road.cc live blog – BMX rider almost impaled on fence (video) plus Aru’s new jersey falls flat and much more
Starting off 2018 with your usual round-up of everything that’s happening in cycling
Tue, Jan 02, 2018 16:33
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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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Astralstroll 56 minutes ago
So ' Priority of Road Users' and 1.5 metre clearance at 30mph has been been reduced to 'sharing'? NCN route 2 here in South Hams is an absolute scream with white vans, tractors and total idiots who refuse,or are totally incapable,to reverse on high Devon banked lanes ...means you have to get off and pedal back to a passing place....could be at that all day...so I don't bother...
Mr Anderson 2 hours ago
@MaxiMinimalist Agreed. The big problem I see now is today's parents grew up being driven to their schools, and therefore, see private motor vehicles as the only viable form of transport. The vast majority of UK infant and primary schools have a catchment area that is within easy walking distance from home to school. Yet, the traffic caused by pupils being driven to/from school is astonishing. Banishing the "School Run" should be a priority for all schools.
MaxiMinimalist 3 hours ago
When I was a kid (that was during the previous millenium when phones were connected to a plug in the wall), I rode my bicycle to school, music academy, sport grounds, parties even during the winter. The government didn't have to spend, correct that, didn't have to think of spending massive amounts of money to build cycling specific infrastructures. Over the past 3 or 4 decades, cars have grown bigger, taller, safer (for their drivers) and faster. Meanwhile, motorists have become abusive, aggressive, hypersensitive to people moving on two wheels, aka cyclists. Spending billions upon billions on new infrastructure won't address the crux of the matter. Sadly.
Paul J 3 hours ago
Obree had some actual talent in his legs though, in addition to his bike/aero engineering talent.
Maruis Kalchev 3 hours ago
Малко като опит за доказване е излязло... Никой няма нужда от толкова голям въртящ момент и мощност на шосеен велосипед с тънки гуми, които дори трудно ще предават тази мощност върху пътя. А ако има и ограничение от 25 км/час е още по-безмислено.
mdavidford 3 hours ago
Not sure how informative that is. I imagine for all most of us know it could be Europe's only 'volumetric modular building'. 🤷♂️
chrisonabike 3 hours ago
Yes, but they're copying the adults of today...
chrisonabike 3 hours ago
Indeed - but alas I think this is an effective argument for very few folks indeed. As for push-back, what else could we expect *? I think there are ways of selling this but we're far more likely to see headlines about the problems, while the successes are relegated to footnotes, because at that point it just works and there's nothing to see... * Given that this time there aren't politicians being persuaded to overlook thousands of deaths and the demolition of property by the billions from the motoring trades (and the excitement of being able to drive out with the bright things for a party at a roadhouse). Nor are we as tolerant of "accidents". (And noting that publicity about the cases of a handful of people killed by cyclists continues to reach the media; deaths related to motor vehicles not so much).
mdavidford 3 hours ago
That rather ignores that the children of today are the adults of tomorrow.
fwhite181 3 hours ago
@belugabob Arguably it's easier this way - we don't actually need to do anything to the streets except stop drivers driving down every scrap of tarmac. Where I live, a few well-placed bollards would make walking/cycling/scooting the quicker option and safer, while maintaining 100% vehicular access - just not allowing through routes in every direction.
7 thoughts on “road.cc live blog – BMX rider almost impaled on fence (video) plus Aru’s new jersey falls flat and much more”
Hmm? Something about Aru?
Hmm? Something about Aru?
Hmm. Something about a video?
Hmm? Something about a video?
This live blog articles with
This live blog articles with promising descriptions and no content or even link, really amaze me. I wonder why I keep clicking on them.
cyclisto wrote:
Adblocker ? You don’t see the articles with Adblock activated.
That said when it’s not activated the articles are there but they’ll be overlaid with enormous video adverts and fake Facebook screens….
fukawitribe wrote:
Adblocker ? You don’t see the articles with Adblock activated.
That said when it’s not activated the articles are there but they’ll be overlaid with enormous video adverts and fake Facebook screens….— cyclisto
Yeah, and take 4x longer to load!
While I understand the magazine has to get revenue from somewhere, I dont appreciate them eating up my bandwidth; at least there are only 9(!) adverts on this page, a certain other onine ‘zine that might be on your “Radar”
has begun to block me completely: greedy bastards can keep their crappy rag if they’re gonna squeeze 23 ads onto one page!
Time to ramp up the ad blocker arms race with an ad blocker that stops websites blocking the ad blocker from blocking !
I don’t even have an ad
I don’t even have an ad blocker and still see nothing.
Mind you, I do have a script-blocker, so I suppose that must be having the same effect.
Thing is, every time I turn off scriptblocking (or, when I used to use it, adblocking) its never very long before I encounter a situation on some site or other that I visit where visitors have been infected with malware from a hijacked advert. Not only are many adverts ridiculously intrusive, but the way they get served up seems to create a significant security hole on otherwise trustworthy websites. I just don’t feel its worth the risk.
And why do sites have _so many_ scripts running? Just screeds of them, most of which don’t seem to do anything of any use to the end-user. The web is suffering from bloat. The more powerful browsing devices get, the more unnecessary crap web developers add to use up those CPU cycles.
For me, it’s only the browser
For me (I’m on a Mac), it’s only the browser I’ve set running adblock that prevents the page loading. It loads fine on the others and without over-intrusive ads. I guess the script blocker is doing the same for FKoT (totally agree with their last paragraph btw).
Anyway for those that are not seeing it on this site, check this
https://twitter.com/Trudgin/status/947964249720094722