“Are the cyclists paying for this? Because I’m not”: Drivers fume as airbag for cyclists unveiled on new SUV – but riders say “just stop hitting people”; Tadej Pogačar asked: “When do you retire?”; Peter Sagan booted off dance show + more on the live blog
SUMMARY
Idiots at bike races, episode 174
In other LBL news…
> “Show some respect”: Cycling ‘fan’ branded “absolute moron” for riding on course and jumping on leader’s wheel at Liège-Bastogne-Liège Femmes – after van driver pulls out in front of breakaway during men’s race
The end of a jazzily edited era?
> “I enjoy debates but not abuse”: Jeremy Vine to stop sharing cycling videos on social media because “trolling just got too bad”
Alison Jackson takes her trademark dance moves to the next level… by joining pro basketball team’s halftime dance troupe
The peloton’s most famous dancer, EF-Oatly’s Alison Jackson (more on the other one in a second), certainly upped her game at the weekend – by joining her local basketball team’s dance troupe for a halftime performance.
Yes, that’s right.
The 2023 Paris-Roubaix winner is well-known in the cycling world for her ability to bust out some pretty sharp moves in cheesy team videos and in the centre of velodromes after winning monuments.
But she really took it to the next level on Sunday, by lining up alongside Bàsquet Girona’s dancers and entertaining the crowd at halftime during the team’s match against Real Madrid.
And while the Vuelta stage winner may have only had time for a few short lessons from the Bàsquet Girona pros – she did have to squeeze in finishing seventh at Amstel and racing Flèche Wallonne after all (pesky cycling getting in the way) – like pretty much everything Jackson puts her mind to, she really gave it stacks:
Peter Sagan, eat your heart out, that’s what I call rhythm.
“The first Bàsquet Girona game I went to, I was so excited about the dance team!” the Canadian rider posted on Instagram yesterday.
“Immediately, I made it my mission to try to join them – somehow, I did! What a lovely bunch of humans to teach me their dances and trust that I could nail the choreography on game day!”
Forget her Roubaix winner’s dance, this is peak Alison Jackson. I hear Dancing with the Stars is currently on the phone…
Song and Dance Cyclists
Musical hour on the live blog continues (which, depending on your personal viewpoint, is either excellent or you’re beginning to question my sanity).
This time, it’s courtesy of Uno-X, who decided to mark their brilliantly retro partnership with 7-Eleven at Liège-Bastogne-Liège (Those kits! Those bikes!) by writing and producing a very ‘80s cheesy synth pop single and music video:
The throwback video divided opinion in the road.cc office – VecchioJo hates it, and thinks it’s ruined the whole 7-Eleven rebirth – but you know what, I don’t mind it at all. Love me some nonsensical cycling-related lyrics.
‘Pump up the tyre, check the gear… Check it! Check it!’
Some terribly sad news from Mallorca at the weekend
The UK cycling community has paid tribute to Phil Williams, the British rider who died in an incident at the Mallorca 312 Gran Fondo on Saturday.
Read more: > British cyclist dies during Mallorca 312 event
U23 cyclocross world champion Tibor Del Grosso powers to first professional victory on the road at Tour of Turkey
The classics season is dead, long live the stage racing summer. And with the Giro d’Italia approaching fast, it’s time for the Tour of Turkey, everyone’s favourite week-long assortment of sketchy sprint finishes, stunning scenery, Brit-targeting tourist resorts, lots of flags, and the occasional steep climb.
And after Simon Dehairs’ sprint win yesterday, Alpecin-Deceuninck’s dream start to this year’s race continued this afternoon, as their 21-year-old Dutch prodigy Tibor del Grosso powered his way to his first ever professional road race victory in Kalkan.
After Lotto’s Jasper De Buyst launched early on the six per cent climb to the line, neo-pro Del Grosso timed his sprint to perfection, overhauling Giovanni Lonardi in the last 50 metres to open his career account on the road and nab the overall race lead in the process.
There it is! 🇳🇱 Tibor Del Grosso takes his first pro win on the road in the 🇹🇷 Tour of Türkiye! 🎉 #TUR2025 pic.twitter.com/0Kq7TPNjex
— Cyclocross24.com (@cyclocross24) April 28, 2025
Ouch, that sprint was painful just watching it.
