“The ‘cycle lane’ people keep talking about”: Cyclist fed up with ‘use the bike lane’ comments counts how many parked vehicles are blocking it; “We will keep improving”: Rouvy CEO on being bought by Zwift + more on the live blog
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"The 'cycle lane' people keep talking about": Cyclist fed up with 'use the bike lane' comments counts how many parked vehicles are blocking it
If you’ve just cycled into work, ready for another day of live blog scrolling (sorry, I mean very important employee activity, of course), this may well be an all too familiar scene from your commute too…
In fact, Stoyan got so fed up with the ‘use the cycle lane’ shouts that he decided to run a little in-the-field data collection to answer the question: just how many parked vehicles will be blocking the cycling route today?
Well, we counted six in this short clip from a short stretch of London cycle lane, one driver even managing to create an obstruction on the segregated part of the route at the end of the video.
“On my way home… this is the ‘cycle lane’ people keep talking about,” Stoyan explained, before joking in the video, “‘Use the cycle lane’, they said. Not avoiding it — just can’t use what’s constantly blocked.”
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Tadej Pogačar is winning sprints now... world champion takes his second victory of Tour de Romandie
Reduced bunch sprints, but sprints nonetheless. Dorian Godon in second has, of course, already won fast finishes at Paris-Nice and Volta a Catalunya this year, but even the French powerhouse was no match for the all-conquering world champion in today’s kick to the line. From the flags, it suggests Pogačar did well to target the right-hand side (as he looks at it), darting up the inside well sheltered by Godon.
Looking at the rest of the week there’s a decent chance Pogačar leaves Switzerland with five out of six… can anyone stop him?
"A practical step towards making cycling a more attractive option for commuters and visitors":
On the theme of today's live blog...
Over in Worcester, the council reckons it has come up with “a practical step” to boost the number of commuters and visitors cycling into the city and to the station.
The BBC’s local reporter had news of a series of secure lockers that are now operational around Worcester Foregate Street railway station.
There’s an app, so no need to think about locks or keys, councillor Hannah Cooper saying they will make things more practical and attractive for people wanting to cycle into the city.
The good news is there are different sized lockers for standard bikes and cargo bikes, both at the same price. Said price did raise some eyebrows over here, the lockers priced at 45p per hour or in bundles of £1.40 for four hours or £2.40 for eight hours.
Definitely cheaper than car parking, but still £2.40 does seem like quite a significant extra daily cost for commuters. What do you think?
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Why don’t cyclist use the cycle lane? #405.
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"Been a tough start to the season and hard not to feel like I’ve let a lot of people down": Oscar Only out of Romandie with stomach bug
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Oscar Only was a DNF on yesterday’s opening road stage of the Tour de Romandie, the Scottish climber suffering with some illness. Onley was upfront about the disappointment of the situation and even went as far as suggesting he feels he has let his new team down in the opening months of the season (something I doubt anyone at Ineos would, even privately, agree with).
“Gutted to leave after some kind of stomach bug the last few days,” he wrote on Instagram. “Been a tough start to the season to be honest and hard not to feel like I’ve let a lot of people down after all the time and investment from everyone at Ineos Grenadiers. Looking ahead to the next goals and get back amongst it soon.”
In fairness, Oscar, white shorts and the fuelling required for mountain stages is no combination to press on with if you’ve got a stomach bug.
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"Rouvy and Zwift will continue to operate as separate platforms... we will continue improving Rouvy with the same focus on quality, realism, and listening to our community": CEO addresses Zwift's purchase of Rouvy
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Yesterday Zwift announced the ‘strategic acquisition’ of rival indoor training subscription service Rouvy, the brands insisting both businesses would still be run independently. Rouvy CEO Petr Samek has now commented on the news, saying his team “will continue improving Rouvy with the same focus on quality, realism, and listening to our community”.
“Our journey to create the most realistic indoor cycling experience has led us to join forces with Zwift, which has strategically acquired Rouvy,” he said. “This step is a huge recognition of everything we have built together with you, our riders.
“Rouvy stays Rouvy. Real routes are, and will continue to be, our heart, and our mission remains the same: to help you achieve your cycling goals. We will continue to build the product we believe in and love. Now, supported by Zwift and the Zwift hardware ecosystem, we have an opportunity to create even more experiences in the world of indoor cycling reality!
