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Cyclist’s “invisibility cloak”
Cyclist's "invisibility cloak" (Image Credit: Threads/@sciencysophie)

“Behold my new invisibility cloak”: Cyclist knocked off on way to job teaching kids to cycle on the road baffled by how driver “apparently didn’t see me” — left “thinking it’s more the parents than kids who need lessons” + more on the live blog

Welcome back to another week of live blog action! A slightly sunburnt Dan Alexander is in the hotseat for Monday’s blogging action, things more than a bit toasty out there for many of us today
  • by Dan Alexander
Mon, Jun 30, 2025 07:59
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SUMMARY

  • National championships round-up: A club rider wins in Italy (sort of) + Millie Couzens and Sam Watson crowned at home
  • Meanwhile at Ironman...
  • Weekend tech round-up: Eurobike, an impressive review for Cannondale's Synapse Carbon 4, Trek's "big gravel capability at an affordable price" + turn your turbo trainer into a rowing machine?!
  • Remember your sun cream if you don't want to look like the idiot running today's live blog
  • Superhero top caps
  • "Flying" cyclists riding "full tilt" into cars spark calls for barriers on bike path – but campaigners say road should be narrowed to slow down drivers instead
  • Police force deploys drone to tackle anti-social motorbike use on cycle path
  • "I still think he's a special rider": Patrick Lefevere turns his attention to Ethan Hayter... and suggests team's "poo sponsor" must love him... even if British rider gives Lefevere "the creeps"
  • Tudor brings out limited edition Tour de France watch... because nothing says cycling like paying £4,650 to tell the time (apparently)
  • Shimano is trying to figure out why Europe has a "critical" bike mechanic shortage
  • Welcome to Cavendish City! Châteauroux gets a Tour de France-themed rebrand
  • "I would like to thank those who took part": Dorset Police praise behaviour at Dom Whiting's latest Drum and Bass on a Bike event
  • "Behold my new invisibility cloak": Cyclist knocked off on way to job teaching kids to cycle on the road baffled by how driver "apparently didn't see me" — left "thinking it's more the parents than kids who need lessons"
Cyclist’s “invisibility cloak”
Cyclist's "invisibility cloak" (Image Credit: Threads/@sciencysophie)
30 June 2025, 07:59

National championships round-up: A club rider wins in Italy (sort of) + Millie Couzens and Sam Watson crowned at home

The weekend before the Tour de France means one thing: a bumper round of national championships and jerseys to be won. Across the world, riders were racing for the chance to pull on their country’s colours for the next 12 months. Perhaps the biggest story of the weekend was in Italy yesterday where club team Swatt Club upset the might of the pro teams to set up Filippo Conca for victory.

Quelle histoire : Filippo Conca, coureur amateur, est devenu champion d’Italie ce dimanche ! Ancien professionnel, il n’a pas été conservé par Q36.5 la saison passée #LesRP pic.twitter.com/U6QScYmsX4

— Eurosport France (@Eurosport_FR) June 29, 2025

The story does come with the caveat that while, yes, they are technically a club team, Conca is hardly an amateur and has raced for Lotto Soudal and Q36.5 in previous years and finished fifth at a stage of the Vuelta in 2022. Regardless, star power aside, the idea of a club team winning one of the most competitive nationals in Europe is a great story. The race also gave us this absolute cracker, so there’s that too…

Keeping up with the peloton uphill is harder than it looks! 😅 pic.twitter.com/r8VlQitsUK

— Cycling on TNT Sports (@cyclingontnt) June 29, 2025

Back at home, Millie Couzens followed up her U23 TT success with an elite road race crown too, the 21-year-old impressively getting the better of far more experienced riders such as Pfeiffer Georgi and Anna Henderson.

Millie Couzens wins 2025 National Championships
Millie Couzens wins 2025 National Championships (Image Credit: Alex Whitehead/SWpix.com)
Millie Couzens wins 2025 National Championships
Millie Couzens wins 2025 National Championships (Image Credit: Alex Whitehead/SWpix.com)

It means the British women’s TT and road race titles went to two riders born in 2004 and 2003 respectively, and neither was Cat Ferguson. The future of British representation in the women’s peloton looks bright.

Sam Watson wins 2025 National Championships
Sam Watson wins 2025 National Championships (Image Credit: Alex Whitehead/SWpix.com)
Sam Watson wins 2025 National Championships
Sam Watson wins 2025 National Championships (Image Credit: Alex Whitehead/SWpix.com)

In the men’s race Sam Watson of Ineos Grenadiers soloed to victory. Talking of bright futures, Matthew Brennan’s was second and won the sprint behind. What better way to celebrate?

Sam Watson celebrates National Championships win with an ice cream
Sam Watson celebrates National Championships win with an ice cream (Image Credit: Olly Hassell/SWpix.com)
Sam Watson celebrates National Championships win with an ice cream
Sam Watson celebrates National Championships win with an ice cream (Image Credit: Olly Hassell/SWpix.com)

Over the Irish Sea, recent road.cc Podcast guest Rory Townsend took his second national title and skipped the ice cream post-race, heading straight for the Guinness.

