“Welcome to London” where thieves cut through bike racks; Local Conservative group claims LTNs “target the vulnerable”; Multiple abandons from huge Bessèges crash; Is Giulio Ciccone the messiah or a very naughty boy? + more on the live blog
SUMMARY
Council makes U-turn on "discriminatory" ban on cyclists at recycling centres
An update to one of our big live blog stories from earlier in the week…
> Council makes U-turn on “discriminatory” ban on cyclists at recycling centres
Multiple abandons due to huge Bessèges crash
💥Dura caída masiva en la Etapa 2 de la Etoile de Bességes 2023 🇫🇷 #EDB2023 #EtoiledeBesseges #Ciclismo #Noticiclismo pic.twitter.com/mgS9e2HVXX
— NotiCiclismo ➡ 🇪🇸 #VCV2023 (@Noticiclismo1) February 2, 2023
The damage from yesterday’s Étoile de Bessèges crash which caused the stage to be neutralised is being counted this morning, with a few riders being forced to abandon due to their injuries…
Ben Healy will not continue on in the Étoile de Bessèges due to injury. X-Ray confirmed a fracture of metacarpal. Hoping for a quick recovery for you, Ben.
— EF Pro Cycling (@EFprocycling) February 2, 2023
🩺 medical update: #EDB2023 @dylan_teuns sustained facial contusions in today’s crash and will require stitches.@Guillaumeboivin sustained a contusion on his left hand and back but will not require any stitches.
Fortunately, both riders will be at the start line tomorrow 👌
— Israel – Premier Tech / Israel Cycling Academy (@IsraelPremTech) February 2, 2023
🇫🇷 #EDB23
Also @Cedricbeullens will not take the start as he is suffering too much from multiple crashes (#GPLM and both stage 1 and 2 #EDB23). A knee wound needs to heal and therefore it was decided Cedric will focus on recovery towards the next races. Get well soon!
— Lotto Dstny (@lotto_dstny) February 3, 2023
We’ll find out the full abandon list in a few hours time when the peloton departs for stage three.
He's not the messiah, he's a very naughty boy! Or is he?
Giulio Ciccone’s shades-scattering celebration hit our screens again yesterday…
Cicco style 😎 pic.twitter.com/WoG8JppORk
— Trek-Segafredo (@TrekSegafredo) February 2, 2023
And after the first reactions we saw called it epic and the second the behaviour of a spoilt brat…(that’s Twitter for you)… we decided to put it to the people to decide Giulio’s fate forever…
London Conservative group claims LTNs "target the vulnerable" and "hard-working motorists" to make money and "benefit cycling campaigners"
The Tottenham Conservatives are at it again…
The LTNs target the vulnerable, trades people & hard working motorists. All to raise revenue for the council & to benefit cycling campaigners.
We will rip out all Haringey LTNs. Vote Conservative in the TH by-election #fightingfortottenham #haringeyltns pic.twitter.com/bAKsFFfz3Z
— Tottenham Conservatives (@TottenhamConse1) February 2, 2023
This from the same Conservative London borough group that in September faced a backlash after posting images to social media likening low-traffic neighbourhoods to apartheid. No, really…
Then, in November, the local group was accused of scaremongering over a video showing a woman filmed from behind walking down a poorly-lit residential street that, while captions appear on screen, to the sound of the siren of a police car.
WATCH: LTNs create dead zones, areas with low traffic & footfall, perfect for crime to flourish.
As the winter nights begin, don’t let your street become a dead zone den of crime. #scrapltns pic.twitter.com/iBwED2QdL6
— Tottenham Conservatives (@TottenhamConse1) November 11, 2022
Labour-run Haringey Council has rolled out three LTNs in the borough in recent months, in Bounds Green, Bruce Grove and, most recently, West Green. As with similar initiatives elsewhere, they are aimed at preventing rat-running drivers from using residential streets as a short cut, and thereby also making the area safer and more pleasant for people living there.
Introduced under the Haringey Streets for People initiative, the council has said that the LTNs were put in place following three rounds of engagement with the local community. It has also made exemptions available for a number of categories of people including Blue Badge holders.
