“Is that the Telegraph’s famous 52mph cyclist?” Car passenger films illegal e-motorbiker ‘cycling’ at 55mph – but cyclists slam driver for speeding in 20mph zone; Cycling UK “gobsmacked” by police refusal to investigate bike thefts + more on the live blog
SUMMARY
Bare arses, stickers slapped on his back, and another long-range demolition job: Just another day in the life of the unbeatable Tadej Pogačar
In case you missed it, here’s Dan’s take on the Slovenian phenom’s latest suspense-killing exhibition at a major championships, and the inane, drunken spectator antics which accompanied it:
> “This is stupid”: Tadej Pogačar dodges bare-arsed spectator and has stickers put on his back during European Championships win
Pure cyclocross poetry
Yes folks, it’s getting colder, and damper, and darker, and the grass in your local park is ready to be turned into a hellish mud bath.
Which means only one thing – cyclocross season is here!
And, to underline the beauty, poise, and elegance of cycling’s greatest discipline, here’s Simon Wyllie attempting to tackle the uphill hurdles at the first round of the National Trophy series in Derby yesterday:
What a sport.
Now That’s What I Call Time Trialling
Sunday in the cycling world wasn’t just about Tadej Pogačar and his latest round of showboating at the Euros.
On a 4.3-mile circuit just outside Coalville, Leicestershire, one of the highlights of the British time trialling season – the Christine Bottrill Banter Bike TT – took place on Sunday morning, bringing some joyful colour, fancy dress, and the occasional ridiculous bike to the often dour, serious world of racing against the clock:
This year’s Banter Bike TT raised £3,656 for MacMillan and Cancer Research UK, bringing the grand total raised for charity since the event began to just under £30,000.
Now, if only all time trials were like this one, I’d be a lot more interested in them…
Can you win a rainbow jersey with a £5,000 bike? Yes – if you’re Harry Hudson, anyway
> Check out the Chinese bike that Harry Hudson rode to World Champs gold
Why don’t cyclists use the cycle lane? Because it’s a car park
A classic example of why paint, surprisingly, just isn’t protection, courtesy of west London’s Uxbridge Road:
Uxbridge Road W13 @tfl and @EalingCouncil, refused to make this “advisory” cycle lane into a protected one, as it would delay buses.
Judging by this evidence, they seem to be right. 😔 pic.twitter.com/ihsAMTZTiO— Walking Marky (@CitizenUddin) October 4, 2025
“Transport for London and Ealing Council refused to make this ‘advisory’ cycle lane into a protected one, as it would delay buses,” wrote Walking Marky on Twitter.
“Judging by this evidence, they seem to be right.”
‘But we’re only parked a bit over the bike lane!’
Everyone’s favourite questionably designed bike lane, on Edinburgh’s Leith Walk (remember those zig zags?) has struck again, with local cyclists complaining that delays to works on the infrastructure have led to drivers parking their cars over the cycleway.
Last June, Edinburgh City Council announced that the controversial ‘floating’ bus stops on Elm Row, at the top of Leith Walk, would be amended, with the cycle lanes moved to the other side away from the carriageway to enable the stop to be widened.
However, as noted by Leith Feeder Ride this morning, these works are yet to be carried out over a year on, leading to the following ominous sight:
[Credit: Leith Feeder Ride]
In response to questions about the delays, Lib Dem councillor Jack Caldwell claimed last month that a general works embargo for the city’s summer festivals was responsible.
But with no construction activity on the horizon, Leith Feeder Ride asked this morning: “Please can bollards be installed to protect the pedestrian area and cycle lane as part of this project? The parking is getting worse by the day.”
Of course, this isn’t the first time that cycle lane parking has proved a problem on Leith Walk, with the persistent issue prompting councillors back in 2023 to admit that they were “genuinely concerned there is going to be a fatality”.
Meanwhile one of our live blog readers told us at the time that they had “never seen” the Leith Walk cycle lane “without someone parked in it”, after he had waited 15 minutes for an Amazon-branded delivery van to move from the infrastructure, the driver telling him to “deal with it”.
So basically: Floating bus stops, bad. Parking on a cycle lane, apparently fine.
Meanwhile, in Australia…
It may be time for knobbly tyres and muddy fields in the UK, but down under it’s already Magpie Swooping season, when territorial birds become the scourge of every Aussie cyclist (and make you grateful for once for that silly mandatory helmet law).