“It was a good chance and we believed in it. The team worked hard today and it is great to finish it off,” the U23 cyclocross world champion said after his win, which caps off a promising first spring of his pro career, including two podiums on stages at the Volta a Catalunya and top tens at Dwars door Vlaanderen and Brabantse Pijl.
“It’s a really tough finishing kilometre uphill and with the climbs before it was a chance to drop the pure sprinters. The finish suited me and I liked it.
“There were still some fast guys but the boys put me in a good position and then it was all out to the line.”
“I thought it might have been Tadej Pogačar”: Pauliena Rooijakkers says course invader incident at Liège-Bastogne-Liège was “very strange”
Is it a bird? A plane? A Tadej Pogačar? No, it’s just some idiot in a cheap, knock-off UAE Team Emirates jersey desperately hunting for his 15 minutes of fame and almost ruining one of cycling’s biggest races in the process.
And it turns out we weren’t the only ones bemused by the gangly, fast-spinning sight of the Liège-Bastogne-Liège course invader yesterday afternoon.
Pauliena Rooijakkers, the Fenix-Deceuninck rider whose back wheel appeared to act as a clarion call for idiocy, told Sporza after the finish that she had noticed the intruder – and even thought for a brief second that the winner of the men’s race had come back for more.
“Yes, I saw him. I thought it might have been Tadej Pogačar. But no, it wasn’t him,” the Dutch climber laughed.
“No, it was very strange. I don’t know what the intention was.”
Same, Pauliena, same.
Hold on, that can’t be right. Vent? In the seatstays? Vents?
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“Not bad for a (ex) sprinter”: Jason Kenny completes London Marathon in 3.43:19 to raise funds for Chris Hoy’s Tour de 4 charity, branding the race “the best worst day I’ve ever had”
Elsewhere in today’s round-up of cyclists doing non-cycling things, Sir Jason Kenny added his name to the ever-growing list of retired pro cyclists taking up running (the poor things) by completing the London Marathon yesterday, in aid of his old GB teammate Sir Chris Hoy’s Tour de 4 charity.
And for a man whose all-out efforts on the track bike usually lasted under a minute, Kenny put in a more than respectable effort out on the road, completing the 26 miles in 3.43:19.
“It was absolutely amazing running with all these amazing people. Lots of them are running for things that are really special to them,” Kenny, Britain’s most successful ever Olympian, told the BBC after the event.
“In the last couple of kilometres, my legs fell off, and there were bodies everywhere basically. It was just amazing. Everyone was pushing each other through it, and the crowds are here.
“Obviously, I’m running for my mate Chris, and supporting his fundraising as well with the Tour de 4. All the emotion in the last few kilometres bubbled up. It was absolutely brutal and amazing. The best worst day I’ve ever had.”
The seven-time Olympic champion’s wife, Dame Laura Kenny, was also originally pencilled in to take part but was forced to watch from the sidelines as she is pregnant with the couple’s third child, describing Jason’s time on Instagram as “not bad for a (ex) sprinter”.
Kenny was also joined on the road by another former GB track sprinter, double Olympic silver medallist Becky James, who finished the marathon in a time of 4.28:04.
“Wow!!! What an incredible experience and insane crowd cheering the whole way round!” James, now known as Becky North, wrote on Instagram. “Absolutely on could nine. What next?”
The two-time world champion was also running to raise funds for Hoy’s Tour de 4, which aims to raise £1 million for a range of UK cancer charities.
Is Let’s Dance semi-finalist Peter Sagan cycling’s greatest ever celebrity dance show contestant?
Not quite.
Former world champion Sagan may have exceeded all expectations to – miraculously, to anyone who actually watched him ‘dance’ – make it to the semi-finals of this year’s Let’s Dance, Slovakia’s wacky and wonderful answer to Strictly.
But while his fourth-place finish blew away the middling to poor results of other past professional cyclists-turned-dance show competitors such as Mario Cipollini, Michael Rasmussen, Victoria Pendleton, and Dancing with the Stars Ireland quarter-finalist Nico Roche, one ex-pro outshone them all.
In 2021, disgraced former Tour de France podium finisher and King of the Mountains Bernhard Kohl made it all the way to the final of the Austrian show Dancing Stars, and even performed a show dance referencing his career and doping-related fall from grace.
