Coffee shop faces backlash over cyclists are c***s photo; Office visitor told his bike must be wrapped in plastic “to protect against COVID”; Wiggo’s birthday smoke; Chris Hall reaction; World record?; BMW close pass; Romandie + more on the live blog
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Office visitor told his bike must be wrapped in plastic "to protect against COVID"
Cycled to work at a central London office complex. They wrapped my bike in this bag to protect against Covid. I’m trying to think of the right comment. pic.twitter.com/TlrGhmF6CW
— Alastair Hilton (@London_W4) April 28, 2021
Think of the plastic waste if Alastair had not ridden a folding bike to the office…Why he had to wrap his bike in plastic to protect against COVID? We are still no closer to working out…
The Flying Scot commented: “Good job there, I could easily have inhaled your bike. What did they do with your clothes and skin? And is the plastic now contaminated waste?”
Nic Howell asked: “Did they put bags on your shoes as well?” They did not.
Ah well, at least we can try to have a laugh at it…
This bike mask needs to be pulled up a bit as it doesn’t cover the nose 😀
— Society d’Or (@societydor) April 28, 2021
You’re bike will have to test negative or will have to self isolate for 10 days 🤭🤣
— Kirk M’Carter (@kirkmcarter) April 28, 2021
Boris memes
“I indicated left! Anyway where’s your f**king helmet, you tw*t?!” pic.twitter.com/B6HWscZCdF
— Ned Boulting (@nedboulting) April 28, 2021
Some fine work from Ned…
Wiggo celebrates 41st birthday with a smoke
Sir Brad is certainly enjoying his retirement based on this birthday picture shared on his Instagram…I would say it is a pretty safe guess that you do not win the Tour by taking a cheeky smoke out the back of the team bus each morning…Making up for lost time, Brad?
Hugh Carthy signs new deal with EF Education-Nippo
“I want to continue on this journey and play my part in this team’s great legacy.”
More on Hugh Carthy’s exciting announcement here: https://t.co/P52Rhs4rkN pic.twitter.com/CSxHCBx9iy
— EF Pro Cycling (@EFprocycling) April 28, 2021
Hugh Carthy has extended his stay with EF Education-Nippo ahead of his main goal of the season, the Giro d’Italia. The 26-year-old enjoyed a breakthrough GC performance at the Vuelta last year, winning the Angliru stage and finishing third overall. Now in his fifth year with the team, Carthy is hoping to celebrate his new deal with another impressive result, this time at the Giro d’Italia.
“I chose to stay at EF simply because the team feels right,” he explained. “We’re a weird mix of riders but we form a team. When it feels right, staying seems the only logical option. I’ve had some nice memories and made good friends here amongst riders and staff. I want to continue on this journey and play my part in the team’s great legacy.”
Team boss Jonathan Vaughters took a break from talking up the merits of football’s failed Super League to praise Carthy’s development. “Over the past few seasons he has really blossomed as a climber and has become a leader in this team as well,” the American said. “We are excited to have Hugh Carthy be part of the future of this team. Hugh represents this team’s foundational values. He works hard, isn’t scared to punch above his weight, and, most importantly, he stays true to himself. We knew his work ethic would pay off, and we’re just glad people are starting to notice.”
"A sad situation but handled so incredibly appropriately for the Movember cause!": Chris Hall receives plenty of love from well-wishers after frightening charity ride incident
This is disappointing to hear about. @Chris, has this incident been reported to us?
— Andover Police (@AndoverPolice) April 29, 2021
Charity cyclist Chris Hall has received plenty of love since he abandoned his 700km ride across England after a group of men tried to push him off his bike. Over on Chris’ Instagram he has thanked well-wishers for their support and shared a few comments he has received…
Christopher Finnan wrote: “People are bastards. Chin up Chris, you’re better than them.”
Ellies.tri.journal commented: “There are some awful people out there, but thankfully there are also some heroes. Chris is raising money for Movember, go show him some support.”
