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Live blog: Victim offers to pay bike thief’s friends £5,000 if they get him prosecuted; “I don’t want to say I’m going for the win” says Adam Yates – but he is; The closest pass of all? + more
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OnTheRopes 1 hour ago
Yes let's focus on the negatives shall we rather then celebrate what a magnificent career he had and became a great ambassador for the sport.
mdavidford 2 hours ago
You forgot to include giving yourself a dose of heatstroke by riding all day in mid-40s temperatures.
JLasTSR 3 hours ago
@eburtthebike Sorry to hear that. I had a very worried wife who saw me being a goldfish. I kept going round the same loop of 4 statements. My shoulder really hurts, what happened? My watch is broken, I suppose the bike is fu***d? Apparently I did that for about 2 hours. I eventually came back to near normality about 5-6 hours later. I was on the phone to my wife and I suddenly realised I had cold feet. I looked at them and they were bare as were my legs, I said Bear this is a bit embarrassing I haven't got any trousers on, er nor a shirt what the hell is going on? She said you have been in an accident and you are at hospital. The bike had fingernail marks in the bar tape, a scuff to the back of the front mudguard, and a broken quill pedal. now all repaired. Somehow I managed to stop the bike but not me. The Helmet was cracked right through. I had a broken tooth a bust rib and a lot of bruising. Someone came out of a house and put me in the recovery position in the road until I came round. For me not remembering what happened is really quite frustrating. I have bought a go-pro clone to go on the bike but I haven't actually fitted it yet. It would be sensible to just to have a bit of evidence if the same should ever happen again. After all there aren't always Londis shops with CCTV in just the right position are there?
chrisonabike 3 hours ago
@timscottellis given the "anarchic by design" organising principle what Critical mass is "for" will vary (even between participants). I believe part of the original idea was to be "critical" - direct activism against motorists by reclaiming space. Whether it's a good idea to annoy people who mostly will have no clue why you're doing that is a question of course. It certainly serves a community building and awareness raising function. And for some (perhaps like yourself?) showing them that they *can* ride on the streets. Albeit some would never do so outside of such an event.
chrisonabike 3 hours ago
Money's *always* tight - or rather it's always tight for active travel because in the UK that is very low on the priority list *. The vast majority of money goes on apparently unrelated stuff - health and adult social care. But I think active travel could make a minor but positive contribution here. And a large amount of that money compared to active travel spend goes on things that overall have a negative impact there (indeed are a net cost) - providing for the level of motoring we have. Including repeatedly pouring money into (pot-) holes in the ground. Could we reallocate some of that? * For some parties - maybe even governments - it's actually something they're against. If only because they're more keen on motoring which will effectively work against it.
Rendel Harris 4 hours ago
I don't understand why the police can't crack down on those bloody idiots forcing the riders to inhale the smoke from powder flares, not as if it's a sort of guerrilla action, interfering with the riders then disappearing back into the crowd, they couldn't be any easier to spot as they stand there holding them but I don't think I've ever seen police, authorities or other fans intervening to stop them in a road race. Seen the police doing a good job stopping them at cyclocross, obviously on a long road stage it's not as easy to have an officer on the spot at the right time but yesterday's flareup (sorry) was on the finishing circuit, there must have been a few coppers in the vicinity who could have dealt with it.
Rendel Harris 5 hours ago
Bit confused now Tom, you said that "AFAIK nobody said he’s going to ride to win the GC", I gave you an example of Seixas himself talking about going for GC, now you're saying there you are, there is evidence that he's talking about the GC? I know that, it was me who shared the quote.
Rendel Harris 5 hours ago
Couldn't have a much more perfect example for a certain poster of how cycling continues to feel the full force of climate change...
tomlew 8 hours ago
@Rendel Harris Oh, and by the way. "But I will not take risks for something other than the GC." - this could just as well be read as "I won't take any risks unless it's really, really worth it." They're not even talking about snatching the maillot jaune for a day, but about the GC. Who wouldn't, if they had a opportune shot at that?
Miller 15 hours ago
Here's a photo I took on Alpe d'Huez at TdF 1991. L to R: Gianni Bugno, Miguel Indurain, Luc Leblanc. They would finish the stage in that order, Bugno winning. Yes, colour film was available in 1991 but that day I chose to use black and white knowing that many years hence it would look epic.
18 thoughts on “Live blog: Victim offers to pay bike thief’s friends £5,000 if they get him prosecuted; “I don’t want to say I’m going for the win” says Adam Yates – but he is; The closest pass of all? + more”
Oh My Lord. God Bless America
Oh My Lord. God Bless America and pick-up trucks.
