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Thu, May 30, 2019 20:18
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30 May 2019, 20:18
£275,000 reward offered to find gunman who shot cyclist and left him for dead
Police in Australia have offered a $500,000 (£275,000) reward for information identifying the person who shot a cyclist multiple times on Victoria’s Myrtleford-Everton Rail Trail in February 18, 2017.
Kelvin Tennant, aged 72, was shot in the chest and head and left for dead by his assailant. He was discovered by two passing cyclists and airlifted to hospital, and took months to recover from his wounds, reports ABC News.
Speaking of how the shooter departed the scene without making sure he was dead, Mr Tennant said: “I find that a bit strange. He obviously had no regard for my life. He wanted to kill me,” he said.
“I’ve thought since that time why didn’t he walk over and … put the gun to my head and finish the job.
“Whether he got spooked and left the scene very quickly or thought he’d finished me off I don’t know, but I’m here today to talk about it.”
“Kelvin was simply out enjoying riding his motorised bike along the rail trail when someone has tried to kill him,” said Detective Inspector Dean Thomas of Victoria Police.
“At this stage we’re unable to find any sort of motive. We’ve looked very, very hard at this, and worked tirelessly on it but unfortunately we cannot find a motive.
“We hope this reward can bring forward new information so we can find the person responsible and bring them before the courts.”
30 May 2019, 20:18
Cyclists in US national park stranded after avalanche
13 cyclists in the Glacier National Park in Montana were stranded on Monday’s Memorial Day public holiday following an avalanche.
Park staff had to clear a rockfall that had happened at a site the cyclists had already passed on the Going To The Sun Road then had to wait several hours for the snow to stabilise so they could begin to clear it.
Heads up, biking fans. #GlacierNationalPark #GoingtotheSunRoad pic.twitter.com/cjZuXX8Gnb
— GlacierGuidesMTRaft (@GlacierGuidesMT) May 28, 2019
30 May 2019, 20:18
Austrian MTB rider Christina Kollmann-Forstner suspended for links to blood doping ring
The UCI has provisionally suspended Austrian mountain biker Christina Kollmann-Forstner after the former European champion and world championship silver medallist became the latest rider to be linked to the Operation Aderlass blood doping ring.
In a statement, world cycling’s governing body said:
The Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) announces that it has notified the Austrian rider Christina Kollmann-Forstner of potential Anti-Doping Rule Violations (Use of Prohibited Method and Possession of Prohibited Method) based on information received from the law enforcement authorities of Austria in the context of the Operation Aderlass.
After review of all elements in its possession, the UCI has decided to provisionally suspend the rider with immediate effect pursuant to Article 7.9.3 of the UCI Anti-Doping Rules.
Again, the UCI and the Cycling Anti-Doping Foundation (CADF), the independent body mandated to define and lead the strategy on anti-doping testing and investigations in our sport, will continue to cooperate and assist all parties involved in the Aderlass investigation.
At this stage, the UCI will not comment any further on this matter.
30 May 2019, 20:18
Want to keep your bones healthy? Go running, not cycling, says study
A new study claims that people should go running rather than cycling if they want to keep their bones healthy.
Researchers at the University of Mississippi found that 28 per cent of men aged 35-50 participating in the study had early signs of osteoporosis, compared to 26 per cent of women, reports Telegraph.co.uk.
Subjects were scanned to calculate their bone mineral density (BMD), which is thought to peak at age 30.
Lead researcher Dr Martha Bass said:“We typically associate loss of bone mineral density with post-menopausal women, but our findings showed elevated risk in younger men.
“Almost all participants who were found to have osteopenia were surprised and I think this is a more prevalent issue than anyone expected.”
She added that weight-bearing exercise such as running was best for maintaining BMD, saying: “calcium plays a larger role when bones are still developing. After that, the body begins to rely on weight-bearing exercises to keep bones strong. It really does boil down to use it or lose it.”
30 May 2019, 20:18
London cyclist has her arm broken after pedestrian pushes her off bike
Police in south west London have launched an appeal for witnesses on Facebook after a cyclist had her arm broken when a female pedestrian pushed her off her bike.
30 May 2019, 20:18
The bloke skulking off in the grey hoodie looks guilty as ...
