Paris-Roubaix 2017 – photos and Strava data for ten of the toughest stretches of pavé

Momentary lapse in concentration. Otherwise law abiding.

I’d be more convinced that this legislation really was about safety if penalties for injuring a fully viz’ed cyclist were increased and made less discretionary. You can’t mandate hi viz and let motorists feel they can still rely on SMIDSY as a defence.

Not oblivious at all. I went Quad Lock all those years ago for the in-car (well, van) mount and the belt attachment. Now I have the phone securely mounted wherever I go. It does mean I have to buy a new phone cover every time I get a new phone, but all the other mounts stay the same and the phone 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 bounce if dropped. This SKS beastie looks to be a good enough single use system, great if all you want to do is mount it to your bike, but how does it cope with your car, your motorbike and your belt?

So no long term spare parts for my current 11 speed, then. Hmmmph.

There's nothing on my bike to go rusty apart from the chain, which is treated like jewellery anyway. Loads of carbon, a sprinkling of Ti, plus a fair bit of ally and any other steel bits are Inox. Yes, I know ally corrodes, that's what GT85 is for. Other water dispersants are available.

To quote Alexi Sayle, "I think it's so important to have four wheel drive when you're going down to Sainsburys." Other supermarkets are available.

I suspect that compulsory high vis is just the thin end of a whataboutery wedge. The real object I feel, is compulsory DRL, just like the new cars have. As for compulsory helmet wearing; in the absence of any meaningful statistics, I doubt that a helmet wil be of much use if you are mown down at 40 mph on the morning commute. They're good insurance if you topple over trying and failing a track stand when clipped in, so are not without merit. As a matter of course? I don't think so, but each to their own.

Presumably waiting for the manufacturer's PR people to send the review item out.

If they're very seldom underused, that seems like an excellent reason to build more of them.

It is now 3 March, Meteorological Springtime by the calendar. Where was this article three months ago? It is (forehead slappingly) plain, to me at least, that deep Winter garment reviews are not Spring fare, we needed this content in October or November. By the start of next Winter, the en mode colour pallettes will all have changed and I will hopefully be a size smaller. Poor show there RCC.