“Did a car write this?”: Bizarre anti-cycling paintwork warns ‘no bycles’ allowed; Pineapple passion permeates peloton; Wiggo: It’s f****** obvious Cav deserves a place in the peloton; Almeida OUT with covid; Photo of the year + more on the live blog
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"Did a car write this?": Bizarre anti-cycling paintwork warns 'no bycles' allowed
“Standards are slipping…” deputy CEO of Sustrans, John Lauder warned…
Standards are slipping…… pic.twitter.com/TVRR9EtWkl
— John Lauder (@John_Lauder) May 25, 2022
10/10 for the ingenuity of creating a new word to fit the space available. We’d expect this to say ‘NO BICYcles’ in rapidly reducing font size as the ‘artist’ behind it realised they hadn’t left enough room. But no, instead, they’ve just created a new word…no rgrets…
One amused onlooker suggested all that’s missing is a rogue apostrophe and this masterpiece would be complete…
Did a car write this?
— Cool Bike Art 🚴 (@CoolBikeArt1) May 25, 2022
Damn! I’ll leave my bycle at home and take the bicycle instead
— Dave McCraw (@david_mccraw) May 25, 2022
Trycles and Unycles welcome!
— Archduke Crimper-Dingo #FBPA 🏴☠️🇪🇺 (@dingopasty) May 25, 2022
I want to ride my bicycle
I want to ride my bycle…
Is that a new perfume?
— Beatnik69 (@beatnik69) May 25, 2022
It’s missing a ‘NO SKATBORDS’ on one of the other steps I think 🤔🤣
— Just Craig (@CB_cycles) May 25, 2022
Pineapple passion permeates peloton
WHAT IS GOING ON pic.twitter.com/NhTPOUmCNZ
— Cycling out of context (@OutOfCycling) May 26, 2022
It seems there was a fan at the top of yesterday’s final climb dishing out pineapples to deserving riders. Dries De Bondt got one, presumably to pass on to teammate Mathieu van der Poel. Maybe just maybe Mathieu’s generational cycling talents are breaking down the walls of division built by non-Italians putting pineapple on pizza?
Davide Formolo was another lucky recipient…
😂 Things are getting out of hand.
😂 Le cose ci stanno sfuggendo di mano#Giro https://t.co/4cJ6Y2u5uV
— Giro d’Italia (@giroditalia) May 26, 2022
AG2R Citroën’s Lilian Calmejane later tweeted: “Thanks to the guy dressed as a chef with a cast iron pot and a pineapple who, for two days, has given me too much smile in the passes by encouraging us! This is also the magic of the great tours, of cycling, thanks to the supporters.”
Thymen Arensman seemed less happy to see the chef on the stage Jan Hirt won…
— planeteMars (@delaplaneteMars) May 26, 2022
Meanwhile, Calmejane’s teammate Lawrence Naesen was too busy just trying to get to the finish to notice any chef dishing out pineapples…
Why does almost every stage have to finish on a +/- 9 km climb at +/- 9% avg?
– Asking for a friend! 😜#giroditalia2022— Lawrence Naesen (@LawrNaesen) May 25, 2022
Wiggo: It's f****** obvious Cav still deserves a place in the peloton
Mark Cavendish has more than enough to deserve a contract with another team in 2023, even if his time with Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl looks likely to end. That’s according to Sir Bradley Wiggins, who told Cyclingnews “it’s fucking obvious” his former teammate can still do it at the top level.
“Until someone dislodges Cav from that top sprinter’s spot, then we shouldn’t even have to debate about his future. It’s fucking obvious he still deserves a place in the peloton,” Wiggo said.
“He’s still winning stages at the Giro and races like Milano-Torino, so surely teams will want him. I’d want him in my team if I was a team manager.
“I don’t understand why Patrick Lefevere doesn’t say that Cav can have a contract for as long as he wants one. But if Patrick Lefevere won’t give Cav a new contract, then Rod Ellingworth has to take him on at Ineos Grenadiers and give him a perfect send-off. Why not?”
