Live blog: Greg James forced to pause Sport Relief efforts, Armstrong helps test autonomous drone + your pics of cycling in the snow and more
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Thu, Mar 01, 2018 18:27
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Brompton rider 11 minutes ago
@wtjs I've sent in 2 close pass videos to kent police, never heard anything back.
ktache 24 minutes ago
@Rendel Harris I had wondered how they might be preparing to deal with the expected heat. Got to keep them as safe as possible. My excitement is building, always a nervy first week, too many crashes in the peleton and no amount of down gearing is going to prevent that. From my cloudy memory, the pogecar lad is very rarely caught out on the wrong side of a crosswind split.
Gm_Crop 40 minutes ago
Rumor has it that riding the MMR gives you autism.
Rendel Harris 45 minutes ago
Well this looks ominous: real possibility of Tour stages being cancelled due to extreme heat. I'll put the link in a reply otherwise this whole comment will be quarantined - it's on the Guardian if anyone wants to search for themselves.
Sedis 48 minutes ago
Having used the street multiple times since it was opened just over a month ago, I can report two issues which are preventing the improvements from working to their full potential. Firstly, there is no signage other than the painted bikes on the road itself, so there is nothing to indicate that cyclists have priority. The second is that the double yellow lines stop about two-thirds of the way down the road, meaning that from that point onwards, there are multiple cars parked half on the pavement and not in the designated parking places, reducing the width of both the footpath and the road to what it was before the improvements were made.
Rendel Harris 1 hour 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 1 hour ago
Yeah, it's great isn't it........
Velophaart_95 1 hour 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 1 hour 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 3 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.
23 thoughts on “Live blog: Greg James forced to pause Sport Relief efforts, Armstrong helps test autonomous drone + your pics of cycling in the snow and more”
Snow day for me, woke up at 6
Snow day for me, woke up at 6, a wall of red cancellations on the live train board, went back to bed. Thing is the ride part of the commute has been fantastic all this week. On Monday the mud had frozen and it had not been that dry since June. Got a bit sketchy on Tuesday evening so fitted the spike tyres. After a hearty brunch I’m off for a big off road ride.
Getting some use out of the
Getting some use out of the IceSpikers this year.
Drinfinity wrote:
that looks nice. Where is it?
ConcordeCX wrote:
Cadshaw farm to The Strawbury Duck. Just off the A666 Bolton to Darwen.
It’s part of my regular off-road short loop. There’s a whole set of bridleways and farm tracks that link up to form decent circuits, and access the PBW feeder routes.
A good long freeze and spikes also makes the top of the moors accessible. Most of the year it’s bog, but when frozen solid extra circuits open up.
Drinfinity wrote:
lovely round there. Spent many a fine summers evening at or outside the Strawberry Duck in my youth before moving away
Drinfinity wrote:
thanks, that’s near my ancestral homeland. Looks good on the OS maps too. PBW is on my list of things to do.
I’ve just got a road bike
I’ve just got a road bike with 28mm semislick GP4000s. Remember discretion is the greater part of valour; have the weekend off, Mother Natures free rest day. It’s going to be a long summer.
Leviathan wrote:
Also riding a road bike with GP4000s. Around the same area (Manchester). Don’t know what the fuss is about. Bit of white stuff on the side streets but once on the reasonably frequently used A & B roads its fine.
CygnusX1 wrote:
Oh yeah. Do you know Rufus Brunt? I wonder if you are one of my Velofrenemies. As easy as it is the quote Rule 5. I’d rather not take a needless spill and be off the bike for days or weeks when it will take literally one day to melt this lot if the wind turns. I’ve lots of shopping to do and haven’t seen Black Panther yet.
And my work site is closing
And my work site is closing from tonight and all day tomorrow. Double snow day, Yeah!
ktache wrote:
Me too. Paid leave. Awesome. Long may it continue!
RE those drones, they could
RE those drones, they could be a godsend for cycling coverage in years to come. No need for a road full of motorbikes.
Turbo @ 6am and then a(nother
Turbo @ 6am and then a(nother) day of WFH 🙂
“The drone pursues him like
“The drone pursues him like an Irish journalist.”
Hmm.
“The drone pursues him like
delete
“The drone pursues him like
delete
Lance who?
Lance who?
CygnusX1 wrote:
Armstrong.
His name’s Casey Neistat not
His name’s Casey Neistat not Casey Neustat. At least get his name right!
greenphotos wrote:
yeah we know – slip of the finger, but you can’t edit an embed on the live blog unfortunately
Warming up after a 20 mile
Warming up after a 20 mile off road snow day adventure.
Spike tyres, Yeah!
ktache wrote:
Yes, they are great aren’t they? I got to work through heavy snow shower and packed snow on the minor roads no problem. In fact I would have struggled to get to work in the car on wednesday.
Then two hours later they shut the workplace down (University campus) so I did it all over again! Great fun knowing you can keep rubber side down in these conditions.
Having said that, I don’t think we in South Cumbria have had it that bad, compared to the rest of the UK – still hasn’t stopped work closing the campus until next monday.
I’m with you on this 110%
I’m with you on this 110% Leviathan. This’ll be gone in a couple of days and no point risking 6 weeks off the bike with a broken wrist. PS. It’s rule #9
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