Live blog: British rider breaks European cycling speed record, sabotage warning to Shropshire riders + more
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Tue, Jun 19, 2018 14:23
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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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MaxiMinimalist 39 seconds ago
When I was a kid (that was during the previous millenium when phones were connected to a plug in the wall), I rode my bicycle to school, music academy, sport grounds, parties even during the winter. The government didn't have to spend, correct that, didn't have to think of spending massive amounts of money to build cycling specific infrastructures. Over the past 3 or 4 decades, cars have grown bigger, taller, safer (for their drivers) and faster. Meanwhile, motorists have become abusive, aggressive, hypersensitive to people moving on two wheels, aka cyclists. Spending billions upon billions on new infrastructure won't address the crux of the matter. Sadly.
Paul J 5 minutes ago
Obree had some actual talent in his legs though, in addition to his bike/aero engineering talent.
Maruis Kalchev 12 minutes ago
Малко като опит за доказване е излязло... Никой няма нужда от толкова голям въртящ момент и мощност на шосеен велосипед с тънки гуми, които дори трудно ще предават тази мощност върху пътя. А ако има и ограничение от 25 км/час е още по-безмислено.
mdavidford 26 minutes ago
Not sure how informative that is. I imagine for all most of us know it could be Europe's only 'volumetric modular building'. 🤷♂️
chrisonabike 29 minutes ago
Yes, but they're copying the adults of today...
chrisonabike 30 minutes ago
Indeed - but alas I think this is an effective argument for very few folks indeed. As for push-back, what else could we expect *? I think there are ways of selling this but we're far more likely to see headlines about the problems, while the successes are relegated to footnotes, because at that point it just works and there's nothing to see... * Given that this time there aren't politicians being persuaded to overlook thousands of deaths and the demolition of property by the billions from the motoring trades (and the excitement of being able to drive out with the bright things for a party at a roadhouse). Nor are we as tolerant of "accidents". (And noting that publicity about the cases of a handful of people killed by cyclists continues to reach the media; deaths related to motor vehicles not so much).
mdavidford 33 minutes ago
That rather ignores that the children of today are the adults of tomorrow.
fwhite181 41 minutes ago
@belugabob Arguably it's easier this way - we don't actually need to do anything to the streets except stop drivers driving down every scrap of tarmac. Where I live, a few well-placed bollards would make walking/cycling/scooting the quicker option and safer, while maintaining 100% vehicular access - just not allowing through routes in every direction.
Ashok C 1 hour ago
Sweet dreams from Bike@bedtime! Thank you for featuring this classic beaut.
chrisonabike 1 hour ago
@jackcycles wait a minute... I'm getting a sense of déjà vu ... **Khan!** Also on Mr. Stops - despite being at Hackney (which have done some good work) I believe he's been ... skeptical... of cycle infra. Perhaps he's of the vehicular cycling "I can so why can't everyone else" cult? Apparently he's also been involved with the National Federation of the Blind UK - a fringe group who managed to get some of the bigger groups on board a campaign taking aim at bus stop bypasses. (They believe these will cause havok for the visually impaired, despite these uncontroversially working in many places abroad. And indeed in the UK, for decades - but just not under that name.)
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“Livee blog”? http://road.cc
“Livee blog”? http://road.cc/show/tags/livee-blog/161011
You had one job!
http://rustyspokes.com/facts
http://rustyspokes.com/facts.html
“Contributing to their demise might have been … the high price which ranged from $30 to $45. “
So HD are keeping tradition going in more ways than one. (I wonder how much that price will increase once Trump’s barmy tariff war starts to bite.)
“When you see a horse on the
“When you see a horse on the road – slow down to 15mph.”
Does that mean we slower riders should put a bit of a sprint on when we see a horse?
(No. No, it doesn’t.)
“You had one job.” Judging
“You had one job.” Judging by the apparently fresh material on the ground around the posts of this cycle rack, I reckon that local drivers dug it up and turned it around, creating some desperately needed car parking.
Cycle rack location- I found
Cycle rack location- I found out where it was by the incredible investigative skill of clicking the Twitter link, and the second post explained the full story behind it. Copenhagen.
Drinfinity wrote:
“It was because of the car, parked next to the site.
When the car moved, they just turned the rack, not the posts.
From 2015 in Copenhagen.”
Got to be honest, that’s an entirely reasonable and really quite boring explanation…
Quote:
Sooner or later, blockchain bollocks infects everything.
“This will really help
“This will really help cyclists know which part of the road is theirs to use. #cycling”
Cyclists already know: all of it . It’s the other maniacs that don’t seem to know
That video of the old boy
That video of the old boy getting on the exercise bike after the kid video’d his old route, beautiful
#onions
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The Spanish at the end roughly translates to ‘help the neighbour to be happy it’s one of the greatest pleasures of life. Good training.’
BehindTheBikesheds wrote:
I’m impressed with the translation, especially as I believe it’s Portuguese. It certainly isn’t Castellano.