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Live blog: A handy explainer video of how today’s F1 grid style Tour de France stage works + more
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Wed, Jul 25, 2018 08:05
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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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super_davo 17 minutes ago
@vw_mtbiker I get some people rave about 'the incredible supple riding experience of handmade open tubular tyres'. I would suggest these tyres will have an incredible supple ride that is 99.9% due to them being 50mm and 0.01% due to being open tubular. I used to run Open Corsa CX back in the day and they felt amazing at the time but ride them back to back with a modern 30mm tubeless GP5000 on a wide rim and you'll see what I mean. Also - check Bicycle Rolling Resistance.com - there is basically no performance advantage from open tubular style tyres (yeah the Corsa Speeds are the fastest, but that has much more to do with the uber thin rubber than the way they are made). They do look amazing though....
AidanR 24 minutes ago
@mitsky The number of mobile phone offences doesn't surprise me - I see these multiple times a day when commuting - but the much greater number of people failing to wear seatbelts is frankly baffling.
henryb 48 minutes ago
In the second picture (above) of the VAGUS bike, what's the handlebar made of? It looks odd
ROOTminus1 49 minutes ago
As someone who is podiatrically girthy, I've always been forced to ride flats or toe clips. Even mtb shoes are hit and miss as to getting a good fit
mdavidford 1 hour ago
Weird - what have they got against people from Enfield?
leedorney 1 hour ago
and I found that I had to tighten the laces more or less to the maximum to get my long and slim feet to feel secure - a nice 🖕 to e n 1 with wide feet
qwerty360 1 hour ago
@kingleo Yep. Somehow a helmet prevented any serious head injury, in an impact strong enough to break an arm (a bone comparable in strength to the skull...) And people will quote this as proof, while ignoring that the person making the statement has relatively limited expertise. For useful data on effectiveness of helmets, see skiing - similar risk, similar level of protection (to the extent that some ski helmets are certified for cycling) and better data (usage tracked by lift gate photos; milage tracked by uplift from lift passes at lift gates; injuries tracked by piste patrol rescue against lift passes; recent massive changes in rates of helmet wearing). Oh; Huge reduction in all injuries; No impact on fatalities (and minimal impact on serious injuries); Basically for skiing, wearing a helmet is well worth it, because it means you don't lose half a day and pay a small fortune for the piste patrol to take you down to the clinic at the bottom to get your cuts bandaged. But the helmet isn't preventing death. Its preventing cuts that a decent first aider can treat. I suspect this is similar to why you should wear one mountain biking - the minor cuts and bruises become a LOT more serious when your in the middle of nowhere with access requiring specialist equipment or long hikes.
Rendel Harris 2 hours ago
@markvr It is pearl clutching to want to try and ban something because of a danger that only exists in your imagination. Cargo bike stopping distances are not actually much higher, because most of them have 203 mm discs with four pot callipers, so although they are heavier they have much more stopping power. Additionally, a cargo bike carrying 100 kg of bricks is not going to be ridden fast and so the rider will often have a better chance of seeing, anticipating and stopping than a solo cyclist. You're just making up a danger that simply doesn't exist, where are your examples of people being put in danger or hit by cargo bikes? If heavily laden cargo bikes could be ridden in the same manner and at the same speed as a lightweight road bike you might have a point, but they can't. Your objection is like saying racehorses can be dangerous, a donkey pulling a cart can weigh more than a racehorse, therefore donkeys pulling carts are more dangerous than racehorses.
mitsky 2 hours ago
"AI spots nearly 19,000 'shocking' road offences" But cyclists. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c39wzpegqgd9o As I've said previously, when it comes to road safety enforcement... "We have the technology. We just don't have the political will to make it happen."
Aluminium can 2 hours ago
@EK Spinner My guess would be because it means you can have a normal length chain. If the rear wheel was 1m further back from the normal position, it would require a chain 2m longer.
1 thought on “Live blog: A handy explainer video of how today’s F1 grid style Tour de France stage works + more”
Can we leave the fun and
Can we leave the fun and games for the Revolution series, please?
It was a bit interesting having a shorter, punchy stage, but the grid start was just pants!