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Please remove this from Road CC's webiste, which, as its name confirms, is for ROAD cycling, not gravel riding or MTB.

Both stories re ghost bikes unfortunately sound very similar to one local to us. Cyclist killed by a driver, ghost bike put in place, ghost bike vandalised/cruel notes put on it then ghost bike disappears with no explanation from the council or anyone else. Of course everyone on local Facebook is against removing it, but there always seems to be one or two who can’t seem to stand ghost bikes!

RE hateful comments / "angry drivers" - while there does seem to be a strong correlation between "possibility of any inconvenience to my travel" and "unjustifiable anger" * ... ... I think this is mostly a story about "modern Internet-mediated interaction", no? * Which is mostly drivers simply due to numbers. Although things like "the advert said cruising on the freeway, the reality is queueing on the Westway" and "person on horse shouts at peasants on foot" no doubt contribute.

@Natrix How likely is it that I get all my facts from Wikipedia? I'd be writing a book a week, wouldn't I?

@Wales56 Overbiked Randonneuring reviewed the SeeMee 300 and one of the criticisms was that although the battery life was very good, it was only 75% of the claimed values. I thought the reduced values for the newer model were a result of better testing and it is very disappointing to find out that not only the runtimes in the newer model have been slashed, but they're still hugely exaggerated.

@chrisonabike they could try this on motorists first (because number plates, that’ll have ’em bang to rights Exactly!

@chrisonabike Unfortunately, I think you're disputing with a Very Small Language Model A Low I Pro-Driving Fictitious Cyclist troll, powered by a single AAA battery with those white crystals oozing out of the terminals.

Hi, this is the author. In the past road.cc has published critical but generally positive comments on my work – The Road Book 1989, Colombia Es Pasión, and others. Have a look at them and you'll see that thorough and uncompromising research is central to all my books. Then ask yourself how realistic this so-called "review" of The Green Bullet is likely to be. The writer says "I've read plenty of books on cycling." He clearly hasn't read this one. The Green Bullet is a 270-page chronology detailing Valverde's career from start to finish, so the following extract–"...he won massive races all the way through his career. However, if you went purely off Rendell’s book, you wouldn’t know any of that"–proves on its own that the reviewer hasn't done me (or the road.cc readership) the courtesy of actually opening the covers and looking in between. On the subject of making light Google searches, I plead guilty. It took a few to find, online, the 353-page Caso Nóos judgment, the 361-page Operación Puerto judgment, the multiple TAS rulings, the Operación Galgo documents, the USADA investigation into Lance Armstrong, plus the newspaper reports described on p. 21 and in the 15 pages of endnotes. I obtained the complete Puerto documentation from other sources. Reading and digesting each one of what turned out to be many thousands of pages of legal Spanish and Italian, together with legal texts explaining concepts I found otherwise incomprehensible, took a bit more effort, as did getting permission to speak to the Carabinieri officer who investigated Valverde, and whose work brought down Alejandro and, ultimately, Lance too, as published for the first time in the book. To explain how Valverde's astonishing win rate was used by highly questionable sponsors, political groupings, members of the royal family, even religious organisations, to distract public attention from their nefarious conduct, it was absolutely necessary to explore various so-called "rabbit holes and tangents." I don't know how else you could come to an awareness of the hair-raising degree of the corruption at Banesto, Kelme (and related sponsors) and Illes Balears, and the bizarre institutional role of Telefónica/Movistar–providing jobs and escape route for disgraced politicians and royalty–which has never been documented in a single book, and much of it never in English in any form, short or long. Given the months of painstaking work embodied in The Green Bullet, I'm obviously very disappointed that you have persuaded @Natrix, in the Comments above, that "Matt Rendell seems to have used wikipedia to get most of his information." Setting aside the harm this may already have done to my employability and standing with publishers, broadcasters and the reading public, I'm curious to know why you would do this to a fellow cycling writer who simply attempts to do the best and most thorough job he possibly can of each assignment. I don't much like reading or viewing my own work, but a few weeks ago, before a talk, I re-read The Green Bullet. It has never done well commercially (I wonder why?) but I felt–and feel–very proud to have written it. I stand by the book and I'm very happy to be judged on its merits and its failings, provided the criticism is done in good faith. This review has not been done in good faith. Something else is going on, although I'm at a loss to know what.

@jackcycles mind you, perhaps points could be added to their cycling licenses? And you'd think insurance companies * would increase their cycling insurance premiums? An administrative penalty might improve *compliance* - especially if it could be applied immediately after the offence. But I think they should trial that to see if it actually does. For ease of testing they could try this on motorists first (because number plates, that'll have 'em bang to rights). Monitor numbers speeding / going through red/amber lights in an area before and after bringing in fines, say. I dunno how much it would help with road safety though. Then again that's far more to do with removing incentives or even opportunity to behave dangerously, and making the desired safe behaviours "natural". * Currently I pay for membership of Cycling UK, which also gives me liability insurance; I think British Cycling membership does similar.

@jackcycles two-tier justice you say? Quite, that would never happen with driving - they throw the book * at you if you break the law then. You certainly wouldn't just be given "points" and a second chance, or allowed to do a course rather than paying a fine! * The Beano?