Cyclists blast “unacceptable” ‘protected’ bike lane packed with parked cars and bins; Motorists slam cyclist for not anticipating driver… on shared use path; Anti-cycling seagulls; Cav’s (old) glasses; Rohan Dennis set to retire + more on the live blog
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Crosswind klaxon!
It’s all kicking off into echelons – ah, sweet, sweet echelons – on the second stage of the women’s UAE Tour…
G2 is starting to close the gap – it’s come down around 30 seconds in the last 10km or so
G3 is 2 minutes behind G2 so it’s going to be super tough for them, even with 86km to go
For the first time, I can start to see G1 & G2 joining up before the finish#UAETourWomen pic.twitter.com/uu2TKwFAnT
— Mathew Mitchell (@MatMitchell30) February 10, 2023
Didn’t see this coming! Cordon-Ragot and Persico struggling off the back of G1#UAETourWomen pic.twitter.com/lt00wAX8S1
— Mathew Mitchell (@MatMitchell30) February 10, 2023
Great Britain wins dramatic women’s team pursuit at Euro track champs, while Filippo Ganna does Filippo Ganna things
It was a dramatic evening of pursuiting at the European track championships in Grenchen, Switzerland yesterday, as Team GB’s Katie Archibald, Neah Evans, Josie Knight, and Anna Morris saw off world champions Italy – led by 2021 road world champ Elisa Balsamo – to take gold in the women’s team pursuit.
But their final-winning ride wasn’t without its bumps, however. Despite building up a solid lead of two seconds in the first 3,000m, Archibald’s sheer strength began to blow apart her own team.
(Alex Whitehead/SWpix.com)
As the two-time Olympic champion piled on the pressure at the front, gaps started to creep into yawning chasms in the final 500m, requiring some battling work by Morris and Knight – and some astute tactical reconfiguration while travelling at 60kph – to hold on for the win, as the Italians began to crumble themselves in the last few laps.
In the increasingly dialled-in world of team pursuiting, it was an enthralling – and refreshing – watch.
GOOOOOOOLD in the women’s team pursuit 🥇🥇🥇#EuroTrack2023 pic.twitter.com/Bw9Qeuu7XQ
— British Cycling (@BritishCycling) February 9, 2023
“This is the first event that counts towards Olympic qualification and to come out on top is huge,” Knight said after the race.
“We’ve come second a lot – I’ve been in a lot of major finals and come second, so in those last few laps I was saying please come on, I just want to win something! I’m just so excited to be able to wear a European champs’ jersey.”
(Alex Whitehead/SWpix.com)
It was a similar story in the men’s team pursuit final, as Filippo Ganna’s superhuman power drove Italy to the win, while almost causing his team to buckle at the same time.
In a role reversal of the women’s final – this time, Italy took revenge on world champions Great Britain – Hour Record holder Ganna came out on top against the hour’s previous incumbent (and the Italian’s aero guru at Ineos) Dan Bigham, whose eye-catching split pink and black bike wasn’t enough to beat Ganna’s ‘grab it by the scruff of the neck approach’ to team pursuiting.
(Alex Whitehead/SWpix.com)
Hour record holders duking it out in eagerly-anticipated finals for major championships on the track? What is this, the mid-1990s?
“This is a department with zero ambition for a liveable city,” says councillor
More damning reaction to Belfast’s ‘Is it really a cycle lane?’ cycle lane, from local Green Party councillor Anthony Flynn:
This is @deptinfra‘s idea of safe cycling infrastructure.
Local elected reps have made clear our vision for the city, with connected communities incorporating active travel and safe segregated infrastructure.
