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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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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Paul J 12 minutes ago
@ROOTminus1 I was somewhat aware of that. Hence why my comments have "at least for now, formally" type caveats and I also wrote: "The independence parties in Taiwan may change that at some point, but that is the formal position for now." So we don't disagree. You are confirming that the formal position has not (yet) been changed, exactly as I referred to.
mctrials23 37 minutes ago
@Miller Why? If I was going out KOM hunting I would 100% be taking it as easy as possible for much of the rest of the ride. My mate rides with his partner a fair bit and has some KOMs around where he is. He gets most of them when hes on a ride with her and his average power is often not much higher than this for the rides and hes 80kg.
ROOTminus1 51 minutes ago
@Paul J A core element of the last election cycle in Taiwan was that of the DPPs stance on Taiwanese national identity. The DPP (current ruling party) are the most supportive of an independent Taiwanese identity, contrary to that of their main opposition) the KMT, who strongly identify with the one-China under ROC stance (rather that Beijing's view of one China under PRC). DPP held power in 2024 but slipped from a majority to a minority lead arguably because they refused to make their independent Taiwan stance an official policy, most likely out of fear of antagonising and further inviting attacks (political and militarily) from Beijing. In summary, your assertion that the majority of Taiwanese people still identify as Chinese (ROC not PRC) may not be wrong, but it is not as definitive as you make it out to be.
luk 1 hour ago
as your said, you're mixing bikes, some riders want Chinese road bikes, fine . But, how many Chinese downhill bikes do you know?
Bmblbzzz 2 hours ago
So that's where Ursa ended up! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ursa_the_Bear
bensynnock 2 hours ago
@GMBasix sure, what's the point in having a confrontation in the street? Just submit the footage and move on.
quiff 2 hours ago
@mdavidford ah, but did Rothko start off with contrast stripes? EDIT - ignore that, I've just reminded myself of some of his stuff...
Paul J 2 hours ago
@Rendel Harris "the government in Taipei very definitely does not consider Taiwan to be part of China" They consider it to be part of the "Republic of China". The constitution of which, for now, says this state is composed of the mainland and the island of Taiwan (amongst other islands). They reject the claim of the "People's Republic of China" to that "China", though recognise it holds power over the mainland. I.e., both Taipei and Beijing - for now - lay claim to a Chinese state which is composed of the mainland and the island of Taiwan. I think you, and others here, are confusing political identities with ethnic ones. I'm not sure which poll you refer to, but the polls I've read a substantial chunk consider themselves *both* Taiwanese and Chinese. I think your figure is combining both the "Taiwanese only" and "Taiwanese-and-Chinese" numbers.
quiff 2 hours ago
@captain_slog I have a Brevet merino jersey from a number of years ago, and was always a bit confused by the chest pocket - very useful for a credit card, but certainly not big enough for a brevet card.
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.