Live blog: Ultra marathon athlete to RUN entire Tour de France route, Ian To targets LEJOG record, Mail pushes for Alliston perjury charge + more
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Simon joined road.cc as news editor in 2009 and is now the site’s community editor, acting as a link between the team producing the content and our readers. A law and languages graduate, published translator and former retail analyst, he has reported on issues as diverse as cycling-related court cases, anti-doping investigations, the latest developments in the bike industry and the sport’s biggest races. Now back in London full-time after 15 years living in Oxford and Cambridge, he loves cycling along the Thames but misses having his former riding buddy, Elodie the miniature schnauzer, in the basket in front of him.
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chrisonabike 22 minutes ago
Harm minimization - at least they're not driving...
Gm_Crop 9 hours ago
I'll counter that by saying the Bryton 750se I have drives me nuts at times. Inconsistantly picks up on routes created on Komoot and the app re-syncs every few seconds when trying to set up the device and sends me back to the home screen. The most infuriating one is that I turned live track on. Once. It now won't turn off and repeatedly flags up the live track is starting, and then disconnecting every few seconds whilst riding. I haven't timed it but it wouldn't suprise me if 10-20% of the time the the screen is covered with an error message. That's been about 6 weeks now. Other than that it's great :/
IanGlasgow 9 hours ago
RE: Police launch road safety operation... by clamping down on cyclists using footbridge Meanwhile in Glasgow, Police Scotland are riding their motorbikes over the pedestrian and cyclists only bridge. https://x.com/FietserGlasgow/status/2065106152917012523?s=20
Rendel Harris 10 hours ago
@Paul J Van Schip certainly seems a bit of a dick, but he's a European and multiple World Champion on the track, pretty sure you don't get there without having some talent in your legs.
Bill H 10 hours ago
Poor Vincent cannot get over the simple fact that given the choice people prefer dedicated cycling spaces, rather than pretending to be cars like vehicular cyclists.
pbunyon 10 hours ago
What is the point of the fancy air sensor if it can't account for changing weather conditions?? If all you care about is a delayed approximation of aerodynamic watts in steady conditions, you don't need any special sensors for that. Just your speed on a decently flat course is enough to approximate rolling resistance and drivetrain losses. And the rest must be aero. If you assume a less aero body position at the same watts, your speed will drop while rolling resistance also drops, which means approximated aero watts goes up. And that's enough to demonstrate what you've shown in your testing protocol ("I sat upright and the number went up a little while later").
chrisonabike 11 hours ago
Your correction is accurate - it's almost always been "the (lack of) thought that (doesn't) count". "Massive" - less than a billion a year spent on active travel (trying to catch up / building a network across the entire country) Not massive - 6 billion every year (2026-2030) spent on road *maintenance* of existing "already built, goes everywhere, very convenient" road network for inactive travel Ultimately the reason "cycle infra" is *needed* is those unbelievably colossal amounts spent every year (and for more than a century now) on making mass motoring not just viable but apparently the "best choice" for most journeys. As the Dutch and others have shown, the majority of people *are* prepared to cycle and even mix with very light, slow local motor traffic *if* cycling is also made safe and convenient for the whole of their journey (including secure parking at both ends). (The history of the financial drivers of the current situation are a complex topic but note that while people complain about "crumbling roads" and underfunded motor infra - with some reason - by us continuing the fuel duty escalator freeze (for example) we're actually helping motorists pay *even less* for that activity / subsidising more of the cost of driving than ever.)
belugabob 11 hours ago
yes, but people will still object - which was my point.
Astralstroll 13 hours ago
So ' Priority of Road Users' and 1.5 metre clearance at 30mph has been been reduced to 'sharing'? NCN route 2 here in South Hams is an absolute scream with white vans, tractors and total idiots who refuse,or are totally incapable,to reverse on high Devon banked lanes ...means you have to get off and pedal back to a passing place....could be at that all day...so I don't bother...
Mr Anderson 14 hours ago
@MaxiMinimalist Agreed. The big problem I see now is today's parents grew up being driven to their schools, and therefore, see private motor vehicles as the only viable form of transport. The vast majority of UK infant and primary schools have a catchment area that is within easy walking distance from home to school. Yet, the traffic caused by pupils being driven to/from school is astonishing. Banishing the "School Run" should be a priority for all schools.
12 thoughts on “Live blog: Ultra marathon athlete to RUN entire Tour de France route, Ian To targets LEJOG record, Mail pushes for Alliston perjury charge + more”
I was in Nottingham on
I was in Nottingham on Saturday. I thought the roads where I live in Northampton were bad. But Nottingham was much, much worse.
If only the Daily Mail could
If only the Daily Mail could use its power and influence for doing some good instead of pushing a fear inspired agenda of hate…
At the end of the day he got
At the end of the day he got convicted so his experience (or lack of) counted for nothing anyway.
Odd one perjury as basically if you lose your case then what they are saying is they didn’t believe you…so surely you’ve perjured yourself by losing your case anyway.
Yorkshire wallet wrote:
Exactly. Surely every defendant who pleads not guilty and is found guilty is a perjurer. Unless the prosecution are perjurers.
racyrich wrote:
I haven’t looked it up but I thought you entered your plea before you were sworn to tell the truth, the whole truth etc. etc… therefore perjury doesn’t apply to your plea.
Mark.
racyrich wrote:
Next they’ll charge him with not taking the sentence with a smile.
Yorkshire wallet wrote:
Not really, the jury’s duty is to weigh up conflicting accounts presented by prosecution and defence and decided which account is correct; both sides can believe their evidence is true, Aliston can believe the collisison was unavoidale, the prosecution alleged it wasn’t, the jury went with the prosecution. It’s only perjury if you gave an account which you know wasn’t true, for example if Aliston had said he wasn’t there at all. Generally, as far as I’m aware, prosecutions for perjury only tend to occur if a defendant (e.g. jeffrey Archer) was exonerated on the basis of something which later proved to be a palpable lie. Any lies told during the process of being fond guilty are taken, I think, to be punished by the sentencing, for example people who admit guilt immediately tend to have that taken into account.
But even if Aliston did perjure himself it’s in relation to such a tiny matter – exaggerating his couriering experience – that it’s clearly politically motivated, as was the whole case, which received more media attention than any number of drink drivers killing people. Shameful abuse of the judicial system to hammer an anti-cycling agenda.
So how many 10,000’s of
So how many 10,000’s of drivers are gonna get investigated for perjury then?
Thought so.
StoopidUserName wrote:
Exactly: I wonder exactly how many of those “my client is totally remorseful and needs to keep their driving licence otherwise their wife will leave them, their kids will turn to drugs, and they’ll lose their job, just before the sky falls in”-type pleas are actually a load of foetid dingoes kidneys…?
Is that not perjury too?
Speed-bumps on a shared-use
Speed-bumps on a shared-use path to slow down cycles? Is it April 1st already?
Why don’t they copy the UK and just put loads of broken glass over shared-use paths – that’ll slow down the bikes even more.
Imagine how much better a
Imagine how much better a place the UK would be without the Mail, Sun, Star, Express
This perjury “investigation”
This perjury “investigation” by the Daily Mail is another example of the hypocrisy and double standards which ran through the coverage of the case. See
https://rdrf.org.uk/2017/08/21/the-charlie-alliston-case-the-real-story/ and