So that means, despite his, ahem, best efforts – those jives though, deary me – Sagan, just like on several occasions during his illustrious career, will have to settle for second on the list of cycling’s greatest TV dancers.
That is until Alison Jackson wins Dancing with the Stars in a few years, of course…
It’s not just the spring classics that are over: Peter Sagan crashes out of Let’s Dance Slovakia at semi-final stage… after finally scoring a 10!
And that’s that – the weird, off-beat subplot of the cycling season is finally over.
Last night, Peter Sagan was eliminated at the semi-final stage of Let’s Dance Slovakia, after the three-time world champion lost to actress Ráchel Šoltésová in the dance-off, despite scoring his very first 10 of the series, and with it his highest ever marks from the judges.
During his career, former Flanders and Roubaix winner Sagan was adept at stringing together a long and tiring springs classics campaign. But even he couldn’t have imagined surviving for nine whole weeks in Slovakia’s version of Strictly Come Dancing – especially considering he finished bottom of the leaderboard four times.
But, despite those low placings and a discernible lack of any timing or rhythm in his body, Sagan proved a hit with the voters at home, who kept sending him through despite some jittery jives, stodgy sambas, and poor paso dobles. I told you he was the Dan Walker of Slovakia, didn’t I?
And he even saved his best efforts for the semi, scoring a respectable 30 for his tango – which for some reason featured an additional celebrity dancer and saw Sagan blindfolded at the start (whatever floats your boat, I suppose).
He then, rather miraculously, scored his first ever 10 dancing the rumba – widely regarded as the hardest dance for a male celebrity to perfect – which helped him secure his highest score of the series, 31.
But the show’s belated introduction of the dance-off (the absence of which surely did Sagz some serious favours in previous weeks) marked the end of the seven-time Tour de France green jersey winner’s time in the competition, as he failed to impress the judges while performing the cha-cha to Kool and the Gang’s 1980 hit Celebration.
To be honest, I’m sure Sagan will be celebrating the fact he doesn’t have to learn any more dances this week.
But at least he’s given us cycling and celebrity dance show enthusiasts (we’re a small bunch) plenty of laughs over the last nine weeks. That’s really what any cycling legend wants from their retirement, right?
And we’ll always have that topless Ken moment…
Now that was proper ciclismo.
Why don’t cyclists use the cycle lane? #18,738
When you take Kingston’s council leader out for a ride meeting and a driver demonstrates exactly why so many people won’t feel confident using a bike locally until cycle lanes aren’t seen as a handy parking spot…
— Kingston Cycling Campaign (@kingstoncycling.bsky.social) April 28, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Sharing the video this afternoon, the Kingston Cycling Campaign wrote: “When you take Kingston’s council leader out for a ride meeting and a driver demonstrates exactly why so many people won’t feel confident using a bike locally until cycle lanes aren’t seen as a handy parking spot.”
Well, at least it hammered home the message to the local authority.
“Mass trespass” sees hundreds cycle through controversial Silvertown Tunnel where cyclists have to catch “greenwashing” bus due to lack of bike route
Silvertown Tunnel in London was the scene of a “mass trespass” on Friday night, hundreds of cyclists riding through the tunnel in protest at the newly opened £2bn route’s lack of cycling infrastructure, after riders were told they must take their bikes on a “greenwashing” bus to shuttle them through.
Read more: > “Mass trespass” sees hundreds cycle through controversial Silvertown Tunnel where cyclists have to catch “greenwashing” bus due to lack of bike route
One of the greatest spring classics campaigns of all time?
No wonder Ben Healy is out there asking the difficult questions.
With his long spring campaign finally over and well-earned period of rest and recovery coming up ahead of a tilt at a fourth Tour de France title, here’s Tadej Pogačar’s one-day classics record for 2025:
Strade Bianche: 1st
Milan-Sanremo: 3rd
Tour of Flanders: 1st
Paris-Roubaix: 2nd
Amstel Gold: 2nd
Flèche Wallonne: 1st
Liège-Bastogne-Liège: 1st
And that’s not even counting his dominant GC win and two stages at the UAE Tour at the very start of the season.
As Cillian Kelly noted on social media yesterday, that staggering run of results means that Pogačar has finished on the podium of the first four monuments of the year.
