For fork’s sake…how not to increase tyre clearance; Olympic track rider taken to hospital with lung contusion after keirin crash; Messi to Ineos?; UAE beef up Pogacar’s support; Jack Carlin wins sprint bronze; Gold medal reaction + more on the live blog
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Olympic track rider Laurine van Riessen taken to hospital with lung contusion after keirin crash
😬 Oh no!#TeamGB‘s Katy Marchant crashed out of the women’s keirin after Dutch rider Laurine van Riessen collided with her. #bbcolympics #tokyo2020 #olympics
— BBC Sport (@BBCSport) August 5, 2021
Track cyclist Laurine van Riessen has suffered a broken collarbone, multiple broken ribs and a contusion of the lung after falling during the keirin at the Tokyo Olympics. Van Riessen looked to have touched wheels with the rider infront, causing her to swerve into Team GB’s Katy Marchant. After both riders received treatment the Dutch rider was stretchered out of the velodrome and taken to hospital. Marchant was back on the bike a short while later and continues the competition.
Van Riessen is being kept in hospital for further treatment and observation. On Eurosport, Sir Bradley Wiggins noted that Van Riessen almost crashed heavily at the last Olympic Games too.
“The Dutch girl who crashed with her in that, she was the one who crashed five years ago in Rio and went over the fence, if anyone can recall that,” Bradley Wiggins told Eurosport live from the Izu Velodrome.
The Olympic track cycling this week has been full of GB crashes unfortunately. On Tuesday, Team GB’s Katie Archibald and Neah Evans fell while rolling around the track having just set a new world record. Later that day the Danish rider, Frederik Madsen, ploughed into the back of Charlie Tanfield, bringing an end to the team pursuit semi-final and causing some unsavoury scenes when the Dane angrily confronted the British rider. Madsen has since apologised and admitted he got caught in the moment. He insists he wasn’t shouting at Tanfield.
UAE Team Emirates beef up support for Tadej Pogačar with signing of João Almeida on five-year contract from Deceuninck-Quick-Step
✍️ 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗦𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴
We’re delighted to announce the signing of @JooAlmeida98 on a five-year deal.
Welcome João!
Full story 👉 https://t.co/BQaccg6jqV#UAETeamEmirates #RideTogether pic.twitter.com/UOwoENHWwI
— @UAE-TeamEmirates (@TeamEmiratesUAE) August 6, 2021
It’s an inevitability that UAE Team Emirates, one of the richest teams in the sport, are going to spend big to build a team that gives their star rider Tadej Pogačar the best chance of winning as many Tour de France titles as he can possibly fit into his new six-year deal. Portuguese GC star João Almeida is the latest signing to fit that bill…4th at the Giro in 2020 and 6th this year, Almeida has proven himself as a top-level climber as well as a super strong TT rider. Tadej clearly has the legs, and it looks likely he will soon have the team…How does anyone beat him?
“I am really looking forward to this new chapter in my career and in my life,” Almeida said. “I feel like the move to UAE Team Emirates is coming at the right time and I’m sure I will be happy on this new adventure. The team is growing every year and I can’t wait to be a part of it. I am quite a thoughtful person by nature and I find myself already dreaming and visualising about the future and I’m super excited about it.”
Lionel Messi to Ineos?
— Cycling out of context (@OutOfCycling) August 5, 2021
Lionel Messi’s departure from Barcelona has got us thinking…which cycling team would he sign for? Ineos Greandiers is the obvious answer. What about UAE Team Emirates? They’re kind of the PSG of cycling…
Team GB gold medal reaction: Laura Kenny and Katie Archibald win Madison in Tokyo
Wonderful scenes!! Wish I was there to see it live but this is the second best place to be.. Huge congratulations to @LauraKenny31 and @_katiearchibald for an utterly dominant performance 👏🏻👏🏻🥇🥇 pic.twitter.com/gZ091uzuki
— Chris Hoy (@chrishoy) August 6, 2021
Utterly dominant. Katie Archibald and Laura Kenny won the Madison this morning, GB’s second track cycling gold of the Tokyo Games. It means Kenny is the first British woman to win gold at three different Olympics. Legend.