“It was literally my first pint in six months so the first one was a challenge but after two and three it all went smoothly,” he said. “This is a race that has been a constant factor since I was a kid. It was a pipe dream when I was young and now I have won it twice. As a national champion you literally wear the pride of your country on your chest. You are not only riding for yourself or your team but for your country too. I can’t wait to show our colours in the biggest races.”

 
 
 
 
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30 June 2025, 07:59

Meanwhile at Ironman...

 
 
 
 
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30 June 2025, 07:59

Weekend tech round-up: Eurobike, an impressive review for Cannondale's Synapse Carbon 4, Trek's "big gravel capability at an affordable price" + turn your turbo trainer into a rowing machine?!

Plenty of tech up on the website that you might have missed this weekend. First up, the team at Eurobike were finishing up, Rebecca putting together a round-up of all the most eye-catching stuff they spotted.

TechoftheWeek-2025-06-27
TechoftheWeek-2025-06-27 (Image Credit: Farrelly Atkinson)
TechoftheWeek-2025-06-27
TechoftheWeek-2025-06-27 (Image Credit: Farrelly Atkinson)

One thing on show was the attachment that promises to turn your turbo trainer into a rowing machine, I had some fun with that on Friday afternoon. Away from Eurobike, Aaron has been testing Cannondale’s Synapse Carbon 4. No spoilers, but he was very impressed.

Last night’s Bike at Bedtime was a closer look at Trek’s new Checkpoint ALR bikes: a bike the brand says offers “big gravel capability at an affordable price”. The third-generation Checkpoint ALR brings key features from its carbon sibling to a more accessible aluminium frame – with bigger tyre clearance, a tweaked geometry, and adventure-ready versatility. Check out our piece for all the details.

30 June 2025, 07:59

Remember your sun cream if you don't want to look like the idiot running today's live blog

Cycling sunburn
Cycling sunburn (Image Credit: Farrelly Atkinson)
Cycling sunburn
Cycling sunburn (Image Credit: Farrelly Atkinson)

Tell us you’re a cyclist without telling us you’re a cyclist…

Here’s my contribution to the ridiculous cycling burn line genre, the result of a six-hour shift in the sun yesterday. Nah, looks quite overcast, doesn’t it? Shouldn’t need to take any sun cream with me. What a mistake that was, this live blogger now typing away like a human Squashie sweet.

The mitt lines on my hands are arguably even worse, and that pic’s probably not doing the pinkness justice, so if I go quiet I’ll probably be going through the archives making myself feel better by reliving the times even the pros got it badly wrong, starting with a certain Chris Froome…

Froome sunburn
Froome sunburn (Image Credit: Farrelly Atkinson)
Froome sunburn
Froome sunburn (Image Credit: Farrelly Atkinson)

And Wout van Aert’s on-brand burn…

Visma-Lease a Bike logo sunburnt on Wout van Aert's thigh
Visma-Lease a Bike logo sunburnt on Wout van Aert's thigh (Image Credit: Farrelly Atkinson)
Visma-Lease a Bike logo sunburnt on Wout van Aert's thigh
Visma-Lease a Bike logo sunburnt on Wout van Aert's thigh (Image Credit: Farrelly Atkinson)

 

30 June 2025, 07:59

Superhero top caps

 
 
 
 
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30 June 2025, 07:59

"Flying" cyclists riding "full tilt" into cars spark calls for barriers on bike path – but campaigners say road should be narrowed to slow down drivers instead

Forres cycle path, Sueno's Stone
Forres cycle path, Sueno's Stone (Image Credit: Google Maps)
Forres cycle path, Sueno's Stone
Forres cycle path, Sueno's Stone (Image Credit: Google Maps)

> “Flying” cyclists riding “full tilt” into cars spark calls for barriers on bike path – but campaigners say road should be narrowed to slow down drivers instead

30 June 2025, 07:59

Police force deploys drone to tackle anti-social motorbike use on cycle path

Police drone
Police drone (Image Credit: Carlisle Police)
Police drone
Police drone (Image Credit: Carlisle Police)

Carlisle Police have responded to numerous complaints and concerns about anti-social riding of motorbikes on a cycle path between Dalston and Denton Holme, the force now telling the public it will deploy drone operators to identify riders, bikes and routes being taken. 

Police drone
Police drone (Image Credit: Carlisle Police)
Police drone
Police drone (Image Credit: Carlisle Police)

 

30 June 2025, 07:59

"I still think he's a special rider": Patrick Lefevere turns his attention to Ethan Hayter... and suggests team's "poo sponsor" must love him... even if British rider gives Lefevere "the creeps"

Ethan Hayter, 2022 UCI world time trial championships (Alex Broadway/SWpix.com)
SWpix (Image Credit: Farrelly Atkinson)
Ethan Hayter, 2022 UCI world time trial championships (Alex Broadway/SWpix.com)
SWpix (Image Credit: Farrelly Atkinson)

Death, taxes and Patrick Lefevere penning an outspoken column in a Belgian newspaper. This time his Het Nieuwsblad comments were about British rider Ethan Hayter, the newly crowned national TT champ. Former Soudal Quick-Step boss Lefevere said: “I still think he’s a special rider: a big engine, but always at the back of the peloton.”

Things then took a bizarre turn, Lefevere revealing that the specialist term for the kit sponsor on a rider’s buttocks (in Quick-Step’s case Renson) is… the ‘poo sponsor’.

