Parish councillor writes to cycling club to complain about cyclists ‘racing very fast downhill’; Ridge riding with Kilian Bron; Canyon’s Ultimate range gets a fresh lick of paint; “If you want respect as a cyclist, you’ve got to earn it” + more
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"If you want respect as a cyclist, you've got to earn it" says Decathlon email
Slightly bored and reading this email from @DecathlonUK and spotted this utter nonsense about earning respect. pic.twitter.com/uvvC6pbEpG
— Real Gaz on a proper bike #fbpe (@gazza_d) September 28, 2020
Video: French mountain biker Kilian Bron's Tour de France
Remember Kilian Bron, the French mountain biker who got in trouble for riding down a dam in Australia?
It passed us by at the time, but he did a whole Tour de France video a couple of weeks back.
It was the bit on the ridge that caught our eye, but plenty more in here if you enjoy extreme vicarious anxiety.
Rather beautiful too.
DHL launch London’s first parcel delivery riverboat service
Delriverboat. Delrivery. Deriverelly. Delrivellerellery…
Today, we’re excited to have launched London’s first parcel delivery riverboat service! Our new service aims to ease congestion and provide a reliable, efficient and sustainable way of transporting deliveries across the capital. #GoGreen #mission2050 #DHLRiverboat pic.twitter.com/TwjNWrkA5C
— DHL Express UK (@dhlexpressuk) September 28, 2020
Danny Macaskill: The Ridge
That Kilian Bron video below is a decent enough excuse to post this again.
Tips for drivers "trapped" in low traffic neighbourhoods
Out of concern for drivers “trapped” in low-traffic neighbourhoods we’ve created a helpful infographic to demonstrate how you can leave your street. The filter (here shown in green) means you can’t drive that way. However the blue line shows a potential alternative route. pic.twitter.com/QAbdhnugr9
— The Cycling Lobby (@CyclingLobby) September 28, 2020
Zurich votes bike
In a landslide popular vote in favour of the #bicycle, the people of #Zurich have decided to block cars from 50 km (or 7%) of the city’s streets. The referendum represents a major shift away from traffic policies that have prioritized motorists for more than 50 years. pic.twitter.com/h5kJ5vV4SP
— Sichere Velorouten für Zürich ✌️ (@Velorouten) September 27, 2020
Canyon’s Ultimate range gets a fresh lick of paint for 2021
Canyon has been rather busy over the past few months with the launch of its Factory Racing models. There’s also what looks like the long-awaited update to the Aeroad, so it isn’t surprising to see that the 2021 update for the Ultimate is limited to just a fresh lick of paint.
Review: Canyon Ultimate CF SLX Disc 9.0 Movistar
The range still starts at £1,599 for the Shimano 105 rim-brake model and tops out at £8,499 for the Factory Racing model with Campagnolo Super Record EPS. Within this range, there are numerous unisex and WMN models.
Our favourite of the new paint jobs is the one up top on the CF SLX 9 WMN. Jazzy.
Parish councillor writes to cycling club to complain about cyclists - asks residents to submit dash cam footage
This time last year...
#OnThisDay last year, #Yorkshire2019 gave the elite men’s road race a taste of some proper weather 😬
🎥 @UCI_cyclingpic.twitter.com/ZmZ8Ef3D4M
— British Cycling (@BritishCycling) September 29, 2020
Wolverhampton to host Commonwealth Games time trial in 2022
The 2022 Commonwealth Games is being hosted in Birmingham with events taking place across the West Midlands.
Cannock Chase will be hosting the mountain biking events, while the time trials will start and end in West Park in Wolverhampton.
I’m delighted to announce that the start and finish area for the Road Cycling Time Trial at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games will be in West Park!
This is something I championed in Parliament and local people will get to see a world class event for free in Wolverhampton. pic.twitter.com/bZpKyikKMl
— Stuart Anderson MP (@Stuart4WolvesSW) September 29, 2020
First stretch of London's Cycleway 4 has opened
🚲🚲Cycleway 4 from Tower Bridge Rd to Rotherhithe is now OPEN 🚲🚲 This permanent segregated cycleway includes a complete overhaul of the Rotherhithe Roundabout, three new pedestrian crossings and 3 new Santander Cycles docking stations. @MayorofLondon @tfl pic.twitter.com/3FVaRVeyKA
— Will Norman (@willnorman) September 29, 2020
Magic wands
If anyone wants to talk about the safety value of bike lane wands, please watch this clip of a driver this morning drifting into the bike lane as he uses his phone, and then the wands forcing him to pull back out again. @GroupMerton @OWandsworth @MikeyCycling @wandsworth pic.twitter.com/Y3gpnoqUME
— Luke Taylor 🔶 (@LukeTaylorLD) September 29, 2020
Groenewegen won't race again this season
Wielerflits reports that Dylan Groenewegen won’t race again this season, following his part in Fabio Jakobsen’s horror crash at the Tour de Pologne last month.
