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Paul J 11 minutes ago
AI is sloppifying lots of different areas, and there are a bunch of people pushing it, and a great number more taking the lazy option. It's going to take time before societies start to really push back and rebalance the value they place on human produced content. It will get worse before it gets better.
Pub bike 60 minutes ago
@Dodonline The slant-parallelogram derailleur is relatively simple. The complexity comes when you bring in indexing. Having just rebuilt a Campag shifter to replace the shift-lever spring I can tell you that this is a complicated machine, but then an electronic system will need an equivalent for every function of the mechanical one in some form or other: some of which will be in electronics, some of which will be in software, some will be switching, some may involve radio transmission/reception, plus it will need an electric actuator to replace the mechanical effort of the human input. Compare that with a set of bar-end shifters in friction mode.
mitsky 1 hour ago
Perfect example of doorbell camera footage being used to pursue a criminal by passing the video evidence to police. Though in this case the police response has been woefull. Would any driver complaining about cyclists using camera footage to report them object to this case, or others where a different crime was caught on camera?
chrisonabike 1 hour ago
@open_roads "hurty words" - well, it's a lot easier to wrap up cases if the defendant has documented their own offences, of course. Of course it seems a large number of masked paramilitary types appearing and intimidating folks (the blackshorts) didn't get police priority (even with some advance notice), while nonviolent hippy types and old folks holding up not-very-hurty words written on paper did. So if you feel they're not just it's not that they're being partial, just arbitrary...
Pub bike 2 hours ago
Institutionally anti-cyclist, but we'll never get an inquiry into it.
open_roads 2 hours ago
@Barraob1 Handy Guide to Met Police prioritisation: Violent Mugging / Bike Theft - Not a Priority Antisemetic marches / banners - Not a Priority Illegal eMotorbikes - Low / No Priority Drug dealing - Low Priority Hurty Words online - Top Priority This may be a little unfair but if they can't even be bothered to get the hirer details of a lime bike involved in a violent mugging they can hardly claim to be effective as a force.
Mr Blackbird 2 hours ago
"'Ello, 'ello, 'ello. Had our expensive bike stolen have we, sir?" "Maybe you should consider yourself fortunate to have been able to buy one sir? And think of those less privileged, sir. Also there are some would argue that you shouldn't be on the road because you don't pay road tax, as well as slowing motorists, sir." "I hope we didn't retaliate or use any foul or threatening language, sir. We will be checking doorbell cameras just in case, sir. We don't condone that type of behaviour."
a1white 2 hours ago
Can you imagine if it was a car jacking incident with one of the thieves using a hire car, they'd just hired? Call me cynical, but I can't believe the Met wouldn't contact the hire car company a little quicker.
Rendel Harris 2 hours ago
That brings it home rather too forcefully, just a few streets and half a mile away from my door. Thankfully an extremely uncommon event around here, in fact I can't actually recall such a thing happening in East Dulwich in the two decades since we moved to this particular (and particularly lovely) neighbourhood. Not that that is any consolation for the rider of course, for whom many sympathies. Absolutely disgraceful reaction from the police, imagine if someone had been pulled from their car by thieves who had then driven off with it, five will get you ten that the area would have been flooded with squad cars, they'd probably have sent the chopper up as well. It's an indication of how far down the priority list cyclists and bicycles are; most forces/officers seem to regard bikes as, in the phrase so beloved of motoring forums, "children's toys" and prioritise their theft accordingly.
Barraob1 2 hours ago
If ever you needed proof of how seriously police treat bike theft, this is it. One of the bike hackers paid for a lime bike rental and two months on, nothing. Make a rude gesture and it's game over, tracked down in a matter of days.
11 thoughts on “Live blog: “We were all children of our era” says Lance Armstrong’s ex-manager Johan Bruyneel after he is handed lifetime ban, odd video of texting cyclist appears on social media (fake news?) + more”
No capes!
No capes!
hawkinspeter wrote:
That is one quality image. I needed that chuckle … which scared the student sat just in front of my desk.
hawkinspeter wrote:
Does that include Rick Wakeman?
leqin wrote:
… which makes me wonder what the average age for readers on road.cc is. Whenever I see a name like this pop up it reminds me we’re probably not a particularly young bunch!
Fair’s fair: I normally stick
Fair’s fair: I normally stick the boot into Will Norman, but that tweet comes suspiciously close to him ‘getting it’.
Well done Will: have an upgrade from ‘walking platitude’ to ‘stopped clock’.
I think Endura’s video would
I think Endura’s video would’ve been better if they had a jacket that fitted their model…
Is it that hard to believe a
Is it that hard to believe a cyclist would ride into something while looking at their phone? Car drivers do it all the time, after all.
vonhelmet wrote:
No. It isn’t. I did precisely this while texting and completely separated my shoulder (AC joint) which remains to this day. I don’t see why the video has to be staged. He’s certainly not the first cyclist to ride into the back of a car whilst texting.
It isn’t only “anti-cycling
It isn’t only “anti-cycling nonsense on the radio” that we need to beware of, it is the media’s refusal to report in any proportional manner the benefits of cycling. I mainly listen to R4 and the local BBC station (Bristol) and I couldn’t possibly count the number of articles they’ve had about obesity and diet, it must be hundreds, but I could count the number of articles about the benefits of cycling on the fingers of a closed fist.
Given the overwhelming benefits of cycling, why isn’t this top of every programme about pollution, health, obesity, congestion etc? There are two ways to lie: an explicit untruth, or just ignoring the truth and reporting everything else. The media has mostly been lying about cycling for the past thirty years, unfortunately including the BBC.
I always like the idea of
I always like the idea of rain capes, but – like many people – my front light is clipped onto my handlebars so a cape would render it useless…
brooksby wrote:
I could be wrong but it doesn’t look quite like the cape of old that pretty much covered everything and was a real tent. Tried one once, it came with a job lot of stuff I’d bought for one or two things and thought what the hell, it’s fine if going at a very sedate pace but by god anything much over 12mph and it’s like pushing a barge.
this one looks quite stylish however and not in that nasty mustard yellow they always seemed to come in, oh and ones with a built in hood always makes people look like a gnome. hahaha