Live blog: British rider breaks European cycling speed record, sabotage warning to Shropshire riders + more
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Tue, Jun 19, 2018 14:23
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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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Rendel Harris 1 minute ago
@Blackthorne83 Please can you let us know what was said, as you apparently know?
belugabob 24 minutes ago
@jackcycles your biggest obstacle is a narrow mind - also caused by poor maintenance. Just Google "Cycling KSIs netherlands vs uk" to see how wrong you are.(not that you're open to facts)
belugabob 33 minutes ago
@mark1212123 pausing before posting on social media would help a lot of folk. (not you, though)
belugabob 35 minutes ago
@chrisonabike only in the brains of the hard of thing
Blackthorne83 36 minutes ago
@jackcycles this whole thing is culturally deeply disheartening. Richardson was snitched on by a woke ‘whistleblower’ teammate for exercising his speech. Now British cycling is obligated to take performative measures to safeguard their image given their sins of the past. And a young rider sent to ‘re-education training’, reputation slandered without trial and career derailed. Everybody loses. Great job British cycling, propping up riders and then publicly throwing them under the bus.
No Reply 41 minutes ago
@jackcycles Unfortunately now, people are guilty until proved innocent. Mud sticks. I am not saying he is guilty or innocent, but it is the way of the world now.
mark1212123 2 hours ago
@chrisonabike "more rational, efficient and dependable" The cost will explode across taxpayers. The administration could've used HS2 money as a beginning step, but they chose not to. Windshield bias will still be whacking the cyclist in 100 years. I don't see many cyclists bothered by it. I see many possible cyclists put off cycling by it but we know this already.
jackcycles 2 hours ago
Guess it depends on what he says and whether his words have been twisted or taken out of context, but generally we should select athletes on the basis of their ability, not stuff they say, unless it's against the law..
jackcycles 3 hours ago
@chrisonabike all active travel money should be immediately reallocated to fixing potholes and trimming hedges/vegetation. A lot of the reason why cycling and/or jogging is so difficult in my area is due to road surface quality and getting artificially narrowed by poor maintenance. That way, no more terrible, unpopular "active travel"/segregation decisions that need to be overturned
chrisonabike 3 hours ago
@jackcycles "a stark throwback to the days just after COVID when the lunatics were briefly left to run the asylum" You mean the Conservative government of Boris? Not a fan of him or Matt Hancock either, but I thought eg. Jonathan Van-Tam did a pretty good job? "All people want is a joined up travel experience where cyclists can use the road – along with all other forms of transport – to get from A to B with the least fuss." I tried that but I found the canal wet, being held up by rollerskaters vexing, dodging the passing lorries at 60mph scary, before I was run over by the train... "Absolutely scandalous waste of taxpayer money"... I quite agree, what on earth are they doing wasting active travel money to make active travel less pleasant (and indeed places less pleasant) and convenient?
10 thoughts on “Live blog: British rider breaks European cycling speed record, sabotage warning to Shropshire riders + more”
“Livee blog”? http://road.cc
“Livee blog”? http://road.cc/show/tags/livee-blog/161011
You had one job!
http://rustyspokes.com/facts
http://rustyspokes.com/facts.html
“Contributing to their demise might have been … the high price which ranged from $30 to $45. “
So HD are keeping tradition going in more ways than one. (I wonder how much that price will increase once Trump’s barmy tariff war starts to bite.)
“When you see a horse on the
“When you see a horse on the road – slow down to 15mph.”
Does that mean we slower riders should put a bit of a sprint on when we see a horse?
(No. No, it doesn’t.)
“You had one job.” Judging
“You had one job.” Judging by the apparently fresh material on the ground around the posts of this cycle rack, I reckon that local drivers dug it up and turned it around, creating some desperately needed car parking.
Cycle rack location- I found
Cycle rack location- I found out where it was by the incredible investigative skill of clicking the Twitter link, and the second post explained the full story behind it. Copenhagen.
Drinfinity wrote:
“It was because of the car, parked next to the site.
When the car moved, they just turned the rack, not the posts.
From 2015 in Copenhagen.”
Got to be honest, that’s an entirely reasonable and really quite boring explanation…
Quote:
Sooner or later, blockchain bollocks infects everything.
“This will really help
“This will really help cyclists know which part of the road is theirs to use. #cycling”
Cyclists already know: all of it . It’s the other maniacs that don’t seem to know
That video of the old boy
That video of the old boy getting on the exercise bike after the kid video’d his old route, beautiful
#onions
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The Spanish at the end roughly translates to ‘help the neighbour to be happy it’s one of the greatest pleasures of life. Good training.’
BehindTheBikesheds wrote:
I’m impressed with the translation, especially as I believe it’s Portuguese. It certainly isn’t Castellano.