Live blog: “Little tykes” pose as marshals to send sportive riders wrong way, tree in bike lane + more

It's always a shame to see a local company go under especially given that Brexit presumably kicked all their EU sales. But they also never seemed like great value for money. As far as I could tell they were in the same vein as Genesis: making old-school frames out of standard steel tube-sets, fitting some quite nice finishing kit and then charging premium prices for them. They looked like nice bikes when I've seen them out on the road, but the designs don't look like anything special. When you compare to companies like Fairlight who are using custom tubesets, offer so many sizes that they're near-custom fit, and then let you spec pretty much every component for the same money, the value for money for a Temple just wasn't there.

What a stupid idea. I hope Garmin receive cyclist feedback on this. Here's how drivers should be spotting cyclists: BY LOOKING OUT OF THEIR WINDOWS INSTEAD OF AT THEIR CAR INFOTAINMENT SCREENS. As the headline suggests, this will only ever work if every cyclist has a Garmin, turns on live tracking, and every driver has a Waze enabled device in their car and pays attention to it. And even then it won't work. For those who aren't aware, Waze users routinely make mistakes when identifying 'hazards'. For example, if a National Highways car is parked somewhere, Waze users will consistently mark it as a police car despite it being a completely different colour. They're not the brightest group.

‘Temple Cycles was always selling its bikes globally, in particular into Europe. Brexit created a lot of barriers and pushed up our costs to export our bikes in a big way.’ Amazingly, people actually believed the crap and lies that leaving the EU would help UK business. Now that the UK government is trying to correct some of the stupidity of Brexit there are people who still defend Brexit! They are like MAGA, tenacious in their ignorance.

Homemade is great but if you want to go ready made a shout out for Nakd protein bars, my regular for long rides and hikes now, nothing but fruit and nuts and natural flavouring, 15g carbs, 10g fat, and 8g protein, 200 calories and even counts as one of your five a day. £26 for a box of 36 on Amazon.

@kil0ran Good point! "The next monthly outdoor meeting of the Rolex owners' club will be..." With the most expensive Garmin being almost a grand now, and if it integrates with Garmin watches they run up to £2800, worth the scrotes turning up just for the device.

Rice cakes or flapjacks work well for me, gels and chews and bars on longer rides. Most of the time I'll stick to using carb drinks, seems to work better for me as I don't always feel like eating on the bike even though I know I have to, so the drink keeps me topped up.

I always ride with gels and a peanut butter Clif Bar as emergency bail-outs (which very rarely get used), but my go-to for longer ride is 100% peanut butter with salad in a white bread sandwich - protein, fat, carbs. And a banana, of course. Very old school.

@jaymack Exactly this. My regular go-to snacks are Squashies, porridge oat bars and jam sandwiches.

@Velophaart_95 It's about eight seconds from the traffic lights to the bus stop. Discount say three seconds for getting up to speed and letting Vine go first would have delayed the bus driver by about five seconds. You might also want to consider the fact that the bus driver is breaking the law by moving into an occupied cycle lane (Highway Code 140: Do not drive or park in a cycle lane marked by a broken white line unless it is unavoidable...You should give way to any cyclists in a cycle lane, including when they are approaching from behind you). I rather think that the one who needs to "give your head a wobble", if you must use that tedious and rather asinine cliche, is yourself.

@kingleo MGIF ... that's why. It happens regularly - e.g. dangerous overtake, just to have to stop at the entrance to the fuel station, because the forecourt is already rammed (and can be seen to be, from a distance)