“This winds me up so much”: Furious motorbiker blasts “selfish, entitled tosser” cyclist for riding on road with solid white line and ‘holding up’ ten cars; Tom Pidcock told to “grow some balls” by rival; Jeremy Vine, Lime, and AI + more on the live blog
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“I’m an e-biker as well and it riles me up to no end when the two are conflated like this”
When it comes to how e-bikes are depicted by the BBC (Adrian Chiles, I’m looking at you), this at least feels like a step in the right direction…
> “Stop calling them e-bikes”: BBC corrects inaccurate coverage claiming powerful electric motorbike was an e-bike
Is this a bike shop or a mummy unwrapping party from the 1850s?
And I thought I was sweating buckets up the Koppenberg yesterday…
“At least if we die, it’ll be spectacular!” American climate scientist given eye-opening insight into the life of a cyclist on 60mph Irish roads – and says: “I was hoping that drivers weren’t looking down at their mobile phones!”
“At least if we die, it’ll be spectacular!”
That was the doom-laden conclusion uttered by American climate scientist David Ho recently, as he ‘enjoyed’ a cycling trip to Ireland – and its abundance of fast, terrifying roads and drivers.
A co-founder of the Bamboo Bike Project, which enabled simple, low-cost bikes to be built by local craftsmen in Ghana, Ho posted a clip of one of his recent rides in Ireland on BlueSky (which can be viewed here), giving his 100,000-plus followers a taste of life as an Irish cyclist.
“While cycling in Ireland recently, I was hoping that drivers weren’t looking down at their mobile phones,” he wrote, accompanied by the video of lorry, van, and car drivers passing him on the rural road.
“These roads have a 100 km/h (62 mph) speed limit, and no shoulders.”
Ho was so alarmed by the plethora of 60mph traffic on the road, and its lack of protection for cyclists, that he shouted to another rider as he passed him: “Well, at least if we die, it’ll be spectacular.”
“You’re toying with your life,” one US-based cyclist, who visited Ireland last year, agreed in the comments.
“I was shocked when we were there in May by the number of cyclists taking their very lives in their hands on those tiny, twisty roads with the speeding drivers!” said another.
You know it’s bad when the Americans think your roads are dangerous.
UCI Para-Cycling World Championships: Fin Graham bags fourth consecutive C3 road race rainbow jersey for GB in rainy Ronse, as Ireland’s Katie-George Dunlevy and Linda Kelly secure the ‘triple double’ in the B road race
This year’s para-cycling world championships in Ronse – the first time the event has ever been held in Belgium – came to a close yesterday, as Fin Graham secured his fourth straight C3 road race world title, and Ireland’s Katie-George Dunlevy and Linda Kelly doubled up by adding the B road race to their time trial title from Friday.
In the C3 road race, Scottish star Graham’s timing was perfect as he attacked a group of eight riders with one kilometre left, sealing a stunning solo victory ahead of the chasing Thomas Peyroton Dartet of France, while GB debutant Jacob Smith took fifth.
John Clifton/SWpix.com
“To win a first world title back in 2022 was a dream come true, so to now be retaining that for the fourth year in a row, is something that I could never have imagined,” Graham said at the finish.
“To do it here in Belgium, with that crowd, was phenomenal. I was made to work for it; it was such a hard race.
“It has finished off a really good week for our squad. Retaining this title, as Paralympic champion, is very special. To race in the rainbow stripes for another year is still a pinch me moment. I’ll never get tired of looking down and seeing the rainbow bands.”
Earlier in the day, as the rain started to fall heavily in Flanders (including on your live blog host, who rode out to the race in grisly conditions), Ireland’s on-fire tandem pair Katie-George Dunlevy and Linda Kelly added to their third straight time trial win on Friday by successfully defending their B road race crown.
Dunlevy and Kelly were forced to overcome a series of mechanical issues on the way to their third consecutive road race win as a pairing, pulling back Poland before storming away on the last lap, as GB’s Sophie Unwin and Jenny Holl took third.
Olly Hassell/SWpix.com
“It was a really hard race, probably actually the hardest race we’ve had, and it was definitely just about not giving up, believing in yourself and just believing in each other,” Dunlevy said.
“We had a lot thrown at us with the slow puncture, the wheel change, the chain getting stuck. A lot of people had mechanicals though, it was pretty treacherous with the cobbles and the wet roads.
