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Get paid to report drivers parked in the cycle lane? YouTuber Casey Neistat explores NYC 'bike lane bounty'; British Conti team Ribble Weldtite set to fold following sponsorship issues + more on the live blog
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New York City segregated cycle lane (CC licensed on Flickr by Dylan Passmore)19 October 2022, 09:02
British Conti team Ribble Weldtite set to fold following sponsorship issues
The steady demise of the British domestic racing scene continues, as UCI continental squad Ribble Weldtite confirmed yesterday that it will be folding at the end of the year.
Founded in 2017, the team – which has produced pros such as EF Education-EasyPost’s James Shaw and former Eolo–Kometa rider John Archibald – registered with the UCI in 2019, a year before bike maintenance manufacturer Weldtite joined as co-sponsor.
However, according to an email sent this week to riders and staff, advising them to seek other opportunities, sponsorship and funding issues have led to the team’s untimely demise, making Ribble Weldtite the third British-based UCI Continental squad to drop out of the sport since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Sports director and former individual pursuit world champion Colin Sturgess explained to Cycling Weekly that a funding shortfall of between £50,000 and £80,000 – caused, the email claimed, due to the current economic uncertainty and the impact of Brexit on British manufacturers – has made ensuring the team’s future an impossible task.
Sad times. But a sincere thank you to @RibbleWeldtite Jack & Tom, all the staff, sponsors and last but by no means least, the amazing riders that I’ve been honoured to work with. I hope I’ve taught you swear profusely in many languages ❤️ https://t.co/41ppUfJhqV
— Col Sturgess (@ColinASturgess) October 18, 2022
“A little bit before the Tour of Britain, we all had a message from Tom [Timothy, general manager] which said, ‘Guys, just a heads up that there’s a fairly sizable shortfall in sponsorship for next year so you know, just be mindful that we’ll be looking for replacement sponsors’,” he said.
“We went into the race with that in mind, looking for a result and Jack [Rees, operations director] and Tom were working in the background to try to plug this shortfall if you will.
“Nobody wants to see the guys without a ride, I think most of the lads have managed to secure something but it’s just bloody difficult when there are only two or three conti teams around.”
And then there were three.
Ribble Weldtite Pro Cycling will fold at the end of the season, ten years after it began.
That leaves just three British men’s UCI Continental teams. As recently as 2019 there were six. https://t.co/HmmwBgdVta
— The British Continental (@BritishConti) October 18, 2022
The British Continental has reported that several of the team's riders have secured a place on other teams, both home and abroad, for 2023:
While Harry Tanfield is rumoured to be joining a Dutch team.
DS Col Sturgess also has a team sorted for next year.
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— The British Continental (@BritishConti) October 18, 2022
Such a shame to hear the news today about @RibbleWeldtite. The team were always very friendly and accommodating to us whenever we wanted to speak to them
Those orange helmets will be sorely missed
— The TT Podcast 🚴 (@ttpdcst) October 18, 2022
19 October 2022, 08:35
Would you like to see this in the UK? YouTuber Casey Neistat on New York's 'bike lane bounty'
We've reported on this before when it started in Austin, Texas, and also found out that one New Yorker claimed he had already made $64,000 by simply reporting badly-parked fellow residents. As Neistat says in the video above, NYC residents can get a 25% share of a $175 fine by reporting drivers who decide it's a great idea to park in the cycle lane.
"The biggest safety issue with bike lanes are cars..." says Neistat, before crashing into a van nonchalantly nestled in a bike lane.
The video ends with... one of New York's finest parked in the bike lane. Who'd have thought it?
Jack has been writing about cycling and multisport for over a decade, arriving at road.cc via 220 Triathlon Magazine in 2017. He worked across all areas of the website including tech, news and video, and also contributed to eBikeTips before being named Editor of road.cc in 2021 (much to his surprise). Jack has been hooked on cycling since his student days, and currently has a Trek 1.2 for winter riding, a beloved Bickerton folding bike for getting around town and an extra beloved custom Ridley Helium SLX for fantasising about going fast in his stable. Jack has never won a bike race, but does have a master's degree in print journalism and two Guinness World Records for pogo sticking (it's a long story).
