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Live blog: Connor Swift gets a custom Genesis Zero SL to celebrate National Champs victory, Team Sky reveal full Tour of Britain line-up (with one small error), Cavendish battling Epstein-Barr virus +more
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wtjs 13 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 14 hours ago
Gustav Gullholm.. that's not a good look mate
mdavidford 16 hours ago
@Chris RideFar I think what you meant to say was "REMOVE this and put it on PODCAST CC".
jaymack 18 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 18 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 19 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 19 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 21 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 21 hours ago
The photos in this review look they are for a different bag?
mattw 22 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: Connor Swift gets a custom Genesis Zero SL to celebrate National Champs victory, Team Sky reveal full Tour of Britain line-up (with one small error), Cavendish battling Epstein-Barr virus +more”
Had to google what EBV is. So
Had to google what EBV is. So that you don’t have to – its the cause of glandular fever.
CygnusX1 wrote:
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Yes, the Dutch have two words
Yes, the Dutch have two words, fietsen and wielrennen. ‘I wish this was more openly talked about…’ Really? I wasn’t aware it was some big secret.
I suspect the distinction is highlighted by people who want to differentiate ‘good’ and ‘bad’ types of cycling. Of course the good type is the slow one that they personally do.
A lot of us ride road bikes for leisure and an everyday bike to the shops. It’s all cycling.
Sad to see a number of
Sad to see a number of cyclists in the Macron visit to Copenhagen wearing helmets seems to have increased. Is this just an aberration of the video or are more wearing them now then a few years ago?
In a TedX talk in 2016 Michael Colville-Andersen explained (in pretty robust language) how manufacturers have helmets to sell so ramped up ‘project fear’ to increase sales in Denmark. The result was an increase in helmet sales but a significant drop in people cycling. If this correlation is correct that is a pretty depressing way to do things.
darrenleroy wrote:
Danish government and indeed the EU road safety commission have been pushing to increase helmet wearing as the solution to cycling injuries/deaths. The EU ‘safety’ commission even use Denmark and Netherlands in a disgusting slant of stats to ‘prove’ cycling was more dangerous than the UK by using deaths per million population and thus making the case that that was due to low helmet use and that the obvious answer was to encourage more helmet wearing.
It’s a fucking disgrace how this supposed ‘safety’ commission can use these facts to massively distort the truth and to be allowed to push the problem/onus of safety back onto the vulnerable. it’s like they have some sort of an agenda and utterly ignored the fact that cycling in DK and NL massively exceeds that in the UK and other countries. Helmet wearing in places like Germany is huge and yet they have 400 cycling deaths a year, despite the larger population their miles travelled is still much less than NL as a total.
Macron in Danemark also said
Macron in Danemark also said that we (OK I’m french) are “reluctant to change, gallic people”. That can only mean one of two things:
– since he also cycled there, cyclist OTOH are open-minded, modern people, whatever french or not
or
– he’s got a brit counselor 😉