the cyclist game: You can't make this stuff up.
  12. I laughed yesterday. I stopped at the roundabout crossing in Hout Bay heading towards the Nek to let a school kids cross the road. A Volvo coming the other way also stopped. The crossed in front on me on the zebra crossing then walked up the road behind the Volvo rather than on the crossing. I wondered to my teenage daughter what hope we really have.
  13. Just in one 14km ride. Goodness me. But we see that every time we drive. My record low for red light offences by motorists in a route with only 3 traffic lights? 2 cars. Never none.
  14. As soon as he provides evidence they'll be on the courier van.
  15. There is NO focus on the motorist. When the Stay Wider campaign was launched the whole focus was on changing the motorists mindset. A few personnel changes later, and the appointment of a CEO, has changed focus completely onto the cyclist SHARING the road, as if it's a walking trail and cyclists are encroaching. Total lack of understanding of the dynamics of cycle safety or marketing.
  16. Races aren't exactly what this article is about. And I'm not skilled, have more metal in me than my bike has. I just don't like cyclists being blamed to justify motorists putting cyclist's health and lives at risk.
  17. I've missed nothing. Your response just adds to the stupidity of the press release. I'll give you an example. If a motorist overtakes on a solid white line or jumps a red light does that mean NO motorists should be driving on the roads? By your analogy that's what you are preaching. Your simplistic and patronising attitude does nothing to improve safety for cyclists. But it does increase the chances of victim blaming.
  18. The patronising tone perhaps? If I want to be treated like a road user? I AM a road user, I don't have to ask ANYONE if I can ride on their road. I have a well established legal right to be on the road. This is just a totally brain dead comment that shows exactly how little the organisation trying to encourage safe cycling actually understands about the issues. Read the bit I underlined in bold. FFS, don't answer your phone in the middle of the road and leave your bike lying in the middle of the road? I'll give a set of unused Continental Gatorskin 25c tyres to the first person who has experienced this phenomena. Sorry, not GP4000S as it's not a warranty issue. PPA think a road is like a trail and motorists are like dog walkers or horse riders and we are invading their space. Has anyone seen advice to motorists issued by PPA about cycling safety in the past year? Thought not. Safety is not about highlighting cyclists doing things that transgress the law but endangers no one, surely it's about motorists doing things that endanger other road users, particularly cyclists and pedestrians?
  19. Ok, here you go... https://youtu.be/nk5jQc_adOI
  20. Not a red light in sight so still trying to workout why this guy had to come so close this morning. Total distance from the wall to his wheel is no more than a metre. And I'm in that space. But maybe he saw a guy jump a red light in Sun Valley and decided I was to blame?
  21. Oh please. The sooner PPA stops justifying motorists endangering cyclists lives by passing too closely with nonsense about red lights and stop streets the safer it will be for cyclists to ride on roads that they are legally fully entitled to ride on. I have yet to see a post from PPA on social media condemning a motorist for endangering a cyclist but have seen plenty criticising cyclists. Quite a few with photos taken while driving. The attitude that we, as cyclists, are encroaching on motorists territory by riding on the road is, frankly, ridiculous. What's next? Stop and pat a motorist on the head to thank him as the mountain bikers are being asked to do when passing a dog walker riding in the newly designated Table Mountain whatever it's called? I have plenty of video footage of motorists endangering me and others without a single red light or stop street as an excuse.
  22. Chappies today after the wind cleared the air. Wow. Perfect day in the Cape. No photos as I don't want invoke fits of jealousy on the hub today and anyway everyone has seen it seven hundred and sixty nine eight hundred and seven hundred, listen properly, seven hundred and sixty nine thousand eight hundred and twenty and seventy times.
  23. That past week has made Chappies not as pleasant as it usually is. But yes, a ride is not a ride without Chappies. I suppose wind does add variation to the slope. All things being equal, the wind dies down Tuesday morning for half a day. Rearranging my schedule already to see what a wind free bike ride is like.
  24. No so much where by what I saw. The bizarre things one sees when you ride a bike long enough. https://youtu.be/NjkNgCAJlVc
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