“But honestly, to be three-time double-double world champions is what we’ve been dreaming of and what we’ve been training for.”
Elsewhere on the final day, GB’s Morgan Newberry added to her time trial silver by securing bronze in the C5 road race as the rain bucketed down, while Archie Atkinson also secured bronze in the men’s C4 event, meaning Britain would travel home from Flanders with one gold, two silver, and six bronze medals in total.
Grand tour contenders of the next 15 years – Be afraid, be very afraid
On Friday, Decathlon-AG2R’s 18-year-old prodigy Paul Seixas once again underlined his startling ability, and living up to his lofty pre-race billing, by winning the Tour de l’Avenir, beating fellow teenage wonderkid Jarno Widar by 40 seconds.
Seixas’ victory means he is now the youngest ever winner – at 18 years and 339 days – of the de-facto U23 Tour de France, smashing Cian Uijtdebroeks’ previous record.
That’s quite the list of names he’s usurped in the process, including You Know Who, who was exactly a year older than Seixas when he won the Tour de l’Avenir back in 2018 (granted, Pogačar did go on to finish third at the Vuelta a year later and win the Tour de France within two years. So, no pressure Paul).
To add to the hype, it was revealed at the weekend that Seixas had been suffering with illness throughout the race, with L’Équipe reporting that the 18-year-old was seen “coughing like a chain-smoker” throughout the race. And he still smashed everyone in the time trial.
No wonder the French are getting excited… 40 years of hurt and all that.
Hit-and-run driver jailed for 14 years for killing cyclist before torching car to destroy evidence
Jonathan Knight was speeding and under the influence of cocaine when he killed a cyclist at a dedicated cycle crossing on a dual carriageway in 2023, with a judge concluding last week that the “shameless” drug driver has “continued to do all you can to shirk responsibility since”.
Read more: > Hit-and-run driver jailed for 14 years for killing cyclist before torching car to destroy evidence
‘Why’s that cyclist riding in the middle of the road?’ Here’s why…
A good real-world example of the safety benefits of cycling in primary position, in the middle of the lane (not road), approaching junctions, courtesy of the Safer Roads Yorkshire Twitter account:
Reasons why cyclists ride in the middle of the road. Here the lane is narrow and the cyclist is travelling close to the speed limit. By moving into primary the cyclist prevents a careless pass into oncoming traffic. Notice how primary is maintained through the roundabout. pic.twitter.com/6mOP758ppn
— Safer Roads Yorkshire (@SaferRoadsYorks) September 1, 2025
“Reasons why cyclists ride in the middle of the road. Here the lane is narrow and the cyclist is travelling close to the speed limit,” the cyclist wrote alongside the clip.
“By moving into primary, the cyclist prevents a careless pass into oncoming traffic. Notice how primary is maintained through the roundabout.”
Straightforward, huh?
Those pesky bike thieves are everywhere at the Vuelta, they’re even wearing the green jersey!
I imagine Mads Pedersen’s bike theft joke might have sparked a bit of a panic if he’d tried the same thing with a Visma-Lease Bike rider, a week after their Turin break-in at the Vuelta.
But at least Mikkel Bjerg caught this particular bike thief fairly sharpish…
It’s nearly time…
Time to peel off the last window on your ‘According to G’ advent calendar, because there’s just one more sleep ‘til the ToB:
Safety improvements to “scary and unacceptable” St Andrews cycle path beside major road could take three years and cost £2.4m due to private land, councillors warn
Councillors in Fife have warned that plans to improve a notorious section of cycle path between St Andrews and Guardbridge could take three years and cost £2.4m.
Last year, Fife Council said it was exploring all possibilities for the “unsafe and unacceptable” route, which local cyclists say puts them at risk of being blown by strong winds off the narrow lane and into 50mph+ traffic.
The cycle path forms part of National Cycle Network Route 1, connecting St Andrews, the university’s Eden Campus, and the railway station at Leuchars.
Although the first two-thirds of the route, adjacent to the golf course, is segregated from traffic (and is where this live blogger enjoyed many a pleasant evening ride back from class during his Masters), the final third brings cyclists and pedestrians onto a narrow, poorly surfaced, barrier-less path adjacent to the busy A91 and drivers travelling at over 50mph on one side and overgrown hedges on the other.
