road.cc live blog: Stop Highways England banning cycling on the A63, Froome racing is “super bad” for cycling says Tony Martin, Aussie speed awareness campaign pulled (and more)
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slc 4 hours ago
@mdavidford disc brakes and helmets too provocative, mayhaps.
mdavidford 7 hours ago
(except we could only think of 8, so 3 of them are variations of 'different sized wheels'.)
Mmitb 7 hours ago
I don’t think I’ll ever I understand dropper posts, even on the most brutal downhill you’re standing and the saddle is kind of useful for stability around knee height. My mate says it stops you getting whacked in the cobblers but I’ve never had that happen. I know people swear by them but I almost never use mine…
Ramz 8 hours ago
@Rendel Harris that's interesting because the article could simply say "from £45" to indicate that the shoe might not be available in your size or colour at that price. The review itself is very specific about the pricing, so it is not difficult to do.
Surreyrider 11 hours ago
@Freddy56 Yep, Or rather she was told she can step down and say what she likes (which was nonsense then and even more nonsense now) or she will be fired, which would be way more harmful to her career.
Rendel Harris 12 hours ago
@Nigel Garage Oh yes, the defence of the country and adequate provision for the disabled are very much an either/or, we can't possibly have both. Hang on, what if we set about closing all the tax loopholes and avoidance schemes advised by greedy Essex accountants, then there might be enough to go round.
jackcycles 12 hours ago
@Rendel Harris tut tut, you obviously haven't taken your DEI course yet. You can't say "the disabled" in this day and age because it objectifies them. You're turning an adjective into a noun, very poor form by someone who self-certifies as an expert in the English language. "Disabled people" is the non-discriminatory way to describe those with disabilities. Putting aside your ridiculous and cliched comparison of my vision of an equal society with National Socialism, the last thing I'm going to say on the topic is that society has infinite number of wants on a finite number of resources. Clearly you think doling out free cycling gear to people is more important than spending those same precious resources on treating people in the NHS, educating our children, or defending our country. Well, more power to you, but I'm certain the overwhelming majority of people think otherwise.
Rendel Harris 12 hours ago
@chrisonabike Yes, of course in any march of 250,000 plus people you're going to get some nasty bits of work and idiots. The police have arrested some of these and from what I hear (friends have gone on the marches, I haven't) they are reasonably assiduous in doing so within the obvious limits of trying to identify and then isolate and arrest a person responsible for shouting stupid things in a massive crowd. However, and I'm happy to stand corrected if they should wish to make their position more clear, I assume from the tone of open_roads' remarks and his description of the marches as antisemitic that they regard any march protesting the behaviour of the Israeli government with regard to the slaughter in Gaza as being antisemitic. In any case, the point I was making still stands, as backed up by those arrest figures I quoted, which is that it is not accurate to say that the Met have a "not a priority" attitude to these marches, quite the opposite.
Rendel Harris 13 hours ago
@Ramz Not in the slightest, because the supposed wrong price isn't part of the review, so no misleading or inaccuracy there, and the shoes are available, albeit only in one colour, for £45 as stated.
Ramz 13 hours ago
@Rendel Harris Are you agreeing that the review was misleading and inaccurate?
8 thoughts on “road.cc live blog: Stop Highways England banning cycling on the A63, Froome racing is “super bad” for cycling says Tony Martin, Aussie speed awareness campaign pulled (and more)”
Ah, those wacky Australians –
Ah, those wacky Australians – dontcha just love ’em…
So perfectly demonstrates the
So perfectly demonstrates the attitude of Australian government to cyclists; it’s a punishment and something no intelligent person would do.
Not entirely surprising, coming from the home of the helmet law, an action with the sole purpose of punishing cyclists.
The videos are still online
The videos are still online at the Brisbane News website, link here:
https://tinyurl.com/ycdbe5wx
They’re well worth watching – the actress playing the girlfriend at the end is quite the looker, a bit of Margot Robbie about her.
Tony Martin is another moron!
Tony Martin is another moron!
alansmurphy wrote:
Please elaborate.
Well… the rules stipulate
Well… the rules stipulate he is allowed to ride, I could comment that anyone with a first name for a surname shouldn’t ride, it doesn’t make it so.
He’s not a doctor or a lawyer, so what more does he have to add to an old, tired, non-story.
Maybe he should ride tandem with Bardet, another rider being made to look decidedly average by Froome.
How is it bad for cycling? I’m still commuting by bike, being a weekend warrior, buying cycling weekly.
Anyone that says ‘super bad’ is a little girl or from LA and should be tested for drugs…
alansmurphy wrote:
Putting ‘super’ in front of everything just makes it sound like they’re doing an impression of Kenny Van Vlaeminck, which is no bad thing.
Not great for English, though.
I’d like Froome to not race
I’d like Froome to not race with this hanging over him, but I concede that the rules allow it, so he is free to do so.
The reason he is free to do so is that this is not a doping case, its a case where there is a stipulated maximum level of medication, prescribed not because of potential performance gains, but due to acute health risks to the athlete, has been surpassed.
The reality of this, is that good or bad, it should not be public knowledge at this time. If this was not leaked, we wouldn’t have this conundrum and I’m sure it would have been dealt with by now.