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Live blog: Gran Fon … d’oh! – spectacular finish line crash at Italian event, Chris Hoy urges for cycling to be central to transport decisions, kid gets very own bike parking space + more
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Tue, Sep 25, 2018 14:03
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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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Barraob1 3 hours ago
Bought a gravel bike for commuting and my workhorse, I love it. It's been on mountain bike trails, used for bike packing and it's pretty good on the road
Rendel Harris 3 hours ago
@sclarke3@talktalk.net I've been cycling for a similar amount of time and I've never *needed* a storage box in the frame either. I've also never *needed* clipless pedals, indexed gears, head units, et cetera et cetera, but as they've come along I've evaluated whether they would make my cycling easier or more pleasurable and added them or not according to what I thought of them. Personally I rather like the idea of frame storage where I could put the things that always stay with the bike like spare tubes and essential but rarely used tools like chain breakers. I wonder if back in the day when Mr Dunlop invented his first pneumatic tyre people were saying "I've been riding on wooden rims for years and I've never needed an air-filled tyre!"?
kevgravelkev 3 hours ago
@sclarke3@talktalk.net My mate has been riding for four years and has never needed a saddle bag for his spares... it's all relative.
sclarke3@talktalk.net 6 hours ago
I've been cycling for over 45 years and I've never needed a storage box in the frame! It's all marketing crap!
sclarke3@talktalk.net 6 hours ago
I've been cycling for over 45 years and I've never needed a storage box in the frame!
Rendel Harris 6 hours ago
White mountain bike shoes? Really? I suppose they are pretty spiffy if you are just riding your £10,000 MTB round the corner to sit outside your local gastropub in Chelsea but otherwise...
noether 6 hours ago
E-road bikes are unavoidable for 70+ mamils who need to negotiate steep hills on their return from a 3 hr cycling trip. Especially if they tore a meniscus or two. Other users find them simply glorious for the added freedom they offer. None of these target groups pretend to want to compete. TQ motors are an ideal choice for e-road bikes: not too powerful, light, discreet.
Terry Hutt 13 hours ago
Good article. Pretty much sums it up.
check12 18 hours ago
Needs a pressure release if I want 70psi I dont want 68 or 72! 😂😭
wtjs 21 hours ago
@NotNigel This statement has definitely been chosen to wind up a certain, Lancashire based cyclist Doesn't wind me up, as it's clearly fiction from either a contributor, or from road.cc staff having a laugh. It's easy to prove a positive- the successful Lancashire (or anywhere else, I'm always asking but they never reply} submitter sends the link to the online offence video and the letter from the police stating the penalty that's more than the joke letter or course, or the result of the court case. I'm still waiting. Conversely, its very difficult to prove the negative that the police have done sod all. But, they haven't
8 thoughts on “Live blog: Gran Fon … d’oh! – spectacular finish line crash at Italian event, Chris Hoy urges for cycling to be central to transport decisions, kid gets very own bike parking space + more”
“The incident was captured on
“The incident was captured on a video showing two men dressed in tweed and flat caps waving sticks and attempting to block the path of the cyclists on the A701 Edinburgh-Dumfries road near Broughton.” – I wonder what evidence would be acceptable to the PFO, then? I bet they’d have proceeded if it had been someone hitting cars with a stick.
I also bet they’d have
I also bet they’d have proceeded against the cyclists if someone had laid these two ruffians out.
Seems to be you get to about 65 and the law no longer applies to you. Look at all the driving cases where old people get away with hardly any punishment at all.
Kill a cyclist at 19 – send him down!
Kill a cyclist at 75 – unfortunate series of events. This has had a great impact upon the accused.
Yorkshire wallet wrote:
Well, I suppose its something to look forward to…
Facebook would be awash with
Facebook would be awash with chants of “BRING BACK THE DEATH PENALTY!!!!” if this had been teenagers attacking people with sticks.
Reach 60 and you can do what the fuck you like.
StoopidUserName wrote:
There We Are Then,
StoopidUserName wrote:
There We Are Then,
Tour o’ the borders incident
Tour o’ the borders incident — I was there last year, in that first group; nobody got hit or hurt, a bunch of us got mildly inconvenienced by having to slow down for 30 seconds … a couple of guys were protesting against the road closures at harvest time and their perceived lack of community consultation. I don’t agree – but fair enough worth a shrug at best.
lead car saw them going past ahead of the cyclists and didn’t intervene or mediate
I don’t normally post or respond to provocations online – but I get increasingly frustrated how this ‘incident’ was and is portrait, in the local press and on sites like this one – not least by the organisers who seem to use the context well for some additional free promotion or their extremely lucrative event!
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Not just cycling: putting all forms of sustainable, non-motorcar transport at the centre of key decisions about infrastructure would be a good thing, rather than just designing layouts for cars and bolting on other structures as an afterthought, provided they don’t interfere with the core of the design. There really should be no need, in a city, for most of the motor vehicles to be there clogging up the roads.