This is a department with zero ambition for a livable city. https://t.co/GDEf6xGpOZ
— Cllr Anthony Flynn (@AntoFlynnser) February 10, 2023
Seagull 1-0 Crow(e): Dublin seagull “shat all over” cycling Irish politician
From poor infrastructure in the north to anti-cycling birds in the south…
🐧 Seagull 1 — 0 Crow(e) 🐧
A Dublin seagull shat all over me as I pedalled 🚴♂️ my way to Heuston Train Station… He was a sharp-shooter and got my pants, jacket but also my face and hair! 🤢
I’m now on the train heading home to Clare.. pic.twitter.com/XbDcLVUDEI
— Cathal Crowe T.D. (@CathalCroweTD) February 9, 2023
The aptly named Fianna Fáil TD Cathal Crowe – a regular user of the Dublin Bikes scheme when attending Dáil Éireann – put his photoshop skills to good use on the train back home to Clare yesterday, pithily conveying the visceral hated seagulls have for us cyclists…
“I’m now on the train heading home to Clare – apologies in advance to the groups I have lined up to meet this afternoon – I look a sorry state and probably smell of ‘Eau du Gul’,” he tweeted.
New podcast episode alert!
In this episode of the https://t.co/vVgfyt8IYK Podcast, we’re debriefing after awards season and talking hardcore virtual racing on Zwift… https://t.co/qNsbmswH5e #cycling
— road.cc (@roadcc) February 10, 2023
Lorena Wiebes comes roaring back to take windswept second stage of UAE Tour
🇳🇱@lorenawiebes of 🇳🇱@teamsdworx wins stage 2 of 🇦🇪@uae_tour Women #UAETourWomen (📺@dubaisportstv) pic.twitter.com/kgZ8cQ25ZD
— World Cycling Stats (@wcsbike) February 10, 2023
European champion Lorena Wiebes (SD Worx) exacted her revenge on her old DSM teammates by comfortably outsprinting the previous day’s winner – and her former lead-out rider – Charlotte Kool to win a windswept second stage of the inaugural UAE Tour Women.
Wiebes’ victory, taking advantage of a strong lead out from DSM’s former British champion Pfeiffer Georgi (who held on for third), was her first of the season and came after a day dominated by strong winds and almost incessant echelon action.
While most of the splits which had occurred in the frantic opening part of the stage had closed by around 20km to go, a further bout of wind-affected pressure in the final ten kilometres prompted yet more fracturing – and, most notably, say FDJ-Suez’s GC hope Marta Cavalli lose time – before the impressively powerful Wiebes roared to the stage win and the leader’s jersey in Al Mirfa.
“We flow with the go”: Are SD Worx trying to coin a new cycling catchphrase?
“Flow with the go” 😂 #UAETourWomen pic.twitter.com/XSdxRxxzl8
— Dan Deakins (@DanDeakins) February 10, 2023
Lorena Wiebes: ‘we flow with the go.’ At first I thought it was just a mistake but no, that’s a thing, right?! That’s actually a super cool team motto. I REALLY hope it’s a thing #UAETourWomen
— Katy M (@writebikerepeat) February 10, 2023
Yes, I believe it’s now a thing. I love it 😂 I think it was @LotteKopecky who said it at their team presentation a few weeks ago. I’m glad to see it’s stuck around! 🙌
— Hannah Walker (@spannawalker) February 10, 2023
Well, at least it’s better than ‘marginal gains’…
Double world time trial champion Rohan Dennis announces that he will retire at end of 2023
Jumbo-Visma’s Rohan Dennis announced on social media this afternoon that 2023 will his last season as a professional cyclist.
The 32-year-old’s decision to step away from the sport will bring to an end an illustrious 11-year pro career, the highlights of which include back-to-back world time trial titles in 2018 and 2019, a bronze medal in the 2021 Olympic TT, the overall classification at the Tour Down Under, USA Pro Challenge, and Tour de la Provence, along with stage wins at every grand tour and a starring domestique role in Ineos teammate Tao Geoghegan Hart’s 2020 Giro d’Italia victory.
