Cyclist slapped with ‘parking ticket’ by Lime for leaving bike in car parking bay; Show your council this the next time bike lanes are snowed under; Where’s Cav?; If the World Cup was pro cycling; Peculiar puncture; Best new kit + more on the live blog
SUMMARY
Show your council this the next time the bike lanes are snowed under
Look at this hero go…
Gr8 to see @wfcouncil #CycleLanes being cleared of snow & ready for safe use for cyclists. This is about cultural & system change, as well as infrastructure. #BuildItAndTheyWillCome but also #MaintainItAndTheyWillCome! Thanks to our contractor #Rineys. @WeSupportWFMH @willnorman pic.twitter.com/sym5LfgRFs
— Labourstone (@Labourstone) December 13, 2022
These are nothing new in some parts of London, but does anyone outside the capital get the same glorious gritting?
Check out Tom Pidcock's Pinarello Crossista F cyclocross bike
After Ryan spent the weekend on the ground at the new Dublin round of the cyclocross World Cup I’m making the case for a team trip to… the Benidorm round in January.
And while he enjoyed Saturday night watching England’s crushing quarter final exit alongside a certain Tom P, come Sunday morning he got even more behind the scenes access — taking a look at his rather fancy bike.
Now you can too…
> Check out Tom Pidcock’s Pinarello Crossista F cyclocross bike
The BEST new cycling gear of the month | road.cc recommends episode 21
Peculiar punctures
A new kind of puncture for me! Went straight into the tube, or I might not have noticed 👎 pic.twitter.com/GKxoiII1aI
— Dave McCraw (@david_mccraw) December 14, 2022
Where's Cav?
Is there anything more peaceful than a coastal road training ride? #HumanPoweredHealth pic.twitter.com/lZitElNeWW
— Human Powered Health (@HumanPwrdHealth) December 14, 2022
As we reported yesterday, along with the rest of the cycling world, US-based UCI Pro Team Human Powered Health are rumoured to be interested in Mark Cavendish’s signature. Like an end-of-PM Cabinet exodus, just about every WorldTour team (including most recently Trek-Segafredo) has come forward to either state their roster is full for 2023 or distance themselves from signing the Manx Missile.
By our count Ineos Grenadiers, Astana, AG2R-Citroën, FDJ, Bahrain – Victorious seem the only WorldTour options left.
Fiver for the first person who spots a British national champ’s jersey in team training camp footage…
If the World Cup was pro cycling
Semi-final time and last night, seven years after the fact, Eduardo Sepúlveda finally got revenge on Kristijan Đurasek for beating him to the 2015 Presidential Tour of Turkey GC…
You can’t say I’m not putting the Procyclingstats hours in to this live blog series…
‘Good luck finiding Morocco vs France’ I hear you say. Well, I’ll raise you the final stage of this year’s Tour du Cameroun, won by pure Moroccan domination…
I’m sure there’s nobody in Casablanca, Rabat or Marrakesh who wouldn’t take 4-1 tonight…
Ned's had enough
I mean, I’ll carry on cycling obviously; picking my way along ice-rutted cycle paths. But with deep anger in my heart.
— Ned Boulting (@nedboulting) December 14, 2022
The world's craziest Strava segment
This attraction in a tourist park in Urubici, Santa Catarina, Brazil, which lets you ride a bike across a slack line 500 ft in the air, is NOT for those who fear heights 😅 pic.twitter.com/9h4hxgX89i
— NowThis (@nowthisnews) December 14, 2022
I mean, there is a Strava segment, right?
I’m now picturing KOM hunters from around the world rocking up with skinsuit, aero helmet and asking if they can fit their own aero bars… although at those speeds you might be better off walking the tightrope…
Tadej Pogačar: Phenomenal Remco Evenepoel can win the Tour de France
Okay, maybe we didn’t need a Tour de France winner to tell us Remco Evenepoel is a very talented cyclist, it’s kind of a given…
[📷 : @cauldphoto/Specialized]
But Tadej Pogačar has spoken glowingly about his fellow all-conquering Gen Z superstar, saying he’s both “phenomenal” and capable of winning the Tour de France in the future…
Speaking to Eurosport, Pogačar said: “This year he had a phenomenal year but next year he can be even better. He’s going in the right direction, for sure. He won the Vuelta, so the Tour is just a little different.
“But I think if you can win one Grand Tour and be world champion at the same time, you can win the Tour as well.”
