Mark Heydon's Page

"A very nice looking bike, and for only $850! What height does a 60cm frame fit?"

"I totally agree with you on the fact that the toll of death and injury from motor vehicle crashes is a disgrace yet it is virtually ignored and almost accepted as "normal". I disagree that designing roads to make allowance for inevitable…"

"Reminds me of an engineering flow chart I saw the other week. "

"I think there is a "W" missing from the poster."

"Ok, "deserving it" is perhaps overly harsh, but they definitely have no right to complain when the inevitable happens. By the way, speed was definitely not a problem when I nearly hit a lightless rider during the week.  I was starting…"

"Hear hear. And while we're on lights, how many people are now riding around without lights?  The frequency of riders without lights seems very high at present. They fully deserve what is coming their way, if you ask me.  Nearly hit a…"

"I lived in London in 2008/09 and insurance premiums for both motor and house were far cheaper than Australia, even when it was forty odd pence to the dollar.  Competition is much stronger in the UK, which is reflected in retail prices on Wiggle…"

"It would only take a couple of days of cyclists in the traffic lanes following these rules for (a) some serious harm to be done to cyclists and maybe (b) the law to be changed."

"+1"

"Mostly agree, but I would say it should be optimised for movement of people.  In the CBD, this is pedestrians.  In other parts of Sydney it would be cars. The intersection out the front of my office building gives 8 seconds of pedestrian…"

"Photo 22 just shows normal cycle commute in Brazil, doesn't it?"

"after your post some time back about getting off and then back on, I do just that."

"Everyone needs to remember that as cyclists we are part of "them"....y'know that group of people who are not part of "us"....this is the key issue. As long as we are one of "them" not matter what we do we will…"

"Safe to say she did it to diffuse the rego distraction. It's well established that rego for bikes is not feasible."

"Ahhh, rego. My wife is no-by-choice car bound, her car is fully registered, yet she gets less respect than me. In all honesty I would struggle to have a major issue with other road users once every few months (and then you generally hear…"

"I believe the LM was just flushing out the government from their silence on the topic to put an end to the recurring senseless commentary in the media. I am confident that this wasn't her expressing being in favour of it."