Welcome to Tuesday on the road.cc live blog focusing today on the latest from Eurobike with David Arthur, Jack Sexty and Liam Cahill, and Simon MacMichael bringing you the rest of the news from back in the UK.
Celebrity Bike Swap with Jacob Rees-Mogg; How cycling on the road is seen from 6-year-old’s perspective; Catalan police bust cannabis farm after Vuelta ‘copter shots; All the news from Eurobike + much more on the Live Blog
All today’s news from the site and beyond…
Wed, Sep 04, 2019 18:44
SUMMARY
4 September 2019, 18:44
Yep, someone's went there...
We were going to have a stab at this ourselves, but thanks to road.cc reader handlebarcam Recumbent Rees-Mogg is now a thing…
4 September 2019, 18:44
Wahoo launches the Kickr Bike
We’re are Eurobike and the first new thing we’ve spotted is the first complete stationary bike trainer from Wahoo.
It’s a one size fits all design, and it’s got a fancy method of taking the measurements of your bike so you can match it perfectly to get the right fit on the Kickr bike. Or you can input bike fit data from Retul or Guru using the Wahoo App. That is clever.
It’ll simulate gradients up and down, and even has front and rear brakes to control your speed, while gear shifters let you replicate seven custom gear configurations from Shimano, SRAM and Campagnolo.
It won’t be cheap however, costing $3,500 being first available in the US this October and then coming to Europe in early 2020.
“The KICKR Bike represents the highest standard for indoor smart bike performance and has extensive features,” says Wahoo’s Director of Product Management, Jose Mendez. “However, we went to great lengths to ensure the product remained simple and intuitive to set up and operate. We’ve learned that it’s not enough to make a product with a lot of great features. We knew the KICKR BIKE needed to be as effortless as possible to use so athletes can focus on training and not troubleshooting.”
In other Wahoo news, there are firmware updates for current Kickr and Kickr Core trainers. “ Each have been updated to allow for multiple Bluetooth connections, meaning that multiple sensor pairings are now faster and even more reliable, ensuring a trouble-free start to workouts, says the company.
Also new for 2019 is the Kickr KOM Bundle which features the Kickr Smart Trainer and Kickr Climb grade simulator for the combined RRP of £1349.98. This is a saving of £150 over purchasing the two units separately and is available now. The Kickr Snap is now even more competitively priced at £429.99 for the indoor trainer season
4 September 2019, 18:44
Zipp launches two new all-road/gravel handlebars
Zipp has today launched two new handlebars aimed at all-road and gravel cyclists with a flared drop. We’ve been able to test one for the past few weeks and you can read our first review here.
4 September 2019, 18:44
Cyclist comes a cropper live on BBC News
It was a momentous edition of BBC News at Ten last night, with the programme coinciding with Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s defeat in the first House of Commons vote since taking office. But when the programme cut to a reporter outside the Scottish Parliament building at Holyrood to get the reaction from Edinburgh, some sharp-eyed viewers noticed something unusual going on in the background …
Did this guy in the background cycle into the water? pic.twitter.com/8ir4Or1BXt
— Katie Martin (@katie_martin_fx) September 3, 2019
As someone who once cycled into a canal, I just want to let that guy know that while he may feel bad now, he should know that people will mercilessly take the piss out of him for the rest of his life.
— Katie Martin (@katie_martin_fx) September 3, 2019
4 September 2019, 18:44
Zwift adds steering control
Big news today as Zwift reveals it has developed steering control for its popular online training platform. We’re at Eurobike and we’ve been taking a closer look, here’s a quick video of it in action.
The steering works by using sensors in the smartphone attached to the handlebar to steer left or right. Clever eh!
More details here and more from the show soon.
4 September 2019, 18:44
New CeramicSpeed in the flesh... and we’re about to see it move
CeramicSpeed this morning announced the latest development of its chainless Driven concept, which can change gears and handle load.
We’re at Eurobike and about to see it changing gears with our own eyes, so report back soon. In the meantime, here’s the lovely Venge that it has been fitted to.
4 September 2019, 18:44
Vuelta helicopter gets high to discover rooftop cannabis farm
Those aerial shots from races aren’t just useful for gawping over castles or trying to work out what happened in a crash, you know … Catalonia’s police force, the Mossos d’Esquadra, are investigating.
.@lavuelta helicopter discovers a marijuana plantation on a roof of Igualada inside the last km of Saturday’s stage. #LaVuelta19 https://t.co/eOu7rXfn8B pic.twitter.com/UTWUjrqwi7
— Javier Gilabert (@tourdegila) September 3, 2019
4 September 2019, 18:44
Tubeless Challenge tyres now available
We’ve been waiting a long time for this, Challenge is now finally embracing tubeless technology across its lovely range of tyres. More news soon.
