Live blog: New Colnago C64, Doris Swinnerton, still making wheels at 92 + much more

@DrG82 Exactly what I thought: cut through the cover using a bladed instrument, use a cropper while bending it a bit and the segments will separate, exposing the cable or it wouldn't be flexible. Once there, it'll be toast. An angle grinder is simply the wrong tool to attack this. I don't expect it'll protect more than one of those notoriously easy to defeat locks where the cable is covered by metal segments, sheeted in plastic.

@DrG82 Exactly what I thought: cut through the cover using a bladed instrument, use a cropper while bending it a bit and the segments will separate, exposing the cable or it wouldn't be flexible. Once there, it'll be toast. An angle grinder is simply the wrong tool to attack this. I don't expect it'll protect more than one of those notoriously easy to defeat locks where the cable is covered by metal segments, sheeted in plastic.

Re: the UAE car, one view I've heard is that the very sudden braking was done by an automatic system that relies on sensors. The expert said the auto-braking system should be turned off when driving in a bike race.

@mdavidford I love Hope got multiple brakes / wheels on all bikes, they keep developing stuff, for example I replaced a calliper recently and its a closed and clean bleed so much easier than on the previous calliper.

What does the Tour de Suisse have to with it?

Well, yeah, that tends to be the way with stuff that's "pushing the boundaries" - it usually only makes sense to tool up for mass production once it's been iterated a few times and become established, and that means it tends to come with a premium price tag because the r&d costs of developing it are spread over relatively few customers.

The ‘far east’ is also the west of you go the other way around. We live in the world.

Another feverish blathering of the TDS afflicted.

It's all very premium stuff, Hope making stuff in UK on large scale, but unsure about all the other Co's listed, all very small scale almost one off and boutique.

That cordalock is nothing new, oxford had a similar product about 30 years ago, they could be cut with croppers quite easily because the blades separated the hardened rings exposing the wire core.