Cyclist slapped with ‘parking ticket’ by Lime for leaving bike in car parking bay; Show your council this the next time bike lanes are snowed under; Where’s Cav?; If the World Cup was pro cycling; Peculiar puncture; Best new kit + more on the live blog
SUMMARY
Show your council this the next time the bike lanes are snowed under
Look at this hero go…
Gr8 to see @wfcouncil #CycleLanes being cleared of snow & ready for safe use for cyclists. This is about cultural & system change, as well as infrastructure. #BuildItAndTheyWillCome but also #MaintainItAndTheyWillCome! Thanks to our contractor #Rineys. @WeSupportWFMH @willnorman pic.twitter.com/sym5LfgRFs
— Labourstone (@Labourstone) December 13, 2022
These are nothing new in some parts of London, but does anyone outside the capital get the same glorious gritting?
Check out Tom Pidcock's Pinarello Crossista F cyclocross bike
After Ryan spent the weekend on the ground at the new Dublin round of the cyclocross World Cup I’m making the case for a team trip to… the Benidorm round in January.
And while he enjoyed Saturday night watching England’s crushing quarter final exit alongside a certain Tom P, come Sunday morning he got even more behind the scenes access — taking a look at his rather fancy bike.
Now you can too…
> Check out Tom Pidcock’s Pinarello Crossista F cyclocross bike
The BEST new cycling gear of the month | road.cc recommends episode 21
Peculiar punctures
A new kind of puncture for me! Went straight into the tube, or I might not have noticed 👎 pic.twitter.com/GKxoiII1aI
— Dave McCraw (@david_mccraw) December 14, 2022
Where's Cav?
Is there anything more peaceful than a coastal road training ride? #HumanPoweredHealth pic.twitter.com/lZitElNeWW
— Human Powered Health (@HumanPwrdHealth) December 14, 2022
As we reported yesterday, along with the rest of the cycling world, US-based UCI Pro Team Human Powered Health are rumoured to be interested in Mark Cavendish’s signature. Like an end-of-PM Cabinet exodus, just about every WorldTour team (including most recently Trek-Segafredo) has come forward to either state their roster is full for 2023 or distance themselves from signing the Manx Missile.
By our count Ineos Grenadiers, Astana, AG2R-Citroën, FDJ, Bahrain – Victorious seem the only WorldTour options left.
Fiver for the first person who spots a British national champ’s jersey in team training camp footage…
If the World Cup was pro cycling
Semi-final time and last night, seven years after the fact, Eduardo Sepúlveda finally got revenge on Kristijan Đurasek for beating him to the 2015 Presidential Tour of Turkey GC…
You can’t say I’m not putting the Procyclingstats hours in to this live blog series…
‘Good luck finiding Morocco vs France’ I hear you say. Well, I’ll raise you the final stage of this year’s Tour du Cameroun, won by pure Moroccan domination…
I’m sure there’s nobody in Casablanca, Rabat or Marrakesh who wouldn’t take 4-1 tonight…
Ned's had enough
I mean, I’ll carry on cycling obviously; picking my way along ice-rutted cycle paths. But with deep anger in my heart.
— Ned Boulting (@nedboulting) December 14, 2022
The world's craziest Strava segment
This attraction in a tourist park in Urubici, Santa Catarina, Brazil, which lets you ride a bike across a slack line 500 ft in the air, is NOT for those who fear heights 😅 pic.twitter.com/9h4hxgX89i
— NowThis (@nowthisnews) December 14, 2022
I mean, there is a Strava segment, right?
I’m now picturing KOM hunters from around the world rocking up with skinsuit, aero helmet and asking if they can fit their own aero bars… although at those speeds you might be better off walking the tightrope…
Tadej Pogačar: Phenomenal Remco Evenepoel can win the Tour de France
Okay, maybe we didn’t need a Tour de France winner to tell us Remco Evenepoel is a very talented cyclist, it’s kind of a given…
[📷 : @cauldphoto/Specialized]
But Tadej Pogačar has spoken glowingly about his fellow all-conquering Gen Z superstar, saying he’s both “phenomenal” and capable of winning the Tour de France in the future…
Speaking to Eurosport, Pogačar said: “This year he had a phenomenal year but next year he can be even better. He’s going in the right direction, for sure. He won the Vuelta, so the Tour is just a little different.
