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Live blog: Laura Kenny advocates ‘the Addison Lean’; Hinault urges riders to strike if Froome races the Tour (and Team Sky’s response); shocking driving from Dublin bus + more
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Thu, Jun 21, 2018 14:02
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andystow 4 minutes ago
@chrisonabike only illegal at night without them, right?
Mmitb 19 minutes ago
I work in the city and go home from Paddington, east to west. I used to go through Oxford street years ago but it was a nightmare of buses and oblivious pedestrians. Then I found the cycle superhighway and never went that way again. It’s really easy not to use Oxford street. Why are the council being such twats?
chrisonabike 27 minutes ago
@andystow and was it sold with pedal reflectors?
chrisonabike 29 minutes ago
@Mr Blackbird ah, but you've no idea how badly decapitated they would have been if they hadn't been wearing a helmet!
chrisonabike 34 minutes ago
@mark1212123 "you’ll have to dispense with thinking your small thing is a massive thing while cycling to work in the winter?’" I find things tend naturally to shrink in the cold... Having "the big debate" with any given person is almost always pointless. We've all got our to-do list for that day/week/year that we're struggling to get through, using the familiar transport tools we spent time and money to acquire. And if we could really introspect we might find out that a shocking amount of life is delegated to autopilots or essentially reacting to external prompts. But - *given* that someone is at a point to actually discuss (rare!) - I think the Chris-Boardman-style works eg. "are you happy with (the congestion / your kids not being able to get themselves to school / all the cars parked all over your road and the pavement / hearing that the local authority can't afford to fix stuff)?" And "if you are, fine - your area, you own the consequences, good or bad (but ... it likely won't get better). If you're not, tell us about one of those pain points and let's work together to explore some solutions". (And no, those aren't going to be a personal bypass which takes you in your car past all the other traffic and yet doesn't cause your nice street to become a motorway. Because everyone else wants that *their* way not yours and anyway we can't afford it).
Mr Blackbird 44 minutes ago
One definite conclusion to be drawn from the lab tests is that no cycle helmet can protect against decapitation.
DS2025 1 hour ago
Unless I missed it, it doesn't seem clear if he locked his bike or not. If he just left it propped against the window it probably wasn't the smartest of moves. Still a crappy thing to happen and hope he is reunited with it.
mark1212123 1 hour ago
@chrisonabike Great points from both of you. I'll imagine a conversation with one of the many drivers at my delivery depot. "Err, Brian mate....can you spend 2 minutes considering the possibility that you might drive less and err...get your lazy arse into some permanent exercise, like feeling better and stuff...some planetary atmosphere might need your help? Oh, you'll have to dispense with thinking your small thing is a massive thing while cycling to work in the winter?' 'WTF you on about?' Most people know some of the debate. They deploy selective listening and irrationality, if the primary concern is convenience or money, or ideology, or whatever's floating their boat presently, whilst ironically harking for the past. I am currently in mock mode. It gets past the junk. Sometimes in the canteen I shout, "Cyclists are the best...." they love hearing the sentence it informs them they are in love with dissonace.
Motivated 2 hours ago
@Xenophon2 I"m pretty convinced that my solution is an MTB light and take my chances with the police (I'm in Austria where StVZO applies). Too many light reviews give good scores to lights that just do no put enough light where I need it. And give too much credence to safety features like dimming, dipping and beam cut off.
ChrisA 2 hours ago
@andystow I'll second that, but only when used in a public place.
22 thoughts on “Live blog: Laura Kenny advocates ‘the Addison Lean’; Hinault urges riders to strike if Froome races the Tour (and Team Sky’s response); shocking driving from Dublin bus + more”
Only if you admit to doping
Only if you admit to doping when you refused to take a dope test after your tour win.
Hinault head of the desperate Roman Bardet for GC campaign, as it’s the only he’s going to beat Froome, or unless Froome has an unfortunate mishap.
