“Look, there’s speed bumps now. What more do you want?” Angry drivers target family of 11-year-old cyclist killed in hit-and-run with hate messages, forcing them to call off ghost bike plans; John Degenkolb defends Picnic PostNL + more on the live blog
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“Look, there’s speed bumps now. What more do you want?” Angry drivers target family of 11-year-old boy killed by hit-and-run motorist while cycling with hate messages, forcing them to call off ghost bike plans
In one of the more depressing and concerning cycling stories we’ve seen in recent times, a family in Quebec City has been forced to postpone plans to install a ghost bike in memory of their son, after angry motorists targeted them with “wildly inappropriate” messages.
11-year-old Alex Côté was riding his bike on des Sablonnières Avenue in the Beauport borough of the Canadian city on 29 June when he was fatally struck by a hit-and-run driver. He was found by emergency crews in cardiac arrest and rushed to hospital, where he died. A 76-year-old woman, who fled the scene, was later arrested.
Alex’s death sparked calls from residents and campaigners for greater safety measures on a road which does not feature a footpath on either side and, according to one local, has long been treated as a throughfare by motorists, even though it is lined with schools, family homes, and parks.
The Côté family were planning to install a ghost bike yesterday in memory of Alex, which they hoped would honour their son while also sensitising motorists to the dangers faced by vulnerable road users and highlighting the lack of safe cycling and walking infrastructure in the area.
Last month, the local authority started installing 13 new speed bumps near the site of Alex’s fatal crash. The safety measures had been planned months before the 11-year-old’s death.
However, their installation prompted, depressingly, a wave of anger and vitriol on social media, as local drivers directed their ire towards the Côté family and their ghost bike plans with a slew of hate-filled messages.
The whole thing became so ugly that Alex’s father was forced to announce that the ghost bike unveiling has been, at least temporarily, called off.
“Faced with certain reactions from citizens and after receiving hateful messages, we have chosen to take a step back,” he posted.
“We want to ensure this moment remains a positive and respectful gathering and not a source of division.”
> Carol Boardman ghost bike removed by council after complaints it was distracting drivers
According to Mathieu Murphy-Perron, a member of Souliers et vélos fantômes Québec, which helps families organise ghost bike memorials, the messages sent to the Côtés this week were “wildly inappropriate”.
While he did not share any details of the content of the messages, Murphy-Perron told CBC that some locals took issue with the ghost bike itself, claiming it would create safety issues due to pedestrians crossing the road to visit it.
“Concerns that I think are a little unfounded,” he said. “We’ve never seen that in Montreal, despite the fact that there are a great number of ghost bikes installed here.”
He also said most of the messages centred on the installation of the speed bumps, which Facebook users erroneously claimed were being introduced as a result of Alex’s death, despite the plans being in place for months.
“Some people were just saying, ‘Haven’t you had enough, look there’s speed bumps now. What more do you want?’” he said.
“Never in 13 years of supporting grieving families have we seen such a wave of hatred directed at the loved ones of someone who passed away.”
The whole sorry debacle has forced local politicians to intervene, city councillor Mélanie Sauvé calling for residents to “learn how to co-exist” after admitting that the memorial was called off as the family “didn’t want things to spill over”.
Meanwhile, Quebec City Mayor Bruno Marchand said he was “profoundly outraged by this situation”, criticising the drivers who chose “insults over compassion”.
“What world are we living in that someone thinks it’s a good idea to pour their hatred on parents who have been through a sad event like that?” Marchand said, a few days after he was also sworn at by a motorist while unveiling a new cycle lane in the city.
As I said earlier, it’s just thoroughly depressing.
“Any person losing their life on the road is one person too much and none of us should be at risk when simply going to work by bike”
While we’re on the subject of ghost bikes, over the weekend members of the Brussels branch of Critical Mass replaced two memorial bikes which had been removed from the Belgian capital’s streets.
As protests took place in other parts of the city, inspired by events in neighbouring France, the cycling campaigners were busy reinstating the tributes to cyclists Catherine and Jaymeen, who were both killed by lorry drivers while riding their bikes in Brussels in July 2024 and September 2025, respectively.
It is not clear why the ghost bikes were taken away in the first place, but Critical Mass noted that “their presence and visibility remains important for the families and the cycling community in Brussels”.
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“This weekend, some of us dedicated part of their time to replace two ghost bikes which recently disappeared from the streets,” the group posted on Instagram.
“Any person losing their life on the road is one person too much and none of us should be at risk when simply going to work by bike.
“These two ghost bikes are unfortunately not the only ones in Brussels and we count on the community to take care of each of them as we did this time.
“They remind us how fragile life can be and all the work that remains to be done for a safe commute in Brussels. Although some of us are not here anymore, let’s make sure their memory is kept alive. May these ghost bikes prevent any further similar tragedy.”
“Even if I would rather go to the Giro, I will have to check off the Vuelta at some point”: Tadej Pogačar unveils 2027 plans and brands crash conspiracy theories as “fake news”
Tour-Worlds-Vuelta, as easy as that.
