Live blog: Geraint Thomas wins TT nats, Alex Dowsett on the history of time trialling, Barnes sisters 1 and 2 at national champs TT, + 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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Didsbury 23 minutes ago
@mdavidford Surely we have been Norman since 1066?
Didsbury 24 minutes ago
@mdavidford Surely we have been Norman since 1066?
chrisonabike 30 minutes ago
@belugabob true, but doing that and persuading most parents to drive their children to school entailed a hefty sacrifice of children - and not a few parents. (Luckily that was "back then" and we probably wouldn't tolerate it now... OTOH while "fixing things" should have much smaller casualty numbers, "during the transition" it could well increase...)
belugabob 45 minutes ago
Well, accommodating the motor vehicle required "transformation of streets", so we've proved that it's possible...🙄
Circles 2 hours ago
Yet another case of planning agreements made but never fulfilled, nor checked by the LA. Developers can do what they want, it seems
HarrogateSpa 2 hours ago
Yes let's see action. The draft CWIS3 was unambitious, and I don't expect the final version to be much better. The funding for active travel is disappointing, and there is little or no political will for meaningful change. I'm in favour of making cycling to school safe by building proper cycle facilities in towns and cities for everyone - not by putting in a few metres of cycle track to a school entrance then giving up.
60kg lean keen climbing machine 2 hours ago
I personally don’t see any reason in not going straight to Byrton if you are not a Garmin or Wahoo fan, or you want a value alternative to the big two. I currently run a Bryton 420 and in 4 years of owning and using it has been fab, if I had some cash or needed to replace then I now would not hesitate to buy a Bryton again.
mdavidford 2 hours ago
@Didsbury Which, of course, means we secretly want to be French.
HarrogateSpa 2 hours ago
It's unclear what is being proposed - just 20mph and traffic calming, or modal filters too?
chrisonabike 3 hours ago
All good and I agree with the drift but how does this actually work in an effective way? Phone use is *endemic* - because so many people simply don't see the issue with "just looked at my phone for a second" and we are all being *actively trained* to do this by the app sellers! In theory app, phone and vehicle purveyors could work together to help dissuade this, but the current system suits all and everyone can say "but we put a warning on our product and certainly don't force anyone to do anything illegal..." and point at the others. How do we change behaviour? It seems unlikely we can catch enough drivers with phones in their hands to do that (not because it's hard to spot, just having enough people to collect and process the evidence). If we sort that out we then have another constraint - making it stick. If a small fraction of those say "wasn't me, see you in court", as others note ATM the process is slow AND very expensive. Also given costs and limitations of road policing currently how would driving bans help? They're also minimally policed, and with little effective punishment?
15 thoughts on “Live blog: Geraint Thomas wins TT nats, Alex Dowsett on the history of time trialling, Barnes sisters 1 and 2 at national champs TT, + more”
Meh. You don’t need CO2 for
Meh. You don’t need CO2 for proper beer anyway.
KendalRed wrote:
I like my cider like I like my women: flat, dry and smelling of apples.
Wait a minute, that sounds wrong – I’ll come in again.
hawkinspeter wrote:
How about strong, sweet and leaves a hole in your wallet
Simmo72 wrote:
I like my cider like I like my women: cold, cheap and alcoholic.
Nope, still not right.
hawkinspeter wrote:
I prefer mine in the park on a bench, cheap and not too gassy.
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But I don’t drink cider.
KendalRed wrote:
Or proper cycling.
I get shoaled a lot in London
I get shoaled a lot in London, it’s really frustrating as I’m rather rapid from a standing start, let alone cruising speed, this happens mostly because other selfish twunts go past the white line and stop in front of me and anyone else abiding by the rules. Cycle lanes simply aren’t as wide as they should be. Vauxhall Bridge is a prime example, concrete/armco in one of the lanes.
Occasionally I pull up alongside other cyclists. I’ve yet to experience anyone who can keep up, though a couple have benefitted from a massive tow through Hyde Park 🙂 I wouldn’t behave like this if I was likely to be slowing people down though.
What I find worse though, is when I stop behind the car/van/taxi at the front of the queue at a red light (like you are supposed to), only for half a dozen dozy dawdling cyclists to amble past and stop past the white line. This then results in a gaggle of slow cyclists taking ages to get moving and the car/van/taxi having a sizeable delay to slower-than-usual forward motion, delaying everyone who is abiding by the rules. Only for the car/van/taxi and myself to overtake the lot of them about 50m later. Seriously guys, why can’t you join the queue, it’s not very British, is it!? I can understand why drivers get so frustrated by this at is does genuinely hold up traffic. ASL boxes at every appropriate traffic light would go a long way though.
ChrisB200SX wrote:
I think that’s just it – especially in London you almost expect every set of lights to have an ASL so quite often cyclists are moving to the front purely because they know 90% of the time there is an ASL which is the safer place to be..
Htc wrote:
But the point is that shoaling is deeply selfish and ignorant. As are their closely related cousins, the RLJ’er. Very rarely are they travelling particularly fast…but they will overtake while you’re stopped at the light and get in your way 50 foot further on. They’ll do this multiple times without giving a toss.
They are car drivers but on a bike. No consideration for anyone but themselves…their journey times takes precedence over everything.
It’s not cricket.
StoopidUserName wrote:
So, they’re cyclists then.
hawkinspeter wrote:
So, they’re cyclists then.
— StoopidUserName
no.
StoopidUserName wrote:
Are they, maybe, true scotsmen?
hawkinspeter wrote:
So, they’re cyclists then.
— StoopidUserName
…but not cricketers.
spot on…
😀
I dont’t think I am a shoaler
I dont’t think I am a shoaler. I often see skiny women riding antic steel bikes overpassing me, sometimes because I stop at red lights, and sometimes because they truely are faster.