Van Nicholas Astraeus – first hydroformed Ti bike + fixed Yukon

@eburtthebike RE legal reviews etc let's hope Andy Burnam's dad was also a (transport) cyclist... (That seems to be the story for any big changes being mooted - not making judgements on sincerity etc).

wait until cyclists try riding through pedestrians on Oxford street, there will be far more confrontations....I ride it regularly as a 'sharpener' and for a buzz...trains focus and wider attention if you want to make progress, braking, stop start and general handling. then makes the rest of london feel much easier

10 £grand for a bicycle is just pathetic.

@captain_slog the better half, for a birthday a while back, got me a brevet merino jersey, with wind proofing on the chest and front of arms. It's wonderful.

Why, well just for example I've seen too many 'KoMs' belonging to someone who has no followers, who follows no-one, who pootles round at 20kph except for one hill which they zoomed up. That's obviously an ebike phenom which perhaps Strava is stripping out these days. The people I know who get real KoMs ride fast and are well connected.

While I'm in no way excusing Uchenna Agunenye, he deserves everything he got and more, that is one of those high quality cycle lanes that are worse than useless, he demonstrated exactly how useless they are. As for Jayden Adams, 12 years doesn't seem excessive. Let's hope he doesn't qualify for early release. That's a point: does causing a road death count as violence and therefore not qualify for early release? The ironic tragedy of Bradley McStravick, killed on the day he was told he was cancer-free, must have been so hard for his family and friends to cope with: my thoughts are with them. "One common theme from almost all court cases we cover, whether mentioned by the prosecution, during sentencing remarks or victim impact statements is how life-changingly devastating for so many people one moment of inattention, distraction or dangerous driving can be." This, a thousand times this. Taking risks with other people's lives while driving is treated as a minor crime with no victim, until there is. I'm sure the comprehensive review of road crime and punishment will be along any day though, so this absurd anomaly will be addressed.

@ROOTminus1 I was somewhat aware of that. Hence why my comments have "at least for now, formally" type caveats and I also wrote: "The independence parties in Taiwan may change that at some point, but that is the formal position for now." So we don't disagree. You are confirming that the formal position has not (yet) been changed, exactly as I referred to.

@Miller Why? If I was going out KOM hunting I would 100% be taking it as easy as possible for much of the rest of the ride. My mate rides with his partner a fair bit and has some KOMs around where he is. He gets most of them when hes on a ride with her and his average power is often not much higher than this for the rides and hes 80kg.

@Paul J A core element of the last election cycle in Taiwan was that of the DPPs stance on Taiwanese national identity. The DPP (current ruling party) are the most supportive of an independent Taiwanese identity, contrary to that of their main opposition) the KMT, who strongly identify with the one-China under ROC stance (rather that Beijing's view of one China under PRC). DPP held power in 2024 but slipped from a majority to a minority lead arguably because they refused to make their independent Taiwan stance an official policy, most likely out of fear of antagonising and further inviting attacks (political and militarily) from Beijing. In summary, your assertion that the majority of Taiwanese people still identify as Chinese (ROC not PRC) may not be wrong, but it is not as definitive as you make it out to be.

as your said, you're mixing bikes, some riders want Chinese road bikes, fine . But, how many Chinese downhill bikes do you know?