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Tim on two wheels

@2wheelsgoodBrum

1 year

I'm a Cycling UK Local Representative. Sutton Coldfield now has an Active Travel Vision

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Tim on two wheels

@2wheelsgoodBrum

11 months

This is exactly how change started in Nederland. We can change too.

B14 News

@B14News

10 years

Disruption on the Alcester Rd, Kings Heath due to cyclists protesting for safety improvements. (Image @donna_norford ) http://t.co/rbunnQyLg3

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I must say thank you to this excellent @RoyalMail van driver. They followed me patiently up the slowest hill on my route home then, when it was possible, they passed with over 3m of space. This should be our role model for driving with cyclists.

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Last evening we ate outside in Valencia. Family sitting at the next table arrived by bike having cycled through the city centre. Kids around six and eight. It’s great to be in a city where no one bats an eye at six-year-olds riding on the roads. 1/2

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1 year

It makes sense that in general those who cycle and drive are safer drivers than those who don’t cycle. Cycling gives you a different perspective on the road, speed and the safety of others.

Cyclists are safer car drivers says insurance specialist - Ci4C

An insurance provider has discovered that cyclists are safer car drivers than non-cyclists. So they reward cyclists with a better car insurance deal.

www.carinsurance4cyclists.com

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3 months

This is the road by my house. No one is going anywhere fast. It’s like this everyday. The junctions are overwhelmed. If half of us who could, walked or cycled half of our journeys of less than five miles it wouldn’t be congested. 1/2

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Tim on two wheels

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3 months

This tweet about a practical proposal to lessen the congestion on the road near me has been looked at by 50k people. I have learnt a lot of things from the many responses. Here are just a few. 1/10

Tim on two wheels

@2wheelsgoodBrum

3 months

This is the road by my house. No one is going anywhere fast. It’s like this everyday. The junctions are overwhelmed. If half of us who could, walked or cycled half of our journeys of less than five miles it wouldn’t be congested. 1/2

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Tim on two wheels

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7 months

Coats. That’s the solution. It was staring us in the face all the time. We could wear coats when we cycle.

Thomas Anciaux #5 🌹🚲

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Tim on two wheels

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2 years

Passed a horse-rider on my cycle route today who thanked me for stopping while she passed. I sensed the horse was a little jittery. She said cyclists had earlier spooked her horse by riding at speed passed her. Fellow cyclists, please slow or stop for a few seconds.

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Tim on two wheels

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2 years

Can we have bike parking like this dotted around every British town and city and at every major workplace, please?

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2 years

We’ve got to the point that drivers think parking on the pavement is how cars park. Even when each house has drive parking and there’s road to park on if necessary. Ten years ago no one did this in this road.

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6 months

Did you know the Holiday Inn allows you to take your bikes into your room. I didn’t. But they do.

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Tim on two wheels

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1 year

How did we get the the point where we argue about whether it’s safe for a child to cycle on a quiet residential road with his father? Being able to do so should be our definition of safe streets. We need to change this society and swiftly.

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Tim on two wheels

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1 year

This is the solution for where the cycle path meets the road.

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8 months

In this small town in Denmark many of the streets have modal filters. These create lovely neighbourhoods, with low levels of motor vehicle traffic. It’s so easy and comfortable to ride bikes on these streets. Is there a name for this?

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Tim on two wheels

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8 months

Just cycled with a woman riding a cargo bike containing six children. They were clearly loving both the company and experience of the world around them. Families travelling by cargo bike have been commonplace in this part of Denmark, but a seven-seater has been top so far.

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Tim on two wheels

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2 years

Cycling to the shops on Sunday round here takes about five minutes. Imagine how long it takes in a car. It's like this every day. If cycling didn't involve the confidence to filter we'd get half of the people out of cars and congestion would be removed.

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5 months

What can be so important it's worth overtaking at twice the speed limit in a 20mph zone, in the wet when stopping distances are at least twice those in the dry, approaching a junction and ignoring a keep left sign? Hopefully the letter from the police will make them rethink.

