Welcome to Tuesday’s live blog, with Jack Sexty, Simon MacMichael and the rest of the team.
INCOMING! Cycle Assist offer cycle safety advice… it starts with ‘h’; Cav on Tour of California stage – “like sitting on the indoor trainer for 7 hours”; Giro – no broken bones for Dumoulin, Wiggins sticks oar in on Viviani; Bike it like Beckham & more
All today’s news from the site and beyond…
Tue, May 14, 2019 20:27
SUMMARY
14 May 2019, 20:27
Moreno Moser announces retirement aged just 28
Moser won the Strade Bianche in 2013, and has announced his retirement after being unable to reignite his career on the pro continental circuit with Nippo–Vini Fantini–Faizanè. He says (according to our translation): “For years, I have been finding myself after months and months of training. I held on, tried again for years, every year with the confidence that it would be a good year. Then came Pelosi’s call to Nippo-Vini Fantini, where I found an incredible family and stimuli that gave me the certainty that it would be the year of change. But I found myself still there, not on the ground, but under the ground.
“In this moment of my life I can no longer remain in cycling as in a comfort zone, dragging myself around the races scraping a barrel that maybe has been empty for a while. I will look for new experiences, new stimuli and the feeling of being alive again. Cycling is a magnificent, clean sport that has given me so much, maybe everything.”
14 May 2019, 20:27
Beckham switches to more sustainable mode of transport
— Hackney Cyclist (@Hackneycyclist) May 13, 2019
After getting a driving ban last week nice to see David Beckham out cycling with his family on instagram. The proposed Holland Park cycle route will pass the bottom of their street, I hope they support it! pic.twitter.com/a68UBBRArQ
— Hackney Cyclist (@Hackneycyclist) May 13, 2019
Perhaps a tad ironic considering he got his six month ban for using a mobile phone while driving in Central London, but Becks doesn’t appear too down about not being able to use his motor after sharing clips on Instagram Stories of himself and his four children out for a bike ride in Holland Park.
It was reported earlier this month that Beckham was spotted in Great Portland Street driving his Bentley with a mobile phone in hand, by a passer-by who originally wanted to take a photo but ended up shopping him to the police. Beckham also received a £750 fine, and has apparently been spotted hitching lifts of his son Brooklyn since the ban started.
14 May 2019, 20:27
Giro d'Italia stage 4 - monster 235km stage underway
Stage 4 of #Giro d’Italia 2019 is underway | La Tappa 4 del #Giro d’Italia 2019 è partita
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Suivez le direct: https://t.co/cXGnMn7x4Z pic.twitter.com/qpCdZPQDZd— Giro d’Italia (@giroditalia) May 14, 2019
There are plenty of ups and downs on today’s stage with an uphill finish and 2,800m of climbing in total, which may mean some of the sprinters may find it dofficult to stay on; one for the all-rounders/classics specialists.
14 May 2019, 20:27
"Everyone looks at me, it's nice for me", says Sho Hatsuyama after a heroic one man break that lasted over three hours
Here’s what breakaway hero Sho Hatsuyama had to say about his day at the sharp end of Stage 3 of the Giro d’Italia. Time in the break = time on TV. @NIPPO_Fantini #Giro pic.twitter.com/qPPbsWVNqG
— Velon CC (@VelonCC) May 13, 2019
This doesn’t translate too well when written out, and we’re sure what Hatsuyama means is that his time at the front of stage 3 of the Giro yesterday was great for getting his team and sponsors exposure. Chapeau that man!
14 May 2019, 20:27
"Like sitting on the indoor trainer for 7 hours" - Cavendish survives brutal Tour of California stage as he continues on comeback trail
Well glad that day’s out the way! Always the stage I dread most in the cycling season. Racing up to Lake Tahoe in @AmgenTOC was like sitting on the indoor trainer for 7hrs. Half of it with just @EiselBernhard for company. Like a re-run of our day in 2016.
— Mark Cavendish (@MarkCavendish) May 14, 2019
Cavendish refuses to be beat as he continues on his quest to return to form following a long illness with the Epstein-Barr virus, and yesterday he managed to finish inside the cut-off on the brutally hot and hilly 215km stage to Lake Tahoe. He ended up finishing 36 minutes down on the winner Kasper Asgreen of Deceuninck-QuickStep.
