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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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quiff 20 minutes ago
As I think that poster liked to remind us, explosion in the hi-viz aisle of Decathlon is also a big risk for cyclists.
quiff 29 minutes ago
@IanGlasgow indeed - my point was really just in answer to the reviewer's apparent surprise they didn't add discs - but the Kinetic kits show it actually requires quite a lot of change.
chrisonabike 48 minutes ago
...And another one turning up on a bicycle to another former poster's soirée and then being hurt by his reaction?
chrisonabike 49 minutes ago
8 dangerous mistakes that put riders in A&E - was one going on a ride with former(?) poster wheelywheely... and being run over on the pavement by a mob of cyclists riding furiously through a red light on the wrong side of the road ... and then having wheely's wheelchair fall on you?
Rendel Harris 1 hour 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 1 hour 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 2 hours 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 2 hours 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 2 hours 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 3 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?
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.