In October 2024, we reported that a petition calling for safety improvements to the route, launched by Dr Lydia Cole and the St Andrews Space for Cycling group, collected 490 signatures, with an area committee report from Fife Council acknowledging that “the cycle track does not meet modern design guidance”.
And now, after a months-long study, transportation officers at the local authority have come up with five options, with the approved choice involving building a four-metre path over private land and around some houses, meeting national design standards.
However, of the five proposals, this would require the most private land, with council officers warning that negotiations with landowners will take some time.
“There are a number of challenges to be addressed in this project in terms of land ownership,” transportation officer Phil Clarke told councillors last week. “There are also significant sums involved to achieve this.”
Mr Clarke added that negotiating with owners could take between nine months and a year if agreement is reached, or, if it comes to a compulsory purchase of land, a minimum of two years.
“Much as we might like it otherwise, this could be a three-year programme just to get land,” he said, predicting that Transport Scotland’s Active Travel Fund will cover the design and land costs, while the council would have to bid for further money to complete the works.
Bicycle ban on rush hour trains and poor bike racks at stations risk commuters being “forced to revert to car-dependency”, cycling campaigners warn
Cycling campaigners in Northern Ireland have warned that people are being pushed back towards car-dependency by rail providers’ strict no bikes policy on rush hour trains. This, coupled with poor cycle parking facilities at stations, means people are “being forced to revert to car-dependency behaviours once again”, they say.
Read more: > Bicycle ban on rush hour trains and poor bike racks at stations risk commuters being “forced to revert to car-dependency”, cycling campaigners warn
“The hottest ticket in the UK gravel scene”: Entries for 10th anniversary edition of Dirty Reiver opened this morning – and organisers expect event to sell out by tonight
If you fancy taking on next year’s Dirty Reiver, you better be quick – because the organisers expect all slots to be gone by this evening. And the entries only opened this morning.
Arguably the UK’s leading gravel cycling event, the Kielder Forest-based Dirty Reiver is set to celebrate its 10th anniversary next April.
And to mark this milestone, for 2026 there will be three new routes across the event’s now standard distances: 200km, 135km, and 65km, taking place across the weekend of 24-26 April. Entries are £70 for the 65km and £85 for the two longer distances.
Sophie Wright wins the 2025 Dirty Reiver
“Together with our event partners, we’re planning a special edition of the Dirty Reiver next spring with a unique theme to the event, new routes, more activations and generally a load more hype,” the event’s co-director Bryan Singleton says.
“The event has grown into the hottest ticket in the UK gravel riding scene and we’ve had a huge uptake in people pre-registering interest so we’re expecting places to go fast, perhaps faster than ever before.”
Entries opened at 8am this morning on a first-come, first-served basis, with spaces still available at Dirty Reiver’s website – but you better be quick to avoid missing out on all the gravelly, foresty, muddy action.
But judging by my own performance on the cobbles of Flanders over the weekend, think I might wait for the 20th anniversary before submitting my own entry…
The Stelvio doing Stelvio things
On Saturday, 7,000 cyclists flocked to cycling’s most iconic series of switchbacks for Passo Stelvio Day, the one day of the year where the legendary Giro climb is closed to motor traffic and devoted to cyclists.
And this year’s edition featured one classic Stelvio ingredient: Snow. And lots of it:
I’m freezing just watching that…
Walter Godefroot – the Bulldog of Flanders and Telekom stalwart – dies, aged 82, after long battle with Parkinson’s Disease
Belgian cycling is in mourning today, following the news that Walter Godefroot, one of the best classics riders of the 1960s and 1970s and later the manager of Telekom, has died at the age of 82, following a long battle with Parkinson’s Disease.
A one-day specialist, Gent-born Godefroot turned pro in 1965 – the same year as his compatriot Eddy Merckx – after taking bronze at the 1964 Olympic road race, establishing himself as one of the Cannibal’s fiercest rivals in the classics.
By the end of the 60s, he had won Liège-Bastogne-Liège (1967), Gent-Wevelgem (1968), the Tour of Flanders (1968), and Paris-Roubaix (1969). In 1978, the ‘Bulldog of Flanders’ won his second edition of the Ronde, ten years after his maiden triumph.
