Battered Holdsworth-Campagnolo cycling team bag from 1970s (with Milk Race sticker) available on Facebook Marketplace… for £450; Wider cycle lanes only for faster e-bikes, not “regular” cyclists, Trump fans say; TNT hits parliament + more on the live blog
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Another day, another Lime bike story…
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Cycling coverage saga hits parliament: MP set to lead Commons debate on new TNT Sports paywall, arguing price hike could be “straw that breaks camel’s back” for cycling in the UK and urging government to secure sport’s future
The debate over Warner Bros. Discovery’s controversial decision to move its cycling coverage from Eurosport to TNT Sports in the UK and Ireland, hiking up the price for a monthly subscription by 343 per cent in the process, has been rumbling now for over a month on social media, cycling sites, and in the national press.
And this morning, it’s set to hit parliament.
At 11am, Conservative MP and cycling fan Ben Obese-Jecty will lead a debate in Westminster Hall on the future of cycling coverage in the UK, as he aims to raise concerns about cycling’s move behind “a significantly larger paywall” at TNT, as well as the impending demise of ITV4’s free-to-air coverage of the Tour de France.
According to the Huntingdon MP, who pointed out that cycling “is going to become a prohibitively expensive luxury to a huge number of fans” when Discovery first announced the move in January, the lack of accessible TV coverage of bike racing could have a negative impact on the uptake of cycling in the UK.
“Free-to-air coverage is vital not only for entertainment, but it also acts as inspiration for people to get into the sport,” Obese-Jecty said in a statement this morning before the debate.
“The impact that Grand Tour and Olympic success over the past decade has seen a huge positive impact on the British cycling scene leading to a world class talent pipeline at one end, and people leading healthier lives at the other.
“Sadly, in the cases of sports like cycling, a lack of visibility of these events has a damaging effect on participation and the sport more widely.
“Given the challenges professional cycling is having in the UK, this could be the straw that breaks the camel’s back for what is one of Britain’s greatest sporting success stories in recent years.
“I have secured this Westminster Hall debate to press the Government to do what they can to secure the future of cycling. We need cycling blue ribbon events to receive live free-to-air coverage so that the next generation can be inspired in the same way we were.”
We’ll have more on this story when the debate takes place later this morning.
Your poor, poor stomach during a bike ride: A theatrical interpretation
Yep, the relatability factor is high on this one, right down to the much-needed (in our eyes, anyway) end-of-ride Coke and pizza.
Although it’s giving me flashbacks to when I had a weekend job in a shop during my junior days, and would finish a race and immediately head off to start my shift.
Let’s just say the caffeine gels were always up for a party when I was busy scanning through groceries, and leave it at that…
Reading Council considering creating cross-party ‘task and finish group’ to scrutinise local authority’s cycling and walking plans – after complaints about puddle-filled, poorly protected, bumpy bike lane
In Reading – where a cycle lane was recently described as a “good initiative badly implemented” due to its bumpy surface, lack of protection near junctions, and tendency to flood – a proposal is currently being considered to create a cross-party task force which will scrutinise the council’s delivery of active travel projects.
According to the proposal, which will be debated at a meeting of Reading Council’s Strategic Environment, Planning, and Transport (SEPT) committee next week, a ‘task and finish group’ made up of a group of councillors will be able to take evidence from external and internal stakeholders to “identify examples of best practice and areas for improvement”, and make recommendations on the future of Reading’s active travel plans.
A range of cycling and walking initiatives have been implemented in Reading in recent years – some more successful than others, mind you – as part of the council’s Transport Strategy 2040, which aims to reduce private car use and improve the health and wellbeing of residents.
Will Cross, the chair of SEPT, has requested that a task and finish group be set up to scrutinise the design, funding, and delivery of these active travel schemes and initiatives, to assess what is “working well and where improvements can be made”.
“The council has taken a lot of positive action on cycling and walking in recent years and a cross-party task and finish group would be an effective way of looking at what is working well and where improvements could be made,” Cross said today.
“It would be particularly useful to hear the views of interested parties so the group can develop an overarching view of the council’s active travel strategy and make recommendations on how we can improve on the implementation of its goals and best deliver its objectives.”