Confirming his intention to leave the peloton in an Instagram post, the Australian, who last month won a stage of the Tour Down Under, thanked his wife Melissa for “supporting me throughout my entire professional career, all while raising two of the best kids I could ever ask for”.
“Cycling, you have given me a lot and I’ll be forever grateful. It is still a long season ahead, however it will definitely be my last as a professional,” Dennis wrote.
Geraint, take notes: Mark Cavendish makes Astana debut… wearing Oakley glasses
So, after a whole off-season spent debating how Geraint Thomas could even contemplate racing a bike without his trademark Oakley Racing Jackets – it was a loooooong winter – Mark Cavendish, as ever, shows everyone how it’s done when you’re the greatest sprinter cycling has ever seen.
The 37-year-old made his Astana debut today at the Muscat Classic, ahead of tomorrow’s first stage of the Tour of Oman, and the big news is that he was wearing his not-at-all garish gold Oakley Katos.
Mark Cavendish 🇮🇲🇬🇧 made his debut today for Astana at the Muscat Classic 🇴🇲.
He IS wearing Oakley Kato sunglasses.
His team’s sunglasses sponsor is Scicon. pic.twitter.com/Vfat4G7KjS
— Tim Bonville-Ginn (@TimBonvilleGinn) February 10, 2023
So, what’s the big deal, I hear you cry? Well, Astana’s official eyewear sponsor is Scicon, who were reportedly not very happy that one of the sport’s biggest names was insisting, during protracted negotiations with the Kazakh squad, on continuing to wear the shades he helped develop.
According to CyclingNews, the stand-off between Oakley and Scicon was the key obstacle to Cav’s belated confirmation as an Astana rider last month, and appeared to have remained unresolved even when the Manx sprinter was photographed squinting, glasses-less, in the Costa Blanca sunshine during his unveiling in January.
‘That sun’s bloody bright! Get Oakley on the phone…’
But now that sponsorship debacle finally appears to have been settled, with Cavendish – and Oakley – getting their way.
Just don’t tell Geraint…
Fundraising campaign set up so mum paralysed after cycling accident can dance at her wedding
A 29-year-old woman, who was paralysed after an accident while riding her bike, has established a fundraising campaign to buy a new custom-fitted wheelchair which will help her care for her daughter and realise her dream of dancing independently at her wedding.
Natalie Burgess, from Arbroath, was left unconscious after being hit on the head and knocked off her bike by an automatic barrier at a caravan park in November 2017. She was taken to hospital by ambulance after the fall, only to be discharged a few hours later.
However, two months later she woke up paralysed from the waist down, having suffered brain damage before developing Functional Neurological Disorder (FND), an incurable condition which affects how the brain receives and sends information to the rest of the body. Natalie’s FND symptoms include paralysis, memory issues, swallowing issues, seizures, and muscle weakness and deterioration.
“The caravan park had an automatic barrier and as the barrier was coming down, I went under it and it just kept coming down and hit me on the head and knocked me straight off my bike, Natalie told the Dundee Courier.
“I was only in hospital for a few hours after the accident itself. But just two months later I woke up one day and couldn’t move my legs.
“Because it’s FND, it was a delayed reaction from the bump on the head, so I just woke up one day and I couldn’t move my legs and then the following day I couldn’t move my left hand and it has been like that ever since.
A keen runner and cyclist, Natalie said the condition “turned her life upside down”.
She continued: “I had previously run half marathons and I did loads of cycling with my parents. It was the scariest thing ever, I didn’t know what to do. I couldn’t move, I couldn’t stand. I was just absolutely terrified, we weren’t prepared at all.”
Due to her condition and inability to walk, Natalie has found it difficult to move independently in the wheelchair she was given by the NHS.
However, she has not let FND stop her from starting a family – last year she gave birth to her first child Lucy-Rose, and this September she will marry her partner James.
To enable her to dance unaccompanied at her wedding, Natalie has set up a GoFundMe page to raise money to purchase a new lighter and better-adapted wheelchair.
