Remco Evenepoel splits opinion by refusing to sign kid’s jersey thrown at him by dad; Wheelie impressive skills by Tour of Britain rider up 20% climb; Cyclists renovate their favourite bench; New bike day; Pidcock’s app goes live + more on the live blog
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Wheelie impressive skills by Tour of Britain rider climbing 20% climb
Move over Erling Haaland, we’ve all got a new favourite Norwegian… Anders Halland Johannessen…
Uno-X Pro Cycling Team’s @AndersHJohanne2 got the memo on Carlton Bank 👏🏻#TourOfBritain 🔴🔵⚪️ pic.twitter.com/xG3Cg5NXCy
— AJ Bell Tour of Britain 🇬🇧 (@TourofBritain) September 7, 2022
At the top of Carlton Bank too…
Legs burning, cadence slowing, double-digit grinding and the Uno-X Pro Cycling Team rider still had the skills to pop a quick wheelie for the grateful masses. Amongst the throngs of supporters, was a dinosaur…not an actual dinosaur, of course…just a grown man dressed as one running alongside home hero Tom Pidcock…
The @AJBell photo of the day.#TourOfBritain 🔴🔵⚪️ pic.twitter.com/v2ojAhwooM
— AJ Bell Tour of Britain 🇬🇧 (@TourofBritain) September 7, 2022
The Beefeaters, more commonly spotted on the slopes of Alpe d’Huez, were there too and got a front-row seat for Johannessen’s entertaining cameo…
Decent day out with the @tdfbeefeaters on Carlton Bank. #TourOfBritain 🔴🔵⚪️ pic.twitter.com/vJT6s9Z3El
— AJ Bell Tour of Britain 🇬🇧 (@TourofBritain) September 7, 2022
Tour of Britain on Carlton Bank with the Beefeaters 🎶🎶 @tdfbeefeaters @TourofBritain #TourOfBritain #carltonbank #stage4 #NorthYorkshire pic.twitter.com/1AykHC7gyI
— Ryan Murray (@RyPixelPusher) September 7, 2022
New bike day
Oooooh shiny ‘new’ bike…
The all new Canyon Ultimate is here, but if we’re being honest it’s hardly a surprise considering it has been raced by the pros for pretty much all of 2022. Anyway, more important than what it looks like and who rides it are the numbers that have now been released with the official announcement…15 per cent increase in head tube stiffness and a 10 watt saving at 45kph, find out more here…
And for our review, Liam’s been out giving it the once, twice, thrice and many more times over to find out exactly how it rides… it’s a tough life, eh Liam…
"He is completely within his rights not to let fans disturb his warm down": Your thoughts on jerseygate
First it was puncturegate, now jerseygate…
At least the kid wasn’t holding up a god-awful cardboard sign…
Here are a couple of your early thoughts on the matter…
Rendel Harris commented: “Remco did seem a bit out of sorts yesterday, it was noticeable directly after the finish that he angrily waved away one of his own team who was trying to take a picture, presumably for their Twitter feed or whatever. However, he is completely within his rights not to let fans disturb his warm down, the dad should have asked once and seeing he got no response given up.”
EnjoyTheRide added: “Fully behind Remco in refusing to sign the jersey — the father displayed discourtesy and disrespect in spades by throwing it across in this manner. It’s also a terrible, self-entitled lesson to teach a young child. It wouldn’t surprise me if the bloke just wanted to stick it on eBay.”
Remco Evenepoel splits opinion after refusing to sign kid's jersey thrown at him by dad
This one’s split people down the middle…
🚴🇪🇸 | Foto! En anders een handtekening! Hier tekenen graag! 🙄🙄 #LaVuelta22
📺 Koers kijk je op discovery+ pic.twitter.com/iJy73PjnG6
— Eurosport Nederland (@Eurosport_NL) September 7, 2022
Remco appears to shake his head at the kid holding up a red jersey to be signed by the race leader, ignores the man (presumably the boy’s father), then looks disdainfully at his soigneur when the jersey is thrown to him, prompting a Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl photographer to hand it back rather more kindly than it was thrown…
One tired rider, one disappointed kid…who’s the real victim here?
