Live blog: Video of little girl giving safe overtake lorry driver thumbs-up goes viral, London Quietways under fire after latest death + more
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Mon, Jun 04, 2018 13:55
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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 7 hours ago
@chrisonabike Will you two please stop panda-ing to one another?
Rendel Harris 7 hours ago
@kingleo They're only imposing the 18+ age limit, raised from 16, on escooters, not legal ebikes. There is no minimum age for riding an EPAC in Ireland.
mdavidford 8 hours ago
I thought it was all about the gear ratios?
mdavidford 8 hours ago
@chrisonabike These are polarising issues - anyone attending would have known there was trouble bruin.
Keith57 9 hours ago
@VIPcyclist Yes, the live coverage on S4C was a few stages at the beginning and a few at the end. Shame it wasn’t the whole lot. Stage 19 was particularly good live. Setting the record for the fastest time up the Alpe. He went a bit faster than I did a few years ago 😮. Amazing watching Pogačar hit the bottom of the hill with the breakaway over 3min ahead of him. S4C is available to watch again on the BBC iPlayer if you want to rewatch. The adverts seem to be stripped out too 👍🏻. S4C are looking forward to next year when some stages are here at home in Cymru 🙂. Non-welsh speakers can just watch the video I guess. I like it in my own language, but the iOS app ‘Tour Tracker’ is very very good too, especially for time trials. It’s also more ‘live’ than the live video. So, if it announces some sort of incident you can focus on the live feed to wait for it! (Cymraeg is one of the British Isles oldest living languages BTW.)
ktache 9 hours ago
I paid for my month, first week off work so I wanted proper full day coverage. Enjoyed it, nice to be able to pause live coverage, but then they make you watch the adverts when trying to catch up. Channel 5 for when I was working, alright, less chat. Seemed to use the tnt virtual studio. Already cancelled, of course, but will be catching the TdF femmes until I'm booted off. Even though I could watch the commenwealth games I haven't, I hope the games have done well securing the rights because their viewing figures will be right down, such coverage benefits being on the BBC.
Mr Blackbird 9 hours ago
A goat has a carbon fibre fuselage, Pratt and Witney jet engines, hydraulic retractable undercarriage and in flight movie screens, but that doesn't make it a Boeing Dreamliner.
Mr Blackbird 9 hours ago
Didn't we do this earlier in the week?
AidanR 9 hours ago
If you come to road.cc only to read road bike articles, why do you keep clicking through to the other ones? Seems a bit daft
Terry Hutt 10 hours ago
It's not the riders, it's not the equipment, it's not the clothing, it's not the nutrition, it's not the training. All those factors together probably allow for no more than 10% of the total improvement. Hmm, I wonder what the rest could be? It must be the tires ;-)
7 thoughts on “Live blog: Video of little girl giving safe overtake lorry driver thumbs-up goes viral, London Quietways under fire after latest death + more”
What it seems like the
What it seems like the Canucks have come up with some really stupid legisaltion in Montreal.
As for World Bicycle Day, I celebrated it by marshalling at a BMX event.
It’s about time someone found
It’s about time someone found the balls to stand up to the brutal cyclists going around with 5 or less reflectors. The sheer number of lives lost to the reckless abandon shown by these cyclists is just astounding.
Yesterday was designated the
Yesterday was designated the first ever World Bicycle Day by the United Nations – sorry, but that one passed me right by. I didn’t know that there was a World Bicycle Day.
On the Montreal thing:
On the Montreal thing:
So a bit more to it than just the reflectors…
Some Canadian Provinces have
Some Canadian Provinces have some strange bike laws. I lived in Halifax, Nova Scotia on the Canadian east coast and when I bought a bike I asked for a set of lights and the bike shop guy said why ? “To ride at night” I replied – ” Not a legal requirement ” he answered -“but you are required to have a helmet – night or day”
And with helmet and reflector
And with helmet and reflector laws cycling has not got safer in Canada, it’s got worse with more deaths and more injuries since they started forcing helmet wearing/increases in helmet wearing across the country.
Yet another backward society that focuses on the vulnerable to protect themselves instead of changing the behaviour of those doing the harm. What utter bullshit.
Lovely video of the fab overtake by the transporter, I had a brilliant overtake on a country road a couple of years ago, after a fair few of the usual crud it was a nice relief so I contacted the firm ( not local but family run business) to give praise and they responded back that they got their drivers out on bikes and made particular training sessions for their drivers when in various scenarios where they might come across people on bikes.
We all have to get some place and that means when you’re in the bigger/biggest thing out there you need to take more time and care with how you do things to minimise the risk for all concerned including yourself.
“twat” can be found on
“twat” can be found on Wikipedia, “supercilious” sadly not.