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Live blog: Tour de France highlights and reaction, tributes paid to former Thai Navy SEAL and cyclist Saman Kunan, who passed away in Thai cave mission, Tiesj Benoot abandons Tour, Stage 5 updates + more
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Wed, Jul 11, 2018 14:26
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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 26 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 27 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/
10 thoughts on “Live blog: Tour de France highlights and reaction, tributes paid to former Thai Navy SEAL and cyclist Saman Kunan, who passed away in Thai cave mission, Tiesj Benoot abandons Tour, Stage 5 updates + more”
Is JOGLE really the boy’s
Is JOGLE really the boy’s surname, or is it just the acronym for John-o-Groat’s/Land’s End (even though you report he’s doing LEJOG rather than JOGLE?
CygnusX1 wrote:
If you click through to his web page it shows his real surname is Pearson.
Simon E wrote:
I tried but my company’s web filter blocked it, otherwise I might have added that snippet myself.
There’s a a family riding
There’s a a family riding LEJOG right now with 7 and 10 year old children very much doing the whole thing!
http://www.bromleytimes.co.uk/news/musical-penge-family-to-cycle-900-miles-for-the-alzheimer-s-society-1-5490134
Thiey have a blog which is being updated daily with their progress:
https://alvinmoisey2018.wordpress.com/
Looks like young Ruby could
Looks like young Ruby could do with some factor 50, and/or a glass of cold water – she’s looking rather red in the face.
CygnusX1 wrote:
Ruby by name…
Urgh 1km @ 29%!
Urgh 1km @ 29%!
I’ve loved every climb I’ve ever done apart from Rosedale Chimney and that’s nothing compared to this! I was convinced my chain was going to snap on the 33% section.
RIP Saman Kunan, the world
RIP Saman Kunan, the world lost a hero for those kids
So desperately sad about the
So desperately sad about the ex-navy diver. In those extremely difficult situations you simply can’t make a single error in judgement or take chances even if what you’re doing is trying to save a life, it’s one of the most dangerous things on the planet to do. He didn’t have to be there, he didn’t have to risk his life but he did, he stood up to be counted putting his very life on the line to save others and should be posthumously given an award for his selfless sacrifice.
the thing that makes me puke, when you hear soccer pundits (yes that’s you shearer you plumb!) calling the football players ‘hero’s’, get to fuck, no, they’re been paid a shit ton of money to play sport, they are most definitely not hero’s ffs!
Amen.
Amen.