Elfied.1 added: “Chris sets a fantastic example of setting boundaries and giving yourself a break when things just don’t sit right. A sad situation but handled so incredibly appropriately for the Movember cause!”
Hopefully, we will see Chris back on the road soon doing what he does best, smashing epic cycling challenges.
Cycling UK helps Southwark schoolchildren learn bike maintenance skills
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Here is a nice initiative from Cycling UK, helping to teach schoolchildren in south London bike maintenance and giving them a renovated bike of their own. Southern Railway donated the bikes which were abandoned or unclaimed at their stations. Through Walworth-based Community Cycleworks, 15 kids will be able to take part in a ‘Build a Bike’ course where they fix up a bicycle which they can keep afterwards.
Cycling UK hopes the course will both teach the children important maintenance skills while also encouraging more young people to use bikes. Toby Edwards from Cycling UK explained the initiative: “Cycling UK is hugely grateful to Southern Railway for donating these abandoned bicycles which will make a real difference to the lives of children in South London.
“The ‘Build A Bike’ project run by Community Cycleworks offers young people a chance to learn how to maintain and fix donated cycles which gives them or their family member a real sense of ownership and pride. Whether it is cycling to school or riding for fun with their friends, hundreds of miles will hopefully be clocked up once these bikes have been brought back to life.”
A wild 1 Series appears: Yet another Richmond Park close pass
I’m just riding along in Richmond Park and then… oh! A wild one-series BMW appears! pic.twitter.com/x5oDuftQNu
— The Department of Parks & Recreation 🦌 (@ldnparks) April 28, 2021
Josh Quigley halfway to breaking week-long cycling distance world record
DAY 4: 112 MILES / 1059 MILES TOTAL / 49% OF RECORD
1000+ MILES!
7 DAY CYCLING WORLD RECORD 🚴🏻♂️🥇
GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS: GREATEST DISTANCE CYCLED IN ONE WEEK – UNPACED 🌍🏆
Sponsor: @Thomas_Franks_
Charity: @Arthritis_ACTN pic.twitter.com/7nXuHom0Di
— Josh Quigley (@JoshQuigley2026) April 29, 2021
Looks like a stunning day for it in Aberdeenshire. Josh Quigley has passed the 1,000-mile point in his epic week-long cycling distance challenge. Midway through day four now, that back must be in bits…He will have to keep up this mileage until Sunday to beat the record but anyway, record aside, what an incredible achievement it already is considering as recently as January he was hospitalised after a serious training crash in Dubai. Keep it going, Josh!
We see some Amazing Supporters for Josh out on the roads 🚴🏻♂️🥇
Anne Hammond – Supporting Josh everyday from Aboyne, waving the Scottish flag 🏴
John Greensmyth – Ringing the Bell nightly when Josh comes past on his 4th and final loop, in Aboyne
7 DAY CYCLING WORLD RECORD 🚴♂️🥇 pic.twitter.com/Sr4W9gqZOr
— Josh Quigley (@JoshQuigley2026) April 28, 2021
UCI Track Champions League details announced
The UCI has announced the details of its new “dynamic racing format” which will see track racing over six rounds across a six-week period culminating with four champions being crowned. The best male and female sprint riders and the best male and female endurance riders will each receive equal prize money. A restructuring of the UCI calendar will see the UCI Track World Championships move to October and become the qualification pathway for the Champions League.
At the event riders will score points across the six rounds in either the sprint or endurance category. Sprinters race the sprint and keirin, while endurance riders race the elimination race and scratch race. Continuing on from the equal prize money, there will be an even split between male and female riders, with 24 of each competing, which will be decided by their performance at the precedding World Championships.