4 September 2019, 18:44
Argon 18 debuts new Krypton Pro endurance road bike
It’s got space for 32mm tyres, has a new integrated cockpit for improved aerodynamics and weighs just 870g for the frame.
4 September 2019, 18:44
Some more tech from Eurobike
We’ve just spotted FSA’s new system for e-road bikes, that looks remarkably similar to the eBikeMotion sytem found on Ribble’s SLe and others with a button on the top tube to control the assist; we’ll be asking FSA for more info later today.
This Falcon two spoke front and disc rear combo certainly stands out, seen here on a Wilier Turbine TT bike…
And finally just for lols, here’s Ceepo’s mental Shadow R tri bike with a sort of spoked, sort of disc rear aero wheel courtesy of Xtenis.
4 September 2019, 18:44
Someone is VERY upset about hire bikes being used on the World Naked Bike Ride in Philadelphia
Someone has been leaving letters on hire bikes in Philadelphia complaining about hire bikes being used on the World Naked Bike Ride there, headed “WARNING: A NAKED PERSON SAT ON THIS BICYCLE SEAT.”
The letter itself, which has been posted to Reddit, doesn’t expand on that headline, but instead decries “exposing others to public nudity against their will.”
Organisers of the city’s World Naked Bike Ride say on their website,”If you are renting a bike, we strongly recommend wrapping your seat,” going onto list items that can be used for that purpose such as a t-shirt, bandanna or “a swatch of velvet.” (Whatever floats your boat on that last one).
The city’s Office of Transportation, which manages Philadelphia’s Indego cycle hire scheme, told The Inquirer that it had not received any formal complaints about people riding the bikes naked, nor was it considering banning people in the buff from riding them.
4 September 2019, 18:44
Fizik does 3D printed saddles
Specialized launched 3D printed saddles last week, and not to be outdone Fizik has today launched its own 3D printed saddles, using the same US company called Carbon no less, at the Eurobike show over in Germany.
Is this the future of saddles? Read all about it here.
4 September 2019, 18:44
Mathieu Van der Poel's new look Canyon Inflite CF SLX race bike unveiled
#crossiscoming and today the Corendon-Circus Cyclocross Team, headed by Mathieu Van der Poel, have unveiled the new Canyon Inflite CF SLX bikes the team will be racing this season.
4 September 2019, 18:44
Jacob Rees-Mogg swaps his penny-farthing for ... a recumbent
Great minds think alike, the saying goes. So road.cc reader Handlebarcam did a Photoshop of Jacob Rees-Mogg on a recumbent at around the time we did earlier. Still, our one has him as a Bobblehead …
Bit of an more modern take on his previous bike to be fair …
4 September 2019, 18:44
B'Safe is an airbag for cyclists
Move aside Hovding, there’s a new blow-up safety device for cyclists in town… Helite have created the B’Safe, an airbag system for cyclists, that looks like a gilet but expands when it senses you’re about to take a tumble.
Described as a ‘wearable airbag’, it’s reusable and detects when you’ve had an accident, blowing up automatically at 80 ms to protect the neck, thorax and back from impacts. It will “enhance your biking experience’, say Helite, and it’s going to be available soon according to their website.
4 September 2019, 18:44
Cycling on the road from a six-year-old's perspective
This is a powerful video.
When you fix a camera to the handlebars of a six-year-old’s bicycle, you see the world differentlypic.twitter.com/Cn3cIdnOeW
(via @edwardlamb)— Jeremy Vine (@theJeremyVine) September 3, 2019
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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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chrisonabike 8 hours ago
"All that's required is an to roads policing" - that's a big all... Although no doubt the "idiots just keep coming" aspect does apply: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cz9lel2wz93o "Man charged after car crashes through bowling alley" - luckily they only skittled over skittles.
chrisonabike 8 hours ago
Almost any change to roads and streets is accompanied by a period of heightened danger, and in the UK "look out for cyclists" will need to be learned... practically. And over the time it takes for cyclists to become a regular feature. OTOH once (if...) good designs are in and frequent enough such that drivers encounter them AND the cyclists on them regularly (another big if) I don't think they should be much more difficult than a footway to deal with. These things are all over NL - don't have the collision stats but they should. (NL isn't perfect but collecting info on the safety of designs to feed back into better designs as required is part of the "sustainable safety" philosophy - if they're really a killer I think they'd be altering these.)
