Matej Mohorič's Garmin stolen after Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne, tells thief to keep device... just "please send today's file over"; Nick Ferrari and LBC talk cyclists; Behind the scenes of Pidcock's flying descent; Weekend round-up + more on the live blog

hirsute wrote:

Uni - cycle, 75" tv - no problem !

https://twitter.com/Jazzie654/status/1630043808170913798

He looks a bit wobbly on that - I reckon his seat should be a bit higher

Empty box, perhaps.

At 5s in when he drops the front 4", the back bounces off the grouns.

Wouldn't fit in one of those new cycle lanes in Manchester, anyway. :

This morning I preferred this acted-out video:
https://twitter.com/NoContextBrits/status/1629975959108481025

Indeed. In many areas there literally are different rules for cyclists too. Speed limits and pavement parking, for instance. And rightly so.

No, that was Mike Graham who makes Ferrari look like a rabidly green lefty by comparison. Both of them are great advocates of motorised transport, and both of them are great adverts for what happens to people who rely too much on motorised transport.

My mistake.  Those LBC deejays all look the same to me... 

Kapelmuur wrote:

Why were riders walking on the Muur?   I saw it on the live coverage but didn't see or hear an explanation.

It was the fairly common problem of compression, too many riders trying to funnel into too narrow a space, once a few are forced to stop then that concertinas back and once you're stopped on such a steep and slippery surface remounting is close to impossible.

I was going to post that.
Utterly appalling that there is no action despite 2 cameras and at least 2 other witnesses to the crime.

This is simultaneously shocking and yet entirely in keeping with Polis Scotland's treatment of reported incidents by cyclists

https://mobile.twitter.com/AlanMyles8/status/1629990008064036865

Excellent post and very informative. I know this is exactly how Lancashire police woud deal with such blatant dangerous driving: refusing to look at the video, claiming that the case was 'timed out' etc. etc. Our greatest single enemy is the police!

Flâneur wrote:

This is simultaneously shocking and yet entirely in keeping with Polis Scotland's treatment of reported incidents by cyclists:

https://mobile.twitter.com/AlanMyles8/status/1629990008064036865

"As I have feared for the past 15 months, I have finally had confirmation that no action is being taken against this driver by @policescotland in this hit and run. I have been deeply distressed by this incident and will be taking matters further."

"In the course of reporting other dangerous behaviour, officers have said; "you are brave cycling", "i'd never ride on that road" "cyclists really boil my piss" all of which are an indictment of the state of things, when I am simply riding my kids to school or going to work."

This is abhorrent. There must be some accountability!

Flâneur wrote:

This is simultaneously shocking and yet entirely in keeping with Polis Scotland's treatment of reported incidents by cyclists:

https://mobile.twitter.com/AlanMyles8/status/1629990008064036865

"As I have feared for the past 15 months, I have finally had confirmation that no action is being taken against this driver by @policescotland in this hit and run. I have been deeply distressed by this incident and will be taking matters further."

"In the course of reporting other dangerous behaviour, officers have said; "you are brave cycling", "i'd never ride on that road" "cyclists really boil my piss" all of which are an indictment of the state of things, when I am simply riding my kids to school or going to work."

That entire police force needs to be dismissed and a new one formed from people that care enough to do their job. Ideally, throw the sacked police into prison for perverting the course of justice.

.. and make them wear a hair shirt, while walking them down a cycle path in heavy traffic while people shout 'shame shame' at them while throwing rotten tomatoes.

hawkinspeter wrote:

That entire police force needs to be dismissed and a new one formed from people that care enough to do their job. Ideally, throw the sacked police into prison for perverting the course of justice.

"The charity LGBT Youth Scotland is currently the subject of a live police [Police Scotland] investigation over its involvement in a second major child-abuse scandal in little over a decade."

And we have Scottish LGBTI Police Association currently raising funds for this "charity" https://wingsoverscotland.com/the-thin-pink-line/

Polis Scotland is nothing but a political tool for Sturgeon's woo woo gang.

Alan Myles should have stated that it was either Alex Salmond or an independence supporter and PS would have been all over it like a rash.

I cycle the same roads and am not surprised by Alan's post.

Reading that twitter thread, I admit that (perhaps unfairly?) my first thought was to wonder to which senior police officer or politician the driver of that car was a friend or a relation...

This is truly shocking behaviour from the motorist and I would say actually assault. It's shameful treatment also from Polis Scotland and pretty much highlights their reticence in dealing with traffic offences committed towards cyclists. 

This reminds me of the Nottingham Funeral Procession case from 2013, where the police blamed the cyclist who had been deliberately run down.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/bike-blog/2013/aug/08/nottingham...

the little onion wrote:

Now tell me that there isn't an institutionally anti-cyclist culture in this country.

There are a gazillion examples before Auriol Grey of.. what.. the UK media bias?

If one were cynical.. one might conclude the motons have a near unlimited pocket of funds to lobby the media with press releases which focus on areas to distract from the ever growing fact that there are simply too many motorised vehicles on the UK roads, that the UK road system is not policed well enough, that the UK driving laws are inadequate, that the UK government (all parties for the past 50 years) want and will pay for overseas investment in car manufacturing to create or keep jobs, or even that the government cannot see past it's issues with an underfunded or poorly processed inefficiant court system and ineffective prison system to actually implement a harsher change to punishments. 

Brother, you're preaching to the converted!

Thoroughly agree, I've been saying this for ages! I favour a team identifier with a squad number, so Pogacar would be UA1, Pidcock might be IG3 and so on. The numbers could be printed on the jerseys football style, it would make it so much easier for the fans and commentators. It would have a spinoff benefit for kit manufacturers as well, imagine how many copies of Alaphilippe or WVA jerseys they would sell in their respective countries.