Also on the Gen Z talent list is teammate Juan Ayuso who scored an impressive third on GC on debut at the Vuelta won by Remco… “If I am shit at the Tour, then he [Ayuso] can go,” Pog philosophically added. “For me, it’s no problem. We understand each other and you can only be good for so many years; you cannot be at the top all of the time.”
“For sure, if he gets better we will exchange some races and some roles, but we are all here in the UAE team to take the team as a group together to a higher level, so we try to win as much as possible and it doesn’t matter who.”
Maybe I’ll go tell Ryan that if I’m shit at the blog he can take over…
Brighton bike hangar row rumbles on as councillor says storage scheme went ahead without scrutiny
Conservative councillor Robert Nemeth, who last month appeared in the local press supporting a “concerned and distressed” resident who didn’t want one of the “giant ugly” bike hangars outside her house, is back in The Argus…
He told the local paper the scheme introduced by the Green Party-run council avoided “scrutiny of financial, legal and equality issues and numerous other related matters”.
> Hove woman persuades council not to locate “unattractive” cycle hangar outside her home
Cllr Nemeth argued there was “public frustration” and “unfavourable national press coverage” of the scheme since it started earlier this year. The comments come not long after Green councillor Steve Davis revealed the city’s bike hangars had enjoyed a 100 per cent take-up rate since installation in July.
“Since then we have installed 40 more, and all but one of the total of 360 spaces have now been snapped up. This means that 359 residents now have somewhere safe and secure to store their cycles,” he said.
Blasphemy
🇩🇰 Mads Pedersen
🗣 “I’ll ride Milano-Sanremo again in 2023, but I don’t like the race. I absolutely hate it. Italians will be mad at me after saying that, but it’s a boring race. We do nothing for 5 hours and all of a sudden everyone goes crazy for 1.5 hours.”
(Sportwereld)
— Domestique (@Domestique___) December 14, 2022
Cyclist slapped with 'parking ticket' by Lime for leaving bike in car parking bay
£2 parking ticket for not blocking the pavement🫠 https://t.co/zS6d9Fw90I pic.twitter.com/Ota7OJHina
— CycleGaz™ (@cyclegaz) December 12, 2022
It seems this one isn’t a new problem…
I see badly-parked @limebike bikes every day. I go out of my way to find a spot that doesn’t block pavements, and I get this. Sorry, I didn’t realise the carriageway was only for cars. Cc: @IslingtonBC pic.twitter.com/t3GNRALUyu
— John McGarvey (@johnmcg) December 12, 2022
According to Lime, who we’ve contacted for further comment on this specific case, London users like Gaz should “park like your gran is watching” and should “never leave your e-bike in a way that obstructs the pavement or could create an access issue for pedestrians, including those with disabilities or access needs”.
And while in Camden, City of London, Hackney, Ealing and Hammersmith and Fulham users are required to leave their bikes in designated parking bays, Gaz was in Westminster and John in Islington.
> Wandsworth says it may start impounding Lime e-bikes if pavement parking isn’t tackled
But, Lime adds, “being in other boroughs is no excuse to park irresponsibly. When you’re elsewhere, make sure to still park out of the way, avoiding creating an obstruction for people using the pavement.”
Thoughts?
14 December 2022, 09:04
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@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.
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...?
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.
@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.
@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..."
@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.
Oh, and active travel funding per head (in England at least) is laughable compared to other places. Plus it is delivered intermittently. It's more like a Blue Peter contest...
Yup, I see those opportunities being missed all the time in Edinburgh. When it gets really bad, dig it all up and put it back down again how it was. Contrast with what seems to happen in NL - when things are dug up the whole thing seems to get a "let's redo this according to the current standards" treatment. They even coordinate with the utilities, so that after a refurb the street isn't immediately dug up again because of leaking pipes / we suddenly realised the new estate being planned for round the corner will want broadband etc. Pros and cons of course - you may wait longer there for changes as smaller changes may be deferred until a major redo is due. (Though in the UK case you likely wouldn't get them at all...) It seems we "can't have nice things" in the UK in part because a) we have greater motor traffic speeds/volumes spead across "streets" / within urban areas b) the funding and organisational responsibility differs. Are we in the "Sam Vimes boots" territory (being too poor to afford better products which not only save money over time but actually work)? There is long term money pressure on LAs and it seems that due to poor construction and maintenance we have to regularly pour money into (pot-)holes in the road. And it seems there's no budget to check up on or enforce adequate standards from utilities work or even private building.
