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Arriving at road.cc in 2017 via 220 Triathlon Magazine, Jack dipped his toe in most jobs on the site and over at eBikeTips before being named the new editor of road.cc in 2020, much to his surprise. His cycling life began during his students days, when he cobbled together a few hundred quid off the back of a hard winter selling hats (long story) and bought his first road bike - a Trek 1.1 that was quickly relegated to winter steed, before it was sadly pinched a few years later. Creatively replacing it with a Trek 1.2, Jack mostly rides this bike around local cycle paths nowadays, but when he wants to get the racer out and be competitive his preferred events are time trials, sportives, triathlons and pogo sticking - the latter being another long story.  

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tigersnapper | 5 years ago
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That's £3M of cones to block off a few routes to make it easier for the workers to park up their transits and drink tea.

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ktache | 5 years ago
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£3M hardly pays for consultation on a minor road engineering project.

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burtthebike | 5 years ago
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"Highways England now working with Sustrans to improve National Cycle Network"

Just how will an organisation whose only experience of cycling is to make it worse, improve the NCN.  That's HE I'm talking about, not Sustrans.  Will they be putting in dog legs, barriers and interminable wait crossings?  £3m; you're having a laugh aren't you.  That's one fairly minor road engineering project; loose change that HE found down the back of the sofa.

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CygnusX1 | 5 years ago
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Away with you and your bike identification/physics based explanation for the dodgy looking fork!

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DaSy | 5 years ago
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That's a Giant Propel he's riding, so has carbon forks which don't really bend, they are either intact or broken, unlike metal. I think it is camera parellax that makes it look bent, as those forks have an outward curve from top to bottom. 

I think he grabbed a handful of front brake at the same time as turning, which caused him to high-side. The Propel has a kind of linear pull,V brake type of affair, so maybe he was unfamiliar with the braking characteristics of it (as am I to be honest).

As said before, everyone else was riding on point, even if he wasn't!

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jacknorell | 5 years ago
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"Highways England will pump £3 million in funding"

£3m is basically a rounding error in this context...

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CygnusX1 | 5 years ago
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Good reactions from the third wheel though, narrowly avoided a bike wheel in the face

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CygnusX1 | 5 years ago
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Looking at Hoarseman's still, looks like a triathlon arm rest tucked under the handlebars too.

I suspect this wasn't his first crash of the day -- attempting to ride home on a broken bike instead of sucking it up and making the call to the significant other to come pick you up.

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HoarseMann | 5 years ago
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Yep, that fork does not look right. The sticky out brake cable looks very wrong too. I think it’s a triathlon bike with the front brake caliper behind the fork crown. Nasty fall.

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EK Spinner | 5 years ago
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The cable sticking out 8 inches to his left hurts my eyes even before he goes A over T

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CygnusX1 | 5 years ago
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Re the Instacrash clip - look at his forks, his right (our left) looks out of place. Apply braking, and... 

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