“For you, our users, nothing changes in your daily experience: you can keep riding exactly as you are used to, and your current subscription and its price remain the same. The entire Rouvy team, including myself, is staying on board, and we will continue to listen closely to your needs. Rouvy and Zwift will continue to operate as separate platforms, with independent roadmaps and subscription models. The same faces, the same great people, the same passion behind Rouvy.
“We have always believed in a bigger vision for Rouvy: one connected cycling experience that brings more value to riders indoors and outdoors, all year round. Now, we are even closer to realizing it than ever before.
“We will continue improving Rouvy with the same focus on quality, realism, and listening to our community. Thank you for your continued support, and I look forward to every ride we share in the saddle. Doesn’t matter whether it’s outdoor or indoor.”
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(except we could only think of 8, so 3 of them are variations of 'different sized wheels'.)
I don’t think I’ll ever I understand dropper posts, even on the most brutal downhill you’re standing and the saddle is kind of useful for stability around knee height. My mate says it stops you getting whacked in the cobblers but I’ve never had that happen. I know people swear by them but I almost never use mine…
@Rendel Harris that's interesting because the article could simply say "from £45" to indicate that the shoe might not be available in your size or colour at that price. The review itself is very specific about the pricing, so it is not difficult to do.
@Freddy56 Yep, Or rather she was told she can step down and say what she likes (which was nonsense then and even more nonsense now) or she will be fired, which would be way more harmful to her career.
@Nigel Garage Oh yes, the defence of the country and adequate provision for the disabled are very much an either/or, we can't possibly have both. Hang on, what if we set about closing all the tax loopholes and avoidance schemes advised by greedy Essex accountants, then there might be enough to go round.
@Rendel Harris tut tut, you obviously haven't taken your DEI course yet. You can't say "the disabled" in this day and age because it objectifies them. You're turning an adjective into a noun, very poor form by someone who self-certifies as an expert in the English language. "Disabled people" is the non-discriminatory way to describe those with disabilities. Putting aside your ridiculous and cliched comparison of my vision of an equal society with National Socialism, the last thing I'm going to say on the topic is that society has infinite number of wants on a finite number of resources. Clearly you think doling out free cycling gear to people is more important than spending those same precious resources on treating people in the NHS, educating our children, or defending our country. Well, more power to you, but I'm certain the overwhelming majority of people think otherwise.
@chrisonabike Yes, of course in any march of 250,000 plus people you're going to get some nasty bits of work and idiots. The police have arrested some of these and from what I hear (friends have gone on the marches, I haven't) they are reasonably assiduous in doing so within the obvious limits of trying to identify and then isolate and arrest a person responsible for shouting stupid things in a massive crowd. However, and I'm happy to stand corrected if they should wish to make their position more clear, I assume from the tone of open_roads' remarks and his description of the marches as antisemitic that they regard any march protesting the behaviour of the Israeli government with regard to the slaughter in Gaza as being antisemitic. In any case, the point I was making still stands, as backed up by those arrest figures I quoted, which is that it is not accurate to say that the Met have a "not a priority" attitude to these marches, quite the opposite.
@Ramz Not in the slightest, because the supposed wrong price isn't part of the review, so no misleading or inaccuracy there, and the shoes are available, albeit only in one colour, for £45 as stated.
@Rendel Harris Are you agreeing that the review was misleading and inaccurate?
@Freddy56 wrote "No ideal but it is real and now. Adapt and survive" It's a very similar situation to climate change. As a species we had a choice to reduce carbon emissions or do nothing and learn to live with consequences. We chose the latter and now we wait to see which one will kill us off first.
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*Onley
No – you’ve misunderstood – he’s Only out of the Tour de Romandie.
Because of the great Bob Marley’s pronunciation, every time I listen to Could You Be Loved now I think of Oscar, “Onley…Onley…Onley the fittest of the fittest shall survive…”
The video clip isn’t working.
Assuming you mean the TdR clip, it’s working for me (albeit with road.cc’s typical shonky embedding meaning you can only see either the top or bottom half unless you pop it out to picture-in-picture).
Another hot day, another vehicle unable to resist a quick dip after work:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm2pyxpwmdro
No charges to be brought, as the driver was found to be in Seine.
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Poor chap, he certainly wasn’t au quai.
A passing British bus instructor was heard exclaim “C’est magnifique, mais ce n’est pas la gare routière!”
(Pinched from the joke about Keble College. )