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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Rendel Harris 41 minutes ago
@ajuk.uk@gmail.com Coming next from ajuk, there's no point in having a drink drive limit of 0.80 BAC, let's increase it to 2.0 and then we'll catch the really drunk people without bothering those who have just had a few drinks. Honestly, what a lot of nonsense, "lots of people are ignoring the law" is an argument for stricter enforcement and harsher sanctions, not "oh, people don't like it so let's not bother". Speeding is not "normalised and socially acceptable" because of 20 mph limits – the majority of motorists admit to ignoring 30 mph limits as well – it's because successive governments, councils and police forces are reluctant to enforce perfectly reasonable laws for fear of being labelled "anti-motorist". Meanwhile every year 1750 people are killed by drivers (with 56% of fatalities having excessive speed as a factor) and 25,000 more seriously injured.
Rendel Harris 1 hour ago
@Mr Blackbird Definitely my experience in my brief and inglorious year as a motorcycle courier, delivering £10,000 of aeroplane tickets to someone in Belgravia, not a chance of a tip and the snottiest attitudes imaginable, taking work out to some freelancer in a council flat in Leytonstone often a tip, always a chat and an offer of tea. Many very rich people really do regard the rest of the population as a totally different species. I guess if they started thinking of them as equals that might lead to some uncomfortable thoughts that maybe they should be equally rewarded for the same level of work, and that would never do.
ajuk.uk@gmail.com 5 hours ago
I think the issue about speed limits isn't actually a debate about what the speed limit should be. Moreover, It's people talking past each other because they working from different frameworks of what the speed limit is. There's one group of people who say the speed limit is a legal tool there to single out reckless drivers, and there's the other group who assume they're traffic calming by fiat, because, they don't understand how speed limits work. There is evidence to suggest lower limits work on the sort of narrow residential streets that already lend themselves to such speeds, when it comes to much wider main road where you see non-compliance rates of well over 90%, those people who limits were previously able to single out and target are the sort of drivers most likely to hurt of kill a cyclist. Meanwhile you help to make speeding normalised and socially acceptable instigated by people who claim to want the opposite.
kingleo 6 hours ago
If motorists stopped drinking and/or drug driving and driving faster than the speed limit, that would reduce the head injuries to cyclists, pedestrians, and motorists.
Mr Blackbird 9 hours ago
Our window cleaner told me that he rarely gets Christmas tips from his customers in the wealthier areas of town. Maybe it's part of the go getter / climb the greasy pole mentality. I once read that many Olympic gold medalists share a lot of common personality traits with psychopaths - the need to dominate, to come out on top, to soundly beat your opponents. Perhaps the same applies to some high fliers in business?
Chris RideFar 9 hours ago
The only important characteristic for me is whether I can mount a front derailleur, so I can have my preferred 550+% gravel-bike gear range with no large gaps (for doing long, steep Alpine climbs and also have a gear for pedalling on the downhills)?
tomlew 9 hours ago
38x10T on 32in wheels? Sounds like some solid leg power there!
belugabob 10 hours ago
Imagine how their brains would react, if they ever visited the Netherlands (on so many other levels, too)
chrisonabike 11 hours ago
@mdavidford Perhaps it's for lycrist infiltration - or maybe they're doing anti-doping work with the UCI? Breaking into the peloton disguised as avid cyclists?
ktache 11 hours ago
Hexlox to protect your bits. Pricey but oh so ingenious...
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