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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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Pub bike 3 hours ago
If anyone reading this article is looking for reasonable alternatives Decathlon sell a range of bum bags including one with a bottle holder that comes with the bottle all of which are less than £20. I've got a bum bag I bought a few years ago to replace a North Face bum bag that has lasted really well including commuting and cycle touring that was only £10 and that doesn't seem to have any of the drawbacks of the pack on review.
Pub bike 3 hours ago
@Borisface The frameset is similarly priced to e.g. Condor aluminium framesets such as Italia RC Integrato so it doesn't look too far off the mark. Obviously if you dress any old frame up with Campag Record 13 wireless and some decent wheels the final price is going to be somewhere north of £5k.
VecchioJo 4 hours ago
@Freddy56 @hotspanners Hi, just for for starters I didn’t boycott the race, if you read to the end of the article you’d have seen that I decided I was going to attend and try and implement a positive change… Just for clarity, if it helps with the credibility of my words and something I didn’t include in the blog for brevity and fear of willy-waving here’s an incomprehensive list of cycle events I’ve helped organise over the years - all Brighton Big Dog MTB events (about 12 i think), three league CX races and one Singlespeed CX Euro Champs (niche, i know), a few SAMS MTB races - maybe three or four it was a while back now, a Morvelo City Cross, I’ve stood on a corner in a high-vis vest at quite a few MTB, CX and road races too, and just helped wind up tape at last weekend’s CX race. I’ve also had the privilege to design logos, draw images, and create one-off pieces of artwork and give away prints as prizes for enough races and events for me to forget how many, all for free as part of ‘doing my bit’… Also if you made it through to the second half of the article you’ll have read that I have every sympathy for event organisers because of the experience of all the above and also from having conversations with various organisers on a regular basis so I am acutely aware of all the challenges faced. I chatted today with the future local CX race organiser mentioned, face to face in a field, and he has a similar hatred of AI and is more than happy for me to create a hand-drawn image to promote that race and also help out on the ground where possible… Might even draw a duck in there somewhere for giggles…
Rendel Harris 5 hours ago
@Borisface Not entirely sure why some alleged good times set in the last century validate the silliness and ignorance of your rejection on the grounds of materials and weight of a bike that the reviewer (who, if you look at his bio above, has rather a lot of experience himself, not only of riding bikes but of engineering too) describes as "absolute perfection in every aspect". Thanks for the unrequested permission but I'm not actually looking to spend 6k on a bike at the moment; if I was, on the basis of this review and the photographs I'd certainly be putting this on my shortlist and looking for a test ride. But then in this area at least I have an open mind, you see.
hotspanners 5 hours ago
@Freddy56 as the article says, Jo boycotted our race because he thought we’d used AI to design our flyer. I’m with him 100% but he got the facts wrong. People don’t like AI slop. It’s lazy and generic. But you’re right - these grassroots events run off volunteering. I wave flags, design kit and artwork, ferry things to our lockup etc - perhaps Jo could be the change he wants to see. He could volunteer to the London and SE CX league that he races in to help them out with artwork - he created Mint Sauce!
Freddy56 6 hours ago
Currently riding home powered by this for the last 6 months after someone stole my SeeSence beam, LOVE it. super durable and batter life gets me home on full beam for 55 minutes
Freddy56 7 hours ago
Comments and an article by people who organise NOTHING! Promoting an event is mostly by volunteers and an AI poster done at midnight after sorting the British cycling insurance, the toilets, the Marshalls, the council and a landowner is so draining. The effort is massive for usually a small team. Grab a flag and help rather than moaning about a generated image...o look the image is eye catching so it must work .
Freddy56 7 hours ago
I have Wizzard works bag from 2018 (bought for my 30th) and this is a complete rip off it!!
Borisface 7 hours ago
6 times division champion, 1st cat road man, semi-pro for 3 years. Sub 21 min 10 and sub 55 min 25 on a steel road bike. Forty five years riding. Forgotten more about riding bikes than most on here will ever know. If you want to pay £6k for an aluminium road by all means go ahead.
Rendel Harris 7 hours ago
@Borisface Probably for the best, if you're as ignorant about bikes and materials as your comment suggests you wouldn't appreciate it anyway. Go and buy something on the UCI weight limit made out of the latest space age super carbon and wobble around on it looking daft and feeling uncomfortable and to hell with aesthetics, practicality and real-world use cases, at least you'll have the right numbers ("6.85 kg, awesome!") and words ("Yeah, it's UHM 12k carbon, actually") for the cafe. Enjoy!
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.