It all feels a bit rinse and repeat when it comes to Tadej Pogačar’s plans for 2027, which the Slovenian revealed today at a charity golf event (as you do), with a sixth Tour de France title, a third rainbow jersey, and a first ever Vuelta win the big goals for the next 12 months.
But that shouldn’t come as much of a surprise, considering Pogačar’s tilt at a maiden Vuelta win (and probably the greatest season of all time) was cut short by his nasty season-ending crash during stage eight of the Spanish grand tour.
And with the Olympics on the horizon in 2028, dominating the post-Tour period and shifting the calendar around, it will be all-in for the Vuelta next year. Even if Pogačar himself would rather head to Italy for the Giro in May.
“The hope for next year is of course the world championships, combined with the Tour and the Vuelta,” Pogačar told reporters at the event. “Even if I would rather go to the Giro, I will have to check off the Vuelta at some point. So I think that will be the goal for next year.”
The worlds, meanwhile, will take place between the Tour and the Vuelta next year, as part of the UCI’s quadrennial ‘super worlds’ project. The road race, which will be held in the Alps, has Pogačar’s name written all over it, and will take place just six days before the start of the Spanish grand tour.
Pogačar also took the opportunity to put to bed any conspiracy theories surrounding his Vuelta crash, which left him with a broken collarbone and fractured vertebrae.
“It was a big stone. Everything else is fake news.”
Well, there you have it.
“I have a framed ticket stub on my wall – an Eric Cantona one – that says ‘nostalgia is poison’,”: Former Giro d’Italia winner Tao Geoghegan Hart joins EF Education-EasyPost
To be fair, Tao Geoghegan Hart has always looked good in pink.
Which is handy, because the London-born stage racer, winner of the 2020 Giro d’Italia, will be wearing a lot of pink next year, after signing a deal for 2027 with EF Education-EasyPost.
Geoghegan Hart started his pro career at Team Sky, where he established himself as a consistent, reliable stage racer, winning the 2020 autumnal Giro in dramatic fashion on the final day after an epic win in the Alps.
Three years later, he entered the Giro as one of the pre-race favourites following an impressive overall victory at the Tour of the Alps, but suffered a horrific, season-ending crash on stage 11, fracturing his left hip and femur.
After recovering from his injuries, Geoghegan Hart moved to Lidl-Trek the following year, spending the last three seasons there, a spell where he has struggled to regain the form and fitness he showed in 2023, despite some fleeting glimpses of his old self.
But according to EF boss Jonathan Vaughters, who snapped the 31-year-old up for 2027, the best could still be yet to come for Geoghegan Hart.
“Tao is an incredibly gifted rider with the perseverance and stubbornness to come back from a horrific crash injury,” Vaughters said in a statement announcing the deal.
“While the fruits of his work to come back from injury have not blossomed yet, we are taking the bet that 2027 will be the year that this happens.”
Geoghegan Hart, meanwhile, is solely focused on living in the moment. With the help of an Eric Cantona inspirational quote, naturally.
“It started with a very interesting, personal conversation with Jonathan Vaughters – talking one-to-one about the difficulties I’ve had since the injury three years ago, ideas around that, and opportunities for the future,” he said. “
There are a lot of people on this team I’ve known for a long time, and also quite a few young riders I’ve got to know recently whom I’m excited to work alongside. On a personal level, it’s really about trying to refind the condition I had in my best years – the ceiling of that, the journey towards it, and the end results themselves. It’s an exciting prospect to come into a new environment with new ideas, new perspectives, and different people.
“I have a framed ticket stub on my wall – an Eric Cantona one – that says ‘nostalgia is poison’. I’m much more interested in looking forward in the moment.
“A good leader, in sport or beyond, is really aware of individual qualities, promotes those qualities in the people around them, respects them, and equally has empathy and understanding for all our inadequacies – what we each bring and can contribute.
“It’s about finding a way to make all those individual instruments line up and occasionally play a tune – sometimes it sounds a bit cranky, but you still get the job done and steadily build towards something.”
He may be fixated on the present and future, but if Geoghegan Hart can turn back the clock and re-establish himself as a grand tour contender at EF, I’d say even Eric the King would be mightily impressed.
Poorly parked and unlicensed e-bikes to be seized and impounded in council garage to curb “Wild West” operators
Want to feel old? Ben Wiggins has just turned pro with Jayco-AlUla
Yes, that’s right. The progeny of Sir Brad of Wiggo, Ben Wiggins, has penned his first professional deal, stepping from Jayco AlUla’s development team to the WorldTour squad for 2027.
The 21-year-old, who finished tenth at the Tour of Britain last month, will be joined in the professional ranks by three of his Hagens Berman Jayco teammates, fellow Englishman Jed Smithson, Northern Irish rider Adam Rafferty (the brother of EF pro Darren), and Australian Wil Holmes.
“It’s a really special feeling to be joining the WorldTour next year and to be racing for Jayco AlUla is a dream come true,” Wiggo Jnr said in a statement today.
