Live blog: Nibali puts winning Milan-San Remo ride on Strava, ‘driverless’ Tesla car rammed by ‘riderless’ dockless hire bike + 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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mdavidford 6 hours ago
Isn't the opposite of someone who's homogenised split personality disorder?
GravelIsNothingNew 8 hours ago
AI is cancel culture Anyone who thinks it’s good has no talent and wants to be homogenised into a world of bland sameness.
Car Delenda Est 8 hours ago
@chrisonabike also a lot easier to wrap up when the 'hurty words' are telling people to burn down hotels hosting asylum seekers and then people go and do exactly that.
Defblade 8 hours ago
"The spokesperson for the Metropolitan Police said the force was unable to comment on this recent spate of reported bikejackings because “they are not linked, given they are in different areas”." Because crims on mopeds _definitely_ can't travel to different areas of the city, very easily?
ktache 9 hours ago
@Pub bike I run nokons on the Good Bike, very little compression on the outers, both xtr brake and gears. For the several years I will keep the well lubricated quality nokons inners I will have to adjust to take the little slack out of the rear a few times, just to make the shifts crisp. Ceramic brakes so pad wear is negligible, the rear will need more adjustment over time than the front, presumably as it's a much longer cable run. Nokons cables on the rohloff on the Ultimate Commuter, have had to take some slack out, mainly out of the getting lower gear cable, I'm guessing as I often trying to find the non existent lower gear on the hard climb.
Pub bike 10 hours ago
@imajez Brake adjusters mainly deal with pad wear whilst gear adjusters fine tune shifting during set-up and after fitting a new inner cable. Brake outer housing is spiral-wound and compressible giving compliance at the lever and the false impression that the inner cable somehow stretches whereas the metal strands in gear outer housing are laid axially and as such the outer housing doesn't easily compress over time keeping shifting precise. I find that a previously well-adjusted rear derailleur system that needs adjustment likely needs a new inner cable.
OkCarl 10 hours ago
I ride expensive bikes wearing expensive helmets, my bike equipped with an expensive bike computer, fitness watch and cell phone. I carry my debit card. I worry. You would expect anyone living in Chicago to worry about bike jacking. Yet, for some strange reason. The Chicago land criminal community has not caught on to bike jacking. They like retail break ins and ATM smash ups.
chrisonabike 10 hours ago
@mattw "footpaths" Hmm... true this is an underappreciated resource and indeed in danger. But I think this is very location dependent. If we're taking in urban locations, are you talking alleys - narrow almost always no room for expansion? Or "footways" - also often not ample and we're back to "fighting over scraps" with pedestrians or even forced-conflict with "shared use"? In the countryside - perhaps? If what goes in NL applies more generally (and why wouldn't it - they're humans too) more people may be prepared to travel on bikes there than UK opinion holds. ("people depend on their cars... nobody cycles or walks ... the non-existent footway beside the A-road!"). Although that may depend on "cyclists and walkers get the direct route" which isn't always how we do it...
imajez 11 hours ago
@james-o Cable brakes and gear shifters have have barrel adjusters to deal with the inevitable cable stretch, that most certainly occurs over time.
10 thoughts on “Live blog: Nibali puts winning Milan-San Remo ride on Strava, ‘driverless’ Tesla car rammed by ‘riderless’ dockless hire bike + more”
That Abingdon cyclist could
That Abingdon cyclist could probably have run someone down while drink driving, and been fined less…
brooksby wrote:
Ah, but we all know cyclists are so dangerous. I mean Lord Lawson said cycle lanes have caused more harm to London than the Blitz in WWII.
Why couldn’t the person in Abingdon not drive a car instead? Preferably a realy big one.
🙂
He should have just driven
He should have just driven his 4×4 on to the pavement and killed a child. It would have been cheaper.
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/delivery-driver-who-mounted-pavement-12782437.amp
But it isn’t illegal to cycle
But it isn’t illegal to cycle on the pavement, unless he was furious… He is now.
I don’t think we should
I don’t think we should comment until we know the condition of the victim…
alansmurphy wrote:
A$6,000.
Given my extensive knowledge of chauffeur-driven Teslas, my guess is it had a mildly offended front bumper. I reckon that would cost about A$6,000 to coddle back to happiness.
There’s obviously more to the
There’s obviously more to the bike on pavement story then we are being told. Someone isn’t going to end up in court just for that……..
Bungle73 wrote:
You are jumping to conclusions. People have been fined large amounts just for simply cycling on a pavement, it does happen.
> “The total cost of the
> “The total cost of the damage to the vehicle was $6000.”
Bullshit. The total cost of the damage was more like $600, not $6000, unless you’re an utter muppet who enjoys being ripped off.
Driverless bike 1 : 0
Driverless bike 1 : 0 Driverless car