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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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chrisonabike 16 minutes ago
Harm minimization - at least they're not driving...
Gm_Crop 9 hours ago
I'll counter that by saying the Bryton 750se I have drives me nuts at times. Inconsistantly picks up on routes created on Komoot and the app re-syncs every few seconds when trying to set up the device and sends me back to the home screen. The most infuriating one is that I turned live track on. Once. It now won't turn off and repeatedly flags up the live track is starting, and then disconnecting every few seconds whilst riding. I haven't timed it but it wouldn't suprise me if 10-20% of the time the the screen is covered with an error message. That's been about 6 weeks now. Other than that it's great :/
IanGlasgow 9 hours ago
RE: Police launch road safety operation... by clamping down on cyclists using footbridge Meanwhile in Glasgow, Police Scotland are riding their motorbikes over the pedestrian and cyclists only bridge. https://x.com/FietserGlasgow/status/2065106152917012523?s=20
Rendel Harris 10 hours ago
@Paul J Van Schip certainly seems a bit of a dick, but he's a European and multiple World Champion on the track, pretty sure you don't get there without having some talent in your legs.
Bill H 10 hours ago
Poor Vincent cannot get over the simple fact that given the choice people prefer dedicated cycling spaces, rather than pretending to be cars like vehicular cyclists.
pbunyon 10 hours ago
What is the point of the fancy air sensor if it can't account for changing weather conditions?? If all you care about is a delayed approximation of aerodynamic watts in steady conditions, you don't need any special sensors for that. Just your speed on a decently flat course is enough to approximate rolling resistance and drivetrain losses. And the rest must be aero. If you assume a less aero body position at the same watts, your speed will drop while rolling resistance also drops, which means approximated aero watts goes up. And that's enough to demonstrate what you've shown in your testing protocol ("I sat upright and the number went up a little while later").
chrisonabike 11 hours ago
Your correction is accurate - it's almost always been "the (lack of) thought that (doesn't) count". "Massive" - less than a billion a year spent on active travel (trying to catch up / building a network across the entire country) Not massive - 6 billion every year (2026-2030) spent on road *maintenance* of existing "already built, goes everywhere, very convenient" road network for inactive travel Ultimately the reason "cycle infra" is *needed* is those unbelievably colossal amounts spent every year (and for more than a century now) on making mass motoring not just viable but apparently the "best choice" for most journeys. As the Dutch and others have shown, the majority of people *are* prepared to cycle and even mix with very light, slow local motor traffic *if* cycling is also made safe and convenient for the whole of their journey (including secure parking at both ends). (The history of the financial drivers of the current situation are a complex topic but note that while people complain about "crumbling roads" and underfunded motor infra - with some reason - by us continuing the fuel duty escalator freeze (for example) we're actually helping motorists pay *even less* for that activity / subsidising more of the cost of driving than ever.)
belugabob 11 hours ago
yes, but people will still object - which was my point.
Astralstroll 13 hours ago
So ' Priority of Road Users' and 1.5 metre clearance at 30mph has been been reduced to 'sharing'? NCN route 2 here in South Hams is an absolute scream with white vans, tractors and total idiots who refuse,or are totally incapable,to reverse on high Devon banked lanes ...means you have to get off and pedal back to a passing place....could be at that all day...so I don't bother...
Mr Anderson 14 hours ago
@MaxiMinimalist Agreed. The big problem I see now is today's parents grew up being driven to their schools, and therefore, see private motor vehicles as the only viable form of transport. The vast majority of UK infant and primary schools have a catchment area that is within easy walking distance from home to school. Yet, the traffic caused by pupils being driven to/from school is astonishing. Banishing the "School Run" should be a priority for all schools.
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.