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I'm sure everyone involved is very well intentioned but I'm sorry Scottish Cycling, young people don't need "confidence", they need safe infrastructure. They need a national government that doesn't repeatedly fail to live up to its previous promises on active travel spending and then tries to obfuscate that fact, while diverting huge obscene sums of money to road building and blocking attempts by councils to implement congestion charging. They need local councils that are actually incentivised to deliver infrastructure at pace where funding is available rather than soft-soaping and slow-rolling constantly to try and avoid bad press from deranged anti-cycling wingnut columnists in local rags. Most relevantly, they need people with access to power and politics who're willing to advocate for those things, certainly far more than they need a Tour-themed rebrand of the ineffectual Bikability scheme which is what this initiative seems to amount to.

@Rendel Harris "Did you have to have counselling after every game because of the hurtful things you heard on the pitch?" Great question. For a rational, steady, logical, response, sadly don't hold your breath. I say "sadly" because most cyclists have a dislike for linguistic accuracy and authentic meaning. I don't think Rendel has a wish to "live in North Korea" though. He's only expressing disdain for a two word lump that resides along the lickspittle spectrum. North Korea seems like an incredible leap. Do you use a TV stick a lot No Reply?

@Rendel Harris I have read your comments for a good while. What I see is someone who preaches tolerance but is completely intolerant to any other views which don’t align to yours. Many of your comments are personal slurs. You post some very personal and nasty responses. If someone gets so upset at a throwaway remark such as bum chum, the issue is with you. It’s an off the cuff remark, not a bloody homophobic slur. Get a grip. You can be offended. That is your right. But it is also my right to say something which someone else may find offends them. The remark is not offensive, no, you find it offensive. That my friend is free speech, enjoy it while it lasts in this country. People who go on forums looking for things to be offended at should not go on said forums. It is liberal views such as the ones you regularly show on here which are the reason why this country is such a mess. So you are a rugby player? How did that go? Did you have to have counselling after every game because of the hurtful things you heard on the pitch? And you are happy for someone to use the C word, but apoplectic if someone uses a term you don’t like. Have i touched a nerve Rendel? Is there something you’d like to tell me? For what it’s worth I didn’t get nasty and personal. You did. This forum is sadly going the way many forums have, where the liberals shout louder than everyone else to drown out a different opinion, and the result is a left wing biased forum where any dissent is frowned upon by those who feel superior to others. Perhaps you’d prefer us to live in a society like North Korea, where the state monitors and punishes opinions expressed? Maybe not, because you would be dealt with soundly.

@Rendel Harris Rendel Harris November 7, 2026 at 10:41 am @mark1212123 Thank you for answering my question. Get well soon. Hugs xxx Oh my. I wont address you again Rendel. You are discomforted. Please, accept my sincerest apologies, for making you feel like you are. I will, of course, from time to time, maybe mention your leaden effects upon the cycling community.

If Waymo are allowed to patent a system to detect fallen/falling pedestrians and cyclists, it means no-one else may use the same method without incurring licencing fees -- unless Waymo waives their rights. (If that is their intention, why don't they just publish the method without spending money on a patent -- they don't come cheap?) And they would be in a position to block anyone else using it. The method sounds pretty common-sense to me (rarely an issue with the US Patent Office), so other developers may find they have to remove parts of their software if they've already gone down that route. So safety research plus patent will end up costing lives. If your car swerves to avoid a tumbling pedestrian, its manufacturer could get sued. Still, I'm sure Trump would support moves to make such patent-abuse illegal...

@mark1212123 Thank you for answering my question. Get well soon. Hugs xxx

@No Reply "Vanthourenhart is a smacked ass cheat." You may not have noticed but cycle racing is built on the cheat foundation, homo sapiens. Witness, even, Rendel Harris trying to cheat you from your free speech flagpoles on this very thread. Rendel is a cyclist he's informed the forum before regarding his bike stable. If you are against cheating why do you follow cycle racing?

Not a lawyer, but not sure awarding a patent on a safety feature that only really benefits the non-contracted party (I.e. the cyclist) is the right way forward. Hopefully they do not make the proliferation of a feature restrictive, as it would benefit the greater good. I think Volvo did that with the 3-point seatbelt? PS. Having used Waymo as a passenger, I feel their city driving is waaaay better than pretty much any Uber driver - at least in the US.

@Rendel Harris I've been reading you hurl your curtain twitcher approach on many others. I think being grammar police around cycling is simply someone wishing to be publicly pompous. Your strawman argument highlighting "difference" and "appreciation" would be interesting to get into but they are two distinct areas, not one, as you implied by landing, bumpity, bump..........bump, on "problem." I'm wondering now, if you can explain the difference between "swearing and homophobic slurs" it will get us all on the same page? Don't just google it either, use your own strength so we can see.

@genesis cops are not our allies... I think we can all cope with that, it's the Axis of the Police and the Judicial system being both our sworn enemy and the unreasoning Friend of the Driver that constitutes the danger