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Tadej?! When you're cruising up a climb... and then Pogačar effortlessly flies past; All the gear and no idea; Noel Gallagher just glad to have his bike after '£20 million' divorce; Road bikes for £120 as deep discounting continues + more on the live blog
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Tadej Pogačar (terezia_ciriakova/Instagram)23 January 2024, 08:52
Tadej?! When you're cruising up a climb... and then Pogačar effortlessly flies past
In fairness to Terézia Ciriaková and her WCC Team colleagues, it's better this happens with one of the most talented professional riders of your generation than by a couple of unserious chatting club riders on a Sunday morning while you're doing your best just to keep things moving forward... no, no idea how I've got such intricate knowledge of that particular scenario either...
Today Tadej Pogačar passed the UCI WCC team and he said even 'Ciao' 🥰
Video: https://t.co/bjPe9EG66E pic.twitter.com/hkyUsSDGO8
— Lukáš Ronald Lukács (@lucasaganronald) January 22, 2024
On the climb, in your rhythm, this is okay, legs hurt a bit, not breathing too easily any more, hard enough... then the zoom past accompanied by a cheery, unconcerned greeting, in this case 'ciao'. As we said before, better that's Tadej Pogačar rolling past with ease than a home counties club rider whose just getting away from the kids for a couple of hours.
They’re probably going at a pace that would kill a normal cyclist and he goes past like they aren’t moving!!!
— Greg Ireland (@indie_arcade) January 22, 2024
Another favourite of the genre was back in February 2022 when a cyclist in south west London was pootling along the river, enjoying a midweek spin when a rather bling-looking rider passed at speed while drafting a camera bike... wait a minute... is that... Wiggo?!
> Pesky cyclists not using cycle lane! Oh..wait...that's Wiggo!
Be warned, if you happen to be passed by a flying Remco Evenepoel and by some minor miracle are able to follow, he might not be too pleased...
> Remco Evenepoel tells amateur to stop following him during interval session
"Yeah, mate, could have followed him but I know he likes to train in his own space, so didn't want to bother him... yeah of course that's the only reason..."
23 January 2024, 16:45
"We've won it more than any team, and we plan on winning it again": Ineos Grenadiers eyeing return to top of the sport and more Tour de France victories
What will the post-Dave Brailsford era look like for Ineos Grenadiers? The manager and co-founder of the cycling team, originally named Team Sky but carrying the Ineos tag in recent years, has stepped away (not that he's been particularly prominent in the past few years, to be fair) to take on a role at Manchester United... Imagine reading that sentence in 2015...
Deputy team principal and fellow founding member Rod Ellingworth is off too, leaving the WorldTour outfit during the off-season amid internal tensions. A new era then, Ineos Grenadiers in most people's minds a team suffering a profound decline. After the days of 12 Grand Tour GC wins in the decade of 2011 to 2021, there has not been a win since, Tadej Pogačar and the Visma-Lease a Bike machine overtaking them starkly in the last couple of years.
However, perhaps unsurprisingly, new CEO John Allert is insistent and bullish about the team's future...
"I don't think there's any team that doesn't want to win the Tour de France. We've won it more than any team, and we plan on winning it again," he told a media call today. "Our owners are as keen for us to win the Tour as any other team is. It's part of our heritage. It's therefore a badge of pride and honour for us that we put on a good show at the Tour.
"We're in the sport to win. It's an unambiguous objective. And I don't see any issue with that [...] We were a GC team, first and foremost, and, and want to be on the top of the podium. That's it."
But despite Allert's words it remains tricky to see how, at least in the short term, Ineos Grenadiers can bridge the gap to Jonas Vingegaard and Tadej Pogačar. Perhaps improvement from the team's most promising GC contender, 22-year-old Carlos Rodríguez will help, the Spaniard fifth at this year's Tour, but still more than 13 minutes off Vingegaard.
With 2018 winner Geraint Thomas ageing, 2019 winner Egan Bernal on the comeback trail from his horrific crash injuries, and Tom Pidcock showing signs of GC promise but still far from a bona fide three-week contender and competing on multiple fronts, there may well be more challenging Grand Tour days ahead for Ineos Grenadiers in 2024...
23 January 2024, 16:04
Police officer who crashed into cyclist was driving on wrong side of the road, watchdog confirms
23 January 2024, 15:35
What's a... run?!