The Cronoescalada cycling page shared the clip, saying: “Good for Remco denying the photo to the father who harasses him. You have to respect the athlete.”
Fans have a sense of entitlement.
I have seen this happen to Cavendish, to Brad Wiggins, in football and cricket and wherever.
There’s a way, a time and a place to interact with Sports personalities.
They will do it kindly. But don’t force them don’t take the piss.
— anenglishmaninspain (@AndyElche) September 7, 2022
Completely agree here! Fans need to be more respectful. Kid just gave his all in a bike race don’t assume you deserve something from them.
— Matt Riggs (@ultra50man) September 8, 2022
However, not everyone backed the rider, with many pointing out how little effort scribbling a pen would have taken, especially when it will make a child’s day and possibly inspire them into a lifelong love for a sport (and, more cynically, your photographer is stood five metres away)…
One fan commented: “The father is weird but the child deserves his signature even if you tell him to wait a moment to recover from the effort.”
Another said: “He is a professional and part of his job is to attend to the fans (and more so to future generations). There was only one person and he did not even go to approach. That’s why he had to throw the jersey.”
Rogla wouldn’t…
— LimpioBlancoyNuevo (@CleanWhiteNew) September 7, 2022
Maybe Remco’s dehydrated, fatigued and had it up to his Specialized helmet with interviews, doping control and podium ceremonies, maybe he should have just taken ten seconds and signed it in the first place?
What do you reckon?
Priorities...
It is incredible how quickly @hackneycouncil can find enforcement for a pedal cycle, but not pavements like this which have been reported many many times! https://t.co/SOh2unrE8h pic.twitter.com/iKgZdCzabi
— Hackney LCC (@hackney_cycling) September 7, 2022
> Council slaps nuisance notice on family cargo bike parked on pavement
Tom Pidcock's Link My Ride app goes live
Link My Ride, the app founded by Tom Pidcock, has launched on the App Store and Google Play today. Billed as a pre-ride organisational platform allowing cyclists to plan and create group rides, Link My Ride is also free to use.
Co-creator Jacques Sauvagnargues explained the concept: “Organising group rides, finding local club rides to join or connecting with other individuals to ride with has never had a simple solution. We wanted to create a simple way for any rider to be able to explore, plan and create group rides and make connecting and socialising with other riders a more straightforward and enjoyable experience.”
The app is free to use, but also has a tailored clubs portal designed to help clubs manage membership and club rides, which costs £240 per club per year.
“I’ve been joining club rides and chain gangs since I can remember but the organisation via other apps or social networks has always been lacking. We’re really excited to finally bring the Link My Ride app to riders all around the world. We’re on a mission to become the only tool cyclists need to connect with other riders, clubs and cycling hubs, at the touch of a button,” Pidcock said.
Double stage winner and mountains jersey wearer Jay Vine OUT of La Vuelta
Etapa 1⃣8⃣ Stage | 🏁 – 156 km
😥 Caída en el pelotón de 🇪🇸@_rccarlos, 💙@JayVine3 y 💚@Mads__Pedersen junto a varios corredores. El australiano se retira.
😥 Crash in the bunch with Pedersen, Rodriguez & Jay Vine all involved. Vine unfortunately retires.#LaVuelta22 pic.twitter.com/PgD66vZcKg
— La Vuelta (@lavuelta) September 8, 2022
Tough break for the Aussie climber whose abandon means we could have a fight for points on today’s double first-category climb stage… did I mention the breakaway’s got 40 people in it? Nearly a third of the race…
One of the escapees, Richard Carapaz, is now the virtual leader in the mountains classification, and who’d bet against him making it win number three of the race in a few hours?
