Live blog: Police hunt naked cyclist…in February, Poll: Were your guns out in the sun? (no, not like that), Head of MPs' cycling group urges govt to up infra spend, Your worst mechanicals + more

Okay, we've been enjoying some unseasonably warm weather in the UK the past few days, with reports of people wearing summer cycling kit, scoffing ice creams, and sitting outside to eat - global warming FTW, eh? - but even so we were surprised to see reports that police in Cheshire are looking for a bloke seen riding naked near Warrington yesterday.

Currently dealing with a few reports of a male cycling naked near to the ferry boat yard and Penketh Mount, anyone with any extra info please contact 101 #alwayswearsunscreen#iwanttoridemybicycle pic.twitter.com/QG2FOdv4xQ

— Penketh and Cuerdley Police (@PenkethCuerdPol) February 24, 2019

In our Friday Leave Vs Remain poll 58 per cent of you said you’d be leaving the longs behind this weekend to get some flaming February sun on your legs. So who actually did? 

Was it actually warm enough to risk your knees where you were or did caution getter the better of valour? You’ve only got one set of knees.

If it’s any help a quick straw poll of the road.cc office got a typically perverse result – with some of those who said they would get their legs out having second thoughts (it was chillier than expected in the Cotswolds apparently) and some of those who said they’d be keeping covered getting ‘em out - although he did keep his knees covered. On that bombshell over to you…

 

 

 

 

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#MyCyclingWeekend roadside repair edition Who needs a non drive side crank anyway? @decathlonuk_cycling #SVCC #SeaSide #BucketAndSpade

A post shared by road.cc (@road.cc) on Feb 24, 2019 at 5:13am PST

After a rider's crank fell off on the local club run this weekend, we want to know; what's the worst mechanical you've had on a ride?

You can nominate a friend's mishap, points awarded for the most bizarre! 

UK users of the dockless bike-sharing service Ofo have been taking to social media to ask what has happened to the credit they had lodged with it – while others, unaware that the company has exited the country, have complained about the app not working or asking for abandoned bikes to be removed.

The company launched in the UK amid much fanfare in Cambridge in early 2017, expanding to a number of other cities as well as several London boroughs, but has now shut down its UK operations.

The last tweet from the @ofo_bicycleUK account on Twitter was posted on 18 December, nearly four weeks before it emerged that the company was pulling out of the UK and its wider international operations.

The Guardian reported last month that Ofo's 60 staff here had been made redundant, explaining the deafening silence with which Twitter users wondering about their money or why they can’t use the app are being met.

Withdrawal from international operations follows the news before Christmas that Ofo’s Chinese parent company was on the verge of bankruptcy.

Our Near Miss of the Day 258, published on Saturday, grabbed attention – taking place as it did on one of the capital’s much-vaunted Cycle Superhighways (a term that Transport for London will now be dropping, though we’re not quite sure what will be replacing it.

It took place though not on the East-West or North South Cycle Superhighways – which have protected cycle lanes and early-start signals where needed – but on one of the earliest ‘lick of blue paint’ routes (and often lacking the paint), in this case CS7.

You’d think that with a major cycle route sharing the bus lane, motorists using the route would be extra vigilant for cyclists, but … well, watch the footage here and see for yourself what happened.