Meanwhile, John Ennis, Reading’s lead councillor for climate strategy and transport, added: “Active travel is a key part of Reading’s local transport plan and its objectives of creating a cleaner and greener town and supporting healthy lifestyles.
“The council has made great progress with delivering cycling and walking schemes but these projects are dependent on securing funding from central government.
“We have ambitions to develop more strategic and local pedestrian and cycle routes, safer school travel, public space enhancements and much more, and the creation of a task and finish group will help provide a focus on the delivery of these schemes.”
One of these recent schemes, a seemingly protected cycle lane on Shinfield Road in the south of Reading, has attracted some unwanted scrutiny in recent years, however.
In fact, upon its completion in March 2023, the infrastructure became the subject of ridicule almost immediately, when a council video extolling the benefits of the supposedly ‘segregated’ lane was interrupted by a motorist driving a van straight over it, before veering back onto the road at the last moment to avoid hitting the oblivious council official.
A month later, a local cyclist also criticised the layout and surface used for the new lane, arguing that a “good initiative badly implemented won’t work” to encourage more people to ride their bikes in Reading.
“The surface on the cycle paths they create is bumpy. It would be acceptable for a pavement but not for a cycle path,” Reading cyclist Leonid Yanovich said at the time.
“I will not cycle on this bumpy surface, which pushes me into more danger than before the ‘improvements’ on the narrow remains of the car lanes.”
And just before Christmas 2024, the lane made headlines once again, thanks to a huge and persistent puddle located just before a set of traffic lights, leading to complaints from numerous cyclists, who claimed they had to swerve back into the path of drivers to avoid it, with one rider reportedly being “nearly knocked off his bike” by a motorist as he was unexpectedly forced to exit the bike path.
So, plenty to scrutinise, then…
“The cycling boom that formed part of the London 2012 legacy is now in danger of being dropped by the peloton”
As promised this morning, here’s the full story of Tory MP Ben Obese-Jecty’s attempt to intervene in the great TNT Sports price hike debate and the loss of ITV’s free-to-air Tour de France coverage – a matter Sports Minister Stephanie Peacock dismissed today in parliament as “not a matter for the government”:
> Sports Minister dismisses Tory MP’s concerns that £30.99 a month TNT subscription will lead to cycling “disappearing behind paywall” in Westminster Hall debate, saying “it’s not for the government to intervene”
Route of first women’s Milan-Samremo in 20 years unveiled, featuring 156km course starting in Genoa and including traditional Tre Capi, Cipressa, and Poggio finish
Just when I thought my spring classics anticipation levels couldn’t get any higher, RCS have unveiled the route for this year’s long-awaited Milan-Sanremo Women reboot, the first women’s edition of La Primavera for two decades.
A women’s Sanremo, called the Primavera Rosa, was briefly held from 1999 to 2005, and featured the final 118km of the traditional route, culminating in the iconic Cipressa and Poggio showdown.
The race then lay dormant for 20 years, until it emerged last autumn that RCS, who had recently taken over the Giro Donne, were intent on following in the wheel tracks of Paris-Roubaix and Liège-Bastogne-Liège by becoming the latest monument to capitalise on the growth of women’s cycling over the past decade by belatedly organising a women’s race.
Taking place on the same day as the men’s race on Saturday 22 March, the revamped 2025 Sanremo Women will feature a longer 156km route (still a fair way short of the men’s 298km, mind you – sort it out, UCI), which will start in Genoa before joining the traditional course along the Italian Riviera.
Along the coast, the riders will take on the familiar finale – where that orchestral arrangement (the cliched if fitting metaphor cycling hacks love to deploy to describe the race’s subtle dramatic narrative) begins to steadily build to a crescendo – starting with the ‘Tre Capi’ of the Capo Mele, Capo Cervo, and Capo Berta, followed by the Cipressa and, of course, the Poggio, before plunging down onto the Via Roma.
And with Lotte Kopecky, Elisa Longo Borghini, Demi Vollering, and the flying Lorena Wiebes all set to line up in Genoa in 17 days, it’s already shaping up to be a cracker.
