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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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imajez 3 hours ago
@ChrisA the surface make up of a path bears zero relationship to it being a footpath/suitable. I once got lectured on why I shouldn't be riding a footpath by a driver of a Range Rover on a lovely tarmacked road. Another time I was lectured by someone blocking my way on a singletrack path that was built by cyclists, who said I should only be on large wide paths. The parallel wide path was a footpath. But these are very rare exceptions. I ride sensibly and most folk are usually entertained by my polite presence. Also most footpaths would have been paths used by horses in ye olde days, they often conveniently got mislabeled/demoted by rich landowners who failed to get path denied altogether when rights of way were being drawn up.
imajez 4 hours ago
@SecretSam Hence the rise of gravel bikes, which are just less capable drop barred bikes.
miksmith 5 hours ago
You state for the audio for the baofeng that they use an in ear design however they don't ship with any headphones with a mic. What did you use for this?
Rendel Harris 7 hours ago
@eburtthebike One of my best mates, a former rugby teammate of mine, is a Kiwi and a teacher (over here). I can imagine him making precisely that joke and he's a mad keen cyclist! Honestly, if this is the whole story it's a hell of an overreaction to a remark that deserved a mild reprimand about appropriate conduct if that (different if it was coming from a police officer or a driving instructor or similar, maybe). Having worked in a number of schools it's my experience that when senior management take agin someone they'll grab any excuse to get rid of them, I wouldn't be surprised if that was the situation here.
Andrewbanshee 7 hours ago
Hi I wasn't implying the ramps were equivalent to a pump track. I was saying many forestry trails are pretty hairy rather than a well designed pump track. The ramps are definitely not suitable and need replacing, but they are replacing with a new design. I suspect much more tame.
eburtthebike 10 hours ago
Oh dear! With my sense of humour, I should have been sacked a dozen times: every year. The Kiwis I've met all seemed to have a reasonable sense of humour, and one was excellent, but perhaps they weren't working for a school.
ktache 11 hours ago
"neither student laughed..." Well, it elicited a wry smile from me...
Rendel Harris 16 hours ago
@60somethingcyclist Unfortunately there are a couple of problems with that: firstly in order to try to manage some of the chaos in the Italian political system, for several decades when a mayor wins an election in large towns they are automatically given a guaranteed majority of 60% of the council seats, and also if a decree of the mayor's is overruled by the council that automatically triggers a no-confidence vote which then dissolves the council and forces a new election. So in order to vote down this decree not only would opponents need to persuade a considerable number of the mayor's own party to vote against him but also effectively to vote themselves out of office with no guarantee of return.
matthewn5 1 day ago
My first road bike was a Raleigh, too. A 1976 Raleigh Record. I dragged it out of the shed a few years ago and got it working again. 14kg it weighed! A 52/42 crank and a 14-28 five speed 'cluster' at the back made hills pretty hard work...
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.