Live blog: Invisibility training for cyclists video; drivers ignore road closure and diversion and drive in cycle lane; Ofo pulls out of London; Edvald Boasson-Hagen’s monster six hour Zwift ride + more
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Ofo pulls out of London
Dockless bike-share firm Ofo is currently suffering “cash flow problems” with millions of people currently waiting to get their deposits back.
The Guardian reports that the firm’s now pulling out of London. It’s dissolved its international division, which includes the UK operation, and offered its 50 remaining employees the option to leave by Thursday or take a 50 per cent pay cut and transfer to the Chinese business.
Edvald Boasson Hagen does six-hour ride on Zwift
We always say that Zwift’s a great way to make indoor training more fun, but… six hours?
Cyclist reports that the Dimension Data rider did a 212km indoor rider.
Drivers ignore road closure and diversion to drive in cycle lane
Motorists staying classy this morning on Priory Lane, Roehampton. Screw the Road Closed and Diversion, let's just drive along the pavement and the cycle lane. #entitled #illegal @MetCycleCops @MPSWandsworth @wandbc @RichmondCycling @RichmondPkCycle @LBRUT pic.twitter.com/dr2HM6FFnz
— ClashCity Womble (@clashcitywomble) January 10, 2019
Perhaps even more surprising is my wife saw cars still doing this at 9:15am in broad daylight, sadly she doesn't have a video camera on her bike. See what's happening tonight….
— ClashCity Womble (@clashcitywomble) January 10, 2019
Perhaps even more surprising is my wife saw cars still doing this at 9:15am in broad daylight, sadly she doesn't have a video camera on her bike. See what's happening tonight….
— ClashCity Womble (@clashcitywomble) January 10, 2019
About that six hour Zwift ride...
It looks like Edvald Boasson-Hagen’s monster Zwift ride was made all the more mentally tortuous by completing it on a Tacx Magnum cycling treadmill – if you’ve ever had a go on one they’re not the easiest to find your balance on, let alone five hours in.
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400 bike bottles stolen from Velobici factory and put on eBay
Vélobici has urged cyclists to be wary of purchasing its branded biodegradable bidons from unofficial sources after thieves broke into a shipping container and stole ten boxes of them.
Approximately 400 bottles were stolen with a combined retail value of around £6,000, plus assorted machinery and tools.
The thieves used an angle grinder to cut through a lock securing the container, located outside the brand’s Leicester factory, overnight between Sunday January 6 and Monday January 7.
Shortly after the raid, the bottles were listed on eBay at £5 for the 500ml version and £7.50 for the 750ml version – a fraction of the RRP of the products.
The bottles are the new biodegradable model. Some feature Vélobici’s Modernist logo with a striking mod target and the larger bottle is clear, with the VB branding surrounded by a green leaf motif. All bottles feature a drip-proof Tacx spout.
“It could obviously have been a lot worse,” said Chris Puttnam, Vélobici founder and managing director. “But it’s still infuriating to know that someone is so brazenly selling them on eBay after they were stolen.”
Police have been informed of the theft.
Ride with Team CCC on Zwift
Team CCC are having a pre-Tour Down Under warmup on Zwift and you’re cordially invited to rant around with them. You’ll have to be up with the lark though, it’s at 0530 on Saturday morning. We don’t reckon we’ll be of a mood to hit the turbo then…
Ready to train with @CCCProTeam? Join us on @GoZwift on Saturday 12th at 16:00 ACDT (06:30 CET) for our pre-#TDU training ride.
You can access the @CCCProTeam kit and @Giant_Bicycles TCR Advanced SL race bike during the event https://t.co/rlpTh32qex
See you on the road! pic.twitter.com/5DNzLYbiJm
— CCC Team (@CCCProTeam) January 11, 2019
Two abreast is best, agree lions
Just your average traffic jam in South Africa pic.twitter.com/ieCe2rev1v
— CBS News (@CBSNews) January 10, 2019
Bloody lions should be in single file… think they own the road!
Video: Invisibility training for cyclists
For motorcyclists actually – but the principles apply in exactly the same way for cyclists.
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Neil here, the guy in charge of Kingston Wheelers visual identity. That poster was sent out without my approval. When I found out about it I was not happy. I’m a professional animator and designer with a zero tolerance approach to AI slop. It never appeared on our official channels, and one were to look at our IG feed, it should be obvious that we promote good design. It was too late to stop it as it had been shared by the local ‘cross leagues already by the time I found out about it. We take great care on how we present ourselves. Currently we are working with an external brand agency on our upcoming rebrand and new website, for example. I myself have designed many event posters over the years and we’ve worked with some very talented illustrators, designers and photographers. It’s been communicated to the members that no AI is to be used for anything that could be construed as club communication. I do wish Jo had reached out for comment before publishing this as it makes us look lazy and generic. I hope you are going to correct the record, Jo? Best wishes, Neil Grunshaw
@mdavidford friends, romans, countrymen: lend me your cars. A typo in copies of Julius Caesar has persisted since 1831, but is clearly incorrect since organs can be donated but not returned.
Police suggesting that hi-viz should be worn by cyclists so that drivers can see them is clearly taken from first hand experience.
@chrisonabike Thousands of years - since the Romans. Cycle lanes would completely ruin the car-acter of the place.
@brogs I disagree with the tone of your comment. Read up on motornormativity.
@Podc Missing the point. I don't burn through petrol when driving out of cyclist-hating UK to much more cyclist-welcoming Europe, purely for environmental reasons, and then push runners out of the way and shout at them, on 'my' path. What is happening is carbrain disease. Drive to parkrun, get out of entitlement box, continue run with carbrain on. What is 'needed' is some shocking vehicle close passes of runners from drivers, to bring runners up to speed with the carbrain disease.
So making cycling accessible in this park is implied to be a good idea… but doing similar for a park in Bath is not? Hum…
@chrisonabike Especially not ones that work out about £50,000 a body...
@antigee I think you'll find cars have been there and hence "in keeping" for hundreds of years (is this right? Anyway, well before 2000...) While cycling is obviously a very recent phenomenon, willed in to being by these woke councils...
@mitsky as someone who pays attention to language, isn't it that "bad cyclist" actually carries a moral tone? More like "evil cyclist"? (Obviously some people would say that's an oxymoron).
4 thoughts on “Live blog: Invisibility training for cyclists video; drivers ignore road closure and diversion and drive in cycle lane; Ofo pulls out of London; Edvald Boasson-Hagen’s monster six hour Zwift ride + more”
Re driving on the pavement.
Re driving on the pavement. Entitled does not even scrape the surface.
hirsute wrote:
there was road closure on Farringdon a few weeks ago, due to a burst water main I think, and I saw several drivers ignore it and drive along the segregated cycle lan, at some speed too.
EBH’s turbo trainer is really
EBH’s turbo trainer is really cool! Wish I had room for such a thing.
Jeez, I though someone had
Jeez, I though someone had died, but Edvald just did a bit of turbo, must have been the flowers.