“Our ‘poo sponsor’ Renson is in the picture all the time, so they benefit from it. Personally, it gives me the creeps. Should Hayter go to the Tour? I wouldn’t do it…”

30 June 2025, 07:59

Tudor brings out limited edition Tour de France watch... because nothing says cycling like paying £4,650 to tell the time (apparently)

Tudor Tour de France watch
Tudor Tour de France watch (Image Credit: Tudor)
Tudor Tour de France watch
Tudor Tour de France watch (Image Credit: Tudor)

Tudor, the watch brand who also sponsor Fabian Cancellara’s pro team, has brought out 300 Pelagos FXD Chrono Yellow in honour of the Tour de France. Apparently Spartacus has already reserved number seven of the 300 individually numbered timepieces, but the remaining 299 are up for grabs for anyone willing to drop £4,650 on a watch.

Who knows, maybe we’ll see Julian Alaphilippe modelling one at the Grand Depart this weekend?

30 June 2025, 07:59

Shimano is trying to figure out why Europe has a "critical" bike mechanic shortage

Shimano mechanic and broken crankset
Shimano mechanic and broken crankset (Image Credit: road.cc)
Shimano mechanic and broken crankset
Shimano mechanic and broken crankset (Image Credit: road.cc)

> Shimano is trying to figure out why Europe has a “critical” bike mechanic shortage

30 June 2025, 07:59

30 June 2025, 07:59

Welcome to Cavendish City! Châteauroux gets a Tour de France-themed rebrand

😍 @Chateauroux36 laisse place à @MarkCavendish City ! 🚴🏼💨

3 victoires d’étape du #TourDeFrance à Châteauroux… Ça méritait bien un clin d’œil ! 👏🏼#TDF2025 💛 pic.twitter.com/lcrTWVQng2

— Gil Avérous (@GilAverous) June 30, 2025

Three Cav Tour wins — 2008, 2011 and 2021 — have earned the Manx Missile the honour of the French city of Châteauroux being renamed… Cavendish City. Mayor Gil Avérous wrote on Twitter: “Three stage victories in the #TourDeFrance at Châteauroux… That deserves a nod!”

30 June 2025, 07:59

"I would like to thank those who took part": Dorset Police praise behaviour at Dom Whiting's latest Drum and Bass on a Bike event

Dom Whiting 01 (copyright Simon MacMichael)
Dom Whiting 01 (copyright Simon MacMichael) (Image Credit: Farrelly Atkinson)
Dom Whiting 01 (copyright Simon MacMichael)
Dom Whiting 01 (copyright Simon MacMichael) (Image Credit: Farrelly Atkinson)

Dom Whiting took his cycling drum and bass event to the seasisde over the weekend, an estimated 2,000 people enjoying the rolling rave in the sunshine. Dorset Police had imposed a set route, but subsequently took the chance to thank those who took part and confirm no incidents were reported.

Chief Inspector Darren Harris said: “I would like to thank those who took part for following the route published by Dorset Police, which we felt was appropriate due to the expected number of participants and for behaving appropriately to ensure the event went ahead without any issues.

“Our officers remain committed to patrolling our towns, countryside and coastlines to ensure everyone can enjoy the wonderful things our county has to offer this summer.”

30 June 2025, 07:59

"Behold my new invisibility cloak": Cyclist knocked off on way to job teaching kids to cycle on the road baffled by how driver "apparently didn't see me" — left "thinking it's more the parents than kids who need lessons"

It’s a bit different to Harry Potter’s but a Threads user called scienceysophie reckons she’s got an invisibility cloak of her own, this bright purple coat and orange helmet apparently not enough to avoid being knocked off her bike.

Sharing a picture of the exact spot it happened, Sophie explained: “Was knocked off my bike in this exact position this morning. Apparently the driver didn’t see me.”

Cyclist's "invisibility cloak"
Cyclist's "invisibility cloak" (Image Credit: Threads/@sciencysophie)
Cyclist's "invisibility cloak"
Cyclist's "invisibility cloak" (Image Credit: Threads/@sciencysophie)

“Fortunately I was riding the sturdy bike [her city bike that’s “built like a tank” and has so far “seen off a Tesla and BMW”] and no damage beyond some scuffs to handlebar and mudguard and slightly bruised shin […] No actual harm done other than being in a bad mood for most of the day.”

You might have already made your guess, but the collision happened by a motorist turning right onto the side road “as quick as she could” (having been flashed by an oncoming driver), cutting the corner and hitting Sophie, a frustratingly common one.

Ironically, Sophie was on her way to work when it happened and she spent the rest of the day “helping children learn how to ride their bikes on the road”, something she’s now increasingly wondering if “it’s more than the parents than kids who need the lessons these days”.

I think most people who’ve cycled for long enough eventually get a ‘SMIDSY’ (sorry mate didn’t see you) story after a while, bonus points for if you were wearing something bright like Sophie was. It’s why commonly heard police advice to riders to wear hi-vis clothing can be frustrating. Yes, personally, I do prefer a brighter jersey in winter months and darker times of day, but that doesn’t mean people who don’t look are going to see it.

