Live blog: Video of little girl giving safe overtake lorry driver thumbs-up goes viral, London Quietways under fire after latest death + more
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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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JF69 25 minutes ago
@Mr Blackbird TDS hit hard, doesn't it?
RoubaixCube 2 hours ago
Id point fingers at Akaso and say it does matter because at the end of the day. its false advertising unless Akaso has stated that the footage is upscaled on the packaging. Ive been around action cameras since the days when the SJCAM SJ4000 was the budget king of action cameras followed by the hundreds of clones that used the same camera body but cheap components that upmixed 720p into 1080p or 1080p into 4k. Akaso was a manufacturer that ALWAYS did this without fail with the Allwinner Chipset which was all the rage for these fake 1080p/4k cameras back then. When i saw the title and the brand 'Akaso' I instantly said to myself "I bet its not even 4k" 5mins before actually clicking on the video footage and seeing it for the first time. The footage doesnt even look like 1080p. There is too much noise. If it is 1080p then they are using a super cheap low quality CMOS camera sensor that all the old action cameras used to use back in the day some 10-15 years ago. And they want you to buy a product that probably cost them £20-30 to manufacture for £200 when they are blatantly lying to your face about the camera's capabilities? I wouldnt waste my money on this.
Rendel Harris 3 hours ago
@GravelIsNothingNew Not really, no, because we work geographically in a world divided into eastern and western hemispheres separated by the Greenwich Meridian and the International Date Line (roughly, the 180 degree meridian to be precise). Once you cross the latter, going west from Greenwich, you are to the east of the meridian again, west doesn't continue indefinitely. Yes I know you're making a wider point but the logic used to support it doesn't work.
mjc2669 3 hours ago
37 Tour de France - that is amazing. Great article, thank you.
Rendel Harris 3 hours ago
@HarrogateSpa But the incident, according to Movistar, was caused by a spectator falling in front of the car, so if the autobrake system did stop the car presumably without it they would have run over the spectator which is also quite an undesirable outcome.
Xenophon2 6 hours ago
@DrG82 Exactly what I thought: cut through the cover using a bladed instrument, use a cropper while bending it a bit and the segments will separate, exposing the cable or it wouldn't be flexible. Once there, it'll be toast. An angle grinder is simply the wrong tool to attack this. I don't expect it'll protect more than one of those notoriously easy to defeat locks where the cable is covered by metal segments, sheeted in plastic.
Xenophon2 6 hours ago
@DrG82 Exactly what I thought: cut through the cover using a bladed instrument, use a cropper while bending it a bit and the segments will separate, exposing the cable or it wouldn't be flexible. Once there, it'll be toast. An angle grinder is simply the wrong tool to attack this. I don't expect it'll protect more than one of those notoriously easy to defeat locks where the cable is covered by metal segments, sheeted in plastic.
HarrogateSpa 7 hours ago
Re: the UAE car, one view I've heard is that the very sudden braking was done by an automatic system that relies on sensors. The expert said the auto-braking system should be turned off when driving in a bike race.
tomascjenkins 11 hours ago
@mdavidford I love Hope got multiple brakes / wheels on all bikes, they keep developing stuff, for example I replaced a calliper recently and its a closed and clean bleed so much easier than on the previous calliper.
mdavidford 11 hours ago
What does the Tour de Suisse have to with it?
7 thoughts on “Live blog: Video of little girl giving safe overtake lorry driver thumbs-up goes viral, London Quietways under fire after latest death + more”
What it seems like the
What it seems like the Canucks have come up with some really stupid legisaltion in Montreal.
As for World Bicycle Day, I celebrated it by marshalling at a BMX event.
It’s about time someone found
It’s about time someone found the balls to stand up to the brutal cyclists going around with 5 or less reflectors. The sheer number of lives lost to the reckless abandon shown by these cyclists is just astounding.
Yesterday was designated the
Yesterday was designated the first ever World Bicycle Day by the United Nations – sorry, but that one passed me right by. I didn’t know that there was a World Bicycle Day.
On the Montreal thing:
On the Montreal thing:
So a bit more to it than just the reflectors…
Some Canadian Provinces have
Some Canadian Provinces have some strange bike laws. I lived in Halifax, Nova Scotia on the Canadian east coast and when I bought a bike I asked for a set of lights and the bike shop guy said why ? “To ride at night” I replied – ” Not a legal requirement ” he answered -“but you are required to have a helmet – night or day”
And with helmet and reflector
And with helmet and reflector laws cycling has not got safer in Canada, it’s got worse with more deaths and more injuries since they started forcing helmet wearing/increases in helmet wearing across the country.
Yet another backward society that focuses on the vulnerable to protect themselves instead of changing the behaviour of those doing the harm. What utter bullshit.
Lovely video of the fab overtake by the transporter, I had a brilliant overtake on a country road a couple of years ago, after a fair few of the usual crud it was a nice relief so I contacted the firm ( not local but family run business) to give praise and they responded back that they got their drivers out on bikes and made particular training sessions for their drivers when in various scenarios where they might come across people on bikes.
We all have to get some place and that means when you’re in the bigger/biggest thing out there you need to take more time and care with how you do things to minimise the risk for all concerned including yourself.
“twat” can be found on
“twat” can be found on Wikipedia, “supercilious” sadly not.