‘Okay, okay, don’t worry – Timothée is going to come back soon with an acoustic bike’
It has come to my attention that some folks still have not seen the term “acoustic bike” (as in, not an ebike) and in case that’s you, today is your lucky day
— Gretchen McCulloch (@gretchenmcc.bsky.social) March 4, 2025 at 3:00 AM
So does this mean anyone who rides an e-bike is a traitor to the folk cycling scene? Probably best not to go there, actually…
Former Conservative Minister for Transport Trudy Harrison appointed as Chair of the Bikeability Trust
In more Conservative Party and cycling crossover news, Trudy Harrison, the former Tory MP and Minister for Transport, has been appointed as chair of the Bikeability Trust, the UK’s national cycle training programme
In a statement announcing her appointment, Harrison – who was responsible for active travel during her initial tenure at the Department for Transport, which coincided with the creation of Active Travel England – said: “Enabling more people to walk, wheel and cycle safely has been a major focus throughout my career, and I am delighted to take on the role as chair at The Bikeability Trust.
“Supporting children and families to develop the confidence to cycle is critical in creating a healthier future for Britain. Bikeability has done incredible work delivering high-quality cycle training, and I look forward to helping drive this vital work forward.”
With Harrison, who taught Bikeability when she was a school governor, now at the helm, the trust says it aims to expand its current reach, “ensuring more communities can benefit from high-quality cycle training”.
“We are thrilled to welcome Trudy as our new Chair,” Emily Cherry, the Bikeability Trust’s chief executive, said.
“Her passion and deep understanding of the work we do will be invaluable in championing our mission to make cycling and independent travel accessible to all.
“With Trudy’s guidance, we look forward to strengthening our work with government, local authorities, and industry partners to embed Bikeability and cycling as an essential life skill.”
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Save of the Day
Oof. A lucky escape for Ineos’ young French rider Axel Laurance there, after a momentary lapse of concentration with around 25km to go during today’s Trofeo Laigueglia.
To be fair, he did well to keep the bike up – and he’ll definitely think twice before looking in the breakaway around next time…
Juan Ayuso continues blistering start to 2025 with dominant win in four-up sprint at Trofeo Laigueglia after enthralling, attacking display
It’s bad enough that UAE Team Emirates already have one of the greatest bike riders of all time, who looks capable of winning any race – including Paris-Roubaix – he wants, if he feels like it.
Now, in Juan Ayuso, they’ve also got someone seemingly ready to win all the races Tadej Pogačar isn’t that fussed about, too.
The Spanish star’s start to the season – which was only five days ago, of course – couldn’t have gone much better. After finishing tenth on debut at the Faun-Ardèche in France on Saturday, Ayuso took an impressive solo victory at the Faun Drome Classic.
And this afternoon, he confirmed Jim Steinman’s theory that two out of three ain’t bad by producing another ominously powerful, attacking display to win the Trofeo Laigueglia, easily dispatching Christian Scaroni, Michael Storer, and Neilson Powless in the sprint to secure the tenth victory of his young career.
After first attempting to surge clear of the pack on the Colla Micheri climb with 20km to go, the 22-year-old launched a series of blistering, brutal bursts on the race’s finishing circuit. Each time, however, Astana’s Scaroni was able to follow, with Powless and Storer able to bridge during the breathers that followed on the run-in.
And while he wasn’t able to go solo this time, Ayuso kept his cool during the tense, tactical finale, powering clear in the final few hundred metres for what in the end proved an ominously comfortable victory.
“It was the place I was missing, one time third, one time second, and now finally I also have the win, the place I was missing which was first,” the Spaniard said in his post-race interview.
“I’m glad I could finish off the work of the team, we set a hard pace on the climbs and in the final circuit, I always had a teammate with me to cover any movement.
“I was quite confident, the only thing I didn’t want was for more people to join from the back because then they could attack with one or two kilometres to go and you never know, so I just wanted a sprint with the guys who were there. I was quite confident in my sprint to be able to win.”
Reflecting on his ambitions for the rest of the season, which include next week’s Tirreno-Adriatico, Ayuso said: “The big goal is the Giro d’Italia, but we start Tirreno next, which is a race I really like. Last year I was second and I won a stage, so I really want to improve on that.”
