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Live blog: James Hayden’s Transcontinental Race-winning ride on Strava, Stefan Definil previews World Champs killer climb + 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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Rendel Harris 7 minutes 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 11 minutes 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 54 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 57 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 1 hour 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 2 hours 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 3 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 3 hours ago
@mdavidford it was ice moments before the photo was taken. Those guys make a lot of watts.
6 thoughts on “Live blog: James Hayden’s Transcontinental Race-winning ride on Strava, Stefan Definil previews World Champs killer climb + more”
That’s what I always do when
That’s what I always do when I help out an old friend or colleague: Instagram it for all the world to see.
I would do too. If I was a
I would do too. If I was a horrible little narcissist! Personnally I’m not quite sure that Road CC should have posted this “news item”
I expect out of touch old men
I expect out of touch old men won’t understand this but social media can help the creator of the content focus on what is important to them and their friends. Moaning about “ho ho showing off to the world” is to exhibit how ignorant you are of how people use social media.
roadmanshaq wrote:
I’ve long been of the opinion that social media is a great showcase for narcissists, so I’d welcome the chance to swap my ignorance for your wisdom.
To date, I’ve mainly just read some of the scientific literature on social media e.g. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0306460316301095
Highlights:
So, can you fill us in on what kind of focus increase these content creators can expect?
Social media is one of main
Social media is one of main sources of modern-day mental illness IMO.
Then again forums are sort of a gateway drug to social media.
“I only posted a few times on road.cc and ended up on the Instagram with Lance Armstrong”
Modacity is the name of the
Modacity is the name of the people whose book you refer to, they have a facebook page https://www.facebook.com/modacitylife/ and have been doing amazing work in NA to get utility cycling and safe ways to travel around cities actually come to fruition.
The video is okay but they’re still putting unecessary onus on the vulnerable … hi-vis/helmets, not recognising that children are children and that you in the big killing thing need to graspthat they do children things. I need to see you, okay so we’re forcing you to wear hi=vis because otherwise we can’t see you.
Also if you are to insist on no undertaking at long queues of traffic then why isn’t there a seperate cycle lane, you’re using this as a bullshit reason to remove the responsibility to ahere to the law, you know that bit about actually looking in the mirror/over your shoulder before opening a door whilst in traffic!
Share the road my arse, still too one sided.