Live blog: Search launched for UK’s most cycle-friendly employers, driver rear-ends bus (during England World Cup match?), Froome’s Giro data revealed + 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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kingleo 15 minutes ago
The more safety gear the riders wear, the safer they feel, the more risks they will take, the more often they will crash.
mattw 2 hours ago
I thought Laura did well, and capped the bullshit firehose effectively - especially as she had never had an attempted mugging from a far-right shock-jock before. Her "the Netherlands was not the Netherlands in the 1970s" is a genius point, which I will remember. She could have added "Why do you want to live in a Carry On film" if she wanted to put JHB back in her hot air balloon.. But nonetheless - enjoyable, even though personally I probably preferred Laura's debagging of Richard Madeley on Jeremy Vine iirc with sheer logic.
Zebra 3 hours ago
If a pro hits the deck wearing one of these and is uninjured apart from some road rash, will he or she be able to jump back on and keep riding? Or will it be necessary to wait and change into a new jersey / skinsuit? That could be a deciding factor for their use in elite races.
Terry Hutt 3 hours ago
My greatest fear is being struck from behind while cycling. If this demonstrably reduces injuries from such an attack, I want one. Anything that improves safety gets my support.
quiff 4 hours ago
As I think that poster liked to remind us, explosion in the hi-viz aisle of Decathlon is also a big risk for cyclists.
quiff 5 hours ago
@IanGlasgow indeed - my point was really just in answer to the reviewer's apparent surprise they didn't add discs - but the Kinetic kits show it actually requires quite a lot of change.
chrisonabike 5 hours ago
...And another one turning up on a bicycle to another former poster's soirée and then being hurt by his reaction?
chrisonabike 5 hours ago
8 dangerous mistakes that put riders in A&E - was one going on a ride with former(?) poster wheelywheely... and being run over on the pavement by a mob of cyclists riding furiously through a red light on the wrong side of the road ... and then having wheely's wheelchair fall on you?
Rendel Harris 5 hours ago
@ktache Just came here to say that, heard them too (watching on delay after work). Sounds a sensible approach and hopefully will stop the idiots, though there will doubtless always be some.
Rendel Harris 5 hours ago
@MaxiMinimalist Please don't dirty these pages up with cut and paste from AI, if your comment wasn't worth giving your own thought and effort to why is it worth inflicting it on anyone else? In this case, as MDF notes, it doesn't even answer the question you asked, let alone have anything to do with the article. One wonders if this is why your comments are so often absurdly phrased, tortuous word salads with only tangential relationships to the matter under discussion, do you just ask AI to write them for you? If so, please stop it.
7 thoughts on “Live blog: Search launched for UK’s most cycle-friendly employers, driver rear-ends bus (during England World Cup match?), Froome’s Giro data revealed + more”
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Gives a whole new meaning to tapping out a rhythm at the front of the bunch. But surely the Wolfpack should be playing Born to Be Wild.
The BBC actually invited
The BBC actually invited Hutchinson, Whittle, and Hayles to see the data, not Hutchinson, Whittle, and Whittle.
If I were Froome, I’d tell Whittle to ‘go jump’. Whittle was constantly whining about Froome during the Giro, and he has just written a piece in the Guardian comparing the Festina organised doping scandal in 1998 with the Kenyan-born Brit being on the start line of this year’s TDF.
It’s a pretty shocking manipulation of the facts to fit a pre-existing agenda.
Wonder how fast Muller would
Wonder how fast Muller would be on the same bike the ‘mighty atom’ – Eileen Sheriden used for her 59h7m doing 870 miles (not the shorter 840 as per the record)? The record stands at only 1.4mph faster than what Sheridan achieved in 1954 taking into account the different distances. Baggy top, no padded shorts, no padded tape, blustery winds, heavy rain, having to stop to affix lights for night-time not to mention the vast difference in bike tech/weight.
I reckon Sheridan would smash it out the park, and at the grand age of 95 I’m glad she has being able to record her memories for us young uns to listen too, a true legend of cycling few have got close to achieving even half what she did, the ‘peril’ and Eileen would absolutely dominate women’s cycling if they were racing in the modern era.
https://rouleur.cc/editorial/eileen-sheridan/
BehindTheBikesheds wrote:
That’s curious – I didn’t know Eileen was known as “The Mighty Atom”. I’d only heard that name in connection with Joe Greenstein (a complete badass, but not a cyclist): http://www.badassoftheweek.com/index.cgi?id=651068116795
Bit off topic, but did anyone
Bit off topic, but did anyone else, upon hearing that the Thai lads had been found safe, wonder where the bicycles were?
It’s alright though, I think Newsnight (could have been C4 news) told us they found the bikes on the way to the boys, Nice.
ktache wrote:
Yeah I’d read they’d found the bikes, two brit caving divers were the first to make contact too. Now for the tricky part of getting them back!
That bus needs more
That bus needs more situational awareness. They don’t even pay road tax or wear helmets. If it was forced to wear Hi-viz and have a number-plate this would never have happened!