Knee injury behind Simon Yates' Giro d'Italia abandon
Team BikeExchange-Jayco doctor Matteo Beltemacchi released a statement last night explaining Simon Yates abandoning the Giro d’Italia on stage 17…
Yates’ fall on Mount Etna and subsequent knee problem (likely edema of the bony spongiosa of the patella) weighed down on the rider for all following stages of the Giro d’Italia.
Despite daily therapy and Simon’s tenacity, that resulted in a second stage win, the knee pain grew worse and worse, eventually leading to the decision for his retirement from the race.
Where's the pineapple?
I missed the free pineapple climb? Did i do a different route?
— Thomas De Gendt (@DeGendtThomas) May 26, 2022
Cycling photos don't get much better than this...
Meinst du ✨dieses✨ hier? pic.twitter.com/eyRC7Z2hUO
— Luca Postoni (@poestlbote) May 25, 2022
Ashley Gruber is the wizard behind this magical shot of the GC favourites yesterday…
João Almeida tests positive for Covid — out of Giro d'Italia
@TeamEmiratesUAE confirmed to @Gazzetta_it that @JooAlmeida98 is the only rider of The team tested positive to covid 19 today so he has to Quit @giroditalia He was sleeping alone in The room – left as forth in the overall And young leader @cycling_podcast more on our webisite
— Ciro Scognamiglio (@cirogazzetta) May 26, 2022
Global teacher's cycling club + shirt raffle
A friend of a road.cc friend has set up a global teacher’s cycling club “to help teachers feel more together!”
The Teacher Peloton hopes to help a community of teachers (who all happen to love riding their bikes) alleviate “the strain that we put ourselves under, so join us and be part of our community.” They are riding RideLondon to raise money for Inspire Malawi and are running this jersey raffle as an incentive to donate to a great cause…
Get involved…
"The Greenways will enable walkers, cyclists, HORSE RIDERS and other non-motorised users to travel sustainably into the city"
“The Greenways will enable walkers, cyclists, HORSE RIDERS and other non-motorised users to travel sustainably into the city” Pg74. Is this a DAFT or a draft document? Horse riding is NOT compatible with utility trips into City on foot/bike for 8-80yrs. https://t.co/5uZO9YP3vE
— Jim Chisholm (@Chisholm4Trail) May 26, 2022
One of the stranger things I’ve read this week…page 74 of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority’s Local Transport Plan draft…
To underpin the vision for public transport within Greater Cambridge, significant investment will continue to be made in the active travel network across the sub-region. To persuade people to walk and cycle more, we need to provide safe, integrated, convenient, and high-quality routes and crossings, to segregate people from traffic and protect them at junctions. To spread Cambridge’s cycling culture further into the rural parts of South Cambridgeshire, twelve Greenways will be developed and connected to the city centre. The Greenways will enable walkers, cyclists, horse riders and other non-motorised users to travel sustainably into the city.
Someone at the council has been playing too much Red Dead Redemption…”where you off to, love?” “Just going to nip to the shops to get some milk, I’ll leave the keys here, I’m taking the pony…”
YouTuber with audience bigger than Ireland asks: "Why do cyclists think they’re vehicles?"
road.cc Oli chucked us a heads up about Peter McKinnon spouting off about cyclists, saying he’s a “HUGE” YouTuber…so naturally, no offence to the photography YouTube scene, I’d never heard of him…
Having said that, he does have 5.72 million subscribers, roughly the same as the number of people who live in Denmark…
Question. Why do cyclists think they’re vehicles? 🤨
— petermckinnon (@petermckinnon) May 25, 2022
Cyclist = person
Bicycle = vehicle
Driver = person
Car = vehicleHope that helps.
— Elisabeth Anderson 🚲🐺 (@velobetty) May 26, 2022
Cyclists aren’t. Bicycles are. Simple.
