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Jj1234 7 minutes ago
I spend a month most years in China because of family, and a cargo bike there with an electric motorbike style front end and either LFP or advanced lead acid batteries, costs under £100 and is the backbone of every trade. There are a hundred different kinds but what they share in common is functionality and cheapness. Even the ancient pedal pulled wooden wagons with literally welded spokes from the sixties have been electrified with e-motors attached to the underside - and they cost sod all. In China cheap transport for business is a public good like drinking water. Because to get people to work you have to make work affordable. That's a secret of capitalism we in the UK could do better to learn.
vw_mtbiker 2 hours ago
@Zermattjohn handmade genuinely means handmade with Challenge. You cannot compare ride quality of a mass produced, vulcanized Panaracer tyre with these. The ride quality is incredibly supple, and can transform a riding experience. More expensive yes, but worth every penny!
Surreyrider 2 hours ago
@SecretSam 2019 Tour (don't see anyone else putting their hand up to say they won it), 2021 Giro, 2019 Paris-Nice, 2019 Tour de Suisse, 2018 Tour of California. So I'd say Lesterama is about right with his burned bright comment.
mitsky 2 hours ago
"Over 1,000 dockless bikes seized in Westminster The authority said the bikes would continue to be removed where they caused an obstruction, with operators charged for their return." Would love to know how many motor vehicles were removed (and their "operators" charged for their return) for the same reason. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c84g1x0g0d42o
Rendel Harris 2 hours ago
@OnYerBike Thanks for the interesting article link (table below for any interested), as you say it does show that the top 10% of pros manage 4.63 w/kg over four hours, but that only extrapolates to 325W if the rider is 70kg, and of course a lot of them are well below that, e.g. Vinegaard 60kg so his power over four hours would be more like 279W at that w/kg. Note also that the average for the bottom 90% is "only" 3.83 w/kg, so the average 68kg (World Tour average weight) rider in that cohort would be putting out 260W over four hours. So I'd still argue that across the average of the peleton, with 10% capable of about 325W over four hours and the other 90% about 260W, a figure for the whole peleton of around 280-290W would be more realistic.
Shades 2 hours ago
I'm on there 4-6 times a week (mainly commuting, so generally no later than 1900); mostly you see illegal/chipped ebikes and scooters going 'like a bullet' being ridden by people just like me. Haven't come across the balaclava, wheely pulling electric bike types this year though. Mostly, you need to be vigilant for kamikaze squirrels, loafing cats and dogs off the lead.
SecretSam 2 hours ago
@jackcycles Ummm...I think you'll find many MPs have successfully run businesses and worked in all sorts of sectors previously. As for 'business experience', I'm not a plumber, but I know the sort of kit that plumbers carry. My plumber arrives by car, so...
SecretSam 2 hours ago
@lesterama Not sure he burned that bright, he won his sole tour by default, not by merit, and would probably have been mown down by the Pog/Ving double act since
lesterama 4 hours ago
Bernal's statement: I didn't realise he had a background in corporate communications. Seriously, though, he burned bright. It's strange now to think that back in 2019 we thought he would dominate the sport for years.
chrisonabike 4 hours ago
@mitsky shurely it was at most one driver, because the red was not "established" before then...?
6 thoughts on “Live blog: Connor Swift gets a custom Genesis Zero SL to celebrate National Champs victory, Team Sky reveal full Tour of Britain line-up (with one small error), Cavendish battling Epstein-Barr virus +more”
Had to google what EBV is. So
Had to google what EBV is. So that you don’t have to – its the cause of glandular fever.
CygnusX1 wrote:
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Yes, the Dutch have two words
Yes, the Dutch have two words, fietsen and wielrennen. ‘I wish this was more openly talked about…’ Really? I wasn’t aware it was some big secret.
I suspect the distinction is highlighted by people who want to differentiate ‘good’ and ‘bad’ types of cycling. Of course the good type is the slow one that they personally do.
A lot of us ride road bikes for leisure and an everyday bike to the shops. It’s all cycling.
Sad to see a number of
Sad to see a number of cyclists in the Macron visit to Copenhagen wearing helmets seems to have increased. Is this just an aberration of the video or are more wearing them now then a few years ago?
In a TedX talk in 2016 Michael Colville-Andersen explained (in pretty robust language) how manufacturers have helmets to sell so ramped up ‘project fear’ to increase sales in Denmark. The result was an increase in helmet sales but a significant drop in people cycling. If this correlation is correct that is a pretty depressing way to do things.
darrenleroy wrote:
Danish government and indeed the EU road safety commission have been pushing to increase helmet wearing as the solution to cycling injuries/deaths. The EU ‘safety’ commission even use Denmark and Netherlands in a disgusting slant of stats to ‘prove’ cycling was more dangerous than the UK by using deaths per million population and thus making the case that that was due to low helmet use and that the obvious answer was to encourage more helmet wearing.
It’s a fucking disgrace how this supposed ‘safety’ commission can use these facts to massively distort the truth and to be allowed to push the problem/onus of safety back onto the vulnerable. it’s like they have some sort of an agenda and utterly ignored the fact that cycling in DK and NL massively exceeds that in the UK and other countries. Helmet wearing in places like Germany is huge and yet they have 400 cycling deaths a year, despite the larger population their miles travelled is still much less than NL as a total.
Macron in Danemark also said
Macron in Danemark also said that we (OK I’m french) are “reluctant to change, gallic people”. That can only mean one of two things:
– since he also cycled there, cyclist OTOH are open-minded, modern people, whatever french or not
or
– he’s got a brit counselor 😉