Lance Watch 5. He doesn’t only do Twitter…

The TDF Femmes Ventoux stage was one of the best races I can remember seeing for some time. Great break and break by Kasia and it stuck this time. Having a classic long ascent gave the pure climbers a chance to show what they can do. Maybe the most memorable since Anna Keisenhofer's solo win in the Tokyo Olympic road race. Thorough preparation and planning, perfectly executed.

Specially for HarrogateSpa, your daily dose of bile from the Telegraph: "The e-bike is the most complete expression of the bullying arrogance of cyclists" https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/08/25/e-bike-is-the-most-complete-expression-of-cyclist-bully/ Mainly conflating ebikes with Lime bikes, and complaining that "there is a general problem with bicycles of all kinds ... bicycles take up An Awful Lot of Space." Unlike, say, the big metal boxes that we happily decorate our streets with. "In one generation, bicyclists have declined from being put-upon herbivores to becoming recklessly entitled, righteous, selfish bullies." - think they may have confused cyclists with Telegraph writers there.

I suppose suspicious would be preferable to surly, but I'd rather a bike with a more positive personality myself.

Or forget about it completely.

Across the Irish Sea in England, Labour has announced a plan to get at least 60 per cent of school-age children cycling, walking, or wheeling to class by 2035 as part of a £4.5bn active travel strategy As a, now lukewarm and disillusioned, Labour supporter I would be laughing at this laughable doomed-at-the outset 'plan' just like the people supposedly responsible for its implementation must be sniggering: there is a 0% probability that the 60% stated target will be achieved and the true percentage will be a fraction of the target and may even be less than it is now (just like the Climate Change mitigation targets, then!) The January 2026 DfT Road Safety Strategy implementation was declared in Parliament to be in the hands of Lilian Greenwood MP: Since 2010, the number of people killed or seriously injured (KSI) on the roads has plateaued, despite advances in vehicle technology. The current approach is no longer delivering the required road safety improvements. Vulnerable road users, such as pedestrians, cyclists, motorcyclists, and children, remain disproportionately at risk of serious injuries and fatalities We all know that the police will not lift a finger to prevent or even discourage close-passing attacks on cyclists, and I have no doubt that the Road Safety Strategy has already been forgotten. Lilian Greenwood is the minister who responded a year ago to my MP's letter about long term VED evasion around Garstang (such as BF64 TGE, HY66 ZZB, MM10 EOG, HN21 VXB, WU67 BLF etc. etc) with 'at DVLA we make VED easy to pay and difficult to avoid'! Greenwood has now been shunted off to some other ministerial home for the Incurably Idle, Inept and Forgetful, and the minister now responsible for the Road Safety Strategy is Justin Madders, presumably someone else suitably experienced in Doing Nothing.

I've always wanted a suspicious bike but I bet it'll all go wrong if I buy one.

£6k and you don't even get carbon bars?

This is the solution - get rid of the silly zebra crossing. Why was this ever deemed necessary in the first place? Most of the time pedestrians will cross without using the zebra crossing anyway. Also, the cycle lane will not be that busy for long - a big group of cyclists approaching the crossing is because they've bunched up waiting at a traffic light. The video is a compilation of those bunches of cyclists, making it look much busier than it will actually be in reality. In most cases, a pedestrian will have to wait less time than they would at a traffic light controlled crossing for an opportunity to cross.

They need to change their insurance then.

Driver had to urgently deliver a consignment of ferrets to protect their welfare.