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  • December 2, 2014 at 4:07 am #22808
    macrophotofly

    Road.cc, you do a fabulous job providing news and articles that interest me on cycling. However I seem to have to wander over to the non-cycling websites to still get some of the British cycling competition news (e.g. Nikki Harris coming third in the recent cyclo-X WC and Cavendish/Keisse winning the Zurich 6-day). Any chance of more coverage of those kind of events, etc? Maybe I’m in a minority and the competition stuff you’ve reported on in the past doesn’t get as many hits as articles on cycling accidents?
    I’d personally like slightly less reports on road deaths and instead more reports on our girls and guys racing round the globe.

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  • December 14, 2014 at 3:45 pm #822251
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    Super Domestique

    ianrobo wrote:I think this is

    ianrobo wrote:
    I think this is rather unfair, look at the current news feed and most is obvious stuff and you have to go a few articles in until the first ‘gore’ article which is actually a good news one.

    That could well be a reaction to the survey feedback though and things like this thread that has been around for well over a week.

    December 14, 2014 at 1:15 pm #822249
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    Markus

    More good new would be nice.
    More good new would be nice. I mentioned this in the survey, too.

    I have not been following this site regularly for very long, maybe three or four years or so, but my impression is that the emphasis in the news section has shifted towards accidents and bike haters just during this passing year. Its becoming rather off-putting, I’d say.

    More news on racing would not hurt, especially about the non-regular stuff. The article about dutch beach racing was a good one. And the blog entry “One foot in the gravel” was a real highlight. And first-hand interviews, more of those. The world is full of interesting people, some of those ride bikes, too.

    I have not been following the site very closely the past weeks. If there has been a change away from the negative, that good news, indeed.

    December 14, 2014 at 12:38 pm #822247
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    Kadinkski

    ianrobo wrote:I think this is

    ianrobo wrote:
    I think this is rather unfair, look at the current news feed and most is obvious stuff and you have to go a few articles in until the first ‘gore’ article which is actually a good news one.

    Its been so much better the last few weeks.

    December 14, 2014 at 12:30 pm #822245
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    ianrobo

    I think this is rather
    I think this is rather unfair, look at the current news feed and most is obvious stuff and you have to go a few articles in until the first ‘gore’ article which is actually a good news one.

    December 14, 2014 at 12:30 pm #822243
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    ianrobo

    I think this is rather
    I think this is rather unfair, look at the current news feed and most is obvious stuff and you have to go a few articles in until the first ‘gore’ article which is actually a good news one.

    December 14, 2014 at 11:03 am #822241
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    middleagedmoaner

    A bit less doom would be
    A bit less doom would be excellent I have to say, my username notwithstanding… Plenty of other sites full of doom of many different types :S

    December 5, 2014 at 11:45 am #822239
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    Meaulnes

    Agreed.
    I really do like this
    Agreed.

    I really do like this website; it’s my first port of call. But the unrelenting parade of terror, scaremongering and misery is genuinely depressing. I can’t help thinking that if the effort put into finding YouTube clips of near passes were put into interviewing the likes of Gaby Durrin, people who tend to be ignored by the cycling media, we’d all be better off.

    December 4, 2014 at 9:20 pm #822237
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    Nixster

    With you on the sentiment,
    With you on the sentiment, although the comments on articles are not down to the editorial team to police in my view. I have to agree though that many of the white van story comments were the sort of thing I hoped to have left behind in the playground of secondary school.

    Doom, death and disaster do sell newspapers but I thought this internet thing offered the opportunity for a more nuanced journalistic approach. Advocacy is great but I don’t need to know the details of each individual casualty to know that better provision for cycling would be a good thing.

    More sport reporting would balance the mix a bit but I wouldn’t want to lose the reporting of issues that are of interest to cyclists in the real world as a result, just some of the ambulance chasing.

    December 3, 2014 at 6:15 pm #822235
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    Kadinkski

    My mate calls this site
    My mate calls this site ‘roadkill.cc’

    December 3, 2014 at 5:43 pm #822233
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    KiwiMike

    Agree 100%.
    I’m quite OK
    Agree 100%.

    I’m quite OK where an article reports something currently or possibly shite, such as the proposed ‘Garden Bridge’ in London that might ban cyclists, and seeks a 38-Degrees-style call to action. That way we make a difference.

    But hearing of yet another person mown down or beaten up for their bike does nothing at all to make me want to ride more, or to make things better.

    December 3, 2014 at 5:14 pm #822231
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    Super Domestique

    Hopefully threads like this,
    Hopefully threads like this, along with survey feedback (I mentioned it there too) might see the tide turn.

    December 3, 2014 at 5:12 pm #822229
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    truffy

    bike_food wrote:Totally

    bike_food wrote:
    Totally agree, again mentioned in survey, perhaps there should be a gore filter on/off button on the home page.

    Or a dedicated news section for the rabble-rousing stories with the option to completely block it from view.

    December 2, 2014 at 8:24 pm #822227
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    sanderville

    I also mentioned this in the
    I also mentioned this in the survey.

    December 2, 2014 at 7:15 pm #822225
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    Anonymous

    Totally agree, again
    Totally agree, again mentioned in survey, perhaps there should be a gore filter on/off button on the home page.

    December 2, 2014 at 6:14 pm #822223
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    Hoester

    Agree. Mentioned this a few
    Agree. Mentioned this a few times myself.

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