Live blog: Green Oil bike featured in Dragons’ Den stolen, new Wiggins bike, journo in anti-cycling tweet shocker + more
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Wed, Mar 14, 2018 08:55
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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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ktache 6 hours ago
@Mr Blackbird It's quite a skill.
chrisonabike 6 hours ago
@Terry Hutt good point, although while doing testing without a helmet I broke my shoulder and have suffered various other contusions. So I suggest the control should not be "no helmet" as in my experience that adds the confounding variable of your other limbs and appendages as (for some) instinct will mean you sacrifice them to protect your head...
chrisonabike 6 hours ago
@mdavidford or the highly skilled cycle football / radball players...
chrisonabike 6 hours ago
@No Reply dunno about childish, but I haven't heard that one since the 90s. Can't say I miss it.
mdavidford 7 hours ago
Bit harsh on the BMXers.
mdavidford 7 hours ago
@No Reply Er, nope - there are no age restrictions on the site. As previously noted, though, if it were restricted to adults, your choice of language would seem to mark you out as someone who shouldn't be on it.
No Reply 8 hours ago
@Mr Blackbird This is an adult forum. If adults are getting so worked up over the term bum chum, then they need to get a grip. People have a right to be offended, people have a right to offend. But if someone finds offence in something, it doesn’t mean its offensive. It means they are offended. Two different things. I am as free to offend as you are to feel offended. Freedom of speech. Do you want to silence freedom of speech? Or just silence things you don’t like?
Mr Blackbird 8 hours ago
@No Reply You obviously have a lot of knowledge of cyclo cross and make a valid point, but why detract from your comment by using a phrase that is probably offensive to the majority of readers?
Terry Hutt 8 hours ago
@chrisonabike I think the important message here is that your head will fly 20% further if you are wearing a collapsible helmet. Has anyone researched how far your head will fly if you're not wearing a helmet at all? Seems worthy of a research grant.
Mr Blackbird 8 hours ago
Any cyclist caught cycling backwards (on a non-fixed wheel bike) should be jailed for at least 2 years and have their bike confiscated. Such a despicable manoeuvre is dangerously confusing to motorists and pedestrians.
8 thoughts on “Live blog: Green Oil bike featured in Dragons’ Den stolen, new Wiggins bike, journo in anti-cycling tweet shocker + more”
Imagine if this was regarding
Imagine if this was regarding a video of a woman being assaulted and a male journo tweeted
Sounds bad, until you see the film and can’t help cheering. We’ve all longed to do it to the women.
Yorkshire wallet wrote:
Absolutely. Utterly incredible that this kind of bias and incitement to violence is allowed. YW is right; in any other circumstances this “journalist” would have been instantly dismissed and the story would have been huge, but because it’s a cyclist, hardly anyone has noticed.
burtthebike wrote:
Surely it’d count as incitement to violence, which would be a criminal matter? A sacking would be appropriate.
She writes for The Spectator
She writes for The Spectator – what do people expect? Tolerance?
She keeps digging: “it was
She keeps digging: “it was going into a ditch with that concentrated look on his face that amused me”.
I can only imagine she’s short of a few quid so has taken a page out of the Katie Hopkins play book. Both of them have worked for the Daily Mail.
Advocating thuggish behaviour that could be life changing to the victim beggers belief.
Jane who?
Jane who?
Queensland; 30 years behind
Queensland; 30 years behind the civilised world. From my visits, I’m amazed at the mindset.
CS6 cyclists dropping out of
CS6 cyclists dropping out of hyperspace there.
I won’t be smoking all day.
This blog thingy really is being updated every five minutes. Leg shaving, I only got the legs out of wraps yesterday; it’s too early for shaving.