Now, I appreciate the gesture, but if you’re going to follow me any longer finding it impossible to overtake on this wide country road in your you-don’t-know-how-wide-it-is-do-you MPV (here’s a tip – 2nd gear) can you at least hire a Spanish directeur sportif to lean out the window and scream “Venga! Venga!! Venga!!!” at me.
Thanks.
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Well said. Without better crowd control, there will be a more serious incident. Then, we’ll lose the mountainside crowds altogether.
…exactly, then the spectator might be dead!
Good article Ryan. …and….crickets. In pro-cycling, wilful ignorance rules.
The 2026 TDF was brilliant. No question. …but to the most pertinent question…oh, “It’s too hard to answer, for tomorrow maybe!” This is THE answer given by the vast majority ignoring the climate emergency. ‘Not my problem. Tomorrow…maybe’. Tadej, Remco, et al, as ambassadors for cycling, feigning ignorance just doesn’t wash. The ASO needs to urgently answer this question too - what are they doing to mitigate the climate emergency? Let alone getting their heads out of the sand re start times in the hottest time of the day! As do all the fossil fuel sponsors who think they’re greenwashing their brands via pro cycling. In reality they’re just trading on Tadej, Remco and everyone else’s wilful ignorance. “It’s too hard to answer, for tomorrow maybe!” Really? Great, it’s now tomorrow…Tadej? Over to you.
Finally some good news in this ridiculous world of junk consumption. Everyone. Just stop buying this crap.
There is a pressing need for a kitemark type scheme for ebikes, their charging system and their batteries. We are regular users, touring in the UK and abroad and have problems both with transport and accommodation (trains and hotels etc) due to the lack of such a scheme
I have vague recollections of cases not being brought against careless/dangerous road users because..."we haven't received a complaint from the injured/aggrieved/close passed victim..." The police's zeal in seizing upon this minor infraction suggests one thing and one thing only...(over to you, little onion.)
The orchestra of the alpe…nice story Ryan. I reckon the madness is more rock concert than football stadium. Whatever, it’s the best stadium in the world! …more containment would kill it, yet some more effective policing of idiots might prevent someone dying one day. …But as you say it’s the tension that makes it. That’s d’Huez’ rock n roll.
I genuinely don't see how the police can consider this an offence. The rider goes no closer to the parked car than one would when filtering, so is that now an offence? The 1.5m rule is confusing for idiots on Facebook but you would hope the police would understand what it's there for.
What an odd clickbait title - considering that 99.9% focus of all cycling media, product development and marketing is about increasing speed. 🙄 …and the best part - 99.9% of us will never ride anywhere near that fast! 😂 …so it’s a mute point. It’s all for nowt.
6 thoughts on “Courteous Or Useless?”
Venga venga venga
Or at least offer you a roll a bar and a couple of waterbottles…..
But dont get involved in something…
…like this!
http://quickrelease.tv/?p=748
Blimey
that’s stunning
a few weeks ago a small group of us where told it was highly dangerous for us to look behind us, signal and move into a right-hand filter lane to turn right, by a man in a car who had stopped in the middle of the fast road
it’s a fine line between “thanks for not trying to squeeze past me” and “for f**ks sake go past me, there’s tons of room”, and i’m not quite sure where that line is
Women drivers
I suppose in this male dominated place I’d better stop short of saying women are better drivers than men.
But I bet the courteous, over cautious and possibly useless driver Vecchio encountered was a woman.
I often wonder why men and women motorists are a danger to cyclists in such distinctly different ways.
Cycling up to my local roundabout a maniac screeched past me and took the roundabout almost on two wheels. On the other hand there was a car doing a three-point (or rather eleven-point) turn on the sliproad to the motorway, clearly unable to reverse back.
Not much guessing which was male and which wasn’t!
Same Difference
i’m not going to make sweeping generalisations about certain genders styles of driving because bad driving is bad driving and dangerous in a multitude of ways.
with reference to the others days ride, the driver who passed me knowing exactly how wide their car was and so squeezed past knowing there was room to spare (in their eyes) is as dangerous as the driver i was behind who had no idea how big their car was and so nervously slammed the brakes on any time a car came the other way, or there was a slight bend in the road.
maybe the drivers were the same sex, maybe they weren’t.
🙂
Drivers eh!
Riding the lanes of the East Midlands we find similar instances to Vecchiojo, plenty of room and not passing. But then you get a big, wide road with nothing coming in good conditions and drivers will blow there horns and shout of windows if we are safely riding two abreast.