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Live blog: Signed Geraint Thomas yellow jersey being raffled (not that it fits him right now), motorway cyclists in app and brain fails + 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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IanGlasgow 3 minutes 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 6 minutes 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 22 minutes 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.
OldRidgeback 49 minutes ago
So the driver who left 1.5cm distance between my bar ends and his car on Saturday afternoon instead of 1.5m wasn't driving dangerously?
tomlew 2 hours ago
@Rendel Harris No contradiction here. You can start with the intention to win the GC or just take your chance when you get it. The first one puts you under immense pressure - both mentally and physically - and could indeed cause a lot of trouble. The other gives you absolute freedom - the aim is to survive and learn the ropes, but when the stars align, you could just push and see what happens.
ktache 2 hours ago
And there will be a +1 option, which the highlights on ITV4 never had, meaning that if there are problems on the train or I have to stay a bit at work I won't be as bothered. Quest had it, but not DMAX. But both suffered from the aforementioned unexplained no-show.
andystow 2 hours ago
@mdavidford it was ice moments before the photo was taken. Those guys make a lot of watts.
TrainWalkWheel 3 hours ago
The constant misconception with closs passing relates to the view that 1.51m is legal and 1.49m is illegal. It isn't. The government considered a minimum distance offence (and Tim, quoted in the article, pushed heavy for it in the consultation) but the conclusion of the consultation was that a minimum distance offence would result in no prosecution as the forensic evidence of distance would not exist. Instead s3 was the sensible fall back. Tim and a few other cyclists push the narrative that 1.5 is a legal requirement and police forces receive criticism if they apply the law of careless driving rather than the imaginary law of close passing. As time passes police forces understand that 1.5 is a fallicy, as more separated cycle lanes demonstrate this as they are themselves less than. 1.5 m from passing traffic despite having a physical separation. This distinction makes closs pass prosecution very "dodgy" without clear carelessness. But that message is lost in the fog of twitter.
10 thoughts on “Live blog: Signed Geraint Thomas yellow jersey being raffled (not that it fits him right now), motorway cyclists in app and brain fails + more”
Sorry, when I first read the
Sorry, when I first read the article about ’roundest wheels’ I thought it was going to be about poor spelling and misplaced apostrophes.
Ah, Viz top tips, haven’t
Ah, Viz top tips, haven’t seen them for ages. I wonder if they ever printed the one I sent them? “Drivers, if you use spot lamps all the time when it’s dark, try strapping a 14″ fluorescent pink dildo to the top of your car so that we’ll know in daylight too.”
Looks like this spot on the
Looks like this spot on the M5: https://goo.gl/maps/qbP7SnnuUbT2
Seems the roadworks haven’t progressed much in a year and the photo is missing the 30mph temporary speed limit you can see on street view.
Love the bikestormz kidz.
Love the bikestormz kidz. Taking back the streets.
darrenleroy wrote:
Aye, looked great. Needless to say, the BBC couldn’t resist their usual anti-cycling slant:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-45157728
Apparently Mrs Ada Brady (85) clutched her pearls and nearly fainted clean away when a 12 year-old pulled a wheelie only 50 metres from where she was buying a copy of the Daily Mail…
So Gee may be too fat, Froome
So Gee may be too fat, Froome is obviously too tired. So who will lead Sky at the Vuelta?
Could we skip the amatuerish,
Could we skip the amatuerish, parenthetical bullshit like “Not that it fits him right now” and just read objective reporting?
A440 wrote:
Did you get your sense of humour bypass on the NHS or pay for it privately?
burtthebike wrote:
It’d have to be private – the waiting lists for humour by-passes are getting to be a joke.
Anyhow, can we skip the amateurish, bullshit commenting and get on with posting squirrel pics?
Oh go on then!
Oh go on then
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