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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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tomlew 1 hour ago
I used to say that mechanical shifting was so much better because it was serviceable on the roadside and you could buy a spare derailleur or shifter in the remotest shop on the continent. Oh, how wrong I was proven later, with all the recent standards and pull ratios...
kingleo 5 hours ago
20 MPH speed limits: Killing pedestrians and cyclists is bad for their brains.
chrisonabike 7 hours ago
@AidanR He'd already got a full house ("only where it makes sense e.g. outside schools" / "blanket limits" / "unsafe") BUT not only didn't he call but he went for another round! And with a fascinating new angle: Totally on-trend there! Reducing the maximum speed in some places in urban areas is psychological discrimination! Won't you think of the neurodiverse? Don't you know you can literally measure the rise in cortisol due to the presence of cyclists? In fact unfairly favouring active travel is literally sucking the dopamine out of everyone's lives...
chrisonabike 7 hours ago
@Mr Blackbird I see the pro-cycling crowd is out with false plates - further confusing the locals. I thought that was because they were all taking the knee or being used to ferry illegal asylum seekers between crimes and/or sex reassignments? Keep up!
eburtthebike 7 hours ago
"TfL has now suspended more than £2 million in funding towards the borough until it pays back the £234,917...." I wonder if Mayor Jason Perry will be making a video about him having a ceremonial handing over of a comedy cheque for £234,917 to TfL? That'll really impress the voters. Not to mention how much it cost to remove them, still, it's only taxpayers' money, not his. The tories seem intent on proving that they're even stupider than Refuk, and given the news yesterday, that's a pretty high bar.
mdavidford 8 hours ago
Only one of which is relevant to that sentence, though. [If that's what happened - obviously this is all speculative, since where they entered isn't shown in the video.]
mdavidford 8 hours ago
Aussie Rider 8 hours ago
Three words: Rigid Single Speed. The ultimate in simplicity :-; Doesn't suit all of course
AidanR 9 hours ago
I think Mr Freeman urgently needs to get his car to a garage if it can only be driven at 20mph by applying the brakes. Also, only a small section of Roehampton Lane is dual carriageway; by halfway through his video he's past it already which makes his inane rant positively disingenuous.
Backladder 9 hours ago
@mdavidford In that case I make it three incidents, one of cars entering the race route and two of cars endangering a rider!
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