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Live blog: Cancellara v Gaimon; Strava stats reveal what athletes are eating and drinking; Movistar rider Jaime Rosón is suspended pending investigation into adverse biological passport finding + more
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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?
10 thoughts on “Live blog: Cancellara v Gaimon; Strava stats reveal what athletes are eating and drinking; Movistar rider Jaime Rosón is suspended pending investigation into adverse biological passport finding + more”
Extremely misleading headline
Extremely misleading headline on the Mottram story. Reading the copy it’s clear how out of context that headline is – making him out to be cycling’s equivalent of Gerald Ratner. This site is getting more clickbaity by the day
Zebulebu wrote:
It’s been like this for many many years.
Zebulebu wrote:
crap laggy comments double post
Zebulebu wrote:
That’s the inevitable consequence of a business model which depends on advertising – to pay the team & cover the costs, they’ve got to have revenue. One way of getting revenue is selling advertising. To sell advertising space, you’ve got to have visitors. Too attract visitors, you’ve got to have clickable headlines.
Building up a loyal, regular, valuable readership based on high quality content alone without clickbait headlines takes a very long time, and may not even be a sustainable model nowadays.
I’d agree that there are many clickbait headlines here, more than there used to be. But we’re still voting to support them with our mouse clicks, so they’re doing something right.
Don’t like it? Click elsewhere.
Almost Daily Mail esque in
Almost Daily Mail esque in creating a clickbaitable headline from something by lack of context.
N.B. If there was any doubt that’s NOT a compliment.
pastyfacepaddy wrote:
Guess what guys? This is a business. How much do you pay to read this site? I thought so.
Give them a break.
simonmb wrote:
Guess what guys? This is a business. How much do you pay to read this site? I thought so.
Give them a break.— pastyfacepaddy
Time is money. I lost £0.27 reading this site today.
Nonsense – regarding the
Nonsense – regarding the Mottram headline, it’s not clickbait it’s simple reporting.
Mottram himself said that statement himself to be ‘inflammatory’ so to the trolls above, go and piss over his chips, or Matt Barbet’s who published the interview, you’re not forced to read the site.
peted76 wrote:
Who the fuck are you calling a troll? I’m pointing out that something has been taken out of context. Or do you not understand that? If he’d said that to be inflammatory, trust me – Rapha have an army of publicists who’d do a much better job of using it – it would probably end up in a marketing brochure. There’s a big difference between pointing something out, and someone who is ‘trolling’ (eg: deliberately winding people up to get a reaction). And yes, I am aware that I have fallen spectactularly into that trap here…
I understand the need to drive revenue through clicks. Editorial content needs to be paid for somehow (hence the seemignly endless videos of people being close passed, with attendant wittering in the comments and (true) trolling. However – there is a huge amount of value to be gained in treading that line between compelling content and commercial/’sucker’ content. I’m merely pointing out that this fails to tread that line
Mottram article seems to have
Mottram article seems to have gone from the live blog now. You’ve hurt their feelings