Live blog: Scrap TUEs, urges Team Sky’s Geraint Thomas, Sarah Storey withdraws from Para-cycling Track World Champs due to Yellow Fever outbreak + much 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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This Wreckage 17 minutes ago
The Stockton Hub which I used occasionally (I don't live in Stockton) was open only during standard office hours, Mondays to Fridays, rendering it useless for families and leisure cyclists. It's a standard problem for a lot of government-funded or charity-run public services which close when many people most need them, presumably because staffing costs would rise substantially. The article also mentions cycle hubs in Redcar and Darlington which, so far as I can tell, have never existed.
chrisonabike 22 minutes ago
Ho ho ho! No, we need to stop these idiotic cyclists completely (or limit them to velodromes, parks and maybe "rail trails") - that way there won't be any cyclist road fatalities! Simples! Meanwhile in many parts ofEurope they're finding the benefits of making it such that lots of people don't use cars for every journey - by fixing it so it's convenient and increasingly safe - despite much larger numbers of people getting around outside of cars than in the UK...
Rendel Harris 25 minutes ago
The fatality rate in the UK has fallen five years in a row during a period, starting with the Covid years, in which building of "idiotic Dutch roundabouts and segregated cycling infrastructure" has massively increased, so in fact using your own benchmark the statistics clearly show the benefits of increased cycling infrastructure. Not quite the gotcha you seem to think when viewed through non-troll lenses, Nige. The stupidity of your "argument" is further clearly illustrated by the fact that the list-topping Norway, Sweden and Denmark all have massive segregated cycling networks. The Dutch model used to demonstrate clearly the safer nature of the Dutch system, e.g. in 2018 the Netherlands had 8 fatalities per billion kms ridden compared to 21 in the UK; the primary reason for the increased fatality rates in the Netherlands has been attributed by experts to the massive uptake in ebikes (47% of new bikes sold in NL are now ebikes compared to 10% in the UK), particularly amongst the older population, nothing to do with the infrastructure.
leedorney 45 minutes ago
It used to be great price this, but they played the ace marketing card and got the popularity and now...
jackcycles 2 hours ago
Many thanks for posting these statistics and showing the downward trend in fatalities. One thing that stood out for me when clicking through to the government statistics page is the UK's exemplary record on this Vs other European countries, especially the much-vaunted record of The Netherlands, which actually shows twice as many fatalities as the UK per million of the population. The question that arises is therefore: why are the greens and other left-wing parties so keen to adopt an inferior and more dangerous road system when ours is obviously working well? It smacks of a need to regulate people's lives and curtail freedom. We need to stop these idiotic Dutch roundabouts and segregated cycling infrastructure, and get people sharing the road in a fair and equal manner, when the statistics show it's safer to do so. (Chart shows road fatalities per million population)
ChasP 3 hours ago
That's where the convertible aspect comes in. I've got a gravel bike but the canal I sometimes commute on has roots under the tarmac and barriers. The mtb with 'drops' is more comfortable for this and fits through the barriers. If I want to do something more technical I can put the flat bars on.
wtjs 18 hours ago
@FionaJJ These officers deployed next-level stupidity, and it must be difficult for the police to find people this dim. It doesn't even need rolling-roads or whatever, just a reputable bike computer on a quickly changed mount for the difficult cases where a proper EAPC has been modded, although you would need to look hard in Lancashire to find a police officer who knows how to make a pedal cycle go. Most illegal electric motorbikes are immediately obvious, not least because the crim is wearing a face mask. I saw an obvious one tonight coming out of Garstang Sainsbury's, not pedalling but without a face mask because everybody knows that the police only come into the town to hide away in the police station 200 yards away.
bikeman01 19 hours ago
Gustav Gullholm.. that's not a good look mate
mdavidford 22 hours ago
@Chris RideFar I think what you meant to say was "REMOVE this and put it on PODCAST CC".
jaymack 23 hours ago
As Mary Whitehouse never said - one doesn't have to read the article if one doesn't want to read about an off-road bicycle.
16 thoughts on “Live blog: Scrap TUEs, urges Team Sky’s Geraint Thomas, Sarah Storey withdraws from Para-cycling Track World Champs due to Yellow Fever outbreak + much more”
Most people are aware of the
Most people are aware of the ‘might, maybe and possibly’ in the report and the fact that there is no concrete evidence provided by either side to confirm or refute accusations.
Maybe Team Sky can encourage Dr Freeman to attend and offer his side of things. He is undoubtedly a key witness who, to date, has not answered any questions.
Even if this happens the fact remains that technically no rules were broken and that morally there is a debate to be had but that will always be between moralists and absolute competitors over the ‘interpretation’ of rules.
Does anyone else get put off
Does anyone else get put off cycling by just the amount of salt on the roads, which then means having to do a full bike clean after each ride?
I can handle really cold weather and don’t mind rain too much but the amount of salt spreading has increased a lot this winter / spring (obviously because of the temperature being lower).
First sportive of the year coming up this weekend and I’m not where I wanted to be in terms of fitness.
NorthEastJimmy wrote:
Ever heard of turbo trainers?
NorthEastJimmy wrote:
Yep, in exactly the same position. 1hr on turbo is nothing like 3hrs plus actual riding.
Yorkshie Whippet wrote:
Well indeed, but there’s nothing on the fitness side (endurance, core etc) that couldn’t have been done inside. Long hours in the saddle are very good at teaching your arse to deal with long hours in the saddle though…
Yorkshie Whippet wrote:
Yes, it’s much much harder.
NorthEastJimmy wrote:
No. I put mudguards on and rinse it down after a ride. Or go off road, with less salt. Spiked tyres required though.
Drinfinity wrote:
Is that Winter Hill in the background?
carytb wrote:
It is! You win a pot of black peas!
The bit of the moor ahead is only any good when frozen solid, or (very rarely) dried out.
Drinfinity wrote:
Is it the path coming over Anglezarke Moor?
don simon wrote:
No. There’s a clue in the path coming down from the mast…
Drinfinity wrote:
In that case coming over from Egerton, but I can’t think which path it’d be.
Edit: If it’s usually boggy then it has to be up by the Darwen Tower.
Err yes I think I’ve heard of
Err yes I think I’ve heard of a turbo! Thanks.
I have some rollers instead of a trainer because I feel I need to improve my cadence instead of power output, mostly down to the amount of hills around me. However I’d get really bored putting long hours on the saddle inside and wouldn’t want to throw money at something I’m not crazy about.
I also have full length, well fitted mudgaurds on my wet weather / winter bike. They do save a lot of time and trouble when it comes to cleaning the bike but it still doesn’t protect the most important part of your bike that’s vunerable to salt when your cycling in road spray. Dry roads with salt on, even slightly damp, you can get away with but that has been quite rare over the last few months.
That’s it
That’s it
GT – self righteous nob.
GT – self righteous nob.
Cozz wrote:
He’s got every right to be self righteous; he certainly has no history of injecting steroids like the disgraced cyclist Mr Wiggins.