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Live blog: Laura Kenny advocates ‘the Addison Lean’; Hinault urges riders to strike if Froome races the Tour (and Team Sky’s response); shocking driving from Dublin bus + more
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Pub bike 7 hours ago
Would he have performed better on his normal bike?
wtjs 9 hours ago
the National Bus and Rail Union told the Oireachtas (Irish Parliament) the following month, saying the requirements (making the cyclist scum wear helmets and HiViz) would, “make the roads a safer place, as it would make potential hazards easier to spot.” Nothing to do with driver behaviour then? Stagecoach is even putting intimidating threats against cyclists on the side of the buses now! ttps://upride.cc/incident/px60beo_stagecoach41-closepass/
eburtthebike 9 hours ago
.......the government was focused on the “enormity of the e-scooter problem” Just wait until they find out how absolutely effing gigantic the car problem is. The whole thing is just motornormativity at government level, and while Ciarán Cannon talks sense, Seán Canney is fecking eejit.
Rendel Harris 10 hours ago
40% of fatal road incidents (70 deaths p.a.) in Ireland involve excess alcohol. Pass a law mandating compulsory alcohol interlocks for all motor vehicles and see what that does for road safety first.
Rendel Harris 12 hours ago
@mitsky I didn't say it was applicable in this case or that I thought it should be, I was simply answering your question as to whether anyone had ever shot someone and been charged with anything other than murder or attempted murder, to which the answer is yes.
Rendel Harris 12 hours ago
@perce The new troll, my friend, is solely piss and wind, the new troll is solely piss and wind.
Xenophon2 13 hours ago
Very correct price for a basic, no-frills frameset. Older and wiser -after a warranty case on a '100 year' Ti frameset that lasted 5 years before a drive side chain stay weld said sayonara- I'll never again purchase a really high cost Ti frame. If the replacement -3999 Euro at retail but I paid 800, which is what it took for them to +- honour the warranty- fails, I'm done. Firstly because they do fail. Titanium is very finicky where welding conditions are concerned and good luck with that warranty, better read the wording very carefully. Secondly, often the price is justified with 'it's a frame for life'. Errrr....yes, unless you decide you want something different after 5 years, it breaks or technology evolves to a point where your frameset becomes aa anachronism and after 10 years you can start hunting for spares(UDH and disc brakes, anyone?). Third: I'm getting a bit tired reading about these so-called 'magical' properties of Ti. The only magical thing about it is the corrosion resistance. All that absorbing of vibrations etc is mainly function of frame design/geometry. If you want vibration damping: larger tires, lower pressure, done.
darnac 13 hours ago
True,but I can't count thé number of times I've seen him on TV as an invited expert for comments since
MaxiMinimalist 13 hours ago
"...there was enough suspicion to warrant an out-of-hours knock on the door for the Tour’s then-top two." A generic statement that sounds like a cover-your-arse mumbling. Can they be more specific? Nope. Good to see Vaughters join Lefevere to add up some controversy to the very politically correct pro peloton. In the late 1990s and early noughties, when cycling was becoming a global phenomenom, officials, race organisers and team managers turned a blind eye on doping. Nobody wanted to slay the goose with golden eggs.
mctrials23 13 hours ago
Am I missing something. Pogacar would be firm favourite no matter what you did unless you made it a very flat edition which no one would want. Outside of Pogacar its all up for grabs. You can't build a good multi-week race with Pogacar in the form he is in. Take Pogacar out and this would be fine.
22 thoughts on “Live blog: Laura Kenny advocates ‘the Addison Lean’; Hinault urges riders to strike if Froome races the Tour (and Team Sky’s response); shocking driving from Dublin bus + more”
Only if you admit to doping
Only if you admit to doping when you refused to take a dope test after your tour win.
Hinault head of the desperate Roman Bardet for GC campaign, as it’s the only he’s going to beat Froome, or unless Froome has an unfortunate mishap.
