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Post by Deleted on Aug 14, 2020 15:26:28 GMT
The guy that comes off as the biggest dick is the guy that made it but only because he's in it the most. Just about everybody is doing something wrong.
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Post by patty on Aug 14, 2020 19:15:51 GMT
The problem with a lot of cyclists is that they have been given the message for about two decades now that they have a greater moral right to be on the road (or anywhere) than anyone else because cycles are 'green'. The job of saving the planet for everyone else is very arduous when you are such a small minority. It's no wonder they feel special. Someone has to do it. Of course cyclists seem to forget totally that the only truly valid form of transport is walking. And boats obviously. I like walking...but I don't like walking if I cannot drift along in a daydream....cannot do that with all the lycra clad boy racers ...grump
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Post by thebfg on Aug 16, 2020 1:20:09 GMT
I did some work for Brunels, great great great granddaughter. Lovely lady but an absolute fruitcake.
If i remember correctly we filled in the steps and re lined her pool.
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Post by naughtyfox on Aug 16, 2020 5:34:11 GMT
The guy that comes off as the biggest dick is the guy that made it but only because he's in it the most. Just about everybody is doing something wrong. I often look at 'UK car crashes' (one site/owner) for entertainment*, but most of it is the usual foul-mouthed suspects with music blaring away in their pimp-mobile screaming at anyone who dares hinder them in the slightest from their excessive speed. In their 'made up situations' when 'something happens' I'd just... well... probably not even think about it if I was behind the steering wheel. There should be give & take on the roads, and an understanding that everyone makes mistakes but usually not deliberately. Eyes open all times, don't go faster than what your brain can take in - and if you do go fast in the countryside - remember mooses! The cyclist (main character) in your video is a Twat with a capital T, undertaking vehicles without expecting a pedestrian to be crossing, for example. Towns and villages in Finland have dedicated paths for pedestrians and cyclists, and this seems to work well. Bombing along through city centres in England on a 'sports bike' at speed is the usual recipe for Twattishness. These people are not 'cyclists' but 'gits on bikes'. *excellent material for teaching a new driver. You get a feel for the roads, and can try to work out what's going wrong and what should have been done instead.
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Post by phil70 on Aug 16, 2020 7:21:48 GMT
The problem with a lot of cyclists is that they have been given the message for about two decades now that they have a greater moral right to be on the road (or anywhere) than anyone else because cycles are 'green'. The job of saving the planet for everyone else is very arduous when you are such a small minority. It's no wonder they feel special. Someone has to do it. Of course cyclists seem to forget totally that the only truly valid form of transport is walking. And boats obviously. It's no wonder they feel special probably because they obviously went to a "special" school Phil
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Post by phil70 on Aug 16, 2020 7:34:48 GMT
However if you are a cyclist there is a lot to contend with. But in this vid, which is intended to show just how terrible the lot of a cyclist truly is, it seems painfully obvious how just about everybody in it deserves a Darwin award. The species is doomed. I raced all distances from 10 miles to 24 hours at national level so feel qualified to comment and having watched the vid I would say simply that the camera guy was simply not reading the road Phil
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Post by Jim on Aug 16, 2020 8:08:44 GMT
Skew arch bridges, the secret is that the line of the bricks follows the angle of the arch, not set horizontal. The one across the Thames may have been the first one, was it Brunel, on the Great Western Line to Brizzle.
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Post by Jim on Aug 16, 2020 8:10:05 GMT
I can tell you (after spending a significant amount of time today staring at the brickwork) - the brickwork lining Caen Hill locks is now looking very shoddy!
29 locks - many helped by vlockies thankfully - a few beers now... No real rain but at least the temp has dropped a little.
How many Bricks were there? Perhaps naughtyfox could tell us. Get your spreadsheet out lad. Chop chop!
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Post by Jim on Aug 16, 2020 8:21:13 GMT
However if you are a cyclist there is a lot to contend with. But in this vid, which is intended to show just how terrible the lot of a cyclist truly is, it seems painfully obvious how just about everybody in it deserves a Darwin award. The species is doomed. I raced all distances from 10 miles to 24 hours at national level so feel qualified to comment and having watched the vid I would say simply that the camera guy was simply not reading the road Phil Time trials? My Dad did, got a small barometer with plaque with his best ever times, achieved on year when he was in the Veterans (over 40), 25 was a 1hr 1min, can't recall the 50 and 100 times.
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Post by bodger on Aug 16, 2020 8:48:01 GMT
Skew arch bridges, the secret is that the line of the bricks follows the angle of the arch, not set horizontal. The one across the Thames may have been the first one, was it Brunel, on the Great Western Line to Brizzle. yeah but - it doesn't look quite that straightforward when you pass under the bridge. it appears to be a line at a random angle that doesn't seem to relate to any other feature of the structure. but you're prob'ly right - it's just the p.o.v. that confuses the perception - well, in my case anyway
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Post by naughtyfox on Aug 16, 2020 9:08:09 GMT
I can tell you (after spending a significant amount of time today staring at the brickwork) - the brickwork lining Caen Hill locks is now looking very shoddy!
29 locks - many helped by vlockies thankfully - a few beers now... No real rain but at least the temp has dropped a little.
How many Bricks were there? Perhaps naughtyfox could tell us. Get your spreadsheet out lad. Chop chop! 727, 654 bricks were used. And here's another skewed bridge:
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Post by naughtyfox on Aug 16, 2020 10:09:42 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Aug 16, 2020 10:13:48 GMT
We had to do that for the MI6 training but without any safety line.
It's child's play.
You just have to concentrate.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 16, 2020 11:13:55 GMT
However if you are a cyclist there is a lot to contend with. But in this vid, which is intended to show just how terrible the lot of a cyclist truly is, it seems painfully obvious how just about everybody in it deserves a Darwin award. The species is doomed. I raced all distances from 10 miles to 24 hours at national level so feel qualified to comment and having watched the vid I would say simply that the camera guy was simply not reading the road Phil And also has no regard for any other breed of road user. In London, the philosophy is 'thrash to the max', me first and fuck you. I am often surprised that more pedestrians are not hurt and killed than actually have been.
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Post by thebfg on Aug 16, 2020 11:21:25 GMT
Locally we have Shawford viaduct, which impresses me with 33 spans over 800m and built by the London and south Western railway to join to the ill fated didcot to Southampton railway. Unusually for its era it is built from concrete with a brick facade and is considered on of the earliest modern structures built with a concrete core. Not my photo. And my photo riding across it.
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