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Live blog: Hayden and Lenhard battle it out at Transcontinental Race, Geraint Thomas BBC SPOTY odds shorten, Liverpool FC players on cycle to work scheme + more

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@Rendel Harris - perhaps there is a gap in the market for hyadrationpak.com?
@kingleo I'm sure they may be but Lime's UK profits last year were around £4M; a standard 27-bike docking station costs around £100,000 installed and they have around 50,000 bikes in the capital. £185M would be a big ask for a £4M p.a. operation, even if you could find 1800+ suitable sites, which would be next to impossible.
@belugabob At a certain Scottish branch that shall remain nameless just in case any of Premier's brass are reading we turned up shattered with filthy bikes, when we asked the manager if there was somewhere we could clean them he said, "Ach it's just mud, it'll hoover off in the morning, up ye go!"
@Rendel Harris, I would have thought that the e-bike companies' owners are mega rich; they can afford to put lots of e-bike docks in place. The problem is that they are an outstanding business success; they are too successful, from nothing a few years ago to what we see now.
With reference to a hotel where " You can take your bike right into your room" ... Premier Inn have been doing this for years and therefore have had lots of our custom, on multi-day trips. Not once has any member of staff batted an eyelid - in fact, on one occasion we asked if they had paper towels to clean our bikes before we took them inside, and they shrugged then gave us 2 enormous fluffy white bath towels (needless to say, they weren't white for long.
I thought the 5 highlights show was alright, and for the first time there was no strange missing shows, for the tour or vuelta, which there was when it was on dmax or quest. I did cough up for the month of July, which I will do again next year, I always take off the week of my birthday so I want full day coverage on my hols.
@cmedred I can't find anything online with the name of the suspect or about her being charged - do Canadian police maybe have the same rules as the UK where only age and gender is released until a charge is preferred? Admittedly four months seems a long time between arrest and charge but there can be legitimate reasons for that.
"Last January, a discovery+ subscription to watch Eurosport’s cycling coverage, including all three Grand Tours and major races, cost £6.99." £6.99 a month, surely? The TNT price hike is bad enough as it is, there's no need to exaggerate it.
Indeed, the dim americans who control so much sports coverage just don't get that 'more' is not always 'better'. There's a limit to how many hours a day even fanatics can watch any sport yet TNT continue to spout that Eurosport at £8/mth didn't include crap like fighting, football, 'American whatever' bow provided for "only" £32 with the bonus of endless idiotic adverts. Well , Scottie, say bye bye to a few million other niche sport fans! Phew, and relax!!!sorry for the rant
@Rendel Harris Theoretically, you have to do that (take a photo and upload it to an app) with Dott and Voi as well, and probably all the operators. In practice, the operators don't have (won't pay for) enough staff to check every photo, and whatever algorithms they have to check the photos are inefficient. It's just possible Lime, uniquely, are properly checking and enforcing all photos; but I find it unlikely, from what I say of other operators and from having spoken to some of their employees.
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Sky have dominated the TdF
Sky have dominated the TdF and thats about it really.
They win stage races and the odd one day / classic race but dont dominate them nor do they dominate the other 2 GT’s so why do the press and other bodies persist in their belief that a salary cap will stop Sky winning everything and employing all the top and up and coming riders when its blatantly obvious they dont win everything.
As others have said there needs to be more done to help the smaller teams through sponsorship and greater returns when they enter races.
I assume, if they did set a salary cap, the riders could easily challenge it at court by saying “look at football, basketball, f1 etc etc no cap in these sports so why should we be punished”.
With the tour being such a
With the tour being such a priority for Sky, afterall that’s the one that actually gets any non specialist coverage, surely all a salary cap would do would mean sky would have fewer top riders across the roster, but keep around 10 top riders who would be the tour squad, with lower paid riders riding the other events?
I think Kwiato’s point is pretty on the money, it may be the style in which sky win, but quickstep’s dominance in the classics could be seen as pretty dull too, they can field such strong teams for those events that it’s a bit of a surprise when they don’t win.