TfL cycling (on-yer-bike posters) spot-the-problem quiz
 

TfL are currently publicising a load of cycling route guides on
various tube stations posters / newspaper adverts etc. You may have
seen one with a cyclist with motion blur cycling past a pie and mash
shop.

Now if you next see that advert, see if you can spot what's wrong
with the picture. There's something that's just not right with it,
especially given who is promoting these cycling guides.

I'll post the answer on this newsgroup later.

--
Simon Hewison

TfL cycling (on-yer-bike posters) spot-the-problem quiz
 

Simon Hewison wrote:

TfL are currently publicising a load of cycling route guides on
various tube stations posters / newspaper adverts etc. You may have
seen one with a cyclist with motion blur cycling past a pie and mash
shop.

Now if you next see that advert, see if you can spot what's wrong
with the picture. There's something that's just not right with it,
especially given who is promoting these cycling guides.

I'll post the answer on this newsgroup later.


The cyclist is riding on the wrong side of the road?

TfL cycling (on-yer-bike posters) spot-the-problem quiz
 

Simon Hewison wrote the following in:


TfL are currently publicising a load of cycling route guides on
various tube stations posters / newspaper adverts etc. You may have
seen one with a cyclist with motion blur cycling past a pie and mash
shop.

Now if you next see that advert, see if you can spot what's wrong
with the picture. There's something that's just not right with it,
especially given who is promoting these cycling guides.

Cycling on the pavement? Pie shop isn't in London?

--
message by Robin May, but I would say that, wouldn't I?

"You MUST NOT drive dangerously" - the Highway Code
Spelling lesson: then and than are different words.

TfL cycling (on-yer-bike posters) spot-the-problem quiz
 

On 2004-04-29, Dan Gravell wrote:
Simon Hewison wrote:

TfL are currently publicising a load of cycling route guides on
various tube stations posters / newspaper adverts etc. You may have
seen one with a cyclist with motion blur cycling past a pie and mash
shop.

Now if you next see that advert, see if you can spot what's wrong
with the picture. There's something that's just not right with it,
especially given who is promoting these cycling guides.

I'll post the answer on this newsgroup later.


The cyclist is riding on the wrong side of the road?

Correct. The cyclist is riding from right to left, with the bike wheels
almost in the gutter, next to the pavement, therefore they're on the wrong
side. Surely TfL should be promoting safe cycling, not cycling like the
idiot on the poster.

--
Simon Hewison

TfL cycling (on-yer-bike posters) spot-the-problem quiz
 

Simon Hewison wrote:

Correct. The cyclist is riding from right to left, with the bike wheels
almost in the gutter, next to the pavement, therefore they're on the wrong
side. Surely TfL should be promoting safe cycling, not cycling like the
idiot on the poster.

ahem you replied to the wrong person ;)

One way road? Just before a right hand turn?

My fists are white from the straws I'm grasping.

TfL cycling (on-yer-bike posters) spot-the-problem quiz
 

Simon Hewison wrote:
On 2004-04-29, Dan Gravell wrote:
Simon Hewison wrote:

TfL are currently publicising a load of cycling route guides on
various tube stations posters / newspaper adverts etc. You may have
seen one with a cyclist with motion blur cycling past a pie and mash
shop.

Now if you next see that advert, see if you can spot what's wrong
with the picture. There's something that's just not right with it,
especially given who is promoting these cycling guides.

I'll post the answer on this newsgroup later.


The cyclist is riding on the wrong side of the road?

Correct. The cyclist is riding from right to left, with the bike
wheels almost in the gutter, next to the pavement, therefore they're
on the wrong side. Surely TfL should be promoting safe cycling, not
cycling like the idiot on the poster.

Is the scene in a one way street?

TfL cycling (on-yer-bike posters) spot-the-problem quiz
 

Dan Gravell wrote:

ahem you replied to the wrong person ;)

Apologies - appears my newsreader threading was wrong the first time (it
is v0.5 still ;) ) or my sight is worse than I thought...

TfL cycling (on-yer-bike posters) spot-the-problem quiz
 

On 2004-04-29, Brimstone wrote:
Is the scene in a one way street?