My money is on the Badger, he
My money is on the Badger, he’d take Froome in a fight
Bernard Hinault: Cycling
Bernard Hinault: Cycling legend, and a bit of a nob.
Hinault can see his position
Hinault can see his position as one of the elite 5 time winners being diluted so he is trying to undermine Froome who is perfectly entitled to be riding. It is the UCI that he should be having a go at, not someone racing who is perfectly entitled to be doing so. Nice comment by Christopher.
Hinault, yawn, such 1980s
Hinault, yawn, such 1980s mentality.
check12 wrote:
Strikes never went out of popularity in France.
Old Bernard really is being a
Old Bernard really is being a bit of a prick. I’m not condoning or defending Froome and Team Sky’s alleged misdemeanours, but the fact is that all this shouldn’t even be in the public realm at this stage. If the adverse finding hadn’t been ‘leaked’ then this would all be happening behind closed doors where Froome would (or at least should) be getting a fair hearing, and like other riders should be free to race until convicted/banned/acquitted or whatever the outcome may be. As already said above, if anyone should be feeling the wrath of Bernie, it should be the UCI for being lax with their data security in the first place, apparently relying on a rather sub-standard and questionable test for Salbutamol and subsequently handing the whole situation rather poorly.
The Sky fan boys are out in
The Sky fan boys are out in force today
It’s so sad when one of your
It’s so sad when one of your heros turns out to be a prick.
But so good to see East Dumbarton Police getting a right royal shafting on twitter for their absurd, victim blaming campaign.
burtthebike wrote:
Why is he (Hinault) a prick? He has an opinion like everyone else and is entitled to air it, doesn’t make him a prick though.
don simon wrote:
Aah Don, you seem to be unaware the man is a foreigner. From abroad. Over there.
mike the bike wrote:
Aah Don, you seem to be unaware the man is a foreigner. From abroad. Over there.— don simon
I’m sure that’s true, but I expect burtthebike can give their own explanation, it’d be a pretty stupid thing to say otherwise.
I think The Badger is taking
I think The Badger is taking a leaf out of the 1966 Monte Carlo rally rule book and planning to disqualify everyone until he gets to the token Frenchman, who will then be crowned the victor. He was one of the all-time greats of cycling, but he was always a proper tool.
A frenchman calling for
A frenchman calling for strikes. Whatever next.
Yorkshire wallet wrote:
Although he was also famous for punching those strikers who got in [i]his[/i] way.
Team Sky may be partially
Team Sky may be partially correct about Hinault. His call for a boycott probably isn’t based on a full knowledge of every detail of the Froome case. But then I suspect they’d respond in the same way to anyone who hasn’t read all 1500 pages of “evidence” which they’ve submitted to delay and obfuscate the case.
handlebarcam wrote:
Remember, it’s not Team SKY’s fault that they are dragging out the case and not supplying information, it’s 100% fault of the UCI.
What a relief with some
What a relief with some straight talk. There is no smoke without a fire. These things should be settled quickly with no options for appeal and not with this stupid system where things are decided in court rooms.
*sigh..
*sigh..
25mph on the pavement?
25mph on the pavement? Pathetic!
At the public meeting to consider the chicanes put in by the local authority on the Bristol-Bath cycle path, after they’d put them in, one person claimed that the cyclists were doing 60mph. It did get quite a big laugh.
Meaningless statistic of the
Meaningless statistic of the day:
“Research commissioned by Addison Lee following incidents involving its drivers and cycle couriers found that 65 per cent of cyclists have been involved in a car-dooring incident or know someone who has.”
Did they also reveal that 100% of the population is female? Or know somebody who is female?
That Dublin bus driver was a
That Dublin bus driver was a bit incompetent, eh?
I think bus drivers should be trained to look ahead and see if anyone is waiting at a stop, so they don’t do stupid and dangerous last-minute manoeuvres like that one! Oh, wait…