— Orla Chennaoui (@SportsOrla) May 26, 2022
Amazing how someone simply riding a bicycle prompts so many to run their mouth on social media…go enjoy yourself (and five million subs)…nobody on a bike is going to ruin your day…
Juan Pedro López needs a refund on that white jersey
Lopez is the new wear of the Maglia Bianca, after Almedia has had to withdraw. #Giro #GiroDItalia #Giro105 https://t.co/uS8Q89L5lx pic.twitter.com/2OMvFhq3rb
— Giro di Anna Mac (@AnnamacB) May 26, 2022
Juan Pedro López is the new leader of the youth standings at the Giro. May as well just keep his Trek-Segafredo jersey on…as big a crime as some of those less flamboyant national champs’ jerseys we’ve seen become sadly all-too-common in recent years…
"I have two bycles has a ring to it": Reaction to our main live blog story of the day
I actually like that word. “I have 2 Bycles” has a ring to it
— Nick Archer (@NickMArcher) May 26, 2022
You know what would be really embarrassing? If while taking the piss out of someone spelling bicycle ‘bycle’ you spelt it ‘bycycle’…yeah, really awkward…thanks for that…anyway…
On Facebook, Keith Werrett wrote something very relatable…”I think it must have been written by somebody who was brought up with computers. The mistake is because there is no spell checker in a tin of paint or a paint brush.”
Facebook always delivers to be fair. One of our less regular readers, I’d imagine, wrote this…”Perhaps it stands for Boring, Yapping, Cyclist, Lycra, Entitled, Snobs?” Glad you took time out of your day to visit us x.
“If brains were dynamite they wouldn’t have enough to blow their nose,” Antony Jordn commented. Torc Torr Ance added: “The days of proper English are went.”
Colin Davis reckons: “It seems to me like a bunnyhop challenge – can you get enough speed up to miss just that one step?”
Dad watches "big cat" chase his son during Doncaster bike ride
According to a father a “big cat” chased his son as they cycled through woodland near Doncaster, YorkshireLive reports. Martin Abonyi and his son were cycling in Black Carr Plantation, Doncaster, when the dad says a “large black animal” ran towards his son.
“My son was riding about 30 yards in front of me. As we rounded a corner I saw out of the corner of my eye a large black animal sprinting out from the cover of the woods heading directly for my son, running diagonally to head him off.
“My first thought was of a large black dog as I wasn’t geared up for expecting anything else. The woods are popular with dog walkers, so I quickly looked to my left to see if I could identify the owners of the dog.
“I was a bit concerned at the animal’s intentions at this stage, but when I looked back to see if it was close to my son, the animal had disappeared.
“It looked like a very large cat and not a dog, there were no owners or other people in sight or earshot.
“The animal also had to traverse a short section of bracken and undergrowth to get to my son, so the only conclusion I could draw was that it saw me coming, aborted its attack and was laying up in the bracken.
“Pet dogs simply don’t do that. The cover was not that dense so it must have been hiding well. I only told him later when we were out of the woods so not to cause alarm, but he was quite shook up when I told him.”
The father apparently returned to the woods with a ‘big cat investigator’ in the days after the incident, reportedly finding an animal scrape and “what looked like a large cat paw left in fresh earth about 100 yards away from the original sighting”. Another member of the public claims to have seen a large cat in the same area on Saturday 22 May, four days after Martin’s incident.
Power of pineapple: Dries De Bondt becomes the third Alpecin-Fenix rider to win a stage of this year's Giro d'Italia
Dries De Bondt grabs the 𝒘𝒊𝒏𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒊𝒄𝒌𝒆𝒕 from the breakaway 🎟
The peloton was left 𝐫𝐞𝐝-𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐝 after miscalculating their chase 😳#Giro | @Bondteke | @AlpecinFenix pic.twitter.com/0Oz1fOf3iB
— Eurosport (@eurosport) May 26, 2022
Yesterday, Dries De Bondt was pictured carrying a pineapple up a climb, today he won from the breakaway…coincidence?