Extra points if you can name the street and whether or not it is
actually a one-way street.

TfL cycling (on-yer-bike posters) spot-the-problem quiz
 

"Simon Hewison" wrote in message
...
TfL are currently publicising a load of cycling route guides on
various tube stations posters / newspaper adverts etc. You may have
seen one with a cyclist with motion blur cycling past a pie and mash
shop.

Now if you next see that advert, see if you can spot what's wrong
with the picture. There's something that's just not right with it,
especially given who is promoting these cycling guides.

I'll post the answer on this newsgroup later.


Is it that they took the picture then decided to reflect it as it 'looked
better'? Or that its not even in the UK.

Jaime

TfL cycling (on-yer-bike posters) spot-the-problem quiz
 

On Thu, 29 Apr 2004 17:20:43 +0100, jaime
wrote in :

"Simon Hewison" wrote in message
...
TfL are currently publicising a load of cycling route guides on
various tube stations posters / newspaper adverts etc. You may have
seen one with a cyclist with motion blur cycling past a pie and mash
shop.

Now if you next see that advert, see if you can spot what's wrong
with the picture. There's something that's just not right with it,
especially given who is promoting these cycling guides.

I'll post the answer on this newsgroup later.

Is it that they took the picture then decided to reflect it as it 'looked
better'? Or that its not even in the UK.

The shop sign is readable -- see a small version at
http://www.tfl.gov.uk/streets/cyclin...leguides.shtml
so it's not flipped. May be a composite.

--
Ivan Reid, Electronic & Computer Engineering, ___ CMS Collaboration,
Brunel University. Room 40-1-B12, CERN

TfL cycling (on-yer-bike posters) spot-the-problem quiz
 

Simon Hewison wrote:
On 2004-04-29, Brimstone wrote:
Is the scene in a one way street?

Extra points if you can name the street and whether or not it is
actually a one-way street.

The pie & mash shop says "Traditional Since 189x" (the x is obscured by
the cyclist). That may mean that it's Goddard's of Greenwich or Robins
of East Ham, both of which started in 1890, I think. It's not Goddard's
(wrong design of shop front), so I'll guess it's Robins, which is at 105
High Street North, E6. As far as I can tell from information on the
web, there is a 1-way flow northbound at this point, and Robins is on
the west side, so the cyclist is going against the one-way flow.

AICMFP

--
Richard J.
(to e-mail me, swap uk and yon in address)

TfL cycling (on-yer-bike posters) spot-the-problem quiz
 

In article , Simon Hewison
writes
Correct. The cyclist is riding from right to left, with the bike wheels
almost in the gutter, next to the pavement, therefore they're on the wrong
side.

That sounds like the cycle lane along Petty France. Road is eastbound
only, cycle lane is westbound only and on the north side.

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TfL cycling (on-yer-bike posters) spot-the-problem quiz
 

"Dr Ivan D. Reid" wrote in message
...

May be a composite.

I'm amazed the shot doesn't show a cyclist tearing along a pavement at 35
miles an hour, yelling "get out the way, you beckstext*******/beckstext
w**k**s!"

Ian

TfL cycling (on-yer-bike posters) spot-the-problem quiz
 

On Thu, 29 Apr 2004 18:40:27 +0100, "Clive D. W. Feather"
wrote:

In article , Simon Hewison
writes
Correct. The cyclist is riding from right to left, with the bike wheels
almost in the gutter, next to the pavement, therefore they're on the wrong
side.

That sounds like the cycle lane along Petty France. Road is eastbound
only, cycle lane is westbound only and on the north side.

All the on-road contraflow cycle lanes I can think of are on the left
side of the road. If you can remember, is there any obvious reason why
the lane in Petty France is on the right? Is it separated from the
main carriageway by a kerb or simply a white line?

PaulO

TfL cycling (on-yer-bike posters) spot-the-problem quiz
 

On Thu, 29 Apr 2004, Clive D. W. Feather wrote:

In article , Simon Hewison
writes
Correct. The cyclist is riding from right to left, with the bike wheels
almost in the gutter, next to the pavement, therefore they're on the wrong
side.