“I’m not touching the bike for now,” he said. “Thinking about sprinting is a long way off. I won’t even think about cycling for the next few months. We will see how it goes afterwards.”
Deceuninck-Quick Step manager Patrick Lefevere is reportedly optimistic about Jakobsen recovering to ride again next season.
“I am convinced that he will put on a shirt number again around March,” he said.
Wallasey councillors set up crowdfunder to campaign against bike lanes
There are plans for a New Brighton to Birkenhead cycle route.
Wallasey Conservatives are not in favour and are looking to crowdfund £1,000 to campaign against it.
Speaking about the proposed route earlier in the month, councillor Ian Lewis, who launched the appeal, said: “I have written to the Chief Executives of both Wirral Council and the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority calling for this project to be scrapped.
“In its place should be an open and transparent consultation on how the money from the Government should be best spent, in a way that does not cause further chaos in our residential areas. Money spent quickly is rarely money spent well and this project has gone down like a lead balloon in Wallasey.
“The Cabinet need to admit they have made a mistake and go back to the drawing board.”
Wirral resident Chris Boardman’s weighed in on the matter.
Feel free to let the councillor know what you’d like your streets to look like and whether you think trying something different is a good idea. He’s even created a form for you to fill in 👇 Might want to check some of the ‘facts’ too… https://t.co/n2V6ls2vO9
— Chris Boardman (@Chris_Boardman) September 29, 2020
Crash at Binckbank Tour takes out about half the peloton
#BinckBankTour with a pretty awful crash. That poor Israel rider took the whole peloton on his back, unbelievable pic.twitter.com/RtCLeMKkiE
— ｆａｂｒｉｚｉｏ 🚴🔬📚 (@fabrizioviani) September 29, 2020
Israel Start-Up Nation were gravely concerned about the consequences…
What you mean is, you hope the riders are ok
— ｆａｂｒｉｚｉｏ 🚴🔬📚 (@fabrizioviani) September 29, 2020
Young boy caught cycling on live railway line twice in one weekend
Wiltshire999S reports that workers at Swindon and Cricklade Railway caught a group of children about ten-years-old riding their bikes along the tracks near Clifford’s Crossing.
They told them not to, but one came back and did it again.
Young boy caught cycling on live railway line near Swindon twice in one weekend – #Wiltshire https://t.co/hdAthev9Ci
— Wiltshire 999s (@Wiltshire999s) September 28, 2020
The heritage railway says evidence of the incidents has been sent to the police and they have suggested a PCSO get in touch to “discuss options”.
“The railway can be a dangerous place,” said a spokesperson. “It is NOT abandoned.”
Prefect of the North unsure about Paris-Roubaix
L’Equipe reports that Michel Lalande, the Prefect of the North (who has a lot of clout) doesn’t yet seem entirely happy about holding Paris-Roubaix on October 25.
“The Tour de France took place. I imagine that health measures are also being studied for Paris-Roubaix,” he said.
“But, I say it as regional prefect, I will soon meet the organisers to see, in a context of increased circulation of the virus compared to the Tour de France, what position we are taking on Paris-Roubaix.”
Aftermath of that Binckbank Tour crash
Belgian national champion Dries De Bondt helping his countryman Oliver Naesen to the finish.
Naesen kan rechterbeen niet plooien na val, De Bondt duwt hem naar de finish pic.twitter.com/z51PHSNRkS
— Sporza 🚴 (@sporza_koers) September 29, 2020
29 September 2020, 08:05
Bit of a test event, this
Cyclo-cross National Trophy Series returns in post-COVID 19 test event
Safety measures in place include changes to pit facilities and spectating being “strongly discouraged”
29 September 2020, 08:05
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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!