Christ! Nearly had his wing
Christ! Nearly had his wing mirror off there.
looked deliberate as well!
looked deliberate as well!
Within the marked lane? The
Within the marked lane? The nearside wheels are clearly on the white line, so the bodywork and mirrors are outside the lane. Very grateful that the cyclist wasn’t even struck, let alone injured, but it must have been a matter of millimetres, and for Brexiteers, that’s fractions of an inch.
burtthebike wrote:
I voted to leave a vile dictatorship that criminally funds other dicatorships, stick to talking about cycling instead of whining about something that will change the balance of Europe as a whole, not just the UK. For people who wished to remain, it’s miles not km!
Christ that was as close to
Christ, that was as close to being killed as you’d ever want to see.
WTF!?
WTF!?
“I’m not sure what you would like for us to do at this time as no crime was committed. This video doesn’t show any ill intent.”
How about attempted murder……?
The lack of movement by the
The lack of movement by the cyclist suggests to me that either the video is faked or the cyclist is completely unflappable.
hawkinspeter wrote:
The twitter link has the comment:
“The video is fake for 4 reasons:
1- No sound for the car passing
2- No car shade on the cyclist
3- Between the 3rd & 4th second, the left hand was oddly stretched
4- With this speed of a large car, at least there should be a side wind effect on the cyclist”
hirsute wrote:
The lack of movement by the cyclist suggests to me that either the video is faked or the cyclist is completely unflappable.
— hirsute The twitter link has the comment: “The video is fake for 4 reasons: 1- No sound for the car passing 2- No car shade on the cyclist 3- Between the 3rd & 4th second, the left hand was oddly stretched 4- With this speed of a large car, at least there should be a side wind effect on the cyclist”— hawkinspeter
Yeah, I saw that which gave me pause to think, but I didn’t bother to check his claims.
hirsute wrote:
The lack of movement by the cyclist suggests to me that either the video is faked or the cyclist is completely unflappable.
— hirsute The twitter link has the comment: “The video is fake for 4 reasons: 1- No sound for the car passing 2- No car shade on the cyclist 3- Between the 3rd & 4th second, the left hand was oddly stretched 4- With this speed of a large car, at least there should be a side wind effect on the cyclist”— hawkinspeter
If you look at the guys forearm when the vehicle comes past he clearly flinches/changes arm position, that movement whilst unseen by most is enough for me to say it’s legit.
As for the no law broken BS, go into the police station, swing a hammer near the officers head and then say, “all ok gov, no harm done eh!” If they can’t see that was deliberate/reckless endangerment then they are complete fucktards. I seem to recall that just like here and in Aus there are assault laws where no physical contact need be made for a crime to be commited. Typical of plod though no matter where you live.
For you lot thinking it’s
For you lot thinking it’s fake check out the source video here. It was captured on a 360 camera so you can pan around.
BlodadTand wrote:
That’s a much better link.
That is a very composed cyclist!
I downloaded it, but it’s a bit distorted when played as a straight video. Even so, this shot is terrifying:
hawkinspeter wrote:
It might have taken a bit of time for it to sink in, way too fast for any initial reaction. That’s one lucky bastard.
hawkinspeter wrote:
Someone has made this showing how close it actually was. Really terrifying. Serously no ill-intent?? Millimetres from death or, at the very least, life changing injuries.
https://gfycat.com/gifs/detail/HandmadeGreatFowl
a1white wrote:
Thanks for that. So, Surrey school run standard then.
Since the other vehicles in the video seem to be giving the rider more than a whole lane out of courtesy, I would have said either ill-intent or, in the light of my last 2 experiences of similar – a) some old gimmer in a Jag fiddling with his dashboard controls, and b) a woman having some splendid craic with her passenger – no idea of what was happening on the road.
I see that that Thomas
I see that that Thomas Geraint chap has had to take to Twitter to ask folks to chill out. I gues the thick twats think he really is supporting Sweden. Easy mistake I suppose, it is, after all, written down AND on the internet and it wouldn’t require any thinking whatsoever to confuse a stupid.
Bloody hell, that better be
Bloody hell, that better be one hell of a Wiggins jersey for £185. What exactly do you get for £185 when it comes to jerseys?
I think the Wiggins ‘brand’ is tainted now, a lot more than hint of a stain that Froome currently has. I can’t see people buying it for any other reason than wearing something expensive to show they’re wearing something expensive.
Black and gold as well. Nothing says retro better than black and gold. Yawn. Stick some JPS stickers on it.