Live blog: Happy World Nutella Day, Conor McGregor’s custom bike with gold leaf, Froome to ride Ruta del Sol + more
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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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Mr Blackbird 26 minutes ago
Well I'm in Cambridgeshire and I think it is poor. If I had written this sort of thing at school, I probably wouldn't have been entered for O-level English Language. I admit I'm not very knowledgeable in such matters, but would this article have been generated by AI?
Terry Hutt 8 hours ago
@chrisonabike The only way the next iteration of beings will value the world is if that attitude improves your chances of mating. Ladies, I REALLY value the world we inhabit😊
mdavidford 9 hours ago
Well now, let's not be hasty. We should get the views of a range of audiences first. For instance, how's it gone down with readers in the Surrey area?
rookybiker 10 hours ago
I can't find these on Lezyne's site, not even in among the legacy/discontinued products.
rookybiker 10 hours ago
"Confusing name - "Elite" and "Pro" not meaning top end" There is method to the madness. Challenge uses "Elite" to designate second-tier tyres with intermediate thread counts. "Elites" is also the top amateur rank recognised by a few continental European federations, I believe that's the inspiration for the name. Challenge uses "Pro" to designate tyres with open tubular construction. They lie above the vulcanised tyres, that Challenge calls "Race".
Terry Hutt 12 hours ago
Suggest you pull this article, fix it, then bin it.
Terry Hutt 12 hours ago
@ajd As well as confusing George Orwell with Orson Wells - clearly not proof read (at least, not by a different person)
Rendel Harris 12 hours ago
@mdavidford One assumes it's referencing Nancy Mitford's famous "Noblesse Oblige" with its concept of U and non-U language, U being upper class and non-U the more flowery attempts to sound posh from the middle classes. I recall her decreeing that bicycle and bike were U and cycle was non-U, though she was of course a little early to rule on the difference between ATB and MTB.
Mr Blackbird 13 hours ago
On the subject of mountain biking, terrific rides by Tom Pidcock and Charlie Aldridge to take gold and silver in the UCI World Championships yesterday.
3 thoughts on “Live blog: Happy World Nutella Day, Conor McGregor’s custom bike with gold leaf, Froome to ride Ruta del Sol + more”
Wout was supposedly using old
Wout was supposedly using old skool 30mm mud tyres. From Niels Albert’s basement like last year!
The suggestion of making
The suggestion of making cyclists ride against oncoming traffic isn’t new, it’s been made many times over the years, usually by people who don’t ride a bike of course.
What is it with people who have no experience or knowledge of cycling, but feel perfectly qualified to tell cyclists what to do?
burtthebike wrote:
we have this in Toulouse.
Slows the traffic no end but is terrifying.