I need a cycling thing to put over the picture of the tree that just fell on to my house, and turn it into a meme.
Just saw that a Zwift ride of mine from 2018 was flagged on Strava. This has to be a joke right? So I’m posting it here.
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I would have thought the Wattopia rides in the South Pacific would get flagged first.
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Did you take a cr or something?
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It’s too windy to go cycling when… 
Nice house. Pretty minor damage from the pics.
Council tree.
I’d be cutting slabs out of it.
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I hope you and your family are fine! Also I how for no mayor damages
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Thanks everyone escaped fine including my (new) neighbors very mint west coast rust free Tacoma, but only by a few feet. Her fence and that small portion of mine did not. Her response was I didn’t like this fence anyway so I guess this is a good excuse to replace it.
Spent an hour clearing the road at 7am and then went and did a TR ride…
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Does look like her fence needed some love and attention anyway 
No-one was hurt (hopefully) so just a matter of dealing with the mess.
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Does this count as a cycling joke? No idea why the mighty Youtube algorithm showed me this 
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I saw these posted as “improved cycling infrastructure” in the UK…
… someone was drinking when they marked those lines.
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To be fair, the second one isn’t too bad, but were they concerned cyclists would repeatedly run into the lamp posts?
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its worse here in Edinburgh where they have carved out a corner of the road with barricades making it ‘safe’ for cyclists. What they did not realise is that all the road junk, trash and gravel gets pushed into the corners and the cleaners cannot get in there anymore… so the lanes are now too risky to ride a road bike on and everyone has to use the road anyway, which is now narrower and more congested than before 
The morons in charge should have asked cyclists to consult on their hairbrained ideas
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Trust the morons, they know what’s best. Consultation would require they get out from behind their desk and reach out. It’s too much work. My early career was with a government road agency, so I’ve seen these things in action. Or should I say “inaction”
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The problem with telling morons what to do is that they invariably don’t do it.
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They do consult - I’ve had an opportunity on a couple of occasions to discuss planned cycling infrastructure projects in our area in UK. Problem is they don’t actually listen! Had a memorable conversation once where I was pointing out that certain elements of a planned cycle lane would put cyclists off from using it - it went through the middle of a number of busy bus stops, there were several points where cyclists were expected to dismount and walk across a pedestrian crossing to get to the next section of cycleway, there were some trees in the middle of the lane, etc. The planner angrily told me that as an existing cyclist “this scheme isn’t for people like you who already cycle, it’s for people who don’t cycle yet!”. So they went ahead and spent millions of pounds building it with months of disruption to all road users. And unsurprisingly lots of cyclists avoid the problematic bits and stay on the road instead, problem being that the road is now narrower as a result of the space given to the cycleway, and so drivers are (somewhat understandably) irate that cyclists are holding them up and not using the shiny new cycleway. Not much point consulting when you’ve already made your mind up 
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