E-bike operators including Lime and Forest slapped with £210,000 in fines for sloppy parking, plus Mercian is making an e-bike, Bosch launches certification system + more

"Remain indoors!" Is the road.cc team advocating for "climate" lockdowns? We're in June when days break early and last longer. This means there is plenty of time to log a 2- or 3-hour spin, and for the cycling locos who like muy caliente a 4- or 5-hour ride. Just carry enough water and be back home before noon. I'm old enough to know that cycling is an outdoor sport.

@andystow On the 100 mile day, I really needed electrolytes. Two Nuun tablets per bottle or equivalent. No straight water, no matter how cold. Any kind of Gatorade doesn’t have enough electrolytes I have to report a change of mind here: for 40 years I have operated a No Added Salt policy as a precaution to reduce the probability of hypertension. It was in my mind that the body is so efficient at sodium conservation that it's pretty much impossible to consume insufficient sodium. This turns out to be incorrect. No matter how fit and acclimatised, a heavy day of sweating exercise will lose 10-15g of salt. I have taken no electrolyte replacements over this time, including some big trips in what the UK considers to be heatwaves - like the one in progress now. I was away for 6 days on a long (well, fairly long) distance walk during the last heatwave at the end of May, carrying all food and camping equipment with no resupply. Presumably, I have managed because there's so much excess salt in the average diet and the trips haven't been long or intense enough. I'm not planning to change from ordinary food and water, but I now recognise that I must be in sodium deficit on heavy exercise days. Elite athletes are, of course different.

You don't have to go to that Europe to enjoy fountains, my regular foot cooler/bike washer on the Thames at Vauxhall/Nine Elms...

How about something similar for bi-focal glasses for us oldies that can't see the Garmin without them?!

"And if you are cycling up the Cavehill Road, they expect you to stop, cross the busy road before the fire station, cycle 100 yards and then cross back across the busy road at the lights again. Who thinks that anyone would do that? Cycling down the Cavehill Road, I would not stop, cross the busy road to get on the cycle path, I’ll stay on the road." If that's true then I'd do the same. Poorly designed infrastructure is worse than none at all.

If drivers all over the UK adhered to speed limits and drove in accordance with the highway code, cyclists/scooter riders etc wouldn't need all these traffic calming. cycle lane changes, and maybe drivers wouldn't kill 300+ children every year.

@Pub bike I don't think they can prove it. Thats what they are saying. They can use it as an indication to guide further testing but as an actual "gotcha" its not going to work. I don't know if this is all part of a strategy to make people so paranoid about getting caught that they don't even try to get away with it.

@Gravel1-2 If that was going to be a smoking gun the teams would likely just be circumventing it. Fiddle the power data either pre-flight or post-flight based on the motor usage. If someone has gone to enough effort and expense to create an invisible motor inside a WT team bike that doesn't set off any more obvious red flags like weight, random buttons, scanning etc then they will get around this one as well.

Also rather confused that they appear to be concerned that people might not be able to park outside a fire station. 🤔

I think you'll need to take that up with the media and society more widely. These things only tend to get attention / become 'news' when people make a fuss about them, and people are much more likely to make a fuss about things they're against than they are things they're in favour of. If road.cc were only to pick up stories where people were being universally positive about them, there basically wouldn't be any.