During his 15-year career, he also won 10 stages of the Tour de France, as well as the race’s green jersey in 1970, along with a stage at the Giro and two at the Vuelta, taking 155 victories in total while racing for Flandria, Salvarani, and Peugeot.
After retiring and setting up his own bike shop, he managed the all-conquering, albeit controversial Telekom team of the 1990s, winning two Tours with Bjarne Riis and Jan Ullrich in 1996 and 1997 respectively. However, his legacy at the German team has been somewhat tainted by the revelations concerning the squad’s longstanding doping programme that helped propel it to the top of the sport.
After leaving Telekom (then T-Mobile) in 2005, Godefroot took up an advisory role at Astana before retiring in 2007.
His health deteriorated following a bypass operation and a crash on his bike a decade ago, and was diagnosed with Parkinson’s a few years ago. He died today, aged 82.
Construction firm ordered to pay cyclist £50,000 damages over “serious” crash caused by bollard next to cycle lane during works
A High Court judge has ordered a construction firm to pay compensation to a cyclist injured in a crash caused by the base of a traffic bollard which was installed next to a cycle lane outside one of the company’s building projects in east London.
Read more: > Construction firm ordered to pay cyclist £50,000 damages over “serious” crash caused by bollard next to cycle lane during works
“He told me to grow some balls!” Tom Pidcock blasted by angry João Almeida during Vuelta battle – but Brit says “if he rides a bit slower, I’ll give him some more turns”
On Sunday afternoon in Valdezcaray, on stage nine of the Vuelta a España, Tom Pidcock pulled off arguably the finest grand tour GC-focused performance of his career (Before you start throwing ‘Alpe d’Huez’ into the comments, I’m talking about his rides from the favourites’ group).
As Jonas Vingegaard soared through the rain to lay down an ominous marker for the rest of the Vuelta, only Pidcock and UAE Team Emirates leader João Almeida were able to stay within a minute of the rampant Dane on the final climb to the finish.
Unipublic / Cxcling / Antonio Baixauli
At the line in Valdezcaray, Pidcock nipped past Almeida to take second, 24 seconds down on Vingegaard, and enough to move him up to fourth place overall heading into the first rest day, 1.35 down on battling red jersey Torstein Træen.
But Pidcock’s tactics on the final climb – which saw him stubbornly refuse to take a turn with Almeida for the majority of their 10km pursuit (a strategy the Brit revealed was purely based on his legs) – went down like a lead balloon with the Portuguese stage racer, who was captured by the TV cameras angrily remonstrating with the Q36.5 leader.
And the words carefully chosen by Almeida to encourage his wheel-sucking mate to contribute to the chase? “Grow some balls.”
Zac Williams/SWpix.com
“I felt really good when [Giulio] Ciccone and Jonas went,” Pidcock told reporters at the finish, as he reflected on his decision to stay calm as Vingegaard attacked. “Of course, it’s always difficult to follow when Jonas has four teammates between you and him, and Trek are on the front.
“I thought Almeida’s was the perfect wheel to go on, and I thought maybe we’d come back, but chapeau to him – I couldn’t give him any turns.
“He was shouting at me, but he’s like a tractor, you know, especially when we got on this flatter section. Then the last kilometre when he went, it was impressive, I could only just come round him at the finish, but I’m happy to be honest.
“He told me to grow some balls,” Pidcock laughed. “But if he rides a bit slower, I’ll give him some more turns.”
Pidcock, however, isn’t the first rider to receive Almeida’s scorn at this year’s Vuelta, with even Vingegaard coming under fire during the first week for refusing to co-operate with his UAE Team Emirates rivals on Friday’s climb to Cerlers.
Zac Williams/SWpix.com
Not that Pidcock, who enters the Vuelta’s brutal second week in a plum GC position, cares too much about Almeida’s on-road taunts.
“It’s really good,” he said, when asked about how Sunday’s stage impacts his overall chances. “Of course, we wanted to go for a stage, but Jonas is Jonas, and you shouldn’t give him a gap, but I could be happy with that.
“I think it’s difficult to fully know what my capabilities are – sometimes I’m a bit cautious, but today definitely gives me confidence going into the harder stages that are to come.”
Jeremy Vine takes latest dig at Hounslow Council’s Lime Bike “own goal” and “Checkpoint Charlie” borders… with the help of a weird AI-generated video
Live blog regulars will be well aware, by now, of Jeremy Vine’s love of jazzy special effects in his cycling social media videos.
