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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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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 14 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 15 hours ago
Gustav Gullholm.. that's not a good look mate
mdavidford 17 hours ago
@Chris RideFar I think what you meant to say was "REMOVE this and put it on PODCAST CC".
jaymack 19 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 19 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 20 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 20 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 22 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 22 hours ago
The photos in this review look they are for a different bag?
mattw 23 hours 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?
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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