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resolvedHey folks,
Can anyone point me at a good concise beginners guide to vehicular or otherwise safe cycling for a newcomer to the road? Not the mechanics of riding a bike but the essentials of not going up the inside of lorries, road position and so on? Preferably on the web.
Thanks sweets.
Cycle Craft:
Should be lord franklin given the sensible advice but then of course the original lord franklin met a sticky end trying to find the north west passage and as Bert jansch sang with pentangle only the Eskimo in his skin canoe was the only one to ever get through (too many onlys for that to be the exact lyric but good song and comes just before the even better
When I get home, with Bert singing again and the equally great Danny Thomson on bass on my best of pentangle CD
I bet ruggtomcat would like a link to a website that does everything cyclcraft covers but does not link you to a product you have to buy, rather gives the immediate knowledge as the Internet is good that way if someone else has trawled through the adverts and less helpful stuff first
Lots of Inuit wisdom here. My auntie sent me all of Due South. Just got to the first episode where Fraser's dead dad comes back. I thought they had that from the start but it was a quite a few episodes in.
yah! It appears Gembo does have a point, albeit at the end of a very looooong stick ;)
the Internet is good that way if someone else has trawled through the adverts and less helpful stuff first
Come on, everyone knows how to use a search engine. Even ruggtomcat.
yes, so maybe using hivemind might be better?
I ask partly because I cant think of one bar Sheldon, and maybe it would be helpful to make one if not. I have a friend who is unlikely to order a book but would gobble up a website in no time.
There's some stuff about bikeability here http://www.dft.gov.uk/bikeability/the-three-levels/
Not sure if there's an online version of the teaching notes? AFAIR it's based on CycleCraft.
UPDATE - teaching guide here http://www.dft.gov.uk/bikeability/wp-content/uploads/Bikeability_Delivery_Guide.pdf
I mentioned this one recently - not checked it out fully, but it is probably along the same lines:
Although I'll second the Cyclecraft advice. I read it after starting commuting regularly, and it would have saved me several years of personal "experiences"...
Robert
There's this: (from "another place")
http://www.cyclechat.net/threads/the-essential-guide-for-new-commuters.56622/
done by one person and improved with comments from others. I have not read it (or if I did, it was a while ago).
Thats a great link Roibeard, thanks :)
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