Hello old friend. Been a while. Although after 45 minutes I remembered why we’d fallen out.
Long time no see
Sat, Oct 31, 2009 15:05
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Dave is a founding father of road.cc, having previously worked on Cycling Plus and What Mountain Bike magazines back in the day. He also writes about e-bikes for our sister publication ebiketips. He’s won three mountain bike bog snorkelling World Championships, and likes to ride increasingly long audaxes decreasingly fast as time goes by.
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Zermattjohn 11 minutes ago
Can't agree with that comment. The race is the race - they're not gladiators there for your entertainment. I can recall plenty of very (very) long, dull Giro sprint stages in the men's game.
mdavidford 36 minutes ago
Yep - they went down the individual vehicle registration route for the purposes of the article, rather than it being type approved.
ChrisA 39 minutes ago
@John Emms From DVSA guidance notes on EAPCs "There are many products known as ‘e-bikes’ or ‘e-cycles’ available on the market. However, not all of these are classified as EAPCs. To be classified as an EAPC under the EAPC regulations[footnote 1], the cycle must: " etc. "footnote 1. The Electrically Assisted Pedal Cycles Regulations 1983 SI 1983/1168 as amended by the Electrically Assisted Pedal Cycles (Amendment) Regulations 2015 SI 2015/24."
chrisonabike 47 minutes ago
Apparently Riese und Muller fixed it for them: https://road.cc/ebiketips/content/advice/advice/buying-and-riding-an-s-pedelec-in-the-uk-1637
chrisonabike 49 minutes ago
There must be at least one as this very site (or was it its sister?) had an article reporting on using a legal "speed pedalec" in the UK. (Would post link but it would probably be caught by the moderation system!)
chrisonabike 52 minutes ago
Good luck in East Yorkshire. I am not well informed but suspect that is very much car country there.
Mr Blackbird 58 minutes ago
This is a shocking near miss, especially after the recent death of Fin Tarling. However, the article describes the Portuguese driver as ignoring a race warning sign, which from previous articles did not appear to be the case. I have an unrelated comment about yesterday's stage. I watched around 90 mins of yesterday's stage and found it pretty dull. One rider broke away, gained around a minute before being closed down. Nothing much happened for the next 45 min. It appeared that the peleton had settled for a bunch sprint with around 80 km to go. I switched over to test match special radio coverage. If better TV coverage, sponsorship and pay are expected, then maybe more aggressive tactics should be encouraged?
mdavidford 2 hours ago
@bensynnock Yes, but I think edjz was referring to pedal cycles with an electric motor - I don't know if there any non-EAPC-compliant examples of those with type approval.
mctrials23 2 hours ago
@Geoff H And how often does this work is this purely scaremongering and often repeated rubbish. People don't sue the car manufacturer when they crash their car and the brakes didn't prevent the accident, the tyres didn't grip well enough, the windscreen wasn't tinted enough, someone put a speed bump in the road etc. This just sounds like rubbish that people use to justify stopping kids doing something fun that has some risk to it.
chrisonabike 2 hours ago
...(so assuming they're "type-approved" if MOT exists) ... and have the appropriate category on your driving licence (or presumably have done your CBT and have an L-plate), have got that insurance, wear an appropriate helmet and only ride on the road in accordance with the conditions for that kind of vehicle... but other than that, it's basically order on the Internet and go...
12 thoughts on “Long time no see”
I’m just about to go and
I’m just about to go and suffer the pain of 2 x 20 @ 300W’s so I feel your pain…
dont do it, get yer running
dont do it, get yer running daps out and go round the park for 20/30 mins…
Fringe wrote:dont do it, get
if there’s one thing i dislike more than turbo training, it’s running…
Anyway, soon Dave’ll have his
Anyway, soon Dave’ll have his ‘cross bike, whack on some lights and it’s night time cross round the Tumps. That’ll sharpen the old handling skills
night time ‘cross? bring it
night time ‘cross? bring it on. are there many (any) night ‘cross races?
you just missed one Dave,
you just missed one Dave, Rollapaluza “Muddy Hell” Night Cross at Herne Hill last Saturday, plenty of time to train for the next one i guess
Did you go Jo?
Or were you
Did you go Jo?
Or were you porking out? http://road.cc/content/blog/10583-ride-pork
i was pasta-ing out for
i was pasta-ing out for Sundays (shhhh, mountainbike, shhhh) race at Thetford
porking the night before a race wastes valuable energy
I think I am in the small
I think I am in the small minority in the cycling world, that actually perversely enjoy turbo training.
2 x 20’s and 6 x 4’s being my staple diet, they hurt, but the payback is high for just an hour of effort which includes warm up and down.
The key is a really good fan, not a domestic grade one, you really need something commercial grade. The one I have makes my eyes water on the lowest setting, but I can go flat out and still hardly have a drop of sweat.
This is the one I use – Honeywell 18″ Fan
Overheating can really limit your performance and ultimately the benefit you will get from turbo training.
I have only been turboing a
I have only been turboing a week and I recokon it wont be long before the trainers are out and I am running.
Come, the night is calling
Come, the night is calling and as for resistance training….
I love the turbo in Winter or
I love the turbo in Winter or when raining for weeks on end.
Get soem training DVDs or footage from other country and play your fave music!