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Best gadget for cycling route mapping
Hi all, excuse my ignorance here, I am not very tech savvy. I have started road cycling and want a gadget like a Sat nav so that I can plot or upload my route and it will give me directions. I know there are smart phone apps but I have a very old very basic smart phone with no memory so that's no good. Ideas please? I…
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Please make my season ticket cheaper
My station is zone 8 swanley My season ticket should be £3040 ish, per year Are there any ways at all to make it cheaper? This will be the forth year im paying that and I'm only 22
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Some lorries could be banned from London because of danger to cyclists.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-37515940 could get interesting.
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Undercover police cyclists
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/bike-blog/2016/sep/16/undercover-bike-cops-launch-best-ever-cycle-safety-scheme-in-birmingham "" In many cases drivers just aren’t looking out for cyclists. He said: “The last two drivers we pulled over, we asked: ‘do you know how far away you were from the cyclist’, and they said…
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Rail Refund Charges
Does anyone know the justification for the charges for getting a refund on unused train tickets? (I didn't collect the tickets from the ticket collection machine). Just applied for a refund for a £27 journey bought using The Trainline. After the £10 charge (standard across the industry apparently) for each ticket for a…
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Shudehill to St Helens
Hi Can anyone advise on the best way to get from Shudehill Interchange to Linkway West, St Helens, as don't know the area at all, thanks
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20% off Railcards (online purchase)
Save 20% on various Railcards (16-25, Family & Friends, Two Together, Senior and Disabled Persons) when you buy online from now until 28th March. Use promotional code CHILTERN20. More details can be found here.
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coach card query
Hiya just bought a coach card but can't get it to work on the national express website. re there restrictions on time does anybody know? Had thought it applied at all times. thanks anyway
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Unlimited Rail Travel with Johnston Press
Newspaper offer £10.00 for one day or £17.50 for a weekend. Hop on and off all day long. Kids go half price. To qualify for this special offer, simply collect 2 tokens from your local newspaper, printed until Saturday 8 October 2016. https://www.northernrailway.co.uk/jpress Official MoneySavingExpert insert Tue 27 Sep: To…
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Arriva takeover 'could push up rail fares'
Transport giant Arriva's takeover of rail services in northern England has stifled competition and could push up fares on certain routes, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has warned...Read the full story: 'Arriva takeover 'could push up rail fares'' Click reply below to discuss. If you haven’t already, join the…
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Training tips for a long bike ride.
How do? Got a bit tipsy the other night and agreed to take part in a 100 mile bike ride which will be very hilly. I'm new to cycling and got up to 50 miles a few weeks ago but doe to a new job, bad weather and at least 5 more excellent excuses I've not been riding since. Did 15 miles this morning and it was like being back…
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Adjusting bike gears
I'm quite possibly the least mechanical poster on here so please bear with me here... My chain came off last weekend and jammed against something which took a little (but not much) effort to free. Since then I'm unable to get into the top level of gears. That is to say the biggest level on the front set. Sorry that this is…
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Bike frame misaligned by 7mm+ after just 13 months -- what would you do?
I bought a brand new bike online in May 2015 for £330 (reduced from £475 as it was end-of-line) and I was generally happy with it. In June this year (i.e. when it was 13 months old) I took it to a bike shop as the gears were skipping a lot. The bike mechanic measured it and said that the frame was misaligned by at least…
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Cycling fashion
After some advice about clothing whilst cycling. To set the scene, i commute to work planning on about 3/4 days a week, used to be so than i got a bit lazy and now doing it about once a week. Home to work is ~10 miles. And im in the north west so get wet a lot! Ive no idea how to handle the clothing side of things. Ive…
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Ticket refund 2 months and still waiting!
I bought some tickets online for a trip to London and forgot to include the tube. Called the train company and they said they'd send a form by email for me to reclaim and I could book the tickets I needed. This I did and completed the form. Just around a month after found I had not received the refund. Was asked to…
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Why aren't advance fares refundable?
I booked an advance single through East Mids Trains' website for the from 20.37 CHU to ALF this evening (Tues) changing at Stockport. The first leg was cancelled, making it impossible to reach Alfreton by any subsequent train. When I went to http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/times_fares/ticket_types/72098.aspx , I was stunned…
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I will knock you out ! BBCs Jeremy Vine films woman driver`s shocking road rage
Riding in front of her car down a narrow street with cars either side, Jeremy`s middle of the road riding ( to avoid car doors opening ) gets the woman frothing with rage ending up with her pointing an imaginary gun against him. Jeremy is leaving this case to the police to prosecute as he did earlier when he was knocked…
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Can I remove middle gear lever thingy?
My bike has 3 big gears in the middle and 8 at the back. I only ever use the middle 'big' gear in the middle and want to remove the mechanism that changes it, 1) to make more space on the handlebars, 2) if I kept it I'd need to fix it and it's not worth it (cheap runaround, it's an awful bike, but it is still a bike and…
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MSE News: 'Hopper fare' makes millions of London bus journeys free
London commuters and visitors can hop on two buses for the price of one for journeys within an hour from today...Read the full story: ''Hopper fare' makes millions of London bus journeys free' Click reply below to discuss. If you haven’t already, join the forum to reply. If you aren’t sure how it all works, read our New to…
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Cycling News
The private-hire driver who nudged the rear of my bicycle twice with the wing of his vehicle whilst I was stationary in a traffic queue last February has recently been found guilty of driving without due care and attention, has had to pay £950 in fines and court costs and received four points on his licence.
