Live blog: Raleigh Burner now a balance bike, Castelli back making Giro d’Italia jerseys, and more
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Tue, Jan 16, 2018 14:30
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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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mctrials23 9 minutes ago
@Jakrayan God knows. On the country roads here (Kent) people are usually good at not close passing me but the consistently overtake me on blind corners etc. Oncoming cars on very narrow roads its 50:50 as to whether they will slow down at all despite passing me within 50cm. Once I get back into civilisation its a different story. Bad driving becomes the norm.
darnac 19 minutes ago
You could bé right. I live in a French Pyrenean départment with plenty of narrow, tight roads. About 80% of drivers either pull over to thé max or wait for a better space to overtake. Mind you, there's always thé odd one looking at their phone...
Pub bike 23 minutes ago
For a while I've thought this was an unfortunate brand name. Several times I've seen cyclists riding towards me wearing Le Col jerseys with their right arm covering the L so it looks like they are advertising e.Coli.
OldRidgeback 26 minutes ago
A driver in a BMW not looking properly at a junction? Who'd have thunk it?
Rendel Harris 26 minutes ago
@bennysnnock Which is why training for a driver's licence should include cycle training, of course.
Jimmy Ray Will 30 minutes ago
As someone who previously worked in the custom cycle clothing industry, I have to admit this news did make me smile. I'm sure the brand will rise like a phoenix from the flames, but just the idea that they've gone pop has lifted my mood. Fair play to Yanto though, I'm sure the brand has set him up, one way or another, for life; he had a vision and he delivered on it. But, having been at the wrong end of a strategy that involved outspending the rest of the industry (on advertising) and out-discounting on retail kit, it's nice to know that their 'be the last man standing' strategy has - at least for now - failed. One trick (let's be fair and call it a strategy) that really frustrated me back in the day, was the way in which they used to give university cycle teams free kit. All very upstanding you say, however their motivation was more; 1. get people in your kit young and (hopefully) keep them for life - fair enough - but more acutely 2. remove decent revenue streams from your competitors. Uni teams were great because every year there was a new influx of members needing kit - so LeCol just took the market, not to make any money, just to kill it for the rest of us.
Surreyrider 33 minutes ago
@Rendel Harris Absolutely. I was just making the point that Surrey has a lot of 'couldn't care less if I hit you' drivers whose attitude is get out of my way and if you don't that's your fault.
PeteZahad 36 minutes ago
Their socks were all right.
Surreyrider 37 minutes ago
@mctrials23 All those play out in Surrey pretty much every ride.
PeteZahad 39 minutes ago
@Smoggysteve: Just buy the red version. It's faster—everyone knows that!
1 thought on “Live blog: Raleigh Burner now a balance bike, Castelli back making Giro d’Italia jerseys, and more”
IWOOT Raleigh Burners.
IWOOT Raleigh Burners. Unfortunately, my youngest is now 12 so I don’t have a plausible excuse, and I don’t think the Mrs will let me get her in the family way again just so I can buy one.