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Live blog: Rafa Nadal jumps on bike to go shopping in Wimbledon, Greg Van Avermaet riding yellow BMC Teammachine + more
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Tue, Jul 10, 2018 14:25
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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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wtjs 15 hours ago
@FionaJJ These officers deployed next-level stupidity, and it must be difficult for the police to find people this dim. It doesn't even need rolling-roads or whatever, just a reputable bike computer on a quickly changed mount for the difficult cases where a proper EAPC has been modded, although you would need to look hard in Lancashire to find a police officer who knows how to make a pedal cycle go. Most illegal electric motorbikes are immediately obvious, not least because the crim is wearing a face mask. I saw an obvious one tonight coming out of Garstang Sainsbury's, not pedalling but without a face mask because everybody knows that the police only come into the town to hide away in the police station 200 yards away.
bikeman01 16 hours ago
Gustav Gullholm.. that's not a good look mate
mdavidford 18 hours ago
@Chris RideFar I think what you meant to say was "REMOVE this and put it on PODCAST CC".
jaymack 20 hours ago
As Mary Whitehouse never said - one doesn't have to read the article if one doesn't want to read about an off-road bicycle.
Rendel Harris 20 hours ago
@FionaJJ In London they're allowed to stop on single and double yellows to deliver packages or empty pillar boxes; in practice they take this as carte blanche to park wherever and whenever they want, such as this chap on the Brixton Road who pulled into the bus/cycle/motorcycle lane without indicating, as I approached at 20mph, to park on a red route, response to a remonstrance, "I suppose you never get post delivered do ya?"
FionaJJ 21 hours ago
@Rendel Harris We have a pavement parking ban, but around here at least, royal mail vans are already exempt, subject to certain caveats, such as allowing at least 1.5m, and only being stopped to do their work.
FionaJJ 21 hours ago
It was already embarrassing for the police that they made such a mess of their attempt to determine whether a bike was legal or not, but I had assumed it was a group of well intentioned, but under-trained officers acting on their own initiative, having spotted something they thought looked not quite right. I'm now discovering this was a planned activity, something sufficiently organised to have been given a name - Operation FRISLEN, designed specifically to identify and remove illegal e-bikes and scooters. It's apparent that the officers were sent out without adequate training, never mind the kind of equipment that should be used for this sort of work. I'm not saying they always need specialist equipment to spot all illegal bikes, but at least if they'd been given a demonstration with that equipment, they'd have realised why their approach was not going to end well.
Geoff Ingram 23 hours ago
Have put drop bars on a 2001 B1 mtb, a 2007 stumpy hardtail and a 2010 stumpy full suss. In all cases fairly basic conversións leaving gearing and wheels broadly the same and concentrating on correct positioning of bars and fit. Oddly, with all 3 I was happy with the result when recently done, but after a few months found that the extra speed on easy trails was more than offset by the lack of ability (probably mine) on tougher routes and finally preferred flat bar with slammed and inverted stem as best overall compromise. Good fun playing around, though.
mark1a 23 hours ago
The photos in this review look they are for a different bag?
mattw 1 day ago
This is a strange reactionary knee jerk overall. But what is this "are essentially motorbikes in disguise" waffle? "One letter claimed that high-powered electric ‘e-bikes’ were “essentially motorbikes” in disguise, with many being used without lights, helmets, or any hi-vis clothing." Surely, they simply ARE motorbikes?
13 thoughts on “Live blog: Rafa Nadal jumps on bike to go shopping in Wimbledon, Greg Van Avermaet riding yellow BMC Teammachine + more”
Well actually, the real blame
Well actually, the real blame lies in the massive lobbying of our government by the haulage industry who are against anything that puts their costs up in the name of safety… they fought like heck with side bars for lorries, eventually selling them to companies outside London when the deadline came in. Same with mirrors… and no doubt high vision cabs and camera systems.
BJ has built a whole career
BJ has built a whole career out of transparent bullshit. It’s a deep criticism of this country that that absolute wanker has had the power and authority he is apparently granted.
I’m sure that if Boris had a
I’m sure that if Boris had a superior safety system to the EU offering, the EU would have looked at it and incorporated it if it were indeed superior. They are kind of good like that.
don simon wrote:
The EU has all the strengths and weaknesses of a collection of 28 members with sometimes complementary and sometimes competing interests. Lots of extensive discussion, horse-trading and compromise.
On a related safety issue – longer cabs with better visibility – France and Sweden opposed the proposals on behalf of their truck manufacturers. But the case for change was a good one, supported by most, so a compromise was reached (IIRC) which meant the change would happen, but a few years later.
Of course, once outside the EU, Johnny Foreigner will just do whatever we tell him
Borris is an idiot and will
Borris is an idiot and will say whatever suits his own agenda at the time. Let’s stop taking him seriously.
harragan wrote:
Parallels with Jeremy Clarkson…?
Slides? They look like
Slides? They look like sandals to me. These are slides (I think these are by United Colors of Benneton)…
de Pfeffel Johnson has always
de Pfeffel Johnson has always been a self-serving tosser. (I never refer to him as ‘Boris’ because hes no friend of mine)
He only started to do somehting about cycling provisions in London when there was a cluster of 6 cyclist deaths in a 2 week window and he knew that would be his legacy. Prior to that he had argued against it for nearly 6 years, even going as far to suggest prosecuting cyclists wearing headphones not long prior to the death cluster.
The much missed Twitter account @BorisWatch put it most succinctly in 2015:
If Boris gets run over we
If Boris gets run over we should give the EU credit for it.
What a self serving prick.
“Shimano show off Greg Van
“Shimano show off Greg Van Avermaet’s yellow BMC Teammachine he’ll use to start TDF stage 3”
It’s amazing that BMC knew he’d be in the lead before they started the time trial. And they even had the confidence to give him a road bike to ride it!
dst wrote:
“Shimano show off Greg Van Avermaet’s yellow BMC Teammachine he’ll use to start TDF stage 3”
It’s amazing that BMC knew he’d be in the lead before they started the time trial. And they even had the confidence to give him a road bike to ride it!
— dst
Often “special edition” frames are painted, delivered overnight, and then built first thing in the morning in Grand Tours.
Rapha Nadal wrote:
Often “special edition” frames are painted, delivered overnight, and then built first thing in the morning in Grand Tours.— dst
That may be the case, but my point was that he didn’t use that bike for stage 3 (the team time trial stage) as the artical headline suggests.
Ref: Rapha Slides.;
Ref: Rapha Slides.;
What do you call a French Pro Cyclist wearing sandals?
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