The UAE world domination plan continues to slot into place…
“They would intervene if it was football”
Today’s Westminster Hall debate, which saw sports minister Stephanie Peacock describe the increasing inaccessibility of cycling TV coverage as “not a matter for the government”, has certainly got quite a few of you talking.
There was this cutting-edge analysis from Rendel Harris in the comments:
Meanwhile, Jaymack experienced an existential crisis when he found out who was urging the government to intervene and make cycling free again.
“I’m afraid my brain was fried by the sentence that contained the words ‘Conservative MP… member of British Cycling… keen cyclist himself’. All my prejudices turned upside down,” he wrote.
Meanwhile, over on Facebook, Martin vented: “We’ve gone backwards. For 30 years I’ve watched Eurosport cycling coverage both analogue and digital. Now it’s gone. So will my Sky subscription.
“The only reason I have Sky is for Eurosport. I’m not paying £30 per month to subsidise football fans. They’ll never show cycling in a pub either. Like most cyclists, other sports hold no interest for me. Shame on Warner/Discovery +. You’ve no idea.”
“They would intervene if it was football,” noted Les. Very true, Les, very true.
Likewise, Darren wrote: “Let’s have TNT buy Wimbledon next. See how it quickly they drop everything to block it.”
“It’s not for the government to intervene yet they will quite happily send the heavies round to your house to extract money with threats for the BBC. The hypocrisy is off the scale,” added James.
Now that’s a whole other can of worms…
“This is New York, not the Tour de France”: Wider cycle lanes “only serve” e-bike delivery riders and don’t benefit “regular” cyclists claim Republicans, as new plans branded “anti-car insanity” and “revenge” for Trump calling for routes to be scrapped
Over in the land of the bus-filled ‘protected’ cycle lane, New York, Republican councillors and pro-car activists have bizarrely argued that a recent proposal by the city’s Department of Transportation to widen a popular protected bike route will fail to benefit “regular” cyclists and only “serve” delivery riders on faster e-bikes – a claim dismissed as “laughable” by, you guessed it, regular cyclists.
About a month ago, you may remember, the United States’ reality TV president Donald Trump proclaimed that he wanted to “kill” New York’s congestion pricing policy, as well as “getting rid” of the Big Apple’s bike lanes, arguing that reduced traffic is bad for business and a sign that “people can’t come into” the city.
“They should get rid of the bike lanes and the sidewalks in the middle of the street. They’re so bad. They’re dangerous. These [electric] bikes go at 20 miles an hour. They’re whacking people,” the former Tour de Trump bike race organiser said in February (apparently, he’s been preoccupied with other things since then, though I’m sure you haven’t noticed…).
Since then, New York’s Department of Transportation (DOT) has responded to the Donald’s intervention by approving plans, first almost unveiled a year ago, to widen the existing cycle lane on Sixth Avenue from six-foot to 10-foot-wide, by removing one of the four lanes currently available to motorists.
“We’re hoping we can increase the width of the bike lane to accommodate the higher volumes, the greater mix of faster and slower bikes and also wider bikes,” the DOT’s project manager Preston Johnson said in a recent committee meeting.
According to the agency, the number of cyclists using the Sixth Avenue cycle lane increased by 21 per cent on weekdays between 2019 and 2024, and by 54 per cent on weekends. However, during that period, there have also been 345 reported collisions involving cyclists on Sixth Avenue, including four fatalities.
The DOT also noted that the avenue has already been reduced to three car lanes to the north and south of the project in any case, making it “low-hanging fruit” to widen the cycle lane.
The Sixth Avenue cycle lane in its current guise
But despite this sound reasoning, it’s fair to say that local Republicans and pro-car campaigners have responded… not so calmly to the DOT’s proposals.
“This is New York City, not the Tour de France,” New York City Council’s Republican leader Joann Ariola said (originally) in a New York Post article this week, the headline of which referred to the DOT as “car-hating bureaucrats”.
“The anti-car insanity has gotten so extreme,” she continued. “The Department of Tyrants is not just trying to make it impossible for anyone to drive in this city, it is willing to jeopardise the safety of New Yorkers by creating conditions that will seriously impede emergency responders. Where is Elon Musk and DOGE when you need them?”
