Here’s a little cameo from the road.cc road trip to Eurobike. but what’s going on? Caption suggestions below! the best one will win some Euro schwag, we’ll have a dig through our big bags of leaflets and wurst wrappers – there’s bound to be something nice in there…
Eurobike caption compo! Win Schwag!
What’s going on here? You decide…
Tue, Sep 08, 2009 15:47
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Dave is a founding father of road.cc, having previously worked on Cycling Plus and What Mountain Bike magazines back in the day. He also writes about e-bikes for our sister publication ebiketips. He’s won three mountain bike bog snorkelling World Championships, and likes to ride increasingly long audaxes decreasingly fast as time goes by.
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60somethingcyclist 8 hours ago
@chrisonabike True, things went back to normal once the pandemic was over. In this case, however the problems are still ongoing, and aren't likely to be resolved in the near future. If anything, they're going to get worse. Food shortages are predicted because of the effect that the heatwave has had on crops. This is bound to push prices up. The Straits of Hormuz aren't likely to reopen anytime soon and the strategic oil reserves are running low. Russia is having to import petrol because its own refineries have been badly hit, so that's even more competition for an even more scarce resource. I think that more and more people are going to see cycling as a way of cutting household bills.
chrisonabike 9 hours ago
I think if "grown up" cyclists * are quibbling about ASLs we've very much missed the road safety point anyway. (Not to mention the wider "better transport choices" picture). ASLs are poor-to-useless "cycling infra", even for their design intent. If the idea is "for less confident cyclists" then a design that requires that you re-position in front of the motor traffic - waiting to accelerate - seems unhelpful. Of course they're only designed to help when traffic is stopped, and you can reach the front in time and if vehicles aren't already occupying them. As we're noting here drivers frequently ignore them - whether that be deliberate, a lack of road craft, because they were concentrating on following the vehicle in front, or because the paint has rubbed off. * Aside: shouldn't cycling also be safe and accessible for kids? Or should they only be allowed to do this when accompanied by sufficient qualified adults? Or be limited to parks and otherwise being driven around by their carers? Perhaps there is another way...?
Ben Graham 11 hours ago
Hi Bungle, I saw you follow-up comment. I can't imaging there's a tolerance of 4 seconds on camera enforced lights, seems an odd decision - an offence is committed if a vehicle starts crossing on a red, any tolerance is discretionary. There does seem to be some odd thinking about 'advanced stop lines' where the rules relating to them are identical to a regular stop line, as explained correctly elsewhere in the Highway Code. It does seem a regular offence. Where I live it doesn't help that some of them are very faint and disappear in rain.
Rendel Harris 12 hours ago
@ktache Not sure he's totally ruled out of the worlds yet (though I think it would be best if he doesn't), normal recovery time is about eight weeks but surgery can halve that...depending on the nature of the break he could be just about fit to ride by the time of the elite men's race, but he'll have missed a lot of training. Hopefully his managers and team will persuade him to wait until Lombardia, if not just to knock it off for the rest of the year.
Rendel Harris 13 hours ago
@Bungle_52 The Met told me a couple of years ago when rejecting a submission that they needed a clear three seconds of red visible before they would consider it for an RLJ prosecution. I pointed out to them that this meant that at 30 mph a driver could see a light change to red from 40 metres away and still get through without sanction, or 55 m if they accelerated to 40 as most do. They just replied "them's our rules..."
Bungle_52 13 hours ago
@Ben Graham I have just checked the footage from my report. The driver crosses the 1st stop line 4 seconds after the light turns red. All on camera from behind the vehicle. No further action. So I assume the margin is at least 4 seconds.
chrisonabike 13 hours ago
Oh, and active travel funding per head (in England at least) is laughable compared to other places. Plus it is delivered intermittently. It's more like a Blue Peter contest...