What's all this about?! #Giro pic.twitter.com/7QOQkfPOVv
— Eurosport UK (@Eurosport_UK) May 30, 2019
30 May 2019, 20:18
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30 May 2019, 20:18
Edinburgh unveils plans for major protected cycleway
Edinburgh City Council has unveiled plans for a major protected cycleway through the Scottish capital. Find out more here.
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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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mdavidford 3 minutes ago
Can only go on what's in the article myself - can't actually read the report itself as none of the links on that page seem to work - how did you get to it?
markrjl 4 minutes ago
1984 was written by George Orwell not Orson Wells.
chrisonabike 1 hour ago
Very brief look at this but I'm not sure it says anything much new, or particularly useful. Yes, they point to "some women who rode a hire bike possibly didn't ride before but might ride after". OTOH the *number* of women vs men surveyed didn't appear to be stated (except for one graph with a n=... - which was a lot less than the 5000 mentioned, and there only about half as many women responding there). Otherwise I think it just covers what regularly comes up (albeit perhaps it has to be repeated): - much fewer women from minority ethnic backgrounds. - Women care about socially safe parking locations far more than men do. - Women feel less safe on the roads due to external issues that they have no control over: traffic, road conditions and infrastructure, and harassment.
mdavidford 2 hours ago
Interesting counterpoint to the 'hire bike menace' narrative (obviously with the caveat that the report authors have a vested interest in selling the benefits, but...) Appears hire bike schemes go some way to addressing the cycling gender imbalance and, given the point about parking immediately outside the destination, dockless schemes particularly so. https://micromobilitybiz.com/forest-report-finds-shared-e-bikes-are-helping-close-london-cycling-gender-gap/
60somethingcyclist 17 hours ago
@chrisonabike True, things went back to normal once the pandemic was over. In this case, however the problems are still ongoing, and aren't likely to be resolved in the near future. If anything, they're going to get worse. Food shortages are predicted because of the effect that the heatwave has had on crops. This is bound to push prices up. The Straits of Hormuz aren't likely to reopen anytime soon and the strategic oil reserves are running low. Russia is having to import petrol because its own refineries have been badly hit, so that's even more competition for an even more scarce resource. I think that more and more people are going to see cycling as a way of cutting household bills.
chrisonabike 18 hours ago
I think if "grown up" cyclists * are quibbling about ASLs we've very much missed the road safety point anyway. (Not to mention the wider "better transport choices" picture). ASLs are poor-to-useless "cycling infra", even for their design intent. If the idea is "for less confident cyclists" then a design that requires that you re-position in front of the motor traffic - waiting to accelerate - seems unhelpful. Of course they're only designed to help when traffic is stopped, and you can reach the front in time and if vehicles aren't already occupying them. As we're noting here drivers frequently ignore them - whether that be deliberate, a lack of road craft, because they were concentrating on following the vehicle in front, or because the paint has rubbed off. * Aside: shouldn't cycling also be safe and accessible for kids? Or should they only be allowed to do this when accompanied by sufficient qualified adults? Or be limited to parks and otherwise being driven around by their carers? Perhaps there is another way...?
Ben Graham 20 hours ago
Hi Bungle, I saw you follow-up comment. I can't imaging there's a tolerance of 4 seconds on camera enforced lights, seems an odd decision - an offence is committed if a vehicle starts crossing on a red, any tolerance is discretionary. There does seem to be some odd thinking about 'advanced stop lines' where the rules relating to them are identical to a regular stop line, as explained correctly elsewhere in the Highway Code. It does seem a regular offence. Where I live it doesn't help that some of them are very faint and disappear in rain.
Rendel Harris 20 hours ago
@ktache Not sure he's totally ruled out of the worlds yet (though I think it would be best if he doesn't), normal recovery time is about eight weeks but surgery can halve that...depending on the nature of the break he could be just about fit to ride by the time of the elite men's race, but he'll have missed a lot of training. Hopefully his managers and team will persuade him to wait until Lombardia, if not just to knock it off for the rest of the year.
Rendel Harris 21 hours ago
@Bungle_52 The Met told me a couple of years ago when rejecting a submission that they needed a clear three seconds of red visible before they would consider it for an RLJ prosecution. I pointed out to them that this meant that at 30 mph a driver could see a light change to red from 40 metres away and still get through without sanction, or 55 m if they accelerated to 40 as most do. They just replied "them's our rules..."