And one Canberra cyclist received an alarming reminder of his local magpies’ swooping skills, and the fright of his life, last week, when one of the birds plunged down towards him… and plucked his earphone right out of his ear.
Ash Azra said he had been swooped “every single day” during his commute in recent weeks, leading him to start using his phone camera as a makeshift rear-view mirror. But on Thursday, one particular music-loving magpie saw his moment and grabbed it. Literally.
“You can’t look at your phone all the time. It got me. It was an incredible experience,” the cyclist, who spent the following ten minutes searching for the earphone as the magpie “attacked me constantly”, told ABC.
“I was having fun with the magpie. I wasn’t scared. It’s the bird trying to protect its family. Then I tried to run away as quickly as I could.”
Good idea. Ash added that he has since invested in some cable ties attached to his helmet to stop birds from swooping him. Sounds fun.
“We’re a cycling city and we’re proud to be leading the way in showing how we can better share our roads to provide safe travel for all”
> England’s first “Cycle Street” will give priority to cyclists and pedestrians over motorists
Were you surprised that Jonas Vingegaard got dropped so early during the European Championships? In retrospect, the signs were there
It’s fair to say that grand tour Jonas Vingegaard is a very different beast to one-day Jonas Vingegaard.
The Dane, fresh (or not so fresh) off his maiden Vuelta win last month, the Dane was unceremoniously dropped with over 100km to go as Belgium upped the pace during yesterday’s European road race championships.
But if you’d been paying close attention to social media in the days leading up to the race, you wouldn’t have been too surprised by the double Tour de France winner’s early capitulation in France.
On Saturday, footage emerged of Vingegaard reconning the route – and failing to drop a skinny kid in a baggy shirt and tracksuit bottoms in the process.
Can’t even drop a fucking civilian ggwp San Sebastián repeat ✌️✌️✌️✌️✌️pic.twitter.com/eAw9wtjQxQ
— loui (@looflol) October 4, 2025
Now that’s a bad omen if I ever saw one. Well, at least he enjoyed the post-Vuelta festivities, anyway.
Brennan’s on the move, Brennan’s on the move, bold, brave, and undaunted, young Brennan’s on the move
After more wins for UAE Team Emirates at the Giro dell’Emilia and Coppa Agostini, courtesy of Isaac del Toro and Adam Yates respectively, Italy’s autumn classics season continues this afternoon in Legnano at the Coppa Bernocchi.
And while the Coppa Bernocchi’s flatter course throws a bone to the fast men, one of the race’s sprinters, Visma-Lease a Bike’s 20-year-old sensation Matthew Brennan, isn’t hanging around for the expected bunch kick.
The precocious British star is currently on the attack, going clear as part of a dangerous 11-rider group, containing fellow young Brit Bjorn Koerdt, teammate Sepp Kuss (since dropped), teenage prodigy Albert Philipsen, Jay Vine, and Michael Matthews, and quickly forging a 30-second gap.
However, with the breakaway lacking cohesion and the peloton now committed, it looks like it could all come back together soon. Can Brennan recover enough to context a bunch finish? Or can he defy the odds to stay away?
French champion Dorion Godon powers to Coppa Bernocchi win in messy sprint after Brennan attack foiled
Alas, it wasn’t to be for Matt Brennan at the Coppa Bernocchi.
The stop-start nature of the breakaway the 20-year-old British star joined with 38km remaining of this afternoon’s Italian semi-classic ultimately derailed his chances, though the equally chaotic nature of the chase behind meant it was touch and go for a minute.
And just before the catch was made in the final 3km, Brennan – waiting for a bunch sprint the last thing on his mind – attacked again solo, but was quickly brought to heel. A late two-up attack by Quinn Simmons and Alessandro Covi was also foiled, as Polti VisitMalta hit the final 500m with numbers, in a bid to tee up their Italian sprinter Giovanni Lonardi.
However, Lonardi was forced to settle for third in the messy sprint that followed, as Decathlon-AG2R’s moustachioed French champion Dorian Godon powered up the right-hand side to take his sixth win of the season, holding off Picnic PostNL’s Tobias Lund in a frenetic drag-race to the line.
Massive news as Israel-Premier Tech announce plans to change name and brand next season and owner Sylvan Adams steps aside
After months of protests, reaching a frenzied crescendo at a chaotic, turbulent Vuelta, and amid increasing pressure from sponsors, this afternoon Israel-Premier Tech has announced that it will rename and rebrand the team for 2026.
