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Live blog: James Hayden’s Transcontinental Race-winning ride on Strava, Stefan Definil previews World Champs killer climb + more
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Mon, Aug 20, 2018 14:10
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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?
6 thoughts on “Live blog: James Hayden’s Transcontinental Race-winning ride on Strava, Stefan Definil previews World Champs killer climb + more”
That’s what I always do when
That’s what I always do when I help out an old friend or colleague: Instagram it for all the world to see.
I would do too. If I was a
I would do too. If I was a horrible little narcissist! Personnally I’m not quite sure that Road CC should have posted this “news item”
I expect out of touch old men
I expect out of touch old men won’t understand this but social media can help the creator of the content focus on what is important to them and their friends. Moaning about “ho ho showing off to the world” is to exhibit how ignorant you are of how people use social media.
roadmanshaq wrote:
I’ve long been of the opinion that social media is a great showcase for narcissists, so I’d welcome the chance to swap my ignorance for your wisdom.
To date, I’ve mainly just read some of the scientific literature on social media e.g. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0306460316301095
Highlights:
So, can you fill us in on what kind of focus increase these content creators can expect?
Social media is one of main
Social media is one of main sources of modern-day mental illness IMO.
Then again forums are sort of a gateway drug to social media.
“I only posted a few times on road.cc and ended up on the Instagram with Lance Armstrong”
Modacity is the name of the
Modacity is the name of the people whose book you refer to, they have a facebook page https://www.facebook.com/modacitylife/ and have been doing amazing work in NA to get utility cycling and safe ways to travel around cities actually come to fruition.
The video is okay but they’re still putting unecessary onus on the vulnerable … hi-vis/helmets, not recognising that children are children and that you in the big killing thing need to graspthat they do children things. I need to see you, okay so we’re forcing you to wear hi=vis because otherwise we can’t see you.
Also if you are to insist on no undertaking at long queues of traffic then why isn’t there a seperate cycle lane, you’re using this as a bullshit reason to remove the responsibility to ahere to the law, you know that bit about actually looking in the mirror/over your shoulder before opening a door whilst in traffic!
Share the road my arse, still too one sided.