Getting a taste for bike week

Good to see the rest of the world catching up to where René Herse were a decade ago 😎 https://road.cc/content/review/rene-herse-antelope-hill-endurance-tyre-302063

I saw this at the weekend. It was excellent! https://riversidestudios.co.uk/whats-on/ld-cadel-lungs-on-legs/

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@slc I went to have a look last time I visited and I can only concur. It was a hellscape of parked cars * with the deadening silence of the ghost town only broken by the chirping of birds, chatter of people out in the streets, the occasional ringing of a bell and the wailing and gnashing of teeth from a couple of houses with all the "stop the ELBN" signs. Doubtless the worst fears of the fire brigade and the disabled woman with that minibus have come true. I can only assume the local Greens are running a "bulldoze an A-road through for social justice" campaign! * Actually I did really notice those, packed together filling up most of the space, same as before I guess...

@chrisonabike Here in Bristol the EBLN has created a ghetto, where wealthy pedestrians, bus passengers, and of course cyclists in tafetta gowns travel through only to mock the honest residents, who are forced to take great detours, queuing in traffic created by the council, to the shop next door. That is why local Labour are so keen to repent of their decision to create it. Nothing to do with the greens having since won the EBLN wards to become the largest party on the council.

Ferguson's rant about the definition of culture makes him sound like he has the type of sociopathic traits endemic to top level management of any sport or business. At least Brailsford could back up being a questionable human with sporting success. I can't tell if it's honest naivety or willful delusion, but there is clearly a history of poor communication, so either there was legacy he needed to address, or more likely given the lack of evidence of any corrective actions, the toxic culture still persists. "The beatings will continue untill morale improves"

New research provides yet more evidence that water is wet. A separate new study providing meta analysis of the prior water-is-wet studies indicates that a disturbingly large demographic is *still* surprised by the findings of the water-is-wet studies, and are suffering significant cognitive dissonance.

@the little onion It hardly matters. Trump, Farage etc. show that where their anti-cyclist, anti-active travel, anti-LTN, anti-climate change, anti-immigrant, anti- traffic law, pro-drive and park everywhere at all times nutters are concerned, the criminality of their heroes is of no concern.

Is that convicted corrupt criminal Luftar Rahman?

Once people have got used to living with less motor vehicle traffic (and maybe even fewer parked vehicles) ... it's always found they don't want to go back. BUT how does the chicken/egg problem get solved? Interesting line here: "Change" is easiest when it's really spelling out what's already happening. This made me think of Amsterdam and their recent trial of putting a modal filter on a fairly major road. Of course that was probably only possible because this is Amsterdam - where public transport is great and cycling is mainstream AND the city voted in favour of removing on-street parking spaces! While the people on the road were really in favour, traffic went up on other streets (not by as much but still up). And those people were outraged, because they'd got used to low traffic, and didn't want it back. ... so at the end of the trial they *partially* rolled this back (there may be some road narrowing instead - but the idea was "not ready yet").