Bahrain victorious at Tour de Romandie as Sonny Colbrelli sprints to victory on stage two
It’s the 𝑡𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡𝑒𝑠𝑡 of margins – but Sonny Colbrelli won’t mind as he sprints to his first win of the season on Stage 2 of #TDR2021. pic.twitter.com/KShtUvTvgO
— Eurosport UK (@Eurosport_UK) April 29, 2021
Here it comes, the painful pun every cycling journalist has been waiting to use. Bahrain Victorious were indeed victorious for the first time in the WorldTour since their change of name. It was Italian sprinter Sonny Colbrelli who delivered the win, beating Patrick Bevin in a close sprint at the end of another demanding day in the Jura mountains.
Home rider Marc Hirschi was third behind the Kiwi, Bevin, who moves up to second on GC thanks to his six bonus seconds. Colbrelli will get another shot at victory tomorrow when the riders take on a lumpy sprint stage, although a certain Peter Sagan may have something to say about that.
Strong support for record spending on cycling and walking in Scotland
The latest YouGov polling showed strong support for record spending on cycling and walking in Scotland. 47 per cent of Scots support allocating at least 10 per cent of the Scottish transport budget to cycling and walking. The current level of funding is 3.5 per cent. In their manifestos for the upcoming elections, three of the main parties have committed to a 10 per cent level of funding, while the SNP has made the lowest commitment at 5.5 per cent.
Cycling UK welcomed the increased spending pledges and is calling for central and local governments elected this summer to ensure cycling is accessible to all, regardless of background, ability or where they live.
Of the 1,204 people polled by YouGov on behalf of Cycling UK, 20 per cent said they opposed the 10 per cent pledge, while 25 per cent said they would neither support nor oppose it. 9 per cent said they did not know. Support was highest among people aged 16 to 24, with 68 per cent in favour.
Jim Densham, Cycling UK’s campaigns and policy manager for Scotland, said the results of the poll send a clear message to politicians that increased spending on active travel is a vote-winner. “There is clearly strong support across Scotland for the next Scottish Government to deliver on our target to spend at least 10% of the transport budget on cycling and walking. The results show that support outweighs opposition regardless of age, social class or location in Scotland.”
Coffee shop faces backlash over cyclists are c***s photo
A coffee shop that doesn’t like cyclists. That’s a new one, very niche https://t.co/G9JzVfAR1k
— StefanVelo 💛💙 (@velostefan) April 29, 2021
Telling cyclists they are c***s is a bold strategy for a coffee shop – it’s not like we drink much of the stuff or anything. London coffee house Fuckoffee is today facing a fair bit of backlash over a picture originally shared on its Twitter account on 9th April. It tells us exactly what Fuckoffee appear to think of cyclists, and now that it’s been spotted by a number of Twitter users, not everyone (possibly no one) is seeing the funny side.
It seems to be something of a social media ‘strategy’ for the coffee shop to post offensive images and memes, with a number of other posts from its account causing controversy recently. It’s not surprising this one has not gone down well either, with many cyclists quick to point out the potentially problematic decision to alienate yourself from one of the biggest coffee-loving groups out there.
OMG. This is one coffee addict who will now NEVER ever buy any coffee from you. Absolutely disgusting.
— People-Friendly Tollington (@TollingtonLTN) April 29, 2021
Don’t worry, cyclists never stop at coffee shops… https://t.co/Spmhpg7bQZ
— Take That, Cyclists! (@TakeThatCycIist) April 29, 2021
The London Cycling Campaign did their bit too…
Spotted this lovely sign in Bexley Heath this morning! Fab to see the appreciation for other human beings from other well-adjusted members of society 🥰 pic.twitter.com/eQmHGLSSoP
— London Cycling Campaign (@London_Cycling) April 29, 2021
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...and, of course, there was no way of recording any kind of information before the internet was invented. 😏
Not even a passing comment for John Tomac?
@Jakrayan God knows. On the country roads here (Kent) people are usually good at not close passing me but the consistently overtake me on blind corners etc. Oncoming cars on very narrow roads its 50:50 as to whether they will slow down at all despite passing me within 50cm. Once I get back into civilisation its a different story. Bad driving becomes the norm.