“It sounds like revenge over Trump weighing in on congestion pricing and promising to axe bike lanes, and also further proof that the DOT has been completely co-opted by radical bike nuts that don’t care about the biz world,” added Jason Curtis Anderson, the co-founder and policy director at the One City Rising grassroots group.
A section of the cycle that’s already been widened
Meanwhile, Manhattan-based campaigner Maria Danzilo also told the Post that the changes will make the avenue less safe because vehicles “will have a harder time navigating” it.
“This is really serving the delivery-app lobby and delivery workers who use [electric bikes] because regular bikes aren’t served by this change,” she said.
That particular argument has been fiercely criticised on social media, with Vincent Barone, a press secretary at the DOT, describing it as “laughable”.
“Setting aside that every worker deserves to be safe on the job, the idea that a widened bike lane wouldn’t benefit ‘regular’ cyclists is so laughable no wonder not a single rider is quoted,” he wrote on BlueSky.
“Because the Post won’t talk to a ‘regular’ cyclist in the city, I’ll give my opinion as one,” added New York cyclist Cooper Lund.
“Not only does widening bike lanes make me safer as someone who is slower than an e-bike and has to get passed by much faster bikes in a narrow space, it doesn’t go far enough.
“We need dedicated micromobility lanes for traffic that lives in the electric motor space of ‘not a car, but much faster than a human can power something’. It’s the future of transportation and the sooner we can embrace it for everyone, the faster it can transform our cities.”
Another road safety advocate, StreetsPAC’s executive director Eric McClure, also said the group “strongly supports” the redesign, which he believes will keep cyclists safer while only having a negligible impact on traffic.
“We’ve all seen the data on the reduction in traffic volumes since congestion pricing was implemented, and the eye test shows that three travel lanes are plenty for free-flowing motor vehicle traffic,” he said.
Elsewhere, Barone criticised many of the other claims made in the New York Post article as “demonstrably untrue”.
“The DOT‘s data shows the removal of a lane to bring life-saving upgrades won’t bring any real change to car speeds, even if we had pre-congestion relief zone volumes,” he pointed out, dimissing Ariola’s claims that the plans will bring gridlock. “The agency modelled the project using pre-toll vehicle counts. So there’s even more room to work with before touching speeds.
“Another: Most of 6th Ave is *already three lanes*. This just brings the remaining stretch from 14th to 35th to three lanes, eliminating merging and making it easier for drivers to navigate. It’s common sense. All research shows these projects help save the lives of pedestrians, cyclists, and people in cars.
“Traffic safety is public safety. Let’s remember the stakes. There were four people killed on 6th Avenue from 2019 to 2024 along this stretch alone. Another 25 people were seriously injured.”
But hey, it’s only going to help delivery riders on e-bikes, right?
‘Ow much? Battered old Holdsworth-Campagnolo team bag – complete with Milk Race sticker – available to buy on Facebook Marketplace… for the low, low price of £450
Are you an avid collector of British cycling memorabilia and on the look-out for a battered piece of discoloured 1970s team gear – we’ll call it heritage – including a somewhat anachronistic sticker as a bonus?
Or maybe you’re about to pull the trigger on that two grand Paul Smith 531 Rapha jersey you’ve been eyeing up for years on eBay and need something as equally eye-wateringly expensive to store it in?
Well, in any case, I have just the item for you. Because over on the wonderful world of Facebook marketplace, we spotted this beauty:
That extremely stylish team bag belonged to Holdsworth-Campagnolo, the legendary orange-and-blue British squad from the 1970s, home to top UK pros such as Colin Lewis, Les West, and Keith Lambert.
> Rapha jersey designed by Sir Paul Smith on sale on eBay … for £10,000
Not only is the bag still in ‘good’ condition according to the seller, it also contains – rather oddly – a lovely frayed sticker from the 1980 Milk Race, an edition of what was then the Tour of Britain dominated by the Soviets, with Ivan Mishchenko triumphing overall (Neil Martin, Dan’s dad, was the best-placed British finisher in eighth).
I say odd, because the 1980 Milk Race took place two years after the Holdsworth-Campagnolo team folded, a victim of the economic turmoil gripping late 1970s Britain that reduced the British domestic pro scene to its bare bones (sound familiar?).
So, what would you have to fork out to own this wonderful, slightly confusing, slice of British cycling history? Well, at the minute, the seller is looking just… £450.