23 January 2024, 14:43
Some might say today's comments section is going to live forever
It's an Oasis pun oasis in the comments today...
Special mention to peted76 whose on a roll:
"Noel: Do you like my new bike?
"Liam: Anything special about it?
"Noel: She's electric..."
Also responsible for... "Must be difficult to ride in London without looking back in anger all the time.. I guess he just needs to roll with it."
essexian: "Oh... that's a joke I'm going to 'Roll with it'. I wonder if Noel is 'Supersonic' when riding? I see he rides along a canal: I hope he misses the 'Wonderwalls' on the way to get his copy of the 'Hindu Times'
"Cycling on a canal could be a bit of a 'Shakermaker'. If he fell in the water, I hope he wouldn't 'Look back in anger'. I bet he has a 'Masterplan' to ensure that he stays upright......sorry."
Matthew Acton-Varian: "Some Might Say that another cycling celebrity is a good thing, speaking as a non-celebrity who Definitely Maybe likes the Sunday Morning Call for the club coffee ride... I'll fetch my coat."
Could do with some cigarettes and alcohol to get through that lot... only joking. Top work as usual...
23 January 2024, 14:38
We unveil the road.cc Recommends Bike of the Year 2023/24
23 January 2024, 11:51
There's no need to look back in anger when you have a bike, says Noel Gallagher of his multi-million pound divorce
Forgive us for going all gossip mag for a second, but a celebrity has said something bikes so we just had to go there.
Speaking to Matt Morgan's podcast, former Oasis principle songwriter Noel Gallagher is claiming a small win out of his divorce from music publicist Sara MacDonald:
"I can get on the bike and go up to King's Cross, and go down to the canal," said Gallagher.
"And get on the canal outside my wonderful ex-wife's house and give her a little wave, and go, 'You didn't take this from me!'"
Some might say the bike is small change when this divorce is reported to be in the region of £20 million, but it doesn't seem like Noel is crying his heart out too much. He's currently said to be spending most of his time living at Claridge's hotel - where most of the rooms cost over two grand a night - and says that he's finding London "f**king great at the minute". Will the concierge at Claridge's be pumping his tyres up and giving the bike a spit and polish for that price?
Anyway, it's another one to add to our list of celebrities who love cycling, albeit Mr Gallagher's reason for riding is a bit of an odd one...
23 January 2024, 11:41
Man embarking on solo ride to Ukraine to raise cash for orphans
Miki Nawlatyna will set off from Oxfordshire on his 1,500 mile bike trip, hoping to arrive in Kyiv on 7th April.
The 25-year-old is raising money for Shade for Children, a charity that supports orphanages in Ukraine, and funds will go towards building a new home 'for 8-10 children who have been orphaned or deprived of parental care'.
Nawlatyna said: "Just at the start of the war I found myself together with my friend Paweł at the Polish-Ukrainian border; we were delivering supplies to the fire station where the refugees were being brought from the border. I will never forget walking into that big hall full of children at 3am. They looked so helpless not knowing what’s happening and where they are… The instant shock you go through and realisation what is happening. The thoughts that run through you when you imagine the scale of it and how much you’re willing to give to protect the innocent."
Over £2,500 has been raised so far, and the JustGiving page is here.
23 January 2024, 11:37
Oh lordy...
23 January 2024, 11:23
Road bikes are £120 now: deep discounting continues as bike prices rewind a couple of decades
Is it just us, or are bike prices starting to seem less outrageous right now? That's certainly the case at troubled retailer Wiggle, where you can get a size extra small entry-level Brand-X road bike for £119.99. Yep, a whole new road bike (it's here if you don't believe us)... who would have thought it three years ago when bikes were as rare as rocking horse droppings?
There are numerous things going on here, of course, and the recommended retail prices of new bikes coming out are still mostly in line with what we'd expect. In any case, the road.cc tech team are busy researching a feature on the price of cycling in 2024 to see how dramatically the situation has changed in 12 short months, when we published our feature on the rising cost of cycling. Stay tuned...
23 January 2024, 11:17
All the gear and no idea...
Seem familiar? Maybe not, but the mockumentary Tourist Trap is now on BBC iPlayer apparently. Worth giving it a go for this cycling-themed scene, surely.
