Live blog: Luke Rowe back racing tomorrow, North American Handmade Bike Show pics, new Wiggins kit + more
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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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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…
8 thoughts on “Live blog: Luke Rowe back racing tomorrow, North American Handmade Bike Show pics, new Wiggins kit + more”
I once tried to get
I once tried to get compensation out of Reading Council for a broken wheel when I hit a pot hole on Cow Lane.
Was told that because it hadn’t been reported prior to me hitting it, they couldn’t be held liable for not fixing it and therefore weren’t going to pay me anything.
LastBoyScout wrote:
That’s often the response and it’s generally defensible in law so long as they can demonstrate they have an adequate monitoring regime in place. You might ask for details of the inspection regime for that stretch of road and details of the most recent inspection.
It’s also why it’s really important we report potholes. If they’re reported then the road authority can’t deny knowledge (might be worth checking the pothole reporting sites too – see if it was reported).
CUK’s fillthathole website and app are good because they give you a record of what you submitted – councils’ own sites often don’t (which could allow them to deny knowledge).
Duncann wrote:
https://www.fillthathole.org.uk/
Monmouthshire county council
Monmouthshire county council paid my claim for broken car suspension and promptly fixed the hole the same day, it’s always worth asking.
That Wiggins kit is quite
That Wiggins kit is quite sharp, modern but a bit retro and nice GB colours; just a shame it is marred by all the writing and names on it.
Why is Luke Rowe riding
Why is Luke Rowe riding around what looks like Sepang International circuit in Malaysia?
Edit – No, it’ll be the Abu Duabi circuit, given the headline. Are the middle east roads too dangerous to ride on?
joules1975 wrote:
There’s stages out of town, near the centre, by the sea and also in the Yas Marina as normal. Bit a mix. There’s even an ITT this year.
I love Tom Dumoulin, but both
I love Tom Dumoulin, but both that kit and bike are really uninspiring for a world champion, maybe it’s the shapes of the bike but compared to other recent winners bikes it looks a bit dull, and as for the kit, I don’t know if they were going for turn of the millenium 3rd division team kit, but it looks pretty poor. The Sunweb logo doesn’t help, looks like it was put together by some school kids using Word during detention.