Cyclists renovate their favourite bench
A group of community-spirited cyclists from Southend-on-Sea renovated their favourite bench, giving us a lovely dose of positivity for your Thursday lunchtime…
The full video is over on the Piękna strona Wielkiej Brytanii Facebook group, but as it’s a closed page it can’t be embedded into the blog, so screenshots will have to do…
Tremendous.
Robin Hood was aero
Robin Hood was aero 🏹
You heard it here first!
Nice to see @tompidcock getting into the spirit in Nottingham ahead of stage five at the #TourOfBritain pic.twitter.com/EhunnkOZei
— INEOS Grenadiers (@INEOSGrenadiers) September 8, 2022
"Whilst it would have been better to have scribbled on the jersey and posed for a selfie you have to draw the line somewhere": More reader Remco reaction
First it was puncturegate, now jerseygate…
Remco Evenepoel splits opinion by refusing to sign kid’s jersey thrown at him by fanhttps://t.co/szOuW4vshx #cycling #LaVuelta22 pic.twitter.com/pMO03pdkxH— road.cc (@roadcc) September 8, 2022
A few more reader comments…
MattieKempy said: “Re. Remco. He has form which suggests he’s a bit of a prima donna (the incident at last year’s Worlds where he apparently did his own thing despite the agreed team tactics and then sounded off about it later). It’s all very well to suggest that he’s entitled to warm down in peace and in some respects he is, but he and others also need to acknowledge that he wouldn’t be riding a bike professionally if it weren’t for the fans that were pestering him! The shirt-thrower was 5m away so it’s hardly like he could have asked politely and handed the shirt courteously to Remco.”
However, PRSboy commented: “Athletes need somewhere they can go for privacy and recovery, and it looks like this was a cool-down zone. Whilst it would have been better in the scheme of things from a PR point of view for him just to have scribbled on the jersey and posed for a selfie you have to draw the line somewhere.
“I can imagine after a Grand Tour stage you would be barely capable of coherent thought.”
After a Grand Tour stage? I’m barely capable of coherent thought after 11am…
Concerns for Queen's health
Well, there’s something quite a bit bigger than cycling unfolding this afternoon. Fair enough if your live blog scrolling has gone elsewhere…
Concerns are being expressed across the country for HM The Queen following announcement by Buckingham Palace that she is under medical supervision at Balmoral where members of the royal family including the Prince of Wales have travelled today.
Best wishes from all at road.cc, of course.
Jordi Meeus sprints to victory on Tour of Britain stage five
Jordi Meeus (@BORAhansgrohe) wins stage five of the @AJBell Tour of Britain 🇬🇧 in Mansfield.#TourOfBritain 🔴🔵⚪️ pic.twitter.com/kQvIukq2ms
— AJ Bell Tour of Britain 🇬🇧 (@TourofBritain) September 8, 2022
Winner of the bunch sprint in Sunderland, after the breakaway had crossed the line victorious, Jordi Meeus finally got his Tour of Britain stage win. Stanisław Aniołkowski sped up the inside to second while on the other side of fourth-placed Samuel Watson, Tom Pidcock threw his bike to third, taking some cheeky bonus seconds and moving closer to the race lead in the process.
The finish was somewhat overshadowed by a blunder which saw half the field on the wrong side of the barriers, unable to rejoin the sprint as they raced towards the line in Mansfield…
Ai -500 uno spartitraffico ha diviso la strada in due carreggiate, quella a destra era in realtà fuori dal rettifilo finale.
Metà gruppo messo fuori dall’inefficienza degli organizzatori.