That decision, IPT says, will mean “moving away from its current Israeli identity” to help secure the squad’s future, while co-owner Sylvan Adams – the face of the team’s connections to the state of Israel – “has chosen to chosen to step back from his day-to-day involvement and will no longer speak on behalf of the team”.
Read more: > Israel-Premier Tech cycling team to “rebrand and rename” for 2026, “moving away from Israeli identity”
Is France’s next great hope better than Sex-as? (Other puns available)
Paul Seixas, if you didn’t know by now, is the real deal.
The teenage French sensation – who just turned 19 last week (meaning he wasn’t even alive when Floyd Landis was stripped of his 2006 Tour de France) – is probably the most exciting talent on the planet.
In his first pro season, the Decathlon-AG2R rider finished in the top three on three stages of the Tour of the Alps, finishing 12th overall.
In June, Seixas placed eighth on GC at a properly stacked Critérium du Dauphiné, a race where the top three ended up on the final Tour podium in Paris (and Remco Evenepoel finished fourth for good measure), before going on to dominate the Tour de l’Avenir, most likely his last ever U23 race, beating rival Jarno Widar by 40 seconds.
And yesterday at the European championships, he was – as his French DS Tommy Voeckler put it – best of the rest behind Tadej Pogačar and Evenepoel, pumping his fists in the air as he crossed the line in front of home crowds.
So, it’s no surprise that the French – who’ve been waiting since 1985 for Bernard Hinault’s successor to emerge at the Tour de France – are getting carried away, at least judging by some of the signs spotted during Sunday’s race.
“Seixas better than sex”, the winning banner of the day.#EuroRoad25 pic.twitter.com/8wISjAcc5j
— Mihai Simion (@faustocoppi60) October 5, 2025
When you think about it, putting the pun aside, that’s a pretty weird thing to say about a teenager. But after 40 years of hurt, can you really blame them?
“If anyone can tell me how to beat Tadej today, I’d love to hear it”: Remco Evenepoel’s Belgian teammates concede “there’s nothing you can do” after Pogačar’s “outstanding” 75km European Championships raid
This time, there were no botched bike changes, no pesky mechanicals, no bottle-kicking tantrums, and no ill-timed Portaloo stops.
But still, the result was the same. Yesterday in France, Remco Evenepoel was, for the second time in the space of a week, was forced to settle for second place at a major championships, following yet another unanswerable long-range attack from Tadej Pogačar.
But while Evenepoel’s Belgian squad were criticised at the worlds in Rwanda for appearing to tee up Pogačar’s decisive move, the men in light blue decided to play it differently at Sunday’s European championships, letting Slovenian control the early stages of the race.
Then, with around 100km to go on the Côte de Saint-Romain de Lerps, Belgium began pushing the pace, dropping Jonas Vingegaard – a pale imitation of the Vuelta winner of last month – before isolating Pogačar from his teammates, just as they’d hoped.
A flurry of attacks drew out the big two and brought the breakaway to heel, before the Belgians resumed their control of the front of the now thinned-out bunch, with the aim of taking the race to the final closing circuits and the Côte de Val d’Enfer.
However, Tadej Pogačar doesn’t often adhere to scripts. And on the last time up the Côte de Saint Romain de Lerps, with 75km still to race, he pressed hard on the pedals. Evenepoel briefly followed until suddenly he couldn’t.
The world and European time trial champion tried to organise the chase behind, alongside Juan Ayuso, the sandbagging Christian Scaroni, and the brilliant teenager Paul Seixas, but eventually became frustrated with the lack of cohesion, setting off on his own in pursuit of Pog.
There was to be no last-minute heroics, however, Evenepoel crossing the line 31 seconds down, Belgium’s best-laid plans once again foiled by the stunning exploits of the best bike racer on the planet.
“We would have tackled the local laps with a strong Belgian collective,” Evenepoel’s teammate Louis Vervaeke told Sporza after the race, when asked what the squad would have done if the Slovenian had waited, for once, to launch his race-winning move.
“Pogačar wouldn’t have been able to gain that much time on Evenepoel on those short climbs. But if Tadej launches his attack at the foot of that long climb, there’s nothing you can do about it. That climb took 20 minutes, and then Pogačar is simply outstanding.
“What could we have done differently? If anyone can tell me how to beat Tadej today, I’d love to hear it.”
