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Live blog: STOLEN BIKE ALERT (a VERY expensive pee-stop), Rapha back in UCI WorldTour with EF Education First-Drapac, Brailsford supports local hill climb + more
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Mon, Oct 08, 2018 15:05
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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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Tradescant 3 hours ago
@jackcycles I'm not sure my grandchildren got that memo. Cycling should not be just for hardened road warriors.
DS2025 4 hours ago
Chrisonabike There are a number of police forces in England and Wales that are using portable testing equipment already... How effective it is another matter, I haven't looked into the results of failing (I would hope they just seize and crush the motorbike without any faff but I am sure there are appeal processes, promises not to use them on public roads etc).
KiwiMike 4 hours ago
Woah there - a precision-engineered European-made product, with unparalleled adaptability, is somehow a ‘rip off’? Compared to what - Temu? As per the article, most quality through-axles go for £50-60+, but aren’t adaptable and don’t provide any stand or trailer capability. If you want to balance your £3-4-5k suspension or carbon bike, or bikepacking setup on a budget product subject to highly focused stresses, fair play. Cycling’s a broad church.
Dnnnnnn 4 hours ago
@eburtthebike I've found Spanish drivers to be almost entirely excellent around cyclists.
neilmck 5 hours ago
I agree, the study was made after cycle paths that had been introduced in Berlin during the 70’s and 80’s caused a big increase in cycling deaths. It is an interesting study for cyclists to read in order to know what dangers exist at badly designed junctions. Here in Paris we have very few bi-directional paths. The ones I have cycled on have no building entrances or courtyards (so no cars crossing the path) and every junction is traffic lights to prevent accidents.
thrawed 5 hours ago
We have enough regulation. They're running a motorbike without insurance/registration and possibly without a licence, and the punishment for being caught with all that is pretty severe already. The problem is lack of enforcement.
chrisonabike 5 hours ago
In my experience with anything less than one of those serious mid-bike two-foot kickstands, a wall / tree / hedge is the better option, or the bike will sometimes show you the alternative and lie down by itself. Maybe I've got panniers that are just too large and the wrong balance of (too much) cargo though? And of course Edinburgh streets are great at funneling gusts of wind...
chrisonabike 6 hours ago
I agree there's a clear legal line * but I do see something here. Like much tech it's entirely opaque from the outside (without even invoking things like the VW emissions cheating).** I know in NL they have trialled semi-portable "test stations" to check max motor speeds. However with the latest "but there's no money" crisis I can't see that over here. Indeed it's hard to see the police being motivated to do any more roads policing, with this even further down the priority list. Hope I'm wrong... While I guess many of us *would* be fine with EAPCs as a means to attract "non-cyclists" ... perhaps there's an "attractive nuisance" element to this? We're ushering people into an apparently effortless, easy and minimal consequence mobility mode without the "learning experience" of managing a lighter, unpowered machine on roads. And it's still (busy) *roads* where the new power-assisted riders will often find themselves. Not like in more advanced countries where people usually cycle in much safer and more controlled environments. OTOH we should always balance such concerns against "but cars and full-power ICE motorbikes now" though! Number plates, licences and insurance aren't necessarily mitigating that well... * As soon as there are laws games will be played. How long can you be above the "continuous rate power" for? Can we have *multiple* legal motors on one machine? ** Is the power / speed actually regulated by software, and how long will that keep a child armed with the internet from unlocking it?
Zazz53 6 hours ago
And maybe a planning obligation to have traffic Marshalls controlling access out of the site not obstructing the path and restricting it if cyclists are likely to be obstructed …one can hope
Bob Sprocket 6 hours ago
I'll stick to my low rider with Karrimor Kalahari dry bag panniers and Karrimor Kalahari barbag thanks.
10 thoughts on “Live blog: STOLEN BIKE ALERT (a VERY expensive pee-stop), Rapha back in UCI WorldTour with EF Education First-Drapac, Brailsford supports local hill climb + more”
Looking forward to the Rapha
Looking forward to the Rapha/EF films, Mitchelton Scott have done a great job with the backstage pass videos so hopefully this will be something equally good, could be really useful for getting more sponsors interested
Hi-viz, headlights and even a
Hi-viz, headlights and even a noisy exhaust didn’t prevent me getting knocked off my motorbike last month.
But I’m glad I was wearing a helmet, as, even at low speed, it is obvious where the back of it hit the ground and made the difference between walking away and being carried away.
LastBoyScout wrote:
I know, a similar thing happened to me. Came off and the helmet was ruined. I was fine though.
I don’t know why people would even think that helmets aren’t a necessity.
nigerian prince wrote:
….aaand in 3…2…1…
PRSboy wrote:
… something, something wear one whilst walking, something head injuries something something car passenger.
..3…2…1…okay, just let
..3…2…1…okay, just let me get my popcorn.
Got popcorn (salted? I asked for sweet, ass-hat!), so now we can begin!
Squirrels!
Squirrels!
alansmurphy wrote:
You’ve had more than enough squirrels.
I might spray some of this around these web pages:
I can walk through the centre
I can walk through the centre of my living room safely normally. But if i walk across the room with my bike helmet on i always bash into the lightshade hanging from my ceiling. It doesn’t hurt me because i’m wearing a helmet, but i wouldn’t have bashed the lightshade in the first place if i wasn’t wearing a helmet.
Should i make it compulsory to wear a helmet in my living room?
Dagnammit! Too late!
Dagnammit! Too late!