38 thoughts on “Parish councillor writes to cycling club to complain about cyclists ‘racing very fast downhill’; Ridge riding with Kilian Bron; Canyon’s Ultimate range gets a fresh lick of paint; “If you want respect as a cyclist, you’ve got to earn it” + more”
On Saturday I was close to
On Saturday I was close to the middle of the road with my arm out in the prescribed manner when a car passing from behind brushed my fingers.
I guess they would have run over me were it not for respecting my adherence to traffic laws.
Yes I had one of those at the
Yes I had one of those at the weekend, so I then gave them another hand signal to show how much I respected them for doing it.
Start holding out a lump
Start holding out a lump hammer when signalling then they might give you a bit more space.
Is there a lightweight
Is there a lightweight version for weight weenies?
The decathlon response to the
The decathlon response to the complaints should be interesting. Hard to believe they sell bikes and bile paraphernalia.
“bile paraphenalia”
“bile paraphenalia”
Do they sell the Daily Fail now too?
I don’t get the Danny
I don’t get the Danny Macasgill thing. After he jumps the fence at the end and cycles across the sandy beach, well I reckon I could have cycled across that beach almost as well.
That Killian Bron / Commencal
That Killian Bron / Commencal video; the drone photography is incredible.
The Decathlon post is crass,
The Decathlon post is crass, and following the law doesn’t make drivers respect cyclists. The reason they hate us is because we pass them in traffic, we’re fit, healthy and slim, and intelligent enough not to pay a big chunk of our income on travel.
It was just as stupid as the people who think that if cyclists paid VED, it would make drivers respect us.
“If you want respect as a
“If you want respect as a cyclist, you’ve got to earn it”
Utter rubbish.
You can stop at every light, signal every manoeuvre, get off and walk your bike in all footpath-y areas just in case they’re not shared-use, carry a big sign saying “Road tax doesn’t exist but I paid VED on my car – will that do?”, bow and scrape to every taxi driver…
You will still get flak/disrespect because they all saw this other cyclist do something of which they think might be against the law this one time six months ago…
Always remember these are
Always remember these are people who are giving nothing back – whatever the we as cyclists do or the authorities do to make driving easier / faster/ cheaper – it’s never enough, never can be.
“…during the co-vid
“…during the co-vid pandemic.”
Presumably that’s referring to the vast outbreak of people stuck at home watching Netflix together?
Not quite sure how the behaviour of cyclists impacts that though…
Shouting and ‘using
Shouting and ‘using inappropriate language’
Latin?
Latin?
Esperanto.
Esperanto.
I generally find the biggest
I generally find the biggest problems with inappropriate language come from Netflix itself – it can’t seem to get its head around the idea that I want to watch foreign-language content in the original with subtitles, but don’t want close-caption subtitles on english-language stuff.
Netflix’s dubbing-into
Netflix’s dubbing-into-English is appalling. I don’t want some French police drama sounding like its in Gold Gulch, Arizona!
“If you want respect as a
“If you want respect as a cyclist, you’ve got to give up the bike”
The standard of
cyclingdriving has fallen so dramatically in the last 10 years that the average driver’s baseline is total disrespectuntil they see some evidence to the contrary.As a cyclist or driver, gGenerally I now expect the worst fromLondon cyclistsdrivers, and I am mildly shocked and pleasantly surprised if they don’tcycledrive like an anti-social clown who thinks themselves above the law.Cannot unsee…
Cannot unsee…
You know what’s ironic?
You know what’s ironic?
Trolls with absolutely zero credibility talking shit about respect.
“If you want respect as a
“If you want respect as a troll, you’ve got to earn it”
Sadly true. The standard of trolling has fallen so dramatically in the last 10 years that the average reader’s baseline is total disrespect until they see some evidence to the contrary.
As a troll or reader, generally I now expect the worst from London trolls and I am mildly shocked and pleasantly surprised if they don’t write like an anti-social clown who thinks themselves above the laws of logic.
What about all those anti
What about all those anti-social cyclists who aren’t part of Bromsgrove Cycling Club? Or, for that matter, any anti-social motorists who aren’t part of Bromsgrove Driving Club?
Clearly some riders aren’t
Clearly some riders aren’t doing enough to earn respect …
More “what aboutery”!? I assume other clubs in the area have also been written to – eg the Kidderminster Wheelers, Stourbridge Athletic & Cycling Club, N Worcs / S Staffs CTC, some club with a name like Meridian CC – to make up just a few.
