Boardman polices Transport Secretary’s emojis; Jeremy Vine says he’s found the worst driver in London; Cav needs some big wins; Video: Cross-country cyclists slide down icy hill in 1955; Plans for cycle lanes on every single Paris street
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GOOD NEWS KLAXON: Nairo Quintana has got his dog back
Earlier in the week we reported how Nairo Quintana had put out an appeal on Facebook after his black Schnauzer, Rocky, went missing in the city of Tunja, Colombia, on Tuesday.
The Arkéa–Samsic rider and 2014 Giro champion has now proclaimed himself “super happy” after Rocky turned up.
Mayor of Paris says every street will be cycle-friendly by 2024 if she is re-elected
Forbes reports that Mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, has announced plans for every street in the city to have a cycle path, and for all of the city’s bridges to have protected cycleways by 2024.
🚲 Prendre un vélo c’est :
👉vivre Paris avec un nouveau rythme
👉le moyen le ➕ rapide pour traverser la capitale
👉s’accorder un temps d’activité physique
👉promouvoir la nécessité absolue de mieux partager la rue
👉c’est agréable, pratique, économique et écologique #Thread👇 pic.twitter.com/A1xSy11Syg— Anne Hidalgo (@Anne_Hidalgo) January 28, 2020
The bold vision is part of her re-election campaign.
She says cycling infrastructure would be built mostly at the expense of motor vehicles. The plans would see the removal of 72 per cent of the French capital’s on-street car parking.
Speaking in 2018, Hidalgo said that cycle lanes had helped slash the number of motor vehicles driven on the streets of the French capital.
February of that year saw 705 vehicles recorded per kilometre per hour, down 11.4 per cent on the same month in 2017.
Video: Sven Nys log clearance
De @Telenet_Baloise plooien niet voor ciara. @TrekBikes @aadrink #teamtraining #goodvibes pic.twitter.com/zBpJR1Em5m
— Sven Nys (@sven_nys) February 12, 2020
Video from 1955 shows cross-country cyclists slithering down an icy hill.
#OnThisDay 1955: Cross-country cyclists took turns slipping down an icy hill. pic.twitter.com/ak0Uz0m9Ee
— BBC Archive (@BBCArchive) February 13, 2020
Cavendish will need to notch some big wins to earn a Tour de France place says Ellingworth
Manager Rod Ellingworth says there is “potentially” room for a sprinter in Bahrain McLarens’ team for the Tour de France, even though the route is “excellent” for Mikel Landa, who will battle for the overall.
“We’ve got a long way to go yet but it could be part of the plan,” Ellingworth told Cycling News. “I think it can be done, definitely.”
Of Cavendish’s chances, he said: “For Mark, if he’s winning and performing well, why would we not think about going on that journey and trying to be the greatest stage winner in Tour de France history? That dream is still there. He knows it’ll be a hard challenge. If he’s winning at WorldTour level, why wouldn’t we take him?”
Cavendish recent raced the Saudi Tour, at which he helped fellow sprinter Phil Bauhaus to two stage wins and the overall title after crashing twice on stage two.
“I certainly think that last stage, Cav could have won that himself,” said Ellingworth. “I have no doubt at all that his condition is good enough. It was the way the race played out.
“For Mark individually, physically he’s in the right place. He’s got some work to do still, but he’s certainly on track. Then there’s also the confidence around going for that sprint and putting yourself on the line. That’s not easy.”
He did however say that Cavendish was showing no signs of the Epstein-Barr virus that has blighted recent seasons.
“The game we’re playing with him is step-by-step,” he said.
“In terms of his health, we’ve now ticked that box. He had really struggled on and off – that’s what that virus does, it limits you, you can’t go deep, you can’t back up day after day – but he’s been training well for four months so that’s good. Then you have the race condition, which has not been there for a while, but we’ve ticked that box now.
“He still wants to win for himself. 100 per cent we want to see Mark Cavendish with his arms in the air again. Where that will be and how it will happen, that’s the question.”
Jeremy Vine says he's found the worst driver in London
We’ve found the worst driver in London, everyone https://t.co/q0LB6m1srl
— Jeremy Vine (@theJeremyVine) February 13, 2020
Tour of Cambridgeshire to eliminate plastics from its events
Tom Dumoulin quotes Run DMC as he announces he'll skip Tirreno-Adriatico and Milan-Sanremo
A sketch from Iceland about drivers' attitudes to cyclists
The only thing “unrealistic” is the fact that there are two people in the car! 😀
By far the best sketch from annual Icelandic Lampoon show of 2019, thank you @ruvsjonvarp 🙏#modacity #mobility #aðförin#cycling #sustainabletransport pic.twitter.com/VF8NrLryk7
— Björn Teitsson (@bjornteits) February 12, 2020
Video: This “swingbike” looks fun and also terrifying to ride
Mountain bike and gravel brand, Nukeproof, launches new kids' bike range
Nukeproof launches the Cub-Scout kids’ bike with 20″, 24″ or 26″ wheels, off-road.cc have all the details here.
