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Live blog: Team Dimension Data hand out bikes for Qhubeka charity; Woman forced to abandon 1,000 mile ride after seven miles thanks to giant pothole; André Cardoso gets four year ban for positive EPO test; Wiggo has a pop at Cav +more
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Rendel Harris 13 minutes ago
@ktache Just came here to say that, heard them too (watching on delay after work). Sounds a sensible approach and hopefully will stop the idiots, though there will doubtless always be some.
Rendel Harris 17 minutes ago
@MaxiMinimalist Please don't dirty these pages up with cut and paste from AI, if your comment wasn't worth giving your own thought and effort to why is it worth inflicting it on anyone else? In this case, as MDF notes, it doesn't even answer the question you asked, let alone have anything to do with the article. One wonders if this is why your comments are so often absurdly phrased, tortuous word salads with only tangential relationships to the matter under discussion, do you just ask AI to write them for you? If so, please stop it.
IanGlasgow 1 hour ago
@GravelIsNothingNew Reporting poor driving in Scotland is much more difficult than in England. I've done it three times in more than a decade. It involves making a statement at a police station or arranging for them to visit you at home to take a statement. Then the chances of action being taken are almost nil. Apparently Scots law prevents them acting on an online report and an uploaded video and there appears to be no interest among Holyrood MSPs in changing that.
IanGlasgow 1 hour ago
@chrisonabike Edinburgh and Bristol both strike me as cities where cycling is popular DESPITE the geography and lack of infra. I grew up in Edinburgh, but having lived and worked in York, Cambridge and now Glasgow I'm always surprised how many people cycle despite the hills and lack of adequate infrastructure. My daughter lived in Bristol for a few years and it struck me that cycling there was part of the counter-culture, and - again - popular despite (incredibly steep) hills and an almost total absence of cycling infrastructure. Glasgow has started from a much lower base than York, Edinburgh, Cambridge or Bristol but Glasgow City Council are determined to press ahead with a network and some of the infra they've built is really very good and doing a great job of encouraging cycling. Unfortunately, some is a great deal less good and the scale of the proposed network has been cut considerably.
IanGlasgow 1 hour ago
@quiff For those who want a spec that Brompton don't make - disc, brakes, fatter tyres, bigger wheels (18" is an option), belt drive, Shimano or Rohloff hub gears, etc. - Kinetics offer pretty much anything. But as it involves replacing the rear triangle (and forks for most options) it makes more sense to start with a basic-spec C-line (or the even more basic A-line) as a donor bike.
OldRidgeback 2 hours ago
So the driver who left 1.5cm distance between my bar ends and his car on Saturday afternoon instead of 1.5m wasn't driving dangerously?
tomlew 3 hours ago
@Rendel Harris No contradiction here. You can start with the intention to win the GC or just take your chance when you get it. The first one puts you under immense pressure - both mentally and physically - and could indeed cause a lot of trouble. The other gives you absolute freedom - the aim is to survive and learn the ropes, but when the stars align, you could just push and see what happens.
ktache 3 hours ago
And there will be a +1 option, which the highlights on ITV4 never had, meaning that if there are problems on the train or I have to stay a bit at work I won't be as bothered. Quest had it, but not DMAX. But both suffered from the aforementioned unexplained no-show.
andystow 3 hours ago
@mdavidford it was ice moments before the photo was taken. Those guys make a lot of watts.
11 thoughts on “Live blog: Team Dimension Data hand out bikes for Qhubeka charity; Woman forced to abandon 1,000 mile ride after seven miles thanks to giant pothole; André Cardoso gets four year ban for positive EPO test; Wiggo has a pop at Cav +more”
Is that right, Wiggins?
Is that right, Wiggins?
http://www4.pictures.zimbio.com/gi/Michael+Kacer+Invictus+Games+Day+Three+Indoor+wo7TpsEq-2Ql.jpg
I’m starting to get bored with this guy’s obnoxious and tedious antics just to get cheap headlines. He wouldn’t know a hard life if it thumped him on the head.
roadmanshaq wrote:
American so doesn’t count.
Well, you’ve got an
Well, you’ve got an opportunity to use your position of popularity to spread some good stuff and you go and waste it by spouting shite, Sir Bradders.
#Wanker
I saw Geraint Thomas on stage
I saw Geraint Thomas on stage in Monmouth last Friday; he was really interesting, genuinely self effacing and seemed very normal.
I certainly wouldn’t waste my money on seeing Wiggo; I read one of his books once and lost any respect I had for him, as he seemed to spend an inordinate amount of type on explaining how great he was.
Chris Boardman was on stage in Monmouth a while back and he was really engaging too.
Wiggins and Cav are like an
Wiggins and Cav are like an old married couple – The Hooky and Barney (Sumner) of the sporting world. But – The work Wiggins did to get Cav his Rainbow jersey – then Wiggo in yellow leading Cav in the stripes onto the Champs Elysées – their Madison win at the 2016 Worlds. Some pair! (The description of Brailsford made me spit my coffee out…
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JohnnyRemo wrote:
Aye but look how that turned out 🙁
Wiggins is deffo Hooky (the cooler one) while I can see Cav losing it on too many Pernod and oranges. They should do an LP together and call it ‘Power, Corruption & Thighs’. I’d buy it!
I was at the Kentish Town
I was at the Kentish Town date, so not the one reviewed, but some thoughts:
– my interpretation of his comments re Cavendish was that they were very much tongue in cheek. Ribbing a mate rather than criticising him. He also had some very warm words to say about him.
– His view of Armstrong was very much more nuanced that has been presented in the press. I didn’t agree with everything he said, but it was somewhat removed from what the press have seized upon (although given the amount of Armstrong jerseys in the book, I take that with a pinch of salt.)
3. Wiggins is who he is. Yes he’s gonna wind some people up the wrong way, but he has an interesting story to tell, and comes across much less self absorbed than some might think.
Saintlymark wrote:
Likewise with wife, daughter and daughter’s boyfriend. Some great pops at champagne spraying Rapha wearers, absolute clarity on Armstrong and some real insights into his life and “flawed character” (his words). I met him at a track league event he rode out to watch the day he got his new Confidis kit and bike (so years ago). Banter towards Tony Gibb was pretty harsh but seemed a nice bloke then too. If you don’t like him don’t go – there were lots of people there who Im guessing felt it was worth the money.
Brad gonna Brad
Brad gonna Brad
Book to sell, people to rile up etc etc
I saw Ned Boulting last week – for the second time. Brilliant show, lovely bloke, sort of fella you could have a long session with in the pub after just meeting him. Opposite to Bradley in many ways, but I think it’d be just as easy to get shitfaced with him too.
I read that cyclist review
I read that cyclist review and I just thought that it sounded like a journo scorned had written it, maybe Sir Biggo had hurt their feelings in the past.
I’m not saying that Sir Waggo isn’t a douchebag, he’s clearly not very media friendly, but the writing in that article screams of bias.
I note that there is not an author attributed to the article it either, which is prettylow,if you’re going to write a damming review at least have the courage to put your name against it.Edit, I can see that there is a name against it. Trevor Ward.
Also… while I think, ‘Cyclist’ hate team sky, have been a massive stoker of hate over the past couple of years.
Perhaps the rowing failure is
Perhaps the rowing failure is because he is getting close to 40, rather than if he has a bag of sugar up his arse. And as for insulting national treasures, leave Dermot out of it.