“But I think if you can win one Grand Tour and be world champion at the same time, you can win the Tour as well.”
Also on the Gen Z talent list is teammate Juan Ayuso who scored an impressive third on GC on debut at the Vuelta won by Remco… “If I am shit at the Tour, then he [Ayuso] can go,” Pog philosophically added. “For me, it’s no problem. We understand each other and you can only be good for so many years; you cannot be at the top all of the time.”
“For sure, if he gets better we will exchange some races and some roles, but we are all here in the UAE team to take the team as a group together to a higher level, so we try to win as much as possible and it doesn’t matter who.”
Maybe I’ll go tell Ryan that if I’m shit at the blog he can take over…
Brighton bike hangar row rumbles on as councillor says storage scheme went ahead without scrutiny
Conservative councillor Robert Nemeth, who last month appeared in the local press supporting a “concerned and distressed” resident who didn’t want one of the “giant ugly” bike hangars outside her house, is back in The Argus…
He told the local paper the scheme introduced by the Green Party-run council avoided “scrutiny of financial, legal and equality issues and numerous other related matters”.
> Hove woman persuades council not to locate “unattractive” cycle hangar outside her home
Cllr Nemeth argued there was “public frustration” and “unfavourable national press coverage” of the scheme since it started earlier this year. The comments come not long after Green councillor Steve Davis revealed the city’s bike hangars had enjoyed a 100 per cent take-up rate since installation in July.
“Since then we have installed 40 more, and all but one of the total of 360 spaces have now been snapped up. This means that 359 residents now have somewhere safe and secure to store their cycles,” he said.
Blasphemy
🇩🇰 Mads Pedersen
🗣 “I’ll ride Milano-Sanremo again in 2023, but I don’t like the race. I absolutely hate it. Italians will be mad at me after saying that, but it’s a boring race. We do nothing for 5 hours and all of a sudden everyone goes crazy for 1.5 hours.”
(Sportwereld)
— Domestique (@Domestique___) December 14, 2022
Cyclist slapped with 'parking ticket' by Lime for leaving bike in car parking bay
£2 parking ticket for not blocking the pavement🫠 https://t.co/zS6d9Fw90I pic.twitter.com/Ota7OJHina
— CycleGaz™ (@cyclegaz) December 12, 2022
It seems this one isn’t a new problem…
I see badly-parked @limebike bikes every day. I go out of my way to find a spot that doesn’t block pavements, and I get this. Sorry, I didn’t realise the carriageway was only for cars. Cc: @IslingtonBC pic.twitter.com/t3GNRALUyu
— John McGarvey (@johnmcg) December 12, 2022
According to Lime, who we’ve contacted for further comment on this specific case, London users like Gaz should “park like your gran is watching” and should “never leave your e-bike in a way that obstructs the pavement or could create an access issue for pedestrians, including those with disabilities or access needs”.
And while in Camden, City of London, Hackney, Ealing and Hammersmith and Fulham users are required to leave their bikes in designated parking bays, Gaz was in Westminster and John in Islington.
> Wandsworth says it may start impounding Lime e-bikes if pavement parking isn’t tackled
But, Lime adds, “being in other boroughs is no excuse to park irresponsibly. When you’re elsewhere, make sure to still park out of the way, avoiding creating an obstruction for people using the pavement.”
Thoughts?
14 December 2022, 09:04
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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.
Obree had some actual talent in his legs though, in addition to his bike/aero engineering talent.
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The problem in London with
The problem in London with cycle lane snow clearers has been the bridges. The gritters can’t get past the anti terrorist barriers at each end of Vauxhall and Blackfriars (and presumably other?) bridges. I saw a Pedal Me rider clearing the snow from Blackfriars Bridge on Monday.
