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Tue, Apr 09, 2019 16:16
SUMMARY
9 April 2019, 16:16
London Ambulance Service say they can save "vital seconds" arriving to an emergency by bike
One benefit of attending to patients on a #bicycle is that we don’t unload kit from a vehicle, instead we go straight to patients, saving vital seconds in an emergency.
Here’s Jayden, showing how it’s done, making his way through the corridors of the #PalaceofWestminster pic.twitter.com/1lQMshQmUZ
— LAS Cycle Team (@LAS_CycleTeam) April 8, 2019
By cycling to an emergency the first responders don’t have to spend time unpacking an ambulance vehicle.
9 April 2019, 16:16
STOLEN BIKE ALERT - Ian Bibby of Madison Genesis pro team has Genesis Zero SL taken in Preston area
The bike is very distinctive with team colours and a super slammed stem, so with any luck Bibby’s bike will be too hot to handle for the bottom feeders who stolen it. With a position like that hopefully the thief will end up with some pretty bad back and neck problems if he/she attempts to ride it…
9 April 2019, 16:16
Ian Bibby shares CCTV of bike thief (and it's not the first time he's been a victim of such a crime)
In a cruel case of bad luck striking twice, Bibby had a Genesis Volare stolen from him during his previous stint at Madison Genesis back in 2013 – he did get it back that time though, just before the £7,000 bike was about to be sold on for £2,500.
He’ll be hoping for a similar result this time around, after sharing CCTV footage of the offender outside his house before stealing the bike from his garage.
Not the best photo but if anybody recognises him please get in touch pic.twitter.com/yaqgfI0No0
— Ian Bibby (@IanBibby86) April 8, 2019
9 April 2019, 16:16
F1 champ Nico Rosberg talks to Chris Froome in latest podcast
Froome sat down with Rosberg to talk through his career and notable victories in detail. Some interesting comments about his support of Bradely Wiggins between 15:30 and 19:00, and the whole 50 minute podcast is definitely worth spending your lunch break on.
9 April 2019, 16:16
New cycle route opens on A34 in Birmingham
#Birmingham #Cycle Revolution A34 cycle route OPEN!
It’s bold, it’s blue, it’s the new traffic-free cycle route along the A34 between Birmingham city centre and Heathfield Road in #Lozells. And it’s now largely OPEN, so why not give it a go? #BCR #Cycling pic.twitter.com/Qfph840YD6
— Waseem Zaffar (@WaseemZaffar) April 9, 2019
A notoriously sketchy stretch of A-road in Birmingham now has a designated cycle route segregated from traffic, described as ‘largely open’ by Waseem Zaffar, Councillor for the Lozells area of the city.
9 April 2019, 16:16
Driver knocks Argentina's national football coach off bike on Mallorca
Lionel Scaloni, the coach of Argentina’s national football team, has reassured his followers on Twitter that he is okay after he was knocked off his bike by a driver while cycling on Mallorca, where he has a home.
Initial reports were that the former Deportivo La Coruna (and briefly West Ham United) player was in a “serious condition” in hospital, but the 40-year-old tweeted to 5hank people for their good wishes and to say that he is on his way home from hospital after having a couple of stitches put in a facial wound.
Muchísimas gracias por los mensajes recibidos,un par de puntos y a casa! Gracias a todos pic.twitter.com/LMJ3jfa6Zp
— Lionel Scaloni (@lioscaloni) April 9, 2019
9 April 2019, 16:16
Hunt tease trailer of documentary around the new 48 Limitless Aero Disc wheels, setting a new Trouée d'Arenberg Strava KOM during testing
Although as some have already pointed out on social media… was it really the wheels that deserve all the plaudits? The rider Alex Paton might have something else to say about it! Full story here in any case.
9 April 2019, 16:16
Here's what happens if you don't ride your bike for a really long time...
Lucky I haven’t been cycling recently – a robin is nesting in my bike helmet. It’s a Crystal Maze for a robin to get inside our garage but she’s rearing four chicks. pic.twitter.com/PN467uJJr9
— Patrick Barkham (@patrick_barkham) April 8, 2019
Let alone gathering dust; it turns out writer Patrick Barkham’s helmet has been gathering a family of robins during his cycling hiatus. Mum and chicks doing well apparently, a special(ized) moment indeed. Also, it’s quite fitting that he tweeted about it. I’ll get me coat…
9 April 2019, 16:16
6,000+ sign petition for Birmingham velodrome
More than 6,000 people have signed a petition for a velodrome to be built in Birmingham ahead of the 2022 Commonwealth Games.
The city was awarded the event in 2017 after the original host city, Durban, pulled out of staging the multis-sports event for financial reasons.
Birmingham’s successful bid was based on using existing venues such as the Alexander Stadium for athletics and the National Exhibition Centre for boxing, judo, table tennis and freestyle wrestling.
But the track cycling events are due to take place 130 miles away, at the Lee Valley Velodrome in London – whicch, by pure coincidence, has a capacity of around 6,000 people.
The petition will be handed to Ian Ward, leader of Birmingham City Council, on 15 April.
David Viner, who organised the petition, said: “The Commonwealth Games are going to be a superb opportunity for Birmingham and the West Midlands but it is such a shame that the track cycling is to be held in London.
