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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chrisonabike 5 minutes ago
Was this a Fifa-style offer eg. "We're planning to come and make money * anyway, but if you make it official you get a * Probably from venture capital but at any rate mostly not from people directly paying for a ride. Point being: the priorities don't align well with "contributing to the good of the place".
chrisonabike 8 minutes ago
It was a lane, and indeed a "mandatory" one, and does have intermittent blocks and wands, although I'm pretty sure those don't make a cycle track unless continuous? (I admit that I'm hazy on the exact Uk definitions but I suspect the definitions are hazy also)? As you note lanes are out, but cycle tracks may be in, if you're in class 2 or 3. So the chap was out of order, but I am more inclined to blame the lack of provision first and then the rules. This was in a part of town where there's a massive space between buildings, not even filled by what was 2 lanes in each direction, with median...
Rendel Harris 10 minutes ago
@belugabob Much of it down to effectively bribery I'm afraid, with no overall authority for controlling them London's councils struck individual deals - £1.3M with Forest bikes in Richmond, a staggering £93M over five years with Lime and Voi in Haringey, for example. Can't kill the golden egg goose!
Surreyrider 12 minutes ago
This is beyond sad. Condolences to all who knew him.
belugabob 26 minutes ago
Quele surprise, Rodney...🙄
belugabob 28 minutes ago
This all stems from the decision to allow dockless bikes - given that the Boris bikes used tricks, it's a bit puzzling
AidanR 42 minutes ago
Absolutely tragic. Bike racing should not be fatal.
Rendel Harris 51 minutes ago
@chrisonabike Was it a cycle lane, i.e. just paint, or a cycle track separated from the road by a barrier, even if just a kerb or orcas and wands? IIRC mobility scooters may not use lanes but they may use tracks?
Beachboy 1 hour ago
There has never been a cyclist accident during the TT. The reason cyclists are banned is not for their safety, but for the safety of the wannabe racers who ride faster than their ability. And I cannot find any accident information outside of TT, so again the ban is also about racy boys not wanting to worry what is around the corner. I have only ridden across once, and usually prefer the coast road, but the one time I did, I had three oiks in a Mini try to run me off the road, and I had cameras on the front and back, they came back for a look so I got a clear number, but the Police showed no interest at all. All works out well, it is a small Island.
chrisonabike 1 hour ago
Hang on, isn't that a third slice of the pie that some people regularly come on here to bisect? Do you mean that a utility cycle * isn't a meaningful journey either? * Possibly made by someone in a mobility vehicle or wheelchair to use the Dutch grouping of these things. Just since i noted someone using a "cycle facility" in a mobility vehicle this evening. Although IIRC that is not legal in the UK; however there appeared to be no arseholery intended and though the cycle lane isn't in good nick it may have been a better bet than the narrow footway.
10 thoughts on “Live blog: British rider breaks European cycling speed record, sabotage warning to Shropshire riders + more”
“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.