And just like Katie Hopkins and Jordan Peterson in recent times (what company to be in, by the way) the local Conservative group has hit out at the clean air schemes. Anyway, the replies to their latest ‘campaigning’ were every bit as entertaining and insightful as you’d hope…
Allow me to explain something to you – and that’s at a discount rate for cars… pic.twitter.com/9RM2YTeH2D
— Rory McCarron (@CyclingLawLDN) February 2, 2023
Please can you explain why poor people are driving cars and rich people are riding bicycles? I thought Rishi drove a Kia…
— Family ByCycle (@FamilyByCycle) February 2, 2023
erm pic.twitter.com/Jnv871Gizu
— Gareth Dennis (@GarethDennis) February 2, 2023
Patch of the Day
1987 – Barcelona striker @GaryLineker. Style icon. pic.twitter.com/TXJHpRZCPI
— When Football Was Better (@FootballInT80s) February 1, 2023
Hero of the day — Axel Laurance
🫣 @laurance_axel 🙏🙏🙏 #EDB2023 pic.twitter.com/iDBd7GnhtG
— Team TotalEnergies (@TeamTotalEnrg) February 2, 2023
Here’s how poor Valentin Ferron got out of his precarious post-crash position…
Rapha undergoes refinancing operation to write off debt but says it "far outperformed" rivals in 2022
Rapha undergoes refinancing operation to write off debt but says it “far outperformed” rivals in 2022
Premium cycle clothing business says debt-for-equity swap involved existing shareholders and will help reduce its cost of borrowinghttps://t.co/qOKKFhjwNp #cycling pic.twitter.com/8K2rT0Hont— road.cc (@roadcc) February 3, 2023
Comment of the day contender…
I went through a similar thing when I bought a pair of their bibshorts
— taff (@taff98469147) February 3, 2023
And some more of your thoughts (without the tongue firmly wedged in cheek)…
Growth at all costs model – same is happening all across the tech world.
— Graeme 🚴🏼♂️🏌️♂️ (@gdhutchison) February 3, 2023
As a long term customer I would say they are in trouble because they abandoned the needs of their core customers and went after massively widening their appeal… The style direction went after a younger crowd (who don’t have Rapha money) and the core stopped spending
— Ron Mackintosh (@ronmackintosh) February 3, 2023
Why cyclists DO use cycle lanes
On the bike, City! Beryl partners with Norwich City for Green Football Weekend
It’s Green Football Weekend don’t you know…
Being slightly cynical that means professional clubs, some of whom’s players will be jetting across the country to avoid a four-hour bus journey, ask fans to think about how they can have a positive impact on climate change.
Anyway, my grumpiness aside, Beryl has teamed up with Championship club Norwich City FC as part of a nationwide initiative for their game against Burnley tomorrow and will set up a temporary ‘virtual bay’ outside Carrow Road between 11am and 12.30pm meaning fans can get to the ground by bike, e-bike or e-scooter and can claim 20 minutes off their journey with a free unlock (it’s a 12:30pm kick-off by the way, you don’t have to get there four hours early…)
“Our vehicles are a fun, easy to use and sustainable way to make short journeys, which makes them perfect for local fans to get to the football stadium,” Beryl CEO Phil Ellis said.
“By swapping the car for more sustainable transport, you can not only help reduce traffic congestion and harmful carbon emissions, you can also improve your own physical and mental health. Our vehicles are already cost effective when compared to the cost of petrol and match-day parking, but the special offer gives users the chance to save even more money.”
Full details can be found here. Will you be cycling to a football match this weekend?
Six months to go...
Scotland is looking LIT 🔥 in rainbow stripes! ✨
With only 6️⃣ months to go until the 2023 UCI Cycling World Championships, make sure you’re in line for tickets by registering for the presale at: https://t.co/4ZzaMDJbja#PowerOfTheBike pic.twitter.com/SEFeTCEOzB
— British Cycling (@BritishCycling) February 3, 2023
Tim Declercq goes window shopping... to keep the sponsors happy
Time for a fantastic addition to the pro cyclists doing sponsor duties hall of fame…
@RensonWorldwide pic.twitter.com/OrCoeeISBH
— Tim Declercq (@Tim_Declercq) February 3, 2023
Up there with that time Alaphilippe’s doctor prescribed him specifically Tacx trainer work to regain fitness from crash injuries.
