Harrison Ford surprises the locals by rocking up for some grub…in his cycling gear; Could Cav race the Tour after all?; Frosty reception for “elitist” kit (+poll); Pidcock back on the bike; Derailleurs of the Lost Ark puns + more on the live blog
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Harrison Ford surprises the North Shields locals by rocking up for some grub...in his cycling gear
It’s only Indiana Jones (in his cycling gear) at The Ships Cat on the North Shields Fish Quay! pic.twitter.com/Yt5M1tP1Ll
— Steve & Karen (@TheSandK) June 8, 2021
There were more than a few shocked faces when Harrison Ford strolled into one of North Shields’ local spots on a Tuesday evening…in his cycling kit. Even The Ship’s Cat restaurant could hardly believe it, posting a picture on social media with the caption: “Imagine sitting here enjoying your coffee then you look over and it’s…. Indiana Jones!”
Ford is currently in the North East filming the fifth instalment of the Indiana Jones film franchise and has been spotted at Bamburgh Castle and on the North Yorkshire Moors. The A-lister unwound from a hard day of filming with a bike ride over to the North Shields restaurant to enjoy some seafood.
It’s not the first time Ford has been snapped going for a spin while filming in the UK. In 2014, the Star Wars star went for a ride around London on his Genesis Croix de Fer…sadly, everyone in North Shields seemed too shocked to get a pic of his current ride.
Tom Pidcock back on the road six days after breaking collarbone
Back on the road six days after a broken collarbone 😮
You’ve got to love that determination from @Tompid 👏🙌💪 pic.twitter.com/ibpfZM2Giz
— INEOS Grenadiers (@INEOSGrenadiers) June 9, 2021
Good news for all of us hoping to see Tom Pidcock at the Olympics in Tokyo next month. Just six days after the 21-year-old broke his collarbone, he is back out on the road. Last week, Ineos Grenadiers confirmed their rider underwent surgery in Girona and a picture circulated on social media showed what appeared to be his snapped Pinarello lying in the road.
Indiana Jones has been raiding Sigma Sports too...
Where is our new favourite cycling A-lister going to show up next? From North Shields (not South Shields) via Sigma Sports in London…
Posting on Instagram, the Hampton Wick store wrote: “Over the years we have been very lucky to have had our fair share of legends from the world of pro cycling and some of the best triathletes in the world swing by our Hampton Wick store.
“Up to now though, visits from college professors of archaeology who aren’t shy when it comes to running from boulders and defeating villains to help save the world have been few and far between.
“That though is until we were paid a visit from a certain Mr Harrison Ford. It was an absolute pleasure to welcome the acclaimed actor and director into our store and yes, we are still pinching ourselves!”
The Harrison Ford UK cycling tour is in full swing…
Derailleurs of the Lost Ark: 10/10 Harrison Ford puns from our readers
Derailleurs of the Lost Ark https://t.co/tftdwiwsUa
— Just a bloke on a bike 🚵🏻♂️ (@Berk_On_A_Bike) June 9, 2021
Star Wars and Indiana Jones puns are flying off the shelves this morning. They have been too good not to give a shout-out. ‘Just a bloke on a bike’ providing just a top-class Derailleurs of the Lost Ark pun…incredible.
Steve Leyland christened Ford’s North East spin Indiana Jones and the Temple of Toon, while over on Facebook, Pedro Nogo wanted to know if it was a solo ride…
On a similar line AlsoSomniloquism asked if it was a solo ride before suggesting he could have been riding a Falcon bike. 0-0 delivered my personal favourite so far: “Harrison Ford holds the KOM on the Kessel Run”…very good, keep them coming.
Will Norman shows off the changes to Chelsea Bridge
Great improvements – looking forward to checking it out! 👀🥳🚲
— London Cycling Campaign (@London_Cycling) June 9, 2021
There have been growing calls to make Chelsea Bridge and surrounding area safer for cyclists and pedestrians, particularly since 2017 when a cyclist was killed in a collision with the driver of a lorry turning onto the bridge. Nearby Battersea Bridge has also attracted safety concerns. In January, a petition calling on Transport for London to install a pedestrian crossing reached 14,000 signatures in three days.