❤️ “I feel like I’m racing with a sister”.
Wonderful interview from #TeamGB‘s latest gold-medal winners, Katie Archibald and Laura Kenny.
📺📱 Cycling live on BBC One, BBC iPlayer and on the BBC Sport app: https://t.co/mwIz9x3F7L#bbcolympics #tokyo2020 pic.twitter.com/kO3YOT0N9R
— BBC Sport (@BBCSport) August 6, 2021
Laura Kenny and Katie Archibald – omniscient and omnipresent.
— Brian Moore (@brianmoore666) August 6, 2021
Buzzing that the Madison is back in the Olympics. Even more buzzing there’s now both a women’s and men’s Madison. Even even more buzzing that @LauraKenny31 & @_katiearchibald just gave an absolute masterclass in Madison racing for @TeamGB. That was brilliant!!!
— Mark Cavendish (@MarkCavendish) August 6, 2021
Jack Carlin wins men's individual sprint bronze
THIS IS WHAT IT MEANS.
An incredible bronze medal at his first Game… Jack Carlin that was fantastic 🇬🇧🥉#TeamGB #Tokyo2020 @jack_carlin97 pic.twitter.com/aaWPkcQKqk
— British Cycling (@BritishCycling) August 6, 2021
Jack Carlin has won Team GB another bronze in the velodrome. The 24-year-old from Glasgow won both his first two sprints against Russian Olympic Committee athlete Denis Dmitriev. Chris Boardman on comms for the BBC said the result was as good as any nation could have realistically hoped for considering the strength of the Dutch sprinters. In the final, we’re going to a decider…Harrie Lavreysen and Jeffrey Hoogland are 1-1 after two. Either way it’s a gold and silver for the Netherlands…
In the women’s sprint, Katy Marchant has fought back from her crash yesterday to make it through to tomorrow’s quarter-finals.
Katie Archibald and Laura Kenny have just stepped on the podium to collect their golds…What a morning!
Madison tactics explainer
Madison tactics. A brief explainer. https://t.co/XrFaIkB0Ch
— William Fotheringham (@willfoth) August 6, 2021
If you were slightly surprised by this morning’s action here’s a simple guide to how it works…ITV commentator and cycling writer Ned Boulting described the Madison as the closest cycling comes to the Large Hadron Collider, which I’d say is just about spot on…
For fork's sake...how not to increase your tyre clearance
From a mechs FB group!!! What to say… pic.twitter.com/VrDu8HCJiP
— CycleSystemsAcademy (@CycleSystemsAc) August 5, 2021
If there’s a will there’s a way is a proverb that should never be applied to tyre clearance. I wonder at what point this rider realised what they’d done? ‘Hmm, maybe I could just craft my forks a little. I’m sure they’re designed to be carved to the user’s preferred width…’
Anything to shave off a few extra grams for hill climbing season…
What’s the worst bike DIY you’ve ever seen?
I dont think those 38s are gonna fit in there Frank
Anything will fit if you use a big enough file! https://t.co/SCBH1ucQSF— cyclinggrump (@cyclinggrump) August 6, 2021
Just when you thought it couldn't get any worse...
He did the wheels too! pic.twitter.com/5AcjeZgYsp
— CycleSystemsAcademy (@CycleSystemsAc) August 6, 2021
Just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse it turns out our mystery fork fiend is a rim wrecker too…Cycle Systems Academy shared the next horrifying pic of the DIY just in time to put us all off our lunch.
Worse still is the couple of readers tagging their mates in our Tweet asking if it’s their handiwork. Maybe we’ve got some more secret bike maimers amongst us. In the replies, Racing Condor said if ever their was a case for licencing cyclists it was this…
Bikepacking Adventure wants to know if it’s a hack or a bodge? I’m saying neither. If anything, it’s a fuck up. It doesn’t deserve the credit and glory of hack/bodge status…
Fork DIY
Is it a hack or a bodge?