Simone Consonni wins final stage of Saudi Tour, Ruben Guerreiro wraps up GC
One race, one win for Ruben Guerreiro at Movistar. Meanwhile it was Cofidis sprinter Simone Consonni who took the final stage of the week. Here’s how he did it…
The last kilometer of the ultimate stage of #SaudiTour won by a strong Simone Consonni 👊 pic.twitter.com/MEA4gw8GLN
— Saudi Tour طواف السعودية (@thesauditour) February 3, 2023
Racing round-up: Wins for Astana and Lotto Dstny
Back in Europe there was almost a popular win for Valentin Ferron, the rider yesterday spotted clinging onto a bridge after a crash. Unfortunately for him and his TotalEnergies team, promising Belgian Arnaud De Lie is in imperious form and took his second stage of the race.
🇧🇪@Arnaud_De_Lie of 🇧🇪@lotto_dstny wins stage 3 of 🇫🇷@Etoile_Besseges #EDB2023 pic.twitter.com/fyw9hlr9dD
— World Cycling Stats (@wcsbike) February 3, 2023
Young Brit Samuel Watson was third. In Spain, there was a win for Astana Qazaqstan as Simone Velasco won a three-up sprint ahead of Bob Jungels and Jonas Gregaard. The eternal top-ten Fred Wright was sixth.
🔹 𝗚𝗔𝗡𝗔𝗗𝗢𝗥 Etapa 3 | Stage 3 🔛 de la #VCV2023 GP @BancoSabadell
🔹 @simovelasco (@AstanaQazTeam )
📍Bétera > Sagunt 🏁
Enhorabona 👏👏👏🚴♂️🥇!#VoltaValenciana pic.twitter.com/AFBkdVQjMd— Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana – VCV (@VueltaCV) February 3, 2023
"Welcome to London" where thieves cut through bike racks
We’re all more than familiar with the bike thieves willing to use angle grinders to cut through bike locks…
> Thieves use angle grinder to steal Trek bike locked outside busy shopping centre
> Thieves attempting to steal bike using angle grinder thwarted by passing locals
> Video: “That’s not their bike” – London bicycle thieves filmed using angle grinder
> “Sparks flying in broad daylight”: Thief attempts to steal Labour MP’s bike using angle grinder
That’s just a few of the incidents we’ve covered…
But apparently the brazen bike thieves of England’s capital are now willing to cut through the whole damn bike rack to take your pride and joy. Some replies warned users to make sure the rack they’re locking their bike to doesn’t have cut-outs like this covered by stickers and that the bottom of the unit is properly secured to the floor.
Another commenter was left hoping the post doesn’t give Bristol’s criminally-minded opportunists an idea…
How do you stop your bike getting nicked? For me, it’s the ol’ three lock job (front wheel, frame and rear wheel) then, as bad as it sounds, pray there are easier targets elsewhere… Oh, and insurance just for some financial peace of mind…
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I'll counter that by saying the Bryton 750se I have drives me nuts at times. Inconsistantly picks up on routes created on Komoot and the app re-syncs every few seconds when trying to set up the device and sends me back to the home screen. The most infuriating one is that I turned live track on. Once. It now won't turn off and repeatedly flags up the live track is starting, and then disconnecting every few seconds whilst riding. I haven't timed it but it wouldn't suprise me if 10-20% of the time the the screen is covered with an error message. That's been about 6 weeks now. Other than that it's great :/
RE: Police launch road safety operation... by clamping down on cyclists using footbridge Meanwhile in Glasgow, Police Scotland are riding their motorbikes over the pedestrian and cyclists only bridge. https://x.com/FietserGlasgow/status/2065106152917012523?s=20
@Paul J Van Schip certainly seems a bit of a dick, but he's a European and multiple World Champion on the track, pretty sure you don't get there without having some talent in your legs.
