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#mycyclingweekend – break the rules

This weekend anything goes – we want to see you having fun even if you’re riding a rusty old bike!

by Elliot Johnston

Fri, Feb 05, 2016 19:12

The weekend’s here, and it’s time to get riding! This #mycyclingweekend we don’t care where you go or what you’re riding on, we just want you to get out there, let go of everything that you’ve been worried about all week, have some fun and take some photos!

It’s easy to get caught up in the negative influences of cycling culture sometimes. What should you be riding? Are you wearing that cycling cap right? Is it okay to wear your Team Sky replica jersey? Are coloured shorts okay?

Well, no more.

Quietest ever Sunday in Sussex, I think I got away with breaking a few rules… #mycyclingweekend

A photo posted by Dave Parsons (@daveyraveygravey1) on Feb 1, 2016 at 1:10pm PST

We’re here to tell you that whatever you’re wearing and whatever you’re riding, you’re doing it right as long as you’re having fun.

Break the rules. Go for a ride. Just have fun.

That’s how we approach cycling anyway.

Here are a few photos of you lot having fun over the last week. Go out and have your own bit of cycling themed fun tomorrow and Sunday!

#cx #cyclocross #cyclocrossbike #cannondale #stravacycling #strava #road.cc #weekendride #mud #mycyclingweekend

A photo posted by Filipe Pinto (@belchior79) on Feb 1, 2016 at 5:11am PST

Weekend starts early GIANT HAND! bit dull tho’#mycyclingweekend #GoPro pic.twitter.com/z4eqnBASvT

— Matthew Whittington (@Gooberfish42) February 5, 2016

Sunday turned out to be a rather cold and testing 215km up into the Pennines and over into Weardale. Not bad for a fat lad.

A photo posted by Dale or no Deal (@dale_ftw) on Feb 2, 2016 at 10:16am PST

OK! #mybike #mycyclingweekend #wolin #wyspawolin #bicycle #bikelife #wolinisland #rower #nature #mycycling

A photo posted by Oldjarl (@oldjarl) on Feb 5, 2016 at 3:59am PST

Top of Ebbor Gorge. Great route if I say so myself! #mycyclingweekend #timsburycyclegroup #cycling

A photo posted by Stefano Marazzi (@stefmarazzi) on Feb 1, 2016 at 8:44am PST

At the start line for dubai tour #mycyclingweekend #wiggins #bradwiggins #wiggo #cyclingshots #bikelife #dubaitour

A photo posted by Peter Dorrell (@pete_dorrell) on Feb 4, 2016 at 9:52pm PST

Unreal sunset will out riding tonight. #bluecyclesnt #bikecoffeeculture #cycling #fitness #fun #family #cyclingshots #sunset #beautiful

A photo posted by Blue Cycles By Matt King (@bluecyclesnt) on Feb 3, 2016 at 2:43am PST

Remember, all you’ve got to do to get involved is upload a photo to Instagram, Twitter, or Facebook with the #mycyclingweekend hashtag clear for the world to see!

Happy riding, and have fun!

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Elliot Johnston

Elliot joined team road.cc bright eyed, bushy tailed, and straight out of university. Raised in front of cathode ray tube screens bearing the images of Miguel Indurain and Lance Armstrong, Elliot’s always had cycling in his veins. His balance was found on a Y-framed mountain bike around South London suburbs in the 90s, while his first taste of freedom came when he claimed his father’s Giant hybrid as his own at age 16. When Elliot’s not writing for road.cc about two-wheeled sustainable transportation, he’s focussing on business sustainability and the challenges facing our planet in the years to come.

