Logging activities: A question of trust
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Jun 2012
2:45pm, 20 Jun 2012
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island991
There is one downhill segment near me, which I ride fairly often. It gets quite narrow, dark (over hung), and has a tightish blind bend. Could be nasty. On the hand I was quite pleased to see I was high up on the leader board! I presume singletrack is talking about mtb downhills? |
Jun 2012
3:24pm, 20 Jun 2012
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GregP
Predominantly, yes.
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Jun 2012
3:29pm, 20 Jun 2012
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island991
Big lumps like me go downhill rather well.
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Jun 2012
10:35am, 23 Jun 2012
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Badger
Speaking of downhills on Strava... velonews.competitor.com |
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Jun 2012
4:48pm, 23 Jun 2012
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GregP
Crikey. I've forwarded it to Jenn at Singletrack - you read her article I assume?
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Jun 2012
6:05pm, 23 Jun 2012
2,901 posts
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island991
These people have to take responsibility themselves IMO. We all set times, and try and beat them in training, and have done for years using GPS or just a stopwatch. Should we be suing garmin for making accurate gps? As for the guy doing 35 in a 25 zone, well that's breaking the law, reckless, he hit and killed someone and he has to pay the price. If you cycle recklessly its your own fault, accidents happen, |
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Jun 2012
6:06pm, 23 Jun 2012
2,902 posts
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island991
* steps off soap box
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Jun 2012
6:09pm, 23 Jun 2012
2,903 posts
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island991
Infact reading it again they were both exceeding speed limits. This litigious world winds me up something rotten. |
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Jun 2012
6:26pm, 23 Jun 2012
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Badger
Grep: no, not yet, couldn't see how to get it without subscribing! Island: totally agree. My worry is that I hate this sue-for-everything attitude. People complain about 'health and safety gone mad', but the fact is that when fun things get banned on H&S grounds, it's generally because people have taken a hard look at them and decided that they are too vulnerable to lawsuits if something goes wrong (conkers in school playgrounds being a prime example). There is, though, a big separation in my mind between kids playing conkers for fun and people cycling/driving well above the speed limit - that is to say, if Bucchere's victim had been disabled rather than killed, I think a lawsuit against Bucchere would have been completely in order. Stating the obvious, trying to say there's nothing wrong with lawsuits but a line has to be drawn where they are too trivial to be tolerated, and it isn't. |
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Jun 2012
9:45pm, 23 Jun 2012
60,958 posts
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GregP
Badgo - fmail me an email address and I'll send you a copy. We can no longer replace light bulbs in the chancel at St Giles by making a pyramid of three step ladders. This is probably a good thing caused by health and safety awareness. And I agree with Island. I often do. |
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