Live blog: Beer can (and phone) throwing van passenger “hit by the karma train; Look launch Keo Blade Carbon Ceramic pedal, Greg Van Avermaet’s golden Giant; Know your Yates brother; Jess Varnish to appeal employment tribunal ruling + more
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Jess Varnish to appeal employment tribunal ruling
Back in January, Jess Varnish failed in her attempt to prove she was an employee of British Cycling and UK Sport. The judge concluded that her funding was more akin to a university grant.
The BBC reports that she is now challenging the ruling relating to British Cycling. A judge will decide whether the appeal can proceed.
Varnish’s lawyer, Simon Fenton, said: “The appeal tribunal has been asked to overturn the original judgment and to decide that Ms Varnish was an employee.”
Fenton will argue that the tribunal was wrong that the services and benefits Varnish received from British Cycling were not remuneration; and says the organisation “failed to explain how the work performed by a professional football player is different from the work performed by Jess for British Cycling”.
FiftyOne to supply bikes to Cycling Ireland
Irish custom carbon bike brand FiftyOne has revealed it will be supplying bikes to Cycling Ireland for the next two seasons, and we reckon they’ll be the envy of the peloton with these beautifully painted bikes.
The colour scheme is very much a celebration of Ireland with the lovely green to white fade and shamrocks decorating the colour-matched stem and rear stays. And if anyone needs reminding, Ireland is printed big and bold on the inside of the fork blades.
They’ll have a choice of rim or disc brake bikes and be equipped with SRAM Red eTap groupsets with Enve wheels.
Simon Yates won the Paris-Nice time trial
Bit bizarre, but he says he’s been doing a lot of work on his time trialling and he also had the best of the conditions having lost 20 minutes in the crosswinds earlier in the race.
@SimonYatess for the win , @kwiato still in , here is the best of stage 5#ParisNice pic.twitter.com/jHsolZGER1
— Paris-Nice (@ParisNice) March 14, 2019
Motorist who "inadvertently" hit cyclist while trying to hurl abuse at him avoids jail sentence
One of the officers said "this guy just got hit by the karma train"
PSA: Don’t drink beer in a car.
But if you do, don’t throw it at a #bikedc cyclist with @Cycliq cams front & rear.
But if you do, don’t drop your phone.
But if you do, don’t come back for it.
But if you do, don’t pull out a knife, even just to show you don’t intend to use it. pic.twitter.com/8zQ6HmR7kr— Andrew Heining (@andrewjh) March 13, 2019
'Chateau' for pollution...
Great to see that Team Sky Pro Cycling Team’s new sponsors Ineos are already well ahead in one GC (general contest)!!! They’ve got the best CO2 Max Test results in Britain!!!! Chateau!!! pic.twitter.com/BkFJfViXOr
— UK Cycling Expert (@ukcyclingexpert) March 15, 2019
Glorious work by UK Cycling Expert, although this time not in any way a parody unfortunately…
Greg Van Avermaet's new gold aero bike
Greg Van Avermaet is riding this new bike at the Tirreno Adriatico and it’s fair to say we’re just a bit jealous!
It’s a custom painted Giant Propel Advanced SL with the gold colour obviously in honour of his Olympic success.
Paris-Roubaix pave get some TLC
We reported the other day about how muddy the Paris-Roubaix pave was, but it looks like they’ve been getting a bit of TLC this week.
Tirreno-Adriatico a bit shaky on which Yates is leading the race
It’s actually Adam in the lead. Simon’s riding Paris-Nice.
La Maglia Azzurra @SimonYatess #TirrenoAdriatico @NamedSport pic.twitter.com/EbJmzg0HWG
— Tirreno Adriatico (@TirrenAdriatico) March 15, 2019
15-year-old sentenced for three bike thefts on the Bristol to Bath cycle path
Look launches Keo Blade Carbon Ceramic Pedal
Look has unveiled its new Keo Blade Carbon Ceramic pedals which Romain Bardet will use for the first time on Stage 7 of Paris-Nice tomorrow.
The new model, made in France, sees ceramic bearings used for the first time in a production pedal, according to Look. Ceramic bearings are designed to reduce friction and increase power transfer and reliability.
Look claims an 18% reduction in friction on the bearing, and a bearing life that’s four to six times longer than that of steel bearings.