You could bé right. I live in a French Pyrenean départment with plenty of narrow, tight roads. About 80% of drivers either pull over to thé max or wait for a better space to overtake. Mind you, there's always thé odd one looking at their phone...
For a while I've thought this was an unfortunate brand name. Several times I've seen cyclists riding towards me wearing Le Col jerseys with their right arm covering the L so it looks like they are advertising e.Coli.
A driver in a BMW not looking properly at a junction? Who'd have thunk it?
@bennysnnock Which is why training for a driver's licence should include cycle training, of course.
As someone who previously worked in the custom cycle clothing industry, I have to admit this news did make me smile. I'm sure the brand will rise like a phoenix from the flames, but just the idea that they've gone pop has lifted my mood. Fair play to Yanto though, I'm sure the brand has set him up, one way or another, for life; he had a vision and he delivered on it. But, having been at the wrong end of a strategy that involved outspending the rest of the industry (on advertising) and out-discounting on retail kit, it's nice to know that their 'be the last man standing' strategy has - at least for now - failed. One trick (let's be fair and call it a strategy) that really frustrated me back in the day, was the way in which they used to give university cycle teams free kit. All very upstanding you say, however their motivation was more; 1. get people in your kit young and (hopefully) keep them for life - fair enough - but more acutely 2. remove decent revenue streams from your competitors. Uni teams were great because every year there was a new influx of members needing kit - so LeCol just took the market, not to make any money, just to kill it for the rest of us.
@Rendel Harris Absolutely. I was just making the point that Surrey has a lot of 'couldn't care less if I hit you' drivers whose attitude is get out of my way and if you don't that's your fault.
Their socks were all right.
35 thoughts on “Coffee shop faces backlash over cyclists are c***s photo; Office visitor told his bike must be wrapped in plastic “to protect against COVID”; Wiggo’s birthday smoke; Chris Hall reaction; World record?; BMW close pass; Romandie + more on the live blog”
Re: Covid contamination on
Re: Covid contamination on work cycling. We have some really good facilities in our secure basement parking with dedicated bike area, lockers, 4 self contained shower and WC facilities including a fully disabled compliant one, and a large drying cabinet for wet / sweaty clothes and towels. Apparently the latter is a Covid risk so cannot be used. Luckily I haven’t had to use the facilities in anger due to wfh but I wonder what is more risky, the cabinet or me having to hang my clothes and towel in the desk area to dry them off for the evening commute / next shower.
What do they do when someone
What do they do when someone drives to work? There’s a far greater likelihood of exhalations to be trapped in a car’s interior than on a bike, so do they get out the flammenwerfer?
From that photo they get out
From that photo they get out the XXXXXL condom (other sizes are available).
They have a point, these
They do have a point; all this covid – it comes in cycles.
Well he has been panting
Well he has been panting viruses all over it.
Admit it, that is an oversize
Admit it, that is an oversize condom and you came up with the first excuse you could think of when your unnatural relationship with your bike was discovered by a co-worker.
Has Alistair applied for a
Has Alistair applied for a vaccine appointment for his bike? Presumably they’d inject the saddle rather than the tyres.
The person who insisted the
The person who insisted the bike was wrapped up: “want to pick anything up from the supermarket tonight?”.
The only thing that’s spread faster than this virus is stupidity.
sparrowlegs wrote:
Stupidity was already endemic.
sparrowlegs wrote:
We’re well past the point where we should simply remove the warning labels from everything, and let the problem solve itself.
A cigarette? That’s Wiggo’s
A cigarette? That’s Wiggo’s designer asthma inhaler 🙂
Triamcinolone never tasted so good!
Does he have a TUE for
Does he have a TUE for Nicotine?
Secret_squirrel wrote:
Does he not use the patches?
zero_trooper wrote:
Not big enough….
