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Live blog: Tour de France Stage 18 highlights and reaction, gendarme pushes Chris Froome off bike, spectator tries to pull Geraint Thomas off his + more
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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 14 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 15 hours ago
Gustav Gullholm.. that's not a good look mate
mdavidford 17 hours ago
@Chris RideFar I think what you meant to say was "REMOVE this and put it on PODCAST CC".
jaymack 19 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 19 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 20 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 20 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 22 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 22 hours ago
The photos in this review look they are for a different bag?
mattw 23 hours 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?
14 thoughts on “Live blog: Tour de France Stage 18 highlights and reaction, gendarme pushes Chris Froome off bike, spectator tries to pull Geraint Thomas off his + more”
Is it just me wanting it to
Is it just me wanting it to be so or did Chris Froome come out with “Fuck you!” in his best ‘Allo ‘Allo! accent?
Woldsman wrote:
I suspect he had been speaking French but couldn’t think of a better expletive in the heat of the moment.
billymansell]
Indeed. No matter how fluent one becomes in another language, in the heat of the moment, one will always revert to one’s native lingo.
Potty mouth Froomedog!
Potty mouth Froomedog!
Is that an AG2R Soigneur
Is that an AG2R Soigneur trying to grab G ?????
Pitbull Steelers wrote:
No i think it’s just some mouth breather posing as a fan waering AG2R kit. Hopefully Le plod will be feeling his collar and charging him with assault.
Oops, an embarassed cop is
Oops, an embarassed cop is going to get a lot of stick for that
‘Va te faire eпculer’ was
‘Va te faire eпculer’ was what I was told to say, swearing in Italian is much better and generally more insulting when using ‘mother’ & ‘whore’ together!
BehindTheBikesheds wrote:
ou mieux, ‘va te faire foutre’… i would imagine poor old fromey has had enough of the old frenchies by now… he should have said to the viuex flic ‘ Je vous prie de m’excuser, Monsieur, mais j’en ai marre de votre putain de… pays/course/tour/paysants/population (delete as appropriate!)
you are right that in italian it is very expressive – ‘figlio di putana’ etc etc… but a simple ‘vaffanculo’ is enough 🙂
il sole wrote:
Fantastic guitarist
turboprannet wrote:
🙂 And a superb precis of this year’s Omniyawn of a Tour.
Nique ta mère may be what you
Nique ta mère may be what you seek, there are add-ons should that be too genteel.
Merde!
Merde!
Good to see the ‘body guard’
Good to see the ‘body guard’ getting stuck in like a good’un. And not worrying more about his bike than his charge.