Have you been saying ‘Tao Geoghegan Hart’ wrong?; Friday funny: Watt saving aero winter gloves; Pantani’s Tour de France bike auctions for €66k; Kids riding bikes to school fill the cycle lane; Dangerous pass on the school run + more on the live blog
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Dad films dangerous close pass on kids as they cycle to school just two weeks after identical incident on the same road
Claremont Road again, this is why we need #strandroad cycle lanes. Even when he sees the van he tries to bully a child out of his way, and failed. #freethecylelanes @community_stc pic.twitter.com/JQTZKr193B
— Dan (@danmandunne) December 9, 2020
The worst part of this attempted close pass in Dublin is that just two weeks ago Dan Dunne filmed an almost identical incident on the same stretch of road… In both cases, the driver of the car overtakes the dad and his two kids on a blind bend, while they cycle to school. Both times a van comes the other way and the car has to stop…
Can’t be waiting until they can see what’s coming! MGIF on Claremont Road again, knowing they are going to save a matter of seconds. pic.twitter.com/XSQ8svfLvU
— Dan (@danmandunne) November 30, 2020
Andrew Newman, a retired cop, commented: “Would be an interesting conversation at the school gate if that driver was another parent. I’m glad everyone is ok but I agree that this needs to be reported. I’m a retired cop, this would be an easy Sect 3 due care. Fixed penalty, 3-6 points and a driver who will think next time.”
Why did the idiot not just stop once it became apparent that they had made an error. Why did they compound it by veering into the people.
— Douglas Warr (@douglaswarr) December 10, 2020
Tadej Pogačar's Tour de France jersey is up for auction
Tadej Pogačar’s Tour de France jersey and helmet are up for auction to help raise money for a hemato-oncology department in Slovenia which supports the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of blood diseases and cancer. The 22-year-old’s signed King of the Mountain’s jersey and polka dot helmet have been listed on Siol.net at a starting price of 300 euros, with the auction running until December 21.
'Segregation works': Cycle lane packed with children riding bikes to school
Segregation works! last year before this segregated cycle-lane was put in, the presence of this HGV would have generated a significant amount of stress. Now it presents little threat and as a result we’ve seen the numbers cycling to school increase significantly. pic.twitter.com/6y9m4tzTj1
— Limerick School Cycle Bus (@CyclingBusLmk) December 11, 2020
This is a great advert for cycling infrastructure attracting more young people to active travel, while also keeping them safe. As the post says, the thought of this many children cycling around an HGV would be at least stressful and probably quite dangerous without any segregated cycle lanes. Here, it isn’t a problem. The Limerick School Bus is a group of children and adults who cycle to school every day and has continued to attract big groups even with the weather getting darker and colder.
One parent said: “My son cycles to school most mornings with my dad. At the beginning they found this roundabout difficult to manage safely by themselves. Since joining the School Cycle Bus it’s made cycling to school so much safer as well as being really enjoyable. It’s such a fantastic group.”
One of the main reasons the cycle bus exists is this roundabout. It’s simply not manageable for a parent & child on their own. The majority of morning motorists are used to the cycle bus at this stage and are very accommodating. The #cyclebus is really about strength in numbers pic.twitter.com/YmiVMePwCt
— Limerick School Cycle Bus (@CyclingBusLmk) November 5, 2020
Monday, the last day in November, It’s surprisingly mild (no gloves 🧤). Perfect weather for a refreshing commute with the #CycleBus 🚴♀️🚴♀️🚴♀️🚴♀️🚴♀️🚴♀️🚴♀️🚴♀️🚴♀️🚴♀️🚴♀️🚴♀️🚴♀️🚴♀️🚴♀️🚴♀️🚴♀️🚴♀️🚴♀️🚴♀️🚴♀️🚴♀️🚴♀️🚴♀️🚴♀️🚴♀️ #BikeToSchool pic.twitter.com/hrZYFLbcfZ
— Limerick School Cycle Bus (@CyclingBusLmk) November 30, 2020
Jon Dibben retires
.@JonDibben1 announced his retirement today.
