Live blog: Deaths caused by drink-drivers on the rise, introducing the Podbike, Robocap, and more
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I still don’t understand the changes they’ve made recently. They had an issue with discounting, so stopped that. The issue was never revenue though, it was the overheads as a percentage of revenue. As long as you sell the item above the manufacturing cost it’s still worth selling. They’re now covering the same overheads with less revenue. Beyond the finances, the product needs fixing too - the casual clothing was an easy way to push the brand yet underutilised with ridiculous prices. Hideous colours on all levels of the core and pro range - it’s like they went into the woods and decided to make everything beige, or washed out green. It’s frustrating as I want to buy rapha but they don’t make anything that appeals.
@eburtthebike but those are occupied by the previous incumbents (or they sold them for scrap)
@GravelIsNothingNew Undoubtedly, prices are exorbitant (coinciding with a cost-of-living crisis 🙄 ). But as Mr T said: “I pity the fool who buys Rapha outside their archive sales.”
@Pub bike here you see the challenge all reviews face: there’s a thousand ways to do any specific task on a bike. So any conclusion a reviewer comes to can be pulled apart by a thousand apples/oranges comparisons. It’s a bag that attaches to a bike. It works quite well. Other bags are available. Isn’t choice grand?
@wtjs Don't the police have to use this neutral language (nauseating as it is) so they can't be accused of jeopardising the eventual trial.
@Ramz It's £45 for the navy blue version, £90 for all the other colours.
Great write-up thanks! Lots of nice observations and useful details. Like you I met some lovely people on tour this year but I met almost all of them whilst waiting to board the ferry. I saw very few cycle tourists in the south of France in contrast to previous years. Maybe people were scared off by the heat (which wasn't that bad in early September) or are most people now bikepacking off-road and wild-camping?
I highly recommend the 5 10 freeride range. 3 pairs at the moment, a pair in tan, fabric panels in suede, for the dry summer, better ventilation, a pair in black leather for when the going gets wet, and the plastic winter version, for when the going gets cold and very muddy. All excellent grip on my Shimano saints, dmr v12s and wellgo "v12s". Owned their spitfires for many years, my first cycling specific shoes.
"Buy Now for £45 from Endura" That is £45 per shoe, because the price on Endura is now £90 for a pair!
David Byrne coffee cup bike racks. I think a few of these in a range of browns would be perfect.
7 thoughts on “Live blog: Deaths caused by drink-drivers on the rise, introducing the Podbike, Robocap, and more”
The very best that can be
The very best that can be said about helmet promotion is that it distracts from measures that really work to make cycling safer. As long as most people think that all you have to do is wear a helmet, nothing else will ever get done.
If helmets did work, perhaps they might have a point, but since all the long term, large scale, reliable data shows that they don’t, there is no point to promoting them. Let’s talk about the stuff that works, the stuff that the government won’t actually implement because they spend all the transport money on ego schemes like HS2 and new roads.
I’ve read the whole article
I’ve read the whole article from Applied Mobilities, and while it’s about the US experience there’s sadly much that resonates with policy here (starting with LAs who won’t let kids as much as climb on a bike in their Bikeability lessons without a crash helmet on, the teaching delivered by instructors who are often required to wear a crash helmet as a “good example”).
As well as persuading people that cycling is inevitably dangerous, the more time and energy we spend telling people that they should wear special safety gear to ride a bike, the more we tell anyone averse to wearing that stuff that they shouldn’t be riding a bike.
That Podbike could quite
That Podbike could quite easily become my new winter bike!
KendalRed wrote:
€4500 plus postage and very likely plus import duty+VAT, gonna be nearer £5k and that’s only for the base model. You do get 8% off retail if you pay €2700 up front however. Given the massive subsidies given to potential EV owners why can’t pedalecs like this get a big wedge off too as an incentive?
I’ve been looking for something that is pretty much gadget free, no fancy opening system or like the pod more mechanicals so you can stack it upright (which would blow over in a decent wind if parked up) I don’t want an internal computer just maybe a connection to a phone/device that can show you the charged state.
I just see these pods as being too over complicated, want wheels that can take tyres that you can buy from most bike shops and some space for a reasonable amount of luggage. It should also have a better range, 38 miles is really stingy/not that great given how aero the pod is meant to be.
The Schaffler is more like it but I’d want more low slung – it’s just too upright, it’s too heavy with 4 shock absorbers/4 disc brakes and there’s no space for luggage though I like how tight you can turn it.
As for the Iris E-trike, it’s doubtful there ever will be an end product, there are lots of negative murmerings about how he’s shafted people and other ugly stuff. I’d avoid it like a dose of the clap.
Somewhere, Clive Sinclair
Somewhere, Clive Sinclair spends every day ruing the fact that he was just thirty years ahead of his time. Still a genius.
Suprised that school kid hasn
Suprised that school kid hasn’t had his bike impounded by the school’s Principal (they never seem to be head-teachers at academies) for not wearing hi-vis & helmet and no school issued licence plates!
Good luck Kien.
That’s some bling levers,
That’s some bling levers, brakes and seat post clamp he has there
Good luck son, hats off to you for Jogle!
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