Live blog: Geraint Thomas wins TT nats, Alex Dowsett on the history of time trialling, Barnes sisters 1 and 2 at national champs TT, + 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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wtjs 15 hours ago
@FionaJJ These officers deployed next-level stupidity, and it must be difficult for the police to find people this dim. It doesn't even need rolling-roads or whatever, just a reputable bike computer on a quickly changed mount for the difficult cases where a proper EAPC has been modded, although you would need to look hard in Lancashire to find a police officer who knows how to make a pedal cycle go. Most illegal electric motorbikes are immediately obvious, not least because the crim is wearing a face mask. I saw an obvious one tonight coming out of Garstang Sainsbury's, not pedalling but without a face mask because everybody knows that the police only come into the town to hide away in the police station 200 yards away.
bikeman01 16 hours ago
Gustav Gullholm.. that's not a good look mate
mdavidford 18 hours ago
@Chris RideFar I think what you meant to say was "REMOVE this and put it on PODCAST CC".
jaymack 20 hours ago
As Mary Whitehouse never said - one doesn't have to read the article if one doesn't want to read about an off-road bicycle.
Rendel Harris 20 hours ago
@FionaJJ In London they're allowed to stop on single and double yellows to deliver packages or empty pillar boxes; in practice they take this as carte blanche to park wherever and whenever they want, such as this chap on the Brixton Road who pulled into the bus/cycle/motorcycle lane without indicating, as I approached at 20mph, to park on a red route, response to a remonstrance, "I suppose you never get post delivered do ya?"
FionaJJ 21 hours ago
@Rendel Harris We have a pavement parking ban, but around here at least, royal mail vans are already exempt, subject to certain caveats, such as allowing at least 1.5m, and only being stopped to do their work.
FionaJJ 21 hours ago
It was already embarrassing for the police that they made such a mess of their attempt to determine whether a bike was legal or not, but I had assumed it was a group of well intentioned, but under-trained officers acting on their own initiative, having spotted something they thought looked not quite right. I'm now discovering this was a planned activity, something sufficiently organised to have been given a name - Operation FRISLEN, designed specifically to identify and remove illegal e-bikes and scooters. It's apparent that the officers were sent out without adequate training, never mind the kind of equipment that should be used for this sort of work. I'm not saying they always need specialist equipment to spot all illegal bikes, but at least if they'd been given a demonstration with that equipment, they'd have realised why their approach was not going to end well.
Geoff Ingram 23 hours ago
Have put drop bars on a 2001 B1 mtb, a 2007 stumpy hardtail and a 2010 stumpy full suss. In all cases fairly basic conversións leaving gearing and wheels broadly the same and concentrating on correct positioning of bars and fit. Oddly, with all 3 I was happy with the result when recently done, but after a few months found that the extra speed on easy trails was more than offset by the lack of ability (probably mine) on tougher routes and finally preferred flat bar with slammed and inverted stem as best overall compromise. Good fun playing around, though.
mark1a 23 hours ago
The photos in this review look they are for a different bag?
mattw 1 day ago
This is a strange reactionary knee jerk overall. But what is this "are essentially motorbikes in disguise" waffle? "One letter claimed that high-powered electric ‘e-bikes’ were “essentially motorbikes” in disguise, with many being used without lights, helmets, or any hi-vis clothing." Surely, they simply ARE motorbikes?
15 thoughts on “Live blog: Geraint Thomas wins TT nats, Alex Dowsett on the history of time trialling, Barnes sisters 1 and 2 at national champs TT, + more”
Meh. You don’t need CO2 for
Meh. You don’t need CO2 for proper beer anyway.
KendalRed wrote:
I like my cider like I like my women: flat, dry and smelling of apples.
Wait a minute, that sounds wrong – I’ll come in again.
hawkinspeter wrote:
How about strong, sweet and leaves a hole in your wallet
Simmo72 wrote:
I like my cider like I like my women: cold, cheap and alcoholic.
Nope, still not right.
hawkinspeter wrote:
I prefer mine in the park on a bench, cheap and not too gassy.
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But I don’t drink cider.
KendalRed wrote:
Or proper cycling.
I get shoaled a lot in London
I get shoaled a lot in London, it’s really frustrating as I’m rather rapid from a standing start, let alone cruising speed, this happens mostly because other selfish twunts go past the white line and stop in front of me and anyone else abiding by the rules. Cycle lanes simply aren’t as wide as they should be. Vauxhall Bridge is a prime example, concrete/armco in one of the lanes.
Occasionally I pull up alongside other cyclists. I’ve yet to experience anyone who can keep up, though a couple have benefitted from a massive tow through Hyde Park 🙂 I wouldn’t behave like this if I was likely to be slowing people down though.
What I find worse though, is when I stop behind the car/van/taxi at the front of the queue at a red light (like you are supposed to), only for half a dozen dozy dawdling cyclists to amble past and stop past the white line. This then results in a gaggle of slow cyclists taking ages to get moving and the car/van/taxi having a sizeable delay to slower-than-usual forward motion, delaying everyone who is abiding by the rules. Only for the car/van/taxi and myself to overtake the lot of them about 50m later. Seriously guys, why can’t you join the queue, it’s not very British, is it!? I can understand why drivers get so frustrated by this at is does genuinely hold up traffic. ASL boxes at every appropriate traffic light would go a long way though.
ChrisB200SX wrote:
I think that’s just it – especially in London you almost expect every set of lights to have an ASL so quite often cyclists are moving to the front purely because they know 90% of the time there is an ASL which is the safer place to be..
Htc wrote:
But the point is that shoaling is deeply selfish and ignorant. As are their closely related cousins, the RLJ’er. Very rarely are they travelling particularly fast…but they will overtake while you’re stopped at the light and get in your way 50 foot further on. They’ll do this multiple times without giving a toss.
They are car drivers but on a bike. No consideration for anyone but themselves…their journey times takes precedence over everything.
It’s not cricket.
StoopidUserName wrote:
So, they’re cyclists then.
hawkinspeter wrote:
So, they’re cyclists then.
— StoopidUserName
no.
StoopidUserName wrote:
Are they, maybe, true scotsmen?
hawkinspeter wrote:
So, they’re cyclists then.
— StoopidUserName
…but not cricketers.
spot on…
😀
I dont’t think I am a shoaler
I dont’t think I am a shoaler. I often see skiny women riding antic steel bikes overpassing me, sometimes because I stop at red lights, and sometimes because they truely are faster.