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'll leave this here in case of bear attacks:
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Snopes says the bear video is fake - https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/bear-vs-bike/
£4,500 for spitting in someone's face? If he'd run him over he wouldn't have been fined a couple of hundred. The law is an ass.
I agree, but I like it though. Someone uses an off road vehicle to bully a teenager, then when they don't comply, they assault them.
Well done the judicial system on this occasion.
If they'd done that to my son then they'd be hoping for some time inside!
That's terrible news about Claire Danson. Alex and Claire were on a ride I was leading, for Ford a while back. They were both really nice and un assuming. Poor lass, I hope things pan out as well as they can for her, going forward.
Why is road.cc giving ANY exposure to Jamie Giles? He is not a Kingston town councillor. Here is the list of current Kingston Upon Thames Town councillors
https://moderngov.kingston.gov.uk/mgMemberIndex.aspx
As you can see his name does not appear there and there aren’t even any Independents. So this muppet is a troll and it would appear that road.cc is giving exposure to this twat and almost making out that the man is serious and has a manifesto! Please, do us all a favour and remove his vile, bigoted hatred from here. (He even says he ‘hates cyclists’, so that’s not debatable). Just keep screen shots of his vile in case they are needed in court one day when he ploughs into a cyclist...
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Like I said: given the state of modern British politics and society, my sarcasm detector is on the blink and I honestly cannot tell if his posts are supposed to be jokey hyperbole to mock the usual suspects or if he is a genuine gammony troll.
Got him - and he is (probably) a gammony troll. Googling "coombe monthly ed" gives you
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coombe_Monthly
It's a parody account, and clearly say that if you go to the Twitter page, guessing Road.cc didn't check that before they posted?
Ermm, I though the title from the Road.cc article was being sarcastic as well and I suspect they knew full well it was a parody.
The screenshot does now say "Jamie Giles - parody". Pretty sure it didn't, before. Hey-ho.
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Does that West Ham park sign mean that there might be lorries driving along the park roads? If so, does that mean that the lorries have to give way to pedestrians (so a pedestrian could do a Tank Man on a Sainsburys delivery truck, for example...?).
I dont care if the bear video is fake or not, it cheered me up watching it
I too noticed the narrowness of the bars, but then I ride off road on my getting to work bike with X lite Ti straights at 55cm and my good bike with X-lite Xcountry bars at 61cm, retro rides.
Sometimes the very wide bars these days look uncomfortable with their width.
Not seen the bear video before (does look fake), but it's ancient, apart from the low res, the bike (from the second or so you see of it) has very narrow bars and & DCL's (probably ST-M585) which put it around the 2010 age (not seen anyone using them in the last 10 years or so, and they were niche at the time)
I've gone full Poirot and asked bear guy on Twitter about the prevalence of his footage...
Yeah that 'bear' video has been floating around since at least 2014 and is usually regarded as being fake. Don't think it was ever proven either way, but it certainly doesn't stand up well to scrutiny.
No, exactly, but fun to watch though!
The idea that you would hide behind a tree from an animal with one of the best developed senses of smell gives it away somewhat. Plus I really don't think the bear would be that bothered to chase you so far (if at all).
As I understand it the bear chases prey. So if it acts like prey then it must be prey and so Bear chases it. Dogs do very much the same. If it stops running then it losses interest.
So if you spot a bear, the advise is;
1. don't turn your back on it (like the rider did)
2. don't run away (like the rider effectivly did). Make yourslf look big make calming noises and walk bbackwards.
3. If that doesn't work and the bear is still chasing you and being aggresive then crack out the bear spray.
What! you're in bear country and you don't have bear spray!
Hmmm, is it just me who thinks the Bear video is faked?