His best cycling moment.
“It was more than likely my last race…I was at the @giroditalia finishing in Sestriere…I dropped off the back of the grupetto…in the sunset, snowy mountains its a moment I savored” @Lotto_Soudal pic.twitter.com/GK0Y3SgccJ
— PodCrash (@PodCrashPod) December 11, 2020
Jon Dibben has retired from professional cycling. At WorldTour level, the 26-year-old rode for Cannondale-Drapac, Team Sky and most recently Lotto-Soudal. As an U23 he finished ninth in the World Championship Road Race, sixth in the time trial and second at the U23 Tour of Flanders. In 2016, Dibben also became a world champion on the track in the points race, as well as winning silver as part of the team pursuit squad.
Speaking about his final race, the Giro d’Italia, Dibben Said: “On the last road stage we finished up at Sestriere. We had bluebird skies, it was the end of October so by the time we’d done a six-hour day the sun’s almost setting in the background, we were up at 2,000 metres so there was snow at the side of the road. I knew we’d made the time cut so I dropped off the back of the gruppetto to just be by myself. I was riding in the last few minutes in a sunset, snowy mountains thinking ‘this is probably my last race’. It’s probably one of the very few moments in a race, or on a bike, that I’ve savoured.”
Marco Pantani's 2000 Tour de France bike fetches €66k at auction
Marco Pantani 🇮🇹 wins Stage 12 of the 2000 Tour De France from Carpentras to Mont Ventoux (149k) #cycling #tdf pic.twitter.com/c38sKXdPWY
— Pro Cycling Memories (@ClipsCycling) June 14, 2020
Marco Pantani’s 2000 Tour de France bike fetched €66,000 at auction yesterday. The winning bid came from a group who knew Pantani well, headed by Italian national cycling team manager Davide Cassani and an entrepreneur who supported the cause. It will be displayed at a museum remembering the cyclist, in Marco’s home town of Cesenatico. The Bianchi carried Pantani to two stage wins including the famous stage to Mont Ventoux when the Italian and Lance Armstrong reached the summit side by side.
Pantani abandoned the 2000 Tour before stage 17 but not before he’d won his second stage, at Courcheval. It was his first return to the sport’s biggest race after being expelled from the 1999 Giro d’Italia before the final mountain stage, with a second Maglia Rosa all but secured, for returning an adverse hematocrit reading.
Pantani’s bike from the Sydney Olympics was also auctioned for €46,000 and despite other items from famous sportsmen such as Michael Jordan, Pelé and Diego Maradona being auctioned, Pantani’s Tour de France bike received the highest bid of the day.
More Bianchi news...
A new look for a new exciting journey together.
Introducing new look bikes for GreenEDGE Cycling’s 2021 season, with redesigned Reparto Corse logo appearing on the livery of all racing bicycles. #Bianchi #RideBianchi #RepartoCorse #BianchiRepartoCorse #BianchiRC pic.twitter.com/af5Ik0lQ6L
— Bianchi (@BianchiOfficial) December 11, 2020
Bianchi will supply GreenEDGE Cycling with bikes next season after an off season of bike manufacturer musical chairs. Bianchi left Jumbo-Visma to join GreenEDGE, Scott left Greenedge to join Sunweb (or Team DMS as they’ll be known in 2021) and Cervélo left Sunweb to join Jumbo-Visma…The short of it is you’ll see Simon Yates on this beauty next year which may give you a clue about what colours we might see on GreenEDGE’s kits too.
However, some people are disappointed at the lack of Bianchi’s signature celeste colour on the frame…What do you think?
New Sponsor for @BORAhansgrohe? Great! 👊🏻
it seems that the trend is to disappear the Celeste
If it’s not Celeste , it’s not Bianchi #PasionneCeleste— Luis Carvajal (@luiskiss67) December 11, 2020
Its not Bianchi unless its just plain celeste. Why the turquoise and black. Jumbo Visma didnt have that. And that “Trek” looking logo on the XR4 . No man
— rob prideaux (@robprideaux) December 11, 2020
Feeling festive?
