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chrisonabike 36 minutes 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 2 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 2 hours ago
I'm am more at threat from dangerous drivers than I am from russian snipers
mdavidford 2 hours ago
But again, it's irrelevant to the argument.
Blackthorne83 2 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 3 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 5 hours ago
Those wheels are certainly a major advance in road safety for squirrels trying to cross the road.
chrisonabike 5 hours ago
@momove maybe they mean "more pure cycling *marketing*"?
Terry Hutt 5 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.
chrisonabike 5 hours ago
Shurely one of those Zwift bikes is safer? As long as you get medical approval before use, always wear a helmet in case you fall off and don't put it near a wall that someone might inadvertently drive a motor vehicle through.
11 thoughts on “Live blog: Team GB limited edition chain for £250 anyone? Bristol Council’s decision to force L-Dub Community Bike Project to stop operating could leave 40 children without bikes for Christmas, Evans vouchergate resolved, + more”
Re the Instacrash clip – look
Re the Instacrash clip – look at his forks, his right (our left) looks out of place. Apply braking, and…
The cable sticking out 8
The cable sticking out 8 inches to his left hurts my eyes even before he goes A over T
Yep, that fork does not look
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.
Looking at Hoarseman’s still,
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.
Good reactions from the third
Good reactions from the third wheel though, narrowly avoided a bike wheel in the face
“Highways England will pump
“Highways England will pump £3 million in funding”
£3m is basically a rounding error in this context…
That’s a Giant Propel he’s
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!
Away with you and your bike
Away with you and your bike identification/physics based explanation for the dodgy looking fork!
“Highways England now working
“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.
£3M hardly pays for
£3M hardly pays for consultation on a minor road engineering project.
That’s £3M of cones to block
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.