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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If he's channelling Ron Pickering, things must've changed since We Are The Champions. I don't think David Coleman would ever have been so potty-mouthed.
hmm, Garmin in the deal catcher. New fenix 5 I see,strange coincidence that my garmin fenix 3 (and others as far as I can tell from the net) has stopped recording gps at about the same time
Garmin 6 is the new one, the 5 is old.
And it's way cheaper to get it from Blacks even with Garmin discounting: https://www.blacks.co.uk/s:garmin+fenix+5+/?search=garmin+fenix+5+
"Mother Farquhar" I refuse to use an emoticon, but my goodness that really amused me.
I'm giving the cyclist 12 out of 10 for not stepping off his bike (although that part would be optional) and lamping the clown.... I suspect he was awaiting him to make any physical contact, so that a single solid blow to put him down could legitimately be classed as self defence.
I honestly thought that Steve Cummings had stopped racing this year sometime around March as he was generally to be seen at the back of races chatting with those around him in the same 'support' role as per Wiggo on his s
wansong lapTour of BritainThere is something small, convertible, sporty cars and unfit, short and balding middle aged gentlemen.
I saw one the other day and couldn't not laugh.
PEAK GAMMON
And the irony is that they're so often a Mercedes SLK.
Isn't that the car that Clarkson regularly called "a hairdresser's car" and laughed at, when he was on Top Gear?
Indeed I had my worst 1x1 of the year with the balding fat cockney driver of a Mazda MX-5.
I didn't even know what I did apart from filter up the inside of a queue of traffic at some roadworks traffic lights, but didn't even pass him as he was at the head of the queue?
He said something, and I made the mistake of responding. When we got through the roadworks, he pulled over and got out of his roller skate and tried to get me. Not nice, but he was too fat and unfit to get me
Ah the rant where they find an attribute to have an excuse not to hit you (e.g. I'd lamp you one mush but you're wearing glasses")
Clearly a heavy dose of small dog syndrome there, with a side order of oh fuck, I'm driving a hairdresser's car in a land of massive V8 utes.
Darren who?
Someone REALLY needs to cut back on their coffee!!
Epic rant. I have moments like that. Particularly after watching the news recently.
Darren Grimes = trolling
no, that’s just how Australian drivers talk. Like a highlight reel from dash cam australia that was! Shows the mid life crisis car doesn’t stop you having a very public mid life crisis either.
Driving is obviously too stressful. He should take up cycling, look how relaxed the cyclists were. And put the caffeine to good use!
It was the stamping about - I thought he was going to put a foot through the floor like Rumpelstiltskin!
its Australia mate - you’re taught from birth not to stand in one spot for too long or your flip flops melt! You notice he kicked the flip flops under the car to preserve them, it’s cooler in the shade. We don’t call it global warming, the rest of the planet is just playing catch-up.
Oh, the antics is just miming. The fella on the bike is wearing funny clothes so he must be a foreigner who doesn’t understand Strine, and he’s just trying to give him directions. Bikes don’t go in the middle of the road, they belong in the far queue, right next to far queue two. Apparently Mother Farquhar is already there waiting. Once you know the lingo, it all makes sense!
Is that Darren "definitely not part of the official Leave campaign, definitely a completely independent person in no way connected to Arron Banks" Grimes?
I wouldn't trust or believe a word he said (or wrote!).