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Live blog: 75-year-old Mike Burrows to make attempt on human-powered speed record; everesting the Kemmelberg; ram raiding + more
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Fri, Aug 17, 2018 16:18
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VecchioJo 1 minute ago
@Freddy56 @hotspanners Hi, just for for starters I didn’t boycott the race, if you read to the end of the article you’d have seen that I decided I was going to attend and try and implement a positive change… Just for clarity, if it helps with the credibility of my words and something I didn’t include in the blog for brevity and fear of willy-waving here’s an incomprehensive list of cycle events I’ve helped organise over the years - all Brighton Big Dog MTB events (about 12 i think), three league CX races and one Singlespeed CX Euro Champs (niche, i know), a few SAMS MTB races - maybe three or four it was a while back now, a Morvelo City Cross, I’ve stood on a corner in a high-vis vest at quite a few MTB, CX and road races too, and just helped wind up tape at last weekend’s CX race. I’ve also had the privilege to design logos, draw images, and create one-off pieces of artwork and give away prints as prizes for enough races and events for me to forget how many, all for free as part of ‘doing my bit’… Also if you made it through to the second half of the article you’ll have read that I have every sympathy for event organisers because of the experience of all the above and also from having conversations with various organisers on a regular basis so I am acutely aware of all the challenges faced. I chatted today with the future local CX race organiser mentioned, face to face in a field, and he has a similar hatred of AI and is more than happy for me to create a hand-drawn image to promote that race and also help out on the ground where possible… Might even draw a duck in there somewhere for giggles…
Rendel Harris 2 hours ago
@Borisface Not entirely sure why some alleged good times set in the last century validate the silliness and ignorance of your rejection on the grounds of materials and weight of a bike that the reviewer (who, if you look at his bio above, has rather a lot of experience himself, not only of riding bikes but of engineering too) describes as "absolute perfection in every aspect". Thanks for the unrequested permission but I'm not actually looking to spend 6k on a bike at the moment; if I was, on the basis of this review and the photographs I'd certainly be putting this on my shortlist and looking for a test ride. But then in this area at least I have an open mind, you see.
hotspanners 2 hours ago
@Freddy56 as the article says, Jo boycotted our race because he thought we’d used AI to design our flyer. I’m with him 100% but he got the facts wrong. People don’t like AI slop. It’s lazy and generic. But you’re right - these grassroots events run off volunteering. I wave flags, design kit and artwork, ferry things to our lockup etc - perhaps Jo could be the change he wants to see. He could volunteer to the London and SE CX league that he races in to help them out with artwork - he created Mint Sauce!
Freddy56 3 hours ago
Currently riding home powered by this for the last 6 months after someone stole my SeeSence beam, LOVE it. super durable and batter life gets me home on full beam for 55 minutes
Freddy56 3 hours ago
Comments and an article by people who organise NOTHING! Promoting an event is mostly by volunteers and an AI poster done at midnight after sorting the British cycling insurance, the toilets, the Marshalls, the council and a landowner is so draining. The effort is massive for usually a small team. Grab a flag and help rather than moaning about a generated image...o look the image is eye catching so it must work .
Freddy56 3 hours ago
I have Wizzard works bag from 2018 (bought for my 30th) and this is a complete rip off it!!
Borisface 3 hours ago
6 times division champion, 1st cat road man, semi-pro for 3 years. Sub 21 min 10 and sub 55 min 25 on a steel road bike. Forty five years riding. Forgotten more about riding bikes than most on here will ever know. If you want to pay £6k for an aluminium road by all means go ahead.
Rendel Harris 4 hours ago
@Borisface Probably for the best, if you're as ignorant about bikes and materials as your comment suggests you wouldn't appreciate it anyway. Go and buy something on the UCI weight limit made out of the latest space age super carbon and wobble around on it looking daft and feeling uncomfortable and to hell with aesthetics, practicality and real-world use cases, at least you'll have the right numbers ("6.85 kg, awesome!") and words ("Yeah, it's UHM 12k carbon, actually") for the cafe. Enjoy!
tomlew 4 hours ago
Why not use winter to explore other interests and thus use it to your advantage? It could easily turn out as a win-win: you recover from cycling-related injuries and fatigue, get to miss your favourite pastime and rekindle your love for it or who knows, maybe even discover a new one! Oh, did I mention that changing your movement patterns is also quite awesome for the body, too?
DS2025 5 hours ago
@hotspanners I think Jo's issue is with slop. I didn't get the impression that this article makes you look rubbish as a club! Hopefully CX league will take better steps next time and include input from the clubs. Perhaps Jo will make it clear that it was generated by the league opposed to individual clubs.
11 thoughts on “Live blog: 75-year-old Mike Burrows to make attempt on human-powered speed record; everesting the Kemmelberg; ram raiding + more”
Were they wearing a helmet?
Were they wearing a helmet?
Yorkshire wallet wrote:
I hope so otherwise he will be facing a 60 NZ dollar fine as well as a broken shoulder
I hope he was wearing hiviz
I hope he was wearing hiviz also – it would have been a tragedy had he been injured.
leqin wrote:
Actually thinking about it, maybe the shop should have been hi-viz?
Was the shop wearing a helmet
Was the shop wearing a helmet?
I thought perhaps he was
I thought perhaps he was coming down a big hill and failed to get round the corner but a quick Google shows its flat.
https://goo.gl/maps/yXVVmKfJFup
It does look like they were actually trying to break the window, how dumb is that? It could so easily of killed him. That would of been a classy Darwin award right there.
Had to laugh. Directly oppisite that window on the other side of the street is a Health and Sports Central Injury Clinc
https://www.healthandsportcentral.co.nz/
https://goo.gl/maps/Foedfq4jv112
Re: Footballer cleared of hit
Re: Footballer cleared of hit and run.
“He was accused of driving too quickly, undertaking another motorist and hitting Robert McKelvie so hard that the wing mirror came off.”
I wonder if he asked for his wing mirror back.
Something is not right about
Something is not right about the Ade Azeez case, did the police not investigate anything? If his wing mirror came off, surely they could trace that to his car? The witness got a letter wrong on his reg, but was she to be expected to be able to identify car makes, at speed, they all look alike to me.
It appears that his defence lawyer has told him to keep quiet, knowing that the system is loaded in his favour of he does so.
I also note that on Azeez’s Twitter profile, he describes himself as ‘Christian’, I wonder how his chosen deity views his actions…
nappe wrote:
That the only letter identified incorrctly was a U and a V so extremely similar gives us ammo to say the sheriff is a cunt.
nappe wrote:
I know that Scottish law is different, but check the reg the witness gave, probably came back ‘no trace’. Have a tinker through possible combinations – as BBS pointed out ‘U’ and ‘V’ is an obvious one. Hey presto! a very similar car presumably registered in the area (or not if leased)
Ask the owner who was driving at the time, if not one and the same, speak to the driver. Check the car for recent damage. What went wrong?
Apologies, schoolboy error.
Apologies, schoolboy error. If there’s a link in the article, always read before posting
Accident was on 24.10.16, police interview driver 07.12.16 the delay being either tracing through a lease company or police incompetence. Driver admits driving along the road at the time, but apparently nothing else; a poor interview? No mention of the car being examined.
The defence would appear to be ‘prove it was him’.
Poor result.