road.cc live blog – BMX rider almost impaled on fence (video) plus Aru’s new jersey falls flat and much more
Starting off 2018 with your usual round-up of everything that’s happening in cycling
Tue, Jan 02, 2018 16:33
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Simon joined road.cc as news editor in 2009 and is now the site’s community editor, acting as a link between the team producing the content and our readers. A law and languages graduate, published translator and former retail analyst, he has reported on issues as diverse as cycling-related court cases, anti-doping investigations, the latest developments in the bike industry and the sport’s biggest races. Now back in London full-time after 15 years living in Oxford and Cambridge, he loves cycling along the Thames but misses having his former riding buddy, Elodie the miniature schnauzer, in the basket in front of him.
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SecretSam 22 minutes ago
Maybe the problem is the bikes are too good to make the trails challenging. Hence the growth of trail centres. Most MTBs are ludicrously competent now, particularly e-MTBs. Want a challenge? Change the bikes to something less competent.
SecretSam 24 minutes ago
Didn't move with the times, consequently it failed. Sad for the employees, but the real Raleigh died years ago.
belugabob 1 hour ago
"If there wasn’t enough parking the car-owning residents would be up in arms organising and petitioning the council" There isn't enough parking, in pretty much every neighbourhood. There a street in my town, where just about every house has off road parking for at least 2 cars, but somebody still saw fit to paint lots of parking bays along it. In addition to just encouraging even more car ownership, it causes regular incidents where people simply can't wait for a gap in the traffic and overtake the parked cars into oncoming traffic. (Said road is on a bus route, and a short walk from a well connected railway station, a large supermarket and not too far from town, but people still feel the need for multiple car households. It's a strange mindset that we've got ourselves into.
ktache 8 hours ago
Chris King are fairly serviceable. And the warranty does indeed require it. I enjoy the xtr plug and forget on two of the bikes. Until they die, and I just fit another. Chris's headsets are worth it, superb seals. It's such a mucky area, and I haven't had adjustable cup and cone BBs. on a bike since my Peugeot racers in the 80s, I was relieved when starting my mountain bike adventures in the 90"s that the fit and forget square taper BBs just worked. The seals on the hubs were awful back then. Singletrack FGF featured this, https://burgtec.co.uk/product-category/hardware/shimano-crank-bolt/, I'm wondering if it will replace my seemingly made of butter bolt on the xtr 960 cranks, almost impossible to find back in the day.
ktache 9 hours ago
If I had purchased my special products division 650 back in '96, rather than obtaining it under a warranty replacement, I would apparently have received a signed picture of the fine Nottingham artisan that welded her. The 750 of that year won Barry Clarke another British xc cup, as I recall.
ktache 9 hours ago
Yay! https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/26466698.speed-camera-catching-drivers-25mph-oxfordshire/
tomlew 10 hours ago
The fall of Raleigh happened long before this week. Just because somebody bought the name does not mean they were the same bikes. And if you care about the name so much, noone says it won't be purchased by another inverstor as Accell Group is liquidated!
tomlew 10 hours ago
@Destroyer666 I totally see your point. The good news is there are indeed BBs which use industry-standard bearings. Take Neco, for example - they offer exactly what you want. Maybe the bearings in the set are not perfect, but you can replace them with SKFs later.
Rendel Harris 11 hours ago
@chrisonabike I was just reading that myself, it seems a bizarre kneejerk reaction before poor Finlay's cause of death has even been fully investigated. What does Mr.Hansen think has been going on, have the manufacturers had the means to make safer, more robust helmets that are just as light and well ventilated but haven't bothered releasing them? Or does he want the peleton racing in motorcycle helmets, because that's the only way there's going to be a chance of meaningful protection in 100 kmh crashes?
chrisonabike 11 hours ago
I'm pretty sure that wouldn't work: AFAICS anti-social consequences are inherent in the business model. Models which seem to work better: advertising (Santander cycles), using bikes to make using another service which is more profitable (or less unprofitable) easier (Dutch OV Fiets). After that it's "local authority subsidises it" and then you're down to "flogging customer data"...
7 thoughts on “road.cc live blog – BMX rider almost impaled on fence (video) plus Aru’s new jersey falls flat and much more”
Hmm? Something about Aru?
Hmm? Something about Aru?
Hmm. Something about a video?
Hmm? Something about a video?
This live blog articles with
This live blog articles with promising descriptions and no content or even link, really amaze me. I wonder why I keep clicking on them.
cyclisto wrote:
Adblocker ? You don’t see the articles with Adblock activated.
That said when it’s not activated the articles are there but they’ll be overlaid with enormous video adverts and fake Facebook screens….
fukawitribe wrote:
Adblocker ? You don’t see the articles with Adblock activated.
That said when it’s not activated the articles are there but they’ll be overlaid with enormous video adverts and fake Facebook screens….— cyclisto
Yeah, and take 4x longer to load!
While I understand the magazine has to get revenue from somewhere, I dont appreciate them eating up my bandwidth; at least there are only 9(!) adverts on this page, a certain other onine ‘zine that might be on your “Radar”
has begun to block me completely: greedy bastards can keep their crappy rag if they’re gonna squeeze 23 ads onto one page!
Time to ramp up the ad blocker arms race with an ad blocker that stops websites blocking the ad blocker from blocking !
I don’t even have an ad
I don’t even have an ad blocker and still see nothing.
Mind you, I do have a script-blocker, so I suppose that must be having the same effect.
Thing is, every time I turn off scriptblocking (or, when I used to use it, adblocking) its never very long before I encounter a situation on some site or other that I visit where visitors have been infected with malware from a hijacked advert. Not only are many adverts ridiculously intrusive, but the way they get served up seems to create a significant security hole on otherwise trustworthy websites. I just don’t feel its worth the risk.
And why do sites have _so many_ scripts running? Just screeds of them, most of which don’t seem to do anything of any use to the end-user. The web is suffering from bloat. The more powerful browsing devices get, the more unnecessary crap web developers add to use up those CPU cycles.
For me, it’s only the browser
For me (I’m on a Mac), it’s only the browser I’ve set running adblock that prevents the page loading. It loads fine on the others and without over-intrusive ads. I guess the script blocker is doing the same for FKoT (totally agree with their last paragraph btw).
Anyway for those that are not seeing it on this site, check this
https://twitter.com/Trudgin/status/947964249720094722