Someone else in the comments under Sophie’s post shared their story: “Happened to me at a roundabout a few years ago. I was wearing a bright orange top – lovely old couple who did come back round the roundabout and offered cash to fix the bike – then later told their insurance company that I rode into them. Of course one can pedal backwards on a bike…”

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43 thoughts on ““Behold my new invisibility cloak”: Cyclist knocked off on way to job teaching kids to cycle on the road baffled by how driver “apparently didn’t see me” — left “thinking it’s more the parents than kids who need lessons” + more on the live blog”

  1. Peterjbdk
    June 30, 2025 at 8:26 am
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    A bollard in the middle of

    A bollard in the middle of the junction to prevent the turning right short cut across the outward lane:

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    • Mr Anderson
      June 30, 2025 at 9:09 am
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      That sign and the offence of

      That sign and the offence of driving on the right has now been “decriminalised” no. Not even CyclingMikey bothers with Gandalf Corner now.

      https://youtu.be/g5YfiQIMN0g?feature=shared

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    • Clem Fandango
      June 30, 2025 at 10:20 am
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      I had two drivers pass me by

      I had two drivers pass me by bowling around to the right of one of those (on a traffic island – you know the pedestrian refuge set up) just yesterday.  All either had to do was wait about 5 seconds…..

      Anyway, firstly I was running front & rear cameras and have clear footage (including the reg no’s) which has been submitted to the five-o. I do however expect absolutely sod all to happen as a result.

      Secondly though, instant karma for the driver of the second vehicle (a Tesla) that just blindly followed the first guy through.  As the first drivers vehicle moved back to the correct carriageway it became apparent to driver two that they were now faced with oncoming traffic.  Cue panicked swerve back to the left. And the rear passenger side wheel connecting with the concrete kerb of the traffic island.  And – BANG.  Instantly shredded tyre.  I haven’t giggled so much in ages.

       

        

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      • Mr Anderson
        June 30, 2025 at 10:05 am
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        Looking forward to seeing

        Looking forward to seeing that video.

        I got instant Karma on a Tesla driver who deliberately very closed passed me last year.  I turned up at his house just as he was getting out of his car.

        No words were necessary, the look of shock and horror on his face said it all.

        What really angered me, he was wearing a Whoop on his arm and I thought, “someone who cares about his own health, but doesnt give a s**t about someone elses!”

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      • mitsky
        June 30, 2025 at 10:36 am
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        It would be a shame if the

        It would be a shame if the police did nothing for the island hops.

        I’ve had one driver disqualified for two weeks (after I attended court only to be told to go home by security whilst I was in the waiting area as the driver was shown the footage and THEN owned up to it so I wasn’t even asked to go in to give my verbal evidence), the other driver of the same incident owned up straight away to the NIP
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NaAGC38GDGY

        and another driver on a separate occasion didn’t own up and got the max 6 points and £800+ in fines
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjIB9hjpZ6E

        and this PHV driver manged to delfate his tyre by hitting an island:
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhLJEgq8WW4
        (was the sound similar in Your case?)

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        • Clem Fandango
          June 30, 2025 at 11:02 am
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          yep that’s the noise.  In

          yep that’s the noise.  In fact it’s a double noise on mine so they may have even done both passenger side tyres.

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          • Surreyrider
            June 30, 2025 at 1:36 pm
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            Ha ha! That would be extra

            Ha ha! That would be extra funny for you. Of course, I’m sure the driver thinks it’s your fault

    • chrisonabike
      June 30, 2025 at 1:00 pm
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      That bollard looks like it

      That bollard looks like it may be lacking situational awareness – it probably shouldn’t stand in the road…

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      • ktache
        June 30, 2025 at 6:34 pm
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        They only last a bit of time

        They only last a bit of time if associated with very raised curbs or lampposts.

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    • Mr Blackbird
      June 30, 2025 at 4:21 pm
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      Great idea. They had one of
      Great idea. They had one of those near me in the centre of a road on a blind LH bend which had a RH junction. It’s purpose is to stop vehicles on the road from overtaking cyclists etc on the bend and risking hitting oncoming traffic, or traffic turning left onto the road. After it had been knocked over a few times, it was removed.
      There is some logic in there somewhere, but I couldn’t find it.

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  2. eburtthebike
    June 30, 2025 at 8:40 am
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    I have often thought of

    I have often thought of selling hi-viz equipment as invisibility devices, along with extremely bright lights, as so many drivers can’t see them.

    Has Sophie reported the driver?  I’d feel a bit safer with people like that no longer being in charge of a lethal weapon in public.

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    • whosatthewheel
      June 30, 2025 at 9:45 am
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      To get a text message with a

      To get a text message with a crime number along with a link to an “ask the police” general advice website, and to never hear from them again?

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      • Bungle_52
        June 30, 2025 at 12:36 pm
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        What the police do is out of

        What the police do is out of our control, we can do no more than report it. Imagine how you would feel if you’d done nothing and the next victim was one of your pupils.

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  3. Velophaart_95
    June 30, 2025 at 9:30 am
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    Soon as I saw the photo, I

    Soon as I saw the photo, I knew what had happened to the rider; it’s become a real issue in the last 10 years or so – drivers cutting right hand junctions, and getting angsty if someone is there.