“With the chair I’ve got, I wouldn’t be able to push it around myself so it wouldn’t just be me and James on the dancefloor, we would need someone else to help us, which isn’t very nice,” she says.
“I think as a wee girl you always want to get married. It’s not the day I dreamed of anyway because I’m in the chair but to be able to dance would be all my wishes come true.”
Natalie also says a new chair would help her care for her daughter and grant her more independence as her condition worsens.
She said: “My baby was probably the best thing to happen since my accident – it is hard, but I think I’ve proven that you can still have a family even after a diagnosis.”
You can donate to Natalie’s fundraiser at this link.
Protected cycle lane or the setting for Danny MacAskill’s latest video?
tags @commuteroo bike parkour, your favourite! #DannyMacAskill
— 🌱Carrie Purdom (@CarriePurdom) February 10, 2023
Come on Danny, film your next video in Belfast, the parked cars will work great for stunts…
“This is the reality of cycling in Belfast”: Cyclists blast ‘protected’ bike lane packed with parked cars and bins
Now, for a host of different reasons, we don’t have many protected cycle lanes in Belfast, or Northern Ireland in general.
But when we do… Yeah, they’re mostly pretty rubbish.
Belfast’s Hardcastle Street, a key route for cyclists into the city centre, has featured on the live blog before, when one motorist’s curious take on parking left the entire, supposedly ‘protected’ lane blocked:
And my personal favorite…this considerate soul who completely blocked the lane
/8 pic.twitter.com/COH3R6Cyso— North Belfast Cycle Campaign (@NBCycleCampaign) November 21, 2022
As far as ignorance and stupidity goes, it’s quite impressive, if I’m honest.
However, it seems that the rest of Belfast’s drivers saw that awful piece of bike lane blocking and said, ‘Hold my steering wheel’.
This morning, Queen’s University Belfast lecturer Dominic Bryan (on his way to the picket line), came across a Hardcastle Street cycle lane jam packed with parked cars and bins:
This is the reality of cycling in Belfast. This the cycle lane in Hardcastle Street 9/2/23. @deptinfra @belfastcc @PSNIBelfast pic.twitter.com/1C1Xi0zSZN
— Dominic Bryan (@Domsball) February 10, 2023
Two drivers even attempted to emulate our diagonally-parking friend from November (hey, if you’re going to block the bike lane, you may as well block the pavement too), while further down the lane, two motorists teamed up to provide some nifty obstacles for the city’s cyclists as they entered a right-hand corner.
While Dom described the rammed bike lane as part of “the reality of cycling in Belfast”, others criticised the inaction from Northern Ireland’s Department for Infrastructure and Belfast City Council when it comes to dealing with that reality.
“So our cycle lane has become a car and van park. This speaks volumes for the shift in mindset that is needed for the support of cycling in Belfast and Northern Ireland generally,” wrote Keith.
Sustrans’ Northern Ireland branch described the situation on Hardcastle Street as “disgraceful – every single day, no action”.
“This is one of Belfast’s ONLY ‘separated’ cycle lanes,” noted the North Belfast Cycle Campaign. “With flood alleviation works closing the cycle route along the Lagan. This is the ONLY safe route across town. How is this acceptable?”
🤬
This is one of Belfast’s ONLY ‘separated’ cycle lanes.With flood alleviation works closing the cycle route along the Lagan. This is the ONLY safe route across town.
How is this acceptable @deptinfra https://t.co/64Ls4S4tYE
— North Belfast Cycle Campaign (@NBCycleCampaign) February 10, 2023
As you can tell by the exasperated tone of this morning’s tweets, Northern Ireland’s Department for Infrastructure has come under increasing pressure in recent months from cyclists and cycling organisations unhappy at it meagre attempts to protect vulnerable road users.
In September, Cycling UK criticised Sinn Féin MLA and Minister for Infrastructure, John O’Dowd, for appearing to renege on a pre-election pledge to introduce an Active Travel Act in Northern Ireland.