But, as a proud Luddite when it comes to artificial intelligence and all that brain cell-killing nonsense, I have to ask the question: Is it ever appropriate to use AI (and weird AI at that) to make an otherwise valid point about silly hire bike borders and terrible council decisions?
Worse than VAR? Not being able to take a hire bike home from the football after @LBofHounslow’s classic own goal. Checkpoint Charlie on the border — the bike deactivates, you have to walk ⅓ mile with a lump of metal to park it. @ChelseaFC @FulhamFC @limebike @daraobriain pic.twitter.com/IyCHqDovLJ
— Jeremy Vine | Here, on Tiktok, Insta & Facebook (@theJeremyVine) August 31, 2025
I’ll let you form your own conclusions… Unless you ask AI to form them for you.
“Tell me you’re the problem without telling me you’re the problem”: Furious motorbiker blasts “selfish, entitled, tosser” cyclist for riding on road with solid white line and ‘holding up’ ten cars – and gets told to “read the Highway Code”
I’ll be honest, I’ve never heard of the social media account MotoMad until today (to be fair, it’s not something the algorithm will push my way of course).
But the YouTubing motorcyclist – who posts videos of ride outs, ‘green laning’, jumps, and the like to his 18,000 followers – has set the cycling corner of the internet ablaze in recent days, thanks to a rant about a cyclist riding on the road.
In the clip, posted on Facebook, MotoMad man, out on a ride on his motorbike, lets loose with a prolonged rant after spotting a cyclist travelling in the opposite direction, with several motorists following in his wake.
“They can’t overtake because there’s a solid white line, and you’ve got this tosser, an absolute tosser,” MotoMad says in the clip, which includes graphics branding the man on the bike a “selfish entitled cyclist”.
“One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten cars. Solid white lines – how far has that cyclist gone? Seriously, how far has that cyclist gone? Solid white lines, this is a national speed limit road! This winds me up so much.”
Since being posted over the weekend, the video has attracted 1,700 comments. And it’s safe to say that MotoMad’s rant hasn’t gone down too well in the cycling community.
“I’m well Impressed… you managed to count up to 10,” wrote Ed.
“Only person who sounds like a tosser is the camera man on the motorbike,” added Bear, whole Andrew said: “Making yourself sound a bit of a tosser there, mate.”
“Tell me you’re the problem without telling me you’re the problem,” wrote Barbara.
“He’s moaning for a minute straight about a cyclist legally proceeding down the road,” noted Jude.
Meanwhile, Sean pointed out that “all the while you filmed there wasn’t a layby for the cyclist to pull into”, negating his entire point, with Rich doing further, noting: “They can’t overtake, because you’re in the way.”
And David asked: “So why didn’t you pull into the lane on the left and wait, so the cars could pass if it bothers you so much?”
That prompted a response from MotoMad, who said: “Or the cyclist that’s actually obstructing other road users could pull over. Or maybe he could pick a better route.”
While MotoMad was quick to snipe back at negative comments, there was one he enthusiastically agreed with – Lee’s suggestion that he should “just put him in the hedge, problem solved”.
Says a lot, really.
It also says a lot that MotoMad has a history of cycling-themed content (or should I say anti-cycling), including this YouTube video from last week, in which he harangues a rider for jumping up on the pavement at a red light:
Back on the cycling side of things, the comments were full of calls for MotoMad to consult the Highway Code about solid white lines.
According to the Highway Code, when there is a solid white line, motorists “must not cross or straddle it unless it is safe and you need to enter adjoining premises or a side road”.
However, they “may cross the line if necessary, provided the road is clear, to pass a stationary vehicle, or overtake a pedal cycle, horse or road maintenance vehicle, if they are travelling at 10 mph (16 km/h) or less.”
That kicked off a whole, tedious, circular debate about the cyclist’s speed and what constitutes a safe overtake, which I’ll leave you to pore over in your own time.
And finally, Dylan summed the whole thing up with: “So many people crying over this but it’s a double solid line and no-one is going to die from not getting home quicker. Pay attention to the road in front of you, stop filming for click bait.”