🤔😂🤣😂🤣
— BikepackingAdventure (@BikepackingBike) August 6, 2021
Direct Line launches specialist cycling insurance
Direct Line has launched a new specialist insurance product for cyclists, aimed at providing comprehensive cover for commuters, leisure riders and those who take their cycling seriously. The new cover protects against theft and accidental or malicious damage to bikes, e-bikes and accessories. The package also provides public liability and personal injury cover to customers. Additional protection for sportives, races or while travelling abroad can also be added.
"It seems silly not to now that it's so much safer": A positive cycling infrastructure tale
‘Then lockdown happened and they put in all these cycle lanes everywhere. I wish I hadn’t sold it now!’ (she had dug her husband’s bike out of the shed to use). ‘It seems silly not to now that it’s so much safer’. #spacesforpeople @lmacinnessnp
— Furcoat (@FurcoatNaeNicks) August 5, 2021
Agent G working his magic for the Gunners
I’ve had a word. He’s definitely joining the Gunners 🤣👍 pic.twitter.com/QkgLMCAxyk
— Geraint Thomas (@GeraintThomas86) August 6, 2021
Imagine inflicting Arsenal Football Club on the greatest footballer in the world…Sorry, Arsenal fans…
Your best bad bike DIY stories: look away Aussie track cycling team
Inspired by the hideousness of the carved out fork earlier, we asked you lot for the worst bike DIY you’ve seen…10/10 for this zinger from Robert Paul on Facebook…
Martin Smith compared the mystery bike hacker’s self-harm to Brexit…but let’s not get into that on a Friday afternoon…
Jukka Rajala sent in some of his favourites:
So much going on with this seatpost! #workshopwonders #yourbikehatesyou pic.twitter.com/Y827ZiIRwc
— Jukka Rajala (@jukkar) July 6, 2017
#yourbikehatesyou pic.twitter.com/ZAa7TNBWbi
— Jukka Rajala (@jukkar) April 5, 2020
Vuelta a España team news: Jumbo-Visma select strong team to support Primož Roglič's tilt at hat-trick + Brit watch
Olympic TT gold medallist Primož Roglič is gunning for a third straight Vuelta a España crown at the final Grand Tour of the season. If successful he’ll be only the third man, after Tony Rominger and Roberto Heras, to pull off the hat-trick. In support of their Slovenian star Jumbo-Visma have named a strong squad, including Tour de France stage winner Sepp Kuss, Steven Kruijswijk and Robert Gesink. Classics specialist Nathan Van Hooydonck, Koen Bouwman, Lennard Hofstede and Sam Oomen complete the Dutch team’s strong looking line up.
There’ll be at least one Brit in Burgos for the race’s start next weekend. Scott Thwaites has been selected by Alpecin-Fenix as the wildcard Grand Tour debutants look to continue their 100 per cent record of winning a stage of each three-week tour they’ve competed at. The rest of the teams should be named over the next few days…
6 August 2021, 08:04
6 August 2021, 08:04
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@Pub bike - well, off-road (ICE) motorbikes have been available for decades, so you're right about the proposed law being too narrow. I've seen scrotes riding them in parks and on the roads, but they're much less common than the newer e-motorbikes.
@hawkinspeter I think my point buried in there somewhere is that the law being devised is too narrowly focused around electric bikes/motorbikes and it should encompass the sale of any kind of motorbike. The wording talks about "electrically assisted" which would seem to exclude throttle controlled bikes. The bikes I saw that had no pedals - and therefore the electricity does not assist but is the sole source of propulsion - would fall outside of this legislation, so already there is a loophole. It would probably help to have some technical input to this bill by people that actually understand the differences between bicycles, e-bikes, EAPCs and motorbikes before it goes too far.
The Streeting Rule is, Cycling and Walking tomorrow and Cycling and Walking yesterday, but never Cycling and Walking today.
