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Live blog: Lance Armstrong’s mega-successful Uber investment; another near miss with a cyclist on the same Dutch level crossing; flawed Salbutamol test could be replaced by ‘passport’ + more
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Motivated 48 minutes ago
I considered the Strada SB because I think 2000 lumens is right for myself and my commuting. The SB is a boosted RS. They are both crazy expensive even compared to their own lights ... the 2000 lumen Diablo is 240EUR or the 3850 lumen Toro is 395 EUR vs the 2000 lumen Strada SB at 415EUR. Plus import to EU. I will not buy the Strada, but am considering the Toro - can do double duty as a commuter light and MTB light. I wish the Strada came in a dumb 2000 lumen version. I don't think 2000 lumen is so bright to justify the beam dipping. I just want a super well made light with easy button operation. I have the Axis Mk10 and the button operation is not intuitive. The Axis is also how I know that 1300 lumens is not enough for my commuting. It's great for road biking when there will be tunnels and chance of riding before or after sunset.
hotspanners 1 hour ago
Deleted my comments because Road.cc have removed the offending poster from the article. I hope people have learned from this that using gen AI for marketing is a bad idea. Human creatives first!
kingleo 1 hour ago
It looks like the anti-cyclists in Spalding are making up the evidence.
Hollis Jones 1 hour ago
@Pub bike Came here to say just that. The frameset isn’t that expensive, similar to what I paid for my Condor Italia RC a few years ago. Same sort of Dedaccia tubing too! I built mine up with ‘older’ Dura-Ace, aero wheels and managed to get it all for around £3.5k and it weighs less than 8kg (in a size 61!). So yes you can spend loadsa money on an aluminum bike, but you can also build it up how you like for a lot less and still have a great bike.
Paul J 2 hours ago
This BBC article has some further details on what happened that day, including what Gabriele Debotte's (the passenger) did and did not do. It is _absolutely horrific_ what Richardson did to poor Michael Mullins. Unfathomable. Richardson must be an absolute sociopath. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cmde86918z3ro
Sredlums 2 hours ago
@Borisface No one questioned your experience or knowledge. It's irrelevant, because your comment doesn't show any sign of that experience or knowledge.
Sniffer 2 hours ago
The comments on this thread mirror the comments I get when I roll out with my steel bike, a Fairlight Strael, to a group ride. Some people think it is a thing of beauty and like the idea, others don't understand why I have spent that kind of money on something that isn't carbon and weighs a bit more. I have a carbon race bike with aero tweaks. I love it for the chain gang and other fast paced riding, but when I was out on my own this weekend the steel bike was a joy to ride. Proper mud guards are back on, and it even looks good to me with those fitted. I think Mason, and Fairlight, know that there is a chunk of the market that will not be interested in a steel / alloy bike, but there will be enough customers willing to spend their cash on nice versions. If that is not you @Borisface, that is fine. I have not ridden a Mason, but I would like to. I fondly remember my Kinesis T2, bought as a full bike on the cycle-to-work scheme many years ago. The frame is still going strong, currently sitting on my son's turbo trainer.
Paul J 2 hours ago
@Rendel Harris With all the regular stories of shockingly reckless, and sometimes deliberately aggressive, drivers who end up seriously injuring or even killing cyclists we read, it is hard to be shocked anymore by the next such story. However, this story, and that behaviour - stopping to try pull the man out, failing, then continuing on and veering from side to side to dislodge the *still alive* cyclist from under the car - has managed to shock me. It is incomprehensible. How could anyone do that to another person? Not just deliberate murder, but murder with the certain knowledge that it would lead to a prolonged, slow, gruesome, most painful death. And he did this with a *passenger* with him in the car!
Sredlums 2 hours ago
@Freddy56 Following that line of reasoning, what's next? Will the First Aid volunteers be replaced by a First Aid kit and a a kiosk computer with ChatGPT to tell you how to take care of yourself? The announcer replaced by a computer voice, spitting out names based on race bibs and facial recognition? Have some pride, man. If you cannot organise an event in a proper way, with human attention and care, then don't. Just don't. Events don't have to be perfect. Perfection is not to be expected of things that are mostly run by volunteers. And perfection is overrated anyway. But they should feel human. You should feel the enthusiasm and the pride of the organisers and volunteers. An event with an AI poster send the very opposite message, and it is reason for me not to even consider partaking.
mdavidford 2 hours ago
@sheridan This is an opinion piece (it's clearly labelled as such at the top). I'm not clear what facts are in dispute - the article was in response to the existence of AI-generated promotional images for the races, and those clearly do exist.
19 thoughts on “Live blog: Lance Armstrong’s mega-successful Uber investment; another near miss with a cyclist on the same Dutch level crossing; flawed Salbutamol test could be replaced by ‘passport’ + more”
From the BMJ abstract:
From the BMJ abstract:
“However, a recent salbutamol case from the 2017 Vuelta a España, “
Froome
“The method is demonstrated with data from a cyclist competing in the 2007 Giro d’Italia.”
