Live blog: Footage of the final kilometre of today’s Vuelta stage (tense); Cyclist rides 30km with abandoned kitten in his jersey; Peter Sagan wheelies up vicious Vuelta climb + more

Re the TDF Vs ordinary cyclist claim. This sort of thing happens a lot. Probably because elite sports people often make it look so easy. It is impossible to appreciate the talent and skill required until you try it yourself. A few weeks ago a supporter of my local div 1 football club commented on BBC Sports HYS that their new winger was fast enough to win an Olympic 200m medal. He was making this judgement by comparing the winger to other div 1 footballers. In reality he would probably not make the GB women's team. A few years ago I took part in a club group turbo training session. Part of this entailed a 12 minute sustained effort. Afterwards the fastest time triallist of us said how pleased he was with his average power (I can't remember the figure, but I think it was in the range 325 - 350 watts), to which the coach replied "Excellent. An average TDF rider would be only be able to sustain that for 3- 4 hours!"

It always rankles when a company goes into administration, staff lose their jobs, creditors go unpaid, but then the CEO/managing director (the very person who led the company into that position) always seems to be the one person who emerges have done very well for themselves out of the whole affair.

I had the misfortune of hearing some of Iain Dale's absurd item on cargo bikes. The level of disdain, ridicule and mockery was off the scale, with any counter views being dismissed out of hand. Of course Hina Bokhari was right, cargo bikes are an option, but in our car obsessed society, being right is worth nothing when talking to petrolheads, and little things like facts won't change their minds. I was tempted to ring in myself, having done my job using a backfiets for seven years, but experience has taught me that LBC don't want to hear from the likes of me. I'm not sure, but I think they make money from keeping people hanging on, which is all that's ever happened to me. As for cyclists being entitled and smug, all I can say is how fortunate it is that those two characteristics never affect drivers: or Jeremy Vine's guests.

@mdavidford only if he floats

@squired Living in Switzerland I see one type of bike with number plates. These are e-bikes that are above a certain power limit and can reach speeds of 45kmph (we can enter a debate as to whether these are mortorbikes really but another thread). The number plates are square and attached to the mudguards but are required by law and are manufactured with this in mind. How the hell that would be possible with huge number of bikes without mudguards or on a tiny child’s bike is beyond me..

@mark1a This comment clearly does not belong here, please take your nonsense over to helpingrunners.cc.

Shouldn't that be 'BURN HIM!'?

@open_roads You ride on gravel? BAN HIM!

@Surreyrider Oi, Surrey there's an article about mountain bikes yesterday. I didn't see you whine in the comments. You dropped the ball on that one. Buck up, mate. Or were you so apoplexic you couldn't click on the [Post] button?

'Cuz number plates on cars have done a bang up job making them safe and stopping people from using them to commit crimes, eh?