Five Ten branding takes a back seat as Adidas Freerider mountain bike shoes go clipless

@GMBasics Reminds one of the old joke (stop me if you've heard it) about the vicar who complained to his verger one Sunday morning that he couldn't find his bike and it must've been stolen. "Well, we'll soon find the miscreant," said the verger, "the whole village will be in church this morning, so what you do is, during your sermon read out the Ten Commandments very slowly and when you get to number eight, 'Thou shalt not steal' you look around and see who looks guilty and that will be the person who stole your bike." After the service the verger went up to the vicar and said, "Well, your reverence, did you find the culprit?" "Oh," came the reply, "it turns out I made a silly mistake - I got to number seven and I suddenly remembered where I left it." "But number seven is 'Thou shalt not commit adultery' isn't it, your reverence?" "That's right. Could you be a good chap and pop along to the widow Jackson's house and pick my bike up? It's just inside the front hedge."

@Chris RideFar

@Chris RideFar Like your thinking! Tadej should have gone in for his national championships as insurance, Sagan managed to go eight years without wearing a team jersey, four years in the national champion's jersey then three consecutive world championship jerseys followed by another Slovakian championship. The Slovakian champion's jersey also has the advantage that from a distance it could easily be taken for the world champion's jersey, especially when you have the WC bands of a previous winner added.

@Rendel Harris Maybe Pog' doesn't like wearing his standard team jersey. It's been a LONG time since he had to get one of those out of the drawer, and he's now looking for a new way to keep it like that for another year.

Fine to park two rows of cars down my street but one or two bike?! Shock horror

Good decision by UAE, just because a collarbone doesn't feel painful and there's a full range of movement doesn't mean it's fully healed, as I found to my cost returning to the rugby field too early after a break and doing further damage that put me out for twice as long as the original injury had. Obviously it's a huge disappointment for Pogacar to miss his home championships but really, does anyone care that much about who is European champion? I can name all of the world champions and grand tour winners going back decades but past last year, which I only remember because Tadej won, I'm struggling. He's probably only got three seasons at most to cement his GOAT status before the tsunami of young talent crashes over him, why risk doing further damage that could rule him out for half a season or more for a title that really doesn't cut it amongst the first rank?

I'm sure I don't know what you're talking about. However I've just remembered where I parked my bike.

Hmm... getting the companies under control is one thing, but I wonder if the flow of cash is the wrong way round to do that most effectively here? The correct question as always is "who's the biggest funder and how will that motivate how the scheme is run?" The boroughs / central authority will be minded to "make it work for the hire companies" if they're getting paid, no? The scheme users are paying the hire companies, but unless something is different here from all other public cycle hire schemes they won't be covering the costs. Is it advertising (including selling users' data), or venture capital, or what? And is that likely to make for better streets, or not so much?

Two Sadiq Khan mentions in a day…the resident troll’s w*nkbank will be bursting at the seams.

Not keeping the distinctive band on one of the sleeves is a travesty.