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Live blog: Team Ineos sign Giro winner Carapaz; Footage of Roglic crash during yesterday’s TV backout emerge; Shred it like Sagan; Cyclist schools Lamborghini litter lout; Weekend catch-up + more
All the news from the site and beyond as we start another week
Mon, Sep 02, 2019 18:50
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2 September 2019, 18:50
Here's some stories you may have missed at the weekend
2 September 2019, 18:50
Shred it like Sagan ...
Catch me if you can… Thanks to my friend @Daniel87Oss for his amazing filming skills and @GoPro for the incredibly steady Hero7 Black cameras. @iamspecialized @sportful @ride100percent @osmonutrition pic.twitter.com/AUeU8s8hT4
— Peter Sagan (@petosagan) August 30, 2019
2 September 2019, 18:50
Slam dunk! Cyclist schools Lamborghini litter lout
Bicycle Kid doesn't care if you're driving a half million dollar car. DON'T TRASH MY STREET, ASSHOLE. pic.twitter.com/tuTmW4ysOs
— Angad (@angadadlakha) August 31, 2019
2 September 2019, 18:50
Best press clipping ever
Wigan. The year is 1899, and never before or since have the words “using her fists in scientific fashion” been used to such delight. pic.twitter.com/7RS2eciAAi
— Alistair Coleman (@alistaircoleman) September 1, 2019
2 September 2019, 18:50
It was a long. cold wait for the cable car down to the team buses at the Vuelta yesterday
We imagine some riders didn’t want to move from under the duvet on today’s rest day
Les coureurs attendent le téléphérique dans ce froid. Pluie et orages proches… Courage les gars ! #LaVuelta19 pic.twitter.com/YdcLjj58dW
— Josselin Riou (@josselin_riou) September 1, 2019
2 September 2019, 18:50
Vuelta neutral service moto caused Roglic to crash, footage shows
Ahead of yesterday’s final climb at the Vuelta, a hailstorm caused the TV relay to fail with viewers left looking at images from the finish line camera.
Now, images have emerged of one dramatic event that everyone missed at the time – Jumbo-Visma’s Primoz Roglic crashing on the penultimate descent as he came round a bend and found a neutral service moto in his path ….
#LaVuelta2019 @rogla’s dirty crash https://t.co/gBA1KhNDk9
— Team Jumbo-Visma cycling (@JumboVismaRoad) September 2, 2019
2 September 2019, 18:50
One of the weirder transfer announcements we've seen
Here’s how the French team Arkea-Samsic announced its signing from Movistar of Nairo Quintana, currently leading the Vuelta. It’s up there with some of the weirder ones we’ve seen …
Arkea Samsic announces the arrival of Nairo Quintana pic.twitter.com/rCvKfLyqfi
— Race Radio (@TheRaceRadio) September 2, 2019
2 September 2019, 18:50
This is a bonkers course for the Prologue at the Boels Ladies' Tour in the Netherlands
Astonishingly, this is a 3.8km TT prologue course. A bit "technical" https://t.co/SAmC7efwof
— al (@Al__S) September 2, 2019
2 September 2019, 18:50
Some nice shoes for Adam Blythe ....
2 September 2019, 18:50
Team Ineos sign Giro champion Richard Carapaz
Giro d’Italia champion Richard Carapaz is moving from Movistar to Team Ineos on a three-year deal, confirming the Ecuadorian’s widely expected switch.
The 26-year-old said: “I am very excited about joining the team. I feel this is a great opportunity for me to continue my development and growth as a rider, working with a team that continues to go from strength-to-strength, year after year.
“I already know a lot of the riders on the team and I am really looking forward to working everyone at Team Ineos from next season.
“I believe I will fit into this group well and race to my full potential over the coming years. I want to achieve some great triumphs for Team Ineos.”
Team Principal, Sir Dave Brailsford, welcomed the news of Carapaz’s arrival, commenting: “We are very pleased to have signed Richard from the start of the 2020 season. We have been long time admirers of his talents as a bike rider and have followed his development closely over a number of years, as we have always marked him out as a potential member of our team.
“He is obviously a fantastic climber but also has great versatility as he showed at the Giro earlier this year. He is still relatively young and I have no doubt he can develop and improve even further at Team Ineos.”