The number of other riders who even started all four of those races: zero. That’s how good he is.
Zac Williams/SWpix.com
Oh, and if the world champion finishes in the top three at the Tour of Lombardy in October – a race he’s won the last four years on the trot, so there’s a good chance that’ll happen – he’ll also become the first rider ever to podium all five monuments in one year.
Wait, there’s more – yesterday’s win in Liège moved Pogačar to joint third on the all-time list of monuments winners on nine, level with Fausto Coppi, Constante Girardengo, and Sean Kelly, and just two off second-place Roger De Vlaeminck.
And Pogačar is still just 26. Kelly didn’t win his first monument, the 1983 Tour of Lombardy, until he was 27. Meanwhile, at the same age as Pogačar is now – 26 years and seven months – Eddy Merckx had won 10 monuments, just one more than the Slovenian’s current tally.
I’m not surprised his rivals are all patiently counting down the days until 2030…
Ben Healy asks the question everyone else in the peloton is thinking… Tadej, for goodness’ sake, when are you retiring?
Another one-day classic, another demolition job by Tadej Pogačar.
Reports of the world champion’s post-Roubaix fatigue, briefly glimpsed in a rare defeat on favoured terrain at Amstel Gold, were found to be greatly exaggerated on the Mur de Huy on Wednesday, when Pogačar launched a blistering seated acceleration to claim his second Flèche Wallonne title.
Zac Williams/SWpix.com
And on Sunday, the Slovenian superstar repeated the trick at Liège-Bastogne-Liège by simply riding away from everyone, plonked firmly in the saddle once again, 35km from the finish on another iconic climb, La Redoute (remember when they used to say La Redoute was too early to attack?).
By the finish in Liège, Pogačar was over a minute clear of his closest rivals, his third victory at La Doyenne in the bag, along with his first ever Ardennes double, bringing a fitting end to one of the greatest classics campaigns we’ve ever seen.
One of the two riders crossing the line a minute and three seconds behind Pogačar was Ben Healy, the former Irish champion proving arguably the strongest of the mortals on La Redoute.
Zac Williams/SWpix.com
In the wake of Pogačar’s race-ending attack, the 24-year-old formed a strong chase group that also included Tom Pidcock and Julian Alaphilippe, before surviving the concerted chase from behind on the Côte de la Roche-aux-Faucons alongside Giulio Ciccone to secure his first ever podium at a monument.
And as they greeted each other before the podium ceremony, the typically forthright Healy asked Pogačar the question everyone else in the peloton was mulling over for 35km yesterday afternoon… “When do you retire?”
“I have a contract until 2030, that’s the year maybe!” the world champion laughed in response – though, to be fair, he’s probably not joking.
By the end of 2030, when his bumper UAE Team Emirates contract runs out, Pogačar will have just turned 32 – the same age Eddy Merckx was when he hung up his wheels in 1978.
And, as if to underline those plans, Bernard Hinault rode his last race just two months before his 32nd birthday. And those two had decent careers, alright.
“You don’t have to build cars around hitting people if we just stop hitting people”: Baffled cyclists react to news of Subaru’s bike crash-friendly airbags
It turns out that angry motorists fuming at the thought of protecting less vulnerable road users aren’t the only ones baffled by Subaru’s massive new U-shaped external airbags for cyclists.
The design’s potential real-world testers aren’t too sure about it either.
“90 per cent of car-bike accidents don’t involve a cyclist to the windshield area but… uh, yeah, good looking out there Subi,” Jason Derrig wrote on Facebook.
“Ah yes, so they gotta take the full hit from the front end, go all the way up the hood, still partially smash into the windshield, and then bounce off even harder,” noted Jim Rehak, making the prospect of a cyclist airbag on cars less appealing, all of a sudden.
“Is it April Fools Day everyday now?” asked a confused Võ Hoài Linh. “So if I get hit by one of these, I can then be bounced off the windshield over the vehicle and onto the pavement below. Cool idea.”
“You will be long dead before you hit the windshield,” added Fardin, rather helpfully.
Others, meanwhile, questioned the motives behind the car manufacturer’s cyclist safety initiative.
“Sounds like Subaru drivers have a reputation,” wrote Randy Painter (if that’s his real name, that’s… unfortunate), while Rob Buck even offered up his own marketing slogan, free of charge, for the airbags – “Subaru: we know our buyers can’t drive.”
