We would very happily pay UK train prices if this were the view every time we hopped on board.
BEST. TRAIN. JOURNEY. EVER.@giroditalia pic.twitter.com/Tk5iiRxe5g
— Simon MacMichael (@simonmacmichael) May 14, 2022
Carlsberg don’t do train journeys, but if they did …
When you look out of the window, and the Giro d’Italia is going past
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Simon joined road.cc as news editor in 2009 and is now the site’s community editor, acting as a link between the team producing the content and our readers. A law and languages graduate, published translator and former retail analyst, he has reported on issues as diverse as cycling-related court cases, anti-doping investigations, the latest developments in the bike industry and the sport’s biggest races. Now back in London full-time after 15 years living in Oxford and Cambridge, he loves cycling along the Thames but misses having his former riding buddy, Elodie the miniature schnauzer, in the basket in front of him.
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Bmblbzzz 2 minutes ago
@Rendel Harris Theoretically, you have to do that (take a photo and upload it to an app) with Dott and Voi as well, and probably all the operators. In practice, the operators don't have (won't pay for) enough staff to check every photo, and whatever algorithms they have to check the photos are inefficient. It's just possible Lime, uniquely, are properly checking and enforcing all photos; but I find it unlikely, from what I say of other operators and from having spoken to some of their employees.
Pub bike 5 minutes ago
@chrisonabike Obviously there needs to be a new website called applicabletobothroadandoffroad.cc for this type of content.
Rendel Harris 15 minutes ago
@Nigel Garage Just as an infinite number of monkeys, typewriters and time could eventually produce the complete works of Shakespeare, we live in hope that one day one of your attempts at humour will be funny rather than just sad and obsessive. Taking into account your two dozen previous, now banned, usernames you must be well into five figures on comments now and it hasn't happened yet, but hope springs eternal.
andystow 19 minutes ago
I was talking with my cyclist friends about the Silca Omata during our coffee stop on Saturday. In the end, we were trying to guess whether we'd see one locally within the next two years. I'm pretty much the target market for this (plenty of disposable income, buy retro-looking stuff like cameras with real manual controls) and it's probably treble the price I'd be willing to pay just for the cool factor. We couldn't think of any local regular who might be more likely to buy it.
Rendel Harris 21 minutes ago
@kingleo You could but that would, firstly, require a massive infra investment in docking stations as there are none at the moment except for TfL bikes, and secondly it would take away the main attraction of dockless ebikes which is that they can be ridden straight to your destination. A better solution might be to make what you have to do with Limes in some boroughs compulsory across London and for all companies: when you finish your ride you have to take a photo through the app to record that you have left the bike parked in a safe and considerate manner and a fine is applied to your payment method if it's not.
kingleo 1 hour ago
No idea how practical it is, but they could make the user pay a parking fee that is only refundable when the e-bike is put in a proper docking machine.
jackcycles 2 hours ago
Using Wikipedia as a research tool is fantastic. For example, I recently used Wikipedia to research a solicitor cited here called Nick Freeman, and I learned he is a renowned lawyer and road safety campaigner. But trying to write a whole book like that... No way! Perhaps the clue was in the name "Rendell"? Hardly going to be a rumbustious read is it with that name?
chrisonabike 2 hours ago
@Rendel Harris I read a few lines of you review of the review, and I'm afraid that while you obviously have a lot of detail for the enthusiast in there I am still left wondering about the overall motivation for the review, or indeed whether I should read it. Overall I recommend readers should seek out some of your other review reviews.
Rendel Harris 2 hours ago
@OnYerBike The publisher touts the book as "An examination of the phenomenal success of Alejandro Valverde and the moral decay at the heart of Spanish cycling". Nowhere does the book claim to be a biography of Valverde, so to mark it down for not being something that it never claimed it was seems a little perverse.
galibiervelo 2 hours ago
I don't miss it. I was full on GCN watching obscure Dutch races daily. Now I watch 5 minute catchup of the bigger races on Youtube and riding my bike more. I paid £15 for one day pass to watch Paris Roubaix.
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Damn cyclists! Getting in the
Damn cyclists! Getting in the way of the train. slowing it down!