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Live blog: Jenny Graham smashes round-the-world record, protest organised against lack of police action over spate of bike muggings in Manchester, new 3T Exploro + more
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Thu, Oct 18, 2018 14:34
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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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belugabob 8 minutes ago
...because having registration plates led your client to lose their licence, despite pathetic pleas that it would end their career as a best selling writer (ironically, a crime writer) Yet you still bent over backwards to try to get them off 🙄
chrisonabike 21 minutes ago
I think George wasn't quite saying "collective responsibility" - maybe I'm wrong? If I have you right, you *are* saying that? That there is a "we" and the fact that kids in Croydon don't ride their bikes like advanced motorists drive their cars in Aberfeldy means that I deserve no respect? Or is it more "I *know* 'em when I see 'em"? Humans are a lot more sensitive to the bad - I recall the one close pass every so often very strongly but forget tens of perfectly adequate ones. I'm actually not that fussed about "respect" - for one that's normally judged by feel. I think the discussion is helped by a more "civil engineering" focus. Allowing for the fact that humans do work on feeling so law and engineering has to account for that...
chrisonabike 32 minutes ago
Absolutely. With an elementary knowledge of psychology, UK motornormativity and media narrative and knowing that there are far fewer "cyclists" than "motorists" (anyone "both , and..."?) I'm betting on: "Cyclists could magically become model road users tomorrow breaking zero rules and attitudes towards cyclists would barely move." ... being the case, and the following not moving the plot forward: "must individually treat other road users with the respect we want back." The latter is a very good ideal. But leaving aside "who will make this happen?" a non-motorist on most roads will continue to be "in the way" regardless, and the KSIs will continue. Note roads are now designed for motorists to make progress at 20-30+ then wait for a minute at the next traffic light... The Dutch (out of all Europeans) have taken the "avoid the issue" approach furthest: fundamentally different modes in their own spaces, except where the more dangerous one is seriously restricted / outnumbered.
VIPcyclist 37 minutes ago
Galibier are my favourite at the moment.
yodhrin 39 minutes ago
Congrats road.cc, you baited my engagement. That only works for so long though, you get that yeah? Eventually people get sick of places that purposefully court controversy by publishing the dumb opinions of dumb people and just stop going altogether. Motorists are entitled. Everywhere, at all times, they believe they have the right to proceed onwards and that everyone else is obligated to get out of their way, even when legally and practically they don't have a leg to stand on. You think you're advocating for "politeness" George, but you aren't, you're arguing for submitting to dominance achieved through violence and fear. Answer me this - if it was a farm vehicle holding you up with no safe opportunity to overtake, would you be writing an article opining on the "impoliteness" of farmers, doddering along holding everyone up when they could easily pull into a driveway and let everybody past? Afterall, if a cyclist should have to put everyone else's convenience before their own and spend half their journey stopping and starting and waiting at the side of the road for bunched up cars to go by, that should go doubly for a farmer in a tractor who has a big engine to get him going again every time, right? Or perhaps, just perhaps, you're letting the petrol fumes get to you and next time you should probably leave it a few days after last huffing a tailpipe before you decide to write a clever article with half your braincells MIA.
Smoggysteve 40 minutes ago
Since when were we defined by the mode of transport we use? Some people are kind, courteous and law abiding, some people are arseholes. Some people drive cars, some people ride bikes. Non of these are interlinked in any way. You will find good and bad across all society and good or bad. They might cycle they might not. They might own a BMW SUV, they might not. broad brushing people because that's what the shameless gutter press likes to do to justify their existence doesn't mean we should also.
VIPcyclist 42 minutes ago
Decent value for money at £5599.00. Pull the wool over the other one.
Liam Mercer 46 minutes ago
@Surreyrider Many brands affected by this produce road bikes too.
Surreyrider 49 minutes ago
Please remove this from Road CC. I go on the website to read ROAD cycling stories. Stop padding your content out with irrelevant stuff.
capedcrusader 50 minutes ago
Vollering conveniently forgetting that her own SD-Worx DS and teammates left her high and dry after she crashed 2 years ago in the Tour de Femmes, and that it was her own fault she crashed, putting that on Niewiadoma is taking the Michael. Plus it wasn't as if the crash was 40-50km out it was 6 km from the line and the peleton was naturally setting up for the sprint which Vollering's teammate Blanca Vas won. Slowing down was never an option. Sour grapes. As for the stage 8 last week, Sisteron-Nice, there's little doubt Gery put the squeeze on Niewiadoma which while allowed and 'part of the game' is bad sportmanship but I don't think that Niewiadoma could have kept up with Vollering regardless, as was made clear the following day on Col d'Eze.
