Fans injured after driver crashes car into Tour de France finishing straight

When the UCI said cycling needed to focus more on safety, I'm not sure hard hats, hi vis padded jackets, and steel toe caps was quite what they had in mind.

I would love it if bike manufacturers offered us more exciting paint jobs. Seems like some of the chinese brands are offering far more customisation in their framesets. You see so many cool paintjobs on professionals bikes and then you look at the offerings to us mortals and its depressing. I know part of this is that they also reserve the more interesting or exciting paint jobs for the top end bikes to lure people up the price ladder but its a shame nonetheless.

Not gonna lie, I would consider Merida bikes when buying a new bike if their paintjobs weren't utterly utterly awful. I don't know that I have seen a single one I like. They seem to manage to pick colours I don't like or think complement each other and then the actual use of said paint isn't in aesthetic ways. I know the paint doesn't make a bike good but we are all amateurs and if you don't like the look of your bike then there are dozens of other bikes that you would like just as much to ride that look better.

@mdavidford Too bad the Police themselves, whose job it is to discriminate between legal and illegal and promote public understanding of the same, don't know the difference: "doing wheelies on what the force described as a Sur-Ron "e-bike"

@wtjs Yes - surely better to filter out bugs than to eat dead ones or live mostly sterile ones that can't reproduce.

@Rendel Harris You know damn well what I mean, Rendel. The bikes here are just a nice angle to make their point about how tech has changed over the years. They could have easily used two other bikes for exactly the same purpose. They chose these because they already had an article that looked at the old bike in depth, and because Seixas' bike is new. You keep cherry-picking, to try to win this silly argument on semantics, but the intro actually says it quite clearly: "We compare Jaan Kirsipuu’s early-2000s AG2R race bike with Paul Seixas’ latest machine TO CHART A QUARTER OF A CENTURY OF TECH PROGRESS". The article is not ABOUT these bikes, it USES these bikes to illustrate that tech progress, hence, the article is about that tech progress.

@Sreedlums That's hilarious, the article is literally about two Decathlon Tour de France bikes and comparing them. It says that everywhere, in the headline, in the subhead, in the body text. It says it's "a good excuse to look back at how Decathlon’s top-level race bikes have changed over the last 25 years", how on earth can you get from that to "this article was *not* about these two bikes"? Go on swearing black is white all you want, but you are totally wrong.

@Sriracha They have got what makes bicycles be recognized by the public as bicycles, and what motorbikes haven't got - pedals, that's why.

@Rendel Harris Oh wait, so now the article is only about Decathlon's TdF bikes? Because that's in the headline? That's funny, because in your previous comment you said "I think if you look really hard you can see this is an article about how Tour de France bikes have changed",. So, which is it? You can keep cherry-picking snippets of text, but it doesn't change the fact that this article was *not* about these two bikes, nor was it about TdF bikes. This article took these two bikes as examples of top road bikes of their time, to take a broader look at how road bike tech has changed in 30 years. And my original comment was about exactly that; road bikes then and now.

@Sredlums Did you miss this bit? See the words "Tour de France bikes" there? Easy to miss, only being in the headline and all...