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@andystow not so helpful for current US cyclists or some UK ones * but I suspect the greatest safety benefits would come from a (conceptually) simple "separate modes where the speed / mass difference is significant, only allow mixing where the more dangerous is significantly slowed and not numerous compared to others". Note no references to skill or careful use in that formulation. That's certainly needed for best results but the system better not *depend* on humans being on their best behavior... * lots of people "have to drive" in the US, even more so than the UK (major generalisation but while public transport is fairly rubbish in much of the UK it *exists* to a greater degree than in much of the US).
@andystow as you subtly didn't spell out ... ... the best bit about the second is that cycling (and walking) also looks safer if you remove those drivers. The opposite doesn't make much difference to drivers.
I have cycled in many countries and found the Spanish to be the most considerate road users to cyclists, whatever their laws say.
If I'm reading this article correctly, this new law only applies to cyclists under 16 years old. Is that correct ? If so, then it makes perfect sense.
@mitsky I used to get a good 70-80% of my reports resulting in more than a warning letter I'm afraid these statistics are based on a highly unreliable police source: them saying they have 'sent a NIP'. You're not alone - Cycling Mikey is also now quoting 'NIPs sent' as evidence the police took real action. The infamous and essentially useless Met outcome spreadsheet only claims to provide 'intended outcome', and the reason they refuse to provide the actual outcomes is that they don't want victims to know how few of these punishments result in any penalty at all. There's a reason I'm still, 4 1/2 years after the event, battling Lancashire Constabulary and their assistants at the Information Commissioner for information about what they actually did about this: ttps://upride.cc/incident/4148vz_travellerschoicecoach_closepass/ The reason is that they did either nothing at all, or sent out the worthless advice letter. I'm now using the routinely ignored Victim's Code, and there has been no progress for years.
Cycling looks a lot safer per mile or per hour if you can remove from the statistics all the people riding on the wrong side of the road at night with no lights after a few drinks. Driving also looks a lot safer if you can remove the same sort of people from the statistics.
@Paul J Spanish police seem to be relatively lenient when the only potential harm from a dangerous behaviour could happen to yourself. What you're describing might be similar to how they react to crossing the street while there's a red light. While (AFAIK) technically it's illegal, usually nobody will bother you - unless something happens. In fact, I've even seen police officers doing that!
@KentRider how did you get Kent Police to request the video? ...how did you find out the consequences for the drivers? Very important questions! The last thing the police want is indisputable evidence, and their most valuable and most often wielded weapons are refusal to respond to reports and refusal to look at evidence- often disguised as 'we're so busy, we don't have the time'. Police inaction has far-reaching consequences: the NW Traffic Commissioner is supposed to supervise Lancashire Stagecoach and other bus companies, but as far as he's concerned if there was no police action, there was no problem and he follows the 'head in the sand' solution. Police officers really are the main enemies of cyclists. ttps://upride.cc/incident/sk19evw_stagecoach42_closepass/ ttps://upride.cc/incident/4148vz_travellerschoicecoach_closepass/
@wtjs I appreciate You've faced a depressingly unco-operative police force. The Met police, untill recently, were relatively good at taking action. I used to get a good 70-80% of my reports resulting in more than a warning letter. But now that they are getting more reports than they can cope with the hit rate is about 10% if not less.
@I love my bike An answer to the increasing number of EVs and the drivers also doing this with their plates is for someone smarter than me. Which is pretty much everyone. But I'm thinking that in the future, when an EV owner goes shopping and parks in the car park, the CCTV can catch the vehicle if it is illegal and call security and the staff can refuse to serve them. I'm also thinking larger shopping centres might offer free charging to customers so again, this can be denied for any dodgy plates.
17 thoughts on ““This winds me up so much”: Furious motorbiker blasts “selfish, entitled tosser” cyclist for riding on road with solid white line and ‘holding up’ ten cars; Tom Pidcock told to “grow some balls” by rival; Jeremy Vine, Lime, and AI + more on the live blog”
Almeida always looks angry
Almeida always looks angry when he’s cycling but in the heat of battle emotions are raw. On his cooldown it was his own team he thought was ‘missing’. That would have been Ayuso who simply sat up at the bottom of the final climb even though the previous day he’d won a mountain stage.
Great ride from Pidcock, I hope he can maintain that level over the next fortnight.
Not great etiquette from
Not great etiquette from Pidcock to wheel suck for 10k then nip past at the finish. If you don’t have the legs for a turn, fine, but don’t use the energy you’ve saved to screw over the other guy on the line.
