road.cc live blog: Highway Code tweet sparks a bit of a discussion, Martyn Ashton gives inspirational talk and more
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I don’t understand why you didn’t give these wheels a five star review based on the text. Are you saying that you really think that a sub 1000g carbon wheelset is supposed to crash into a rock without severe damage? I’m really impressed that it didn’t break completely and was able to get you home (or in the case of a high speed incident would have kept your line). I would say that’s an impressive feat for any carbon wheelset, let alone a sub 1000g one, unless your are looking at downhill specced wheelset.
This book's quite a stark reminder of how vulnerable we are to the elements. I have to agree that segment approach detracts something from the drama but it's a mild criticism. Personally, I was very pleased to have not to have a place on the last edition of LEL. It was to be a retirement project but retirement got postponed. Like many I'm praying for a fair wind in 2029.
I have one, it's fabulous as is every other piece of Alpkit's stuff I've bought over the years.
@sclarke3@talktalk.net I'd think you'd need all the storage you can get if you're going to go cycling for 45 years.
Been running a 4iiii Precision Pro dual side on R8000 since Jan 2020 and its been faultless and no crank bondining issues either
Bought a gravel bike for commuting and my workhorse, I love it. It's been on mountain bike trails, used for bike packing and it's pretty good on the road
@sclarke3@talktalk.net I've been cycling for a similar amount of time and I've never *needed* a storage box in the frame either. I've also never *needed* clipless pedals, indexed gears, head units, et cetera et cetera, but as they've come along I've evaluated whether they would make my cycling easier or more pleasurable and added them or not according to what I thought of them. Personally I rather like the idea of frame storage where I could put the things that always stay with the bike like spare tubes and essential but rarely used tools like chain breakers. I wonder if back in the day when Mr Dunlop invented his first pneumatic tyre people were saying "I've been riding on wooden rims for years and I've never needed an air-filled tyre!"?
@sclarke3@talktalk.net My mate has been riding for four years and has never needed a saddle bag for his spares... it's all relative.
I've been cycling for over 45 years and I've never needed a storage box in the frame! It's all marketing crap!
I've been cycling for over 45 years and I've never needed a storage box in the frame!
8 thoughts on “road.cc live blog: Highway Code tweet sparks a bit of a discussion, Martyn Ashton gives inspirational talk and more”
The cyclist in the Bristol
The cyclist in the Bristol story, not great cycling but no worse that driving I see daily.
Guys these live blog pages
Guys these live blog pages are utterly broken in chrome due to piles of Javascript errors …
EDIT: Never mind …. pebcak
Interesting comments.
Interesting comments.
I preferred this story.
I see a photo of a stationary
I see a photo of a stationary bike but no story or links.
Hunted it down
Hunted it down
http://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/cyclist-death-wish-filmed-dashcam-945450
Perfectly legal cutting through stationary traffic to filter down the outside. Impatient idiot driver trying to get 20m down the road so he could stop again.
pakennedy wrote:
Hi, sorry for any confusion: our live blog includes short stories with the main topics of conversation included the title. If you scroll down you should have found the post with a link to both our forum topic on the Bristol Post article and also a link directly to the article itself in the text. We’re still trying to improve the format of the live blog and would be glad of any feedback to make it more enjoyable – email us at info@road.cc or comment back. Thanks!
This is the best bit from the
This is the best bit from the article…
“The cyclist comes perilously close to the cars driving behind.”
Just consider that sentence for a second.
The cyclist looks very
The cyclist looks very slightly unsteady as he starts moving, but that is certainly no rason to drive at him! He is very clearly visible and it is perfectly clear what his intentions are.
Isn’t it an offence to use your horn in this manner (ie. “It annoys me that you don’t have to wait in this traffic jam like I do, therefore I’m going to drive unnecessarily close to you and use my horn”)?