Twitter helps rider get SRM unit back after Tour of Flanders crash

And that would be different to now how exactly?

Mr Loophole -"Thousands of cyclists breaking the rules" Me - "Millions of motorists breaking the rules" 70% of drivers in our village over the speed limit.

I like James May. He always has sensible things to say about cycling and road safety.

RE Bath cycle improvements - on my one foray about Bath on bike I noticed two things - first the usual UK incongruity of a "historic tourist attraction" with large flows of motor traffic round and through it. And second their odd "bus stop plus cycle lane" designs, which build out the whole area but ramp up the cycle lane to the level of waiting passengers. (No idea why they couldn't just have a standard bypass round the back of the bus waiting area if going to that much engineering anyway...) If I visit again I'd be delighted if somehow there was less of the first (fat chance). But ideally there would be no more of the second (just use standard designs already...)

"Search me - I'm just out for a ride Wait - no - I didn't mean ACTUALLY search me...!"

The comments on the "e-motorbike" story by "Ash Filmer" are ... remarkable! So much so I wonder if they're as they proport to be. However, while generally "we know them when we see them" I believe it can sometimes be difficult to distinguish, certainly for folks like the police for whom this is probably a niche policing subject.

We have a trend in Ireland with coalitions - which due to out proportional representation has been the norm for close to 40 years - that the smallest party tends to get the blame for everything whether they have any responsibility for it or not. So it was with the Fine Fail/Fine Gael (traditionally the 2 biggest parties) + Greens coalition. The Greens had plenty of good solid active travel measures in train, but got hammered at the last general election. The result is that FF/FG are still there but now propped up by a random assortment of independent TD (i.e., MPs) most of whom have a narrow populist agenda aimed at getting them re-elected. The agenda is therefore tipping back towards roads focus and giving rise to all this knee jerk hi-viz nonsense. It's not helped by the fact that the Minister for Transport (or to give him his full somewhat contradictory title "Minister for Climate, Environment and Energy and Minister for Transport") is a muppet as incompetent in this brief as he was when he was supposed to be sorting out the housing crisis in the previous government

What's insane there is the amount of public real estate devoted to moving motor traffic. "locals claimed that the works have “murdered” businesses on the road" ... because the properties completely surrounded by multiple lanes of traffic in the leading image are being facilitate by said traffic?!

The actual issue with his wheel was the hub design. Spokes held into 'open' slots in the hub by tension only. When he hit the hole the sudden big de-tensioning led to the spokes just basically popping out and the wheel collapsed. Same thing happened to Frome on his Factor with the same hub design. Hookless rims are getting way more hate than they deserve and blamed for any wheel disasters they have nothing to do with.

That’s right. What’s the saying, any publicity is good publicity? Capiot must be in the doghouse right now. Wantonly riding a sponsor’s wheel to destruction days before the product launch.