Tiesj Benoot, meanwhile, admitted that the team had no regrets, following criticism of their tactics in Rwanda.
“At least we didn’t let ourselves be led like sheep to the slaughter,” he said. “The course was simply so tough that it was difficult as a collective to do anything against a rider who stood out so much.”
As for Remco himself – it was a fair result.
“This was probably the most fair result. Another silver medal at the European Championships, that’s a shame,” the 25-year-old, who currently holds the time trial crowns at European, world, and Olympic level, admitted.
“Tadej Pogacar’s attack was just a bit too long. I had to let go on the last steep section. I did my best and rode my race. I’m still 20 to 30 seconds off, but it’s a fair result.”
Did someone mention the Telegraph?
> Telegraph accuses cyclists of “waging war on pedestrians” in story on rising pavement collisions – but later backtracks and changes headline
“The police are sending a very odd message to criminals. The evidence is there, they’re just refusing to use it”: Cycling UK hits out at British Transport Police’s “alarming, gobsmacking” refusal to investigate thefts of bikes left for more than two hours
The fall-out to the British Transport Police’s controversial admission that it will not investigate most bike thefts at railway stations continues to rumble on, with Cycling UK’s head of campaigns Duncan Dollimore appearing on BBC Breakfast this morning to criticise the “alarming” policy.
Last week, we reported that the BTP will not look into bike thefts committed at stations if the bike in question was left for over two hours, or is worth less than £200, the police claiming that the “more time our officers spend reviewing CCTV footage for these offences, the less time they have available for patrolling railway stations and trains, investigating crimes which cause the most harm.”
But speaking on BBC Breakfast, Cycling UK’s Dollimore said the policy sends an “odd message” to would-be bike thefts, effectively giving them carte blanche to steal whatever they like.
“Drivers would assume that if their car was stolen, that would be a serious matter that someone would at least investigate. And it’s the same with people who cycle, they expect that it should be looked at and considered,” Dollimore said.
“The British Transport Police saying they’re not even going to look at the evidence is alarming. We’re getting more and more people who are saying that their motivation for cycling is to save money, and so we should be encouraging people to cycle to the train station for the health benefits, cost benefits, and to make it easier for other people who drive to the station.
“And it’s alarming that the British Transport Police are sending a very odd message to criminals and would-be criminals, don’t worry, there’s going to be no enforcement at train stations if you’re stealing bikes.
“Incredibly, the government is about to publish a new integrated transport strategy which reinforces how we integrate cycling and public transport together.
“Cycle parking at stations is massively important for that, and it’s quite gobsmacking really that they’re saying if you leave your bike at the station for more than two hours, we’re not going to look at the CCTV. I struggle to think of anyone who would leave a bike at a station for less than two hours.”
Dollimore added that he was “amazed” when he read that the police justified their decision on the grounds that it was “realistic”, the BTP claiming that officers were being prevented from effectively patrolling stations due to the time spent reviewing CCTV footage concerning bike thefts that were unlikely to be solved.
“They seem to suggest that they had people spending hours looking at CCTV cameras,” he said. “If you drop your bike off at 8am and it’s not there at six in the evening, someone could look at the CCTV cameras at 12, if it’s not there, they can look at 10. They can nail down the time window when the bike went within ten minutes.
“It doesn’t have to be a fully qualified police officer who does that, it can be admin staff. So I really struggle to understand the logic that it’s a time-consuming exercise when there is evidence. The evidence is there, they’re just refusing to use it.”
“You almost couldn’t make it up. Cyclists need all the help they can get from police when it comes to bike theft,” the London Cycling Campaign’s Tom Fyans also told the programme.
“Most crimes go completely unsolved, around one per cent of bike thefts are solved. So we need to see the complete opposite, of police taking this much more seriously.”
“Is that the Telegraph’s famous 52mph cyclist?” Car passenger films illegal e-motorbiker ‘cycling’ at 55mph in London – but cyclists slam motorist for speeding in 20mph zone
You may have noticed that the Daily Telegraph’s somewhat disproportionate focus on all things cycling and cyclists continued over the weekend, thanks to a story revealing the “record number” of pedestrians injured by people on bikes in 2024.
That article, interestingly, was originally titled ‘How cyclists are waging war on pedestrians’, a headline that has since been dulled down to the rather less inflammatory ‘Cyclists injuring record numbers at pedestrian crossings’ (more on that later).
