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[miss_newham]

I have rather lost track of whether anyone I know still lives in Oxford, so clearly, if you do, you don't owe me nothin' - but my drumming band is playing at the Cowley Road Carnival on Sunday! For 8 minutes! Though I think there's a parade too, and the pleasing sound of the Age UK Oxfordshire World Tea Tent. Might be nice! We're also playing

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[kiss_me_quick]

My advice is go on a cycle training course - most London councils run them for free.

[miss_newham]

Oh yes, that's a good idea!

waaaaah!

[atommickbrane]

I miss R-KIOSKI!!

[pollitesss]

Top Tips for cycling in London.

1. Never cycle up the inside of a lorry at a junction. Specially not if it's indicating left. Commonest cause of cycling fatalities in London is left turning lorries crushing people in their blind spot.

2. The London Cycle Campaign Website is an excellent source of advice and includes videos showing you how to lock up your bike. Membership gives you free third party insurance in case you hit someone else. Which is possible, pedestrians in London seem to have difficulty assessing the speed of an approaching bike and seem to assume that you can stop in any distance or that they have a divine right to jump out in the cycle path at you even when the little man is on red

[miss_newham]

Ah, excellent, thank you! I would not dream of cycling around listening to music but I hadn't considered the possibility of hitting a pedestrian doing so - I shall bear that in mind. (The route from my flat to work has cycle paths alongside pedestrian footpaths, hooray.)

[randy_gibbons]

All excellent advice, especially about the Hi-vis and helmet, and very definitely also this:
1. Never cycle up the inside of a lorry at a junction. Specially not if it's indicating left. Commonest cause of cycling fatalities in London is left turning lorries crushing people in their blind spot.

As someone who does this for a living I can only applaud and emphasize this advice. That nice sized gap alongside a lorry sitting at a junction isn't there because he's left it for you because he's such a nice man, it's there because he needs it and he's very shortly going to use it.

[ophe1ia_in_red]

I will not be in Oxford by then! Come back to Oxford when I have moved there pls.

[cis]

aw i wish i had been in oxford for the cowleyval (a friend of mine was dancing in the parade iirc) but was alas in DURHAM with the gamelan, such is my jetsetting life. i hope it went well!

[miss_newham]

It was larks! Also on the bill: several ace steel bands, a young woman who insisted on singing Jessie J songs, some Germans on stilts operating enormous day-glo dinosaur skeleton puppets, even more steel bands. "Oxford is not so bad after all!", I thought.