{"id":1092,"date":"2020-01-29T12:02:01","date_gmt":"2020-01-29T12:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/?p=1092"},"modified":"2020-01-29T19:25:36","modified_gmt":"2020-01-29T19:25:36","slug":"cycle-adventures-volume-124","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php\/2020\/01\/29\/cycle-adventures-volume-124\/","title":{"rendered":"Cycle &#8220;Adventures&#8221; Volume 124"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Quite a varied one this time around. Lots of impatience, of course, some causing mayhem and completely blocking a street as the lights change because nobody managed to realise there wasn&#8217;t enough room to clear the junction before passing the stop lines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One guy decides I shouldn&#8217;t be on the road (that&#8217;s how it feels) so bullies me aside. No point in uploading to police reporting sites, they expect you to keep footage on the camera, but make it clear they&#8217;re not going to update you on the case unless it goes to court, so that&#8217;s an indefinite waste of card space. It&#8217;s like they don&#8217;t actually want these reports in the first place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Interesting that the pedestrian we see fully blames me for scaring the shit out of him (he was yelling at me until I was out of earshot), as I gave plenty of warning, and plenty of space as I passed!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve said it before and I&#8217;ll say it again, road narrow \/ chicanes are fucking dangerous for cyclists. Powered vehicle drivers think nothing of passing a cyclist on approach, then realising they can&#8217;t get through so slam on their hydraulic assisted brakes leaving the cyclist with a serious problem avoiding a collision! They don&#8217;t work for their intended purpose anyway! They&#8217;re supposed to calm traffic yet all too often just stop traffic completely for ages, causing significant queues at peak times. It&#8217;s about time these monstrosities were all removed permanently!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An amusing twist at the end. Probably not amusing for the passengers on the bus at the time. No idea what happened but if I find out I&#8217;ll update here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Cycle &quot;Adventures&quot; Volume 124\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Qz6Lf6KElp8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption>YouTube<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/open.lbry.com\/@CyclingWithPonder:1\/CycleAdventures124:a?r=2rtJv1p9uqqRvPghcpttJ9WDZRhwocdA\">LBRY embeds don&#8217;t work well on here, so you&#8217;ll find the LBRY content here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quite a varied one this time around. Lots of impatience, of course, some causing mayhem and completely blocking a street as the lights change because nobody managed to realise there wasn&#8217;t enough room to clear the junction before passing the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php\/2020\/01\/29\/cycle-adventures-volume-124\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1092"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1095,"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1092\/revisions\/1095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}