AidanR wrote:
It’s not quite as simple as that though, is it, because the bottom half of the climb where Almeida was shouting at Pidcock was the steepest section so he may quite genuinely have been riding on the edge of the red zone and not able to put in any more than he was, at the top it flattened out considerably and he did start taking turns on the front, it’s not as if he sat behind Almeida the entire way and then just dived over him in the last ten metres. I think Almeida was more taking out his frustration that his teammates weren’t there to help him on Pidcock: he said afterwards, “I could see they [Pidcock and Gall] were on the limit so they couldn’t do much, I maybe missed my teammates a little bit.”
Its a race not a dinner dance
Its a race not a dinner dance, if you don’t want someone to outsprint you at the finish then you have to leave them behind or get them to agree not to attack in return for being towed.
Didn’t look to me that
Didn’t look to me that Almeida was that fussed about it, it was only the bonus seconds Pidcock took.
AidanR wrote:
The laugh in the US was Bob Roll and colleague happily proclaiming that Ciccone shouldn’t help Vingegaard, when they went off the front. Try the. Followed by saying that Pidcock should have been taking turns at the front, while almost simultaneously saying no one could catch Jonas on that climb….
Did I understand that
Did I understand that correctly, there’s a tandem _road_ race at the paracycling? That’d be so cool to see more of!
RE: Safety improvements to
RE: Safety improvements to “scary and unacceptable” St Andrews cycle path beside major road could take three years and cost £2.4m due to private land, councillors warn
Well … roadworks take time and cost money. Perhaps they could push them on a bit though, as it sounds like a) a safety issue and b) a “missing link” in what would seem a fairly important cycle route (e.g. for commuters, for students accessing the station, for visitors… 5.3 miles station to university, so doable but at the upper end for a casual cycle trip but would be perfectly fine for many commuters I’d expect?)
Oh wait – what am I talking about – there’s already a better-than-UK-minimum bi-directional separate cycle path AND footway (also know as “the original more-or-less-grotty footway”)! And the speed limit is only 50mph!
(Also – more bumpy rides on the Notional Cycle Network…)
Here’s the “good” (at least it’s separate – and behind a wall!)…
Here’s where it ends (then it’s former footway all the way ’till you reach Guardbridge IIRC, though nicer from there):
Reading cycle festival, 14th
Reading cycle festival, 14th September, Christchurch meadow, 11 to 4.
Re the cyclist and double
Re the cyclist and double white line.
Motoman and people like him are the symptoms of the “I want it and I want it now and mummy always gave it to me!” culture that is so prevalent in British society.
Why is it such a problem to get to McDonald’s or Sainsbury’s a minute or so later?
They’re not going to McDonald
They’re not going to McDonald’s or Sainsbury’s, but to a layby snack van somewhere to stand around with other like minded individuals eating a bacon butty, before going back home. Often making a load of noise, creating pollution, whilst putting themselves and other road users in danger through risky driving. At no point do they stop to consider AITA.
My immediate thought was “I
My immediate thought was “I wonder why a straight piece of road has double white lines?”, must have been an accident blackspot due to reckless overtaking.
The road between Ipswich and
The road between Ipswich and norwich seemed to be double white lined in it’s entirely when I was driven on it. We just sat behind the same vehicle for mile after mile.
Obviously a death trap when overtaking was allowed.
Speed differential. If they’d
Speed differential. If they’d been walking and close passed by the cyclist they’d have been complaining he was speeding. They’re used to going along the road at 60mph and now they’re doing 20? Some people can’t cope with it.
He seems to be waving his
He seems to be waving his hand around alot rather than retaining full control of his machine. Seems rather careless to me, possibly dangerous if he was near any vunerable road users.
Motoman has posted another –
Motoman has posted another – similarly self-incriminating – video, today. It would appear they they just can help themselves.
Not posting a link, so that they don’t get the clicks
Re American cyclist on Irish
Re American cyclist on Irish roads. Why is this guy cycling on 100kph roads and complaining. All roads with this speed limit are designated National Roads. Aside from motorways these are the most heavily used roads in the country. There are over 80,000km of local roads he could use with 60kph speed limit. In many cases this speed is not even attainable because the roads are so small. Don’t go cycling on a National Road and then try to discredit cycling in Ireland which is very safe if you use common sense.