Yikes. Bit out of my price range I’m afraid. How much for the sticker on its own?
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To carry on my argument from yesterday. This is an incident between two employees on private land at their place of work. I'm not sure things like the RTA apply. I think the only potential charge would be manslaughter. At my old company we had Forklift drivers that didn't have a driving license. We had procedures, risk assessments, training etc to allow them operate the FL. There were rules they had to follow if they didn't want to be on a disciplinary. From the Centre Parcs statement I would suggest that their corrective action / risk assessment is to concentrate on training and whilst they are recommending use of helmet their own findings are not saying that this should be mandatory. We of course do not know the outcome of the HSE report (ie were their procedures sufficient/were they fined) or what disciplinary action was taken against the employee. As an aside I knew somebody that knocked over and injured a pedestrian in a supermarket carpark. I know his insurance company massively increased his premiums but I never heard that the police were involved at any stage.
Well probably not the bit when it's being lifted to tip into the truck.
Re : Operation Snap. The State treats cyclists suffering a nearmiss as the witness to an offence, the State being the victim. IMO this is one of the main issues that cyclists need to campaign against. Remember when indecent exposure was seen as a victimless crime ; you'd witnessed bad behaviour. Now I can use this comparison because as a 13 year-old boy living right next to Cliffe Castle Park , in Keighley, I was regularly flashed at . I ran away and was deeply distressed/disturbed by the behaviour witnessed. I'd say I was the victim of a crime but that's not how it was back then (>40 years ago) and that's how it is now for cyclists. Only concerted effort will change things. Let's start a letter writing campaign to our MPs. We could post the answers on the forum. A bet it's already happened.
I will bet money that it is procedure that the bin and bin-person have to stay connected at all times whilst the bin is being moved.
Whilst the company has noted the incident and is taking action ("training") I would hope they take this very seriously. Not just for public safety but their own bottom line. If the cyclist had been seriously hurt the company would have face a big public liability claim. And unless I'm seeing it wrong (the clip could be distorted), I think it looks like there could have been enough of a gap next to the lorry for the driver of a small car (or motorcyclist) to squeeze through. So any damage to a vehicle would also have been costly.
They'd probably refuse to take any action, so it would be a waste of time. It looks like he found a better disposal anyway - trash them through road.cc.
@lesterama Belgium team lucky ICE didn't shoot them
Wait. I didn't realise that the victim, Penny Bulpitt, was stationary at the time of the collision. (Not that it makes any difference, even if she was moving the major responsibility to avoid a collision is usually on the road user behind.) Quote Among other things, he said that there was, “a reasonable possibility that Mr Davies saw Mrs Bullpitt but did not register that she was stationary until a collision was unavoidable." End quote That line alone should be considered enough to charge the driver with careless, if not dangerous, driving. This makes the result of the whole case and Centre Parcs actions and the reporting almost entirely focussing on helmet use absolutely ludicrous. If the situation was the same but the victim was simply someone standing still, then this would have been a KSI leading to a 6 or 7 £ figure public/employee liability claim and also potentially involve the Health and Safety Executive. But no, as it involves someone on a bike, it is basically the cyclist's fault for not wearing a helmet. I am usually angered by reports of dangerous drivers facing lenient or non-existent punishments but this is something else.
This is pretty much the definition of motornormative. If you drive around a blind corner too fast to stop if there's an obstacle, that's reckless. Simple.
Belgium team lucky ICE didn't detain them indefinitely
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Pointless pedantry: strictly
Pointless pedantry: strictly speaking Westminster Hall debates don’t take place in Westminster Hall. Westminster Hall is the massive old hall in the Houses of Parliament where the late Queen laid in state. The debates take place in the Geand Committee room which is just off the Hall.
To be even more pointlessly
To be even more pointlessly pedantic, as you intimate the Grand Committee room is part of the larger building known as Westminster Hall so it would be more accurate to say that the debates don’t take place in the main chamber of Westminster Hall.
