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All he had to say was 'modified e-bike' since unmodified e-bikes are made to be compliant with the law. Obviously the modification to remove 15.5mph assistance restriction makes it an e-scooter not a compliant e-bike.

@mitsky The gridlock would certainly make it safer.

@ErgoKnees Presumably the family didn't ask for it to be neutralised? Personally I'm not a fan of neutralised stages after such tragedies, I remember Bjarne Riis had the guts after Casartelli was killed in the '95 tour to speak out and say it had done nobody any good to ride at a snail's pace under a blazing sun for six hours with nothing to do or think about but the death and tragedy. Save the commemorations (apart from a few simple marks of respect like a minute's silence at the start, black armbands etc) for the church. I'd reckon a lot of racers would say the best tribute that could be paid to them was to go out and race the next stage hell for leather in their memory.

@polainm Yeah...except that's nonsense in this case. The Forestry Commission have pulled the pin on a small jumps area because the jumps have become unstable and dangerous. They're looking into ways they can safely reinstate the facility. In the meantime, cyclists are welcome to use all the other trails in the forest. Tip: the bit below the headline is called "the article". If you read "the article" instead of just the headline you may find nuances that could stop you going straight to foolishness.

I don't know why no one wants to blame the organizer. It sounds like there have been other traffic issues, and the organizers want to make the race bigger than they can handle. Why can't the UCI tell the organizers to reduce the race days for a year or so until they show that they can safely run it? I know the family wanted the race to continue but why wasn't the next day neutralized? It seemed like the organizer and UCI, etc. wanted to get past the tragedy as quickly as possible.

£billions spent on highways used by dangerous drivers, segregating communities, and generating huge amounts of pollution including carbon black, with a proven link to dementia. Key inactivity directly linked to obesogenic society. Exercise in a forest - just no. Stale dinosaurs in board rooms who enjoy their big executive cars just hate people on bikes, exercising, having fun. Will never facilitate this. Orwell was wrong. The current dystopia is far worse.

@chrisonabike To answer your asterisk this is very much the case, the latest polling in the region shows that only 24% of Palestinians support Hamas; in the West Bank this falls to 18%. Sadly our new shoehorn non sequiteur troll doesn't appear able to understand the distinction; tragically neither do Israel's phosphorous shells.

Indeed - "attractive nuisance" and all that. Don't Forestry England operate some woods though? If I'm not mistaken they're somewhat hazardous environments, with trees that can fall on people, never mind stacked harvested logs. (TBF they do put signs up telling people to stay clear of those / not climb them).

Wait what? What have Hamas - or "the Palestinians" * - been saying about cycle infra or mass motoring? * I was under the impression that these were not equivalent - in an analogous way to Restore not being equivalent to eg. Patriotic Alternative or the British National Party. Although some officials of the latter two are reported as endorsing the former.

One can see Forestry England's point of view in this case; if they are correct and the ramps have become unstable or otherwise unsafe and they are aware of this then they are wide open to liability claims if someone gets injured by an on-site defect if they leave the facility open for public use. Some of the other instances of ramps being removed revisited above are clearly petty and unnecessary but if their story is true this one seems justified. The fact that they are saying bikes are welcome in all other parts of the site speaks against this being a general don't want bikes here policy.