I like Ned’s Boris meme
I like Ned’s Boris meme
Well I hope he got permission
Well I hope he got permission from the copyright holder to use that footage… ?
What footage?
What footage?
Well ok its a snapshot of a
Well ok its a snapshot of a frame, but obviously was taken from footage broadcast from parliament, footage which is covered by parliamentary copyright FWIW if people are interested by such things.
But maybe a joke you have to explain in detail is then as funny as some internet memes are.
Oh yes, it is the thing that
Oh yes, it is the thing that stops John Oliver’s show from showing his clips of how bad Politicians are over here when his show is rebroadcast on Comedy Central or whatever channel it is.
1.2 You must not use the material for any of these purposes:
(a) satire, ridicule, or denigration;
I suspect, like with the TdF clip, if the Copyright holder decides to enforce their rights, it will be taken down.
Awavey wrote:
Might be a bit late; it’s all over the place;
Richmond Park seems such a
Richmond Park seems such a lovely place to ride
That 1 series is a rogue
That 1 series is a rogue beast, it should be hunted down and euthanised in the interest of public safety
Philh68 wrote:
Totally uninterested in what type of car it was, let alone which series, whatever that means. The driver was impatient and could do with some retraining, or, even better, close the road to through-traffic to prevent incidents like this in the park.
When, oh when, will someone in authority make that decision?
Been out to catch up with
Been out to catch up with Josh a couple of times this week and don’t let those pictures of today fool you. It’s been wild up here, blowing a gale and halestones on and off all morning, futher towards Aberdeen there was torential rain.
Also, Wiggins has always been a smoker, the tails of him having half a cig before a TT to open up his airways weren’t just some old wifes tale. It happened.
” They’re cunts’ “
” They’re cunts’ ”
Not sure to be relieved about the correct contraction of “they are” or concerned about the unexpected possesive apostrophe of ” cunts’ ”
Let alone how to space the quote marks in this comment to separate them from said apostrophe.
And why on earth would you
And why on earth would you call your coffee shop that name ?
Same slightly weird impulse
Same slightly weird impulse that made it fashionable to walk around in FCUK t-shirts for a bit in the 90s.
So sharp, so edgy, so cool… blech.
I think the “unexpected
I think the “unexpected possessive apostrophe” is an exclamation mark with a distant dot.
41?! Oh dear, the fags do not
41?! Oh dear, the fags do not appear to be helping Wiggo hang onto his youthful looks ?
Christopher TR1 wrote:
I think that’s the cover photo for his first jazz album…
Christopher TR1 wrote:
Not that it’s a true likeness, but it puts me in mind of Hugh Grant’s character in The Gentlemen……
For the sign.
For the sign.
Someone should write “vindictive” between “they’re” and “cunts”.
Then throw in through the cafe’s window, for shits and giggles.
?
Hadn’t heard of this coffee
Hadn’t heard of this coffee shop before, it seems to be based in a conurbation far away from me.
Am I bothered? Well, it’s annoying, but look at its web site; read what it’s about. Maybe you’ll think it has bigger fish to fry than worrying about whether a group of people loosely identified by their chosen mode of transport is a bit upset, or not.
“It tells us exactly what Fuckoffee appear [sic] to think of cyclists”
No it doesn’t. It tells us that it like [sic] to court edgy publicity, with an ethical motive and a cause. (DYOR: go to darksidecoffee and ‘us’)
Anyway, job done: publicity delivered.
I liked the irony,in an
I liked the irony,in an Alanis Morissette way, of it coming right after a headline about boycotting social media to tackle online abuse.
‘[A]ppear’ isn’t incorrect in
‘[A]ppear’ isn’t incorrect in this context, and so doesn’t require a [sic]. It just tells us that the author is conceiving of them as a group of individuals, rather than as a singular organisation.
And putting a [sic] in original (i.e. unquoted) text is meaningless.