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"My name's Paul and you're a d***": Jeremy Vine verbally abused by impatient Bentley driver; "This is where bicycle N+1 may lead you. Be aware!": Whose garage looks like this?; Reaction to Tour route; Bike storage petition + more on the live blog

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"My name's Paul and you're a d***": Jeremy Vine verbally abused by impatient Bentley driver; "This is where bicycle N+1 may lead you. Be aware!": Whose garage looks like this?; Reaction to Tour route; Bike storage petition + more on the live blogImpatient Bentley driver (Jeremy Vine/Twitter)
27 October 2022, 17:08
Have a great evening...

The live blog will be back tomorrow mornig. We'll leave you with this...

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27 October 2022, 17:14
27 October 2022, 14:48
"My name's Paul and you're a d***": Jeremy Vine verbally abused by impatient Bentley driver

It's been a while since Jeremy Vine appeared on the live blog... but the broadcaster and social media sharer of all things cycling is back with a bang... and by bang I mean footage of a Bentley driver who just can't seem to understand that people other than himself are allowed to use the roads...

On the route where there used to be a segregated cycle lane before it was ripped out by the council back in 2020, Vine is beeped and told to... yep, get in the cycle lane... 

Aside from the verbals, 'Paul' demonstrates a textbook piece of MGIF (must get in front) driving to race ahead of fellow road users... only to achieve the square root of zilch, arriving at the red traffic light seconds earlier than if he'd listened to Take That's advice and had a little patience.

The explanation: "You're in the wrong lane! [...] Why aren't you in that [left-hand] lane [...] you deliberately went in front of me in the wrong lane. Get in the bloody cycle lane [...] I drive how I want, you don't own the road, believe it or not [...] My name's Paul and you're a dick"...

Charming.

27 October 2022, 15:57
27 October 2022, 14:12
The 'as a keen cyclist myself' Halloween costume
27 October 2022, 13:47
Cofidis will be riding Look bikes once again in 2023
2022 Look 795 Blade RS Disc Proteam - riding 1.jpg

Look will be back in the pro peloton next season, with French team Cofidis returning to the bike manufacturer for 2023 and beyond. The multi-year sponsorship deal will see the men's WorldTour, women's Continental Pro Team and UCI Paracycling Team all use Look's bikes, pedals and CORIMA wheels.

It's the latest chapter in Look's illustrious racing history — its pedals saw their first pro-tour victory via Bernard Hinault at the Tour de France in 1984, and Look's bikes powered Greg LeMond to yellow a year later, while Laurent Jalabert achieved 111 victories aboard the brand's various machines through the 90s.

Where do Look's machines rank in the pro peloton bike hierarchy? Are they one of the best bikes on display?

27 October 2022, 13:08
What's a man got to do to get the second longest cycle tunnel in Europe?

> Report that Wales will get Europe's longest cycling tunnel premature, say campaigners 

27 October 2022, 12:01
Cav: "There are definitely a lot of opportunities for sprints in 2023"
MArk Cavendish after equalling Eddy Merckx's record - picture credit A.S.O./Pauline Ballet

[📷: A.S.O./Pauline Ballet]

Cav's had his say on the route... "Everybody dreams about the Tour de France. There are definitely a lot of opportunities for the sprinters in 2023"

By our calculations stage three, four, seven, maybe eight, 11, 18, 19 and 21 should be for the fast men...

Pog was pleased with what he saw too...

Tadej Pogačar at 2022 Tour de France stage 11 (SWPix/Zac Williams)

[📷: Zac Williams/SWpix.com]

"I really like the course, it's going to be very nice. It's very good that the difficult stages come early!"

Our in-depth look at the men's and women's routes is coming soon...

27 October 2022, 11:44
Reader N+1ing

Time for some lunchtime comments... 

Live blog N+1

What a set up mark1a's got... I'm giving that a strong 9/10...

Not so sure about Wales56's... I feel like we've seen this one before...

Live blog N+1

essexiain: "A few years back, I got given an ultimatum. I could either downsize my stable of bicycles which only totalled six at the time, or my lady would leave taking the cat with her.