“The new aquatics centre in Sandwell with 5,000 seats for the Games and retaining just 1,000 seats afterwards is a perfect example of how a competition velodrome arena, costing £35m, with a similar seating plan could have been built for 2022.
“Councillor Ward has an open mind and has engaged with us. Now we hope the feasibility plan will prove there is a strong case for a modest training and development velodrome arena, with room in the track centre for multi-community based sports including disabled and sight impaired sports.
“We have benefited from firm support from many local people and we thank every person who has supported the petition.
“We have velodrome experts on hand and there is still time to get the velodrome built in time for the Games,” he added.
“I think it is important that our campaign is viewed as working with Birmingham City Council to get a velodrome and get a great legacy. The campaign is not just a protest.”
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chrisonabike 2 hours ago
"All that's required is an to roads policing" - that's a big all... Although no doubt the "idiots just keep coming" aspect does apply: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cz9lel2wz93o "Man charged after car crashes through bowling alley" - luckily they only skittled over skittles.
chrisonabike 2 hours ago
Almost any change to roads and streets is accompanied by a period of heightened danger, and in the UK "look out for cyclists" will need to be learned... practically. And over the time it takes for cyclists to become a regular feature. OTOH once (if...) good designs are in and frequent enough such that drivers encounter them AND the cyclists on them regularly (another big if) I don't think they should be much more difficult than a footway to deal with. These things are all over NL - don't have the collision stats but they should. (NL isn't perfect but collecting info on the safety of designs to feed back into better designs as required is part of the "sustainable safety" philosophy - if they're really a killer I think they'd be altering these.)
wtjs 3 hours ago
I'm in the happy position of agreeing with everybody here! I've never considered a bike with a stand, yet I'm impressed by the ingenuity and adaptability of this axle. I tow a Yak Bob with a Robert Axle, employing my El Cheapo Vitus gravel bike and I just have to be very careful where I stop. Hedges are generally a dead loss, and I seek walls, telegraph poles and signposts and generally lean the widest part of the Bob against it. One very awkward task is removing the two steel pins which lock the trailer arms onto the special mounting slots on the Robert axle, and when you have one out, the sodding weight in the trailer can twist the whole caboodle and bend the Bob fitting before you can get the other out and unhitch. I doubt if a stand would help with that. You can imagine that this combo is a real pain when you have to get it over the bridge at railway stations, and it nearly resulted in Merseyrail nearly parting me and the trailer on the platform from the bike on the train. It's a long story for another time. Another axle example recently featured on here, with a 12mm front axle bearing the Herculean weight limit of a monster American front rack.
HoarseMann 5 hours ago
This has nothing to do with the type of bike - it's the type of behaviour that's the problem. Banning the sale of such bikes will not curtail the behaviour. They'll just find another type of vehicle and continue to drive dangerously as there's such a lack of enforcement. I'd sooner see them ban the bally. But really, all that's required is an improvement to roads policing.
AidanR 5 hours ago
The EAPC Bill is welcome, but full of holes. What's to stop an overpowered but temporarily limited e-bike being sold and subsequently delimited? This is often a trivial process.
Sredlums 6 hours ago
@KiwiMike Yeah, in my over four decades of riding all over Europe I've never 'been for a ride in the countryside'. That must be it. Or, and I know this is a wild concept, you just accept that I just voiced my personal experiences and never missed a kickstand, like I wrote. Anyway, what's the big horror of laying your bike on its side for the very few occasions where there is nothing to lean your bike against?
mdavidford 6 hours ago
They may have looked, but did they see?
jackcycles 7 hours ago
Ds2025: where they are going wrong is that they are crushing the motorbike rather than the person sat on top of it. If they did the latter this issue would be solved in less than 24 hours.
Rod Marton 7 hours ago
I came this way today with the car boot sale in operation. There was a marshal at the entrance, who stopped a car turning right across the cycleway as I was approaching. So that certainly works. I think it necessary for the marshal to be there, I couldn't say if the driver would have turned if he hadn't been there but you always have to suspect the worst. Unfortunately there is no marshal at the exit, and there was certainly a car stopped across the cycleway as I was approaching it. But he pulled onto the road before I reached it, and the following car stayed off the cycleway as I went through. Ideally there should have been a marshal there too. On the whole, though, it's a really high standard piece of infrastructure. Just a pity it doesn't extend a bit further.
eburtthebike 7 hours ago
“absolute carnage” So right! Just look at the bodies piled up, blood running in the gutters and injured people limping away. It's a bit of a problem with a road, delaying some people for minutes at a time: it isn't carnage, let alone 'absolute carnage'. Anyone who exaggerates so ridiculously really shouldn't be allowed to comment in public, unless they want to demonstrate their idiocy to all and sundry.
3 thoughts on “Live blog: 6,000 sign Brum velodrome petition, F1’s Rosberg interview Froome, Brum A34 cycle route opens, Bibby’s bike nicked + more”
Again? Didn’t Bibby have his
Again? Didn’t Bibby have his bike nicked from Scorton Barn a few years back? Put a lock on it Bibs…
In all seriousness, this sucks. I’ve got three mates who have had bikes nicked in Preston/Penwortham, and a couple more from Chorley/Euxton. It’s an absolute nightmare for chavs
That cycle route on the A24
That cycle route on the A24 in Brum looks to be a beauty. That bit at least.
Where’s the link to the
Where’s the link to the petition?