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Live blog: Team Wiggins becomes Team WIGGINS Le Col, a hardcore commute, Geraint Thomas wins Welsh Sports Personality of the Year award +more
Is G a dead-cert for the UK gong after scooping the Welsh SPOTY award? Meanwhile, the government said they want to double cycling in the UK by 2025 at the Cycling and Walking Innovations conference today
Wed, Dec 05, 2018 15:23
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Jack is group editor across road.cc, off.road.cc and ebiketips, overseeing all three sites in the F-At Digital group to make sure everything’s up to scratch. He’s been writing about cycling and multisport for over a decade, arriving at road.cc via 220 Triathlon Magazine in 2017. He worked across all areas of road.cc including tech, news and video, and also contributed to ebiketips before being named editor of road.cc in 2021 (much to his surprise). Jack has been hooked on cycling since his student days, and currently has a Trek 1.2 for winter riding, a beloved Bickerton folding bike for getting around town, and an extra beloved custom Ridley Helium SLX for fantasising about going fast in his stable. Jack has never won a bike race, but does have a master’s degree in print journalism, and two Guinness World Records for pogo sticking (it’s a long story).
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wtjs 8 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 9 hours ago
Gustav Gullholm.. that's not a good look mate
mdavidford 11 hours ago
@Chris RideFar I think what you meant to say was "REMOVE this and put it on PODCAST CC".
jaymack 13 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 13 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 14 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 14 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 16 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 16 hours ago
The photos in this review look they are for a different bag?
mattw 18 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?
12 thoughts on “Live blog: Team Wiggins becomes Team WIGGINS Le Col, a hardcore commute, Geraint Thomas wins Welsh Sports Personality of the Year award +more”
Thought near misses on bikes
Thought near misses on bikes were bad?
Yes, as the consequences are far worse.
Oh, and by the way Jack S, – none of this ‘previously worked for 220 Triathlon magazine’ nonsense! I know you still write for 220, ya little tinker!
KendalRed wrote:
If there were consequences it wouldn’t be a near miss, I was more referring to the initial wince-factor in some of these examples – though I’m not doubting if there were consequences involving a cyclist it’s likely to be worse (first-hand experience of this).
I do still do some freelance work for a UK multisport magazine yes, but I’m typing this at you from my full-time place of employment!
That’s TFL budgeting is
That’s TFL budgeting is hardly a surprise to anyone who works in projects or infrastructure. That’s how infrastructure spending works. The 17/18/19 budget will be for planning, writing PIDs, submitting and reviewing bids and ramping up to delivery. You don’t just go out and start digging up roads or implementing changes at random. These things take time.
Its not a scandal, it’s standard program delivery.
Some shocking driving there,
Some shocking driving there, but then again that’s no shock. My particular favourite was the impatient overtaker who had to stick it in the verge on the far side to avoid a head on.
Marjority of these are ‘oh,
Marjority of these are ‘oh, the guy in front has gone so it must be alright for me to go too, no need to check…’
“The Government want to
“The Government want to double cycling by 2025.
They have identified the barriers;
safety, and poor infrastructure are the top two”
No. The top two are the government, closely followed by the government. And the rest of the top 100 are the government too.
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But they want to do it without paying any money, without changing any aspect of the built environment, and without having to restrict the activities of motorists in any way, shape, or form…
brooksby wrote:
But they want to do it without paying any money, without changing any aspect of the built environment, and without having to restrict the activities of motorists in any way, shape, or form…
Can’t they just change how it’s calculated?
That bloke who ran the route
That bloke who ran the route of the tour de france.. 30 miles a day for 68 days…. he’s a nutter!
Interesting about cycling
Interesting about cycling being the fastest growing sport in the British Army. I work in Defence and was quite surprised to see the number of officers who are keen cyclists. A couple of the blokes even did the Alpe d’Huez stage last year.
Eton Rifle wrote:
Any chance of using their expertise and the accessibility of weapons to dole out some very rough justice? I’m thinking of a challenger tank running over a few cars, and I’m sure quite a few people would chip in to crowdfund it, as long as they were given sufficient warning to be there to video the driver’s face as he rushes out of his house to see his crushed car and a tank disappearing into the distance.
burtthebike wrote:
Who needs a tank? This is the Army’s replacement vehicle* – it has all terrain capability, low fuel consumption, low radar footprint and very quiet weapon discharge…
(* this may not be quite true)