Pettacchi, by any chance? http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/petacchi-suspended-for-one-year/
“Since the observed test falls within the 95% prediction interval, the result would not constitute an AAF.”
So, reading between the lines, I think they are saying Petacchi should not have been banned.
It appears that in both the
It appears that in both the videos the train is clearly visible before the cyclist started crossing (well, in the first one it was hidden by another train, but if they had waited rather than assuming it would have been visible).
John Smith wrote:
You can’t fix stupid basically. Was the rider drunk/stoned?
Providing Lance’s investment
Providing Lance’s investment (share holding) hasn’t been diluted along the way, that makes his $100k worth nearly $3.5 billion on IPO valuatios of $120 billion for Uber. That just feels wrong.
madcarew wrote:
Why?
BehindTheBikesheds wrote:
Because it shows that doping does indeed pay.
Rapha Nadal wrote:
Guess you’ll be giving the likes of perennial dope cheat Merckx the same treatment, I think he’s done rather well for himself on the back of a dope fuelled cycling career? What about Moser, another self confessed doper, or maybe the Badger who refused to take tests, or any of the other successful riders BITD, or is it that you and like many others have a special reserve of rules and finger pointing when it comes to Armstrong?
he was a bully you say, well get out of bed, so was Merckx (net worth circa $20M btw), as well as a liar too, Hinault wasn’t exactly a saint either, in fact a total two faced, lying backstabbing wanker! Oh and Hinault happens to be loaded, he too invested his drug fuelled winnings, just like Armstrong.
So, just stop already with your ridiculous ‘doping’ bullshit, all the top/most successful pros were on it, you know this already. Yet you’ll only ever point the finger/villify one, why is that?
BehindTheBikesheds wrote:
Roid rage?
BehindTheBikesheds wrote:
What the actual fuck are you on about?
Man makes money from an investment which was funded by a higher salary and/or endorsement money earned due to succesess fuelled by doping. You asked “why” and there’s your answer. What on earth possessed you to bang on like you did? Can you read things that haven’t even been written down? Good Lord, man.
madcarew wrote:
No. He invested $100k in a fund that invested in Uber. I’m sure it would be easy to calculate exactly how much he has returned, but estimating for what % of the fund was in uber, dilution, tax, and any cashing out by the fund over time, he way i think $20-30m is a better estimate. No mean feat, but once again this is imo Lance being Lance – he didn’t have to share this info, but he did. Consider it a metaphorical middle finger to the haters.
I trust Mr Vine has reported
I trust Mr Vine has reported that driver. Couldn’t be a clearer case of “it’s only a cyclist so I’m gonna pull out”.
burtthebike wrote:
There’s also an element of “That car has stopped to let me out, so I don’t need to check for myself that its clear…”
Lance, I’ve always stuck up
Lance, I’ve always stuck up for you. Can I have a bike for xmas?
It never ceases to amaze me
It never ceases to amaze me that people make up their own rules of the road. The twitter feed is full of people claiming you should show “courtesy” and let people pull out in free moving traffic. That’s not a cyclist/car thing, it’s a morons who can’t drive thing.
John Smith wrote:
Had a few people pull out on me in London like that last night, I was driving a car. The idiots assume you will stop for them if they force a collision situation. Doing it to someone on a bike is a higher order of c*ntery.
ChrisB200SX wrote:
Honestly I don’t think they even think it’s a collision situation,they just think “there is plenty of room for them to slow down” and that if you don’t it’s you being rude and not playing by the rules. As evidence of this I was riding my motorbike to down a main road in to Oxford a few years ago. There was a lady in the road waiting to turn right on a bicycle shouting abuse at cars for not stopping to let her cross. Another example, my mother in law pulled out on someone and when they flashed their headlights at her she said “what’s his problem. He had loads of room to see me”.
Clearly you’re delusional and
Clearly you’re delusional and lacking comprehension. You accused Armstrong of profiteering from doping, so has every other top cyclist in history, you and others target armstrong but ignore other top cyclists who have doped/cheated their way to a fortune.
You’re not very good at this are you, go ask an adult to explain it to you!
BehindTheBikesheds wrote:
Please do point out where I’ve denied that other cyclists have profited from doping? I’ll wait.
You asked a question which was answered. The subject in this discussion is Armstrong & not the rest of the peloton. Keeping up yet? Had the subject matter been the rest of the peloton profitering from doping then that would’ve been addressed as part of the conversation. Jesus fucking Christ you’re stupid.
BTBS is right, ok Armstong
BTBS is right, ok Armstong was a cheat but essentially he was just king of the cheaters. Pantani’s look of ‘wtf’ when he got chased by Armstrong probably translated to ‘what gear is he on that I’m not?’
Isn’t Indurain the most ludicrous of the cheaters with an average power of 455W all day for 3 weeks? I guess when you let others win stages then you never get called out.