As seen in #KC. Christmas cycling pic.twitter.com/w72K3ZvzOm
— Jay Ashman (@fvckinashman) December 10, 2020
A new way to buy and sell used bikes
Curated Cranks wants to take the guess work out of buying a used bike by launching the first dedicated marketplace to buy and sell premium used bikes. The virtual showroom is designed to give buyers standardised high quality photographs, video and description of every bike so you don’t have to deal with blurry pictures, bad lighting and missing details.
The listing service is free for sellers and means your bike gets a bespoke listing written by Curated Cranks. Once a bike has been listed, auctions will be run on a timed basis of 7-14 days and promoted by their social media team. Selling your bike is free, with buyers paying a buyer’s premium instead.
Friday funny: Watt saving aero winter gloves
Coming in Tour de France yellow or Giro d’Italia pink, these watt saving aero winter gloves are a steal at £90… Guaranteed to keep your hands dry, the seller says they’re ‘designed for speed and to be bold’… What’s more, when you’ve finished your ride and need to clean your bike, you can keep the gloves on. Genius.
If you actually do need a new pair of winter gloves then check out our buyer’s guide with 25 of the best winter cycling gloves to keep your hands warm and dry.
UCI to introduce barrier standards for finish straights
The UCI have announced they are to introduce a requirement for safer finish line barriers at bike races from 2021. In the aftermath of the Fabio Jakobsen crash at the Tour of Poland, some critics argued the barriers used at the event weren’t strong enough. At the Giro d’Italia, Luca Wackermann sustained a broken back in a crash when barriers were moved by the downdraft of a helicopter.
Cyclingnews reports the UCI have worked with a number of representatives from the teams as well as the CPA riders’ association to draw up 14 key new measures to protect rider safety. One of these measures will be the introduction of better barrier standards at races, particularly for bunch sprints.
Riders, teams and organisers will also have more responsibility for their conduct such as when discarding of waste or using equipment such as disc brakes.
Senior pro Philippe Gilbert was part of the CPA riders’ association that were consulted, and commented on the measures: “As professional rider directly impacted by these new measures, I am extremely pleased to have been involved and listened to throughout the consultation process led by the UCI.
“This allowed me to directly express our concerns on important topics such as barrier design and ensuring race convoy vehicles are operated safely around riders. I am pleased with the outcome and glad to see that my input will provide greater safety for us, and for the next generation of riders that will follow.”
Tao Geoghegan Hart features on list of most mispronounced words
How to (very very badly!) pronounce a strange list… this is NOT perfect, sorry telegraph. Drinking game if you can include all these words in your Christmas 🎄dinner family conversation?
But please don’t say my name like that 🤨🤢 – 3 extra shots if you say TIE-oh x pic.twitter.com/FtULfaddmo
— Tao Geoghegan Hart (@taogeoghegan) December 11, 2020
The Telegraph suggests ‘TIE-oh GAY-gen haart’ is the perfect pronunciation. Tao’s not so sure… Barnard Castle topped the list due to the north-south divide on ‘KASS-ul’ or ‘CAR-suul’ but cycling got a mention too. Tao posted the story on his Twitter and said The Telegraph’s effort was not as perfect as it claimed…It seems someone at the paper needs to go to Barnard Castle.
Oh dear ! Looks like they’ve mixed you up with Jai Hindley 😱 😂😂
— Carol Nairn (@CarolNairn) December 11, 2020
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This is the case for many pieces of cycling infrastructure IME - they are not actually that safe or at least not safer than riding on the road with the other traffic, often due to poor design. However, they make many inexperienced people FEEL much safer, and that is apparently more important than reality. Fortunately, just getting more people on bikes does make cycling safer for everyone who is cycling, and this seems to have worked in this case. Therefore, in a very roundabout way, having this infrastructure in place does increase overall safety. Of course, it would be even better if the infrastructure was done right / intelligently and did directly improve safety, but we can't have everything. Small steps.