Poor Vincent cannot get over the simple fact that given the choice people prefer dedicated cycling spaces, rather than pretending to be cars like vehicular cyclists.
What is the point of the fancy air sensor if it can't account for changing weather conditions?? If all you care about is a delayed approximation of aerodynamic watts in steady conditions, you don't need any special sensors for that. Just your speed on a decently flat course is enough to approximate rolling resistance and drivetrain losses. And the rest must be aero. If you assume a less aero body position at the same watts, your speed will drop while rolling resistance also drops, which means approximated aero watts goes up. And that's enough to demonstrate what you've shown in your testing protocol ("I sat upright and the number went up a little while later").
Your correction is accurate - it's almost always been "the (lack of) thought that (doesn't) count". "Massive" - less than a billion a year spent on active travel (trying to catch up / building a network across the entire country) Not massive - 6 billion every year (2026-2030) spent on road *maintenance* of existing "already built, goes everywhere, very convenient" road network for inactive travel Ultimately the reason "cycle infra" is *needed* is those unbelievably colossal amounts spent every year (and for more than a century now) on making mass motoring not just viable but apparently the "best choice" for most journeys. As the Dutch and others have shown, the majority of people *are* prepared to cycle and even mix with very light, slow local motor traffic *if* cycling is also made safe and convenient for the whole of their journey (including secure parking at both ends). (The history of the financial drivers of the current situation are a complex topic but note that while people complain about "crumbling roads" and underfunded motor infra - with some reason - by us continuing the fuel duty escalator freeze (for example) we're actually helping motorists pay *even less* for that activity / subsidising more of the cost of driving than ever.)
yes, but people will still object - which was my point.
So ' Priority of Road Users' and 1.5 metre clearance at 30mph has been been reduced to 'sharing'? NCN route 2 here in South Hams is an absolute scream with white vans, tractors and total idiots who refuse,or are totally incapable,to reverse on high Devon banked lanes ...means you have to get off and pedal back to a passing place....could be at that all day...so I don't bother...
@MaxiMinimalist Agreed. The big problem I see now is today's parents grew up being driven to their schools, and therefore, see private motor vehicles as the only viable form of transport. The vast majority of UK infant and primary schools have a catchment area that is within easy walking distance from home to school. Yet, the traffic caused by pupils being driven to/from school is astonishing. Banishing the "School Run" should be a priority for all schools.
When I was a kid (that was during the previous millenium when phones were connected to a plug in the wall), I rode my bicycle to school, music academy, sport grounds, parties even during the winter. The government didn't have to spend, correct that, didn't have to think of spending massive amounts of money to build cycling specific infrastructures. Over the past 3 or 4 decades, cars have grown bigger, taller, safer (for their drivers) and faster. Meanwhile, motorists have become abusive, aggressive, hypersensitive to people moving on two wheels, aka cyclists. Spending billions upon billions on new infrastructure won't address the crux of the matter. Sadly.
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It’s taken a long time for
It’s taken a long time for the Conservatives to favour the poor and the vulnerable over the wealthy and entitled but they’ve clearly changed thier ways and should be appluaded. Oh, hang on…
I’m worried about a tweet
I’m worried about a tweet shown underneath the Rory McCarron one: https://twitter.com/EmilyKerr36/status/1621280840918482947
Are those clothing choices going to be made mandatory for short distance cycling? Is getting us all in high heels the next stage of the Evil Cycling Lobby’s agenda?
Would they require two bolt
Would they require two bolt cleats or three?
Castelli could turn that in to a Gabba’d version for poor weather conditions surely.
Clem Fandango wrote:
Two bolts as they’re more a mountain biking thing
But I don’t want to wear a
But I don’t want to wear a nice dress…
(I did for Comic Relief back when I was in high school in the late eighties – my gf’s idea – and it didn’t go down well…).
brooksby wrote:
Too bad – if the Greens take over then that’s just something you’ll have to get used to.
Looks like they’re making headway in Bristol, now the largest party: https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/greens-win-bristol-election-race-8106783
brooksby wrote:
It’s not supposed to be so short you can see your peaches.