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1 year

The Dutch neighbourhood where we’re based is quiet and very walkable by design. This bit is recently remade. There are as many people walking as cycling and very few cars being driven. Those parked are all parked in designated spaces. This is how it’s done… 1/7

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Tim on two wheels

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7 months

“The benefits of cycling over driving are more profound and sustainable than previously thought”: New study concludes that riding a bike, rather than driving a car, is positively associated with “orientation towards the common good”

Cycling, rather than driving, linked to pursuing “common good” and neighbourliness, study finds;...

It’s Tuesday and, just like Ineos and Jim Ratcliffe’s bid for Manchester United, Ryan Mallon is here to give at least 25 percent effort on today’s live blog

road.cc

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Tim on two wheels

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8 months

“London in England was found to have implemented the most effective measure. The U.K.’s capital city reduced city center traffic by 33% following the February 2003 introduction of a congestion charge” Sticks Not Carrots Needed To Get Drivers Out Of Cars

Sticks Not Carrots Needed To Get Drivers Out Of Cars, Say Climate Scientists

Climate scientists ranked 20 measures which have been proven to reduce motor vehicle trips.

www.forbes.com

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Tim on two wheels

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1 year

The abuse and doxing has started on a thread about cycling in Valencia I tweeted this morning. Lots of accounts claiming to be taxi drivers, suggestions I don’t come back to the UK and vile opinions. A country safe for our children. That would be a great thing.

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Tim on two wheels

@2wheelsgoodBrum

7 months

It would make cycling so much safer if all drivers followed Highway Code rule 163 to ‘give way to oncoming vehicles before passing parked vehicles’. It would make cycling far less stressful if the drivers who don't give way didn't then shout violent threats to the cyclist.

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Tim on two wheels

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1 year

This is the problem cyclists face every day. It’s legal to cycle; it’s legal to cycle in a bus lanes unless signs say otherwise; in the eyes of the law cyclists are road users; we all pay the taxes that pay for the road. It’s a careless driving offence to close pass a cyclist.

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Tim on two wheels

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5 months

1939 cargo bikes.

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Tim on two wheels

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9 months

I rode to work. I rode back from work. The drivers I shared the road with were careful and considerate, passing at well over 1.5m in every instance. Thank you. That’s much appreciated.

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Tim on two wheels

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27 days

Walk to this crossing; press the beg button; the lights instantly change from red to green; cross the road. Why don’t crossings work like that in the U.K.

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Tim on two wheels

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1 year

Why do cities like Valencia build bike infrastructure and yet some Brits seem so unable to comprehend our ability to change too? Some can’t even imagine children riding. I have a theory I developed in Nederland to share in a thread. There are pictures, so bear with me. 1/8

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In most parts of Denmark, bus stops have bike racks. Ride to the stop; catch the bus. For those who can, this is wonderful.

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The obsession amongst drivers with getting in front of a cyclist seems to overwhelm all sense. Diver close passes me when I'm doing 18mph in a 20mph zone. They hit the speed bump, then pull-in to avoid the oncoming vehicle, almost missing me twice. Saved by disk brakes again.

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Tim on two wheels

@2wheelsgoodBrum

11 months

The Dutch got to a similar point in the 1970s and transformed their roads.

Rob Kewley

@robkewley77

11 months

Anyone thinking this is just a niche campaign restricted to a demonstration on a Sunday should think again. @for_birmingham have only just begun. It’s incredible to think what this relatively small group of volunteers/residents could achieve moving forward. Be part of it.

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Tim on two wheels

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“Half of us who could” actually means “everybody, including those of us who can’t”; “walked or cycled” actually means “must cycle”; “half of our journeys” actually means “all of our journeys”; “less than five miles” actually means “any distance”. 2/ 10

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Tim on two wheels

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2 years

Today I ended up cycling down the remnants of the 1930s cycle way on Chester Road in Birmingham. It is a car park for residents, all but one of whom seem to have plenty of space on their drives. @carltonreid @badlyparkedbrum

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Tim on two wheels

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8 months

We’ve been cycling between small towns in Denmark for a few days now and had completely safe interactions with drivers. Arterial roads have separated cycleways, roundabouts are basic cyclops designs, junctions have continuous foot/cycleways, and drivers all give way without fail.

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Tim on two wheels

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4 months

This driver crossed the red light several seconds after it changed. This is the junction where a cyclist was killed a few weeks ago because another driver did the same thing. Reported.