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Oleschroder

February 7, 2016 at 12:39 pm

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A 50 km gravel ride in the

A 50 km gravel ride in the forest and farm roads outside Copenhagen. Great ride on my Frankenstein bike (aka former Focus 26″ mtb now with rigid cross fork, 700c wheels, road handlebars) No rain but soaking wet roads!!
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mark1a 25 minutes ago

@Backladder Oh I think I can guess - the nearest indoor velodrome to road.cc HQ looks to be some distance away in Wales, whereas Odd Down Cycle Track (where this test was conducted) is just 2 miles away.

in: Could correcting your aero position in real time really unlock free speed? I put the new Wasted Watts Tracker to the test to find out

Cugel 28 minutes ago

There are a number of causes of "the divide between motorists and cyclists". Only one is to do with the technology (of bicycles and cars) and that's the nature of the car, which is designed to induce the sort of dangerous and careless behaviours that providing humans with a lot of power and glamour fetches out of us. Other causes are much more insidious - A culture of hyper-individualism bordering on solipsism, with violently ultra-selfish and aggressive anti-heroes being promoted in every mass media channel as the ideal. A "news" media that overwhelmingly seeks, creates and offers pariahs and scapegoats to the rabid individualists, which pariahs and scapegoats includes all kinds of those perceived as less powerful and therefore easy victims, including cyclists. The near complete lack of any curb upon the dangerous antics of vast numbers of media-maddened motorists by the forces of law and order, many of whom are actually members themselves of the mass media maddened motorist ilk. ******** No amount of a more rational discourse about active travel or the means of making it safer will change these root causes of the vast numbers of deaths and maiming due to inept, incompetent and deliberately violent antics of vast numbers of motorists allowed their dangerous "weapons of choice". Yet many other highly damaging aspects of modern societies would be solved by a much more effective curbing of mass media mob-building and goading along with a serious attempt to prevent motorists and a whole range of other damagers from behaving as badly as so many do. It'll not happen, of course. Large and powerful elements of the modern world obtain far too much ultra-riches and power from current conditions for them to allow any significant change. And vast numbers of the population have long had their minds, attitudes and behaviours captured and directed by various oligarchical monsters and their mass media propaganda horns. About the only chance of safe active travel becoming extant is for the population at large to become mostly too poor to afford a car, ironically one other likely outcome of the machinations of those same power and money-mad monsters that have created the car-issue in the first place. Their need for zero-sum socio-economic arrangements degrades everything, including the wallet-contents of the masses.

in: “No war on motorists”: Dividing cyclists and drivers “a complete waste of time”, insists transport chief – as government pushes for 60% of children to cycle or walk to school with new £4.5bn active travel strategy

Rendel Harris 46 minutes ago

@Astralstroll The hierarchy of road users does not mean priority of road users except in certain circumstances, e.g. stopping to let pedestrians cross junctions before turning. It doesn't mean that cyclists have priority over motor vehicles at all times any more than the pedestrians have priority over cyclists at all times. It certainly doesn't mean that you have priority in the circumstances you describe; personally, unless the driver is being a complete dick, on a narrow country lane I accept that it is easier for me to turn around and go back to the nearest passing place, which is never that far if you're on a bike, than for a tractor or other large vehicle to reverse back down the road for my benefit.

in: “Drivers kill five people every day. Cyclists hardly kill anybody”: Police chiefs accused of ignoring “massive imbalance” as new campaign brands road safety “a shared duty” and officers crack down on rule-breaking riders

Backladder 47 minutes ago

If you were spending that much money on the device the obvious thing to do is to book a couple of hours in a velodrome for testing in a stable environment, I can't understand why Road.cc tried to do it outdoors.

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kinderje 49 minutes ago

@chrisonabike 'Minimisation' please!

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wtjs 1 hour ago

@Astralstroll The Hierarchy of Road Users, announced with great fanfares in 2022, has been rendered into complete fiction by the attitude of the police: there is this hierarchy/ priority list but we don't take it seriously and if drivers ignore it we don't care! The same applies to the ludicrous notice of close-passing - No KSI'd cyclist = No Offence ttps://upride.cc/incident/lwa190_minicooper_hierarchy/

chrisonabike 2 hours ago

Hope Barcelona keep the transport improvements (they've been making for a while) coming! Better streets, more infra to help active travel where necessary. And while it's a major investment (though can be lower operating cost than busses) maybe more trams where they can. That may be more effective in making places active travel friendly and replacing taxis than mass public bike hire. They've a good start with 6 lines already.