In other words, they aren’t interested in preventative policing In other, other words: Get yourself KSI'd and we'll see what we can do Disclaimer: ...unless any motorist objects on the grounds of 'war against the motorist', or the cyclist swears while being hit etc. etc.
Yes, that matches my experience with reporting to Kent Police over the last 4 years (they were more responsive before that, during a period when video could be uploaded as part of the initial report). In email communication I had with them in 2022, they confirmed that they deprioritise any report that does not state that a collision occurred. In other words, they aren't interested in preventative policing.
So that when you are at the side of the road in a heap on the ground after being mowed down and the indicator is still flashing the police can ignore it?
So that you can look the person who bought this ridiculous thing directly in the eyes and ask why?
It’s become some kind of amateurish website now. Bring back the old one lads, only for the simple fact that it wasn’t janky-looking and dysfunctional.
I’m catapulted back to 2003 with this website. It’s rubbish. Nothing particularly noteworthy about the old one but at least it worked. This one looks like a suspicious hack job with no designers involved. It’s really a shame because your content is so good and now I visit the site only to skim around since the layout is just unoptimized for reading in mobile.
Another really weird review from road.cc. They take a product, use it for something it wasn't designed for and then mark it down. I've just upgraded my Boost to the Boost 3 and I can say it does the jobs it is designed for very well. I use it on rides in daylight for Saturday group rides and occasional all day epics. I feel that cars are more likely to see me and the significantly brighter day flash and doubling of battery life are significant upgrades, especially for longer rides. It's also so light that there's really no downside to using it so safety wins. I also use it for short 30-min commuting. The easy of detachment and robustness of the light here are key and it's perfect for this use case. For longer rides that involve significant unlit or off-road, such as along a canal path, at night I use the Exposure Strada RB. Again, road.cc, right tool: right job. It's also great that Exposure use common mounts for all their lights. I change the Boost and RB between multiple bikes using the mount with a red pin and it takes seconds to move from bike to bike or to detach for charging. The table for setting brightness is something I tend to set only once. Then the single button is a boon.
Yes, I can't wait: a duff BMC frame with a crap oval BB, and carbon rims set up tubeless and without a pressure -relief hole so you can pressurise the cavity and which would likely (to complete the disaster waiting to happen) be hookless/ mini-hook and explode with no notice
About time they got more of them out of cars and onto bikes. Do their fitness levels some good.
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First reply on the latest
First reply on the latest incident “it is your fault for being so far out in the road”.
FFS
At least the girls haven’t been scared off and the look she gave the vehicle as well.
Yes, it is a bit sad that we
Yes, it is a bit sad that we have to get cyclists to develop a thick skin and a bullish attitude just to feel safe enough to ride on the road. Unfortunately my wife likes cycling but lacks the confidence needed when faced with a few tonnes of aluminium driven by a senseless idiot. Not a lot I can do to change that
bobbinogs wrote:
Indeed – my wife has started cycling, armed with an electric bike. I trundle along behind and get a shooing on the hills. However, if you want to see someone riding a long way out from the kerb, it’s me, trying to provide a feeble barrier between her and the clown-cars. I shouldn’t have to do that, she she shouldn’t need to feel scared.
Snap, same here. When we ride
Snap, same here. When we ride i’m mostly behind just to be the “protection” and alert her if vehicles are coming on turns etc. I normally go down the hills alot faster though so if long enough I will overtake just so I don’t need to sit on the brakes constantly.
I would been banging on that
I would have been banging on that rear window.
I doubt the driver would even
I doubt the driver would even “save a matter of seconds” if he’d managed to get past. He’d have just got to the next red light a few seconds earlier.
portec wrote:
“I’m so important I must get to the end of the next queue, and if kids have to die that’s not my problem”