Rendel Harris wrote:
Parliament’s website doesn’t agree with you https://www.parliament.uk/visiting/visiting-and-tours/watch-committees-and-debates/westminster-hall-debates/ “MPs also debate in the Grand Committee Room just off Westminster Hall. “
Well if you’re going to
Well if you’re going to believe everything that Parliament tells you…
The GCR is indeed just off Westminster Hall, as in just off the great chamber known as Westminster Hall, but it is still within the building containing said chamber, which is also known as Westminster Hall. For example, see the Parliamentary website here, where it describes the “Committee Room called the Grand Committee Room, Westminster Hall.”
Steve K wrote:
No such thing!
Well yes there obviously is,
Well yes there obviously is, or the phrase wouldn’t exist.
Oh, don’t be so pedantic!
Oh, don’t be so pedantic! 😉
Bertrand Russell and Ludwig
Bertrand Russell and Ludwig Wittgenstein would like a word.
rct wrote:
So does the phrase “You’re chasing after unicorns” mean that unicorns exist?
Rendel Harris wrote:
<dreams:shattered>
GMBasix wrote:
brooksby wrote:
Mr Inbetween: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfDGgjSAy0E and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhpDTqyppkQ (possibly also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kutfakF6Ng)
Also available in beer form?
Also available in beer form?
Steve K wrote:
Very strictly, they actually take place in the Grand Committee Room.
Now that’s pedantic!
Steve K wrote:
I feel there is a much lower calibre of pedantry yet to be plumbed here!
Way ahead of you
Way ahead of you
Oh dear. With that little
Oh dear. With that little attention to detail I shall absent myself from pedant’s corner.
I’m just surprised no-one has
I’m just surprised no-one has taken issue with the dubious use of the word ‘debates’ yet…
Are you thinking of the Oval
Are you thinking of the Oval Office maybe?
“Gentleman you can’t fight in here, this is the War Room!“
Re: TV coverage.
Re: TV coverage.
Cancelled Discovery+ after cyclocross WC. Would normally be excited for the Spring but didn’t watch either race at the weekend of course. Haven’t even bothered to find out the results. Without fairly priced TV access pro cycling may lose my engagement entirely. Sad how far it’s fallen from the GCN+ days.
“The anti-car insanity has
“The anti-car insanity has gotten so extreme”
*Checks notes*
Before: cars have 60′ of 66′ roadway
After: cars have 56′ of 66′ roadway
AidanR wrote:
Well, yeah – that 4′ makes all the difference. That’s, like, the passenger seat in an SUV. WHERE IS THE PASSENGER GOING TO SIT???
To New York City Council’s
To New York City Council’s Republican leader Joann Ariola (and anyone else) complaining the wider cycle lanes “…will seriously impede emergency responders.”
We already have several clips of a two way bike lane in London HELPING emergency services BYPASS gridlocked motor traffic:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncH3j7Lto2c
That might not help because
That might not help because of the size of their trucks…
I know there are some differences / pressures on US firefighters which don’t apply here (for one some of them essentially touting for business as ambulances / first responders). But their trucks are basically too big, but the top brass like it partly because “big and boxy better” AFAIKS.
This is New York City, not
This is New York City, not the Monaco Grand Prix.
-or-
This is New York City, not Houston, Texas.
Quote:
“Grassroots”? Yeah, right…
“This is New York, not the
“This is New York, not the Tour de France” x “a lack of visibility of these events has a damaging effect on participation and the sport more widely.”
Looking for the silver lining – I can only hope that the imminent demise of free coverage means that soon the “not in the Tour de France” jibe will die out too.
Did I get this right. The
Did I get this right? The cycle lane is anti business because it only serves (checks notes) business (ie delivery) users.
Ah, but those “business users
Ah, but those “business users” are probably immigrants (lunatics, gang members and murderers no doubt) and – regardless – they should be buying great (big) American cars instead!
They’re eating the dogs. They
They’re eating the dogs. They’re eating the cats. Those illegal cyclists.
And creating transgender mice
And creating transgender mice.
Transgender/ transgenic it’s the same thing.
What wokery is this? I
What wokery is this? I thought those tech-bros were there to save us from the “mind virus”?
The Milk Race sticker on the
The Milk Race sticker on the Holdsworth bag is even more anachronistic than it appears at first glance because the race was amateurs-only until 1985, so even if HC hadn’t folded two years previously they wouldn’t have been racing in it anyway.