And some suggested that there are perhaps better ways to improve safety for cyclists than installing a bouncy castle on a car bonnet.
“How about limiting the speed of the car instead?” asked Dan.
“I guess maybe NOT hitting the cyclist doesn’t factor in?” noted, in rather groundbreaking fashion, Kyle Clayton, while Connor Dakan also pointed out that “you don’t have to build cars around hitting people if we just stop hitting people.”
That’s got to be easier than airbags, surely?
“Are the cyclists paying for this? Because I’m not”: Subaru introduces ‘world-first’ external airbag for cyclists on new SUV… and drivers aren’t happy
Airbags for cyclists really are all the rage right now.
This time last year we reported that Belgium-based project aerObag had started work on a new bib short design that would inflate automatically in the event of a crash, with apparently minimum impact on performance. The company behind the project, Sport Innovation Design (SID), later developed a functional prototype in October, which they hope will be used out on the road at some point this year.
Meanwhile, last summer bike helmet brand POC joined forces with automotive safety system specialists Autoliv to patent a new helmet design equipped with airbag technology, similar the one previously patented by airbag helmet pioneer Hövding, who filed for bankruptcy back in 2023.
And even the ever-innovative UCI (no high socks, please) brought up airbags in its list of ideas to improve the sport’s safety credentials at the start of this year.
> Airbag cycling bib shorts designed to reduce injuries could become a reality in 2025
So, with airbags for cyclists seemingly the next big (and then bigger) thing, it’s perhaps no surprise that the car industry is taking note, too.
This month, Subarau unveiled its newly refreshed Forester SUV range, which features – in a world-first, apparently – an airbag designed specifically for cyclists on the outside of the car… for the inevitable moment one of Subaru’s customers stops paying attention and drives into someone riding a bike, seemingly.
The design – a massive U-shaped airbag lining the car’s front windscreen – builds on the external pedestrian safety airbags first introduced by the Japanese manufacturer in 2016, which inflated a bag near the top of the car’s bonnet, providing a soft spot for a pedestrian’s head to land in the event of a crash.
But with cyclists naturally situated higher from the ground, and therefore positioned differently in the event of a crash, Subaru realised that particular system didn’t work so well for people on bikes.
This realisation led them to update their design by extending it up the sides of the windscreen, while also covering its base and parts of the bonnet. This aims to cushion the blow for cyclists and prevent them from striking the car’s windscreen in the event of a crash, a feature outlined in this nifty video:
According to Subaru, the airbag, which inflates instantly on impact, will protect cyclists from both A-pillars, one of the strongest parts of the car, while keeping it in place for both cyclists and pedestrians.
The manufacturer claims this is the first ever external airbag designed specifically for cyclists in the world, introducing it on the refreshed Forester alongside a new 1.8L turbocharged engine – which, we assume, could make the prospect of the airbag being deployed a lot more likely.
Unfortunately, the airbag will only be available on Forester models released in Japan for the time being.
Not that that’s stopped motorists in other parts of the world complaining about shelling out for the possible protection of vulnerable road users, of course.
“Are the cyclists paying for this? Because I’m not,” David Wu wrote on Facebook after checking out the new external airbags.
“I’m not paying for this crap,” agreed Shaun Bush, while Henry Russo agreed: “Imagine having to foot the bill in the form of a longer car payment because of cyclists.”
“Don’t protect them, because this just gives them an even further excuse to jump out in front of the car,” added Adam Trey. No, I didn’t make that one up.
“At this point just make the bumper a pillow,” wrote Jerod Armstrong. “Cyclists [should] wear helmets, pedestrians don’t.”
“If they would just use the bike lane,” wrote Neil Walley, while Ashley Aldworth added: “Safer if they don’t ride in the car lanes!”
“Or they could just get outta the road,” said Jon Campbell.
And the seemingly lovely Jon Troop asked: “Is there a [sic] option for spikes instead?”
Charming…
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@PeterF01 - not clear if your beef is with 'Taiwanese' or just 'cheap' so, just to be clear, is it ok if my "decent, quality brand" manufactures in Taiwan? Like, say, DT Swiss or Ere? Or in China, like Reynolds?
@mdavidford : ) but is Strava included in the proposed social media ban law?