The Look Keo Blade Carbon Ceramic is fitted with a chromoly axle and weighs a claimed 110g. The RRP is €189.90. We’ve asked for a UK price.
"Strade Bianche is the coolest professional bike race in the world"
Cool video from last weekend’s Strade Bianche to end the working week with.
Where's today's Leave V Remain poll?
In case you’re wondering, after a lengthy debate the road.cc team held a non binding indicative vote and decided to extend today’s deadline for coming up with a Leave V Remain question until next week. When it may return as the People’s Extend or Revoke poll… depending on how negotiations go.
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I'm a bit on the fence. Currently riding a gravel bike with a Force AXS XPLR groupset, Favero assioma pro powermeter pedals, Garmin varia rear light, lupine front light, Edge 1040. That's a lot of batteries to keep track of, to the point that I have a dedicated charger with 3 m USB-C cable in my office, another one at home. Can't imagine having to deal with another battery such as on the Flight Attendant. BUT....everything's dead easy to set up, no cables to route through the frame, no cable stretch, no derailleur adjustment.....
I saw a similar incident a few years back at the British Champs. Dad and son crossing the road ar the bottom of Saltburn Bank, presumably to get to the beach. Dad made a dash for it leaving the son in the middle of the road. Top parenting. Luckily it was just a solo breakaway rider so easily avoided disaster. It's not like there's not enough warning. Police motorcycles whizzing past sirens blaring. It's just impatience / entitlement.
Very poor from the organisers, as the resident said, "There's always one" and yes, there always will be one, often a confused elderly person lacking the capacity to understand the consequences of their actions, and so you have to fully barrier crossing points in that sort of situation and have marshals in charge of opening and closing. It's very lucky we're not talking about serious injury or death.
Mr Loophole doesn't understand physics or how to drive properly. Speed, as all cyclists know, is related to the amount of power being input and gear selection. If only drivers could understand this.
“What about all the trade that was lost because people could not get to park?” What about all the extra visitors that arrived just for the race? Maybe thats why there was also a lack of parking. Skeg vegas is hardly the most popular out of season destination
I used to say that mechanical shifting was so much better because it was serviceable on the roadside and you could buy a spare derailleur or shifter in the remotest shop on the continent. Oh, how wrong I was proven later, with all the recent standards and pull ratios...
20 MPH speed limits: Killing pedestrians and cyclists is bad for their brains.
@AidanR He'd already got a full house ("only where it makes sense e.g. outside schools" / "blanket limits" / "unsafe") BUT not only didn't he call but he went for another round! And with a fascinating new angle: Totally on-trend there! Reducing the maximum speed in some places in urban areas is psychological discrimination! Won't you think of the neurodiverse? Don't you know you can literally measure the rise in cortisol due to the presence of cyclists? In fact unfairly favouring active travel is literally sucking the dopamine out of everyone's lives...
@Mr Blackbird I see the pro-cycling crowd is out with false plates - further confusing the locals. I thought that was because they were all taking the knee or being used to ferry illegal asylum seekers between crimes and/or sex reassignments? Keep up!
"TfL has now suspended more than £2 million in funding towards the borough until it pays back the £234,917...." I wonder if Mayor Jason Perry will be making a video about him having a ceremonial handing over of a comedy cheque for £234,917 to TfL? That'll really impress the voters. Not to mention how much it cost to remove the cycle lanes, still, it's only taxpayers' money, not his. The tories seem intent on proving that they're even stupider than Refuk, and given the news yesterday, that's a pretty high bar.
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CO2 Max? If they release
CO2 Max? If they release more CO2 than any other company, perhaps they deserve to have a chateau dropped on them. Chateau!
https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/1714736.INEOS_under_fire_for_its_carbon_footprint_/
Seems like Brailsford doesn’t
Seems like Brailsford doesn’t care who he tries to sell his soul to, so long as the spondolicks support his master plan.
EDF may make a better bedfellow as that may confuse his French “supporters”.
Butty wrote:
Sports sponsorship is invariably provided by organisations who need to improve their image. Drug, oil, mining or (in days gone by) tobacco companies…
It could be worse, he could have to arse-lick a repressive Middle Eastern regime for dollars. A big cash injection is the sole reason the 2016 Worlds were held in the spectatorless, flat desert of Qatar.