This is part of @MayorOfLondon’s upgrade of the entire Cycle Superhighway 8 route. It means that people on bikes being squeezed between a bus and a 4×4 is a thing of the past. Fantastic to see a cargo bike and an e-bike using it this morning.
— Will Norman (@willnorman) June 9, 2021
Muc-Off launches all-improved tubeless valves designed for riders to 'stick-it' to punctures
Muc-Off has expanded its tubeless range with the release of some new tubeless valves, using some fancy-sounding aircraft grade aluminium for increased strength and reliability. They weigh two grammes less than the previous model so even the keenest weight-saving fanatic is unlikely to be too excited at that aspect of the product. Where riders may be more pleased to hear about improvements is that the new valves can be used with inserts to further reduce the risk of punctures or rim damage.
The valves are priced at £24.99 and come in 44mm, 60mm and 80mm lengths as well as having ten colour options if you want to add a bit of sparkle to your wheels. Muc-Off’s pro team partners: Ineos Grenadiers, EF Education-Nippo and Canyon Factory Racing have been using the new valves this season but the tech is now also available to us commoners.
“It’s rad to be once again building on our incredible tubeless range with the addition of the new tubeless valves. Being riders ourselves, we’ve seen first-hand the shift towards running inserts, so we knew we had to innovate again. Following the usual rigorous testing our team of in-house shredders are known for, we’ve developed an awesome product. I’m confident our customers are going to love the modifications,” Alex Trimnell, CEO at Muc-Off said.
Kickstarter for new aero cycling kit that you can only buy if you prove you are fast enough is going down as well as we expected
Oh sweet Jesus
This is as bad as people who took “The Rules” seriously
No….. Just no… https://t.co/V2m7daEkbI— Andy Roo (@ViewFromEssex) June 9, 2021
If you make an exclusive jersey that can only be earned by proving you ride fast enough to wear it then you should probably expect a chilly reception. Go Faster’s Kickstarter for that very idea is going down gloriously well with our readers…
Rendell Harris hasn’t written the idea off just yet…”I think it’s a splendid idea – it will be very useful for identifying absolute cockwombles and therefore avoiding them.”
LastBoyScout said he wouldn’t be touching their clothing with a barge pole, which seems to be the consensus from literally every single comment we’ve seen…
£100 for a jersey by a company who’ve never made anything before.
And they’re complete tossers about it?
Yeah…. SKIP!
— Mounsey. (@rosemeyer1939) June 9, 2021
You’ll also have to prove you have awful dress sense. Because they’ll be the only customers.
— Dave Dee (@dodgyd) June 9, 2021
Could Cav race the Tour after all?
The big news out of Belgium yesterday evening was that Mark Cavendish had been drafted in by Deceuninck-Quick-Step to replace Sam Bennett at Baloise Belgium Tour because the Irishman is struggling with an injury. The team has been tight-lipped on Bennett’s condition but said he has a problem with his right knee following a “small incident in training last weekend”.
With the Tour de France now less than three weeks away could we see Cav stake his claim for a spot on the team at the biggest race of the year? A couple of wins in Belgium would certainly help his chances…
Before we get too far ahead of ourselves we should point out the word from the team is that Bennett will make the Tour and he has been withdrawn from racing this week so he can rest for the big one. Patrick Lefevere has also gone on record saying he believes the Tour is too hard for Cav at this point in his career. Let us dream, Patrick…
Cav is in the house!#BaloiseBelgiumTour
Photo: @BeelWout pic.twitter.com/Q1LJwnhv34— Deceuninck-QuickStep (@deceuninck_qst) June 9, 2021
Poll: Would you buy one of Go Faster exclusive kits?
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Assuming you’re fast enough to be deemed worthy of wearing one of Go Faster’s new kits…would you be tempted? It’s a no from me and everyone else we’ve seen talking about the Kickstarter this morning, but maybe you like the challenge? Let your opinion be known…
Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert withdraws from Tour de Suisse after team member tests positive for COVID-19
Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert Matériaux withdraws from Tour de Suisse as a precautionary measure following positive COVID-test.
