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I've got to add that being in a rented flat, I could not put heavy duty screws fixings through the walls, and the rail can be moved easily or even put on castors to help that.
There are plenty of very cheap specialised hooks to hang bikes from garages walls.
Given his enthusiasm for lawsuits over the years, this could ruin him. Couldn't happen to a nicer guy.
Good idea though I'd be worried about slipping on the sides - not when entering but while riding along it.
HA! I'll believe this when I see it and not before. I cycle to Northampton every day to work and every day I feel I am taking my life in my hands; so much so that I wear full hi-vis and when I get into town have back and front flashing lights just so the half-asleep commuters can't say they didn't see me.
I've cycled an End to End and also a side to side and have never fell so threatened on the roads as in the centre of Northampton. The cycle lane going into the town centre is barely bigger than the double yellows, full of potholes and generally driven in by cars anyway. Junctions are a nightmare. The traffic lights barely give cyclists more than a second or two extra to get out of the way. As for the cyclepath up the A43, don't get me started. It goes up one side, then crosses to the other and then - just as the A43 really gets narrow and dangerous - it gives out completely!!! Well why wouldn't it? Added to that, it's usually covered in debris including litter, pine cones, broken glass, dirty nappies, broken up with weeds and so overgrown that barely one bike can get through let alone two (sometimes I take secateurs with me to work and give the trees a trim on the way). It's a joke. Well it would be if it was funny. Then you've got the appalling state of the actual roads which are so potholed it's not funny. There's one main road which desperately needs resurfacing and has done for years and all they've done is send a workman out to put a shovelfull of tar on it and jump on it a bit. So put your money where your mouth is, NCC, there's more people cycle than I do and we're waiting. And I WILL NOT be forced into my car because of some ****witted drivers on my daily commute.
Rant complete.
Simple maths, you have to pick 9 riders, so 198/9 = 22
Thats without having the 4/5 split
I disagree - I'm with the good Dr on this one. I ride to work, with my family and for sport and pointing to Dutch style paths wouldn't be appealing for all these purposes.
It also rankles when Holland is referenced all the time - yes it has a great infrastructure but its a tiny country with little in common to the UK and Amsterdam is no London.
This sounds really harsh, as a fellow cyclist, but when I rode this year's L2B bike ride, after a gap of 25 years, I found that 85% of cyclists jumped red lights, deliberately ignoring not just volunteers holding up big signs to try to get people to stop, but also ignoring police trying to stop them as well.
I'm utterly shocked by the arrogance of what appears to be a very substantial number of cyclists who evidently think that they have the right to make decisions about which laws they should abide by, even though those laws are set to try to protect all road users and pedestrians, regardless of the adverse impact that their actions have on peoples' opinions about cyclists.
Frankly, the ONLY way to solve this ridiculous and dangerous situation is to confiscate bikes, put them in a truck, sell them for charity, and post Youtube videos so we can all enjoy seeing the anguish on the faces of these selfish idiots. And if they're on Boris bikes, I'd love to see their faces when they get an email saying that their standard of riding was of insufficient standard to use the service, and that their access key has been forfeited.
If you're a red light jumper, and you're reading this, you need to realise that whatever excuse you're using to try to justify why you think you have a right to jump lights, you are partly resonsible for pedestrians hating cyclists, drivers hating cyclists, and other cyclists hating cyclists. In fact the only people who love you is the media, who love to create a situation where everyone hates cyclists.
You're arrogant, you're selfish, and I would love it if your bike was "donated" to charity.
Larry is merely reaping what he's sown
I have some theories that it's related to anxiety or stress, drivers realising the risks involved, time pressures and maybe also feeling pressure from other drivers, ultimately resulting in fight or flight response, when patience is what is needed. When looking for a reason for this reaction, they will try to justify it by claiming the road is for cars, since this belief and failing to adjust behaviour for other road users created the anxiety and conflict in the first place.
Actually this is not accurate.
If you provide excellent infrastructure that feels safe, allows different speeds, has appropriate priority, is convenient and direct then probably almost all cyclists will use it (just as they do in the Netherlands).
It is only true to say "you can’t expect them all to accept the same infrastructure provision" when you are talking about poor infrastructure (surely by definition it is poor if not all people on bikes want to use it).