I saw that on Twitter, fair
I saw that on Twitter, fair play to them! Perhaps it’s time to reconsider the spacing of the anti-terrorist barriers (personally I don’t see the point of them anyway, given the number of unprotected crowded areas there are in London, but I suppose nobody would dare risk removing them now), the cycle lane gritters I’ve seen don’t look much more than half a car width so it ought to be possible to accommodate them without allowing cars through.
Yeah, it was me who tweeted
Yeah, it was me who tweeted it 🙂
It’s still slippy out there – https://twitter.com/NoContextBrits/status/1602963989243506688
The point is that pedestrians
The point is that pedestrians on bridges have no means of escape, and this has been used at least twice by terrorists to murder people in London. If they weren’t there or got removed and there was a third incident there would quite rightly be hell to pay for those that made the decision. In streets and squares you have options, doorways etc. to get out of the way.
The problem therefore is not the barriers, it’s the fact that nobody has bothered to come up with a plan for gritting areas protected by them. And as a rural resident where getting any of my regular cycling routes gritted is a distant and unrealsitic dream I would say be grateful for what you have got.
Surely the opportunity for a
Surely the opportunity for a cargo e-bike based gritter?
IanMSpencer wrote:
Well, it was an cargo e-bike based man with a broom.
Blackfriars Bridge has now been gritted – I know not how – so it is clearly do-able. I suspect the issue was more the plough element than the gritting element.
Now disappeared from the ‘net
Now disappeared from the ‘net but Dave McCraw (mentioned recently) used to have an article on his blog detailing him making and using a bike-fitted snowplow… Couple of bits of wood on a towed frame as I recall. Could certainly see this being doable with an eBike.
Again “just copy the Dutch already”! Or alternatively it’s just “decide to make cycle / pedestrian areas part of the priority “routes” cleared. There *will* exist small vehicles which could cover this. I’ve seen mini-diggers used in Edinburgh IIRC. And once we’re going – use brine not salt, it clears things better and I believe requires less salt!
Calm down chap, I simply said
Calm down chap, I simply said there might be a way of adapting the barriers so that the cycle lane gritters could get through. I don’t think that really warrants such an aggressive response. I am grateful for what we’ve got but as routes like Blackfriars Bridge are used by many thousands of cyclists a day I don’t think it’s unreasonable to suggest it might be a good idea to find a way to grit them.
I have seen some walk along
I have seen some walk along gritters when perusing work supply catalogues.
Westminster council currently
Westminster council currently does not allow any dockless rental e-bikes in its borough, and has begun seizing them, which may be why Lime charged the parking fine, and not for bad parking
Unbelievable! On what grounds
Unbelievable! On what grounds and under what authority are they restricting our freedom of movement? If I lived in the area I would be doing my best to fill the place with dockless rental e-bikes.
I mean if youre in Islington
I mean if youre in Islington or Camden. The usual place to park hire bikes is the local canal. (Regents Canal)
No wonder you got fined. Cant speak for Westminister but they have the River Thames.
Better luck next time.
RoubaixCube wrote:
Very tenuous link, but at lunchtime today I saw someone slide out on the ice riding a Lime Bike having just crossed a bridge over the Regent’s Canal. She was unhurt, thankfully.
Glad she was ok.
Glad she was ok.
As much as the cold doesnt bother me, I wouldnt even consider going out on the bike with so much black ice about on the roads nevermind the cleaning after said ride if i manage to come home without any broken bones or scrapes.
regarding the cycle hangars
regarding the cycle hangars in Brighton: ‘a “concerned and distressed” resident’ contacted their MP. It’s just ridiculous. You look at any urban environment; there are hundreds of privately owned parked cars, there are bins and lots of them big and small, there are dual carriageways and shops selling junk food every 5 metres, there is litter and vermin, smog and noise. There is plenty to be concerned about and plenty to be distressed about . . . but a cycle hangar?