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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I have recently put some 3 inch 27.5+ Maxxis Chronicles on my new build, my "ultimate commuter" they roll relatively well and I am very pleased with them moving through the bus destroyed roads in the centre of Reading. The grip is phenominal, and I am seeing how low I can go pressure wise. They handle almost any surface and the bike just pushes on through anything.
I did it just because I could, and they look damn cool. I'm glad I didn't have to fit the mud tyres that I might have needed, and if my next commute is all tarmac I will change to a 29 with 2-2.5 faster rubber.
It's my first go running tubeless too.
On the armoured commuter photo, has anyone here in Bristol noticed the bloke who appears to commute into the city centre on the fattest tyred Fat Bike you have ever seen?
Like many SUV's, I suspect it never actually goes off-road. The noise of its knobbly tyres on tarmac is quite something...
I have. I know our roads are pretty bad, but I don't think they're that bad. In Palermo the Sicilians were fond of them, I suppose for riding on polished uneven flagstones, or possibly they just thought they looked cool.
Punctures will be costly.
There's a bloke round here on a fat e-bike, pretty sure he has more rubber on that thing than I did on my Mk1 Golf. Awesome noise, just needs to broadcast Ride of the Valkyries for the full I love the smell of NOX in the morning experience.
Lastboyscout, define it a islamophobic or anti-semitic, it would have to change their response, because then it becomes a hate crime, which general death threats to cyclists don't seem to count as. Foolish them for using a ham sandwich as the weapon.
The driver was Asian in appearance, certainly.
On the other hand, I'd prefer not to end up in court and splashed all over the front of the gutter press.
Close passed last night by someone in another Vauxhall Astra who also threw the remains of a ham roll at me, hitting me on the arm!
All on camera for TVP to ignore...
tbf on the shoelace thing, if youve had a loose lace catch in your front mech and jam everything up whilst it simultaneously feels like your foot is being yanked off and you cant just declip yourself from the pedal, it can be quite awkward to control your bike at that moment.
Been there, done that many years ago. Surprisingly painful and destructive to shoes, mech, and foot. Had a friend in school who broke his ankle in a similar accident and ground the side of his foot almost down to the bone.
Obvs all his citizens are toting Giro Empires...
"Ross Gullickson, the chief of police in North Mankato, Minnesota, who says (link is external): “The singular biggest thing......" I stopped reading there, he's obviously an idiot.
Being called a cunt for the socks you're wearing though, not harsh enough if you ask me, full on paedo socks them, especially with the joe 90 glasses and the rest of the Blakes' 7 bad guy outfit!
As for NYPD, like the MET only with guns and bigger bellies. If only she hadn't have walked outside the safety of her home to go about her lawful business, she wouldn't have gotten raped and murdered, bunch of victim blaming cunts!
Didn't Dave Brailsford recently advocate a similar level of protection as that commuter for the peleton recently.
I like the way that it is both protecting and high visibility.
There is something more aggressive commuter about a full face too.
Boris also did this after that terrible spate of cyclist deaths in London, and the headphone nonsense.
NYPD really don't get it do they? Victim blaming of the highest order.
There is a beautiful tribute to Robyn Hightman by the Hagens Berman team on instagram (via Peter Flax):
https://www.instagram.com/p/BzGtB9MFSdz/
Fair made me want to cry.