Bungle_52 22 hours ago
@Ben Graham I have just checked the footage from my report. The driver crosses the 1st stop line 4 seconds after the light turns red. All on camera from behind the vehicle. No further action. So I assume the margin is at least 4 seconds.
12 thoughts on “Live blog: Edinburgh unveils major cross-city cyycleway; Want to keep your bones healthy? Run, don’t cycle, says study; London cyclist breaks arm after pedestrian pushes her from bike; A$500,000 reward to find gunman who shot cyclist + more”
Motorised bike? Could have
Motorised bike? Could have been Strava rage? A section near my house by the main road has a KOM with 60mph average, I’d like to shoot who did that.
“tried to kill him” or
“tried to kill him” or ‘attempted to murder him’
You’d be better off linking to the actual newpaper that reported it rather than ABC news
https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/law-order/victorian-shooting-500000-reward-for-information-on-everton-cyclist-shooting-in-2017/news-story/557b48d65900bf6a3c04b096f5825447?fbclid=IwAR2SKf6p0bITiAXxySoE3egYrQWpz6TBoxkoEFqAjcUaLE5DhxvkCR01ZkA
and the original report with video report https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/law-order/police-probe-suspicious-car-spotted-near-where-man-was-shot-on-myrtlefordeverton-trail/news-story/3e2ae767f826d34ca8ef2f71ce4162ed
Nice use of the £ symbol to
Nice use of the £ symbol to insinuate it’s a uk news story
Lifting weights is just as
Lifting weights is just as good as running, infact probably better as all body parts can be worked on
CXR94Di2 wrote:
it’s recommended to do both impact-type exercises such as running or skipping, and resistance exercises such as weights and calisthenics.
Edit : this is in addition to, not rather than, other exercise such as cycling.
And eat plenty of yogurt.
ConcordeCX wrote:
Or just do whatever you like (& nothing you don’t like). Might as well enjoy yourself, in the long run everyone’s dead whatever they do, get over it…
oceandweller wrote:
I like running, skipping, weights, calisthenics, eating yogurt and being able to walk upright without shuffling, among many other things. Get over it.
oceandweller wrote:
Or just do whatever you like (& nothing you don’t like). Might as well enjoy yourself, in the long run everyone’s dead whatever they do, get over it…
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Looks like I will be sticking to the shorter runs then
CXR94Di2 wrote:
Not being a gym bunny myself,how does lifting weights in anyway increase or maintain bone density ,which is the problem the report claims is the issue with cycling doesnt
Awavey wrote:
Lifting weights is just as good as running, infact probably better as all body parts can be worked on
— Awavey Not being a gym bunny myself,how does lifting weights in anyway increase or maintain bone density ,which is the problem the report claims is the issue with cycling doesnt— CXR94Di2
your muscles are attached to your bones. The more you use your muscles the more your bones need to be strong to provide resistance, so they respond to the muscular force. Archaeologists and forensic scientists can deduce how strong a person was by measuring the density of their bones.
Lifting weights strengthens
Lifting weights strengthens the bones and increases bone density. That’s what it does simple.
i used to be a body builder when younger and the last 2 years have gone back to hitting the weights most days . Even when I’m out on my bike i will usually hit legs in that evening . I brake my body parts down so workouts are short and intense . I ride my bike the same way do short rides 1- 2 hours and lots of uphill hit reps . I’m bigger than most cyclists , I have upper body muscles and this has not impacted my riding in anyway . I climb just as good . I’ve always been about the power so putting on muscles has not impacted my bike performance in any way . In fact my last few foreign outings I have climbed as good as ever . I don’t ride though for 4 hours I just like to hit one or to mountains the most depending on the mountain . If your all about endurance and staying skinny then keep the weights low and go for more reps so the weights become almost a cardio exercise And you will be doing your overall health wonders . Just riding a bike is no good .
Xena wrote:
I used to do weights one day and MTB the next. I never really got any gains but I sure looked better than I do now. Got to be happy with stick arms if you want to be REALLY serious about cycling.
I do like the swings and roundabout elements of cycling though. My mate is about 15kg more than me for the same height and will out-power me on the straights but I can get him on the hills.
Out of interest, can you microdose testosterone or do you have to take at least TRT levels to see any difference?