"Sigh. I miss that cat.  

"(In reality, I gave four of the bikes to a recycling charity….. and brought a new TI MTB and £4K carbon road bike to replace them…)"

chrisonatrike replied: "Similar story here but fewer bikes.  And I do miss the cat.  Having said that I don't have to clean hair off the chains now.  Or oil off the cat.

"The bikes were one source of friction but the growing parts bin also caused some discord!"

27 October 2022, 11:17
27 October 2022, 10:46
And the men's...

More on this later... 

27 October 2022, 10:28
Time to climb... Tour de France Femmes route includes Tourmalet summit finish

Ryan is going to have a deep dive into both the (soon-to-be revealed) men's route and the women's later on, but here's a quick look at the latter...

If last year's was a de facto Tour de North East France, next year's will be a Tour de South West France, including a venture into the Pyrenees.

One mega mountain stage, a couple for the puncheurs, four 'flat' days and a final-stage TT...

Here's the highlight though...

cc: Annemiek van Vleuten 

27 October 2022, 10:12
The annual cyclists wear normal clothes meltdown

White trainers are the order of the day...Cav, Pidcock and Pog were just three of the sparkly white shoe wearers. Maxime Bouet was not...

Pogačar  looking like he'll be on someone's shoulders belting out Come on Eileen come half ten...

27 October 2022, 09:35
Cav's on tie duty

 

27 October 2022, 09:33
A proper Tour de France (unless you live inland)
27 October 2022, 08:31
27 October 2022, 08:09
Reader's bike storage petition

A quick shout-out to road.cc reader Kerry who forwarded us her petition to make bike storage pods a requirement for all new building developments...

"Everyone focuses on getting people out on bikes for leisure or commuting. But what happens when you arrive at your destination? Where do you securely store your bike? How do you charge it if it is an e-bike? I have started a petition and I would love to get it signed and shared," she told us.

As per the petition description...

We want the provision of secure weatherproof individual bike storage pods, with charging points, to be made a planning condition for all new building developments — residential, commercial or public.

To answer Kerry's rhetorical question, about what happens when you arrive at your destination? It normally ends up with something like this...

Plymouth bike rack (CC licensed by Tim Peters via Flickr).jpg

Or this...

Shit bike rack (via Horsham District Cycling Forum on Twitter)

Or even...

Lidl cycle parking @Matt_Hill_UK/Twitter
27 October 2022, 08:05
Anything big happening in Paris today?
 

Yep, today's the day the route for the 2023 Tour de France is revealed... so that'll explain Tom P's pacey 8km around the French capital's Bois de Boulogne park, starting and finishing at the Arc de Triomphe, of course. 

We'll bring you full details of the route as and when we have them...

27 October 2022, 07:56
"This is where bicycle N+1 may lead you. Be aware!": Whose garage looks like this?

Come on, own up, whose garage looks like Jez's?

Amongst the impressive haul... a Moulton Super Deluxe from 1964 and plenty more modern...

> Do you really need another bike? Find out what n+1 means 

Obviously Jez isn't the only one to have collected more than a few bicycles over the years in the name of N+1... cue the collections...

Does that look familiar to anybody? 

Dan Alexander

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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NOtotheEU replied to mark1a | 2 years ago
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If I turn any greener people will start to stare!

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mark1a replied to NOtotheEU | 2 years ago
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And to think before I sorted the floor & lined the walls, the space was wasted when I used to keep a car in there... My wife got fed up with bikes in the hallway and dining room.

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NOtotheEU replied to mark1a | 2 years ago
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mark1a wrote:

My wife got fed up with bikes in the hallway and dining room.

Mine too so one or the other had to go. The bikes are still in the back room 😄.

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Rome73 replied to NOtotheEU | 2 years ago
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More gammon surely? 

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quiff replied to mark1a | 2 years ago
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mark1a wrote:

My wife got fed up with bikes in the hallway and dining room.

Moved house recently. My wife was quite excited that we would have a basement to get my bikes out of the way (as, to be fair, was I). Not so pleased when I deemed it too damp for bike storage... 