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3 months

Riding a bike, suggesting some people ride bikes, and asking for things that would allow people to ride bikes is anti-car or anti-driver. That’s true, even though more people riding bikes would make it easier to drive a car. That’s because of Lycra. 5/10

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Tim on two wheels

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8 months

Yes, but how would I do the shopping? Danish supermarket parking.

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@realWokeyLeaks Most people in the UK say they would cycle or walk if the roads were safer and there was better cycling and walking infrastructure. So, let's make the roads safer and improve cycling and walking infrastructure and give them the choice. It's probably the same in Ireland.

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We need a 20mph default in England now. Where higher speeds would be better, they can be justified and set appropriately.

Charlotte Baker

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So much appreciation for this article from @Benfogle in @thetimes 👏 I’ve lived in the New Forest and Oxfordshire, and cycled, walked and rode horses on roads like the ones he described 🚴‍♀️ 🐴 🚶🏼‍♀️ It’s terrifying and totally unnecessary to have 60mph limits in rural villages 👇

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To encourage more walking and cycling we’d need to lower the speed limit and improve walking and cycling infrastructure. But then everyone travelling would do so more freely. 2/2

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Tim on two wheels

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8 months

Letters and parcels delivered by bike. Didn’t they used to do that in the UK? Remind me again why they don’t anymore.

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“61% of Brits would be encouraged to cycle more if the roads were safer. 48% of respondents said that safety concerns are the reason they do not ride a bike.”

The Dutch turned the Netherlands into a bicycle utopia. Here’s how we can do the same in other...

Chris Bruntlett, author of Building the Cycling City: The Dutch Blueprint, tells us how the rest of the world can learn from the Netherlands

www.globalcyclingnetwork.com

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Tim on two wheels

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4 months

There really should be an immediate suspension of driving licence for driving that falls so far below the acceptable standard. They should not be on the road.

Doug Adam

@DougAdam3110

4 months

⁦ @PassPixi ⁩

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Tim on two wheels

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5 months

I’m often appalled by the attitudes of some on Twitter about cycling. Their unreasoned hate for people riding bikes is incomprehensible. Then I read tweets on other subjects from their timeline and conclude that their transport-related views are moderate by comparison.

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Tim on two wheels

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1 year

@CathyTuttle @ActiveTowns Agreed. Who’d want to run a business where so many people stroll by, sit at cafes and bars and buy things in shops. Great independent businesses in this area must find the prosperity hard compared to places on arterial roads.

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Tim on two wheels

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4 months

This is really one of the most telling Twitter experiments I've seen. Chapeau, Alan. It reinforces what we already know about #Motonormativity Sadly, because of motonormativity, many people won't see the point.

Alan Myles 🇵🇸

@AlanMyles8

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The results are in. 40k views, hundreds of comments and not a single one has said the driver of blue car should have gone slower (whilst the video is edited many believe it is real). Hundreds have said the cyclist should have despite going slower already.

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Tim on two wheels

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3 months

Just how does the drivers thought process go to decide to do that to a cyclist?

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Tim on two wheels

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10 months

This was may last few minutes before arriving home after spending the day teaching primary school kids how to ride on the road. The joy of the children at learning new skills and feeling confident on the road is amazing. Ending in the day with this driver was less so. 9/9

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Tim on two wheels

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10 months

I'll start fixing a bracket for a rear-facing camera. I have forward-facing images, but not enough to send to the police. Our local Walking and Cycling Vision suggests making this road a quiet street. It can't come soon enough for the children and adults who use it every day.

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Tim on two wheels

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3 months

This guy's tailgating resulted in a fine and points on his licence. Less than a second behind me, when the HC says 2. I do hope he learns that such careless driving has consequences. Driving or cycling on the road with these reckless drivers is dangerous and it has to stop.

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Tim on two wheels

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7 months

Ah, now I understand why too many drivers think there’s enough room to overtake a cyclist.

Dr Johnny Bananas

@barbedquill

7 months

…and the front wheels span forlornly Don’t blindly follow your SatNav lads

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1 year

I checked twitter this morning. Not a single former cabinet minister, television and radio presenter or police force felt any need to comment, either. Car drivers are limited to 12mph in the centre. Let’s have cities that are safe for children to ride on the road. 2/2

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Tim on two wheels

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3 months

Friend out driving saw a close pass on a cyclist that shocked them. They asked if I’d help them report to the police as they captured it on their dashcam. They shout in shock on the video. The message is getting out that we can make our roads safer.