17 thoughts on “Live blog: Jenny Graham smashes round-the-world record, protest organised against lack of police action over spate of bike muggings in Manchester, new 3T Exploro + more”
I’ve always wanted my bike to
I’ve always wanted my bike to ride itself, leaving me to watch tele and get fat while notching up all those verifiable Strava miles
MarkiMark wrote:
it gives the autonomous cars something to aim at
From the Irish Article…..
From the Irish Article…..
“He told me he saw the cyclist ahead of him. He told me he saw the cyclist turn his head but the cyclist did not alter his position on the road,” Garda Vance said.
Ms Harrington, who was in the front seat, heard a bang and her husband realised the car had collided with the bicycle as they passed.
Mr Carney was not wearing a helmet or high visibility clothing, the court heard.
Forensic Collision Investigator Garda John Culleton said both the car and the bicycle were travelling in the same direction at a similar speed along Butterfield Park when the collision occurred.
“Both parties were travelling alongside and either could have encroached on the other. One moved towards the other and contact was made.
“I cannot say who made the contact between these vehicles. There was contact between both parties but I can’t say who made the manoeuvre that resulted in contact,” Garda Culleton said.
The jury of three women and three men returned a verdict of accidental death and made a recommendation that all cyclists wear helmets.
FFS!
Deeferdonk wrote:
Quite staggering. What else can be said?
Regarding the inquest verdict
Regarding the inquest verdict, despite the driver admitting he saw the cyclist and that the cyclist didn’t alter direction (read – didn’t get out of the way), the cyclist ends up dead despite what’s practically an admission of fault the old victim blaming should wear a helmet nonsense appears again. Not a word about drivers taking more care and overtaking safely.
The three men and three women of the jury should be made watch the effect of a ton+ of metal rolling over a foam hat (I’m not completely sadistic – I wouldn’t insist their heads be in it at the time) to see what utter pointless shite that is as a verdict
JMcL_Ireland wrote:
Clearly the three men and three women of the jury haven’t been told what a bicycle helmet is – and isn’t! – designed to help protect the wearer from…
brooksby wrote:
Spot on there!
77 years old, eh? Probably
77 years old, eh? Probably been driving the thick end of 60 years without any further scrutiny. Eyesight could be shot as well.
vonhelmet wrote:
In a fair and reasonable society, they would obviously have checked his eyesight at around the same time they checked that he wasn’t drunk etc.
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What is the possible relevance of this given that the motorist and his wife both admitted having seen him?
I saw the cyclist ahead of me
I saw the cyclist ahead of me and decided to run him over anyway.
On what informed basis, having regard to all the benefits and cons of a helmet did they come up with that recommendation?
How about recommending that drivers don’t run cyclists over? That drivers give an appropriate amount of room? That drivers don’t drive right next to a cyclist, maintaining the same speed?
Oh on their lack of facts basis, drivers of that age need to pass a retest and eye test before being allowed to drive.
hirsute wrote:
Ah, but remember: “the cyclist did not alter his position on the road“. Clearly his fault, then…
You wonder how it’s possible
You wonder how it’s possible to have a fatal accident on a residential street like this…
Until you look at google maps and see how it’s a great little rat-run parallel to a main road. Perfect if the rush hour traffic is bad and you’re running late on your way to the train station. Maybe…
Surely the police can tell
Surely the police can tell where the car hit him ? If the damage is at the front he’s just run him down.
If it’s the side it’s more complicated.
RIP fellow cyclist.
We’re not sure if he forced
We’re not sure if he forced his penis inside of her or whether due to his close proximity she fell onto his exposed penis, so accidental ‘relations’, the rape cannot be proven. The victim was wearing a low cut top, short skirt and was walking down a street minding her own business, we recommend long dresses, big baggy tops and chasisty belts for all women.
Fucking cunts.
Hopefully this gets taken to
Hopefully this gets taken to a court of appeal, with expert witnesses for the deceased. That summary of facts sounds like an admission of guilt to me
Professor Mingguo Zhao, who
Professor Mingguo Zhao, who led the team that developed the bike, said:“Our project is about how a bicycle can keep its balance like a human. We chose the most similar method to a human, making use of centrifugal force produced by controlling the handlebar to keep balance,”
Nope. No such thing as centrifugal force. What sort of professor makes that statement?