Rapha Mobile Cycle Club’s day out in Bath

@leedorney ..if you prefer a hammer as a bike tool to a pair of cone spanners.. : ) Press-in bearings are cheaper to make and easier for some to service. C+C are great for high end hubs ime.

If he had slowed down any more, he could have fallen off!

Before you submit to WYorks OpSnap you have to tick a box that says: I suspect they could claim that their sharing it is helping to raise awareness of safer road usage and therefore falls under that last bit (even if there was no real chance of any casualties in this particular case).

@wtjs I noticed that the bus has a sticker that says "Cyclists pass with care". I can't read the fine print, but I think it says "Because we don't"

@jackcycles DON'T FEED THE FUNCTIONALLY ILLITERATE, BAD FAITH, TROLL.

The £1,200 fine, which is far in excess of what a motorists would pay in a similar situation, does, like the Charlie Alliston case (idiotic prat who was convicted of manslaughter for the death of Kim Briggs), show the inconsistency of the "judge cyclists like drivers" argument. It assumes that the problem is that cyclists and drivers aren't treated equally (true), that they should be treated equally (false, because they don't provide the same level of danger, in the same way that knives aren't regulated in the same way as machine guns, even though both can kill), but that there is a discursive assumption that cyclists are treated more lightly than drivers. The point is that if Alliston was in a car, he would have been charged with death by careless driving, or possibly death by dangerous driving, with a distinct possibility of not being charged at all. Both of those offences had (at the time) a lower maximum tariff than the thing Alliston was charged with - manslaughter, and the average sentence for those is less than the average sentence for manslaughter. Similarly, dangerous cycling gets hit with a £1,200 fine, whereas the most frequent (according to West Yorkshire Police's own stats) punishment for close passing a cyclist (if punished at all) is a education course at the cost of approximately £100. In other words - when someone says that dangerous cyclists should be treated the same as dangerous drivers, the response should be to ask them whether they intend to increase the punishment for drivers, or decrease it for cyclists.

I bought the Espresso bibs and was disappointed with the quality. The chamois is as good as ever but the grippers on the legs started peeling off after 1 wash and they're still coming off. They're obviously cheap alternatives to the grippers used for the Velocissimo bibs that have been discontinued.

"The driver was forced to hug the kerb to reduce the risk of contact." If that is the standard then they need to apply it to all drivers that force cyclists into the same position.

I suspect the Police releasing his video to the public is also copyright infringement

@Rendel Harris I really hope the cyclist does publish it and let's everyone know.