chrisonabike 14 hours ago
Yup, I see those opportunities being missed all the time in Edinburgh. When it gets really bad, dig it all up and put it back down again how it was. Contrast with what seems to happen in NL - when things are dug up the whole thing seems to get a "let's redo this according to the current standards" treatment. They even coordinate with the utilities, so that after a refurb the street isn't immediately dug up again because of leaking pipes / we suddenly realised the new estate being planned for round the corner will want broadband etc. Pros and cons of course - you may wait longer there for changes as smaller changes may be deferred until a major redo is due. (Though in the UK case you likely wouldn't get them at all...) It seems we "can't have nice things" in the UK in part because a) we have greater motor traffic speeds/volumes spead across "streets" / within urban areas b) the funding and organisational responsibility differs. Are we in the "Sam Vimes boots" territory (being too poor to afford better products which not only save money over time but actually work)? There is long term money pressure on LAs and it seems that due to poor construction and maintenance we have to regularly pour money into (pot-)holes in the road. And it seems there's no budget to check up on or enforce adequate standards from utilities work or even private building.
ktache 14 hours ago
Shame about the world champs defence. Speedy recovery. https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/aug/30/tadej-pogacar-vuelta-a-espana-cycling-crash-hospital-stage-nine
mdavidford 16 hours ago
I believe the accepted form for this kind of argument is "I know you are, you said you were, but what am I?".
31 thoughts on “Eurobike caption compo! Win Schwag!”
Does my Hymer look big in
Does my Hymer look big in this?
fits me fine but wheres the
fits me fine but wheres the wife going to sleep?
Yes, made it! With another
Yes, made it! With another tug I’ll have the entire family out of here! And nobody will ever know a thing…
I reckon with another shove
I reckon with another shove I’ll have the entire family in there… Easy money.
Nope. Sorry. You ain’t gonna
Nope. Sorry. You ain’t gonna fit Lances ego in here.
Inevitably when they met, the
Inevitably when they met, the talk eventually came back to their shared prison term.
Can you fix it?
Can you fix it?
Our intel reveals
Our intel reveals Brailsford’s desperation to fill his rosta extends to kidnapping riders straight from the Vuelta. 👿
“Tony, mate seriously…you
“Tony, mate seriously…you said it had a [i]chemical[/i] toilet!”
“Right, now we’re safely over
“Right, now we’re safely over the border, let’s get out those pork pies Jan Ullrich asked us to bring over for him…”
There’s a tiny door in my
There’s a tiny door in my caravan, Tony. It’s a portal and it takes you inside Lance Armstrong. You see the world through Lance Armstrong’s eyes… and then after about 15 minutes, you’re spit out… into a ditch on the side of The New Jersey Turnpike
I don’t care what they said
I don’t care what they said in the shop there’s no way that helmet fits
This may be a camper van but
This may be a camper van but your not getting me in there with you
It sleeps two? Two what?
It sleeps two? Two what?
Attempting to talk the +Watt
Attempting to talk the +Watt logo designer out of his hiding place
Oh Bugger!
Oh Bugger!
…..are you sure you saw a
…..are you sure you saw a Lion and a Witch?
Now we’re back home we can
Now we’re back home we can get the Van Nicholas Astraeus out for a test ride!
“I thought it said Hymen”
“I thought it said Hymen”
Wallet or keys, wallet or
Wallet or keys, wallet or keys….. If i leg it i’ll be able to catch last orders!
hmm, they said the 12 speed
hmm, they said the 12 speed prototypes were in here, all I can find is the embargo’d Team Sky entry list!
“I thought it said
“I thought it said Hymen”
Yeah, I did a doubletake as well.
Cant find the lugage but one
Cant find the lugage but one of the migrants in there says it might be in Ostend 👿
Thanks to your generous
Thanks to your generous donation, Mr. Armstrong, we now have one tester to knock on your trailer door, and one to cover the back exit.
This ain’t what I had in mind
This ain’t what I had in mind when you said I could do the Tour Down Under!
I think this must be the
I think this must be the master bedroom?
“So if we use him as an
“So if we use him as an exhaust pipe and link it up via his mouth, where do the emissions come out?”
That’s the yike stashed, the
That’s the yike stashed, the van nicholas is at the
back all the pedals are in one corner so plenty of
room for a selection of fixies ….. customs will
never know …..
Tony, I told you it’s a
Tony, I told you it’s a caravan, it doesn’t have an engine!
BananaDrama wrote:Tony, I
I knew there was a reason I couldn’t get it started
” are my trainers that ugly ?
” are my trainers that ugly ? “