Of course, the Telegraph has form when it comes to controversial anti-cycling headlines.
Remember when the newspaper claimed, falsely it turned out, that London cyclists had hit speeds of 52mph while chasing Strava segments, a headline that was later found to have been in breach of the Editors’ Code of the Independent Press Standards Organisation?
Well, we may have just found the Tele’s illusive Olympic-level, Strava-chasing 52mph cyclist (spoiler: we haven’t).
A video posted earlier this summer by podcaster Peter Bauman, and shared again recently in cycling circles, appears to show a ‘cyclist’ travelling at over 50mph in a 20mph zone in London:
Is that the @Telegraph famous 52mph cyclist? pic.twitter.com/gpEL6MFWiW
— Yeah But Cyclists (@but_cyclists) September 28, 2025
“That guy’s riding a bicycle, 50mph on a bicycle. Oh my God, man” the car’s passenger, filming the ‘cyclist’ weaving across lanes, says in the clip.
The video, originally posted on Instagram, also featured the captions: “Only in London” and “Cyclists in London are cycling at 50mph or 80kmh”. Get that man a job at the Telegraph.
Anyway, the comments section was, rather inevitably, full of people pointing out two important details.
First up, that the ‘cyclist’ in question was not riding a bicycle, as the passenger claimed, but an illegal electric motorbike.
As we’ve noted on several occasions over the past couple of years, the term ‘e-bike’ has continuously been used to refer erroneously, including by the BBC and several police forces, to these high-powered machines, which require a licence, registration, Vehicle Excise Duty, and the rider to wear an approved motorcycle helmet.
E-bikes, instead, refer to electrically assisted pedal cycles (EAPCs), legal electric cycles that can be treated the same as a conventional pedal cycle, provided the user is age 14 or over. They must have pedals that can propel the bicycle, have an electric motor with a maximum continuous rated power not exceeding 250 watts, and cut off electrical assistance when it reaches 15.5mph.
Which, as we can plainly see from the above video, is not the case for our speeding ‘cyclist’.
“That is not a cyclist, stop calling them that!” said Luis in the comments, while another user noted: “This isn’t a bicycle, it’s an electric moped.”
“Can’t see any cycling in the video,” added Demi.
Meanwhile, others noticed something else – that if the e-motobiker was travelling at over 50mph (a claim some have expressed doubts about), so too was the driver… and in a 20mph zone.
“Bro just filmed himself driving at 50 in a 20,” said Sam.
“The driver of the car got proof that he was two times over the speed limit. The police could prosecute him on his own evidence,” added Stephen.
“So it’s either very downhill or not a bicycle but an illegal e-motorbike and a driver following at possibly nearly double the speed limit?” asked Gareth.
“Shouldn’t the caption read, ‘watch me chase an illegal e-bike at over twice the speed limit in my car for no good reason’?” pondered Will.
“There’s too much irony in one video,” noted another user. Very true – and I reckon the guys in the car are suffering from some irony deficiency…
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I'll counter that by saying the Bryton 750se I have drives me nuts at times. Inconsistantly picks up on routes created on Komoot and the app re-syncs every few seconds when trying to set up the device and sends me back to the home screen. The most infuriating one is that I turned live track on. Once. It now won't turn off and repeatedly flags up the live track is starting, and then disconnecting every few seconds whilst riding. I haven't timed it but it wouldn't suprise me if 10-20% of the time the the screen is covered with an error message. That's been about 6 weeks now. Other than that it's great :/
RE: Police launch road safety operation... by clamping down on cyclists using footbridge Meanwhile in Glasgow, Police Scotland are riding their motorbikes over the pedestrian and cyclists only bridge. https://x.com/FietserGlasgow/status/2065106152917012523?s=20
@Paul J Van Schip certainly seems a bit of a dick, but he's a European and multiple World Champion on the track, pretty sure you don't get there without having some talent in your legs.
Poor Vincent cannot get over the simple fact that given the choice people prefer dedicated cycling spaces, rather than pretending to be cars like vehicular cyclists.
What is the point of the fancy air sensor if it can't account for changing weather conditions?? If all you care about is a delayed approximation of aerodynamic watts in steady conditions, you don't need any special sensors for that. Just your speed on a decently flat course is enough to approximate rolling resistance and drivetrain losses. And the rest must be aero. If you assume a less aero body position at the same watts, your speed will drop while rolling resistance also drops, which means approximated aero watts goes up. And that's enough to demonstrate what you've shown in your testing protocol ("I sat upright and the number went up a little while later").
