{"id":1577,"date":"2021-06-04T20:19:26","date_gmt":"2021-06-04T20:19:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/?p=1577"},"modified":"2021-08-16T12:06:23","modified_gmt":"2021-08-16T12:06:23","slug":"cycle-adventures-volume-158","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php\/2021\/06\/04\/cycle-adventures-volume-158\/","title":{"rendered":"Cycle &#8220;Adventures&#8221; Volume 158"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>3 weeks worth of footage. It&#8217;s been a bit quiet, relatively speaking, lately. There&#8217;s still a lot of impatience (and some audible language), cycle couriers and a couple of stand out clips.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first beggars belief. If I even tried to pass that close to a cyclist while I had L plates my instructor would have hit the brakes. If this is what new drivers are being taught it&#8217;s no wonder token gestures like &#8220;Operation Close Pass&#8221; are completely ineffective.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The second is a longer clip of a gridlock situation at a junction in the city centre. No idea why it was this bad here but once again impatience is very much in evidence from the positions of many of the vehicles! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-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 158\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/u5CSJF4NwE0?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>Cycle &#8220;Adventures&#8221; on YouTube<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"lbry-iframe\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/odysee.com\/$\/embed\/CycleAdventures158\/8344a865be08939f43d5bd1e81999f9824ecdd0a?r=9djnEo7i8pBufbn3ZEQJbs5Fm7EBXBdR\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">Cycle &#8220;Adventures&#8221; on Odysee<p><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>3 weeks worth of footage. It&#8217;s been a bit quiet, relatively speaking, lately. There&#8217;s still a lot of impatience (and some audible language), cycle couriers and a couple of stand out clips. The first beggars belief. If I even tried &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php\/2021\/06\/04\/cycle-adventures-volume-158\/\">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-1577","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\/1577","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=1577"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1608,"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1577\/revisions\/1608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}