“Method actor or just all in on cycling?”: Pogačar celebrates with a vegetable as a trophy after winning a crit race; Cameron Mason and Zoe Bäckstedt shine in gnarly European cyclocross champs; “How is this is an okay cycle lane?” + more on the live blog

@Smoggysteve Its the unfortunate nature of a sport where you can have 2 riders competing for the same place and one of them can coast whilst the other one absolutely buries themselves and the coaster wins. I think its a case of spiting your opposition. I won't work if you won't work.

@mctrials23 Reminds me of Del Toro's attitude towards the Giro last year. He lost the race because he cared more about stopping Carapaz. It doesn't mattter how talented a rider is, if their attitude is all wrong they won't succeed

"Police action warning letter sent to the company, didn’t even identify the driver despite the video clearly showing registration and route number plus the time of the incident... I now no longer bothering reporting these, as what’s the point of wasting 20 minutes filling in the website form when they don’t even ask to see the video – no Operation Snap in Kent." I'm confused - does this mean that these two got warning letters based just on a written complaint from (presumably the two) of you, without police viewing the footage? I would like / not like to see the front facing footage from your wife - I've only had that once, but the experience of thinking "**** that was close", and then realising there's a trailer coming too is terrifying. I hope the second, sensible bus driver gave the first one some words of advice when they got to the depot, that was ridiculous.

@mitsky As Dept Supt Andy Cos said a while ago: reporting dangerous drivers help uncover other serious crimes Unfortunately, the rest of the UK police don't agree with him and regard the people who report offences as the real problem on UK roads ttps://upride.cc/incident/pk05opm_freelander_closepass/

The Range Rover driver is either purely an arrogant twat who doesn’t give a shite about any other road user or he is just totally incompetent when it comes to not having the comfort of following a vehicle at their desired speed. The timings of the overtakes, what I’m assuming is down hill, and the risk to the cyclists and the oncoming motorists is shocking. Arrogance or incompetence, either way it would be safer if they weren’t on the roads.

"Thousands of illegal ghost plates on cars revealed by new cameras" 1) Presumably a good use of drones would be to follow a driver of a vehicle with illegal plates when spotted on the ANPR cameras. 2) As I've said many times before: The government should put in a law saying petrol stations need to have their CCTV linked to DVLA and police databases. The payer of the fuel can have their card tagged so the police can trace them with their face on CCTV. Or they can be refused service if they are wanted. 3) Given there is only one reason to have cloned/ghost plates, the sentencing and prosecutions for suppliers must be high to deter them. We have the technology. We just don't have the political will to put it in to place. "Not a week goes by where we don't see an example of someone on cloned plates involved in serious and organised crime," As Dept Supt Andy Cos said a while ago: reporting dangerous drivers help uncover other serious crimes. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq9860162dj2o

@Smoggysteve Perhaps we need to treat drivers like the toddlers so many of them are. If they think that bike lanes remove the requirement for 1.5m then lets play along. Every bike lane must be at least 2m wide so that they can be sure that when they aren't in the bike lane they are 1.5m from cyclists.

@Rendel Harris one of cyclings little mysteries isn't it. So many teams/riders would rather lose and not help each other than risk being accused of losing "because" they helped each other. Its like being scared to try because your scared of failing. Makes no sense but its rife in everyday life as well.

@bikeclips Last week, I was almost thrown out of a meeting because I was swearing under my breath while I read the 'Lydney Cycle Improvements' document, which includes such gems as: "The Lydney Cycleway improvement scheme was completed in spring 2020 and has improved access and increased connectivity by creating a pleasant, safe and accessible network of pathways around Lydney....." The 'improvements' are almost entirely narrow, on-road bike lanes on narrow roads, where two cars cannot pass without going into the bike lanes. They don't increase connectivity, they aren't pleasant, or safe or particularly accessible, but hey, why quibble over irrelevant details? "The scheme was developed with the aim of promoting cycle usage and reducing car journeys within Lydney." Since 2020, car journeys have increased but cycle journeys haven't. Have a guess how much it cost. Go on, have a guess. £1,000,000. Entirely wasted.

@bikeclips When you see how narrow that cycle 'lane' is to begin with its ridiculous councils think they are satisfactory. But as the clip moves along, how many puddles, patches of debris etc has narrowed that path? And when you have a large vehicle inches away from you, where are you supposed to go? It also , in both clips, shows how other drivers can get by safely if you just have some patience. The driver of the Fiat at the start was waiting to pass for a while but they were safe and probably only held up for around a minute. Why do people feel so ready to take risky overtakes just to save literally minutes?