Un disastro#TourOfBritain pic.twitter.com/ADMsd14Oi3— Leonardo (@Leonardo44447) September 8, 2022
From puncturegate to jerseygate...to wingate
🏆 ¡REMCO EVENEPOEL! El ‘pitbull’ se lleva la 18ª etapa
👏 Tremenda pelea entre el belga y Enric Mas, que fue segundo y coge distancia con el resto#LaVuelta22 pic.twitter.com/vVU3aXCNe3
— Eurosport.es (@Eurosport_ES) September 8, 2022
Heartbreak for Robert Gesink caught within sight of the line…
No controversy here, just Remco doing what he does best, let’s ignore the Pizza Hut sponsorship, national team falling outs, pushing rival riders, and disappointing children…
Enric Mas lit up the stage but had little left for the sprint although he does tighten his grip on second place. Carlos Rodríguez had a tough day on, or should I say off, the bike, losing plenty of skin before losing time and dropping to fifth behind Miguel Ángel López…
#LaVuelta22 – 🏁 91 km
🇪🇸 Carlos Rodriguez was involved in a crash at the beginning of the stage. Doesn’t look good, but he’s still on the bike. Hopefully he’ll be able to protect his 4th place in GC later on today…#DomestiqueLive pic.twitter.com/VVw6ycLpgW
— Domestique (@Domestique___) September 8, 2022
Ouch.
Goodnight folks
Elisabeth II, 1942. pic.twitter.com/5AIaqRkR1G
— David Guénel (@davidguenel) September 8, 2022
8 September 2022, 07:58
As promised yesterday, more on this one here...
Council slaps nuisance notice on family cargo bike parked on pavement
“This case shows the desperate need for cargo bike parking solutions in Hackney… and is another example of the hostile atmosphere towards cyclists,” says Will Prochaska, the bike’s owner
8 September 2022, 07:58
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@Terry Hutt Sure, we don't know the parameters. BUT. If you're a professional and still publish a photo which is so badly unrealistic, it tells a lot. I was really hoping to avoid this, but you provoked me ;) Presenting a powerful lamp with no beam cutoff in an urban context just shows how badly the manufacturer does not understand urban cycling. Assuming the lamp needs to shine as much light on the tarmac as on the drivers' retinas is just poor engineering IMHO.
@Boopop Choosing a photo which obviously fakes the message does count as unfair tweaking in my book. It would've been a different story if one was an amateur (or even a cycling blogger with no education in photography) and just took a random photo in the park. Here we're talking about professionals who must have taken hundreds of photos in that session and had all the equipment and knownledge necessary to take a good, realistic photo. Instead, they chose a picture that does anything but showing reality. This way, even if the lamp itself is good, I personally just steer clear of it because of the ad. And quite honestly, I don't know which worries me more: that they did it or that there are people actually defending this obvious manipulation, who may one day fall victim of similar practices.
Really? Even if we allow that it's five days, rather than a full week, it's only averaging 37.5 miles a day. Taking out his imperial century leaves him an average of a whopping, er, 22 miles to do on the other four days.
@tomlew I think Terry's reply is a bit more sensible than yours. It's easy to make any light look like that with the right camera settings and a long enough exposure time. Suggesting it has to be photoshopped to achieve that effect suggests a poor understanding of how cameras can be used. As for the colours... the grass is green, the tree bark is brown... *shrug*. White balance setting on the camera can affect colours too, do you consider that "tweaking"? You have to choose a white balance, you can't take a photo without the white balance set.
@OnYerBike for sure, there's congestion and ULEZ zones, but I don't remember any "investigative journalism expose's" looking into the inexorable rise of the motor vehicle and it's detrimental effect on society. There have however, been multiple "war on motorist" and "parking wars" style programmes...with a string emphasis on how hard done by, the motorists are. Having said that, I find it baffling that dockless schemes were allowed to go ahead - especially as the "Boris bikes" weren't.
@Boopop The correct question is: What makes you think the world actually looks like in that photo? Can't you really see how distorted the contrast is, how badly unreal the colours are, how unbelievably white anything illuminated is etc.? Either the photo was doctored or it was taken to present a VERY distorted picture. Either way, they knew exactly what was getting published and sorry, but with professional marketers and multi-million budgets I just don't believe in innocent ignorance. And I do feel responsible to spot such obvious BS.
