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Live blog: Rafa Nadal jumps on bike to go shopping in Wimbledon, Greg Van Avermaet riding yellow BMC Teammachine + more
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Tue, Jul 10, 2018 14:25
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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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jackcycles 2 minutes ago
On the topic of these e-motorbikes (don't confuse them for bicycles, these are mechanised machines) and e-scooters, distinguished veteran journalist Peter Hitchens has come out with an impassioned article explaining their risks and how they should be regulated, by having tests, license plates and insurance. We need to firmly differentiate between a bicycle - a clean object designed to sustainably get people around efficiently and with minimal fuss - and unregulated motorised vehicles which sap natural resources, facilitate crime, cause accidents and are frankly frightening for elderly people. Peter has proved prescient in the past, and I'm confident will be bourne out again here. https://x.com/ClarkeMicah/status/2088280575278829577
robgru76 24 minutes ago
Bang on. The default defending of cyclists/bikes when they are clearly in the wrong is very tiresome and paints us all as stupidly entitled and out of touch. Exactly what we should seek to avoid.
robgru76 25 minutes ago
Bang on. The default defending of cyclists/bikes when they are clearly in the wrong is very tiresome and paints us all as stupidly entitled and out of touch. Exaty what we want to avoid.
cruachan 26 minutes ago
Wish I still had it seeing the prices they fetch now, but I grew up riding a Burner. Red frame with yellow tyres and pads, gold brakes and the awful plastic saddle. When I finally outgrew it I got a Criterium 12 road bike, which I still have to this day, although it gets very little use (old 2x6 with downtube shifters and very skinny tyres is no fun to knees in their 40s, especially on UK roads these days)
mdavidford 26 minutes ago
I assumed they were £450 Special Edition EclipseChromatic™ Sungods.
a1white 50 minutes ago
I was cycling home, during the eclipse, and my route took me through Greenwich park. Yes there were a load of Lime bikes left partially blocking the road but the biggest issue for me was all the car drivers parking their vehicles wherever they wanted in the park. At the top of the main hill, blocking the roundabout (only the bollards stopped them going any further), along the paths, everywhere. I had to weave around them to get through. Half of them just sat, blocked in by other vehicles, in their cars watching the eclipse. What was the point in driving to the park for that?
FionaJJ 1 hour ago
@mdavidford Not in normal sunglasses!
mdavidford 1 hour ago
You mean like, say, yesterday?
belugabob 1 hour ago
"Sure, it wouldn’t do any harm to have more spaces for parking, that doesn’t make it OK to just park where you want because there aren’t enough." You need to visit my neighborhood - it looks like. tsunami has passed through
IanGlasgow 1 hour ago
Brompton Bicycle sues former accounting and tax advisor AAB Group for 'professional negligence' https://x.com/FietserGlasgow/status/2088223417875013674?s=20 https://www.cityam.com/brompton-bicycle-sues-former-adviser-for-professional-negligence/
13 thoughts on “Live blog: Rafa Nadal jumps on bike to go shopping in Wimbledon, Greg Van Avermaet riding yellow BMC Teammachine + more”
Well actually, the real blame
Well actually, the real blame lies in the massive lobbying of our government by the haulage industry who are against anything that puts their costs up in the name of safety… they fought like heck with side bars for lorries, eventually selling them to companies outside London when the deadline came in. Same with mirrors… and no doubt high vision cabs and camera systems.
BJ has built a whole career
BJ has built a whole career out of transparent bullshit. It’s a deep criticism of this country that that absolute wanker has had the power and authority he is apparently granted.
I’m sure that if Boris had a
I’m sure that if Boris had a superior safety system to the EU offering, the EU would have looked at it and incorporated it if it were indeed superior. They are kind of good like that.
don simon wrote:
The EU has all the strengths and weaknesses of a collection of 28 members with sometimes complementary and sometimes competing interests. Lots of extensive discussion, horse-trading and compromise.
On a related safety issue – longer cabs with better visibility – France and Sweden opposed the proposals on behalf of their truck manufacturers. But the case for change was a good one, supported by most, so a compromise was reached (IIRC) which meant the change would happen, but a few years later.
Of course, once outside the EU, Johnny Foreigner will just do whatever we tell him
Borris is an idiot and will
Borris is an idiot and will say whatever suits his own agenda at the time. Let’s stop taking him seriously.
harragan wrote:
Parallels with Jeremy Clarkson…?
Slides? They look like
Slides? They look like sandals to me. These are slides (I think these are by United Colors of Benneton)…
de Pfeffel Johnson has always
de Pfeffel Johnson has always been a self-serving tosser. (I never refer to him as ‘Boris’ because hes no friend of mine)
He only started to do somehting about cycling provisions in London when there was a cluster of 6 cyclist deaths in a 2 week window and he knew that would be his legacy. Prior to that he had argued against it for nearly 6 years, even going as far to suggest prosecuting cyclists wearing headphones not long prior to the death cluster.
The much missed Twitter account @BorisWatch put it most succinctly in 2015:
If Boris gets run over we
If Boris gets run over we should give the EU credit for it.
What a self serving prick.
“Shimano show off Greg Van
“Shimano show off Greg Van Avermaet’s yellow BMC Teammachine he’ll use to start TDF stage 3”
It’s amazing that BMC knew he’d be in the lead before they started the time trial. And they even had the confidence to give him a road bike to ride it!
dst wrote:
“Shimano show off Greg Van Avermaet’s yellow BMC Teammachine he’ll use to start TDF stage 3”
It’s amazing that BMC knew he’d be in the lead before they started the time trial. And they even had the confidence to give him a road bike to ride it!
— dst
Often “special edition” frames are painted, delivered overnight, and then built first thing in the morning in Grand Tours.
Rapha Nadal wrote:
Often “special edition” frames are painted, delivered overnight, and then built first thing in the morning in Grand Tours.— dst
That may be the case, but my point was that he didn’t use that bike for stage 3 (the team time trial stage) as the artical headline suggests.
Ref: Rapha Slides.;
Ref: Rapha Slides.;
What do you call a French Pro Cyclist wearing sandals?
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