Full statement: https://t.co/aRo3t5W68u pic.twitter.com/1KiVebJnwm
— Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert (@IntermarcheWG) June 9, 2021
Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert did not start Tour de Suisse stage four after a member of staff tested positive for COVID-19 yesterday morning. All the team’s pre-race tests were negative and the staff member is not showing any symptoms but the team has withdrawn to protect the race bubble.
“The decision to withdraw was not easy to take,” team manager Jean-François Bourlart said. “But we want to be cautious and protect the race bubble after one team member tested positive yesterday even if the rest of the group were all negative. Our priority is riders’ and staff members’ health so we decided to withdraw from Tour de Suisse in consultation with the race organiser. We will keep monitoring the team’s health and focus on the next goals.”
It’s a packed afternoon of racing with three stages in three different countries. Suisse stage four ventures into the smaller mountains but should still give Mathieu van der Poel an opportunity for a third win in a row. Over in Belgium, the Baloise Belgium Tour gets underway with some cobbles, while in Slovenia, Tadej Pogačar makes his final Tour de France preparations at his home race. Tasty.
Jeremy Vine tags along for Cycle and Run night in Ealing
Monday is Cycle & Run night in Ealing! I so enjoyed coming out with these young families who want @EalingCouncil to make their streets safer — something so contentious that they asked me not to show their faces. Yep, some residents are THAT angry at the closure of their rat-runs pic.twitter.com/KqKFgWKymh
— Jeremy Vine (@theJeremyVine) June 9, 2021
Remco Evenepoel pipped in Baloise Belgium Tour sprint but signs hot prospect may be back to close to his best
🎥 Robbe Ghys beating Remco Evenepoel and Gianni Marchand in the sprint of the first stage of the Baloise Belgium Tour between Beveren and Maarkedal.#BaloiseBelgiumTour pic.twitter.com/Pe9Ls7ywM0
— Baloise Belgium Tour (@belgium_tour) June 9, 2021
Robbe Ghys of second division Sport Vlaanderen won the opening stage of his home tour, beating Remco Evenepoel in a three-up sprint. However, the day was all about Evenepoel who is seemingly back to close to his best after returning to racing for the first time in nine months at the Giro d’Italia. Evenepoel abandoned the Giro in the third week but was back attacking on home roads today.
The 21-year-old dragged Victor Campanaerts, Gianni Marchand and Ghys from 30km to go all the way to the finish on his own, without the help of a single turn. Evenepoel’s pace was so strong Campanaerts needed to get off his bike to stretch out his cramp after he was dropped on the penultimate climb…Ghys pipped Evenepoel in the sprint, but the Deceuninck-Quick-Step rider will wear the leader’s jersey tomorrow having taken nine bonus seconds on the road.
Over in Switzerland it was also a breakaway day with another home rider getting the win. Stefan Bissegger beat two rivals to sprint to victory from the breakaway. Elsewhere, Tadej Pogačar enjoyed a stress-free day at his final warm-up race for the Tour de France as Phil Bauhaus won the bunch kick at the Tour of Slovenia.
Victor Crampenaerts.
— Thomas De Gendt (@DeGendtThomas) June 9, 2021
Poll results: We asked you if you'd buy one of Go Faster's kits...assuming you can ride quick enough to be deemed worthy of it
No recount needed here…that’s a resounding ‘no’ for Go Faster’s Kickstarter idea: the kit that can only be bought if you can prove your average speed is fast enough…
9 June 2021, 08:03
I'm sure this will go down well...
New aero cycling kit that can only be bought if you prove your average speed is fast enough launches on Kickstarter
The Level 2 jersey is optimised for speeds above 39km/h, and you'll also have to show that you can ride at that speed to 'unlock' it…
9 June 2021, 08:03
9 June 2021, 08:03
9 June 2021, 08:03
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I think modern politicians need a different skillset to succeed than earlier generations. Obviously there's a lot of overlap, but the (social) media environment is now such that politicians need to always be in campaign-mode to some degree, at the expense of time spent getting to grips with their brief and governing.