14 May 2019, 20:27
Molano suspended for 'seemingly unusual physiological results'
UAE Team Emirates have suspended their own rider, 24-year-old Juan Sebastian Molano after the Colombian returned ‘seemingly unusual physiological results’.
He was Fernando Gaviria’s lead-out rider in yesterday’s Giro d’Italia Stage 3 which his fellow countryman won after Italian National Champion Elia Viviani was relegated for irregular sprinting. UAE Team Emirates said in a press release:
“After tests performed under the Team’s strict and sophisticated internal monitoring system, UAE Team Emirates announces that some seemingly unusual physiological results have come back for the rider Juan Sebastian Molano. Following Team policy concerning the protection of our athletes’ health, the Colombian will be suspended to undergo further testing in the following weeks, in collaboration with the UCI, as we try to determine the cause of these unusual results. In order to protect the right to privacy, no further information regarding the matter will be released until results from the necessary tests come back.”
14 May 2019, 20:27
Seatpost sores > saddle sores
The early reviews of the new Selle Italia model are quite pointed #Giro102 pic.twitter.com/998bJrBtTk
— Felix Lowe (@saddleblaze) May 14, 2019
We don’t know what on earth happened to Matteo Montaguti to cause his saddle to become detached, but hopefully he managed to keep his rear off the post before getting a replacement perch.
14 May 2019, 20:27
Wiggins sticks his oar in, saying Viviani DQ "a bit harsh"
Not his rowing oar this time, rather Sir Wiggo gave his tuppence worth on Viviani’s relegation at yesterday’s Giro stage in an Instagram video, saying he thought the decision was harsh: “The move was erratic and stopped the other fella from pedalling, but I don’t think the other fella was ever going to get round him.
“A lot of those finishes in the Giro, the way they’re barriered (sic) and stuff, it’s never a straight line, it’s never a simple case of like a 100m race on an athletics track where everyone’s got their lane. This is at the end of 200-odd kilometres.”
14 May 2019, 20:27
No broken bones for Dumoulin after Giro crash
Tom Dumoulin may have lost around 4 minutes today to Giro d’Italia race leader Primoz Roglic after being involved in a big crash late on, but luckily the 2017 champion, who was shpeherded to the finish by his team-mates and looked in a very bad way, hasn’t broken any bones according to Team Sunweb.
Pro cyclists. Hard as nails.
Good news as x-ray reveals no fractures for @tom_dumoulin. More updates to follow. pic.twitter.com/etpPn3oS6J
— Team Sunweb (@TeamSunweb) May 14, 2019
14 May 2019, 20:27
Bike Bins launch on Kickstarter
Back in 2009 we reviewed the original Bike Bins, now they’re back on Kickstarter and looking to fund manufacturing them in the UK. What are Bike Bins? Find out more in our story here
14 May 2019, 20:27
Law firm tells cyclists how to avoid injury while riding; number one? Wear a helmet, of course
A law firm that specialises in representing cyclists injured in road traffic incidents has produced a blog post under the heading, “Mistakes that could result in a serious cycling injury.”
Cycle Assist’s first no-no? “Not wearing a helmet.” You know, the thing Chris Boardman told road.cc five years ago is “not even in the top 10 of things you need to do to keep cycling safe or more widely, save the most lives.”
Here’s what Cycle Assist wrote on their blog: “There are bad habits that can annoy other cyclists or road users and then there are some bad habits that could cost you your life.
“Remember as a child your parents saying ‘You can’t go out on your bike unless you put your helmet on’? As ever, parents know best. In fact, a helmet could be the difference between life and death in some cases.”
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Jack is group editor across road.cc, off.road.cc and ebiketips, overseeing all three sites in the F-At Digital group to make sure everything’s up to scratch. He’s been writing about cycling and multisport for over a decade, arriving at road.cc via 220 Triathlon Magazine in 2017. He worked across all areas of road.cc including tech, news and video, and also contributed to eBikeTips before being named editor of road.cc in 2021 (much to his surprise). Jack has been hooked on cycling since his student days, and currently has a Trek 1.2 for winter riding, a beloved Bickerton folding bike for getting around town, and an extra beloved custom Ridley Helium SLX for fantasising about going fast in his stable. Jack has never won a bike race, but does have a master’s degree in print journalism, and two Guinness World Records for pogo sticking (it’s a long story).
