Live blog: Search launched for UK’s most cycle-friendly employers, driver rear-ends bus (during England World Cup match?), Froome’s Giro data revealed + more
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Wed, Jul 04, 2018 18:51
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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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Rome73 16 minutes ago
‘ In addition, two inspectors have been specifically trained to target hire e-bikes’ I wonder what that training involved; a white board, an instructor and a stick, ‘now this is a picture of a car, this is an ‘ordinary’ bike and this, ladies and gentlemen, is a LIME bike, you must only apprehend the latter’
Rome73 29 minutes ago
@eburtthebike yes - good point. He is just a liar.
Rendel Harris 1 hour ago
@Nigel Garage Sexual offences are not an appropriate subject for your particularly laboured and weak "bants". Grow up.
StevenCrook 9 hours ago
Omata. Don't get it. Cool way of displaying the information and neat hardware integration. But you could have done that display with no moving parts using a touchscreen instead of the mechanical display and kept the electronics. Been less than half the price too, and just as cool tbh.
chrisonabike 10 hours ago
@mdavidford using a "Bath cap", you mean?
mdavidford 10 hours ago
For a moment there I thought that said Silca were going retro and bringing back omerta...
mdavidford 10 hours ago
Would they have been able to finish that bit properly if they hadn't lopped a couple of grand off the budget to get it under £500k?
Backladder 10 hours ago
@chrisonabike "The countryside is difficult when it comes to transport choices. " You're not wrong. "Recreational cyclists – as evidenced by the folks on here – will likely cycle anyways, probably even if it was banned!" Twice.
jackcycles 10 hours ago
@Rendel Harris whoa there son, put away that tinfoil hat. The Telegraph (a trusted broadsheet since 1855) was merely quoting home office figures, which shows knife crime rising steadily under Khan, even after 2019. By the way, on the off chance you're out tonight, make sure you keep your back to the wall on the way home? There's a good chap, despite our differences I'd hate for anything bad to happen to you.
Rendel Harris 11 hours ago
@Nigel Garage Is that the Telegraph that has the same obsessive hatred of Lord Khan as yourself, doubtless for the same reasons (brown, Muslim, left wing, popular, successful, caned the Tories three elections in a row)? The Telegraph that in 2024 claimed London gun crime had risen 2,500% in a year when in fact it had risen by 1%? If the Telegraph says it's Monday I check my watch to see if it's true. Knife crime offences have risen under Khan, by about 50%, from 9,086 offences in 2016 to 13,850 in 2025. What the Telegraph doubtless failed to mention is that a large part of this increase is due to stricter knife laws having been brought in in 2019, so that many offences that previously wouldn't have been recorded as knife crime now are. They doubtless inadvertently failed to mention that the number of under-25s injured by knives has fallen 25% since 2016, and the overall number of hospital attendances for knife crime has fallen 50% in the same period. Probably also didn't mention that homicides have fallen to the lowest level since records began in 1990, despite the population rising by more than two million people over that period. One imagines they also failed to mention that the Tory governments from 2010 to 2024 slashed over a billion pounds from the Metropolitan Police Service budget? Thought so. "Just this evening it was reported that legendary comedian Paul Whitehouse was the victim of an attempted mugging in Islington while using a cash machine, it’s completely out of control." In 1995 I was mugged at knifepoint in Bath, does that mean knife crime in Bath was completely out of control then?
7 thoughts on “Live blog: Search launched for UK’s most cycle-friendly employers, driver rear-ends bus (during England World Cup match?), Froome’s Giro data revealed + more”
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Gives a whole new meaning to tapping out a rhythm at the front of the bunch. But surely the Wolfpack should be playing Born to Be Wild.
The BBC actually invited
The BBC actually invited Hutchinson, Whittle, and Hayles to see the data, not Hutchinson, Whittle, and Whittle.
If I were Froome, I’d tell Whittle to ‘go jump’. Whittle was constantly whining about Froome during the Giro, and he has just written a piece in the Guardian comparing the Festina organised doping scandal in 1998 with the Kenyan-born Brit being on the start line of this year’s TDF.
It’s a pretty shocking manipulation of the facts to fit a pre-existing agenda.
Wonder how fast Muller would
Wonder how fast Muller would be on the same bike the ‘mighty atom’ – Eileen Sheriden used for her 59h7m doing 870 miles (not the shorter 840 as per the record)? The record stands at only 1.4mph faster than what Sheridan achieved in 1954 taking into account the different distances. Baggy top, no padded shorts, no padded tape, blustery winds, heavy rain, having to stop to affix lights for night-time not to mention the vast difference in bike tech/weight.
I reckon Sheridan would smash it out the park, and at the grand age of 95 I’m glad she has being able to record her memories for us young uns to listen too, a true legend of cycling few have got close to achieving even half what she did, the ‘peril’ and Eileen would absolutely dominate women’s cycling if they were racing in the modern era.
https://rouleur.cc/editorial/eileen-sheridan/
BehindTheBikesheds wrote:
That’s curious – I didn’t know Eileen was known as “The Mighty Atom”. I’d only heard that name in connection with Joe Greenstein (a complete badass, but not a cyclist): http://www.badassoftheweek.com/index.cgi?id=651068116795
Bit off topic, but did anyone
Bit off topic, but did anyone else, upon hearing that the Thai lads had been found safe, wonder where the bicycles were?
It’s alright though, I think Newsnight (could have been C4 news) told us they found the bikes on the way to the boys, Nice.
ktache wrote:
Yeah I’d read they’d found the bikes, two brit caving divers were the first to make contact too. Now for the tricky part of getting them back!
That bus needs more
That bus needs more situational awareness. They don’t even pay road tax or wear helmets. If it was forced to wear Hi-viz and have a number-plate this would never have happened!