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Tim on two wheels

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1 year

Nearly 1700 people on Twitter think having the shops round the corner is a bad thing because it limits our freedom.

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Tim on two wheels

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24 days

It’s a shock that 3794 people so far don’t think we should obey the first rule in the Highway Code. This suggests we should scrap all existing driving licences until these people can pass the theory test.

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Tim on two wheels

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3 months

You can get a tweet about a practical solution to the congestion outside my house to be seen by 50k people if some people tweet all of the things I’ve learnt from the replies and I reply. If they reply again it’s even better. And all the likes help. Thanks. 10/10

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1 year

Thanks to the Ford Focus driver who was able to park on the road when no one else seemed able. Every one parked outside a drive with parking space. Been walking up this road a few times a week for 30 years. The is is a new thing. A social virus.

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Tim on two wheels

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2 months

Had an interesting chat to the receptionist at the school where I was teaching cycling skills today. She’s tried riding for short journeys, but just can’t enjoy cycling when careless drivers close pass. Most people feel this. They’d cycle more if their journey felt safe.

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Tim on two wheels

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3 months

This obsession with all road users facing the same obligations is a serious impediment to us making our roads safer. We need to regulate the vehicles and users who have the greatest risk of consequential harm for others.

CryptoVenner

@CryptoVenner

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@CyclingInASkirt Cyclists should have number plates so they can held to account and easily identified. Equality is what is required.

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3 months

We can’t ever know anything about one of the most researched areas of our lives (travel), because that knowledge would be different from the things the people who don’t know about that area of our lives, believe. 6/10

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Tim on two wheels

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1 year

I have a question for driving instructors: did you get new guidance on what to teach when the Highway Code changed? I ask because Bikeability instructors did, but no driving instructor in my neighbourhood seems to be teaching rule H2. Wouldn’t this be a test fail?

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Tim on two wheels

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11 months

The UK government looked into this a few months back. This was the explanation for not doing so.

Good Morning Britain

@GMB

11 months

Should cyclists have registration plates?

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Tim on two wheels

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2 years

“The cycle path is expected to be 3m wide, with a grass verge separating it from a path for walkers 2.5m wide. It will be set at some distance from the track”.

Cycle paths to run alongside HS2 for 200 miles

The route of HS2, the high-speed railway line from London to Manchester, is to become an unlikely tourist and leisure destination, with a trail for cyclists

www.thetimes.co.uk

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Tim on two wheels

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10 months

How to save petrol and diesel? Ride a bike or walk for short journeys?

Fuel cost: How to save petrol and diesel

With weak competition adding to fuel prices, are drivers doing the right things to save money?

www.bbc.co.uk

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Tim on two wheels

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1 year

This lane takes you out of the city of Valencia into the countryside. Not at the standard of Dutch national network, but wouldn’t it be great if these sort of lanes linked U.K. towns and cities?

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Tim on two wheels

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8 months

Bike on a train, anyone.

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3 months

It’s not necessary to read a tweet before replying. This is because some people already know what it says and have a reply prepared. It saves time doing Twitter anyway. 7/10

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1 year

Norman said: “The safety benefits of mandating cycle helmets for cyclists are likely to be outweighed by the fact that this would put some people off cycling, thereby reducing the wider health and environmental benefits.”

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11 months

Sitting in my garden in the sun listening to the soundtrack of racing motorists speeding down the road where a cyclist was killed on Wednesday, I ask out loud, when will we do something about road crime and the slaughter of vulnerable road users?

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10 months

Whatever our individual views on helmet-wearing, we must understand that campaigning for separated cycling infrastructure on busy roads makes a far greater contribution to the safety of cyclists than wearing a helmet. Alex’s tweet distracts from the important campaign for safety.

Alex|🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🚴‍♂️

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10 months

A councillor advocating cycling lanes and their kid doesn’t even wear a helmet. How very irresponsible? Thoughts ?

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2 years

@NorthantsChief @AndyCoxDCS Dear Nick, from everyone who saw this and were astonished and angry, thank you.

