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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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don simon fbpe | 5 years ago
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Are people even questioning the Skujins video? Even with the video?

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fukawitribe | 5 years ago
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Second video - he turns crank, picks bike and turns it around => beginning of first video. The footage is overlapping and reasonably clear, I really can't see anything suspect there at all myself.

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alansmurphy | 5 years ago
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They are 2 almost seperate snippets though.

 

You see him turning the pedals in the second video but if you watch the first again the wheel is in contact with the floor and the bike moving slowly, then no pedal contact, then wheel spinning fast.

 

I'm not one for conspiracies generally speaking but don't think the second video fully explains the first - though i do recognise the first isn't conclusive either due to position of the bloke walking by...

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alansmurphy | 5 years ago
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Sir Bradley speaks very highly of you...

 

The spinning video is interesting, he claims it's a turning of the cogs yet the wheel seems to be touching the floor when he's rolling the bike, then accelerates as he lifts the wheel...

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fukawitribe replied to alansmurphy | 5 years ago
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alansmurphy wrote:

The spinning video is interesting, he claims it's a turning of the cogs yet the wheel seems to be touching the floor when he's rolling the bike, then accelerates as he lifts the wheel...

Look at the other video posted - it's just what he said it was.

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BehindTheBikesheds | 5 years ago
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Wiggins is a twat and that dude using his leg to get a tow is a legend, top bike skills, he's the type less likely to come a cropper than others supposedly taking more precaution and hi-vis/helmet adorned.

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don simon fbpe | 5 years ago
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No one takes the rules seriously, do they? Do they?

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FlyingPenguin replied to don simon fbpe | 5 years ago
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don simon wrote:

No one takes the rules seriously, do they? Do they?

If you can't sort a chain whilst keeping rubber side down, then I can understand your need to excuse your inability to follow the rules  3

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don simon fbpe replied to FlyingPenguin | 5 years ago
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FlyingPenguin wrote:
don simon wrote:

No one takes the rules seriously, do they? Do they?

If you can't sort a chain whilst keeping rubber side down, then I can understand your need to excuse your inability to follow the rules  3

Dude, I put the chain back on without stopping the fucking bike. As for folks who want to up end their bikes, go fo it, there's nothing wrongh with that. It's like folks that use tyre levers to get their tyres off, nowt wrong with that either.

Rules are there to be broken.

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hawkinspeter replied to don simon fbpe | 5 years ago
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don simon wrote:

FlyingPenguin wrote:
don simon wrote:

No one takes the rules seriously, do they? Do they?

If you can't sort a chain whilst keeping rubber side down, then I can understand your need to excuse your inability to follow the rules  3

Dude, I put the chain back on without stopping the fucking bike. As for folks who want to up end their bikes, go fo it, there's nothing wrongh with that. It's like folks that use tyre levers to get their tyres off, nowt wrong with that either.

Rules are there to be broken.

HERETIC!

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don simon fbpe replied to hawkinspeter | 5 years ago
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hawkinspeter wrote:

don simon wrote:

FlyingPenguin wrote:
don simon wrote:

No one takes the rules seriously, do they? Do they?

If you can't sort a chain whilst keeping rubber side down, then I can understand your need to excuse your inability to follow the rules  3

Dude, I put the chain back on without stopping the fucking bike. As for folks who want to up end their bikes, go fo it, there's nothing wrongh with that. It's like folks that use tyre levers to get their tyres off, nowt wrong with that either.

Rules are there to be broken.

HERETIC!

You won't catch me wearing those things either...

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hawkinspeter replied to don simon fbpe | 5 years ago
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don simon wrote:

No one takes the rules seriously, do they? Do they?

Rule #1 //Obey The Rules.

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don simon fbpe | 5 years ago
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I call foul on Skujins! How is he able to sort out the bike without it being upside down.
He probably suffers from hayfever too!

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Bentrider replied to don simon fbpe | 5 years ago
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don simon wrote:

I call foul on Skujins! How is he able to sort out the bike without it being upside down?

As with matters already covered, he's just obeying The Rules.

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