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Live blog: Tour de France highlights and reaction, tributes paid to former Thai Navy SEAL and cyclist Saman Kunan, who passed away in Thai cave mission, Tiesj Benoot abandons Tour, Stage 5 updates + more
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Wed, Jul 11, 2018 14:26
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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?
10 thoughts on “Live blog: Tour de France highlights and reaction, tributes paid to former Thai Navy SEAL and cyclist Saman Kunan, who passed away in Thai cave mission, Tiesj Benoot abandons Tour, Stage 5 updates + more”
Is JOGLE really the boy’s
Is JOGLE really the boy’s surname, or is it just the acronym for John-o-Groat’s/Land’s End (even though you report he’s doing LEJOG rather than JOGLE?
CygnusX1 wrote:
If you click through to his web page it shows his real surname is Pearson.
Simon E wrote:
I tried but my company’s web filter blocked it, otherwise I might have added that snippet myself.
There’s a a family riding
There’s a a family riding LEJOG right now with 7 and 10 year old children very much doing the whole thing!
http://www.bromleytimes.co.uk/news/musical-penge-family-to-cycle-900-miles-for-the-alzheimer-s-society-1-5490134
Thiey have a blog which is being updated daily with their progress:
https://alvinmoisey2018.wordpress.com/
Looks like young Ruby could
Looks like young Ruby could do with some factor 50, and/or a glass of cold water – she’s looking rather red in the face.
CygnusX1 wrote:
Ruby by name…
Urgh 1km @ 29%!
Urgh 1km @ 29%!
I’ve loved every climb I’ve ever done apart from Rosedale Chimney and that’s nothing compared to this! I was convinced my chain was going to snap on the 33% section.
RIP Saman Kunan, the world
RIP Saman Kunan, the world lost a hero for those kids
So desperately sad about the
So desperately sad about the ex-navy diver. In those extremely difficult situations you simply can’t make a single error in judgement or take chances even if what you’re doing is trying to save a life, it’s one of the most dangerous things on the planet to do. He didn’t have to be there, he didn’t have to risk his life but he did, he stood up to be counted putting his very life on the line to save others and should be posthumously given an award for his selfless sacrifice.
the thing that makes me puke, when you hear soccer pundits (yes that’s you shearer you plumb!) calling the football players ‘hero’s’, get to fuck, no, they’re been paid a shit ton of money to play sport, they are most definitely not hero’s ffs!
Amen.
Amen.