Dan is the road.cc news editor and joined in 2020 having previously written about nearly every other sport under the sun for the Express, and the weird and wonderful world of non-league football for The Non-League Paper. Dan has been at road.cc for four years and mainly writes news and tech articles as well as the occasional feature. He has hopefully kept you entertained on the live blog too.
Never fast enough to take things on the bike too seriously, when he's not working you'll find him exploring the south of England by two wheels at a leisurely weekend pace, or enjoying his favourite Scottish roads when visiting family. Sometimes he'll even load up the bags and ride up the whole way, he's a bit strange like that.
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S13SFC
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10 months ago
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Dnnnnnn
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10 months ago
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That Wiggle bike discount seems to be on the same principles as apply to shoes and some other clothing - often extreme discounts on the least popular sizes (usually v small?) once their season is past / the new range is out. I recall Decathlon doing similar - was sometimes tempting just to buy it to strip for the components. It possibly doesn't say much about the market as a whole.
Well now with brexit I guess, things got a little complicated.
It is definitely a bargain for those who can fit in it and located in UK, even with these skinny tires.
That's done it now, the place will filled with right wing bullshit telling us how great brexit is.
Well now with brexit I guess, things got a little complicated.
It is definitely a bargain for those who can fit in it and located in UK, even with these skinny tires.
That's done it now, the place will filled with right wing bullshit telling us how great brexit is.
Right wing ≠ Brexit
I can be a bit selfish, but I'm not brexit. (I'd say I'm not right wing but Maoists exist so perhaps I am to some?)
Perhaps the equation should be selfish = right wing + brexit ? Setting brexit = 0 (in my case - although I was negative about this, now it's more "well better get on as it's happened and no-one's rushing back...") then suggests that I'm as selfish as you consider me right wing?
What about left-wing Brexiteers (e.g. this chap, or this baroness)? Does using the amended equality suggest that perhaps they might not be selfish - as their negative right-wingness offsets their positive brexitivity?
Brexit is a wholly selfish act.
One could equally defend slavery in the same way, "it's here, let's make the best of a bad job". Me? I'm up for changing it so that kids can have the same benefits we had, at the very least. FoM takes nothing away from brexiteers and only adds to the future of the country.
As for Corbyn, he's not perfect.
brooksby
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10 months ago
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https://www.kentonline.co.uk/canterbury/news/i-m-100-still-driving-and-h...
…100-year-old Eric Dixon from Canterbury.
Eric has been driving for 87 years - getting his first job behind the wheel of a three-tonne lorry after leaving school aged just 13.
Since then he’s rarely left the open road, from riding motorcycles to taking charge of double-decker buses.
Eric says: “I love it. I’ve been driving all my life and I still love it as much as I did when I started.
“It’s what I learnt to do when I was very young.”
Hmm. 
ubercurmudgeon
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10 months ago
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"I can get on the bike and go up to King's Cross, and go down to the canal," said Gallagher.
"And get on the canal outside my wonderful ex-wife's house and give her a little wave"
Parklife!
No, wait, that's the other lot, isn't it.
It gives him an enormous sense of wellbeing 
Oh... thats a joke I'm going to "Roll with it." I wonder if Noel is "Supersonic" when riding? I see he rides along a canal: I hope he misses the "Wonderwalls" on the way to get his copy of the "Hindu Times""
Cycling on a canal could be a bit of a "Shakermaker." If he fell in the water, I hope he wouldn't "Look back in anger." I bet he has a "Masterplan" to ensure that he stays upright.
.....sorry
Hirsute
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10 months ago
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Can't see an article on this death
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/gao-gao-cyclist-hit-and-run-hackne...
"Prior to the collision, he had driven the wrong way up a one-way street, driven through a red light and had crossed to the wrong side of the road to overtake two cars immediately before crashing into Gao Gao, who was wearing bright clothing and had a flashing light on the front of her bike."
"Anna Dutka, prosecuting, told the court that the car’s speed was estimated at 46mph, with a range of 43mph to 49mph."
20mph limit.
He has pleaded guilty to causing death by dangerous driving and is facing a 12-year prison sentence, though this will be reduced by 25 per cent because of his guilty plea.
except that
The entire incident – including Reilly and his father fleeing the scene through housing estates - was caught on Hackney council CCTV. Reilly handed himself in to police two days later.
Not too keen to plead guilty - fled the scene and handed himself in two days later - so why does he get a discount at all? 
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