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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Wed, Jul 04, 2018 18:51
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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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chrisonabike 2 minutes ago
@perce everyone should wear lights, full stop. And punctuate properly - that really gets up my colon! Anyway, must dash...
perce 22 minutes ago
@Ojisan My old English teacher told me i had to work on my punctuation, so I started going to school half an hour earlier.
60somethingcyclist 1 hour ago
Arrogant obnoxious Tory.
Rendel Harris 1 hour ago
How do you see them then? Do you regularly drive into black cars?
eburtthebike 2 hours ago
@Blackthorne83 He'd love to, but some bastard's taken out the cycle lanes.
kil0ran 3 hours ago
I was a few bikes away from the fatal collision during Ride London a few years ago, I barely avoided the victim's dog which was running loose. Definitely one of those slo-mo adrenaline fuelled moments and I was only doing about 40kph. At lead out speeds it really doesn't bear thinking about.
open_roads 3 hours ago
@Xenophon2 "That’s a lot of batteries to keep track of, to the point that I have a dedicated charger with 3 m USB-C cable in my office, another one at home. Can’t imagine having to deal with another battery such as on the Flight Attendant." Top tip: In reality most of the SRAM stuff lasts a month or two even with pretty heavy usage. I just charge all the batteries on the last Sunday of every month and have yet to be caught out. The SRAM batteries are so cheap / small / light it's also worth keeping a spare in a saddle bag or similar.
ajuk.uk@gmail.com 4 hours ago
@chrisonabike There does seem to be evidence that 20 mph limits work on roads that already lend themselves to such low speeds, and I do think the lack of a 25 mph limit option is an issue for some roads. Speed limits should especially not be set very low in the hope that many or most drivers will only exceed them by a set amount because, not only is it not true that many people drive like that, the opposite can happen. Instead of targeting the drivers most likely to cause harm, you're putting the prohibition onto the behaviour of more sensible drivers and forcing the police to target them. The DfT guidance used to have a paragraph calling out this presumption. The extent to which road design and conditions at the time dictate traffic speeds is too stark to ignore. I've seen urban roads with signed 40 mph limits have lower average speeds than some roads with posted 20 mph limits. And yes, that road in Gloucester has signs openly inviting drivers to go faster, and almost none of them do: the non-compliance was about 2%. Compare that to over 99% non-compliance on some roads in Wales. What I'm mainly talking about is the increasing imposition of 20 mph limits on much higher-standard main roads. That's where you see extreme levels of non-compliance. In some cases, the average speed has even been known to go up after the limit has gone down. Showing such contempt just brings speed limits into disrepute and my contention is that drivers should take speed limits seriously.
ajuk.uk@gmail.com 4 hours ago
@chrisonabike There does seem to be evidence that 20 mph limits work on roads that already lend themselves to such low speeds, and I do think the lack of a 25 mph limit option is an issue for some roads. Speed limits should especially not be set very low in the hope that many or most drivers will only exceed them by a set amount because, not only is it not true that many people drive like that, the opposite can happen. Instead of targeting the drivers most likely to cause harm, you're putting the prohibition onto the behaviour of more sensible drivers and forcing the police to target them. The DfT guidance used to have a paragraph calling out this presumption. The extent to which road design and conditions at the time dictate traffic speeds is too stark to ignore. I've seen urban roads with signed 40 mph limits have lower average speeds than some roads with posted 20 mph limits. And yes, that road in Gloucester has signs openly inviting drivers to go faster, and almost none of them do: the non-compliance was about 2%. Compare that to over 99% non-compliance on some roads in Wales. So no, when speed limits match the road, compliance is much higher, but speeds are not. What I'm mainly talking about is the increasing imposition of 20 mph limits on much higher-standard main roads. That's where you see extreme levels of non-compliance. In some cases, the average speed has even been known to go up after the limit has gone down. Showing such contempt just brings speed limits into disrepute and my contention is that drivers should take speed limits seriously.
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!