Live blog: Green Oil bike featured in Dragons’ Den stolen, new Wiggins bike, journo in anti-cycling tweet shocker + more
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Wed, Mar 14, 2018 08:55
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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........
8 thoughts on “Live blog: Green Oil bike featured in Dragons’ Den stolen, new Wiggins bike, journo in anti-cycling tweet shocker + more”
Imagine if this was regarding
Imagine if this was regarding a video of a woman being assaulted and a male journo tweeted
Sounds bad, until you see the film and can’t help cheering. We’ve all longed to do it to the women.
Yorkshire wallet wrote:
Absolutely. Utterly incredible that this kind of bias and incitement to violence is allowed. YW is right; in any other circumstances this “journalist” would have been instantly dismissed and the story would have been huge, but because it’s a cyclist, hardly anyone has noticed.
burtthebike wrote:
Surely it’d count as incitement to violence, which would be a criminal matter? A sacking would be appropriate.
She writes for The Spectator
She writes for The Spectator – what do people expect? Tolerance?
She keeps digging: “it was
She keeps digging: “it was going into a ditch with that concentrated look on his face that amused me”.
I can only imagine she’s short of a few quid so has taken a page out of the Katie Hopkins play book. Both of them have worked for the Daily Mail.
Advocating thuggish behaviour that could be life changing to the victim beggers belief.
Jane who?
Jane who?
Queensland; 30 years behind
Queensland; 30 years behind the civilised world. From my visits, I’m amazed at the mindset.
CS6 cyclists dropping out of
CS6 cyclists dropping out of hyperspace there.
I won’t be smoking all day.
This blog thingy really is being updated every five minutes. Leg shaving, I only got the legs out of wraps yesterday; it’s too early for shaving.