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ktache replied to quiff | 2 years ago
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Dehumidifier?

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quiff replied to ktache | 2 years ago
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It's going to need a bit of building work to replace rotten floor timbers and get it properly ventilated. The joys of old houses.     

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Rendel Harris replied to mark1a | 2 years ago
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mark1a wrote:

And to think before I sorted the floor & lined the walls, the space was wasted when I used to keep a car in there... My wife got fed up with bikes in the hallway and dining room.

My wife has sometimes expressed her annoyance that there are seven bikes in a  one bedroom flat, but I have a bit of a trump card in pointing out that three of them are hers...

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ktache replied to mark1a | 2 years ago
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I presume the better than a bike shop tool collection/workshop is towards the right?

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mark1a replied to ktache | 2 years ago
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Yes, the opposite wall is a workbench. Tools used to rattle around in drawers & boxes getting mislaid until I went on a Cytech course and discovered the world of Perfolock.

 

 

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KentRider replied to mark1a | 2 years ago
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Where did you buy that bike stand? The one that is holding four bikes next to the Muc-Off sign on the wall. It looks to be one of the most space-efficient multi-stands that I've ever seen.

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quiff replied to KentRider | 2 years ago
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Something like this? https://www.santafixie.co.uk/bicisupport-bs255-4-bike-floor-bike-rack.html

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mark1a replied to KentRider | 2 years ago
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KentRider wrote:

Where did you buy that bike stand? The one that is holding four bikes next to the Muc-Off sign on the wall. It looks to be one of the most space-efficient multi-stands that I've ever seen.

It's a BiciSupport BS255, as quiff has correctly identified. It came from Hollandbikeshop, back in the days when €437 was not very many £££. Technically a shop display stand, seems very well made and I'm very happy with it. My garage floor to ceiling is 2.4m and the top bike is around 10cm from the ceiling so just need to be careful if you have a very large bike.

http://www.bicisupport.it/index.cfm/4-LEVELS-DISPLAY--FOR-BICYCLES/?fuse...

 

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Wales56 | 2 years ago
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Mines

 

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Woldsman | 2 years ago
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Perhaps we've only ourselves to blame...

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Woldsman | 2 years ago
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At least they made an effort:

 

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Woldsman | 2 years ago
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The unloved and unused "wheel benders" at the local Homebase:

 

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brooksby replied to Woldsman | 2 years ago
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I really hate those things.  But someone clearly went around telling the large supermarkets that they were just the thing...

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AlsoSomniloquism replied to brooksby | 2 years ago
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I suspect it is more that they take up less space then sheffield stands so was obvious for designers who don't know any better to meet "cyclists needs". 

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essexian | 2 years ago
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A few years back, I got given an ultimatum. I could either downsize my stable of bicycles which only totalled six at the time, or my lady would leave taking the cat with her.

 Sigh. I miss that cat.  

 

(In reality, I gave four of the bikes to a recycling charity….. and brought a new TI MTB and £4K carbon road bike to replace them…..  Thankfully, her indoors does come out to the garage that often so hasn’t noticed the replacements. 😉)

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chrisonabike replied to essexian | 2 years ago
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Similar story here but fewer bikes.  And I do miss the cat.  Having said that I don't have to clean hair off the chains now.  Or oil off the cat.

The bikes were one source of friction but the growing parts bin also caused some discord!

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Kendalred replied to chrisonabike | 2 years ago
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chrisonatrike wrote:

Similar story here but fewer bikes.  And I do miss the cat.  Having said that I don't have to clean hair off the chains now.  Or oil off the cat.

The bikes were one source of friction but the growing parts bin also caused some discord!

So...are we to infer from this that you cleaned your chain with your cat? Who are you? Kurt Zouma?

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chrisonabike replied to Kendalred | 2 years ago
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To avoid problems when cleaning your chain with your pet make sure to align the pet so its fur doesn't rub up the wrong way.  Makes for less efficient cleaning but less damage to your hands.

I only had to degrease the cat once, but more often found something horrible must have stuck on the tyre and attracted interest.

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