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    • FionaJJ
      June 30, 2025 at 10:39 am
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      It’s been going on for longer

      It’s been going on for longer than that, and many will do it to someone approaching in a car and just expect the other driver to hold back. It’s not even restricted to those wanting to take advantage of a short break in traffic – I see it when the roads are quiet.

      For some it’s the mentality of not wanting to slow down to the speed limit, never mind a speed appropriate for turning into a side street in a residential area. I’ve even had to jump back onto the pavement when a van was cutting the corner so severely and at such speed that they almost took me out as I ventured across the double yellows. Obviously, not bothering to signal either, because they wouldn’t have registered the existence of a pedestrian.

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    • mctrials23
      June 30, 2025 at 11:28 am
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      Theres a lovely road near me

      Theres a lovely road near me that people do this on. Most of the time they completely ignore their own side of the road and use the entireity of the wrong side of the road. Its one of those lovely side roads that invites drivers to act like twats. The entrance is genuinely 3-4x the width of the actual road because its got such a sweep on it. Encourages people to fly in and out of it. Bonus points for it taking 3x as long to cross it due to this and obviously cars are parked on either side of the junction on a main road blocking your view along with some trees. Oh and the final kicker, its a 20 on the side road so people who fly into it are obviously breaking the speed limit. 

      All in all, its just a fucking awful junction like so many of ours. I hate the argument that infrastructure is to blame for shit driving but at this point its the only thing that mitigates the shit driving. We seem to have no appetite to fix bad driving so perhaps we need to treat them like children and make the infra trickier for people to drive like twats through. 

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      • chrisonabike
        June 30, 2025 at 12:20 pm
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        mctrials23 wrote:

        All in all, its just a fucking awful junction like so many of ours. I hate the argument that infrastructure is to blame for shit driving but at this point its the only thing that mitigates the shit driving. We seem to have no appetite to fix bad driving so perhaps we need to treat them like children and make the infra trickier for people to drive like twats through. 

        — mctrials23

        Short: yes, yes we do.  Even in the UK where most drivers are apparently “careful and considerate” and “otherwise law abiding”.

        (The sustainable safety philosophy would perhaps phrase that as “make it impossible to do some very dangerous things, easier to do the right thing – and provide (safe) feedback where people start doing the wrong thing to direct them to do the right thing”).

        The argument as ever is “why not just fix the source of the problem – the drivers”.  Unfortunately this is in fact *really* hard to do.  I’m not aware that this has in fact been done much better than the UK any place – given the pressures in the opposite direction *.  I suspect not even “police states” have really sorted that – unless they’re just effectively preventing most people from driving at all.

        For one there are lots of junctions but there are lots more drivers (who keep getting added to).

        * For another we have a series of feedback loops driven by billions of pounds flowing through them, which has created a system which is designed to encourage humans to drive.  And often to drive faster – or at least we have goals to “reduce journey times and congestion”.

        All that money (and now the status of driving also) – that’s driving the conversation, the ads, the politics, even the dry bureacratic engineering standards. (So junction capacities, corner radii which are safe to drive at the faster speeds people do in fact go in reality because “we want to reduce accidents” e.g. motorists crashing, those outside the vehicles we’re less worried about).

        So yeah “but drivers” … but perhaps we’ve just hit diminishing returns for “better drivers”.  So cheaper and more sure to e.g. just make corners sharper so that some learn they can’t speed – by rolling their vehicles if necessary.

        That doesn’t stop people simply taking the corner using both lanes of course…  So where this is prevalent perhaps a physical divider between lanes at junctions is appropriate?  And more (infra) protection is needed for cyclists.  And indeed for small side-roads making the entrance a ramp up and down, with only room for one motor vehicle at a time…

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    • Surreyrider
      June 30, 2025 at 1:23 pm
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      They never seem to think they

      They never seem to think they’re doing anything wrong whatsoever though (so I’m guessing that dangerously cutting corners is now permissible in the HC).

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  4. brooksby
    June 30, 2025 at 10:38 am
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    Man arrested after two hurt

    Man arrested after two hurt in bike crash (BBC).

    Obviously I clicked on it – https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdxlv4nz922o – and it is total clickbait: when you read the article, its a bloke on a motorcycle who hit two pedestrians surprise To the man on the Clapham Omnibus, a “bike crash” involves a bicycle.

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    • eburtthebike
      June 30, 2025 at 11:47 am
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      This confusion of bikes and

      This confusion of bikes and motorbikes is very common, and some road safety organisations use the former for the latter.

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    • IanMK
      June 30, 2025 at 12:44 pm
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      I saw this headline on
      I saw this headline on Facebook. As you say total clickbait. When you opened the link, the person involved was charged with various offences, such as not having insurance. So they clearly weren’t a cyclist, but why let the facts get in the way

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      • Clem Fandango
        June 30, 2025 at 12:59 pm
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        Yeah it’s the BBC though. 

        Yeah it’s the BBC though.  Israel bombing the crap out of civilians in Gaza is also a “conflict” & not genocide.  They just don’t like that sort of thing being pointed out to them.

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      • eburtthebike
        June 30, 2025 at 3:07 pm
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        The BBC seem to be

        The BBC seem to be deliberately running a campaign to have ebikes banned or controlled, by continually referring to illegal electric motorcycles as “ebikes”.  Given that they spent thirty years trying to depress cycling by emphasising the dangers and promoting helmets, I’m not surprised.

