road.cc live blog: Monday morning catch-up. Clarkson claptrap, clueless councillors and more
Some stories you may have missed over the weekend
Mon, Nov 20, 2017 08:29
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Simon joined road.cc as news editor in 2009 and is now the site’s community editor, acting as a link between the team producing the content and our readers. A law and languages graduate, published translator and former retail analyst, he has reported on issues as diverse as cycling-related court cases, anti-doping investigations, the latest developments in the bike industry and the sport’s biggest races. Now back in London full-time after 15 years living in Oxford and Cambridge, he loves cycling along the Thames but misses having his former riding buddy, Elodie the miniature schnauzer, in the basket in front of him.
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Cayo 2 hours ago
re: occasions when police needlessly pavement park... You only need to watch Police Interceptors and the like to see how unbothered they are. Usually, when they pull over a motorist, said driver mounts the pavement (and cop often does the same), yet there's never any mention of the illegality* or needless manner of their parking. (*Highway Code infraction, even if not against the law in the location being shown). I'm very much pro-Police, but that particular issue only serves to normalise pavement parking.
Cayo 3 hours ago
(Before the days of blatent angle grinder use) At my first job, my boss wouldn't allow me to bring my bike indoors, despite there being room. I had to lock it to the railings on a busy street. Came out one night to find it still there... but with signs of attempted theft. Unable to defeat the lock, they'd cut my cables (clearly with proper cutters), purely out of spite😠 Nothing missing - they'd just been petty. At least it persuaded my boss to relent: bike was indoors after that.
leedorney 3 hours ago
I can only guess what it's been like in Europe but it's been hot in the UK for 2nd time right now, 1st time hot now similar tho after the 1st that got you used to it with a smack in the face. I said to a friend, after I rode in the day when it was about 25'c air temp when riding, it saps your energy, tho I used to race in the evenings with high temps 🤷
Jigzy99 4 hours ago
Enjoyed this and might go down the same route. My Tripster AT is 8 years old in Arran Blue, still gets comments. It’s my no.2 bike - 650B wheels it’s a MTB, 700c it’s commuter, tourer and winter road bike. Just a bit bored of it!
Pub bike 4 hours ago
@chrisonabike And just imagine if you have a dynamo as well what the maths looks like.
Pub bike 4 hours ago
@chrisonabike You can vary the assistance level on an e-bike so does that mean you can be for example 75% cyclist and 25% motorcyclist?
quiff 4 hours ago
This bike is on grass, what's it doing on road.cc, etc etc
quiff 5 hours ago
But I should have added I enjoyed this piece (pee-ce?)
quiff 5 hours ago
@Jack Sexty that was an intentional (if obtuse) nod to another typo in the article: "Expect this time, I couldn’t even wave an angry fist..."
AidanR 5 hours ago
E-bike as only an EPAC might be common parlance amongst cyclists, but I really don't think it is limited to that amongst much of the general public. That's why you get terms like "illegal e-bikes" that the above article rails against. The article claims that the term e-bike is being used incorrectly. It isn't. If people are going to be pedantic about terminology, they ought to be right.
9 thoughts on “road.cc live blog: Monday morning catch-up. Clarkson claptrap, clueless councillors and more”
Currently sitting in a car
Currently sitting in a car dealership waiting area, Daily Fail and (behind) the Times have just been dropped onto the table. Against my better judgment, picked up the DF,,, inside is a piece with Clarkson saying driverless car nearly killed him. Which means in a parallel universe…
CygnusX1 wrote:
And that, in a nutshell, is the problem with driverless cars: no judgement.
davel wrote:
And that, in a nutshell, is the problem with driverless cars: no judgement.— CygnusX1
I don’t understand. Is it a problem that it only “nearly killed him” and it should have definitely killed him?
hawkinspeter wrote:
That would be one measure of intelligence progression.
There is truth in what
There is truth in what Clarkson says… paraphrasing; shared cycle/bus lanes are dangerous, and given the choice he’d ban buses due to NOx and particulate emmissions. Hard to argue with that…
PRSboy wrote:
“shared cycle/bus lanes are dangerous” – no they’re not
“he’d ban buses due to NOx and particulate emmissions” – do busses pollute more per passenger per mile than cars then? If the car journeys were replaced by bus journeys the efficiency would be greater as would be the ability to increase investment in better busses…
“Clarkson’s been telling his
“Clarkson’s been telling his fans once again that only poor people cycle” Not exactly.
What he said isn’t exactly wrong either. Busses are ridiculously overpriced (£4 for a return ticket that takes twice as long as my car to get from one side of Bristol to the other – no thanks, I’ll drive).
I fully support removing diesel buses and replacing them with electric ones. Or, as should have been done in Bristol rather than Metrobus, create an electric tram network – go look at Geneva!
Cycling also provides free travel for millions worldwide who can’t afford to run a car.
My Canyon Ultimate is way more than twice the cost of my car though – and my Whyte Wessex is nearly twice the price, so, you know.
Quote” Clarkson’s been
Quote” Clarkson’s been telling his fans once again that only poor people cycle”
No he didn’t. He said if you can’t afford a car, buy a bicycle. Not the same thing at all.
The article says that
The article says that Clarkson is 57, which seems rather young to be having dementia to this extent.