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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JLasTSR 1 hour ago
I had actually cycled my first century the week before the accident. I got back on the bike straight away then a hip wore out and was replaced so I missed a lot of cycling in 2024 but I was back to my normal level in 2025 not so sure what has happened this year I am not as enthusiastic as usual I have been on the bike just not cycled far. I will have to do more as I will do a 50 mile ride in September the annual charity ride. Not sure fear is the problem exactly more a feeling that there is less enjoyment.in a bike ride than there once was.
GravelIsNothingNew 2 hours ago
What’s all this MTB palaver? The Tour de France was originally a gravel race. 🙃
Brompton rider 2 hours ago
@wtjs I've sent in 2 close pass videos to kent police, never heard anything back.
ktache 2 hours 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 3 hours ago
Rumor has it that riding the MMR gives you autism.
Rendel Harris 3 hours 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 3 hours 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 3 hours 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 3 hours ago
Yeah, it's great isn't it........
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.