        Got my complaint in about the article on Today R4, which continually referred to illegal electric motorcycles as ebikes, only interviewed someone (IDS) committed to more controls and changing the law.

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        • MaxiMinimalist
          June 30, 2025 at 4:16 pm
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          No doubt the Beebs is
          No doubt the Beebs is following a script and a pre-set agenda – more checks and controls, more expenses and taxes for ebikers.

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        • Mr Blackbird
          June 30, 2025 at 4:46 pm
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          The BBC are maybe trying to
          The BBC are maybe trying to protect the credibility of their highly paid “talent” Adrian Chiles (aka “The Man In The Pub” – analysis through the eyes of a pignoramus, who is interested in very little outside of football and gets most of his info from chatting in his local) after his Panorama programme which confused ebikes and electric motorcycles.

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          • eburtthebike
            June 30, 2025 at 8:11 pm
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            But it wasn’t just Chiles. 

            But it wasn’t just Chiles.  The article I heard on R4 Today a couple of weeks ago conflated ebikes and illegal electric motorcycles, only interviewed Ian Duncan-Smith, the author of the amendment about reckless cycling.  They did say they were trying to get a delivery driver (sic) who rode a bike to take part, but couldn’t contact them.  Even if they had contacted them, it would hardly be fair and balanced, with the author of the amendment versus a member of the public.

  5. FionaJJ
    June 30, 2025 at 10:41 am
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    The comment about the parents

    The comment about the parents needing educating is very valid, but I like to think that any kind of road safety education for children will be filtering its way towards their parents.  In some cases, it’s going to be more effective than publicity campaigns aimed directly at adults. 

    Teach the kids the rules of the road, the Dutch reach and so on, and they’ll pester their parents about it.

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  6. brooksby
    June 30, 2025 at 10:44 am
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    Speed limit to be increased

    Speed limit to be increased at fatal crash site (BBC)

    Yes, you read that right no

    A number of changes had previously been made to the section of the road in 2023, such as reducing the speed limit from 50mph (80 km/h) to 30mph (48 km/h), following the death of a 25-year-old driver there, a council spokesperson said.

    The decision to increase the speed limit had “not been taken lightly”, but the stretch of road had been deemed “unsuitable” for such a low limit, they added.

    According to the authority, Moor Road had undergone several changes following a spate of incidents, and those changes were then subject to a period of monitoring.

    In conjunction with West Yorkshire Police, the council’s road safety team had subsequently found the 30mph speed limit had led to some drivers making “unsafe overtaking manoeuvres” in the area.

    As a result, it had been decided to increase the limit to 40mph, but warning signs, lining and hazard marker posts would all remain in place.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn5kyq7q5kdo

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    • HoldingOn
      June 30, 2025 at 10:59 am
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      Can’t have our ten year olds

      Can’t have our ten year olds restricted to 30mph
      https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cyvjjy5j35zo

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    • Rendel Harris
      June 30, 2025 at 11:07 am
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      Once heard a driver

      Once heard a driver explaining, in all seriousness, that a fatal incident where a pedestrian was killed crossing a 40 mph road wouldn’t have happened if the road had been NSL, “because if he [the driver] had been doing 60 he would have been past her before she stepped into the road, wouldn’t he?” Wonder if that bloke is now working for Bradford Council?

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      • Cycloid
        June 30, 2025 at 2:47 pm
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        You can not argue with that

        You can not argue with that logic. A collision happens when two people want to use the same bit of road at the same time.

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    • chrisonabike
      June 30, 2025 at 11:55 am
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      Our wise heads here who are

      Our wise heads here who are believers in the “natural speed of a road” and worried about “bringing laws into disrepute and creating a culture of resistance to rules” will be nodding along.

      On the one hand, they’re right about human nature.  People *ought* not to break safety rules or get frustrated, but a significant number do, because humans – or rather because humans and the culture we have developed around driving and speed (and just being able to depress the speed pedal further).  And again “because humans” some people *will* drive faster on wide straight roads (although real world measurements with 20mph limits show that merely changing signs does in fact bring the average speed down).

      On the other hand this clearly illustrates why we have the rules.  Since some people are reacting by doing something else more dangerous, surely part of the solution is simply to remove the temptation?

      Of course a) as we’ve seen without physical barriers some drivers won’t stop.  Crossing a double-white line can already be an offence – but there’s no feedback since many police forces aren’t interested (particularly in Lancashire?).

      b) That still leaves the risk of drivers trying to “squeeze by” or just plain driving into cyclists from behind.  There is of course a fix for that too…

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    • the little onion
      June 30, 2025 at 12:10 pm
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      This is a well-cycled route –

      This is a well-cycled route – Moor Road is the continuation of the Cow and Calf, a great and popular climb. 

      It’s also a road with a LOT of blind corners, blind dips, dry stone walls, and sheep wandering onto the road. Frankly, cars shouldn’t be overtaking other cars on that stretch anyway, it is just unsafe to do so in pretty much any section of that road.

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      • Secret_squirrel
        June 30, 2025 at 12:44 pm
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        the little onion wrote:

        This is a well-cycled route – Moor Road is the continuation of the Cow and Calf, a great and popular climb. 