@mctrials23 Yes, all of that and especially (I'm sure you meant this under the training understanding/advancements) huge blocks of altitude training which effectively legally simulates doping with EPO.
Another perhaps more extreme example of this is in athletics. Despite improvements in training and nutrition, shoes and kit, faster tracks, more nations taking part, increased funding and increased financial rewards the following world records still exist : Women's 100m & 200m (Florence Griffith-Joiner, 1988), Women's 400m (Marita Koch, 1985), Women's 800m (Martina Kratochvilova, 1983).
It is shocking how desperately stupid drivers can be. I've seen someone try to go around police blocking the road to drive up the highway towards where it was clearly blocked by multiple fire trucks filling bambi buckets on hovering helicopters. I've seen drivers (plural) who can't understand how to get around a collision blocking the road ahead where all they have to do is go around the block. Pit cones out to block a lane? Better make sure no one can squeeze their car between them because they will.
@Rendel Harris I'm frankly astounded that its taken this long to break many of the records and its just a testament to how ridiculous doping was. - training properly from a young age - diet changes - no long off season and "racing yourself back to fitness" - bike tech, aero bikes, better tyres, aero socks, skin suits etc - fuelling up to 3x the amount on the bike vs what they used to do - Recovery after rides - Training understanding/advancements Its amazing that we have had to change all this before we are beating guys who were doped up to the gills.
I tend to judge people by their actions rather than their words. At least he cycles and is not, to my knowledge, a die-hard vehicular cyclist nutter. Whatever happens he would struggle to be a worse candidate than Shaun Bailey. That was the chap who was caught campaigning in Brentwood, yes, the one in Essex where no one had the vote. Oh, and do we know if this will be a FPTP election or has it been rolled back to transferable vote?
@chrisonabike There seem to be three frameworks when it comes to speed limits. Framework 1 is the approach introduced in 1934. It doesn't see speed limits as traffic-calming measures, but as a legal tool for identifying and dealing with reckless drivers. You measure traffic speeds to establish what constitutes normal driving behaviour, assume most drivers are reasonable and have an aversion to crashing or running someone over, and set the limit accordingly. Exceptions should genuinely be exceptional, so that drivers take them seriously when the do differ from the norm. Framework 2 is closer to the approach that existed before 1930: you simply set a speed and expect everyone to drive at it. This seems to be the framework the Welsh Government claims to favour, set a lower limit and expect compliance, often without changing the road or substantially increasing enforcement. The WG guidelines actually said don't take any account of traffic speeds as a variable when it comes to making exceptions, if you like to link me to a study that says that's a good idea, I'd like to read it. This is also how I used to assume speed limits work, as something you just *set*. Framework 3 recognises that Framework 1 falls apart when you use Framework 2, but argues that this is acceptable as long as the average speed falls somewhat. This seems to be the reality of what is being used today: high, sometimes extremely high, non-compliance is considered an acceptable price for a marginal reduction in average speeds. The problem is what happens in the long term when non-compliance is effectively designed into the system: speed limits become useless for identifying genuinely dangerous drivers, speeding becomes normalised and more socially acceptable, and pedestrians are given signs telling them to expect speeds that drivers are routinely travelling above.
@Rendel Harris I think that's called a straw man, I've seen levels of non-compliance in Bristol measured at 97.5% and even over 99% in Monmouthshire, who is that meant to single out and target? It's not that most people wilfully break laws, it's because if the road is designed for higher speed people will naturally do it. This video from a traffic engineer explains it better than I can why this is materially different to things like drink driving. https://youtu.be/NDYQaa3K_BA
@Bill H ".....but he is a genuine utility cyclist." That's good to hear, but telling two different groups things that are diametrically opposed doesn't do much for his credibility or honesty.
