“At least my gym work is paying off”: Hill climber launches huge effort… snaps frame; Cycling silly season continues: Roglič transfer, Jumbo merger rumble on (+ Amazon sponsorship reports) + more on the live blog
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Cycling silly season continues: Roglič transfer and Jumbo merger rumble on (Amazon reportedly to sponsor the team in 2024)
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So, where are we up to this morning?
The big report since yesterday is that Amazon, yes our online shopping overlords, will step in as a new sponsor for Jumbo-Visma to the tune of approximately €15 million, leaving a €25 million hole to be filled. It has been suggested Primož Roglič’s sale could help, yep that’s right no Amazon Primož for the Dutch team… (credit to Ryan for that one)…
Talking of Roglič, he’s available for transfer as soon as the start of 2024, with Ineos, Movistar and Lidl-Trek linked. With the Slovenian’s contract running until the end of 2025 it means whichever team comes out on top will have to pay a buyout fee to Jumbo, and while the three aforementioned teams appear to be leading the race, Bora Hansgrohe and Israel-Premier Tech have also been linked, with Bahrain Victorious and Jayco AlUla denying interest…
Is there any team which hasn’t been linked to Rogla at this point?
— Cycling out of context (@OutOfCycling) September 29, 2023
Oh, and while all this is going on…
We start our Italian block of racing in Emilia with this team 👇 pic.twitter.com/fEQ0qoncxI
— Team Jumbo-Visma cycling (@JumboVismaRoad) September 29, 2023
Another normal day of pro cycling…
Ever had that much power?
I snapped a chain climbing on my singlespeed once.
I’ve rarely felt prouder while out on my bike.
— lukebmtb.bsky.social (@LukeB_MTB) September 29, 2023
Well I did break a spoke once 🤔
— shaun (@slow_tri_guy) September 29, 2023
Me and you both Shaun, but I think the pothole gets the credit for mine…
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A piece of work that’s been a long time coming…
"At least my gym work is paying off": Hill climber launches huge effort... snaps frame
Ever had so much power you’ve written off your frame?
It’s a no from us too on that question, obviously…
“High torque from a standing start, did it within the first pedal stroke and just slid to a stop undramatically,” Calum Brown explained on Instagram.
Hill climbs are short events at the best of times, let alone if you don’t make it past the 10m mark. Fortunately seems like the wrong word when we’re talking about this level of damage, but fortunately this was only Calum’s recce of the Monsal Hill Climb course, up the painfully steep but invitingly short Monsal head ascent, where he’s won the event twice.
Perhaps the hardest part of this year’s will be finding something to ride it on? Nah, scratch that, the hardest bit will definitely still be the standard hill climb double-digit gradients, lungs burning, tasting blood, legs like cement, collapse to the roadside…
“End of an era for that frame, was ridden to over 20 course records. Not good prep for the weekend but at least my gym work is paying off,” he joked.
While we’re on the topic, that’s a quite impressive level of damage… snapped chainstays and seat stays, take a bow.
What’s worse, this has happened to Calum before. In 2017 he completely destroyed a crankset at the Bank Road hill climb. Don’t worry Shimano, he was using SRAM that day, modified with chainrings not recommended by the manufacturer and leading SRAM to amusingly comment, “the configuration is outside of the Red crankset’s intended use” but “2000+ watts is an incredibly impressive amount of power to generate and we applaud Calum’s strength”.
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With regards to the priorities of the authorities... I requested that my local council and police install red light cameras at a specific junction as I noticed drivers repeatedly jumping them each time I passed through. The response was basically "We have no record of any KSIs there so will not do so." So they are basically waiting for a KSI before doing anything... I assume that if there is a serious incident there, the victim could sue for lack of action at a known hotspot.
But of course: And they can't possibly consider removing car parking to: Best to engineer the space to remove all people, that's better for everyone.
