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Live blog: New hire bikes for Edinburgh, Rouleur Classic highlights, doper aged 58 gets four-year ban +more
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Thu, Nov 08, 2018 15:11
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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 10 minutes 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 3 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 4 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 4 hours ago
I'm am more at threat from dangerous drivers than I am from russian snipers
mdavidford 4 hours ago
But again, it's irrelevant to the argument.
Blackthorne83 4 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 5 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 7 hours ago
Those wheels are certainly a major advance in road safety for squirrels trying to cross the road.
chrisonabike 7 hours ago
@momove maybe they mean "more pure cycling *marketing*"?
Terry Hutt 7 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.
3 thoughts on “Live blog: New hire bikes for Edinburgh, Rouleur Classic highlights, doper aged 58 gets four-year ban +more”
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I hope they’ve sorted out their project management issues which plagued the Burner production, then. Having said that, the Burner is mostly a lovely rear light, although the charger connection is almost entirely useless.
rkemb wrote:
I hope they’ve sorted out their project management issues which plagued the Burner production, then. Having said that, the Burner is mostly a lovely rear light, although the charger connection is almost entirely useless.
LMAO, good luck to those customers, really, if it’s even a little like Burner it will be spring at earliest.
If the light was £10 I still wouldn’t have backed it based on atrocious Burner campaign roll out and delays – keeping very quiet about the dozens of issues issues until forced to reveal them, useless charging cable, spinning light and Burner Generation 1 vs Generation 2 magnet- mounts compatability issues. They also stopped supporting it (dropped hot potato) really in terms of accessories and helping with further issues. I have now modifed my burner so it actually does what they said it would do on the campaign. I feel sorry for their customer support team who did their best but suffered so much for their boss’ continuous bad decisions for PR and product.
With the rotation issue DIY fixed, the magnetic mount is really good.- so much better that SeeSense’s crappy bands for Ace and similar.
I’m so happy USADA is
I’m so happy USADA is spending thousands to bust people so old they might die before their doping ban is up.