Well I suppose we’ve all done
Well I suppose we’ve all done things we’ve come to regret. Many years ago I thought it would be a good idea to pose in the nude for a magazine. I’m still banned from WH Smith.
brooksby wrote:
Bit rude to refer to your girlfriend as “it.”
MattKelland wrote:
She was wearing trousers, a tailcoat, and a top hat.
brooksby wrote:
hawkinspeter wrote:
to be able to and have the right to, you don’t have to.
wycombewheeler wrote:
That’s just how it starts. It’s the thin end of the wedge.
Wait… isn’t Grayson Perry a
Wait… isn’t Grayson Perry a mean mountain biker?
You’re right – they’re coming for our traditional dress (or kilt / trews, rather) next!
No doubt those bloody cycle clothing companies will start pushing it for everyone as soon as the pro peleton adopt it, even though we all know that normal people can’t cycle in a dress.
wycombewheeler wrote:
I’d vote for her!
I’d vote for her!
I’ll get me coat…
Oh dear.
Oh dear.
Nothing like a bit of lazy culture war stereotyping is there? They always seem to get it back to front though somewhow. Drivists are all hard working downtrodden tradespeople (cor blimey guvnor I’m a non-dom millionaire driving a massive SUV I am) whereas anyone who rides a bike is a super rich tax dodging yummy mummy avocado enthusiast. Odd take.
It’s clearly a fake picture in the tweet anyway – no SUVs to be seen anywhere
Exactly: the ‘super rich tax
Exactly: the ‘super rich tax dodging yummy mummy avocado enthusiast’ is, IMO, far more likely to be driving a so-called Chelsea Tractor.
Hang on – so, are Tottenham
Hang on – so, are Tottenham Conservatives implying that cyclists are wealthy?
Some might be, but many are not. The same as motorists, really…
brooksby wrote:
the ones in lycra with 5k bikes are wealthy (even though 5k is still cheaper than even basic cars)
mostly the people needing LTNs are not these people
Eh. I think it depends if
Eh. I think it depends if they drive too. If they don’t drive, someone with a top-spec lust-worthy Italian brand bike as well as a beater commuter will probably have spent less than even the average used price for a car in the UK. If someone buying a second-hand Dacia isn’t considered wealthy, then how can we apply the term to someone spending less money on their “vehicle”?
And just to pre-empt the obvious response of “the car is essential travel, the bike is purely for leisure”:
Definitely. If you can run a
Definitely. If you can run a clunker of a car you could easily run a fine-looking bike. At the lower end * you can easily get a good second hand bike for a couple of hundred. Heck you can get a new bike (in any of several categories – even “practical”) for less than a grand. Your running costs will be tiny compared to a car even if you do no maintenance except taking it to the bike shop when it’s unhappy.
People totally don’t get the economics though because bicycles are seen as a completely different category of thing – not “transport”. Even by people who have never carried a fridge in their car and for whom the vast majority of their car journeys are one or at most two person trips of a couple of miles in an urban environment.
Notjustbikes has an excellent segment of the great value of a bike vis-a-vis a car in his video on cargo bikes as an unbeatable urban transport solution.
* It’s laughable when policiticans express concern about the (driving) welfare of poor folks. It’s not just the Conservatives; realistically none of them care – except worrying about how much they might cost the health, welfare and crime budgets. None of the poorest section of the population are going to get awkward questions raised in the national media, keep their national parties running or send them to sports events or nice dinners.
Maybe there’s a local Tory
Maybe there’s a local Tory definition that sets a minimum level of poverty in these areas. If you fall below that, you simply don’t count?
For example.
You only own a single car and have trouble affording private school fees = poor.
You own no cars and have trouble affording the gas bill = you are not worth worrying about.
You live in a residential street, like breathing clean air and the ability to walk and cycle in your neighbourhood = elite (but the wrong kind)
That tory stuff though, are
That tory stuff though, are they not embarassed to be pushing out shit like that? Someone had to press Send on those turds. What are they thinking when they do that?
