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Live blog: Signed Geraint Thomas yellow jersey being raffled (not that it fits him right now), motorway cyclists in app and brain fails + more
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Tue, Aug 14, 2018 14:41
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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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ktache 4 hours ago
@Mr Blackbird It's quite a skill.
chrisonabike 4 hours ago
@Terry Hutt good point, although while doing testing without a helmet I broke my shoulder and have suffered various other contusions. So I suggest the control should not be "no helmet" as in my experience that adds the confounding variable of your other limbs and appendages as (for some) instinct will mean you sacrifice them to protect your head...
chrisonabike 4 hours ago
@mdavidford or the highly skilled cycle football / radball players...
chrisonabike 4 hours ago
@No Reply dunno about childish, but I haven't heard that one since the 90s. Can't say I miss it.
mdavidford 5 hours ago
Bit harsh on the BMXers.
mdavidford 5 hours ago
@No Reply Er, nope - there are no age restrictions on the site. As previously noted, though, if it were restricted to adults, your choice of language would seem to mark you out as someone who shouldn't be on it.
No Reply 6 hours ago
@Mr Blackbird This is an adult forum. If adults are getting so worked up over the term bum chum, then they need to get a grip. People have a right to be offended, people have a right to offend. But if someone finds offence in something, it doesn’t mean its offensive. It means they are offended. Two different things. I am as free to offend as you are to feel offended. Freedom of speech. Do you want to silence freedom of speech? Or just silence things you don’t like?
Mr Blackbird 6 hours ago
@No Reply You obviously have a lot of knowledge of cyclo cross and make a valid point, but why detract from your comment by using a phrase that is probably offensive to the majority of readers?
Terry Hutt 6 hours ago
@chrisonabike I think the important message here is that your head will fly 20% further if you are wearing a collapsible helmet. Has anyone researched how far your head will fly if you're not wearing a helmet at all? Seems worthy of a research grant.
Mr Blackbird 6 hours ago
Any cyclist caught cycling backwards (on a non-fixed wheel bike) should be jailed for at least 2 years and have their bike confiscated. Such a despicable manoeuvre is dangerously confusing to motorists and pedestrians.
10 thoughts on “Live blog: Signed Geraint Thomas yellow jersey being raffled (not that it fits him right now), motorway cyclists in app and brain fails + more”
Sorry, when I first read the
Sorry, when I first read the article about ’roundest wheels’ I thought it was going to be about poor spelling and misplaced apostrophes.
Ah, Viz top tips, haven’t
Ah, Viz top tips, haven’t seen them for ages. I wonder if they ever printed the one I sent them? “Drivers, if you use spot lamps all the time when it’s dark, try strapping a 14″ fluorescent pink dildo to the top of your car so that we’ll know in daylight too.”
Looks like this spot on the
Looks like this spot on the M5: https://goo.gl/maps/qbP7SnnuUbT2
Seems the roadworks haven’t progressed much in a year and the photo is missing the 30mph temporary speed limit you can see on street view.
Love the bikestormz kidz.
Love the bikestormz kidz. Taking back the streets.
darrenleroy wrote:
Aye, looked great. Needless to say, the BBC couldn’t resist their usual anti-cycling slant:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-45157728
Apparently Mrs Ada Brady (85) clutched her pearls and nearly fainted clean away when a 12 year-old pulled a wheelie only 50 metres from where she was buying a copy of the Daily Mail…
So Gee may be too fat, Froome
So Gee may be too fat, Froome is obviously too tired. So who will lead Sky at the Vuelta?
Could we skip the amatuerish,
Could we skip the amatuerish, parenthetical bullshit like “Not that it fits him right now” and just read objective reporting?
A440 wrote:
Did you get your sense of humour bypass on the NHS or pay for it privately?
burtthebike wrote:
It’d have to be private – the waiting lists for humour by-passes are getting to be a joke.
Anyhow, can we skip the amateurish, bullshit commenting and get on with posting squirrel pics?
Oh go on then!
Oh go on then
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