Well, Davide Formolo was snapped with some pineapple too, but alas did not win the stage. Then again, only one person can on any given day, so maybe tomorrow’s Davide’s day…
De Bondt beat Magnus Cort, Edoardo Affini and Davide Gabburo to the line, behind, the frustrated sprinters were led home by Alberto Dainese and Arnaud Démare. Mark Cavendish was eighth. Jai Hindley’s late puncture meant he could roll across the line stress-free behind the peloton. Juan Pedro López found himself the wrong side of a split and lost 2:43 on the peloton, but remains fairly comfortably in the white jersey ahead of the final two mountain stages and final day TT.
There’ll surely be pineapple on every dinner table tonight…
Yesterday // Today pic.twitter.com/pc9PxPmHx6
— Cycling out of context (@OutOfCycling) May 26, 2022
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The obvious answer is to go the pentathlon horse route - the UCI provides an assortment of bikes, and riders are randomly assigned one by drawing of lots, with 20 minutes available to set them up.
@Backladder Nonsense sir! It is a well known fact that the business plan of any small commercial operation in the UK is built around, and solely dependent on, the car parking space immediately outside the front door of the establishment in question. Without such parking, no business could possibly hope to survive. How on God's green earth can their exclusively motorist clientele (surely) possibly hope to access their services otherwise? And are the public seriously expected to have to *pay* to store their private possessions in a public space, even temporarily???!?? It's woke nonsense dreamt up by Sadiq Khan I tell you - Burnham's Britain etc etc General E Uninformed Tunbridge Wells
Is there ever good timing for something like this? The phrase "in light of the recent death", could be applied to any time.
I'd be willing to bet that Mr Gomes' compatriot Apolinario Ca, who finished one place above him, was also on a road bike. Whether he was sporting Ray-Bans, I cannot say, as I can't find photos.
Just a bit of feedback: any shoe review that mentions "fit" but doesn't address "width" doesn't really help those with wider feet.
That a good number of riders from poorer nations have to rock up at UCI and other (e.g., Commonwealth games) championships with road bikes (sometimes borrowed - e.g., I know Neil at Bilslands Cycles in Glasgow lent out a couple of bikes back at the '14 CW games) and basic kit shows what a bad idea it was to allow rich manufacturers/teams/nations to play at aero arms races. UCI sanctioned cycling is meant to be a human sport. The bikes and gear needs much heavier regulation. The current situation is a farce ("just a bit of aero, but not too much.. Ok, a bit more, but not that one thing... Ok, that little bit more, but not that one other thing". Daft.
Iain McTavish was hit and killed on a very clear, very straight duel carriageway. Courtesy is using the whole second lane to overtake safely. If this were a single laned A road with twists and turns I would kind of understand their comments, but the A8 is a road I have ridden on many times in group rides with Ian and alone. It is generally a safe road to ride on. It shows yet again, Traffic Scotland is totally unprepared to side with anyone other than motorists. Then, in the same week a person was killed walking not far up the road on the M8. Where were Traffic Scotland in relation to that incident?
@FionaJJ Absolutely agree; I would add to that a helmet light, allowing one to be seen above surrounding traffic which might be obscuring bike-mounted lights, and I use sidelights as well, two small strip lights mounted on the bottom of the drops that can be seen from the side when pulling out at junctions – some might say overkill but I've had enough favourable comments from both drivers and other cyclists to make me feel they are worthwhile.
Great story in the Guardian today, still cycling 5000 km a year aged 92! https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/sep/21/a-new-start-after-60-cycling-92
I suggest two front and two back lights if at all possible if you are going to be cycling at night, for two main reasons: 1. Less likely you'll find yourself without a working light for your commute because you forgot to charge your lights, or left one on by accident. The latter more likely if your morning cycle starts dark or overcast, but it's bright by the time you get there. 2. You can have one light to help you be seen, and another to illuminate the road. I tend to have one front light on flash, but with low brightness so it gets attention, but doesn't blind oncoming cyclists or pedestrians on the shared path part of my route. The other is steady and aimed slightly downwards towards the path. I adjust the brightness of that one according to conditions. I have one rear light which is a strip light, and one that is small. The strip light goes on my seat stem, and the small one at the back of the bike rack. I have panniers, so I worry that they get in the way of the light on the seat stem from some angles. Similarly, the one at the back might not be seen from some angles. So I hope at least one can be seen from any angle. All of my lights are charged via USB, and I've got into the habit of charging them all at my desk once a week, so I also have to ensure I have plenty of cables.