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chrisonabike 4 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 4 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 5 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 7 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 7 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 8 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 8 hours ago
They may have looked, but did they see?
jackcycles 8 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 9 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 9 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.
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Alex Ferguson calls David
Alex Ferguson calls David Beckham into his office.
‘David,’he says, ‘I’m worried about your performance the last few games. You’ve been hopeless, completely off form.’
‘Sorry, boss’, says David. ‘I’ve not been myself lately. I’ve got a few problems at home.’
‘Oh dear,’ says Ferguson, pretending to care. ‘What’s up? Posh and Brooklyn okay?’
‘Oh they’re fine’, says David. ‘It’s just that something’s really bugging me and I’m losing sleep and everything. I can’t concentrate on my football and it’s really messing me up.’
‘Whatever’s the matter, David?’ says Fergie.
‘Well, boss’, says David, it’s pretty serious. You see I’m really stuck on this jigsaw and…’
‘A jigsaw?!!!’ shouts Alex. ‘You’re f……g up every time you play because of a bloody jigsaw?!!!’
‘Yeah, boss, but you don’t understand, it’s really doing myhead in!’ says David in that horrible whining voice. ‘It’s really hard and it’s this picture of a tiger and it looks really good on the box and I’m sure I’ve got all the bits and everything but I just can’t get it right and it’s doing my head in and I even had my hair cut to try and cool my brain down and…’
‘David, David, David,’ says Ferguson. ‘You’ve got to get a grip. It’s affecting our games and nothing is as important as Manchester Uniteds’ success, other than Roy Keane’s wages, obviously.’
‘Yeah, boss,’ says David, ‘but it’s this picture of a tiger and it looks really good on the box and I really want to finish it but it’s really hard and it’s doing my head in and it’s this picture..and it’s a tiger and it’s hard…and I can’t make the bits fit and, er, it’s really hard, er, boss and, er, it’s a tiger, er,… on the box…er…boss.’
Ferguson waits until even Beckham realises he’s repeating himself and has got nothing else to say which took a bit longer than usual. ‘David,’ he says, with that conceited, irritating, smug smile he uses for self-congratulatory post-match interviews. ‘Bring the tiger jigsaw in and let’s have a look at it. For Christ’s sake, we’ve got to get you back to playing football.’
‘Oh thanks, boss,’ says David, ‘that’d be really helpful ‘cos it’s really hard and it’s a picture of a tiger and it’s doing my head in, that tiger is.’
So David brings the jigsaw into Ferguson’s office.
‘Here it is, boss.’ He says, showing Ferguson the picture on the box. ‘Look, boss, it’s this tiger, right, and it’s a really good picture and everything but I just can’t do it and it’s really hard and it’s doing my head in and it’s this picture here of a tiger,’ and Beckham empties all the pieces from the box all over Ferguson’s desk.
‘David,’ sighs Ferguson, ‘put the f*…g Frosties back in the box.’
You have made my morning.
You have made my morning.
He did actually complete a
He did actually complete a jigsaw. Took him about 4 hours and he was really chuffed because on the box it said, “4 to 6 years.”
(Old ones are the best, right?)
DB goes for a haircut. He’s
DB goes for a haircut. He’s wearing headphones. The barber (stylist, whatever!) sits him down, asks and then shouts for him to take the headphones off, but DB shakes his head. The barber perseveres until he finds he has to remove them to carry on his work. He takes them off – DB looks a little startled and collapses on the floor. The barber dials 999 and starts resuscitation. An ambulance arrives and they take DB away.
The barber, feeling a little traumatised, sits down and sees the headphones lying on the floor. He picks them up and has a listen.
“Breathe in, David. Breathe out, David”
I’ll get my coat
Cycle Assist are clearly a
Cycle Assist are clearly a firm to be avoided, without even the most basic knowledge about cycling, and completely disproved helmet stats.
That old 90’s Team Halfords
That old 90’s Team Halfords Ever Ready team kit that Wiggo has on is pretty awesome. Whatever you think of Wiggo, he’s a very stylish rider.
peted76 wrote:
It is taken from an unfortunate angle, though: “moobs like Jagger” springs to mind
He also looked very cool
He also looked very cool doing the punditry on the Giro.