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Live blog: Alejandro Valverde says “I never tested positive,” Frankfurt tow away nearly 800 cars in a month for parking in cycle lanes + more
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Mon, Nov 05, 2018 15:42
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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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Aluminium can 1 hour ago
Presumably there is some ideal city where everything is within cycling distance but there's also lots of space to store bikes. Hmm. I wonder if some of those car spots that occupy the same space as 10 bikes (or more) could be utilised?
chrisonabike 4 hours ago
If you're cycling in the UK. But just be careful about picking up discarded perfume bottles, watch who you drink tea with, don't cycle near Russian warships etc.
GravelIsNothingNew 5 hours ago
Vittoria Corsa NeXT are the answer for anyone who actually isn’t pro. Still better than Conti GP5000’s, more durable, better ride feel and better price. …the best way to not pay too much? Buy something else.
john1967 6 hours ago
I'm am more at threat from dangerous drivers than I am from russian snipers
mdavidford 6 hours ago
But again, it's irrelevant to the argument.
Blackthorne83 6 hours ago
The thing that makes cycling more dangerous (among others) is poor skill and situational awareness. Both of which will be exacerbated by this thing full of screens sensors and other distractions which will do nothing to help a novice ride better.
chrisonabike 6 hours ago
Good to hear that people are keen and they won't be doing the Lambeth Walk if they can help it. Now, can we have a rule that new buildings (that the government wants more of built) have to include decent cycle storage space? Like in NL? (Of course not - that would be insanity as nobody cycles, and anyway Nige and Kemi and anyone else will be shouting "nanny state" and "government overreach". And frankly the planning process is a giant hot mess as it is and we're already worried about being slated for missing housing targets ...)
Pub bike 8 hours ago
Those wheels are certainly a major advance in road safety for squirrels trying to cross the road.
chrisonabike 8 hours ago
@momove maybe they mean "more pure cycling *marketing*"?
Terry Hutt 8 hours ago
It needs to read license plates, look them up, and tell you the registered owner has 26 prior driving offences. Ideally it would remotely hack their car and turn the engine off. Driver: I only get 'undred yards down road and another one of those bloody smart bikes shuts me down. Took me two hours to get t' pub.
17 thoughts on “Live blog: Alejandro Valverde says “I never tested positive,” Frankfurt tow away nearly 800 cars in a month for parking in cycle lanes + more”
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Would love to see that happen in places around the UK, but it would be seen as more of the Great War on the Motorist (TM) and no police force would touch it.
brooksby wrote:
Would love to see that happen in places around the UK, but it would be seen as more of the Great War on the Motorist (TM) and no police force would touch it.
Think they would need to build a bigger compound first.
Grahamd wrote:
nah, just crush them and deposit the offending cube of scrap metal on their porch.
brooksby wrote:
Would love to see that happen in places around the UK, but it would be seen as more of the Great War on the Motorist (TM) and no police force would touch it.
It’s a bit of a giggle commuting (by bike/car/bus/horse/whatever) down Hotwell Road in the morning – any of the cars left in the left-hand lane just get picked up and stuck on the back of a lorry
Canyon48 wrote:
You realise that they have to do that *every* morning- there are some people down there seem to think that recovery charge is just part of the cost of running their car, it seems…
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Duplicate post.
Except clearly the prospect
Except clearly the prospect of your car being towed has no effect on driver behaviour as (a) there are dozens of tow companies making a healthy living from doing this already, and (b) inspite of a month of warning, 850 drivers in one city still parked on the bike paths. Useful as revenge, but not sure how useful as a deterrent. Perhaps if the cars were then crushed……
I love the word
I love the word Abschleppdienst.
ConcordeCX wrote:
some of the German nouns are pure class. While the compound nouns are in a league of their own. I still break into cold sweats thinking about it and trying to get my tongue around them when I attempted and failed my German O’Level quite spectacularly.
I think it’s not so much the
I think it’s not so much the police that wouldn’t touch it as local councils.
Bezirksschornsteinfegermeiste
I used to be a bit of a bookie in my early teens and was fascinated with long words, I can’t recal many so had to look it up but some of the longer words in every day use are in German, Finnish + Scandanavian words too
Bezirksschornsteinfegermeister – head district chimney sweep
Donaudampfschiffahrtsgesellschaftskapitän – Danube Steam boat river captain
BehindTheBikesheds wrote:
it’s a process called agglutination. The second word breaks up quite easily into “Danube steam ship travel business captain”.
you’ll enjoy this one, which I’m going to practice shouting at recalcitrant drivers, just to disorient them:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lopadotemachoselachogaleokranioleipsanodrimhypotrimmatosilphioparaomelitokatakechymenokichlepikossyphophattoperisteralektryonoptekephalliokigklopeleiolagoiosiraiobaphetraganopterygon
ConcordeCX wrote:
I don’t recall seeing that in Auguste Escoffier’s Reportoire de la Cuisine, that’s a belter!
Valverde: “I never tested
Valverde: “I never tested positive”. Oh well, that has a long history as a valid defence then….
I was almost starting to feel
I was almost starting to feel sorry for Valverde, thinking that he was getting a disproportionate amount of stick, but then he goes and says something like this and any sympathy disappears. So he was just storing his blag with a highly notable doctor linked to doping for prosperity?
Footpath parking seems to be
Footpath parking seems to be default setting for a lot of Drivers, no matter the situation. I have noticed an increase in people parking a few inches onto the footpath in locations where it makes no difference “Emergency Sevices might need to get by” … Well, don’t fucking parking there if Emergency Services are so important to you.
one from down under on
one from down under on yesterday’s ride – not 100% sure on the law – parking in a bike lane is legal in Victoria unless signs (none) say otherwise – blocking access to/from probably is a parking offence I’m told but at most its around a $95 fine