I'm not saying the officers acted with malice, just with stupidity and ignorance of physics and the law. (Once again, well done CyclingUK, who are a very fine organisation!)
@jackcycles There is no taking away or suffocating freedoms of other road users. Drivers are still free to drive. They are not and nor have they ever been free to to drive wherever they want, however they want. A cycle lane has never prevented someone from driving to a place they could previously drive for unless the plan was always to pedestrianise somewhere. What do you think about bus lanes and taxi lanes? I don't disagree that ideally cyclists simply share the road with cars. There is no question of joined up infrastructure or why cyclists aren't using the shit infra they are provided. The massive issue with that is that drivers aren't getting better, they are getting worse. Its nothing to do with cyclists and their behaviour and everything to do with motorists being absolutely unwilling to share the road with cyclists. I see this every time I go out on the bike. I see it every time I take my kids out on the back of the bike. Doesn't matter that I have small children on my bike, a large proportion of drivers couldn't care less and will bully me and put our safety in danger purely because they have the power in our dynamic. The other day within 1 minute of leaving my front door I saw a driver nearly hit the curb on a straight road because he was looking at his phone and then a middle age man cut the corner of a road I was coming to the end of so much that I had to swerve to avoid him. Drivers won't change so we have to remove them from the equation. They have to be treated like the children they are. If you can't share then we will take it away.
"...investigation will commence into alternate testing along with appropriate training for officers..." Translation: we'll try to understand the law, you know, that legal stuff we're meant to be upholding.
Do that one about "avid cyclist" => "angry motorist" again...
@andystow "Alright mate, no need to state the obvious"?
"Both the rider and Birmingham Bike Foundry have launched a legal appeal, supported by Cycling UK’s Cyclists’ Defence Fund, arguing that the process employed which led to the destruction of a £6,500 legal e-bike was “fundamentally flawed”." Good to see my money being put to good use. Keep it up! As others have said, if the police can just confiscate and destroy something which has broken no laws with no attempt to contact the owners, there is something seriously wrong that needs to be sorted out in court. I hope the owners are adequately compensated, including legal costs, and the police learn how to test an ebike.
@Mr Blackbird and what would you say to cyclists who think there are already too many motorists on the road?
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Sunak expected to limit
Sunak expected to limit powers of councils in England to curb car use
Apparently 20mph speed limits are against British Values®
What’s a 504 error? Is that
What’s a 504 error? Is that a consequence of a DDOS created by Howard Cox?
It’s a timeout error – the
It’s a timeout error – the back end server isn’t sending a response back quickly enough.
Could be due to traffic congestion in the internet superhighway 🙁
The irony’s not lost.
It’s beginning to look like incompetence the length of time it’s been going on for.
Mr Hoopdriver wrote:
Either that or they are being hacked – could be a ddos issue.
“Proper cyclists don’t need
“Proper cyclists don’t need bike lanes”
That’s a new one for the anti-cycling bingo.
But to counter-point, for argument’s sake:
Bike lanes are not designed for “proper cyclists”. They are designed for the regular average joe to have a safe alternative to cars for short journeys that are beyond walking range. As in everyone else.
It’s a shame you can’t tax/cure/criminalize stupidity.
Nah – it’s the historical
Nah – it’s the historical oddity that is “vehicular cycling” back from the past, like L-shaped cranks. (“Cranks” being apt in this case.)
A small correction – “cycle paths” please rather than lanes! Separate from the main road, with none of the protection that isn’t eg. paint or wands and orcas you can hit. Nor the inevitable road crud, leftover potholes and corduroy road at bus stops… Also taking more than an afternoon to “rip out”!
Sea otter video is flawed
Sea otter video is flawed with a bike shown and a cantilever brakes is used as part of the description. The brakes shown are most definitely centerpull brakes, not cantilever ( or “canti’s”) brakes as described. Fifty years ago centerpull brakes were on most of the top racers bikes, since Campagnolo didn’t release their superior Super Record sidepull brakes till 1974