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9 months

Given that the sun and a dinner plate are the same size, why doesn’t the dinner plate give us a sun tan?

critical urbanism

@criticalurban

9 months

Bicyclists complain about close passes except when it's the cyclist doing the close pass. Drivers should always give cyclists a wide birth, but it's hypocritical when cyclists do what they complain about cars doing. Cyclists can wait out traffic just like drivers.

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1 year

We have some lovely new pavements locally to replace the terrible ones we have had to put up with for years. Mainly broken by parking. This one went down today. Some drivers have already started to use them for parking.

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We can’t reduce congestion near my house because someone know somewhere that the things that would reduce congestion near my house won’t work where they live because they don’t like it. 4/10

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I tweeted that if 6% of the people creating this congestion cycled or walked there wouldn’t be any congestion. That’s those driving under 2 miles sometimes cycling or walking. Many people read that as meaning no one should drive. That’s very odd. Why do they do that?

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11 months

If half the people in these cars, walked or cycled half of their journeys of under two miles there wouldn’t be a queue as a result of motor vehicle congestion.

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Close passing is one of the greatest concerns for cyclists. The Highway Code rules says drivers should pass cyclists at over 1.5m. It also says if you can’t pass safely, don’t pass. These are easy concepts to understand. Making other stuff up helps no one.

Phil Brighton

@philbrighton1

11 months

Another troll in Lycra crying, “look at me, look at me”. Looking at the image, the driver has clearly given the cyclist at least 80% of the lane; 2 or 3 times the width of a cycle lane. This is the kind of crap that leads to genuine cyclists concerns not being taken seriously.

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5 months

I’m off to teach Bikeability in a local school today. The children will love it. I’ll love it. It’s only ten minutes ride away, and is one of the least stressful rides I do. That it would be unsuitable for these children to ride is a major indictment of our travel policies.

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1 year

Highway Code Rule 185: When reaching the roundabout you should give priority to traffic approaching from your right. Another day I'm so glad I have disk brakes.

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Many people don’t understand that junctions are where two or more roads full of traffic join. They don’t understand that traffic lights are there to make sure some people can move forwards a little bit for some of the time. 3/10

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Why would you try and overtake a cyclist in the same lane, when the oncoming lane is free? They close passed at 0.15m when they should do so at 1.5m. Hopefully the police action will be a positive influence on their driving.

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1 year

I’ve been having serious vertigo for several weeks and meds keep me stable getting around. Strangely, though, on the bike I have no vertigo at all.

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1 year

Like everyone else, I only found out about the motor car trial yesterday. While it has had some success giving people alternatives to walking or cycling, there have been huge issues with policing them, safety, parking that need to be fixed.

Councillor David Barker

@David4BKH

1 year

Like everyone else, I only found out about Voi pausing the e-scooter trial yesterday. While it has had some success giving people alternatives to walking or driving, there have been huge issues with policing them, safety, parking that need to be fixed.

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2 years

Tomorrow I’m doing my training to be a Bikeability trainer.

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3 months

A positive, practical solution for congestion near my house can be completely undermined by telling me to move, telling me I don’t know anything about where I live or being abusive. 9/10

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7 months

So many twitter challenges to drivers getting prosecuted for close passing cyclists are football fans. How do they manage with a rule-based sport, but really struggle with rule-based roads? Is it that they are so obsessed with partiality it blinds them to applying rules fairly?

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Tim on two wheels

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7 months

This driver close passed me while I was cycling to work. He will receive a fixed penalty ticket for the close pass, so they can either have points & fine or undertake an education course. I hope they pay for the course. All drivers should know you should pass a cyclist at 1.5m.

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6 months

More people, and especially more women, would cycle if we had proper separated cycling infrastructure.

alejandro (@neurozorro.bsky.social)

@elneurozorro

6 months

How do we close the cycling gender gap? Men are more likely to cycle, including utilitarian uses. A recent fascinating paper uses Strava data to conclude: "the presence of physical separation for motorized traffic, are associated to a more balanced gender ratio"

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Tim on two wheels

@2wheelsgoodBrum

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I had three close passes of under 0.2m today within 1.3km. One was as we approached the junction where a cyclist was killed a few weeks ago and they were using their phone as they close passed. This driver also had illegally tinted windows and obscured numberplate. All reported.