in: Barcelona to ban private bike share schemes from 2027, as mayor slams e-bike parking “mess”

chrisonabike 2 hours ago

I think this is a positive story. They're not getting rid of public hire bikes - they're expanding their in-house one. They're merely kicking out cowboys who've shown they've a lack of interest in the game they claim to be playing. It seems logical that companies whose business model is to extract (venture capital) money by invading public space are even less likely to make the efforts to keep things in order than a local "in house" scheme. (After all the "bikes and riding" part of these schemes always *costs* money, they don't generate it.) So not surprising their experience shows those firms are not particularly motivated to follow the rules - especially when scrapping for "market share". It's nice the European Cyclists’ Federation is thinking about tourists also (i hesitate to say "follow the money...") - as they note, where it's safe to cycle locals will largely get their own bikes. Tourists aren't going to stop coming because lack of public bike share - I think this is mostly a "nice to have" ("hey - why don't we go on one of those bikes there? ").

in: Barcelona to ban private bike share schemes from 2027, as mayor slams e-bike parking “mess”

chrisonabike 2 hours ago

Harm minimization - at least they're not driving...

in: Police launch road safety operation… by clamping down on cyclists using footbridge; Reaction to government’s Active Travel Strategy; Dauphiné sprint + more on the live blog

Gm_Crop 10 hours ago

I'll counter that by saying the Bryton 750se I have drives me nuts at times. Inconsistantly picks up on routes created on Komoot and the app re-syncs every few seconds when trying to set up the device and sends me back to the home screen. The most infuriating one is that I turned live track on. Once. It now won't turn off and repeatedly flags up the live track is starting, and then disconnecting every few seconds whilst riding. I haven't timed it but it wouldn't suprise me if 10-20% of the time the the screen is covered with an error message. That's been about 6 weeks now. Other than that it's great :/

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2. “Drivers kill five people every day. Cyclists hardly kill anybody”: Police chiefs accused of ignoring “massive imbalance” as new campaign brands road safety “a shared duty” and officers crack down on rule-breaking riders

3. “No war on motorists”: Dividing cyclists and drivers “a complete waste of time”, insists transport chief – as government pushes for 60% of children to cycle or walk to school with new £4.5bn active travel strategy

4. Police launch road safety operation… by clamping down on cyclists using footbridge; Reaction to government’s Active Travel Strategy; Dauphiné sprint + more on the live blog

5. Standard ‘exclusive’ with anti-active travel campaigners claims Transport for London “covering up” cycling crashes – weeks after government released figures

6. Drivers told to “go a slightly different route” to stop rat-running on proposed family cycle loop

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1. Barcelona to ban private bike share schemes from 2027, as mayor slams e-bike parking “mess”

2. “Drivers kill five people every day. Cyclists hardly kill anybody”: Police chiefs accused of ignoring “massive imbalance” as new campaign brands road safety “a shared duty” and officers crack down on rule-breaking riders

3. “No war on motorists”: Dividing cyclists and drivers “a complete waste of time”, insists transport chief – as government pushes for 60% of children to cycle or walk to school with new £4.5bn active travel strategy

4. Police launch road safety operation… by clamping down on cyclists using footbridge; Reaction to government’s Active Travel Strategy; Dauphiné sprint + more on the live blog

5. Standard ‘exclusive’ with anti-active travel campaigners claims Transport for London “covering up” cycling crashes – weeks after government released figures

6. Drivers told to “go a slightly different route” to stop rat-running on proposed family cycle loop

7. “It looks like it’d fail to meet the minimum handlebar width for the UCI”: bike lane narrower than its own cycle symbol branded “absurd”; Vauquelin suggests Netcompany Ineos sacrificed stage win to wait for Oscar Onley + more on the live blog

8. “This is not a luxury cycle route”: Councillor calls for “vital” improvements to “terrifying” cycle track

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