Live blog: Search launched for UK’s most cycle-friendly employers, driver rear-ends bus (during England World Cup match?), Froome’s Giro data revealed + more
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Wed, Jul 04, 2018 18:51
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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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Tradescant 2 hours ago
@jackcycles I'm not sure my grandchildren got that memo. Cycling should not be just for hardened road warriors.
DS2025 2 hours ago
Chrisonabike There are a number of police forces in England and Wales that are using portable testing equipment already... How effective it is another matter, I haven't looked into the results of failing (I would hope they just seize and crush the motorbike without any faff but I am sure there are appeal processes, promises not to use them on public roads etc).
KiwiMike 2 hours ago
Woah there - a precision-engineered European-made product, with unparalleled adaptability, is somehow a ‘rip off’? Compared to what - Temu? As per the article, most quality through-axles go for £50-60+, but aren’t adaptable and don’t provide any stand or trailer capability. If you want to balance your £3-4-5k suspension or carbon bike, or bikepacking setup on a budget product subject to highly focused stresses, fair play. Cycling’s a broad church.
Dnnnnnn 2 hours ago
@eburtthebike I've found Spanish drivers to be almost entirely excellent around cyclists.
neilmck 3 hours ago
I agree, the study was made after cycle paths that had been introduced in Berlin during the 70’s and 80’s caused a big increase in cycling deaths. It is an interesting study for cyclists to read in order to know what dangers exist at badly designed junctions. Here in Paris we have very few bi-directional paths. The ones I have cycled on have no building entrances or courtyards (so no cars crossing the path) and every junction is traffic lights to prevent accidents.
thrawed 3 hours ago
We have enough regulation. They're running a motorbike without insurance/registration and possibly without a licence, and the punishment for being caught with all that is pretty severe already. The problem is lack of enforcement.
chrisonabike 4 hours ago
In my experience with anything less than one of those serious mid-bike two-foot kickstands, a wall / tree / hedge is the better option, or the bike will sometimes show you the alternative and lie down by itself. Maybe I've got panniers that are just too large and the wrong balance of (too much) cargo though? And of course Edinburgh streets are great at funneling gusts of wind...
chrisonabike 4 hours ago
I agree there's a clear legal line * but I do see something here. Like much tech it's entirely opaque from the outside (without even invoking things like the VW emissions cheating).** I know in NL they have trialled semi-portable "test stations" to check max motor speeds. However with the latest "but there's no money" crisis I can't see that over here. Indeed it's hard to see the police being motivated to do any more roads policing, with this even further down the priority list. Hope I'm wrong... While I guess many of us *would* be fine with EAPCs as a means to attract "non-cyclists" ... perhaps there's an "attractive nuisance" element to this? We're ushering people into an apparently effortless, easy and minimal consequence mobility mode without the "learning experience" of managing a lighter, unpowered machine on roads. And it's still (busy) *roads* where the new power-assisted riders will often find themselves. Not like in more advanced countries where people usually cycle in much safer and more controlled environments. OTOH we should always balance such concerns against "but cars and full-power ICE motorbikes now" though! Number plates, licences and insurance aren't necessarily mitigating that well... * As soon as there are laws games will be played. How long can you be above the "continuous rate power" for? Can we have *multiple* legal motors on one machine? ** Is the power / speed actually regulated by software, and how long will that keep a child armed with the internet from unlocking it?
Zazz53 4 hours ago
And maybe a planning obligation to have traffic Marshalls controlling access out of the site not obstructing the path and restricting it if cyclists are likely to be obstructed …one can hope
Bob Sprocket 5 hours ago
I'll stick to my low rider with Karrimor Kalahari dry bag panniers and Karrimor Kalahari barbag thanks.
7 thoughts on “Live blog: Search launched for UK’s most cycle-friendly employers, driver rear-ends bus (during England World Cup match?), Froome’s Giro data revealed + more”
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Gives a whole new meaning to tapping out a rhythm at the front of the bunch. But surely the Wolfpack should be playing Born to Be Wild.
The BBC actually invited
The BBC actually invited Hutchinson, Whittle, and Hayles to see the data, not Hutchinson, Whittle, and Whittle.
If I were Froome, I’d tell Whittle to ‘go jump’. Whittle was constantly whining about Froome during the Giro, and he has just written a piece in the Guardian comparing the Festina organised doping scandal in 1998 with the Kenyan-born Brit being on the start line of this year’s TDF.
It’s a pretty shocking manipulation of the facts to fit a pre-existing agenda.
Wonder how fast Muller would
Wonder how fast Muller would be on the same bike the ‘mighty atom’ – Eileen Sheriden used for her 59h7m doing 870 miles (not the shorter 840 as per the record)? The record stands at only 1.4mph faster than what Sheridan achieved in 1954 taking into account the different distances. Baggy top, no padded shorts, no padded tape, blustery winds, heavy rain, having to stop to affix lights for night-time not to mention the vast difference in bike tech/weight.
I reckon Sheridan would smash it out the park, and at the grand age of 95 I’m glad she has being able to record her memories for us young uns to listen too, a true legend of cycling few have got close to achieving even half what she did, the ‘peril’ and Eileen would absolutely dominate women’s cycling if they were racing in the modern era.
https://rouleur.cc/editorial/eileen-sheridan/
BehindTheBikesheds wrote:
That’s curious – I didn’t know Eileen was known as “The Mighty Atom”. I’d only heard that name in connection with Joe Greenstein (a complete badass, but not a cyclist): http://www.badassoftheweek.com/index.cgi?id=651068116795
Bit off topic, but did anyone
Bit off topic, but did anyone else, upon hearing that the Thai lads had been found safe, wonder where the bicycles were?
It’s alright though, I think Newsnight (could have been C4 news) told us they found the bikes on the way to the boys, Nice.
ktache wrote:
Yeah I’d read they’d found the bikes, two brit caving divers were the first to make contact too. Now for the tricky part of getting them back!
That bus needs more
That bus needs more situational awareness. They don’t even pay road tax or wear helmets. If it was forced to wear Hi-viz and have a number-plate this would never have happened!