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Tim on two wheels

@2wheelsgoodBrum

3 months

London isn’t Amsterdam. No one will cycle in London. Wait until the winter. No one will cycle in the winter.

Cycling in London

@Cycling_In_LDN

3 months

Build it etc. etc. It’s really that simple if you want to get people cycling:

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Tim on two wheels

@2wheelsgoodBrum

4 months

I got feedback from WMPolice today on my first DashCam report. They are taking action against the reckless driver who overtook us well-over the speed limit in atrocious weather in a notorious black spot for collisions. 1000s of drivers, cyclists and pedestrians report every week.

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Tim on two wheels

@2wheelsgoodBrum

7 months

This obsession with fault drives division and distracts from the important issues on our roads. The core question is how do we make our roads safe for two people to be able to wave a cheerful greeting without their lives being put at risk? 1/2

Justin Stokes

@JustinS17753516

7 months

@geckobike @The_NFRSA Both too busy waving at each other instead of focusing on the road and possible hazards around them. The road isn't a place for a social event. Cyclist are at complete fault for this situation.

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Tim on two wheels

@2wheelsgoodBrum

1 month

Back in the UK after some time in Germany, we’re shocked by the pavement parking and sheer quantity of litter everywhere. Seeing our city through eyes accustomed to something else, we must come across as slovenly, self-centred and dirty to any visitor from outside. Shameful.

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Tim on two wheels

@2wheelsgoodBrum

2 years

Driving home tonight, I stopped at the zebra to let a mum with a pushchair cross from the right hand side. Three cars oncoming then went through without stopping. I genuinely only see this from drivers.

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Tim on two wheels

@2wheelsgoodBrum

8 months

West Midlands Police have started feeding back on reports using cycle cameras. This is an important development. I can now be reassured about my judgement to report, and we can build confidence in this vital tool of road crime prevention. @davidcox65 @pushbikesbcc @adamtranter

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Tim on two wheels

@2wheelsgoodBrum

6 months

Imagine if those of us who could, walked or cycled half of the journeys of under three miles that we currently drive. We’d have a health revolution. The experts: Cardiologists on 20 simple, successful steps to a healthy heart

The experts: Cardiologists on 20 simple, successful steps to a healthy heart

Our hearts are muscles and need proper fuel and rest. Here is how to keep yours on top form – from avoiding cocaine to watching your cholesterol

www.theguardian.com

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Tim on two wheels

@2wheelsgoodBrum

3 months

This tweet about a tailgating driver getting a fine and points for careless driving brought the anti-cycling trolls out. The report used dashcam footage from my car while on the motorway. The levels of denial from a loud minority are substantial. What can we learn [a thread]?

Tim on two wheels

@2wheelsgoodBrum

3 months

This guy's tailgating resulted in a fine and points on his licence. Less than a second behind me, when the HC says 2. I do hope he learns that such careless driving has consequences. Driving or cycling on the road with these reckless drivers is dangerous and it has to stop.

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Tim on two wheels

@2wheelsgoodBrum

11 months

If half the people in these cars, walked or cycled half of their journeys of under two miles there wouldn’t be a queue as a result of motor vehicle congestion.

Harry Gray

@H_H_Gray

11 months

Imagine getting stuck in traffic

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Tim on two wheels

@2wheelsgoodBrum

1 month

In Frankfurt, if you are making a delivery, you park on the road. You don’t park on the cycleway. You make sure that’s free.

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Tim on two wheels

@2wheelsgoodBrum

7 months

The evidence base for Low Traffic Neighbourhoods in London is growing.

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Tim on two wheels

@2wheelsgoodBrum

8 months

This is a Danish roundabout in a rural area. A fully separated cycleway and all drivers give cyclists priority in front of them. We should have these throughout the UK.

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Tim on two wheels

@2wheelsgoodBrum

2 years

@Ndolen2 @NorthantsChief It’s worth watching with the sound on. Clearly the driver initiates interaction by sounding their horn. That’s the first failure to follow the Highway Code. Given the driver’s willingness to use their car as a weapon, that was a good choice for the cyclists to dismount.

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