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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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Terry Hutt 54 seconds ago
My greatest fear is being struck from behind while cycling. If this demonstrably reduces injuries from such an attack, I want one. Anything that improves safety gets my support.
quiff 1 hour ago
As I think that poster liked to remind us, explosion in the hi-viz aisle of Decathlon is also a big risk for cyclists.
quiff 1 hour ago
@IanGlasgow indeed - my point was really just in answer to the reviewer's apparent surprise they didn't add discs - but the Kinetic kits show it actually requires quite a lot of change.
chrisonabike 2 hours ago
...And another one turning up on a bicycle to another former poster's soirée and then being hurt by his reaction?
chrisonabike 2 hours ago
8 dangerous mistakes that put riders in A&E - was one going on a ride with former(?) poster wheelywheely... and being run over on the pavement by a mob of cyclists riding furiously through a red light on the wrong side of the road ... and then having wheely's wheelchair fall on you?
Rendel Harris 2 hours ago
@ktache Just came here to say that, heard them too (watching on delay after work). Sounds a sensible approach and hopefully will stop the idiots, though there will doubtless always be some.
Rendel Harris 2 hours ago
@MaxiMinimalist Please don't dirty these pages up with cut and paste from AI, if your comment wasn't worth giving your own thought and effort to why is it worth inflicting it on anyone else? In this case, as MDF notes, it doesn't even answer the question you asked, let alone have anything to do with the article. One wonders if this is why your comments are so often absurdly phrased, tortuous word salads with only tangential relationships to the matter under discussion, do you just ask AI to write them for you? If so, please stop it.
IanGlasgow 3 hours ago
@GravelIsNothingNew Reporting poor driving in Scotland is much more difficult than in England. I've done it three times in more than a decade. It involves making a statement at a police station or arranging for them to visit you at home to take a statement. Then the chances of action being taken are almost nil. Apparently Scots law prevents them acting on an online report and an uploaded video and there appears to be no interest among Holyrood MSPs in changing that.
IanGlasgow 3 hours ago
@chrisonabike Edinburgh and Bristol both strike me as cities where cycling is popular DESPITE the geography and lack of infra. I grew up in Edinburgh, but having lived and worked in York, Cambridge and now Glasgow I'm always surprised how many people cycle despite the hills and lack of adequate infrastructure. My daughter lived in Bristol for a few years and it struck me that cycling there was part of the counter-culture, and - again - popular despite (incredibly steep) hills and an almost total absence of cycling infrastructure. Glasgow has started from a much lower base than York, Edinburgh, Cambridge or Bristol but Glasgow City Council are determined to press ahead with a network and some of the infra they've built is really very good and doing a great job of encouraging cycling. Unfortunately, some is a great deal less good and the scale of the proposed network has been cut considerably.
IanGlasgow 3 hours ago
@quiff For those who want a spec that Brompton don't make - disc, brakes, fatter tyres, bigger wheels (18" is an option), belt drive, Shimano or Rohloff hub gears, etc. - Kinetics offer pretty much anything. But as it involves replacing the rear triangle (and forks for most options) it makes more sense to start with a basic-spec C-line (or the even more basic A-line) as a donor bike.
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.