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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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Thu, Jun 21, 2018 14:02
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ajd 2 minutes ago
Black bike in a black room with minimal lighting. Marketing people eh?
Blackthorne83 43 minutes ago
That’s honestly the best 32” bike I’ve seen yet. Avona’s road bike is also beautiful except for the tall stack height, if they ever release a race bike I’m in.
jaymack 2 hours ago
32 inch wheels are here to stay until the next new wonder product hits the market...
AidanR 2 hours ago
@Gd29 Redshift regularly have sales with 25% off, so you should be able to pick them up for under £40 at some point
Rendel Harris 2 hours ago
@SVXY Yet again it's highly impressive how are you know the exact circumstances of this incident, now down to the exact type of footwear Ms.Tanton was sporting at the time. There are numerous types of all-terrain/hiking sandals that have far better grip than a standard pair of trainers. And once again do explain how having shoes without gaps in the uppers would have prevented Dick from driving straight into her from behind? No actually, don't bother.
SVXY 3 hours ago
@SVXY Of course because cycling on a 60mph road is far more dangerous than cycling in a 30mph zone and you need footwear with the strongest grip to react quicker if needed
Rendel Harris 5 hours ago
@SVXY So sandals are permissible footwear for cycling if you're riding at 15 mph in a 30 mph zone but they are not permissible footwear for cycling if you are riding at 15 mph in a 60 mph zone? I'm afraid this is how trolls always give themselves away because clearly no human being with the capacity to operate a computer with sufficient adroitness to post a reply could genuinely be that stupid.
SVXY 5 hours ago
mdavidford It says you can ride 2 abreast and must have consideration for other road users. So if you ride three or more abreast you could be prosecuted for careless cycling with your inconsideration for other road users under the highway code used as evidence by the CPS
Rome73 6 hours ago
I’ve got a G-Line. I quite like the look of some of that bling. I can’t imagine any of it will be cheap though. :( It’s already quite an expensive bike.
mdavidford 7 hours ago
@SVXY It does not say you can't ride three or more abreast. It does not say that to do so would be inconsiderate. I'm afraid your opinion that it would be has no particular legal status.
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…