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Live blog: “We were all children of our era” says Lance Armstrong’s ex-manager Johan Bruyneel after he is handed lifetime ban, odd video of texting cyclist appears on social media (fake news?) + more
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mikecassie 13 minutes ago
100% agree, I have Assos and they work a lot better for me, yes they’re more expensive but a lot comfier and last a lot longer. So cost per ride Assos win hands down over Le Col.
mctrials23 27 minutes ago
@mikecassie I bought a pair that lasted 2 rides before the stitching wore through. I complained about this and they basically said sorry, its your saddle, no one else has this issue. I've got various pairs of Assos bib shorts that have lasted me years with zero issues. They were just awfully designs. The stitching was loose and right over the location where your leg would interface with the saddle if there was going to be any friction. Looking at my assos bibs, all the seams are placed where your movement isn't going to cause problems and all of them are tight to the point of being recessed to make sure that any rubbing isn't on an exposed thread. Le Col offered me 20% off a new pair of their bibs which I politely declined as I didn't think 2 short rides was worth paying 80% of RRP for.
Rendel Harris 38 minutes ago
@darnac I know cycling is a team sport to a considerable degree but I have always thought that taking the time on the fourth rider gives too much advantage to the richest teams, the ones who can afford to have three or more Galácticos backing up their leader. Having individual times for each rider seems to me closer to the spirit of the race, i.e. the man who goes round the whole parcours in the lowest time wins. With the old system you could end up with a somewhat absurd situation where rider A actually rode the Tour a minute quicker than their rivals but rider B takes the title because their fourth man in the TTT finished 1.01 ahead of rider A's fourth man. Besides, having watched this format in the Dauphiné, it definitely does make it more exciting and at a time when the standard moan is that with one rider, or two at most, dominant the racing has become too boring that's not really a bad thing.
Rendel Harris 60 minutes ago
@nick_stokie Pretty impossible to hide that in the last km of the Tour with maybe 100 cameras on them not to mention everyone's phones.
nick_stokie 1 hour ago
The "same time in the last kilometre" rule feels exploitable if a team was cunning. Given the last section is uphill then full team effort to the 1km red kite before the most powerful rider does the last 1km solo. If the others were to sit up and coast in they would get a slower individual time. If they had a 'soft' crash into each other or a mechanical (who verifies this?) then then get the better finish time of the more powerful rider. Not very sporting but...
mdavidford 2 hours ago
Well you wouldn't want your tyres to be unstable, would you?
darnac 4 hours ago
I get thé feeling that thé over-riding motivation for changing thé format is to mâke it more 'exciting' on TV
eburtthebike 4 hours ago
“Instead of moving us closer to reopening, it locks in years more of congestion across south-west London. This will do further harm to residents and businesses and put even more strain on local transport networks." Wandsworth council demonstrating the delusion and fallacy that transport = motor vehicles and only motor vehicles. But there is a cure! The Dutch did it fifty years ago at their DfT equivalent HQ, by cutting the car parking by half and prioritising alternatives. The chances of Wandsworth doing anything to affect the petrolhead councillors would appear to be less than England winning the world cup.
mikewood 7 hours ago
@StevenCrook Horses for courses...
11 thoughts on “Live blog: “We were all children of our era” says Lance Armstrong’s ex-manager Johan Bruyneel after he is handed lifetime ban, odd video of texting cyclist appears on social media (fake news?) + more”
No capes!
No capes!
hawkinspeter wrote:
That is one quality image. I needed that chuckle … which scared the student sat just in front of my desk.
hawkinspeter wrote:
Does that include Rick Wakeman?
leqin wrote:
… which makes me wonder what the average age for readers on road.cc is. Whenever I see a name like this pop up it reminds me we’re probably not a particularly young bunch!
Fair’s fair: I normally stick
Fair’s fair: I normally stick the boot into Will Norman, but that tweet comes suspiciously close to him ‘getting it’.
Well done Will: have an upgrade from ‘walking platitude’ to ‘stopped clock’.
I think Endura’s video would
I think Endura’s video would’ve been better if they had a jacket that fitted their model…
Is it that hard to believe a
Is it that hard to believe a cyclist would ride into something while looking at their phone? Car drivers do it all the time, after all.
vonhelmet wrote:
No. It isn’t. I did precisely this while texting and completely separated my shoulder (AC joint) which remains to this day. I don’t see why the video has to be staged. He’s certainly not the first cyclist to ride into the back of a car whilst texting.
It isn’t only “anti-cycling
It isn’t only “anti-cycling nonsense on the radio” that we need to beware of, it is the media’s refusal to report in any proportional manner the benefits of cycling. I mainly listen to R4 and the local BBC station (Bristol) and I couldn’t possibly count the number of articles they’ve had about obesity and diet, it must be hundreds, but I could count the number of articles about the benefits of cycling on the fingers of a closed fist.
Given the overwhelming benefits of cycling, why isn’t this top of every programme about pollution, health, obesity, congestion etc? There are two ways to lie: an explicit untruth, or just ignoring the truth and reporting everything else. The media has mostly been lying about cycling for the past thirty years, unfortunately including the BBC.
I always like the idea of
I always like the idea of rain capes, but – like many people – my front light is clipped onto my handlebars so a cape would render it useless…
brooksby wrote:
I could be wrong but it doesn’t look quite like the cape of old that pretty much covered everything and was a real tent. Tried one once, it came with a job lot of stuff I’d bought for one or two things and thought what the hell, it’s fine if going at a very sedate pace but by god anything much over 12mph and it’s like pushing a barge.
this one looks quite stylish however and not in that nasty mustard yellow they always seemed to come in, oh and ones with a built in hood always makes people look like a gnome. hahaha