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Live blog: Team Wiggins becomes Team WIGGINS Le Col, a hardcore commute, Geraint Thomas wins Welsh Sports Personality of the Year award +more
Is G a dead-cert for the UK gong after scooping the Welsh SPOTY award? Meanwhile, the government said they want to double cycling in the UK by 2025 at the Cycling and Walking Innovations conference today
Wed, Dec 05, 2018 15:23
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Jack is group editor across road.cc, off.road.cc and ebiketips, overseeing all three sites in the F-At Digital group to make sure everything’s up to scratch. He’s been writing about cycling and multisport for over a decade, arriving at road.cc via 220 Triathlon Magazine in 2017. He worked across all areas of road.cc including tech, news and video, and also contributed to ebiketips before being named editor of road.cc in 2021 (much to his surprise). Jack has been hooked on cycling since his student days, and currently has a Trek 1.2 for winter riding, a beloved Bickerton folding bike for getting around town, and an extra beloved custom Ridley Helium SLX for fantasising about going fast in his stable. Jack has never won a bike race, but does have a master’s degree in print journalism, and two Guinness World Records for pogo sticking (it’s a long story).
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mdavidford 2 minutes ago
[citation needed]
mdavidford 5 minutes ago
I'm sure I've seen this somewhere before.
AidanR 29 minutes ago
Canyon are wrong. This is the safest road bike ever created: https://road.cc/content/news/florida-man-armed-cyclist-jersey-sparks-debate-303035
ROOTminus1 39 minutes ago
I get on my bike to remove myself from the world where AI is being shoehorned into everything. DO NOT WANT.
ROOTminus1 50 minutes ago
It would amount to a contravention of Article 3 of the Human Rights Act 1998 to sentence Mr Frewin to cleaning up similarly dumped asbestos with a rolled up £10 note and a Friday night toilets technique, as part of a community payback scheme. I make no presumption or judgement on how practiced he may or may not be at such activities.
mdavidford 1 hour ago
@quiff Well, that's the beauty of language - it's mutable and indeterminate, and a dictionary definition never captures the full nuance of practical usage. In any case, as I say, I'm not wedded to the term, and it's entirely peripheral to the point.
HLaB 1 hour ago
I've seen a few of his videos and its left me thinking the same each time. Hugging the gutter just encourages such numpties, who see a space and instantly go without thinking.
Blackhound 2 hours ago
Thanks.
Surreyrider 2 hours ago
@quiff Maybe that's where journalists should kind of do their journalisting - and check/ask questions?
Surreyrider 2 hours ago
@Blackhound No, they won't in the UK.
12 thoughts on “Live blog: Team Wiggins becomes Team WIGGINS Le Col, a hardcore commute, Geraint Thomas wins Welsh Sports Personality of the Year award +more”
Thought near misses on bikes
Thought near misses on bikes were bad?
Yes, as the consequences are far worse.
Oh, and by the way Jack S, – none of this ‘previously worked for 220 Triathlon magazine’ nonsense! I know you still write for 220, ya little tinker!
KendalRed wrote:
If there were consequences it wouldn’t be a near miss, I was more referring to the initial wince-factor in some of these examples – though I’m not doubting if there were consequences involving a cyclist it’s likely to be worse (first-hand experience of this).
I do still do some freelance work for a UK multisport magazine yes, but I’m typing this at you from my full-time place of employment!
That’s TFL budgeting is
That’s TFL budgeting is hardly a surprise to anyone who works in projects or infrastructure. That’s how infrastructure spending works. The 17/18/19 budget will be for planning, writing PIDs, submitting and reviewing bids and ramping up to delivery. You don’t just go out and start digging up roads or implementing changes at random. These things take time.
Its not a scandal, it’s standard program delivery.
Some shocking driving there,
Some shocking driving there, but then again that’s no shock. My particular favourite was the impatient overtaker who had to stick it in the verge on the far side to avoid a head on.
Marjority of these are ‘oh,
Marjority of these are ‘oh, the guy in front has gone so it must be alright for me to go too, no need to check…’
“The Government want to
“The Government want to double cycling by 2025.
They have identified the barriers;
safety, and poor infrastructure are the top two”
No. The top two are the government, closely followed by the government. And the rest of the top 100 are the government too.
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But they want to do it without paying any money, without changing any aspect of the built environment, and without having to restrict the activities of motorists in any way, shape, or form…
brooksby wrote:
But they want to do it without paying any money, without changing any aspect of the built environment, and without having to restrict the activities of motorists in any way, shape, or form…
Can’t they just change how it’s calculated?
That bloke who ran the route
That bloke who ran the route of the tour de france.. 30 miles a day for 68 days…. he’s a nutter!
Interesting about cycling
Interesting about cycling being the fastest growing sport in the British Army. I work in Defence and was quite surprised to see the number of officers who are keen cyclists. A couple of the blokes even did the Alpe d’Huez stage last year.
Eton Rifle wrote:
Any chance of using their expertise and the accessibility of weapons to dole out some very rough justice? I’m thinking of a challenger tank running over a few cars, and I’m sure quite a few people would chip in to crowdfund it, as long as they were given sufficient warning to be there to video the driver’s face as he rushes out of his house to see his crushed car and a tank disappearing into the distance.
burtthebike wrote:
Who needs a tank? This is the Army’s replacement vehicle* – it has all terrain capability, low fuel consumption, low radar footprint and very quiet weapon discharge…
(* this may not be quite true)