@mdavidford Maybe road.cc should have an article with the actual official/legal definitions? So often they are simply assumed or are american specific e.g. 'right of way' “cycle track” means a way constituting or comprised in a highway, being a way over which the public have the following, but no other, rights of way, that is to say, a right of way on pedal cycles [F3(other than pedal cycles which are motor vehicles within the meaning of [F4the Road Traffic Act 1988]] with or without a right of way on foot;
I've never commented on a review, but in this case I need to. This light is phenomenally effective for what it is designed to do. Avoid close passes. I've cycled about 20 years through central London traffic doing 3-5K miles a year and nothing beats this in terms of almost completely eliminating close passes. Makes no sense to compare it to a normal light and for the amount of product you get, it is very cheap. I have 6-7 other rear lights incl. a Garmin radar light, but I would never compare them to this. The weight also has no relevance for most commuters. Yes I would not put it on my light aero optimised road bike. Likewise I'm not even slightly annoyed that my cargo bike would not ride well with 25mm tires. Anyway, love Road.cc. Brilliant normally.
I have this, but no longer use it as the light had a habit of falling off it's magnetic mount when going over more aggressive speed bumps
I'm not sure there is much value in recycling these Bookface comments. Most people won't cycle on an A-road if there's no protected infrastructure, so if you want people to use the route of course you have to build a cycle track.
@PeterF01 I have a pair of their cheap alloy wheels on my winter bike so they see the worst of the weather and get minimal tlc and they have been perfect for the last four winters so I would be willing to give any of their products a chance if they fitted my requirements.
Looks good, but only seems to be available from their website, and they want £5 postage, which is a bit strong.
It seems a little slow... but at 12mph you're exceeding the average traffic speed for central London, and only just slower than the average for Bristol or Edinburgh (apparently 14 / 13.6 mph, but slower at busy times of course). I presume the idea is to protect the 8-80 casual(-ish) cyclists (many on robust Dutch bikes). And that this is in an extremely densely populated capital city, full of people walking, cycling, driving, on trams... Also it's hard for current UK cyclists - for whom the norm is "ride like a car" eg. sprint between lots of long waits at junctions or traffic lights - to appreciate how the Dutch system facilitates good average speed via steady but continuous progress. That involves "network-level route planning" / "disentangling of modes" and better junction design. And indeed where there are traffic lights those make much more use of detection of approaching cyclists and variable phases. There's also the fact that cyclists rarely have to stop for *pedestrian* crossings (those are informal across most cycle paths) and sometimes can ignore motor vehicle traffic lights completely. Personally I suspect that this may be the wrong tool for what they're trying to achieve. But then again perhaps "if you have enough people doing something unfortunately you may get more than enough people doing it badly"?
I've been using a Magene C506 for the past 10 or so months and I've got to say I've been pretty impressed. Does essentially everything I could want a computer to do, never seems to glitch or error, the only thing I wish it could do (or does and I haven't figured out how to) is display a map of where you are without needing to have a preset route loaded in.For the price it's been pretty amazing, and the 606 seems to be equally ideal for the average rider.
33 thoughts on ““Are the cyclists paying for this? Because I’m not”: Drivers fume as airbag for cyclists unveiled on new SUV – but riders say “just stop hitting people”; Tadej Pogačar asked: “When do you retire?”; Peter Sagan booted off dance show + more on the live blog”
This reminds me of a highly
These comments remind me of a highly respected former colleague from Cambridge – let’s call him Bigsby. He always advocated the ‘Bigsby Spike’ as an essential measure for improving road safety – a dagger-like object on the steering wheel that constantly reminds drivers of their responsibility and predictably punishes them for misconduct.
Hey, I’d pay for that.
Hey, I’d pay for that.
Risk takers will continue to
Risk takers will continue to drive regardless of the spike as they don’t think it will happen to them.
Not for long, though…
Not for long, though…
Especially with the constant
Especially with the constant stream of cyclists wilfully throwing themselves in front of their fast moving vehicles….
Clem Fandango wrote:
I thought that was sacks of potatoes?
But cars were almost designed
But cars were almost designed that way back in the day, and drivers killed themselves and their passengers in huge numbers, with huge amounts of drink driving involved too.
It’s Tullock’s Spike, not
It’s Tullock’s Spike, not Bigsby’s!
