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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
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Mr Anderson 1 hour ago
@MaxiMinimalist Agreed. The big problem I see now is today's parents grew up being driven to their schools, and therefore, see private motor vehicles as the only viable form of transport. The vast majority of UK infant and primary schools have a catchment area that is within easy walking distance from home to school. Yet, the traffic caused by pupils being driven to/from school is astonishing. Banishing the "School Run" should be a priority for all schools.
MaxiMinimalist 2 hours ago
When I was a kid (that was during the previous millenium when phones were connected to a plug in the wall), I rode my bicycle to school, music academy, sport grounds, parties even during the winter. The government didn't have to spend, correct that, didn't have to think of spending massive amounts of money to build cycling specific infrastructures. Over the past 3 or 4 decades, cars have grown bigger, taller, safer (for their drivers) and faster. Meanwhile, motorists have become abusive, aggressive, hypersensitive to people moving on two wheels, aka cyclists. Spending billions upon billions on new infrastructure won't address the crux of the matter. Sadly.
Paul J 2 hours ago
Obree had some actual talent in his legs though, in addition to his bike/aero engineering talent.
Maruis Kalchev 2 hours ago
Малко като опит за доказване е излязло... Никой няма нужда от толкова голям въртящ момент и мощност на шосеен велосипед с тънки гуми, които дори трудно ще предават тази мощност върху пътя. А ако има и ограничение от 25 км/час е още по-безмислено.
mdavidford 2 hours ago
Not sure how informative that is. I imagine for all most of us know it could be Europe's only 'volumetric modular building'. 🤷♂️
chrisonabike 2 hours ago
Yes, but they're copying the adults of today...
chrisonabike 2 hours ago
Indeed - but alas I think this is an effective argument for very few folks indeed. As for push-back, what else could we expect *? I think there are ways of selling this but we're far more likely to see headlines about the problems, while the successes are relegated to footnotes, because at that point it just works and there's nothing to see... * Given that this time there aren't politicians being persuaded to overlook thousands of deaths and the demolition of property by the billions from the motoring trades (and the excitement of being able to drive out with the bright things for a party at a roadhouse). Nor are we as tolerant of "accidents". (And noting that publicity about the cases of a handful of people killed by cyclists continues to reach the media; deaths related to motor vehicles not so much).
mdavidford 2 hours ago
That rather ignores that the children of today are the adults of tomorrow.
fwhite181 2 hours ago
@belugabob Arguably it's easier this way - we don't actually need to do anything to the streets except stop drivers driving down every scrap of tarmac. Where I live, a few well-placed bollards would make walking/cycling/scooting the quicker option and safer, while maintaining 100% vehicular access - just not allowing through routes in every direction.
Ashok C 3 hours ago
Sweet dreams from Bike@bedtime! Thank you for featuring this classic beaut.
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