Dave
i use a 38/42 on the front, with a 13-26 on the back. i've never been overgeared in any london league races, and because cross is run in england on twistier, slower courses than in belgium, i've never spun out, despite using smaler gears than most. i think people would be better off using narrower ratios like a 13/26 as opposed to a 12/27 or 11/28 because the gaps between the gears are smaller so you are more likely to find the right gear. anbother benefit of having a 42 instead of a 46 is that you can stay in the big ring 98% of the time, which is much simpler than having to constantly change at the front.
thats just my setup, hope its helpful
Nov 4 1 point 132km
Nov 18 1 point 175km
Nov 25 2 points 211km
Dec 1 1 point 148km
Dec 2 1 point 139km
Dec 9 1 point 136km
Dec 30 1 point 106km
Jan 1 2 point 202km
Jan 6 1 point 135km
Jan 13 1 point 131km
Jan 20 1 point 136km
Jan 27 1 point 171km
Feb 17 1 point 167km
Feb 24 1 point 169km
Mar 9 1 point 152km
Mar 16 2 points 201km
Mar 23 1 point 173km
Mar 31 1 point 117km
Apr 13 1 point 141km
Apr 20 1 point 156km
Apr 27 1 point 172km
May 5 1 point 108km
May 18 1 point 163km
June 1 1 point 164km
June 8 1 point 132km
June 15 1 point 132km
June 22 1 point 131km
July 6 1 point 124km
July 13 1 point 124km
Aug 3 1 point 109km
Aug 10 1 point 112km
Aug 19 1 point 124km
Aug 24 1 point 123km
Aug 31 1 point 123km
Sep 7 1 point 130km
Sep 15 1 point 110km
Sep 21 1 point 167km
Sep 28 1 point 102km
Oct 7 1 point 105km
Oct 12 1 point 129km
Total Pts 43
Total Km 5674 km
Hope Simeoni gets his slice...
12 Nov 66.06 miles/ 106.31 km/ 1pt
19 Nov 75.02 miles/ 120.73 km/ 1pt
10 Dec 64.27 miles/ 103.43 km/ 1pt
7 Jan 64.27 miles/ 103.43 km/1pt
18 Feb 62.57 miles/ 100.70km/ 1pt
23 March 66.65 miles/ 107.26 km/ 1pt
14 April 80.72 miles/ 129.7 km/ 1pt
21 April 66. 62 miles/ 107.21 km/ 1pt
05 May 67.64 miles/ 108.86 km/ 1pt
10 June 70.50 miles/ 113.46 km/ 1pt
30 June 72.2 miles/ 116.19 km/ 1pt
21 July 70.2 miles/ 112.98km/ 1pt
07 August 84.5 miles/ 136.99 km/ 1pt
19 August 101.4 miles/ 163.19 km/ 1pt
29 Sept 70.1 miles/ 112.81 km/ 1pt
13 Oct 70.5 miles/ 113.46 km/ 1pt - Done!
Total 16 pt/ 1856.71 km
yes. People who doped shouldn't be working with teams now. They should be banned from the sport completely.
No, it's starting to look like anyone he squashed wants their money/reputation back.
hmm… I'm going to have to watch my step on the old practice/practise thing
To be honest i think the best thing is to reconsider sanctions if riders come forward and admit that they doped. I think as an era a majority did can you really strip every win, and ban every rider?
Sounds like a great idea to me. Apart from anything else, the fact that it's relatively inexpensive might just persuade forward-thinking councils that provision can be made for cyclists within their budgets.
Intriguing, I'd like to know:
what is the riding surface?
Can it be repaired by regular road maintenance equipment or does it need specialist kit?
Will it be accessible by standard streetsweeper / cleaner vehicles (wishful thinking that they might sweep it I know)
Does it allow drainage into drains that are usually placed in the gutter or access to manholes?
if the cross section has rounded off edges as in the diagram then wouldnt it create a nasty wheel trapping groove between kerb and bikeway?
"3)at the point at which the competition is turned on the rider values will be calculated. They'll be calculated based on a rider's performance in the year preceding that date; ie all races up to one year in the past will be considered
4) the scores of each rider will be totted up to generate averages for each type of stage; they'll be weighted according to the importance of the race, and how many of each kind of stage features in the upcoming race
5) based on that, each rider will be given a value, and the highest-ranked riders will be star riders. so a rider won't necessarily stay a star if they do badly over a season, and the reverse is also true."