Your correction is accurate - it's almost always been "the (lack of) thought that (doesn't) count". "Massive" - less than a billion a year spent on active travel (trying to catch up / building a network across the entire country) Not massive - 6 billion every year (2026-2030) spent on road *maintenance* of existing "already built, goes everywhere, very convenient" road network for inactive travel Ultimately the reason "cycle infra" is *needed* is those unbelievably colossal amounts spent every year (and for more than a century now) on making mass motoring not just viable but apparently the "best choice" for most journeys. As the Dutch and others have shown, the majority of people *are* prepared to cycle and even mix with very light, slow local motor traffic *if* cycling is also made safe and convenient for the whole of their journey (including secure parking at both ends). (The history of the financial drivers of the current situation are a complex topic but note that while people complain about "crumbling roads" and underfunded motor infra - with some reason - by us continuing the fuel duty escalator freeze (for example) we're actually helping motorists pay *even less* for that activity / subsidising more of the cost of driving than ever.)
yes, but people will still object - which was my point.
So ' Priority of Road Users' and 1.5 metre clearance at 30mph has been been reduced to 'sharing'? NCN route 2 here in South Hams is an absolute scream with white vans, tractors and total idiots who refuse,or are totally incapable,to reverse on high Devon banked lanes ...means you have to get off and pedal back to a passing place....could be at that all day...so I don't bother...
@MaxiMinimalist Agreed. The big problem I see now is today's parents grew up being driven to their schools, and therefore, see private motor vehicles as the only viable form of transport. The vast majority of UK infant and primary schools have a catchment area that is within easy walking distance from home to school. Yet, the traffic caused by pupils being driven to/from school is astonishing. Banishing the "School Run" should be a priority for all schools.
When I was a kid (that was during the previous millenium when phones were connected to a plug in the wall), I rode my bicycle to school, music academy, sport grounds, parties even during the winter. The government didn't have to spend, correct that, didn't have to think of spending massive amounts of money to build cycling specific infrastructures. Over the past 3 or 4 decades, cars have grown bigger, taller, safer (for their drivers) and faster. Meanwhile, motorists have become abusive, aggressive, hypersensitive to people moving on two wheels, aka cyclists. Spending billions upon billions on new infrastructure won't address the crux of the matter. Sadly.
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RE: driver breaking motor
RE: driver breaking motor vehicle speed limit while passenger films illegal on-road use of some kind of electric motorbike.
And the reason the police would be completely uninterested in this footage is:
a) We only take action if this is proved by the creator, through our portal, with exactly 120 seconds before and after.
b) File must be of sufficient resolution and also not more than 1MB in size.
c) According to guidelines the super just made up we need a dedicated forensics unit to assess any such footage, but most of them were let go under the last government.
d) Actually there’s no proof anything happened – could all be AI- generated.
e) In fact, we are now only accepting video footage for cases with evidence of phone use while driving, murder, or support for criminal organisations.
f) … which we can’t deal with right now as we’re busy responding to mass protests / providing visible presence for threatened communities.
h)…or ever. We can’t be bothered with this stuff, we are supposed to deal with real crime.
e) In fact, we are now only
e) In fact, we are now only accepting video footage for cases with evidence of phone use while driving, murder, or support for criminal organisations
CoaB is almost exactly correct except for (e), because they don’t accept it for at least the first of those- or, rather, it’s accepted but immediately ejected into the bin.
https://upride.cc/incident/kd10wer_porsche_mobilephone/
That was accepted by Lancashire Constabulary as Ref: APL111080 at around 19:14 17.1.23. The woman was filmed ‘on the phone’ at 12:36:59 exactly
If the guy doing 50mph is
If the guy doing 50mph is classed as a cyclist, I maintain this guy is the real GOAT and not Mercxx or Pogacar.
I think we can all see that
I think we can all see that neither the ‘cyclist’ nor the car are doing anywhere near 50 mph.
I had such high hopes from
I had such high hopes from this headline, but no theyre back to ebikes in the article https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/25519424.police-investigate-illegal-e-motorbikes-hadleigh/
“Transport for London and
“Transport for London and Ealing Council refused to make this ‘advisory’ cycle lane into a protected one, as it would delay buses,”
Since buses are clearly already delayed, I’m not sure their justification is valid. Why don’t they try it and see?
