Live blog: Manchester offering free family cycle training; petition for enforcement of safe passing distance in Australia; father and son everest the Kemmelberg + more

No - he was a son of God, dedicated to unmasking the alien conspiracy. Unless that was all a clever double-bluff.

Be careful what you wish for; all that "power and glory" fever makes for a sicker Union Jack

@perce - I thought David Icke was an alien rather than a nutter; perhaps I am mistaken.

These organisations aren't interested in commuters and active travel, though. They're all about the sport side of cycling, so they're thinking in terms of places where people can go and do that, and they can identify and hothouse talent (while driving to get there).

Bit of a non comparison. My carbon xc full suspension with mezcals is probably a tiny bit slower on tarmac or very smooth fire road than my carbon gravel bike but in every other scenario it's faster. 'Gravel' bikes only make sense to me if you're riding a long way on road to get to some rough stuff, but even then I pick up my xc bike 9 out of 10 times.

Couldn't that just be because people are keeping them with them as 'regular luggage'?

Good review. I have had no problems with Scotrail and bikes. I suspect this is more to do with benign neglect of limits to the "first-come first served" unreserved numbers. Still I've only been told not to board once, and that was for a train that was rammed with people so fair enough. Haven't made much use of the reservation system - those tend to be clunky and chancy everywhere. Same in my (very limited) GWR experience. OTOH on some popular recreational routes (Highland line) could use more capacity.

@StevenCrook I'm sorry to inform you that the costs of not achieving net zero will be even higher. One problem, as you point out, is the attitude that it's down to everyone else to reduce carbon emmissions because me doing it won't make any difference and it will adversely affect my enjoyment of my life in the short term. HS2 is an interesting one. I believe the extra line is more of a capacity fix rather than the time saved on the journey. The cost of a normal line with a cycle path along side would have been much lower and produce less carbon emissions but we went for the high carbon option because it's a vanity project and will allow the big firms and their bosses to make loads of money.

Army being sent in. Oh no! That wasn't what I was expecting!

@jackcycles I say we take off and nuke the entire site * from orbit. It's the only way to be sure. * Obviously not road.cc! No, nukes belong on operationcross-roads.cc, they're just inflating the post count (and fireball) here.