It’s a nuanced proposition, for sure. I did start the article with “There are few hills I’m truly up for dying on, but kickstands on bikes is one of them” - and no comment here has changed my mind 😎
@ hawkinspeter you are absolutely right. But of course there is little enforcement, the police don't have the resources etc etc.
@jackcycles - no it reflects the reality that most folk are scared to cycle because of inconsiderate and dangerous drivers. Cycling numbers markedly increase when it is made safe to do so.
"Kickstands make every bike ride better" Can't think of any of my rides in the last few weeks that would have been "better" with a kickstand; a few that *might* possibly have been a bit more of a pain with one (especially with the amount of plant growth at the moment in the South West of the UK), but none it would have improved. So there we go, nice easy proof by contradiction.
I'll be surprised & amazed if all of those billions are actually delivered. I expect to hear, in a few years' time, that only a fraction of that was taken up for various reasons, & the rest was therefore diverted towards other 'number one issues'.
@bensynnock to be fair, there does seem to be a marshall shown in the picture.
@Rendel Harris Going down the hill was usually Ok ish, it was coming back up that was the problem, especially at night. Near the top it narrowed with hedges on a low wall, not somewhere you would chose to ride on your own in the dark. Best time was race days when it is all stationary!
18 thoughts on “For fork’s sake…how not to increase tyre clearance; Olympic track rider taken to hospital with lung contusion after keirin crash; Messi to Ineos?; UAE beef up Pogacar’s support; Jack Carlin wins sprint bronze; Gold medal reaction + more on the live blog”
wouldn’t Messi join Froome at
wouldn’t Messi join Froome at Israel Start Up Nation – a place where stars at the end of their careers can nurture new talent…….
I wonder what happens to all
I wonder what happens to all these track bikes after a crash, do they get retired?Must be expensive if they do
I suspect the same as a
I suspect the same as a professional road bike after a crash.
“For fork’s sake…how not to
“For fork’s sake…how not to increase your tyre clearance”
And now the wheel rim? Now, I
And now the wheel rim? Now, I’m no mechanic, but I don’t think that work will be very good for the bike…
wtjs did a thread about a
wtjs did a thread about a failed rim – I think that photo surpasses it !
https://road.cc/content/forum/collapsing-rim-after-18-months-seen-anything-it-285183
wtjs did a thread about a
wtjs did a thread about a failed rim
At least mine is genuine, not some crude ‘modification’ undertaken just to get in the news.
You forgot the italics
You forgot the italics
Still progresing through the small claims court on yours ?
It was done from a phone
It was done from a phone which doesn’t allow me to quote in italics. Chain Reaction has now agreed to ‘inspect it’.
Feeble excuse
From my phone.
[I]Feeble excuse [/I]
From my phone.
You need [code][I][/I] [/code] markup.
That fork and rim made me
That fork and rim made me throw up in my mouth a little – the cuts aren’t even straight!
I’ve seen curved brake pads
I’ve seen curved brake pads fitted upside down.
eburtthebike wrote:
Hang on… But isn’t THAT (of all things) “Common Sense” (TM)?
It always annoys me when tv
It always annoys me when tv commentators boost this meme that the Madison is just some horribly complicated thing to follow that blows their mind, as it completely switches off new viewers accessibility to it, and it’s not that hard to follow.
Maybe it requires they dont just regurgitate facts constantly or rely simply on saying what they see as their style of commentary and turning down the hyperbole for a 120lap race could help too.
Don’t remember Van Riessen
Don’t remember Van Riessen crashing at Rio, she did avoid a crash by riding on the hoardings https://twitter.com/Chris_Boardman/status/764461897169141760
The fork on the hacked
The fork on the hacked Trucker is a Crust Clydesdale. Legit.
https://crustbikes.com/collections/forks/products/clydesdale-cargo-fork
Friend asked me to have a
Friend asked me to have a look at his daughters bike as she was having a problem riding in a straight line. The forks had been fitted the wrong way around!
Bike came from Halfords like that he said – crazy.
I saw a kid riding a bike in
I saw a kid riding a bike in the park with the forks backwards. Said something to the parents, but they said it came from the bike shop like that…