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I think you're overlooking the people-with-lots-of-money-who-like-to-think-they're-pros market.

Talk about vested interests wanting to profiteer at the expense of their own ‘team’! Endless excuses for inflation and greed, growth capitalism at its best. Hello.

Sees headline … hmm those’ll be hookless then. Opens article. Yep. I’ll pass thanks.

…but hang on, ‘professional purists’ don’t buy their own bikes! …so Giant is basically giving up on its core market in favour giving bikes to the sponsored elite? Bizarre.

Couldn't agree more ,corporate welfare costs taxpayers way more than the single mums do .They have people angry at the wrong people on purpose ,the rich are their friends

I find it strange that bike shops are compain8ng about people earning 10 to 12 quid an hour whilst allowing bike brands to dictate pretty much all the rules on selling bikes .I know how it works ,main brands demand x amount of sales to have their name in the shop for minimal discounts on their bikes ,then they allow bike to work to steal 20% of it too . It's time they got together to demand more from the industry itself ,not to underpay children or adults to work in their shops . I was eating £12 ph 20+ years ago ,its a pittance when filling your car is £100

This whole, seemingly endless, discussion is all caused by the abject failure to police dangerous driving motorists. Cyclists would mostly ride on the road (where they are legally entitled to ride), if it were safe to do so. …victim blaming and gaslighting of cyclists should also be illegal, whether it’s a self serving architect, city councillor or idiot driver. I’m over it.

@Bungle_52 Thanks for that, it confirms what I've always suspected which is that stiffer sentencing for many offences doesn't have a deterrent effect (not saying it's not valid for other reasons) because nobody but a psychopath sets out thinking, "I'm going to drive in a way that might kill somebody but I don't care I'm doing it anyway"; everyone thinks that they are a good driver and that they drive safely, even drink/drug drivers believe that they are capable of driving without causing harm. Rather than focusing on punitive sentencing which does not deter, there should be far more stringent training and testing requirements before driving licences are issued, massive crackdowns on uninsured/unlicensed drivers and more policing and heavier penalties for less serious offences, especially speeding and mobile phone use. If every car had a GPS chip so that drivers knew that any time they exceeded the speed limit or ran a red light they would automatically receive a heavy fine and points you could pretty much guarantee that KSI rates would be halved overnight.

@MaxiMinimalist Repeating this every time these cases come up doesn't make it any less stupid. Massive prison sentences for anyone who kills a cyclist when impaired by drink or drugs or when breaking the laws of the road, fine. Unfortunately humans make errors and, as I've said before, show me someone who says that they've never made a mistake on a bike or when driving a car that could, had circumstances been different, have killed someone and I'll show you a liar. Deterrent sentences will, hopefully, deter people from getting behind the wheel drunk or stoned and might even make them think twice about speeding, they won't have any effect on the person who misjudges the apex of a bend and slides out and hits a cyclist in the opposite lane, and sending such a person to prison for ten years under a "no excuses, no exceptions" law will do nothing except cost the taxpayer half a million pounds and ruin even more lives than such tragedies already do. You might wish to reflect, if capable, on the fact that the laws for causing death by dangerous/careless driving are now mirrored by the same laws for cyclists, would you say, for example, that Charlie Alliston should have gone to prison for ten years? If you come off your bike in the rain and collide with a elderly pedestrian standing kerbside waiting to cross and they die, should you go to prison for ten years? No excuses, no exceptions, don't forget.

@Terry Hutt my first thought was that it looks as if made with Lego