Came here to say basically
Came here to say basically this, but also to add that allowing on-street parking on roads like that is far worse for congestion than a cycle lane of equivalent width. Even if we allowed the same amount of space, a huge amount of congestion is caused by vehicles entering or exiting parking spaces. This is clearly seen in the video – what’s holding the bus up is nothing to do with the available road space, but is in fact a van trying to parallel park.
Seems to be a common attitude
Seems to be a common attitude in councils – instead of “motoring first” they implement a postmodern perspective! “Everyone has their point” – presumably it makes it easier to deflect criticism, the councillors are just making it happen, not picking and choosing!
“No, we’re happy to make provision for cyclists if there’s demand, but of course we can’t simply favour cycling! The bus company also has an opinion, and they want at least 3.5m per vehicle lane. And so do the fire service – so you see, there really is only 1m left for the bi-directional cycle path…”
(Doesn’t stop councils lumping cyclists and pedestrians together in the same space though).
Unfortunately this is little better than the former way of doing things. When we know one mode will just swallow up space and push others off the roads a positive choice has to be made. (That mode is driving – currently made convenient for people but with significant negatives overall – and this is starting to sound all the kind of things that aren’t so popular just now…)
I was riding out of town on
I was riding out of town on Saturday, when a bloke on an e-scooter flew by me. I thought I was just being a slowcoach. Looked at my Garmin and my speed was 18.5mph – this guy must have been going a good 10mph faster than me. Maybe the fastest e-scooter I’ve noticed but I see them and illegal e-motorbikes every single ride these days. I rarely see any police.
As we’ve noted on several
E-bikes, instead, refer to electrically assisted pedal cycles (EAPCs), legal electric cycles that can be treated the same as a conventional pedal cycle, provided the user is age 14 or over. They must have pedals that can propel the bicycle, have an electric motor with a maximum continuous rated power not exceeding 250 watts, and cut off electrical assistance when it reaches 15.5mph.— road.cc
I’m not sure why I’ve chosen this hill to die on, but “e-bike” does not refer, universally and exclusively, to EAPCs. If it did, then surely two terms would be superfluous. Users of this website (me included) might usually use e-bike to refer to EAPCs, but others in society may use it differently, and that’s not wrong. All EAPCs are electric bikes, but not all electric bikes are EAPCs – https://www.gov.uk/electric-bike-rules.
On the other hand, I do get disproportionately annoyed by the BBC spelling ‘judgment’ with two ‘e’s.
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Why? It’s the, or at least a, correct British English spelling, even if the US spelling with one e has crept in over the last century or so, particularly in a legal context. See Fowler’s Modern English (judgement preferred) and the Oxford English Dictionary (both variants listed as equally valid).
I’m talking only of the
I’m talking only of the specific legal context. I don’t think ‘judgment’ (one ‘e’) is a US import in this context because it has been used for hundreds of years in England & Wales. Perhaps more importantly, it is also emblazoned on the face of every modern judgment (one ‘e’) the BBC comments on (certainly from England & Wales, but other English speaking jurisdictions too) yet they still see fit to add an ‘e’ when reporting on it.
Agreed! I have several,
Agreed! I have several, accrued over several years battling over the Freedom of Information Act. My judgement is that, when referring to a Judgment, that is the way it should be spelled.
Why don’t cyclists use the
Why don’t cyclists use the cycle lane? Because traffic warders don’t do their job and (local and national) authories don’t have the will, foresight and ambition to build a proper cycling infrastructure in spite of this road.cc blog most-read feature.
I witnessed a far worse
I witnessed a far worse speeding cyclist incident in West London last week.
I was driving past Heathrow Airport when a large silver bicycle came past me. I accelerated to 100 mph but couldn’t keep up. Luckily there were no pedestrian crossings in the cyclists way, otherwise I dread to think what may have happened. The cyclist then performed a highly dangerous wheelie and a bunny hop over the M25, after which I lost sight of him.
I reported everything to the Metropolitan Police. The cycle was quite distinctive. It was silver and had an “American Airlines” logo on the side.
Concerned Telegraph Reader – Pangbourne.
Q – How can you spot a Daily
Q – How can you spot a Daily Telegraph reporter on an oil rig?
A – He /she is the one that throws bread for the helicopters.
Another signing for the
Another signing for the cycling footballers squad.