A repurposed rear wheel
Have your say on some Bee Network proposals in Tameside
HAVE YOUR SAY: @TamesideCouncil has plans to change walking & cycling across the borough and you can input into the plans.
You can find out more online or attend an event near you, including a Family Event on Tuesday 18 Feb – more here: https://t.co/lTBzVkmLmH #BeeNetwork 🐝 pic.twitter.com/IdpNezoywN
— TfGM (@OfficialTfGM) February 13, 2020
Red light jumping motorist who claimed car had been stolen convicted of killing cyclist in hit and run
A driver who jumped a red light and hit a cyclist in Camden in January 2018 has been convicted of causing serious injury by dangerous driving.
My London reports that Angelo Kaminski also pleaded guilty to perverting the course of justice after he and his family concocted a story about his car being stolen. His father, younger brother and cousin were found guilty of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice.
All four will be sentenced at Wood Green Crown Court tomorrow.
The cyclist, Abdul Hadi, was taken to hospital with a number of serious injuries, including a skull fracture, a bleed on the brain and a fractured pelvis.
He remained in a coma for the next 18 months but died in hospital in July 2019 having not regained consciousness.
Kaminski drove away, running another red light in the process, before abandoning his car 1km from the scene of the collision.
Detective Inspector Cheryl Frost of the Metropolitan Police said: “Angelo Kaminski drove through a red light and struck Abdul Hadi, leaving him with catastrophic injuries.
“Instead of stopping and trying to help Mr Hadi, he thought only about himself, fleeing the scene and then, along with his family members, instigating attempts to cover his tracks.
“I would like to thank the Hadi family for all their support throughout the investigation into this tragic incident which has left them deprived of a loving husband and father.”
Chris Boardman: policing the Secretary of State for Transport's use of emojis since 2020
Couple of emojis short there Mr Secretary 🚶♀️ 🚲 especially as communities mean everything 👍 https://t.co/096BPRPzyP
— Chris Boardman (@Chris_Boardman) February 13, 2020
They've started building a two-way cycle track on Brunswick Square in London
Great that construction is underway at Brunswick Square:
🚲Removing a roundabout
🚶♂️Removing through traffic on Lansdowne Terrace
🌳new public space with new trees, planting & seating
🚶5 new/upgraded crossings
🚲two-way cycle track
👍👍@CamdenCouncil @AdamDKHarrison pic.twitter.com/oe7CCNtH1U— Will Norman (@willnorman) February 13, 2020
Eroica creator wants to organise Gravel World Championship
“We’d love to organise a Gravel World Championships,” Giancarlo Brocci told Cycling News.
“I can’t think of a better place for it than here in Tuscany on our strade bianche gravel roads that inspired the original Eroica event.”
James May's got a new bike
Swapping four wheels for two 🚲
Great to see @MrJamesMay in our West End store today, collecting his new steed.#EnjoyTheRide pic.twitter.com/fDdScZsnww
— Evans Cycles (@EvansCycles) February 13, 2020
Not an enormous surprise as May has often spoken positively about cycling.
In 2017, he professed a lifelong love of cycling and more recently he’s delivered an impassioned speech urging drivers to “live in peace” and “not to buy into the anti-cycling thing.”
May’s colleagues are not necessarily as anti-cycling as they often pretend either. Jeremy Clarkson was pictured leaving his house aboard a bicycle after being sacked by the BBC, while Richard Hammond has also expressed that he likes cycling, even going as far as admitting to the BBC that he prefers cycling around town to driving.
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"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.
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.)
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.
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.
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.
@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?
They may have looked, but did they see?
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.
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.
“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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Good latest comments along
Good latest comments along the bottom of articles.
And when you click on the comment at the bottom of the home page it jumps to the comment section, which never happened to the old website.
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The clip from Iceland; is it
The clip from Iceland; is it satire or documentary? The same vid could be made a thousand times every day in the UK.
Gazza’s nothing if not
Gazza’s nothing if not persistent bless him. I do hope he’s not driving today, or parked up and tweeting from his cab.
I really like those vacuum
I really like those vacuum cup tyres. I mean, they wouldn’t work, but they look cool. Coming to a Planet X email near you soon, probably.
In other news, the German caption to that video is probably ruder than expected from a family website…