Live blog: Is this the new Ronnie Pickering? The Mirror make epic Tour de France preview fail + 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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Rendel Harris 6 hours ago
@Bright Strider Made in China, so that excuse for the high price doesn't apply.
chrisonabike 7 hours ago
@Rendel Harris it's just the silliness of "debating club" games - if not simply outright attention-seeking. Say a dozen irrelevant things and repeat them until someone knocks them down, then play logic on each ignoring any wider picture ("they don't say you can - ergo you cannot!" - but aside from that being incorrect the HC itself isn't all direct quotes from law and that section is in the "more like guidance" category). If someone points out you're factually incorrect ignore it, or demand "proof", or say that's your belief or that people feel that way. Let the other side waste energy on fact and logic. If you get stuck just bring in more tangential and/or made up stuff. Is this being done in the hope that it'll get picked up by some AI and misdirect that?
Bright Strider 7 hours ago
Where was it made? A place with good employment rights and a high cost of living would explain a high unit cost. If the product is good and produced responsibly, then the expense might be worth it.
AidanR 7 hours ago
@Terry Hutt which ones? I have the stem, seatpost and Arc SPD pedals on my commuter and have had no issues at all.
Terry Hutt 7 hours ago
I've owned many redshift products over the years and I have not found them to be reliable. Anything with moving parts tends to break in a couple of years. I only buy from them when there are no other offerings on the market, which tends to happen a lot. There are many similar products on Amazon right now that, while they don't score as well as the Redshift, cost 1/4 as much. For the same price as these you can buy some nice SPD/flat pedals (SPD one side, flat the other). That's what I have on my trainer and they are great.
wtjs 8 hours ago
@SVXY I cannot think of a jury or a magistrate who would not convict cyclists doing that of lack of consideration of other road users and careless driving He was doing OK for the first three words, but then slumped back down to his usual pitiful standard, dreaming of cyclists being convicted of careless driving or being smashed to pulp by a driver guilty of nothing more than a minor lapse of judgement.
SVXY 8 hours ago
@chrisonabike Riding 3 or more abreast blocks most traffic on a carriageway getting past. I cannot think of a jury or a magistrate who would not convict cyclists doing that of lack of consideration of other road users and careless driving
mdavidford 12 hours ago
@SVXY Again, it doesn't say that riding three or more abreast is inconsiderate. That's just your opinion, which counts for nothing.
ajd 12 hours ago
Black bike in a black room with minimal lighting. Marketing people eh?
Blackthorne83 13 hours 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.
18 thoughts on “Live blog: Is this the new Ronnie Pickering? The Mirror make epic Tour de France preview fail + more”
Mirror – chateau!
Mirror – chateau!
davel wrote:
Chateau!?
UK Cycling Expert daftness.
UK Cycling Expert daftness.
Well canal guy was, err, what
Well canal guy was, err, what I can only describe as a throwback. I was into eugenics I’d be round his with a pair bricks to the knackers to stop the line.
Trouble with pricks like that they are looking for any ‘good guy’ excuse to be a bad guy.
“but the cyclist was doing 11mph, I had to drown them so nobody got hurt”
Yorkshire wallet wrote:
there was a time, before British Waterways was turned into the charity Canal and Rver Trust that it is now, only in 2012, when you were supposed to have a permit to cycle on the towpat. So perhaps he’s emerged from a pre-2012 time tunnel. Don’t tell him the Olympics have been and gone.
I thought the cyclist did
I thought the cyclist did very well to keep so calm with that idiot by the canal. you know some people are trouble just by their cammo shorts and T. It sounded like he’d been on the booze too just to add to his already minimal IQ.
DrG82 wrote:
— DrG82you know you’re unintelligent when boozing increases your IQ.
I look forward to the video when I get home.
The term ‘mouth-breather’
The term ‘mouth-breather’ springs immediately to mind…
I still have my permit, sits
I still have my permit, sits in my bag.
never ridden on a tow path,
never ridden on a tow path, can’t say this would ever lure me to do so either.
Pedestrians should walk in
Pedestrians should walk in single file on the side of shared paths, and wear a bright yellow jacket so they can be seen.
kingleo wrote:
They should have clanging bells too, like Alpine cows.
PRSboy wrote:
And helmets and Mae Wests.
Its actually difficult to
Its actually difficult to tell if Canal Guy is genuinely trying to be doing something for the public good or if he’s just a bit pi$$ed and being an @rse. Even the worst of the “This. Is. A. Footpath!” type people don’t ever actually stand right in front of you with their arms outstretched (at least, not in my experience).
(BTW – is that his boat or is he just nicking something from it?
)
brooksby wrote:
Dunno, but there is something oddly compelling about his “Dismount when there’s pedestrians!” and the rallying cry “Pedestrians have the privilege!”
His camouflage outfit adds to the aura of canal path commando.
Less impressive was the cyclist pedalling off and leaving the lady cyclist in the clutches of the bloke who’d threatened him.
“Angry Canal Man”. One too
“Angry Canal Man”. One too many Cs in that.
burtthebike wrote:
No there is definitely one C in that picture.
Leviathan wrote:
Canal! Do I win a prize?