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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

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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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Eton Rifle | 5 years ago
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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. 

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burtthebike replied to Eton Rifle | 5 years ago
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Eton Rifle wrote:

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. 

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.

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CygnusX1 replied to burtthebike | 5 years ago
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burtthebike wrote:

Eton Rifle wrote:

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. 

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.

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)

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peted76 | 5 years ago
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That bloke who ran the route of the tour de france.. 30 miles a day for 68 days....  he's a nutter! 

 

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brooksby | 5 years ago
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UK government "wants to double cycling by 2025"

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...

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hawkinspeter replied to brooksby | 5 years ago
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brooksby wrote:

Quote:

UK government "wants to double cycling by 2025"

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?

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burtthebike | 5 years ago
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"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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bike_food | 5 years ago
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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...'

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CygnusX1 | 5 years ago
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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. 

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John Smith | 5 years ago
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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.

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Kendalred | 5 years ago
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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!

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Jack Sexty replied to Kendalred | 5 years ago
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KendalRed wrote:

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!

 
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!
 

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