My money is on the Badger, he
My money is on the Badger, he’d take Froome in a fight
Bernard Hinault: Cycling
Bernard Hinault: Cycling legend, and a bit of a nob.
Hinault can see his position
Hinault can see his position as one of the elite 5 time winners being diluted so he is trying to undermine Froome who is perfectly entitled to be riding. It is the UCI that he should be having a go at, not someone racing who is perfectly entitled to be doing so. Nice comment by Christopher.
Hinault, yawn, such 1980s
Hinault, yawn, such 1980s mentality.
check12 wrote:
Strikes never went out of popularity in France.
Old Bernard really is being a
Old Bernard really is being a bit of a prick. I’m not condoning or defending Froome and Team Sky’s alleged misdemeanours, but the fact is that all this shouldn’t even be in the public realm at this stage. If the adverse finding hadn’t been ‘leaked’ then this would all be happening behind closed doors where Froome would (or at least should) be getting a fair hearing, and like other riders should be free to race until convicted/banned/acquitted or whatever the outcome may be. As already said above, if anyone should be feeling the wrath of Bernie, it should be the UCI for being lax with their data security in the first place, apparently relying on a rather sub-standard and questionable test for Salbutamol and subsequently handing the whole situation rather poorly.
The Sky fan boys are out in
The Sky fan boys are out in force today
It’s so sad when one of your
It’s so sad when one of your heros turns out to be a prick.
But so good to see East Dumbarton Police getting a right royal shafting on twitter for their absurd, victim blaming campaign.
burtthebike wrote:
Why is he (Hinault) a prick? He has an opinion like everyone else and is entitled to air it, doesn’t make him a prick though.
don simon wrote:
Aah Don, you seem to be unaware the man is a foreigner. From abroad. Over there.
mike the bike wrote:
Aah Don, you seem to be unaware the man is a foreigner. From abroad. Over there.— don simon
I’m sure that’s true, but I expect burtthebike can give their own explanation, it’d be a pretty stupid thing to say otherwise.
I think The Badger is taking
I think The Badger is taking a leaf out of the 1966 Monte Carlo rally rule book and planning to disqualify everyone until he gets to the token Frenchman, who will then be crowned the victor. He was one of the all-time greats of cycling, but he was always a proper tool.
A frenchman calling for
A frenchman calling for strikes. Whatever next.
Yorkshire wallet wrote:
Although he was also famous for punching those strikers who got in [i]his[/i] way.
Team Sky may be partially
Team Sky may be partially correct about Hinault. His call for a boycott probably isn’t based on a full knowledge of every detail of the Froome case. But then I suspect they’d respond in the same way to anyone who hasn’t read all 1500 pages of “evidence” which they’ve submitted to delay and obfuscate the case.
handlebarcam wrote:
Remember, it’s not Team SKY’s fault that they are dragging out the case and not supplying information, it’s 100% fault of the UCI.
What a relief with some
What a relief with some straight talk. There is no smoke without a fire. These things should be settled quickly with no options for appeal and not with this stupid system where things are decided in court rooms.
*sigh..
*sigh..
25mph on the pavement?
25mph on the pavement? Pathetic!
At the public meeting to consider the chicanes put in by the local authority on the Bristol-Bath cycle path, after they’d put them in, one person claimed that the cyclists were doing 60mph. It did get quite a big laugh.
Meaningless statistic of the
Meaningless statistic of the day:
“Research commissioned by Addison Lee following incidents involving its drivers and cycle couriers found that 65 per cent of cyclists have been involved in a car-dooring incident or know someone who has.”
Did they also reveal that 100% of the population is female? Or know somebody who is female?
That Dublin bus driver was a
That Dublin bus driver was a bit incompetent, eh?
I think bus drivers should be trained to look ahead and see if anyone is waiting at a stop, so they don’t do stupid and dangerous last-minute manoeuvres like that one! Oh, wait…