wtjs 9 hours ago
I'm in the happy position of agreeing with everybody here! I've never considered a bike with a stand, yet I'm impressed by the ingenuity and adaptability of this axle. I tow a Yak Bob with a Robert Axle, employing my El Cheapo Vitus gravel bike and I just have to be very careful where I stop. Hedges are generally a dead loss, and I seek walls, telegraph poles and signposts and generally lean the widest part of the Bob against it. One very awkward task is removing the two steel pins which lock the trailer arms onto the special mounting slots on the Robert axle, and when you have one out, the sodding weight in the trailer can twist the whole caboodle and bend the Bob fitting before you can get the other out and unhitch. I doubt if a stand would help with that. You can imagine that this combo is a real pain when you have to get it over the bridge at railway stations, and it nearly resulted in Merseyrail nearly parting me and the trailer on the platform from the bike on the train. It's a long story for another time. Another axle example recently featured on here, with a 12mm front axle bearing the Herculean weight limit of a monster American front rack.
HoarseMann 11 hours ago
This has nothing to do with the type of bike - it's the type of behaviour that's the problem. Banning the sale of such bikes will not curtail the behaviour. They'll just find another type of vehicle and continue to drive dangerously as there's such a lack of enforcement. I'd sooner see them ban the bally. But really, all that's required is an improvement to roads policing.
AidanR 11 hours ago
The EAPC Bill is welcome, but full of holes. What's to stop an overpowered but temporarily limited e-bike being sold and subsequently delimited? This is often a trivial process.
Sredlums 12 hours ago
@KiwiMike Yeah, in my over four decades of riding all over Europe I've never 'been for a ride in the countryside'. That must be it. Or, and I know this is a wild concept, you just accept that I just voiced my personal experiences and never missed a kickstand, like I wrote. Anyway, what's the big horror of laying your bike on its side for the very few occasions where there is nothing to lean your bike against?
mdavidford 12 hours ago
They may have looked, but did they see?
jackcycles 13 hours ago
Ds2025: where they are going wrong is that they are crushing the motorbike rather than the person sat on top of it. If they did the latter this issue would be solved in less than 24 hours.
Rod Marton 13 hours ago
I came this way today with the car boot sale in operation. There was a marshal at the entrance, who stopped a car turning right across the cycleway as I was approaching. So that certainly works. I think it necessary for the marshal to be there, I couldn't say if the driver would have turned if he hadn't been there but you always have to suspect the worst. Unfortunately there is no marshal at the exit, and there was certainly a car stopped across the cycleway as I was approaching it. But he pulled onto the road before I reached it, and the following car stayed off the cycleway as I went through. Ideally there should have been a marshal there too. On the whole, though, it's a really high standard piece of infrastructure. Just a pity it doesn't extend a bit further.
eburtthebike 13 hours ago
“absolute carnage” So right! Just look at the bodies piled up, blood running in the gutters and injured people limping away. It's a bit of a problem with a road, delaying some people for minutes at a time: it isn't carnage, let alone 'absolute carnage'. Anyone who exaggerates so ridiculously really shouldn't be allowed to comment in public, unless they want to demonstrate their idiocy to all and sundry.
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In defence of my mediocre
In defence of my mediocre photoshopping skills, it would be a lot easier if any recumbenteers had the taste and decorum to wear double-breasted Savile Row suits when riding. Then it would be possible to merge their legs with his torso. Instead they almost universally seem to sport light-coloured baggy shants, which showcase their knobbly knees. They may be white and pasty, but wouldn’t pass for Lord Snooty’s legs.
I mean, where do all those
I mean, where do all those custom pro bikes go? They just keep getting new ones, there must be a few knocking around they could send our way. I would be willing to test ride one.
As an occasional recumbent
As an occasional recumbent rider, I can relate to the 6yo’s perspective of riding on road. The quote from Mikael Coleville Andersen about his daughter asking when would her city fit her makes sense when you experience it personally. That viewing perspective should be compulsory for all legislators and traffic engineers.
Why does it matter if a naked
Why does it matter if a naked person sat on a hire bike? It’s not like you’re going to eat off the saddle (probably!). Tbh I’d bet that far worse things have been on pretty much every hire bike saddle- they’re left outside overnight in central urban areas…
brooksby wrote:
You may handle the saddle though for example. I wouldn’t really mind piss on the seat from being left overnight, but don’t particularly want someones arsehole pressed into it.
fukawitribe wrote:
Best you don’t think about how many birds sit (and…) on them then.
jollygoodvelo wrote:
Bird shit is normally pretty visible – also different mix of bacteria. Bottom line is I mentally find it less unpleasant than someone elses arse wipe I guess….
That a tory politician is
That a tory politician is lying isn’t really news.
burtthebike wrote:
FTFY – they’re all as bad as eachother.