Quite a pertinent point,
Quite a pertinent point, Brooksby. Writing to the the Bromsgrove Olympique Cycling Club is about as logical as writing to the AA about the standard of driving through Rushock. I live in the next door parish to Rushock and cannot relate to anything written within the letter. To me at sounds like a matter raised at a parish council meeting by a councillor who has a psychological problem related to cyclists rather than anything with substance.
The Road CC headline is
The Road CC headline is incorrect – it should say Parish Council writes to cycling club. That’s not to say you aren’t right in your supposition – it’s just a shame no one challenged them at the meeting where it was discussed.
As always, the complaints are vague and anecdotal.
I hope we get to see the reply from Bromsgrove CC.
I would be loud and proud there in my BCC club strip, calling out nicely to horse riders and maybe asking members to mind their language, unless it’s, as has been said, swearing at close-passing Audis.
Philip Whiteman wrote:
Perhaps the cycling club could write back, recommending a good pest control company to remove the bee from the councillor’s bonnet?
I don’t think you call pest
I don’t think you call pest control for bees. That’s for wasps.
(We phoned a local beekeeper last time we had a honey bee swarm in our garden…).
I also live near Rushock and
I also live near Rushock and ride through there on a regular basis. I was baffled by this article. The only explanation I can think of is that Bromsgrove Olympic organise a time trial along the main road towards Droitwich (A442) through Rushock on an occasional basis and that riders taking part in this were warming up on nearby roads before going to the start.
Its relevant that the roads they would have been using are country lanes with very little traffic and very few residents/houses. | have ridden through there many times and rarely see a car. I suspect a local Councillor, lives nearby has seen something going on which he/she didnt understand and was perhaps held up for for a few seconds after coming up behind some cyclists who didn’t notice he/she was there.
If there was any racing it was almost certainly down the main road (A442) but even on a TT bike they would have been unlikely to be breaking the speed limit ! Any dash cam footage will no doubt prove there was no law breaking, I think there are more important things going on in the world to be worried about !!
It will be interesting when
It will be interesting when the Minutes are published but the agenda for the meeting on the 10th Sept stated the agenda item “Problems with Cyclists” was raised by DC (Vice chair of the council). The clerk was obviously instructed to write the letter based off that but the minutes will be interesting.
I did notice the Minutes for the last meeting, it was raised about poor visibilty on lanes for walkers and the same DC didn’t think it was too much of a problem for said pedestrians back in May.
Parish Councillor writes “
Parish Councillor writes “(cyclists) deliberately slowing down drivers who cannot pass safely in narrow and winding rural lanes”. Sounds perfectly acceptable to me.
This happened once in 2016
This happened once in 2016 and again last year.
Cycling too fast and slowing
Cycling too fast and slowing down cars… er, and the cars aren’t going too fast then?
Is Rushock Village gammon
Is Rushock Village gammon central? Is it only cyclists who block the roads and ride swiftly down hills? I’m betting the drivers do all of those things but nobody cares. What about farmers blocking the roads with their cows and tractors?
If I was a member of that club, I’m afraid the clerk of the council would be getting very short shrift indeed, including informing him that cyclists will be videoing the dangerous, inconsiderate and illegal behavior of local drivers and passing it to the police.
I wonder if the Wallasey
I wonder if the Wallasey Conservatives have read their manifesto. In the 2019 general election on page 28 they promise “We will support commuter cycling routes, so that more people can cycle safely to work and more families can go out together” I’d hate to see a political party fail to live up to their promises made during an election
Where have you been for the
Where have you been for the past eleven years? Tory party manifestos are decorative only and there can be no expectation that they will actually carry them out. In fact, all their manifestos come with a disclaimer that they are fiction and any resemblence to actual policies or strategies is entirely coincidental.
Have any local cyclists mentioned their promises to the councillors?
The Tories are prepared to
The Tories are prepared to renege on international agreements they signed 1 year ago. So lies about supporting cycle lanes are hardly a bother to them, surely?
Well, if the councillor’s
Well, if the councillor’s claims are true, which they could be, then there will be videos exposing the cyclists, and I’m all in favour of that. I’m pretty sure I can trust local cyclists to counter with videos of drivers behaving badly. Let the court of opinion decide, but not on a simple basis of numbers: there are a lot more dangerous inconsiderate drivers around than dangerous inconsiderate cyclists.
Regrettably, the court of
Regrettably, the court of opinion has a jury of drivers