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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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imajez 4 hours ago
@ChrisA the surface make up of a path bears zero relationship to it being a footpath/suitable. I once got lectured on why I shouldn't be riding a footpath by a driver of a Range Rover on a lovely tarmacked road. Another time I was lectured by someone blocking my way on a singletrack path that was built by cyclists, who said I should only be on large wide paths. The parallel wide path was a footpath. But these are very rare exceptions. I ride sensibly and most folk are usually entertained by my polite presence. Also most footpaths would have been paths used by horses in ye olde days, they often conveniently got mislabeled/demoted by rich landowners who failed to get path denied altogether when rights of way were being drawn up.
imajez 4 hours ago
@SecretSam Hence the rise of gravel bikes, which are just less capable drop barred bikes.
miksmith 6 hours ago
You state for the audio for the baofeng that they use an in ear design however they don't ship with any headphones with a mic. What did you use for this?
Rendel Harris 8 hours ago
@eburtthebike One of my best mates, a former rugby teammate of mine, is a Kiwi and a teacher (over here). I can imagine him making precisely that joke and he's a mad keen cyclist! Honestly, if this is the whole story it's a hell of an overreaction to a remark that deserved a mild reprimand about appropriate conduct if that (different if it was coming from a police officer or a driving instructor or similar, maybe). Having worked in a number of schools it's my experience that when senior management take agin someone they'll grab any excuse to get rid of them, I wouldn't be surprised if that was the situation here.
Andrewbanshee 8 hours ago
Hi I wasn't implying the ramps were equivalent to a pump track. I was saying many forestry trails are pretty hairy rather than a well designed pump track. The ramps are definitely not suitable and need replacing, but they are replacing with a new design. I suspect much more tame.
eburtthebike 11 hours ago
Oh dear! With my sense of humour, I should have been sacked a dozen times: every year. The Kiwis I've met all seemed to have a reasonable sense of humour, and one was excellent, but perhaps they weren't working for a school.
ktache 12 hours ago
"neither student laughed..." Well, it elicited a wry smile from me...
Rendel Harris 17 hours ago
@60somethingcyclist Unfortunately there are a couple of problems with that: firstly in order to try to manage some of the chaos in the Italian political system, for several decades when a mayor wins an election in large towns they are automatically given a guaranteed majority of 60% of the council seats, and also if a decree of the mayor's is overruled by the council that automatically triggers a no-confidence vote which then dissolves the council and forces a new election. So in order to vote down this decree not only would opponents need to persuade a considerable number of the mayor's own party to vote against him but also effectively to vote themselves out of office with no guarantee of return.
matthewn5 1 day ago
My first road bike was a Raleigh, too. A 1976 Raleigh Record. I dragged it out of the shed a few years ago and got it working again. 14kg it weighed! A 52/42 crank and a 14-28 five speed 'cluster' at the back made hills pretty hard work...
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)