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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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Thu, Dec 06, 2018 17:49
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wtjs 6 hours ago
@FionaJJ These officers deployed next-level stupidity, and it must be difficult for the police to find people this dim. It doesn't even need rolling-roads or whatever, just a reputable bike computer on a quickly changed mount for the difficult cases where a proper EAPC has been modded, although you would need to look hard in Lancashire to find a police officer who knows how to make a pedal cycle go. Most illegal electric motorbikes are immediately obvious, not least because the crim is wearing a face mask. I saw an obvious one tonight coming out of Garstang Sainsbury's, not pedalling but without a face mask because everybody knows that the police only come into the town to hide away in the police station 200 yards away.
bikeman01 8 hours ago
Gustav Gullholm.. that's not a good look mate
mdavidford 10 hours ago
@Chris RideFar I think what you meant to say was "REMOVE this and put it on PODCAST CC".
jaymack 11 hours ago
As Mary Whitehouse never said - one doesn't have to read the article if one doesn't want to read about an off-road bicycle.
Rendel Harris 12 hours ago
@FionaJJ In London they're allowed to stop on single and double yellows to deliver packages or empty pillar boxes; in practice they take this as carte blanche to park wherever and whenever they want, such as this chap on the Brixton Road who pulled into the bus/cycle/motorcycle lane without indicating, as I approached at 20mph, to park on a red route, response to a remonstrance, "I suppose you never get post delivered do ya?"
FionaJJ 12 hours ago
@Rendel Harris We have a pavement parking ban, but around here at least, royal mail vans are already exempt, subject to certain caveats, such as allowing at least 1.5m, and only being stopped to do their work.
FionaJJ 13 hours ago
It was already embarrassing for the police that they made such a mess of their attempt to determine whether a bike was legal or not, but I had assumed it was a group of well intentioned, but under-trained officers acting on their own initiative, having spotted something they thought looked not quite right. I'm now discovering this was a planned activity, something sufficiently organised to have been given a name - Operation FRISLEN, designed specifically to identify and remove illegal e-bikes and scooters. It's apparent that the officers were sent out without adequate training, never mind the kind of equipment that should be used for this sort of work. I'm not saying they always need specialist equipment to spot all illegal bikes, but at least if they'd been given a demonstration with that equipment, they'd have realised why their approach was not going to end well.
Geoff Ingram 15 hours ago
Have put drop bars on a 2001 B1 mtb, a 2007 stumpy hardtail and a 2010 stumpy full suss. In all cases fairly basic conversións leaving gearing and wheels broadly the same and concentrating on correct positioning of bars and fit. Oddly, with all 3 I was happy with the result when recently done, but after a few months found that the extra speed on easy trails was more than offset by the lack of ability (probably mine) on tougher routes and finally preferred flat bar with slammed and inverted stem as best overall compromise. Good fun playing around, though.
mark1a 15 hours ago
The photos in this review look they are for a different bag?
mattw 16 hours ago
This is a strange reactionary knee jerk overall. But what is this "are essentially motorbikes in disguise" waffle? "One letter claimed that high-powered electric ‘e-bikes’ were “essentially motorbikes” in disguise, with many being used without lights, helmets, or any hi-vis clothing." Surely, they simply ARE motorbikes?
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.