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I'll also add it's what you consider a lot of money is, as in 'What, you paid how much for a push bike! You could have bought ......' We've all...
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Not just driverless - motionless. It was 'found in a wall' - presumably the wall having been built around it.
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That'll be why climbers have such bigger quads than TT specialists and sprinters then.
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Maybe the council should put up signage to encourage motor traffic through those areas - after alll, that's clearly what the residents want......
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Where did you find that? I've never seen figures below regional level (London being the only UK city which is also classed as a region). I'm not...
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I want to say, wow! holy cow ! seriously, it is very interesting to read this. So, I wonder if they are just buying this stuff off the shelf ie...
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I ask that you keep it on the down-low, I really dont want my local politicans to find out....thx
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Help with what exactly? Help to write incoherent sentences ?
Help with what exactly? Help to write incoherent sentences ?
Fear not on my behalf. Morons do not trouble me
I've come to admire your stoicism.
Are you seriously stating someone else needs mental help?
There are a couple of vehicles owned by a local. One, a very expensive Range Rover Vogue, ran out of VED in 2020, their other vehicle ran out in June this year. Despite one of their neighbours reporting it to the DVLA and police, they remain untaxed, and in daily use.
No futher action.
One, a very expensive Range Rover Vogue, ran out of VED in 2020, their other vehicle ran out in June this year
I'll 'see' your cases and raise you MV57 GXO and PJ07 NFP, where Lancashire's Comedy Constabulary is proud to ensure that no action on these vehicles will be taken. I'll spare everyone the photos of these vehicles on the road regularly around Garstang
I feel I already have a stake in making the roads safer, I want to get home with my body parts in roughly the same places as they were when I left. The issue is that too many road users (predominantly those protected by large metal boxes) don't think about their own safety or that of others.
The advantage of not handing it over to a private company is that anyone who cares or wants a bit of cash can get involved in it. Presumably you'd only need a semi-modern phone to snap pictures and submit it, so there'd be a lot of people that could easily supplement their income if they have spare time. A company would just skim some/most of the profit from the fines.
You can guarantee it would be framed as a war on motorists.
Yet I know I could walk out of my front door and immediately spot multiple cars/vans parked on double yellow lines or on the pavement EVERY single time I set foot outside.
I need to go out at lunch time for a walk to the shop and if I see fewer than 6 instances of double yellow/pavement parking I will be surprised
I would love a scheme like this. I wonder if it would change parking/driving enforcement in profound ways though. E.g., Airbnb began as a way for people to rent out spare rooms/sofa beds but proved so popular that people started to build businesses around it. Eventually it transformed the hotel/holiday home industry, affected house prices, and changed the way buildings in urban areas are used. Would a bounty scheme create a new industry of “freelance” parking wardens and traffic officers? Would that be a bad thing?
It 100% would not be a bad thing.
If anybody with a smart phone could report you and get you a fine then I'm sure detection rates would rocket and offending rates would plummet.
Just don't tell the Usual Suspects here on road.cc...
I'd actually be intrigued to hear their take on this...
"Evil car-hating grasses, the lot of 'em!"
I regularly report illegal parking on my street. Council raised £575 last year from my calls.
I may well do this.
Only two vans now but they've been there for hours and there's a school a few hundred yards away so that crossing will be busy soon.
I regularly report illegal parking on my street. Council raised £575 last year from my calls
This must be some Reporting Shangri-La, where action is taken against cash-yielding offences! Lancashire Constabulary has forgone at least £50,000 by ignoring all my reports (OK, so I'm cheating by using the maximum £1000 fine for evading MOT, but many of them have no VED either)- makes you suspect that officers are making money personally by not taking action. This is for variety- BMW X5 PO66 CUH has never had an MOT, and is probably an unmarked police vehicle
Council, not police. That's the difference
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