…so my colleague was
…so my colleague was presenting this idea under his own name — arguably with tongue firmly in cheek — over cheese and wine. I’m thrilled to now learn about Tullock’s original reference!
In fairness, the Bigsby
In fairness, the Bigsby-Tullock Spike has a better ring to it. Albeit it does sound like something you’d study on a statistics course.
The Subaru airbag – what
The Subaru airbag – what happens when I hit the ground of go over the roof?
I honestly thought the Saburu
I honestly thought the Saburu “cyclist airbag” thing was a late April Fools joke.
The small area covered by it is pretty pointless.
If they are going to do something like that they would need to cover the whole car to be usefull/effective.
Basically turning it into a Zorb ball on impact.
I was thinking the same thing
I was thinking the same thing – you want the whole of the front of the car to inflate up, and possibly below the grille line too so noboby gets sucked underneath.
What we really want is for
What we really want is for the car to have a lower bonnet, and better visibility for the driver. And 500kg lighter.
Or better still a driver that
Or better still a driver that doesn’t hit cyclists.
Novel approach.
Novel approach.
Given the size of that Subaru
Given the size of that Subaru, I assume you’d just be going under it
Last time I saw an SUV like
Last time I saw an SUV like that hit a cyclist they certainly never got near the windscreen or top of the bonnet.
Last time I got knocked off
Last time I got knocked off it was an SUV (driver of) involved wiping me out on a roundabout. You’d be surprised how high in the air you get. Witness said I bounced off the windscreen, so the airbag here probably wouldn’t have helped other than ensuring the driver still saw my imminent arrival…
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Just to add to that, with his wins at Il Lombardia and LBL last year he’s already the only rider in history to have achieved a podium finish (I’m sorry but I can’t use podium as a verb, I just can’t) at six monuments in a row. He’s also achieved podium finishes in the last eight monuments he’s entered; I’m not sure but I would imagine that is probably also a record.
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Which I suppose is the conclusion of the train of thought which starts with wanting to buy an SUV because it’ll keep the driver and passengers safe and sod the rest of the population…
Thats exactly the thinking
Thats exactly the thinking and its very much an arms race. The larger the average car gets, the less safe a smaller car becomes.
I think JLR might have
I think JLR might have something to say about Subaru’s
‘world first’. The Discovery Sport had one 10 years ago. I remember this launching as it was a good thing for us cyclists, for a change.
That one is for pedestrians.
That one is for pedestrians. Subaru already did those, according to the article. This one is specifically for cyclists.
Is there one specifically for
Is there one specifically for gravel cyclists?
I expect so, but it will cost
I expect so, but it will cost around 30% more.
Pogačar was asked on RTBF
Pogačar was asked on RTBF about retirement and his respose was… well I’ve got a contract until 2030.
So no let up then for the peloton.
https://archive.ph/91GPA
https://archive.ph/91GPA
Cyclist killed at the Etape Loch Ness. Thoughts with the family.
Check the wonderful spelling of certain words in the article.
Bad news indeed.
Bad news indeed.
Difficult to expect the journalist to use the road collision reporting guidelines when they’re struggling with “mail” and “care”.
And yes, I’ve triple checked my words for SPaG errors!
It has also now been picked
It has also now been picked up by other media outlets with marginally better copy editing e.g. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c175ynkjpnwo (although the headline is dreadful. I would have gone for “Driver kills cyclist participating in charity event”).
Scant details available, but I’m pretty sure it’s advertised as a “closed road” event, so exactly what the driver was doing there at all seems unclear.
OnYerBike wrote:
What a surprise – the BBC spun the headline to be anti-cyclist again.
OnYerBike wrote:
Looking at the event map, on the road where it happened only the left-hand lane was closed so there would have been oncoming traffic, though obviously the two should not have intermingled. RIP.
ETA on today’s live blog the police have said that the incident occurred “next to the event area”, so perhaps the cyclist had finished their ride and was heading home along the opposite lane?
Cyclist killed at the Etape
Cyclist killed at the Etape Loch Ness….Police are now appealing for information after the crash involving a BMW 120 M
What? You have video of the entire incident? No we cannae receive it online, we cannae do anything without the video and we’re too busy at all times to come and see it at your house, except at times when you’re out