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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My reaction to my bike being stolen woud range from homicidal to mildly irritated: Homicidal if my best bike was nicked; mildly irritated that a 15 minute walk awaited me if someone had stolen my "Bahnhof bike".
A really stupid and insensitive comment from the police!
Exactly
(If my bike was stolen I would be devastated, as I truly cannot afford to buy a new bike...).
Most disastrous breakage for me was my ego - I was cycling home from work on my Triban 540 (10sp) and stopped at a set of lights. when the lights changed I got out of my seat to put the power down, started to pull away then my foot just went straight through the tarmac without any resistance, I lost my balance, hit the ground and almost ended up under the wheels of a bus that was behind me.
It turns out that the quick link or 'easylink' in the chain couldnt take the power and had completely disintegrated while i was out of the saddle
my Castelli Alpha jacket had a few small holes ripped into it from the fall
I'd be proper gutted if either of my bikes were nicked, despite both being insured. As self-builds they've had a lot of work put into them and they're also literally irreplaceable as Bowman & Fairlight don't have any replacement frame stock.
I'd probably be less bothered if they were from Spesh/Cannondale/Giant/Trek etc because, well, new bike excuse
Confiscate the car from that knobhead and let him walk back to Derry or whereever - might even make it before he needs a visa (I'll get me coat)
Edited to add: ...and he hasn't even paid any road tax in Donegal
My worst break was a seatpost. I was trundling up a slight incline at about 15mph and bam!, I'm on the road. The lady riding behind me couldn't understand why I was sitting in the middle of the road on such a nice day. Luckily, landed right on my butt - was off the bike for 2 weeks but nothing broken on me.
Amost destroyed my old Cannondale. But, I got a new Trek Domane out of the accident so alls well that ends well.
And there is no justice for bikes on the road. Best to realize that cars outweigh us by orders of magnatude and we need to look out for them regardless of the laws involved. Always seems to be the bicyclsts fault regardless. Even when the accident is on video.
"cycling in the middle of the road" I have had that in secondary road positioning. Hooted going passed, then at the lights 'you were in the middle of the 'kin road, mate.' What they mean is, that 'you weren't in the gutter where you belong'...
And yet if they're driving in their car on their own, they are a lot further over into the lane than any cyclist would be...
(OT: I was on the bus this morning, and counted cars we passed on the dual carriageway section queuing to get into the city. I counted 29 cars, and only 2 of them had more than one person in them).
And yet if they're driving in their car on their own, they are a lot further over into the lane than any cyclist would be...
(OT: I was on the bus this morning, and counted cars we passed on the dual carriageway section queuing to get into the city. I counted 29 cars, and only 2 of them had more than one person in them).
[/quote ]Average occupancy of a car is 1.1 people.
Had similar when overtaking parked vehicles, because of course I simply need to crash into the back of the vehicle so you can go on your way. I ignore most of them, only the nutters who try the pulling alongside etc get the hairdryer treatment, unfortunately for one person it turned out they live at the bottom of my street so when he and his missus got out as I'd seen them turn into my street and was 4-5 seconds behind I asked him what he was going to do now he wasn't in his tin box trying to threaten me with it, blah blah blah police, blah blah blah dash cam. I said great, we can then see your illegal use of the horn, tailgating me, talking bullshit about 'middle of the road' and also you reversing back down the road directly at me which is an assault. I even gave him my address to point plod toward!
Was tempted to leave him a little present but not even worth the effort as sweet as the end result might be.
I wonder what a Freedom of Information request would show for the number of drivers being fined for driving illegally in cycle lanes?
Cycling on pavements #firstworldproblems
I suspect it would show that there haven’t been many such fines, which would then be interpreted as demonstrating that the act rarely happens and so need not be a focus of police resources.
I have reported vehicles parked in a mandatory cycle lane and provided video evidence. The police refused to prosecute and told me to contact the local community police.
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The cyclist was more of a threat to the gutter than the white line, the driver in a massive vehicle is a massive tool!
As for the CX audience, who cares? More females watch I'm a celebrity than males, it is what it is...