We’re always going on about how big Eurobike is. So to give you a flavour here’s a quick vid of us walking from one end where our dodgy Hymer was parked, to the other where we were meeting Viner in the very furthest stand in the last hall. We’ve speeded it up obviously…
You might think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist but that’s just peanuts to Eurobike
Mon, Sep 14, 2009 11:21
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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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mdavidford 3 minutes ago
If it's true*, as reported, that the driver in question asked and was told that the race had passed, that's not 'arrogant disdain for cyclists' - it's a mistake resulting from a failure of communication somewhere along the line. [* recognising that much about the events here are a fair amount of hearsay at the moment.]
Smiley775 15 minutes ago
I get your point, but Forestry England aren't allowing cyclists on all other parts of the site, as you say. They are allowing cyclists on bridleways and permissive horse routes - what they are legally obliged to do, ie the bare minimum. Forestry England sites near me also allow the bare minimum for cyclists. It is a shame that the kids can't just muck around in parts of their land - it's publicly owned (failed plan a few years back to privatise the Forestry Commission). When I was younger I enjoyed playing around on my bike all over their forests.
Jaijai 40 minutes ago
Even when he clarifys he gets it wrong . It's either an e bike or an electric motorbike . It's not difficult ,same as cars ,Motor car >EV ,they dont do it with cars so its willfully ignorance when it comes to e bikes
John Emms 3 hours ago
Oh.... There are not "some forms of e-bike". e-bikes are legal, and anything that is not an e-bike under the definitions of motor vehicles, would be an electric powered motorcycle. E-bikes were being bought and used in vast numbers by older people in our area, but they have literally disappeared off our streets, not helped by a war on "e-bikes used illegally" by the S Glos councillor responsible for all things infrastructure related (including transport). As the term e-bike has been misapproriated by those in power (but should have greater knowledge of things they have power over), I think that, perhaps, there needs to be a new name and remarketing for e-bikes that are perfectly legal, and hugely useful to many in our communities (including the 30% of people in S Glos who have no access to a car whatsoever).
GravelIsNothingNew 8 hours ago
The race organisers clearly must employ more police and official marshals. Leaving it up to spectators to tell drivers that the race has passed is not acceptable, especially in a society dominated by the culture of impatient motorists. Helmet design is another contributing but separate factor - why is it the title of this article? It’s barely mentioned.
ChrisA 8 hours ago
It is perfectly legal to buy an electrically assisted pedal cycle that has a cut-off higher than 15.5 mph or a continuous rated motor in exces of 250W or indeed has a throtle. It just isn't legal to use it in a public place. The term e-bike has no legal definition; it can mean, in popular usage, an assisted pedal cycle (legal or not) or a moped or a motorbike. Likewise e-scooter is not legally defined, although the electric scooter legislation relates to the thing without pedals that you scoot, not a motor scooter.
GravelIsNothingNew 8 hours ago
Chapeau, Mr Vaughters. …and why can’t everyone see that this example is also reflective of the general attitude by motorists towards cyclists on all our roads? It’s the same cause, whether racing, training or cruising with the family. The need for separated cycling infrastructure (and closed roads) only stems from one issue - arrogant drivers disdain for cyclists, breaking the law and putting cyclists lives in danger. In the absence of an AI algorithm that deletes all human ego, the solution is clearly in effectively policing the road rules that protect cyclists, not the wilful denial blind spot pervading our race organisers, police, city councils and courts.
Geoff H 8 hours ago
@mctrials23 With a failed jump, you can sue whoever owns the field, who has the broken fence that "allowed" you in, the bike manufacture, the helmet maker, the knee pad maker, ...... and the list goes on! But who can you sue if you sit around eating junk all day?
Geoff H 9 hours ago
Unfortunately, in this wildly litigious society, I have to side with the Forest Service. In the end, it's not the most culpable that are found the most responsible, but the deepest pockets.
GravelIsNothingNew 9 hours ago
It’s all half-arsed, from the clickbait title of this article, to the unsafe design of the bike track. …Why do we live in such a world? Capitalist fantasies of exponential growth vs conservative nimbyism - within the one Range Rover shopping cart world view! The Greens are trying to do it right. Everyone else has their knickers in a knot because their world view is small, and wilfully / selfishly half-arsed.
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Yeah, and that’s only half of
Yeah, and that’s only half of it. I feel a strange urge for a some cheese and wurst after watching that + slightly queasy