Bubble trouble: Not-so-lazy cycling thief spotted balancing stolen lazy spa; Aussie cop stops helmet camera users; Police weed out cyclist towing 14kg of cannabis; Shaun Bailey LTN Tour de France vid deleted; Pidcock Gran Fondo + more on the live blog

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Now London has started to change the way people get around, rather than grumbling about it, they’ve invested in cargo bikes from ⁦@RaleighBikes_UK⁩. pic.twitter.com/3sbe5KOPaU

— Adam Tranter (@adamtranter) April 28, 2021

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— Team Jumbo-Visma cycling (@JumboVismaRoad) April 27, 2021

Dylan Groenewegen gave a very frank interview to Dutch outlet NOS about his return to the sport in which he revealed he and Fabio Jakobsen met in Amsterdam recently to talk over the events of the past nine months. The Jumbo-Visma sprinter is set to return to racing at the Giro d'Italia the day after his suspension is lifted on May 7 but wanted to set things right with his fellow countryman before resuming his career.

"We vented our hearts out," Groenewegen recalled. "It was a nice conversation. I prefer to keep what was said between Fabio and me. But it is very nice that that conversation has taken place. Now we as sportsmen are both looking ahead again."

The 27-year-old admitted he still struggles to come to terms with his involvement in the crash which left his Deceuninck-Quick-Step rival in a medically-induced coma. "I kept hearing that bang," he explains. "It was not a deliberate action to make someone fall. It happened in a flash, it went so fast. Sometimes you can correct something in a sprint, but with a speed of 85 per hour that is not possible. is really very hard. Your responsiveness just decreases when you drive faster.

"Physically I'm certainly ready. But how is it going mentally? How I am going to react to the peloton and how the peloton will react to me? That is a question of waiting."

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— Bob From Accounts (@BobFromAccounts) April 28, 2021

Here may be the inspiration for the sign in Boarstall, that featured on Monday's blog, telling cyclists to keep it down...just wait until they hear about motorbikes and cars...

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— Rémi Cavagna (@remicav) April 27, 2021

Sadly for Rémi his time in yesterday's Romandie prologue was quickly changed back to 11 seconds behind Rohan Dennis, despite this lad's best efforts...

The new big player in British cycling has put his name to a mega ride in the Yorkshire Dales to celebrate the launch of his new app Link My Ride. Riders can choose between two routes: a 'shorter' 110km ride with 1,423m of climbing or the full 180km with 2,430m of climbing. Taking place on Sunday 1 August, both routes take in some of Pidcock's favourite training rides with the long route pitting riders against the challenging double ascent of Kidstones Pass and Fleet Moss. Registration for the event goes live this Friday at noon.

"As a young rider I trained on the grippy Yorkshire roads. For sure, they made me
the rider I am today. I’m really excited to be showcasing what I believe to be the best of the Yorkshire Dales in this event," Pidcock said.

The announcement of the new Gran Fondo coincides with the launch of Link My Ride, the Ineos Grenadiers rider's new app which allows riders to create, plan and organise group rides. 

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A pair of cyclists in Melbourne were stopped by a police officer who told them fitting a new camera to their helmets was illegal and that next time they would be fined $207...

In the video shared on TikTok, the officer explains to the riders that attaching a camera "changes the dynamic of the helmet". When asked how they can use a camera, the officer replies: "you can't". 

"What I will do is give you both a warning," the officer says. "But if we see you again wearing it we will [issue a fine]. It changes the dynamic of that helmet. That helmet would have gone through testing. I hope it is an approved helmet, I can't actually see a sticker on it that says it is.

"You can't [attach a camera to your helmet] unless it is manufactured to the helmet. As soon as you altered it, it is illegal."

The rules about riders fitting cameras to helmets vary between Australian states. Some allow it, however in Victoria where this incident happened, fitting a camera means committing the offence of riding with a helmet that is not considered approved by Australian standards and can lead to a $207 fine. In New South Wales the fine in $349.

It is the latest incident of police in the city taking strong action against cyclists. In February, a crackdown on riders breaking the Southbank Promenade's 10km/h speed limit saw cyclists face fines of up to $1,600...

Eyebrows were raised over the weekend when Conservative London mayoral candidate Shaun Bailey released a bizarre video which flicked between clips of LTNs and the Tour de France...

Bailey posted alongside the video his campaign promise that he will "scrap all unwanted LTNs within 100 days". Cycling commentator and writer Ned Boulting was one of many to ask if they had contacted the Tour's organisers before using the footage.

He asked: "I’m assuming your team have acquired the correct licence for use of Tour de France footage. @LeTour is quite protective of its intellectual property. But you know that, because you’ll have paid them for this usage in a political campaign."

We do not yet know if it was the Tour who got the video removed, just that there are plenty of people pleased to see it gone...

The whole thing would have been hilarious if it weren't for the fact it was so full of dangerous disinformation.

— They See Me Roland (@TFacists) April 27, 2021

I actually have no idea

— Ned Boulting (@nedboulting) April 27, 2021

This is the same Shaun Bailey who was gushing about how pro-cycling he is the day before the video was posted on his Twitter account..."How pro-cycling I am can't be explained," he told Evening Standard reporter Ross Lydall before going on to claim he wants more cycle lanes and more people from under-represented communities on bikes...