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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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wtjs 12 minutes ago
@Mr Blackbird No they don't- it's just a police dodge designed as part of the 'get the driver off killing a cyclist, or at worst a joke suspended sentence' procedure. It's rather like the stupid police attempt to insist on incriminating videos being removed from social media, when what they really don't like is the public being allowed to see how indisputable the evidence really is. Daniel Thomas has now been charged with criminal damage or some similar charge for slashing a dinghy out in the middle of the Channel- the video was livestreamed and has since been shown on TV to countless people. Are the police saying 'he can't possible have a fair trial now, we'd better let him go'? No, they aren't- they only use that dodge when the people who have been KSI'd/ offended against are people they don't like: and cyclists are among those
mdavidford 1 hour ago
Worse than that - they used all those pastel shades!
mdavidford 1 hour ago
I'm not sure you can occupy a petard. It would have to be an unusually large one. And you'd presumably have to remove its contents first, which would render it benign anyway.
mdavidford 1 hour ago
An espresso version would be better, to put the top of the mug somewhere near the bike. (Or maybe a Sheffield stand...)
chrisonabike 2 hours ago
Actually, will we need the space for the latest version of flying taxis? 🤔 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwz0z5dppxypo Won't you think of the ageing millionaires?
chrisonabike 2 hours ago
@mattw completely agree about the wider accessibility in design being a "bolt-on" even though we now have law here. Of course the solution to eg. "the shops are now really inaccessible as they're in a remote shopping centre beyond the dual carriage way, via underpass and giant car park" is "we can't limit driving then - those who are less able *need to drive* there" ...
chrisonabike 2 hours ago
@mattw "oodles of dead space in carriageways" Yes, there's a surprising amount which - once you look, you can't not see. (Although while I like Robert Weetman's article on this I think the "look at the un-driven-on snow" is a weaker argument.). It should be removed anyway (for "make crossing roads shorter distance", "cue slower driving" and "less road to maintain" reasons)! Although I hear there's often push-back from local bus companies who are very hot on *their* preferred widths. Of course some of *those* may be because we allow parking everywhere and people just don't leave enough space... However the utility of this for improving *cycling* specifically might be overstated. Some of the "narrow" places *are* chokepoints (for several modes of transport) - and above all we need to sort out junctions. A deeper issue is that because of our "multi-functional" roads (through-route AND "place") we end up with "driving must be everywhere". So we always "have to" mix modes, and it's harder to get the benefit of the Dutch "unbundling" or "disentangling" approach.
slc 3 hours ago
Arran has a few more good climbs. I recommend the Ross Road in either direction, with the Boguillie (A481 between Sannox and Lochranza in the article) a close second. The hardest part of the circular A481 is the undulating southern end, though possibly that is subjective because I tend to be there later in the day when 'nearly finished'. Oh, and the wind blows against you on the west coast no matter your heading
Rendel Harris 4 hours ago
@Nigel Garage They criticised a rider they sponsored for sharing racist social media content, and they used some black models. Oh the horror of wokery.
Krislord 11 hours ago
I still don’t understand the changes they’ve made recently. They had an issue with discounting, so stopped that. The issue was never revenue though, it was the overheads as a percentage of revenue. As long as you sell the item above the manufacturing cost it’s still worth selling. They’re now covering the same overheads with less revenue. Beyond the finances, the product needs fixing too - the casual clothing was an easy way to push the brand yet underutilised with ridiculous prices. Hideous colours on all levels of the core and pro range - it’s like they went into the woods and decided to make everything beige, or washed out green. It’s frustrating as I want to buy rapha but they don’t make anything that appeals.
10 thoughts on “Live blog: Team Ineos sign Giro winner Carapaz; Footage of Roglic crash during yesterday’s TV backout emerge; Shred it like Sagan; Cyclist schools Lamborghini litter lout; Weekend catch-up + more”
Good to see that even back
Good to see that even back then such posts were useless without pictures.
Bora-Hansgrohe DS: Errrrrmmmm
Bora-Hansgrohe DS: Errrrrmmmm, WC in a couple of weeks Peter?
Sagan: I am Sagan, I do what I like
kil0ran wrote:
It’s perfectly ok – he had a helmet on…
kil0ran wrote:
If he couldn’t do this he wouldn’t be Sagan, 1. you need the omni-biker-skills to be that good on the road and be World Champ 3 times, 2. Sagan the name, the brand is all about this stuff and that is worth millions. How many people will be buying Sagan bikes in 2024? [Hoy who?]
Hmm, the Roglic crash, was it
Hmm, the Roglic crash, was it more down to the treachorous conditions that happened to be next to the bike? All seem to be past it and then the bike has to brake as he was down. It does look like Valverde(?) and then Roglic pass the bike with plenty of room first.
Sagan has to be Sagan.
Sagan has to be Sagan.
It is the absolute joy of Sagan.
Thank you for the Lamborghini video.
As if the pollution wasn’t bad enough.
I would love to have the
I would love to have the nerve to hand back litter to the person who I’d seen toss it…
brooksby wrote:
I’d love to chuck fag butts back into the driver’s lap, too – preferably while still smouldering.
LastBoyScout wrote:
A mate did exactly that some years back. Chucked the still lit fag end back through the window onto its erstwhile owners lap and said “Sorry you dropped something”
Then again he is 6′ 4″ and when he wants to has a look that you don’t want to mess with him – I would never have gotten away with that
LastBoyScout wrote:
I remember a few years back, being the front seat passenger in a car. My friend who was driving went to toss her cigarette butt out of the window but the wind blew it back in and onto the back seat. Now that was a fun few minutes, trying to find it before we relived that scene in “Planes, Trains, and Automobiles”…