It seems to me like you're gonna do much of the thinking for us... I'm pretty worried that this might lead to winning by pure luck...
good article chaps - more cross stuff please!
A couple of things: Bernie - about your gearing question - of course it depends on course, fitness, riding style etc. but in general I would say that you might want a wider range block. 38/23 is going to be a right grind if the course is particularly steep in places. Yes, you can dismount and run up stuff but its less tiring and more efficient to pedal over short climbs. I've done a couple of races where I barely got out of the bottom 4 sprockets a- but then I don't finish anywhere near the front either! IMHO a 12-27 would serve you better or maybe a 36T ring up front if your chainset will take it.
RoadCC: please can we have a large picture of Paul's tasty bike if you have one and I'd be interested if you knew what ratios he's using on his 1x10 transmission
ta
How many more to go, I wonder?
Armstrongs lawyers look like having a busy few years ahead.
These were the Star Riders in the Tour. I miscounted and there's 60, if I'm correct. The points that appear are their total points for the Tour:
1 Peter Sagan 550
2 Bradley Wiggins 475
3 Christopher Froome 367
4 Matthew Goss 326
5 Vicenzo Nibali 304
6 Tejay van Garderen 301
7 Andre Greipel 295
8 Thomas Voeckler 293
9 Cadel Evans 288
10 Edvald Boasson Hagen 270
11 Mark Cavendish 245
12 Pierre Rolland 204
13 Fredrik Kessiakoff 201
14 Jurgen van den Broeck 191
15 Chris Anker Sorensen 162
16 Luis Leon Sanchez 161
17 Peter Velits 130
18 Alejandro Valverde 124
19 Haimar Zubeldia 122
20 Denis Menchov 122
21 Nicolas Roche 101
22 Philippe Gilbert 100
23 Janez Brajkovic 97
24 Sebastien Hinault 96
25 Rein Taaramae 94
26 Juan Jose Haedo 90
27 Samuel Dumoulin 82
28 Michele Scarponi 81
29 Daniel Martin 78
30 Alexandre Vinokourov 76
31 David Millar 75
32 Steven Kruijswijk 73
33 Dries Devenyns 72
34 Jean-Christophe Peraud 70
35 Tyler Farrar 68
36 Andreas Kloden 63
37 Gregory Henderson 61
38 Jeremy Roy 56
39 Borut Bozic 56
40 Maxime Monfort 51
41 Bernhard Eisel 51
42 Laurens ten Dam 50
43 Chris Horner 49
44 Michael Rogers 46
45 Ivan Basso 44
46 Karsten Kroon 39
47 Christian Knees 39
48 Rui Alberto Faria Da Costa 38
49 Jurgen Roelandts 38
50 Marco Marcato 35
51 Jelle Vanendert 31
52 Daniel Oss 28
53 Sebastian Langeveld 20
54 Rafael Valls Ferri 16
55 Levi Leipheimer 13
56 Juan Jose Cobo 11
57 Simon Gerrans 10
58 Nick Nuyens 9
59 Johnny Hoogerland 6
60 George Hincapie 3
I still think that's too much... I still think that, hard as it may be, there shouldn't be more than 20 Stars per Grand Tour. I'd be ok with the Top 20 on this list to have been the only Stars.
Maybe what's most important is, if we keep the splits, is that the Star Rider quantity (4, or whatever it becomes) becomes the MAXIMUM number of "Stars" you can have, NOT a requirement per se to be obligated to HAVE (!) 4 Star Riders all the time.
Meaning I can have UP TO 4 Stars, NOT MORE than 4, BUT (!), if I choose, I can field a team with NO Stars, 1 Star, 2 stars, 3 Stars or 4.... but not 5... The important thing is that I not have more than 4 Stars at any given time, which, frankly, could be achieved just by budget limitations, if the values are high enough for Stars... So I can see where Rider Values will be key to this discussion...
Going back to the split, if we play that way, with the Star rider quantity not be obligatory but just a limit, then maybe the 4/5 split can be revised to 2/7 or 3/6...
Just thinking and sharing my ideas...