road.cc live blog: Stop Highways England banning cycling on the A63, Froome racing is “super bad” for cycling says Tony Martin, Aussie speed awareness campaign pulled (and more)
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Velophaart_95 7 hours ago
I can't remember too many reviews of their bikes from their home country's well known media/channels. Yet they flood timelines with yet another WT race bike for £10K........The British cycling media don't do enough to support home businesses - yet lap up the big companies. Not good enough.......
Dexter H 8 hours ago
I quite enjoyed the article, not too weighed down with' technological advances' that are imo ruining the road riding scene, making it all about the cash. The best line is there are no rules....just enjoy it, or stick with what you know. Personally its taken me back to the early 90s xc trails I rode as a teenager, just fantastic.
mdavidford 8 hours ago
Carefully setting a low bar for yourselves to clear there, I see. 😉
DS2025 10 hours ago
This seems a little unfair Jo! You clearly ripped off AI and didn't give it any credit ;) You can't have your cake and eat it.
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8 thoughts on “road.cc live blog: Stop Highways England banning cycling on the A63, Froome racing is “super bad” for cycling says Tony Martin, Aussie speed awareness campaign pulled (and more)”
Ah, those wacky Australians –
Ah, those wacky Australians – dontcha just love ’em…
So perfectly demonstrates the
So perfectly demonstrates the attitude of Australian government to cyclists; it’s a punishment and something no intelligent person would do.
Not entirely surprising, coming from the home of the helmet law, an action with the sole purpose of punishing cyclists.
The videos are still online
The videos are still online at the Brisbane News website, link here:
https://tinyurl.com/ycdbe5wx
They’re well worth watching – the actress playing the girlfriend at the end is quite the looker, a bit of Margot Robbie about her.
Tony Martin is another moron!
Tony Martin is another moron!
alansmurphy wrote:
Please elaborate.
Well… the rules stipulate
Well… the rules stipulate he is allowed to ride, I could comment that anyone with a first name for a surname shouldn’t ride, it doesn’t make it so.
He’s not a doctor or a lawyer, so what more does he have to add to an old, tired, non-story.
Maybe he should ride tandem with Bardet, another rider being made to look decidedly average by Froome.
How is it bad for cycling? I’m still commuting by bike, being a weekend warrior, buying cycling weekly.
Anyone that says ‘super bad’ is a little girl or from LA and should be tested for drugs…
alansmurphy wrote:
Putting ‘super’ in front of everything just makes it sound like they’re doing an impression of Kenny Van Vlaeminck, which is no bad thing.
Not great for English, though.
I’d like Froome to not race
I’d like Froome to not race with this hanging over him, but I concede that the rules allow it, so he is free to do so.
The reason he is free to do so is that this is not a doping case, its a case where there is a stipulated maximum level of medication, prescribed not because of potential performance gains, but due to acute health risks to the athlete, has been surpassed.
The reality of this, is that good or bad, it should not be public knowledge at this time. If this was not leaked, we wouldn’t have this conundrum and I’m sure it would have been dealt with by now.