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Live blog: Adam Blythe slams Aqua Blue bike sponsor 3T (“great handlebars. terrible bikes”), Carlton Reid creates counter-campaign to widen Embankment cycle lanes + more
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Mon, Sep 03, 2018 14:48
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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.
5 thoughts on “Live blog: Adam Blythe slams Aqua Blue bike sponsor 3T (“great handlebars. terrible bikes”), Carlton Reid creates counter-campaign to widen Embankment cycle lanes + more”
Nice one Carlton!!!
Nice one Carlton!!!
Echo the great work of
Echo the great work of Carlton, and I’ve signed up as a supporter.
Pity about the Times, once known as the Thunderer, but it isn’t even the whimperer now, just a sad faded reflection of a once great paper. How the hell are we ever going to get justice if almost the entire msm hates cyclists? I wonder if all those papers so quick to condemn the cyclist when the pedestrian ran out in front of him have printed the actual facts yet?
It wasn’t so long ago that
It wasn’t so long ago that the Times was campaigning for cyclist safety after one of its journalists(?) was knocked off her bike. It’s fallen into line with the rest of the right-wing rags quickly enough. Giving Freeman column inches is hateful – total one-trick pony.
Before I start clicking, is
Before I start clicking, is the Times behind a paywall?
brooksby wrote:
I believe so, it’s worth every penny that I give them.