        It’s also a road with a LOT of blind corners, blind dips, dry stone walls, and sheep wandering onto the road. Frankly, cars shouldn’t be overtaking other cars on that stretch anyway, it is just unsafe to do so in pretty much any section of that road.

        — the little onion

        Its clear from the BBC picture that, that bit at least, should be doublewhite lines.  How car brains can consider raising the limit I have no idea.

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  7. Hirsute
    June 30, 2025 at 11:14 am
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    Some old fool almost wiped me
    Some old fool almost wiped me out on a country road yesterday in his land rover. He was too busy avoiding a pigeon to notice he was now driving at me. He just looked up in time.
    Nice to know a pigeon’s life is more valuable than mine.

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  8. bloodylazylayabout
    June 30, 2025 at 11:23 am
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    As soon as someone uses the

    As soon as someone uses the SMIDSY defence that should be an instant ban – it’s an admittance that they should not be in control of a vehicle

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    • mctrials23
      June 30, 2025 at 1:37 pm
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      You might think that. It

      You might think that. It would be akin to working in a restaurant and when you kill someone with an allergy you just say “Sorry mate, I don’t really bother looking to see if the customer has any allergies”. I’m sure the courts would think that was completely OK. 

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  9. Surreyrider
    June 30, 2025 at 1:16 pm
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    “Happened to me at a

    “Happened to me at a roundabout a few years ago. I was wearing a bright orange top – lovely old couple who did come back round the roundabout and offered cash to fix the bike – then later told their insurance company that I rode into them. Of course one can pedal backwards on a bike…”

    Maybe the woman is the same as the one driving the car that hit me on a roundabout and broke my left leg. She admitted in front of several witnesses that it was her fault (couldn’t say otherwise as she joined the rouindabout as I was on it and going round). The told her insiurance company I just fell off. 

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    • HLaB
      June 30, 2025 at 2:01 pm
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      Not a SMIDSY, but involving

      Not a SMIDSY, but involving an old woman on a roundabout.  About 13 years ago on the entry arm to a busy roundabout, I stopped (gave way) and the driver behind (old woman) stopped initially.  The next car on my right was a classic old fashioned sports car (the type with large exposed wheels).  So I continued to give way.  Somehow, she thought the sports car was indicating off the roundabout (despite its big wheels saying otherwise), assumed I would go and accelerated into the back of me.  Lol, her first words were ‘I saw You’, after I calmed down I actually felt sorry for her and offered her a cheap cash settlement (It was my cheap steel fixie) after I got it checked out by a LBS.   The shop quoted me £175. So I sent it to her and got the response, ‘thats awfy dear’ and she elected to go through her insurance.  I could tell the insurance company was rubbing their hands in delight and settled almost immediately.  The poor old woman probably paid for it in the next few years with higher premiums.  Actually I probably saved her a fortune, if I hadn’t been in the way she would have accelerated into the side of a classic car which would have been more than ‘awfy dear’ :-/

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    • bobbinogs
      June 30, 2025 at 2:32 pm
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      Yeah, I got caught at a
      Yeah, I got caught at a roundabout when a car joining on my left as I went around just ploughed straight into me, sent me about 10 feet through the air before landing in a heap. The police asked her what happened and she said “I did see him but I didn’t think I’d hit him”. The police were actually very good, they ended up taking me to A&E when the ambulance failed to arrive and then called me to give me the choice for her: road awareness course or FP/3 points (I chose the former as it seemed a more beneficial outcome for all).

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  10. mdavidford
    June 30, 2025 at 3:16 pm
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    Quote:

    Shimano is trying to figure out why Europe has a “critical” bike mechanic shortage

    From the items that appear regularly on these blogs, you’d think there were plenty of very critical mechanics out there.

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  11. Miller
    June 30, 2025 at 6:36 pm
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    > Tudor brings out limited

    > Tudor brings out limited edition Tour de France watch… because nothing says cycling like paying £4,650 to tell the time (apparently)

    If this alarms you, please do not check out the retail price on the Richard Mille watches that Pogi wears.

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  12. ktache
    June 30, 2025 at 7:31 pm
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    The gorse was popping this

    The gorse was popping this evening. Not the first time this summer either.

