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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mdavidford 6 hours ago
Isn't the opposite of someone who's homogenised split personality disorder?
GravelIsNothingNew 8 hours ago
AI is cancel culture Anyone who thinks it’s good has no talent and wants to be homogenised into a world of bland sameness.
Car Delenda Est 8 hours ago
@chrisonabike also a lot easier to wrap up when the 'hurty words' are telling people to burn down hotels hosting asylum seekers and then people go and do exactly that.
Defblade 8 hours ago
"The spokesperson for the Metropolitan Police said the force was unable to comment on this recent spate of reported bikejackings because “they are not linked, given they are in different areas”." Because crims on mopeds _definitely_ can't travel to different areas of the city, very easily?
ktache 9 hours ago
@Pub bike I run nokons on the Good Bike, very little compression on the outers, both xtr brake and gears. For the several years I will keep the well lubricated quality nokons inners I will have to adjust to take the little slack out of the rear a few times, just to make the shifts crisp. Ceramic brakes so pad wear is negligible, the rear will need more adjustment over time than the front, presumably as it's a much longer cable run. Nokons cables on the rohloff on the Ultimate Commuter, have had to take some slack out, mainly out of the getting lower gear cable, I'm guessing as I often trying to find the non existent lower gear on the hard climb.
Pub bike 10 hours ago
@imajez Brake adjusters mainly deal with pad wear whilst gear adjusters fine tune shifting during set-up and after fitting a new inner cable. Brake outer housing is spiral-wound and compressible giving compliance at the lever and the false impression that the inner cable somehow stretches whereas the metal strands in gear outer housing are laid axially and as such the outer housing doesn't easily compress over time keeping shifting precise. I find that a previously well-adjusted rear derailleur system that needs adjustment likely needs a new inner cable.
OkCarl 10 hours ago
I ride expensive bikes wearing expensive helmets, my bike equipped with an expensive bike computer, fitness watch and cell phone. I carry my debit card. I worry. You would expect anyone living in Chicago to worry about bike jacking. Yet, for some strange reason. The Chicago land criminal community has not caught on to bike jacking. They like retail break ins and ATM smash ups.
chrisonabike 10 hours ago
@mattw "footpaths" Hmm... true this is an underappreciated resource and indeed in danger. But I think this is very location dependent. If we're taking in urban locations, are you talking alleys - narrow almost always no room for expansion? Or "footways" - also often not ample and we're back to "fighting over scraps" with pedestrians or even forced-conflict with "shared use"? In the countryside - perhaps? If what goes in NL applies more generally (and why wouldn't it - they're humans too) more people may be prepared to travel on bikes there than UK opinion holds. ("people depend on their cars... nobody cycles or walks ... the non-existent footway beside the A-road!"). Although that may depend on "cyclists and walkers get the direct route" which isn't always how we do it...
imajez 11 hours ago
@james-o Cable brakes and gear shifters have have barrel adjusters to deal with the inevitable cable stretch, that most certainly occurs over time.
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.