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Carless driving only
Careless driving only
Action starts from about 25 seconds
Why did they only go with a driving crime ?
Wow! That’s bad.
Wow! That’s bad.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WInNVtxkwuI
Presumably the driver’s lawyer said “we’ll give you careless but anything else you’ve got to prove my client was driving…”. Or alternatively “no proof my client hit them. The banging noises earlier in the video were the cyclist kicking my client’s car (maybe they were envious?), my client slowed after passing them and the cyclist made an undertake, kicked my client’s car again but then fell off – their own fault”. Former posters here could easily construct a story like that for you…
But yep – another “should be removed from road because will likely cause more damage / injury / death through incompetence or malice”.
Just like *firing a shotgun
Just like *firing a shotgun without due care and attention* after you quite obivously deliberately shoot someone with it and there are witnesses who say that happened.
Can we make assaulting cyclists a hate-crime yet?
First time was incompetence
First time was incompetence (maybe…?), but the second time was clearly intentional (=assault?).
Jay Foreman’s latest
Jay Foreman’s latest Unfinished London is about the history of road crossings in East London. However he does mention the stupidity of the Silvertown Tunnel and how the closure of the Hammersmith Bridge brought a boom in sustainable travel in that area once the initial car traffic moved on.
Anyone from Dat Dere London have stats to show that?
AlsoSomniloquism wrote:
No stats but anecdotally it’s certainly quieter and safer with a lot more utility cyclists since the closure.
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Erm…
We’re all creating new words
We’re all creating new words today…
No Bycles: How am I supposed
No Bycles: How am I supposed to see there are more then four steps.
I actually suspect that some “kind soul” might have painted the top steps and the warning after they or their child came a cropper there.
a new term for uncles on the
a new term for uncles on the gender spectrum perhaps…wouldn’t want anyone to trip up on the linguistic steps required in this day and age
fixed it
fixed it
Today’s winner for me!
Today’s winner for me!
‘…simplified spelling is
‘…simplified spelling is all right, but, like chastity, you can carry it too far.’ Mark Twain
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I don’t resemble that remark!
I don’t resemble that remark!
Not strictly cycling related,
Not strictly cycling related, but saw this pop up on the news: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-61591789
I have two issues with the reporting:
Firstly it takes no account of e-scooter usage. If more people are using e-scooters, then the number of incidents is bound to rise all else being equal.
Secondly, it conflates what is actually measured in the statistics i.e. “injuries in incidents involving e-scooters” with something that’s not explicitly stated but seems to be something along the lines of “e-scooter riders causing injuries [to pedestrians]”.
I don’t own an e-scooter, and I don’t condone using them illegally, but it does seem to me that the reporting is somewhat one-sided. I think the elephant in the room is that e-scooter riders are vulnerable road users themselves, and that many of the “incidents” reported would appear to have been collisions with motor vehicles in which the e-scooter rider is the injured party. (That is not made entirely clear in the statistics, but would seem to be the only plausible explanation given the total numbers of incidents and the relatively small number that appear to involve pedestrians or cyclists).
Highway Code: “Drive at a
Highway Code: “Drive at a speed that will allow you to stop well within the distance you can see to be clear.”
https://twitter.com/cyclegaz/status/1529808106447900672
https://www.youtube.com/watch
Fair few crazy comments in this one
I think wtjs will be
I think wtjs will be collapsed in a heap over that one – surely it could not have been in Lancs !
Might have been under GMP not
Might have been under GMP not Lancashire Plod which are two seperate forces.
Phew !
Phew !
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You didn’t pick the ones that
You didn’t pick the ones that were blaming the cyclist for it then and exonerating the BMW.
No – I just took that as read
No – I just took that as read.
But even if you thought that it was entirely the cyclist’s fault, when your priorities are
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