road.cc live blog – BMX rider almost impaled on fence (video) plus Aru’s new jersey falls flat and much more
Starting off 2018 with your usual round-up of everything that’s happening in cycling
Tue, Jan 02, 2018 16:33
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Simon joined road.cc as news editor in 2009 and is now the site’s community editor, acting as a link between the team producing the content and our readers. A law and languages graduate, published translator and former retail analyst, he has reported on issues as diverse as cycling-related court cases, anti-doping investigations, the latest developments in the bike industry and the sport’s biggest races. Now back in London full-time after 15 years living in Oxford and Cambridge, he loves cycling along the Thames but misses having his former riding buddy, Elodie the miniature schnauzer, in the basket in front of him.
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Krislord 5 hours ago
I still don’t understand the changes they’ve made recently. They had an issue with discounting, so stopped that. The issue was never revenue though, it was the overheads as a percentage of revenue. As long as you sell the item above the manufacturing cost it’s still worth selling. They’re now covering the same overheads with less revenue. Beyond the finances, the product needs fixing too - the casual clothing was an easy way to push the brand yet underutilised with ridiculous prices. Hideous colours on all levels of the core and pro range - it’s like they went into the woods and decided to make everything beige, or washed out green. It’s frustrating as I want to buy rapha but they don’t make anything that appeals.
belugabob 6 hours ago
@eburtthebike but those are occupied by the previous incumbents (or they sold them for scrap)
Another_MAMIL 6 hours ago
@GravelIsNothingNew Undoubtedly, prices are exorbitant (coinciding with a cost-of-living crisis 🙄 ). But as Mr T said: “I pity the fool who buys Rapha outside their archive sales.”
KiwiMike 6 hours ago
@Pub bike here you see the challenge all reviews face: there’s a thousand ways to do any specific task on a bike. So any conclusion a reviewer comes to can be pulled apart by a thousand apples/oranges comparisons. It’s a bag that attaches to a bike. It works quite well. Other bags are available. Isn’t choice grand?
Mr Blackbird 7 hours ago
@wtjs Don't the police have to use this neutral language (nauseating as it is) so they can't be accused of jeopardising the eventual trial.
Rendel Harris 7 hours ago
@Ramz It's £45 for the navy blue version, £90 for all the other colours.
Pub bike 8 hours ago
Great write-up thanks! Lots of nice observations and useful details. Like you I met some lovely people on tour this year but I met almost all of them whilst waiting to board the ferry. I saw very few cycle tourists in the south of France in contrast to previous years. Maybe people were scared off by the heat (which wasn't that bad in early September) or are most people now bikepacking off-road and wild-camping?
ktache 8 hours ago
I highly recommend the 5 10 freeride range. 3 pairs at the moment, a pair in tan, fabric panels in suede, for the dry summer, better ventilation, a pair in black leather for when the going gets wet, and the plastic winter version, for when the going gets cold and very muddy. All excellent grip on my Shimano saints, dmr v12s and wellgo "v12s". Owned their spitfires for many years, my first cycling specific shoes.
Ramz 8 hours ago
"Buy Now for £45 from Endura" That is £45 per shoe, because the price on Endura is now £90 for a pair!
ktache 8 hours ago
David Byrne coffee cup bike racks. I think a few of these in a range of browns would be perfect.
7 thoughts on “road.cc live blog – BMX rider almost impaled on fence (video) plus Aru’s new jersey falls flat and much more”
Hmm? Something about Aru?
Hmm? Something about Aru?
Hmm. Something about a video?
Hmm? Something about a video?
This live blog articles with
This live blog articles with promising descriptions and no content or even link, really amaze me. I wonder why I keep clicking on them.
cyclisto wrote:
Adblocker ? You don’t see the articles with Adblock activated.
That said when it’s not activated the articles are there but they’ll be overlaid with enormous video adverts and fake Facebook screens….
fukawitribe wrote:
Adblocker ? You don’t see the articles with Adblock activated.
That said when it’s not activated the articles are there but they’ll be overlaid with enormous video adverts and fake Facebook screens….— cyclisto
Yeah, and take 4x longer to load!
While I understand the magazine has to get revenue from somewhere, I dont appreciate them eating up my bandwidth; at least there are only 9(!) adverts on this page, a certain other onine ‘zine that might be on your “Radar”
has begun to block me completely: greedy bastards can keep their crappy rag if they’re gonna squeeze 23 ads onto one page!
Time to ramp up the ad blocker arms race with an ad blocker that stops websites blocking the ad blocker from blocking !
I don’t even have an ad
I don’t even have an ad blocker and still see nothing.
Mind you, I do have a script-blocker, so I suppose that must be having the same effect.
Thing is, every time I turn off scriptblocking (or, when I used to use it, adblocking) its never very long before I encounter a situation on some site or other that I visit where visitors have been infected with malware from a hijacked advert. Not only are many adverts ridiculously intrusive, but the way they get served up seems to create a significant security hole on otherwise trustworthy websites. I just don’t feel its worth the risk.
And why do sites have _so many_ scripts running? Just screeds of them, most of which don’t seem to do anything of any use to the end-user. The web is suffering from bloat. The more powerful browsing devices get, the more unnecessary crap web developers add to use up those CPU cycles.
For me, it’s only the browser
For me (I’m on a Mac), it’s only the browser I’ve set running adblock that prevents the page loading. It loads fine on the others and without over-intrusive ads. I guess the script blocker is doing the same for FKoT (totally agree with their last paragraph btw).
Anyway for those that are not seeing it on this site, check this
https://twitter.com/Trudgin/status/947964249720094722