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SRAM’s refined Maven brakes, a World Champion’s signature grips, Orbea’s latest Terra gravel bike and more from Title and Crankbrothers
SRAM’s refined Maven brakes, a World Champion’s signature grips, Orbea’s latest Terra gravel bike and more from Title and Crankbrothers
This week's Five Cool Things plus the best stories of the week
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I’ve ridden a 32-inch wheel, and now, I think we’re overlooking its gravelly potential
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Topeak Turboflow Valve Combo W/Rapidhead
Topeak Turboflow Valve Combo W/Rapidhead
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Can 32” wheels live up to the hype?: Starling Big Bird first ride review
Can 32” wheels live up to the hype?: Starling Big Bird first ride review
In what might be one of the first published reviews of a full-sus bike featuring one 32" wheel, we take Starling's 32/29 mulleted Big Bird for a spin... is it all marketing hype, or genuinely beneficial?
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WTB Solano SL saddle
WTB Solano SL saddle
Comfortable, light and supportive - not built for epics, but a great choice for shorter, hard rides
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Race Face’s carbon Era eMTB wheels get 130Nm hub rating and lifetime warranty
Race Face’s carbon Era eMTB wheels get 130Nm hub rating and lifetime warranty
Fresh carbon hoops built especially for e-mountain bikes are built to cope with high torque and achieve rim-specific constructions
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Pinnacle Energy
Pinnacle Energy
An easy to get along with everyday e-bike
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“We’ve been hit hard”: Organised crime gang steals “practically everything” from Barcelona e-bike brand’s warehouse in shocking overnight raid
“We’ve been hit hard”: Organised crime gang steals “practically everything” from Barcelona e-bike brand’s warehouse in shocking overnight raid
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ebiketips partners with Everything Electric for 2026! Here’s how your e-bike brand could get involved in the world’s top electric vehicle and home energy show
ebiketips partners with Everything Electric for 2026! Here’s how your e-bike brand could get involved in the world’s top electric vehicle and home energy show
It's not all cars... there will be loads of e-bike goodness at Everything Electric in 2026 too! Whether you represent an e-bike brand or business and want to exhibit - or you just want to attend one of the shows - here's everything you need to know
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“The electric bike that won’t be stolen”: This full-size e-bike can fold down in six seconds, according to the brand launching it in the UK
“The electric bike that won’t be stolen”: This full-size e-bike can fold down in six seconds, according to the brand launching it in the UK
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Enigma partners with e-bike conversion kit specialist Skarper to add electric assist to its titanium bikes
Enigma partners with e-bike conversion kit specialist Skarper to add electric assist to its titanium bikes
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Merida eOne-Forty 675 EQ
Merida eOne-Forty 675 EQ
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New Jersey blanket e-bike licence and registration law will remove “a viable alternative to cars from the road”
New Jersey blanket e-bike licence and registration law will remove “a viable alternative to cars from the road”
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Specialized delivers Levo 4 power boost with free OTA update
Specialized delivers Levo 4 power boost with free OTA update
18-22% performance increase plus new features delivered to e-MTB via app
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Latest Comments

RayG 1 hour ago

"Up to 24hrs riding per charge" according to the kickstarter. As if that was a good thing. I used to get 3000km, so ~120hrs at my slow speed, from my Quarq.

in: Cleat-based CycloWatt power meter launches on Kickstarter, promising easy swaps and low cost
Destroyer666 3 hours ago

You seem to be completely oblivious to the main difference between this and a Quad Lock (and a bunch of others) - that this type of mount does not necessitate any type of patches or covers with proprietary locking mechanisms to be stuck on your phone to actually work. For example I rate that feature highly, and therefore for me e.g. Quad Lock is far inferior compared to the SKS mount.

in: Could the new SKS Smartgrab be the affordable phone mounting solution we’re all looking for? Plus new Knog Blinder lights, a new 4iiii HRM with huge battery life, self-cleaning water bottles are here (just not for cycling yet) + more
quadtodd 4 hours ago

I’m sorry, where did the article say cassette? “…and five sprockets at the back…” Every bike had the potential problem of bent (or broken axles, held together by the force of the quick release) not just Trek. We had to fix them!

in: Trek is 50: let’s look back at its first bike
super_davo 4 hours ago

So its 3% accurate, its single sided, its going to wear out, it looks hideous, its a kickstarter that you may never receive, and it costs more than the wave of spider based power meters on AliExpress (including the GeoID PM500, which is a rebadged version of the highly rated Magene PS505). I'm out....

in: Cleat-based CycloWatt power meter launches on Kickstarter, promising easy swaps and low cost
john1967 4 hours ago

Surely the more logical solution for preventing shoplifters getting away would be to remove the shops.

in: Work begins on £2.17m removal of controversial cycle lane dubbed ‘Britain’s most-hated’
tomlew 4 hours ago

That's one option, and let's hope that's exactly the case. Otherwise they might wake up to a very unpleasant surprise.

in: Cleat-based CycloWatt power meter launches on Kickstarter, promising easy swaps and low cost
mdavidford 5 hours ago

Street trees being overblown does seem like a reasonable thing to be concerned about. Particularly this time of year.

in: “It feels like little shards of broken glass”: 13-year-old girl injured on new cycle lane surface, as council faces safety questions
Mr Blackbird 6 hours ago

Apologies JOHN5880.

in: The dastardly dozen: The 12 ugliest pro cycling kits of all time… Where does the Ineos Grenadiers’ orange and grey monstrosity rank?
slc 6 hours ago

At least the good folk of Clevedon can see that £ 425 k to reverse some painting and chuck away a few bollards was, relatively speaking, a bargain. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp9rv0nxv54o

in: Work begins on £2.17m removal of controversial cycle lane dubbed ‘Britain’s most-hated’
GMBasix 6 hours ago

Concerns over street trees are often overblown. Many older trees are not species that would now be planted as street trees, which also points to the fact that many large trees are actually at or near the end of their reasonable life. Trees are important. Street trees can perform multiple roles (though those roles are not often maximised). However, not all trees perform well as street trees. Street trees should serve the use of the street. If they don't, they should be replaced appropriately.

in: “It feels like little shards of broken glass”: 13-year-old girl injured on new cycle lane surface, as council faces safety questions

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