Holy moly, comparing LTNs to
Holy moly, comparing LTNs to apartheid…
I could post a myriad images
I could post a myriad images of women doing exactly that, cycling while wearing high heels and a posh dress, from our near neighbours across the North Sea, in Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands, safely able to do so due to the far safer environment provided by proper cycling infrastructure.
Just imagine if we embraced LTN’s properly, nationwide, everyone could cycle, or walk, unhindered by motor vehicles and all the negatives they bring with them.
Unfortunately, we live in the UK. That’s why we’ll never have nice things…..
Let’s have a quick check on
Let’s have a quick check on the significance and local popularity of Tottenham Tories: https://members.parliament.uk/constituency/3811/election/397
In all cases, candidates who
“In all cases, candidates who fail to secure at least one-eighth (12.5%) of the valid votes in their constituencies will have their deposit forfeited.” (Wikipedia)
2019 General Election:
James Newhall Conservative 5,446 11.6%
Having splashed out on (and
Having splashed out on (and now carrying round the very heavy) angle-grinder resistant Hiplok D1000, I have to say that that has been my nagging worry…
Only 46% of households in
Only 46% of households in Haringey have a car..
Steve K wrote:
And they are all poor because they have a car.
Last year, I gave evidence to
Last year, I gave evidence to a committee in the House of Lords. I travelled there by bicycle. Not a single member of the committee thought this was disrespectful, though, to be fair, none of them would have known I had cycled there. I suspect Martin does all Prince Andrew’s sweating for him.
No Lord gets in to my dinner
No Lord has ever got in to one of my dinner parties! I turn that riff-raff away at the door (only pausing to sock them one if they made too much noise knocking)!
They let Johnson onto the
They let Johnson onto the Parliamentary estate. The bar for sartorial elegance is extremely low.
IanMSpencer wrote:
That’s a fair point.
For the record, I am quite capable of cycling without getting sweaty, and wearing something other than lycra.
For a different example, Dean Windass and Bryan Hughes didn’t seem too worried.
It’s getting so that you
It’s getting so that you wonder if there are any decent, honest tories. One of their latest scams is publishing leaflets that look exactly like Green Party leaflets; surely they must realise that if they are ashamed of their own image and have to copy a party with some credibility, they’ve lost, and they’ve lost everything?
This is just one of the many such leaflets:
It’s funny you mention this.
It’s funny you mention this. We had our first Tory leaflet through the door since moving in, we had to Google the guy before we realised he was a Tory. The leaflet made no mention of the Conservative party, had no logos, nothing in the “small text” etc. It was like six pages long, and from reading it, you’d have no idea what party he was with. This isn’t isolated either, I’ve seen mention of other Tory MPs doing the same thing with local leaflets on Reddit, and I think our old MP had removed all Conservative party logos from his before we moved.
There does seem to be a fair few now that are trying to distance themselves from the “image” of the party.
We had a bloke standing as a
We had a bloke standing as a parish councillor, got very het up when people on the village FB page were criticising him for being a Tory, and said what did it matter on a parish council what part he supported or was a member of? It was pointed out that all his literature had the Conservative logo all over it, so clearly it mattered to him…
I did think that they had to
I did think that they had to include the name of the party, but apparently not, just the candidate is enough:
“Throughout the UK, printed election campaign material must include the name and address of:
the printer
the promoter
who it’s being promoted for (for example, the candidate or party)”
But if they haven’t even got the guts to say which party they belong too, then why should anyone vote for them? Their behaviour is likely to turn people off them rather than gather floating voters.
Anyway, I’m just off round
Anyway, I’m just off round Martin’s.
Good luck with that. Not
Good luck with that. Not only is your bar tape grubby that’s clearly not an Aston Martin or a Bentley. Also you will clearly disturb the sediment on your port with that angle. Get a butler!