Then, in November, the news that Northern Ireland is preparing a joint bid to host the Tour de France later this decade was also treated by the charity as “baffling” when everyday safety policy in the region is still putting cyclists “at risk” and omits recent Highway Code changes.
Cycling UK’s spokesperson in Northern Ireland, Andrew McClean, stressed that whilst the charity would “love” to see the race return to the island of Ireland, “a real lasting legacy for cycling would be for Northern Ireland to stop ignoring the essential work required to help people travel cheaply, sustainably, and safely by bike”.
10 February 2023, 09:35
10 February 2023, 09:35
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10 February 2023, 09:35
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Same here. I have a helmet with built in front and rear lights and have a red light clipped onto my bag plus lights attached to my bike front and rear but still have drivers putting me in danger. My commute is about two miles and I normally have around four incidents a week where I have to brake hard or take other evasive action to avoid being hit by distracted drivers. A big percentage of these are drivers coming on to roundabouts when I am already on them.
Glasgow's South City Way sounds great, does it not? As a user from before and after I wholeheartedly welcome the construction of the segregated route, but so much of the detailed construction is poor, if not unsafe. I provide a link to a presentation I made when construction was half complete (a personal view) and the construction errors remain outstanding to this day: crossed by high speed flared road junctions, poor colour differentiation, car door zone risks and so on. And yet cyclists come because they feel safe. It's a complex subject but IMHO the feeling of safety (or lack of) is a critical component. https://drive.proton.me/urls/B67AK44G90#CFueBGjscoWr
I can only conclude that you haven't been into a city in the last few years. Food delivery riders in particular are riding overpowered "eBikes" that are basically mopeds ... powered only via the throttle without pedalling at significantly more than 15mph. Problem is they look like normal bikes/ebikes and not like mopeds so that is what people describe them as. My reading of the article is that it is those vehicles that are being talked about here.
I have the Trace and Tracer, which have essentially the same design, albeit smaller and less powerful. The controls are a little complicated but only because there are loads of options. In reality, once you've chosen your level of brightness, you'll only cycle through 1 or 2 options and it's dead simple. The lights are rock solid, bright, with good runtimes. The only thing I find annoying is charging them - if your fingers are slightly wet or greasy, getting the rubber out of the way of the charging port is a pain in the arse.
Dance and padel is all very well, but when is Strava going to let me record my gardening?
You can use it to check whether it's raining.
If it's dusk, i.e. post-sunset, then the cyclists should have lights on and thus the colour of their top is irrelevant. If you want to complain about cyclists not having lights when it's mandatory then by all means do but their top has nothing to do with it.
All of my Exposure lights with a button allow cycling through the modes with a short press. I have five of those; it would be odd if Exposure didn’t allow this functionality with the Boost 3. I also have two Exposure Burners if I remember correctly: they are rear lights for joysticks that clip on and are powered through the joystick charging port. They don’t have a button. None of my Exposure lights have failed. I looked at the Boost 3 review photos but none showed the button, so far as I could tell. I also have Moon lights. Good experience generally. One did fail, possibly because it was so thin it used to fall through the holes in my helmet onto the ground. Also, the UI and charge indicators vary for my Moon lights. Perhaps the latest ones are more consistent. My worst lights ever were from See.Sense.
Steve really doesnt like exposure products does he? Boost and Strada marked down for being too complicated. While the Zenith and Six Pack reviewed by his colleagues give them rave reviews (as most exposure products have on road.cc), the Zenith even touted as 'even more intuitive to use' with the same controls.