That sounds like the cycle lane along Petty France. Road is eastbound
only, cycle lane is westbound only and on the north side.

Or Torrington Place: there's a bidirectional, partially segregated, cycle
lane on the eastbound side. As a cyclist, i wish it wasn't there, as it's
a pain to get on to, and just makes it hard to turn north from the
westbound main lane!

tom

--
Don't trust the laws of men. Trust the laws of mathematics.

TfL cycling (on-yer-bike posters) spot-the-problem quiz
 

On Sat, 1 May 2004 at 16:16:18, Paul Oter wrote:

All the on-road contraflow cycle lanes I can think of are on the left
side of the road. If you can remember, is there any obvious reason why
the lane in Petty France is on the right? Is it separated from the
main carriageway by a kerb or simply a white line?

The one outside my window is on the right, now I come to think of it.
It is separated from the main carriageway by a kerb.
--
Annabel Smyth
http://www.amsmyth.demon.co.uk/index.html
Website updated 8 March 2004

TfL cycling (on-yer-bike posters) spot-the-problem quiz
 

In article ,
says...

The pie & mash shop says "Traditional Since 189x" (the x is obscured by
the cyclist). That may mean that it's Goddard's of Greenwich or Robins
of East Ham, both of which started in 1890, I think. It's not Goddard's
(wrong design of shop front), so I'll guess it's Robins, which is at 105
High Street North, E6. As far as I can tell from information on the
web, there is a 1-way flow northbound at this point, and Robins is on
the west side, so the cyclist is going against the one-way flow.

AICMFP


Definitely not Robins, wrong type of shop front, no writing on the
windows, no chequered tiling. Robins proclaims it's been established
over 50 years. [You are quite correct about the one-way flow at this
part of High Street North]

TfL cycling (on-yer-bike posters) spot-the-problem quiz
 

Jim Brittin wrote:
In article ,
says...

The pie & mash shop says "Traditional Since 189x" (the x is
obscured by the cyclist). That may mean that it's Goddard's of
Greenwich or Robins of East Ham, both of which started in 1890, I
think. It's not Goddard's (wrong design of shop front), so I'll
guess it's Robins, which is at 105 High Street North, E6. As far
as I can tell from information on the web, there is a 1-way flow
northbound at this point, and Robins is on the west side, so the
cyclist is going against the one-way flow.

AICMFP


Definitely not Robins, wrong type of shop front, no writing on the
windows, no chequered tiling. Robins proclaims it's been
established over 50 years. [You are quite correct about the
one-way flow at this part of High Street North]

I based the 1890 opening of Robins on a BBC London report (which also
got the address wrong!) :-(
--
Richard J.
(to e-mail me, swap uk and yon in address)

TfL cycling (on-yer-bike posters) spot-the-problem quiz
 

On Sat, 1 May 2004 20:27:01 +0100, Tom Anderson
wrote:


Or Torrington Place: there's a bidirectional, partially segregated, cycle
lane on the eastbound side. As a cyclist, i wish it wasn't there, as it's
a pain to get on to, and just makes it hard to turn north from the
westbound main lane!

tom

Yes, if I had been designing this facility, I would have put it on the
other side of the road. Having said that, you should be able to get
into the reservoir area if the traffic is stopped, or cross TCR later
if it is moving. Of course, you aren't *required* to use this cycle
lane!

Straying a bit, the eastern end of this route (the Seven Stations
Link) comes to an abrupt end at Woburn Place, with offside traffic
lights but separated cycle lanes. Does anyone know why it has not been
completed?

Regards,

Clive

--
Clive R Robertson -- AS/400 Programmer.

Webmaster of http://www.osterleypark.org.uk/ -- this describes
a beautiful National Trust property in West London.

TfL cycling (on-yer-bike posters) spot-the-problem quiz
 

In article , Paul Oter
writes
All the on-road contraflow cycle lanes I can think of are on the left
side of the road. If you can remember, is there any obvious reason why
the lane in Petty France is on the right?

No, unless it's that there's no side turns on that side.

Is it separated from the
main carriageway by a kerb or simply a white line?

Kerb, IIRC.

--
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