Live blog: Ultra marathon athlete to RUN entire Tour de France route, Ian To targets LEJOG record, Mail pushes for Alliston perjury charge + more
All the news from the site and beyond
Mon, Feb 19, 2018 15:00
Help us to bring you the best cycling content
If you’ve enjoyed this article, then please consider subscribing to road.cc from as little as £1.99. Our mission is to bring you all the news that’s relevant to you as a cyclist, independent reviews, impartial buying advice and more. Your subscription will help us to do more.
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.
12 Comments
Read more...
Read more...
Read more...
Latest Comments
Rendel Harris 2 minutes ago
@MaxiMinimalist Really? So this applies only to drivers from Bouches-du-Rhône, Haute-Garonne and Vaucluse, drivers from the other sixteen départements that make up the south are fine?
Velophaart_95 7 minutes ago
Yeah, it's great isn't it........
Velophaart_95 8 minutes ago
Handling a bike across a bit of grass is a bit different to descending rock gardens, and drop off in a XCO World Cup....... The top XC guys are on another level to elite road racers.......(Pidcock is an outlier) MvdP has struggled in recent years after spending too long away from it.
ktache 27 minutes ago
45 years without being hit wasn't a bad run. I hope you are back on the bike and are dealing well with the fear.
Krislord 2 hours ago
I’m pretty much expecting this is a restructuring and everything will continue as it was before. Whether pricing and discounting stays the same I don’t know, but the business was acquired recently and this feels like part of that rather than the end. I’m surprised by the negative comments - I prefer my lecol bibs to my Rapha ones. Our club use lecol for our kit and I’ve found the quality is pretty good - I don’t know who else does club kit but I’ve been pretty happy with what was produced for us.
Pub bike 2 hours ago
Given how rubbish Wandsworth Council is for active travel they actually did surprisingly well on the Healthy Streets Scorecard: https://www.healthystreetsscorecard.london/results/your_borough/wandsworth/ but this score seems to be mainly based on the roll out of (widely ignored) 20 mph speed limits. I suspect this is a temporary lull and the score will shortly plummet as even other similarly apathetic car-centric boroughs will start to outperform WBC. And the Blade Mews debacle is just ridiculous institutional anti-cyclist bias.
Freddy56 3 hours ago
In my 5th year with a pair of their Roubaix gloves. They are starting to look a bit tatty not but have outlasted, by 2 my Castelli winter gloves.
ChasP 3 hours ago
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp8l5gme7lyo Judge wants to avoid banning motorcyclist from driving cars... why???
JLasTSR 3 hours ago
I am the Harold Lepper of the BMW story, I don't remember the accident nor the next 5 hours I have little flashes of memory in that time like snapshots. I was unconscious for a minute or two after I had wound up lying on the wrong side of the road after bouncing off the car. I would never ride on the wrong side of the road nor cut a corner it is not the way I ride a bike. I would use my lanes width if safe to do so. I can only guess what happened, I have a flash of memory of checking behind just before the corner to check no car behind as I would be moving to primary thought he corner, another flash of memory going I need full brakes and it won't be enough. I think I would have adjusted my line to the middle of the road hoping they would stop just over the give way line. They actually stopped right across my lane and about 2 feet into the opposite carriage way and the back of their car was just still in the side road. If I had stayed to the far left I would still have hit them. As the Judge said to Miss Sim if he was on the wrong side of the road why did he not cycle round your car? Surely where he hit you suggests he was veering away from your emerging car. Prosecution pointed out that I was braking so hard my back wheel was off the ground, she said she didn't think I had braked. Prosecution asked if she would pull out in the same situation again she said yes 4 times then the 5th time said perhaps not. Prosecution said that it looks like the cyclist was passing this sign on the CCTV about 8m from the accident on the left side of the road, she said it did but it was deceptive the cyclist was nearer the middle of the road. Prosecution paused then said so you deliberately pulled out into the path of oncoming traffic. They tried to muddy the water because they said I overtook another cyclist before the junction, which I believe is correct I have a vague recollection that it was moving very slowly and was more of a moped looking machine. It bumbles into view several seconds after the collision. Navigates round her BMW and was never heard of again! The verdict was reported to me just now that she has been found guilty has been banned from driving for 12 months and has been given a community order of 100 hours work. I think she saw me behind the moped as she approached the junction and before the junction had decided she had time to get out of the junction if the way was clear to the left, so she pulled out thinking she had time when she had given me about 10 yards to stop.
Rendel Harris 3 hours ago
Surprised there's no mention of The Texan's crossfield detour in 2003, say what you like about him (and who doesn't?), the man could handle a bike…
12 thoughts on “Live blog: Ultra marathon athlete to RUN entire Tour de France route, Ian To targets LEJOG record, Mail pushes for Alliston perjury charge + more”
I was in Nottingham on
I was in Nottingham on Saturday. I thought the roads where I live in Northampton were bad. But Nottingham was much, much worse.
If only the Daily Mail could
If only the Daily Mail could use its power and influence for doing some good instead of pushing a fear inspired agenda of hate…
At the end of the day he got
At the end of the day he got convicted so his experience (or lack of) counted for nothing anyway.
Odd one perjury as basically if you lose your case then what they are saying is they didn’t believe you…so surely you’ve perjured yourself by losing your case anyway.
Yorkshire wallet wrote:
Exactly. Surely every defendant who pleads not guilty and is found guilty is a perjurer. Unless the prosecution are perjurers.
racyrich wrote:
I haven’t looked it up but I thought you entered your plea before you were sworn to tell the truth, the whole truth etc. etc… therefore perjury doesn’t apply to your plea.
Mark.
racyrich wrote:
Next they’ll charge him with not taking the sentence with a smile.
Yorkshire wallet wrote:
Not really, the jury’s duty is to weigh up conflicting accounts presented by prosecution and defence and decided which account is correct; both sides can believe their evidence is true, Aliston can believe the collisison was unavoidale, the prosecution alleged it wasn’t, the jury went with the prosecution. It’s only perjury if you gave an account which you know wasn’t true, for example if Aliston had said he wasn’t there at all. Generally, as far as I’m aware, prosecutions for perjury only tend to occur if a defendant (e.g. jeffrey Archer) was exonerated on the basis of something which later proved to be a palpable lie. Any lies told during the process of being fond guilty are taken, I think, to be punished by the sentencing, for example people who admit guilt immediately tend to have that taken into account.
But even if Aliston did perjure himself it’s in relation to such a tiny matter – exaggerating his couriering experience – that it’s clearly politically motivated, as was the whole case, which received more media attention than any number of drink drivers killing people. Shameful abuse of the judicial system to hammer an anti-cycling agenda.
So how many 10,000’s of
So how many 10,000’s of drivers are gonna get investigated for perjury then?
Thought so.
StoopidUserName wrote:
Exactly: I wonder exactly how many of those “my client is totally remorseful and needs to keep their driving licence otherwise their wife will leave them, their kids will turn to drugs, and they’ll lose their job, just before the sky falls in”-type pleas are actually a load of foetid dingoes kidneys…?
Is that not perjury too?
Speed-bumps on a shared-use
Speed-bumps on a shared-use path to slow down cycles? Is it April 1st already?
Why don’t they copy the UK and just put loads of broken glass over shared-use paths – that’ll slow down the bikes even more.
Imagine how much better a
Imagine how much better a place the UK would be without the Mail, Sun, Star, Express
This perjury “investigation”
This perjury “investigation” by the Daily Mail is another example of the hypocrisy and double standards which ran through the coverage of the case. See
https://rdrf.org.uk/2017/08/21/the-charlie-alliston-case-the-real-story/ and