They are more interested in dog shit. https://www.lancasterguardian.co.uk/news/people/lancaster-police-launch-search-for-person-who-sprayed-dog-faeces-with-pink-paint-5605519
31 thoughts on “Cyclists blast “unacceptable” ‘protected’ bike lane packed with parked cars and bins; Motorists slam cyclist for not anticipating driver… on shared use path; Anti-cycling seagulls; Cav’s (old) glasses; Rohan Dennis set to retire + more on the live blog”
Sorry car drivers, I can’t
Sorry car drivers, I can’t tell what you’re thinking of doing or are going to do because I can’t see you through your tinted windows to see if you’re looking at me or at your phone. And sorry I can’t see your indicator blinking, it seems that you forgot to use it. It happens every day and is just getting worse. I’m a driver too so have a great awareness when I’m driving, but maybe there should be some mandatory training when learning to drive, not just being told to be careful.
It’s pretty much the same
It’s pretty much the same throughout the UK, outside of London, where at least some of the infrastructure is protected. Up in my neck of the woods neither the council or police will take any action on bike lane parking.
The car rules and everyone else should tow the line.
What is the point of councils bidding for funding if the reality is they don’t actually give a shit?
Owd Big ‘Ead wrote:
[pedant on] toe the line [pedant off]
eburtthebike wrote:
Just use a tow line on the badly parked cars…
eburtthebike wrote:
Bloody Google and its auto spelling.
It was early and I’d spent a couple of hours knee deep in human excrement (don’t ask).
Give me a break?
Owd Big ‘Ead wrote:
I would ask, but I don’t think I want to know.
My thought on Adam’s video:
My thought on Adam’s video:
Clearly the driver was in the wrong, as they should have not been there at all, let alone pulling out like that. But far from an unusual incident – as “Ralpha” says just representative of self-entitled drivers that are far too common.
But, I do think that at some point self preservation ought to kick in. I, for one, would not have been riding up on the inside of the car like that.
I couldn’t figure out going
I couldn’t figure out going up the inside – they are such a useless driver, they could have squashed them against the fence.
Shouting and ringing the bell would have got them to stop in the end.
I couldn’t work out how they got there though – where did they come from?
I agree, I would more verbal
I agree, I would more verbal and gesturing but more defensive on positioning.
I can only imagine he
I can only imagine he assessed the speed of the car, came to the conclusion he was not in any mortal peril, and decided to make a point.
I’d agree with you – I would probably still have some choice words with the driver (the fact they can stray into a pedestrainised zone and and be so unobservant when driving through it is actually insane), but I’d have held back when they pulled out and would have gone around to the driver’s windows to do so.
I’m not chasing clicks per
I’m not chasing clicks per view, but I’d have just eased the brakes on and let them get on with it. I’d far rather have people like that in front of me, than behind.
In 999 out of 1,000 cases I
In 999 out of 1,000 cases I agree. Most of our “highly trained and conscientious” drivers seem react to any criticism (after they’ve nearly killed you) with aggression/violence, so I don’t even bother anymore. But if a driver is meandering around a pedestrianised area seemingly oblivious to what’s in it and to the fact that they shouldn’t be there, then that’s the sort of situation you feel you have to say something.
You dont have to be in mortal
You dont have to be in mortal peril as such, that’s still several ton of metal driven by someone who is not only entirely clueless (I’m guessing the parked car did similar) but who you arent even sure has seen you yet and then riding arguably in the one spot drivers dont check before riding into a shrinking gap from which theres no escape route.
Theres making a point to idiot drivers and theres I wouldnt ride into that in a month of sundays even if you paid me.
Definitely spot the danger and ease off the speed to minimise the idiocy impact on yourself imo.
If theres a need to still make a point head for the grass, where theres lots of room.
Awavey wrote:
My thoughts exactly, I was just speculating as to why he did what he did. I would not have done the same.
Exactly what I suggested.
It’s like having a dog run
It’s like having a dog run next to you or coming across a small child. You know anything can happen just not what !
hirsute wrote:
I hadnt seen it with sound
I hadnt seen it with sound before, i thought it was a stupid move to try and ram a car off the road when the driver already wasnt looking at him, but to ring the bell as if thats actually going to do anything to get the attention of someone in the car, just moronic im sorry. Making a choice to continue escalating a visibly dangerous situation, even if you didnt initiate it, stupid.
