This is a copy email sent to me this afternoon from a company who had a vehicle that was illegally parked on a cycle lane. Velochick reported him with a backed up video!
To Velochick
cc (name of driver)
“Please make sure you are parked legally and do not obstruct either pedestrians or cyclist! I have received the following complaint regarding your vehicle this morning”
Regards
(Boss)
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I am going to write back and thank him for letting the driver know (and not become sloppy and complacent!)
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I bought this yesterday as my light broke again. It is a LED Gekko. The product is tiny and yet the company Knog have decided to package it in plastic and loads of cardboard.
I have contacted them as to their packaging policy today and look forward to hearing from them. We have enough rubbish in this country without this company adding to them! They assume that no cyclist will ever complain.
Their website is www.knog.com.au
I like the idea of creating a ‘reality’ council calender (thanks to ‘Cycling in Waltham Forest’ Link, for the idea).
Copies could made for the council and useless agencies that don’t clean London up properly. A nice photojournalism photograph would show them what’s ‘not being done’ by the council.
Maybe photos for a calender of called Bad Driving 2009.
Even perhaps, photos of Stratford, Olympic City, and all the filth and vandalised buildings and rubbish bags, and regular newspaper headlines of knife crime.
We have a lot of fluffy Calenders, so why not a Not So Cute one!
This may be a fun project to do. When I do these kinds of projects, I use Vistaprint.co.uk, there are some cheaper desk calenders though about about £3.
If you participate, we can youtube our calenders too! Let me know your moniker!
There is a funny mixture going on.
Interesting, yet again, ‘money’ has something to do with it! They don’t want to upset their advertising revenue do they? Good job, us bloggers on the internet, ‘work for free’ and don’t need advertising!
When I put the Lorry & Cyclist video on my website, the stats shot through the roof! Clearly people are interested, whether they are cyclists or even lorry drivers, or even none of them. People want to know what’s going on in their own ‘world’, not always about something ‘political’. Road accidents affect everyone, sometimes it’s good to hear both sides of the story.
The thing is, with the Daily Mail, for example, not all people are stupid. Some of them only buy the paper if there is a DVD say, of something they’re interested or buy it for the non controversial sports page. It’s a scam!
Saying that, occasionally and only occasionally, they do have some good stuff. I mean, we do want to know if our Prime Minister resigns!
This is the word I’ve used when I saw Crap Waltham Forest’s cycling blog this morning (see Cycling in Waltham Forest link). I think Waltham Forest is a league of its own. It never ceases to amaze me what people get up to there.
Now, the bike thieves have tried to nick a bike by sawing the bike stand in half!! Whatever next? Now, when they start doing this, we will get ‘copy cats’ so we have get LCC to badger councils to get safer cycling stands. I think Crap Waltham Forest needs to complain to the council and LCC, if a member, as clearly this will become a problem if thieves get hold of this’.
I remember being told of a story whereby a bike thief knew of an expensive bike in a shed. In order to get in the shed, they opened up the roof!
However, now I have a fold up bike now, I think I get the last laugh! The best bicycle security is to be with it all the time. So ner!
Being a ‘protester’ kind of person and because being a Bicycle Activist can cover many activist activities, I have added the story which was on Yahoo this morning:-
“Hundreds of anti-aviation campaigners have been stopped from getting into the Houses of Parliament.
Police were forced to lock the doors at Westminster after protesters tried to force their way inside.
Scotland Yard said none of the environmental demonstrators managed to breach security.
Doors at the main St Stephen’s entrance were closed and secured with two large metal bars, with the hammering of protesters clearly audible from the inside.
The protest was organised by the Climate Rush group, which is angry about airport expansion and other Government policies on the environment.
Climate Rush organiser Jennifer Ruhemann said the action was by a broad coalition of groups including the Women’s Institute, the Green Party and Plane Stupid.
Many of the protesters were dressed as Emmeline Pankhurst, leader of the suffragette movement, and said they wanted to “rush” Parliament to mark the centenary of similar action by the suffragettes”
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However, I don’t ‘get’ the Emmeline Pankhurst connection – maybe I am Plane Stupid or something!
Because I work ‘funny shifts’, often I cannot remember what day it is and when I go on cycle/bus lanes, I ‘forget that on Sundays’ practically everyone can go on these cycle paths/bus lanes in London. I don’t think it should allowed that motorists and lorry drivers use cycle lanes on Sundays, particularly as there is plenty of room on their own road, why do they have to use ours?
It is bad enough with the buses and taxis.
Haven’t we had enough?
Any one of us could be killed and we are ‘just hanging in there’ every time we cycle.
Could cyclists become ‘extinct’?
Of course, accident victims are just ‘stats’ and may be on the front page and then ‘forgotten’ until the same thing happens the very Next Day.
Soon, with the increase in vehicles, more will die and perhaps, every single home will have one death from a road accident. Why should we worry all the time if our loved ones will come home at night and we’d have to identify them in a morgue? (That’s if they can be identified of course).
It’s good that there is finally some stirring in the lycra brigade because some of their Own lycra mates are dead. Yes, when the lycra lot die, then it Hits home, but if it is an everyday solitary commuter, Nothing Happens.
RIP to every single cyclist who died today.
It would be great if we had an evening where we would all go up to London and Protest outside Westminster (a good place for us as they refused to get it pedestrianised). We could time it on the day of the State Opening of Parliament perhaps.
We have been ignored for too long and that also means by our stupid ‘antiquated’ legal system run by grown men in tights who travel round in London by taxis everywhere.
There is a police campaign to get tough with cyclists who cycle past red lights, pavement cycling and other illegal behaviour.
Source ‘London Cyclist’
but no Campaign to find these 300,000 stolen bikes…!
Velochick of South of the River 
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