I think Andy Burnham has offered some hope in the last few weeks by threatening renationalisation of some industries, highlighting Brexit's disastrous effects on trade and public funding and calling out the downside of Thatcherism (if that viewpoint becomes more widely acknowledged most senior Tory politicians will have no clothes). And to Kier Starmer's credit he did take steps to improve the relationship and trade with the EU. But let's not get too excited too soon. The big problem is that lots of things need fixing but many aren't prepared to pay more towards it or can't afford to pay more towards it. Incidentally, I was discussing modern politicians with my wife this morning. They often seem to be self seeking, uninterested in detail, not very capable and mainly focussed on soundbites and their careers. Has it always been like this? Or is it just that we are older? It always seemed that politicians of the 70's, 80's and 90's had a deeper sense of responsibility and obligations of duty towards the electorate. But maybe they didn't. Discuss.
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Was he riding…… SOLO?
Was he riding…… SOLO?
(Unfortunately falcon cycles are kids sizes only otherwise that could have been a pun on his potential ride)
I don’t know about riding
I don’t know about riding SOLO, but he only used one hand at a time…
(…that’s Hands Solo)
Look Mum its Hans!
Look Mum its Hans! from Old `Street
A ride out to the fish quay
A ride out to the fish quay for lunch was something I did quite regularly when I was in Ncl. The best fish ‘n chips (yes, I am a fish ‘n chips cyclist), but you had to be mindful of wind direction – I hope it stinks less now than it did back then
Dan, it’s North Shields.
Dan, it’s North Shields.
Says it right there in the tweet.
It is early, I suppose 🙂
Harrison Ford holds the KOM
Harrison Ford holds the KOM on the Kessel Run.
It’s been flagged, for using
It’s been flagged, for using incorrect distance & time measures…
0-0 wrote:
Congratulations! You have won the internet for today!
Maybe Tom wanted to get an
Maybe Tom wanted to get an upgraded F14 sooner…and the wheels too (not dura ace in the other ineos pics) glad he’s doing well….
Harrison Ford seems to have
Harrison Ford seems to have quite an affinity with the UK – a while back he did a canal boat holiday.
He looks pretty good for
He looks pretty good for someone who’s, what, about 150 years old.
It’s not his first Millennium
It’s not his first Millennium
Quote:
These are not the rides you’re looking for.
“It’s not the first time Ford
“It’s not the first time Ford has been snapped going for a spin while filming in the UK. In 2014, the Star Wars star went for a ride around London on his Genesis Croix de Fer…sadly, everyone in North Shields seemed too shocked to get a pic of his current ride.”
He’s on a Colnago. I’m not a big enough Colnago nerd to know which one.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-57413454
Looks like the 2018 C60 Team
Looks like the 2018 C60 Team UAE limited edition. I’ll get me anorak…
Rendel Harris wrote:
No, please stay – you’re providing a valuable service to the rest of us.
Harrison Ford looks like he’s
Harrison Ford looks like he’s in incredible shape.. ideal for some local vets racing I’d say.
I wonder if his wheels are carbonite?
Go Faster aero jerseys – what
Go Faster aero jerseys – what’s all the hate about? We’re entitled to buy and wear whatever we like, aren’t we? I quite like the two designs and while a 26km/h average ride is not too much trouble, 39km/h would be tough and potentially (type 2) fun trying!
The only problem is the cost as, while 100 for a jersey isn’t at all uncommon, it’s also more than I feel like a jersey should cost!
Personally, I have a few
Personally, I have a few issues:
There’s their “environmental” message that you should reduce the number of new jerseys you buy… by buying a new jersey.
There’s the snobbery of people “deserving” to wear certain clothes. If you’re not being paid to cycle, then you’re an amateur and you should wear whatever you want to wear.
There’s the “Earned, not bought” tagline which is clearly false given it still costs £115.
There’s the sports psychology gumph which they have provided zero evidence for.
There’s the false suggestion that only fast people benefit from aero gains.
There’s the cost – it’s on par with other high-end jerseys, but those other high-end jerseys are made by companies who have a track record of making good jerseys (and, frankly, are normally less hideous).
If you want to challenge yourself to sustain 24mph then go to your local TT and earn yourself a nice cup of tea.