I totally get cyclists shouldnt be bullied out the way, you shouldnt have to stop, you shouldnt even be sharing that space with the car! but you dont shove a bully who is waving a weapon at you?.
It’s one of those where you
It’s one of those where you really hope there are a set of 18″ wide barriers at the far end (the ones we always bemoan), combined with some overgrown brambles and soft sand making it impossible to turn around, and the driver hasn’t reversed successfully in 20 years.
https://www.cornwalllive.com
https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/fifteen-unbelievable-fails-saw-cars-5723257
Take your pick of soft sand !
Simply proves the lanes are
Simply proves the lanes are not protected eniugh
Would be a real shame if some of those illegally obstructing vehicles were damaged in some way. Real shame.
anyone got a lentil?
“This is a department with
“This is a department with zero ambition for a liveable city,”
Green Party councillor Anthony Flynn is right, but the Department for Infrastructure is just carrying on the terrible work done by its predecessors. When I lived there in the late 1980’s, I tried to get whatever the government department was called then to improve things for cyclists, but was told that they wouldn’t because if the encouraged more people to ride bikes, they’d have more cyclist injuries/fatalities.
eburtthebike wrote:
Well, at least that proves they understand what happened with cars…
I thought the whole deal with
I thought the whole deal with Cav & Oakley for years had been they actually pay his wages, or substantial part of them, hence why it had never been a question of how much a team could pay him, so its always ultimately about making a deal that suits all parties. fwiw he wore oakleys at Team Bahrain whilst everyone else had Rudys.
Just found this gem
Just found this gem
https://twitter.com/CyclingLawLDN/status/1623773026041880577
“Absolute pleasure meeting Mark on the CS4 tonight. He was stuck at home for a lot of Covid-19 due to his MND condition but he told me the new cycleway is a game changer to get out the house and to work. We chatted about developments in treatment for MND and my dad who had it.”
It doesn’t take much to trip
It doesn’t take much to trip the car alarm on many motor vehicles these days. Just sayin’. Nothing wrong with a little harmless jostle to get the car to scream out a nice “thank you” to the owner.
Repeat until the battery is
Repeat until the battery is flat if you have the time.
“Colleague at work just got
“Colleague at work just got her handlebars nicked. Supposedly a growing problem in London due to lack of components – known as being “cockpitted”. So annoying.”
https://twitter.com/BBCTomEdwards/status/1624068576477839361
Colleague at work just got
Colleague at work just got her handlebars nicked
Very useful to kept in touch wi’t latest trends in villainy. No sign of anything like this up here in Lancashire, because there are so few bikes about and the police and the villains don’t see them and don’t really know what they are or how you get them to go. Motorists in this paradise for offenders just go in for standard multi-evasions on the grounds that the police don’t care. BG67 YVC was leaving the building site at the local care home: MOT expired 17.1.23 and failed MOT test 27.1.23 for major brake defect and no MOT since; SORN-ed. I can guarantee there will be no response from Lancashire Constabulary, which is likely to be unchallenged in the Idlest and Most Ineffectual Force in the UK Championship
is that because they actually
is that because they actually want the handlebars ? I mean I suppose gear shifters are valuable as components in themselves and still in short supply, but it also “disables” the bike so they can return later with a better angle grinder.
and did they try to steal the seat post too, or was it meant to be like that.
I dunno, but on the twitter
I dunno, but on the twitter posts, there were a lot of comments about the seat !
Crazy Cyclist riding in tram
Crazy Cyclist riding in tram lines
https://twitter.com/theJeremyVine/status/1624323478001184768
“I can lip read and the gentleman is saying he’s on his way to his first anger management course class and is hoping to be down to only one tram windscreen wiper a week by mid March.”