These days I minimise
These days I minimise journeys where I might need to use a bike rack. The last two sum up my experience. One was a trip to St Georges Hospital in south London. Lots of bikes locked up on racks, but the only racks available weren’t actually attached to the ground. I had no other option, and thankfully my bike was still there when I returned. The second was a trip to a shop, where the racks were close to the shopping trolley storage. I don’t know exactly what had happened, but when I returned my rear mudguard was destroyed and the rear wheel was jammed against the frame and wouldn’t move. Whoever hit must’ve really hit it hard and I still can’t work out how it would’ve happed course, just like those awful cyclists that presumably unlicenced and unregistered pedestrian left the scene. I couldn’t even ask if anyone had recorded their licence plate because pedestrians still don’t wear them.
Since when did everyone get
Since when did everyone get so hung up on the state of someone’s bar tape?
Anyway, Martin is clearly an appalling host – more bothered by appearances than his guests comfort, convenience or even their character and personalities.
I didn’t say you wouldn’t be
I didn’t say you wouldn’t be welcome round at mine! Actually it’s neater than mine is currently too.
Just a friendly suggestion though – your “easement” bottle looks like it could with a rinse. Although from the colour you’re doing OK on hydration.
chrisonatrike wrote:
That picture is about six years old (and that bike is now retired – though still in my garage).
BBC Sport story on the first
BBC Sport story on the first womens World Cyclocross championship.
Cyclo-cross World Championships: How a small band of women broke new ground in a new millennium – BBC Sport
I read that yesterday. What
I read that yesterday. What really struck me is that Marianne Vos comes into the story towards the end, and she’s still at the pinnacle of the sport. Astonishing.
Although she is pretty much
Although she is pretty much the GOAT in the all cycling so no surprise she was so good at the start and now.
Schrodinger’s LTN:
Schrodinger’s LTN: simultaneously affluent areas where you can sit out to drink your flat white, and also dead zones full of crime.
In other news, the most read
In other news, the most read story in Spalding is that a local has been on PopMaster.
https://www.spaldingtoday.co.uk/news/matt-takes-on-radio-2s-popmaster-9296970/
I thought one of our regulars had been quiet. He’s probably having a lie down to recover.
Has this been covered here?
Has this been covered here?
Raymond Treharne, 73, killed David Jones when his Grand Cherokee collided with his bike on the A48 Crack Hill in Bridgend at around 5.50am on May 27, 2020
A “professional driver” even.
A professional driver who
A professional driver who made up a cock and bull story of the cyclist appearing from nowhere and falling into the road in front of him not backed up by witnesses.
It doesn’t seem to clarify the nature of professional driving. Given that taxi drivers are some of the most anti-social around, and many lorry drivers don’t live up to their own hype, I’m not sure such a category really exists.
A good day’s work. He’s spent
A good day’s work. He’s spent his day giving style guidance not dubious cycling advice. Result.
IanMSpencer wrote:
I think “don’t cycle to go places”, which seemed to be his overall message, was pretty dubious cycling advice.
Steve K wrote:
Well, true. But it’s an improvement on “ride in the gutter because if they can’t see you they won’t hit you.”
Hmm…
“Cyclists! Don’t.”
Hmm…
“Cyclists! Don’t.”
Bloody hell is this From the
Bloody hell is this From the Message Boards?
Where is stokie Steve ?
Saw a few comments this morning then find this shitshow. Hope you are proud road cc
Anyway, love to the family.
Not sure how many times this
Not sure how many times this has to be repeated, but;
DON’T FEED THE TROLL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I can’t quite believe the number of people on here who allow themselves to be wound up enough to respond to someone who clearly doesn’t give a flying flamingo and is just doing it for the responses.
Actually, while I agree in
Actually, while I agree in principle, the claptrap below has been a useful reveal as to how he really is just trolling rather than taking a principled if uninformed and aggressive stand against cycling. Quite a peculiar performance, almost Nigelesque in its self-destructiveness.
VERY Nigelesque
VERY Nigelesque
The post by the Haringey
The post by the Haringey Conservatives looks a bit counterproductive. The car picture looks all grey, dismal and smoggy whereas the picture with the bike is sunny, bright and full of people and children. Much more appealing really.
Bonkers rail travel with 28
Bonkers rail travel with 28 tickets
Poster goes on to explain that as he had a cycle reservation, he had to have a printed ticket.