So they're unsuitable for gravel, simple as that. A gravel wheelset that can only take champagne gravel and an official system weight limit of 100 kg is in my book a road wheelset. At best. As seen, if the force is relatively high, even a 72 kg system weight will wreck the rim. Who hasn't ever dinged a rock or made a mistake while selecting a line and hit something with a bone-jarring thud? You want your rims to survive that. What's a 100, 200, 300 gram weight saving worth if it costs you the race or worse, you end up in hospital? Thanks for the fair review and the warning!
@tomlew That was my first thought but we don't know the effective ISO, f-stop, or exposure time. It is a meaningless photo without that information. The real test is how many drivers flash their brights at you :-)
@BroomBroomBroom "These are profit-seeking enterprises taking over pavements..." Aren't they currently seeking profits in the sense of "not making any yet"? I think the issue is that mass public cycle hire schemes don't even cover their costs from the actual users. (High costs because relatively fragile, portable property, and an "attractive nuisance" for youth. Low income because they're competing with "free" - many people have access to bikes and/or feel that bike stuff should be very cheap). So they need things like council funding, advertising etc. That can be an issue because - unless the money is from the local authority - their motivation is not particularly aligned with the cyclists OR the locality. And worse - in these cases doesn't much of the money still come from venture capital? So I don't think they're necessarily great. But as the article notes - two things can be true. I bet a *far* greater acreage of footway is in fact covered by the products of profit-seeking enterprises. That is vehicles which are definitely illegal there*, completely immovable when stopped, more dangerous when moving. * Oh sorry, it's only illegal in practice when you've got a policemen or two there to witness them being driven there and they're bothered - and they'd probably get in trouble with their boss if they did.
Make sure you put the soft side of the velcro straps against the paint. Get it wrong and you'll have a lasting reminder on your top tube...
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A bit modernist. Surely
A bit modernist. Surely something more native would have been in keeping?
But how do you draw a cock on
But how do you draw a cock on a bicycle? Or would Boris count?
Forgotten Chicken Run?
Forgotten Chicken Run? (OK, OK, it’s a trike, so troll me).
“You can’t see paradise if
“You can’t see paradise if you don’t pedal”
This popped up in my Google
This popped up in my Google feed
[B]Escaped chimp returns to Ukrainian zoo only when he’s allowed to ride his keeper’s bicycle[/b]
Remco did seem a bit out of
Remco did seem a bit out of sorts yesterday, it was noticeable directly after the finish that he angrily waved away one of his own team who was trying to take a picture, presumably for their Twitter feed or whatever. However, he is completely within his rights not to let fans disturb his warm down, the dad should have asked once and seeing he got no response given up.
Athletes need somewhere they
Athletes need somewhere they can go for privacy and recovery, and it looks like this was a cool-down zone. Whilst it would have been better in the scheme of things from a PR point of view for him just to have scribbled on the jersey and posed for a selfie you have to draw the line somewhere.
I can imagine after a GT stage you would be barely capable of coherent thought.
Was it that guy in the dino
Was it that guy in the dino fancy dress costume from the photo of the day ? or another one who got impressively tackled by, I guess, a steward to stop disrupting the riders on a climb
Re: Remco. He has form which
Re: Remco. He has form which suggests he’s a bit of a prima donna (the incident at last year’s Worlds where he apparently did his own thing despite the agreed team tactics and then sounded off about it later). It’s all very well to suggest that he’s entitled to warm down in peace and in some respects he is, but he and others also need to acknowledge that he wouldn’t be riding a bike professionally if it weren’t for the fans that were pestering him! The shirt-thrower was 5m away so it’s hardly like he could have asked politely and handed the shirt courteously to Remco.
Remco should have signed the
Remco should have signed the jersey. It would have taken a few seconds, made the kids day and made him a fan.
He’s a spoilt smacked ass, I remember in an early race this year he tried to ride between two riders and shoved one of the riders out of the way. I think even Adam Blythe called him a smacked ass or similar. I too was suspicious about the so-called ‘puncture’. I don’t think he’s a gracious sportsman.
My opinion.