Shame about the world champs defence. Speedy recovery. https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/aug/30/tadej-pogacar-vuelta-a-espana-cycling-crash-hospital-stage-nine
I believe the accepted form for this kind of argument is "I know you are, you said you were, but what am I?".
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The problem in London with
The problem in London with cycle lane snow clearers has been the bridges. The gritters can’t get past the anti terrorist barriers at each end of Vauxhall and Blackfriars (and presumably other?) bridges. I saw a Pedal Me rider clearing the snow from Blackfriars Bridge on Monday.
I saw that on Twitter, fair
I saw that on Twitter, fair play to them! Perhaps it’s time to reconsider the spacing of the anti-terrorist barriers (personally I don’t see the point of them anyway, given the number of unprotected crowded areas there are in London, but I suppose nobody would dare risk removing them now), the cycle lane gritters I’ve seen don’t look much more than half a car width so it ought to be possible to accommodate them without allowing cars through.
Yeah, it was me who tweeted
Yeah, it was me who tweeted it 🙂
It’s still slippy out there – https://twitter.com/NoContextBrits/status/1602963989243506688
The point is that pedestrians
The point is that pedestrians on bridges have no means of escape, and this has been used at least twice by terrorists to murder people in London. If they weren’t there or got removed and there was a third incident there would quite rightly be hell to pay for those that made the decision. In streets and squares you have options, doorways etc. to get out of the way.
The problem therefore is not the barriers, it’s the fact that nobody has bothered to come up with a plan for gritting areas protected by them. And as a rural resident where getting any of my regular cycling routes gritted is a distant and unrealsitic dream I would say be grateful for what you have got.
Surely the opportunity for a
Surely the opportunity for a cargo e-bike based gritter?
IanMSpencer wrote:
Well, it was an cargo e-bike based man with a broom.
Blackfriars Bridge has now been gritted – I know not how – so it is clearly do-able. I suspect the issue was more the plough element than the gritting element.
Now disappeared from the ‘net
Now disappeared from the ‘net but Dave McCraw (mentioned recently) used to have an article on his blog detailing him making and using a bike-fitted snowplow… Couple of bits of wood on a towed frame as I recall. Could certainly see this being doable with an eBike.
Again “just copy the Dutch already”! Or alternatively it’s just “decide to make cycle / pedestrian areas part of the priority “routes” cleared. There *will* exist small vehicles which could cover this. I’ve seen mini-diggers used in Edinburgh IIRC. And once we’re going – use brine not salt, it clears things better and I believe requires less salt!
Calm down chap, I simply said
Calm down chap, I simply said there might be a way of adapting the barriers so that the cycle lane gritters could get through. I don’t think that really warrants such an aggressive response. I am grateful for what we’ve got but as routes like Blackfriars Bridge are used by many thousands of cyclists a day I don’t think it’s unreasonable to suggest it might be a good idea to find a way to grit them.
I have seen some walk along
I have seen some walk along gritters when perusing work supply catalogues.
Westminster council currently
Westminster council currently does not allow any dockless rental e-bikes in its borough, and has begun seizing them, which may be why Lime charged the parking fine, and not for bad parking
Unbelievable! On what grounds
Unbelievable! On what grounds and under what authority are they restricting our freedom of movement? If I lived in the area I would be doing my best to fill the place with dockless rental e-bikes.
I mean if youre in Islington
I mean if youre in Islington or Camden. The usual place to park hire bikes is the local canal. (Regents Canal)
No wonder you got fined. Cant speak for Westminister but they have the River Thames.
Better luck next time.
RoubaixCube wrote:
Very tenuous link, but at lunchtime today I saw someone slide out on the ice riding a Lime Bike having just crossed a bridge over the Regent’s Canal. She was unhurt, thankfully.
Glad she was ok.
Glad she was ok.
As much as the cold doesnt bother me, I wouldnt even consider going out on the bike with so much black ice about on the roads nevermind the cleaning after said ride if i manage to come home without any broken bones or scrapes.
regarding the cycle hangars
regarding the cycle hangars in Brighton: ‘a “concerned and distressed” resident’ contacted their MP. It’s just ridiculous. You look at any urban environment; there are hundreds of privately owned parked cars, there are bins and lots of them big and small, there are dual carriageways and shops selling junk food every 5 metres, there is litter and vermin, smog and noise. There is plenty to be concerned about and plenty to be distressed about . . . but a cycle hangar?