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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Well at least one pro has shown themselves to have their head screwed on regarding brakes.
Also unsurprisingly he's correct on the winning on a cheap bike, you've maybe seen the type, turn up to a TT or some other event in jeans and a tee on a 25 year old MTB with slicks and starts burning most of the riders off. The Dutch postie from a few years back who was going up the Cauberg on his sit up and beg plus panniers making the Radobank riders look like a bunch of newbs is a prime example, if you're good enough you'll stand out on a machine that would be considered dated.
I don't see the overtake as being that close for the ncoming car at the speeds I could see, yes it's a little close but not horrendous, maybe the oncoming driver could have eased off a smidge well before anyway, afterall it's only a 30 zone isn't it?