“I remember being at the Tour de France in 2019 and I was lucky enough to be invited around the bus the morning that Matteo Trentin won the stage for the team into Gap. Ever since that day, I wanted to ride for the team. I can’t wait to be a part of the races I’ve watched since I was a kid.”
Accept it, you’re officially old now.
Tickets go on sale this week for Tour de France opening ceremony and team presentation in Edinburgh Castle
Get your clicking fingers warmed up, because the biggest ticket drop outside of Glastonbury is taking place this week.
Yes, that’s right – the pre-sale for next year’s Tour de France Hommes team presentation, set to take place in Edinburgh Castle, goes live on Friday.
The 2027 team presentation, or opening ceremony, as the Grand Départ GB organisers are styling it, will take place on Wednesday 30 June, two days before the men’s race leaves Edinburgh’s Royal Mile for the first of three stages on British soil.
And it sounds like it’s going to be pretty spectacular. Taking place on the esplanade outside Edinburgh Castle, the ceremony will feature The Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo, Highland dancers, massed pipes and drums, and even a bespoke song penned by Angus MacPhail of the traditional band Skippinish.
So, proper Scottish, then. Oh, and the usual parade of Tour riders and awkward interviews too, of course.
There’ll be 8,500 fans in attendance inside the castle grounds, with pre-sale available from midday on Friday to everyone subscribed to the Grand Départ GB official newsletter. Tickets, priced from £27, will then go on general sale on Friday 30 October.
Members of British Cycling, Scottish Cycling, and Beicio Cymru will also have access to a pre-sale window from midday on Saturday 24 October, while a pre-sale for customers of The Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo begins at noon on Monday 26 October.
And if you’re not lucky enough to bag a ticket, the organisers say there’ll still be plenty going on around Edinburgh during the presentation. So you won’t feel too bad about missing out on Jonas Vingegaard explaining why he’s never tried haggis.
All the details on tickets and pre-sales can be found at the GB Grand Départ website.
It’s getting close…
End of the Strictly road for Sarah Storey, as Shania Twain tango fails to impress judges much
Blimey, I nearly forgot about my weekly Strictly cycling update!
It’s a good thing I remembered to be honest, as this will be the last one for 2026 (I’m sure you’re all pleased to hear), after Dame Sarah Storey’s Strictly Come Dancing ‘journey’ came to an abrupt end last night (boo).
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The Paralympic legend’s Shania Twain-themed tango (it was icons week, the worst of all the themed weeks, in case you wondering) was actually pretty decent, considering it was only week four. However, it wasn’t enough to prevent her propping up the leaderboard with a score of just 21.
Storey, rather inevitably, then ended up in the dreaded dance-off against House of the Dragon actress Bethany Antonia, losing by unanimous decision.
Bad luck Sarah, but at least you showed everyone us cyclists can dance (a bit). Even when we’re wearing a leopard-print hooded dress and pretending to ride a motorbike.
“Why were voices like mine and many others abandoned in the research?” Former Paris-Roubaix winner John Degenkolb joins Picnic PostNL defence, claiming he’s “never experienced a fear culture” at beleaguered Dutch squad
They’re rolling out the big guns now. After NOS and In De Waaier published a series of explosive claims concerning an alleged “culture of fear” at Picnic PostNL on Thursday, the Dutch WorldTour squad has been scrambling to share its side of the story.
In case you missed it, the investigation into the working environment at Picnic PostNL was based on “confidential conversations” with 71 past and present riders and staff.
Those conversations revealed allegations of a “toxic” and “oppressive” culture and “unsafe working situation” at the Dutch team, which left employees feeling “traumatised” and “anxious”, and one rider, former pro Martijn Tusveld, admitting he contemplated self-harm.
Following the report’s publication, Picnic PostNL announced that it takes the allegations seriously and will commission an independent investigation into the team’s culture, while insisting that it does not “recognise” itself in the “overall picture” presented by NOS and In De Waaier.
Speaking to me last week, sports director Callum Ferguson, who oversees the Picnic women’s team, criticised, among other things, the investigation for what he regarded as a lack of balance, focusing “only on the negatives” and interviewing former employees with a perceived axe to grind.
That particular defence was echoed this morning by John Degenkolb, one of Picnic’s most experienced, successful riders.
Degenkolb raced for the team, then sponsored primarily by Giant, between 2012 and 2016, winning Paris-Roubaix, Milan-Sanremo, Gent-Wevelgem, and ten stages of the Vuelta for the Dutch squad. After spells at Trek and then Lotto, the German returned to the team in 2022 and has stayed ever since.
“After a week of vacation, it is an important concern for me to share my personal view on the research of NOS with you,” the 37-year-old posted on Instagram.
“In my ten years of 16 professional years at Picnic PostNL I have never experienced a ‘fear culture’ – neither before or after my deliberate return to the team in 2022.
“Critical voices need to be heard and taken seriously. However, all relevant perspectives should be taken into account for a fair and balanced process.
“Our team consists of around 160 employees, among them about 60 riders per season. In an 18-year team history, there are surely 71 people with negative experiences – but only negative?”
Addressing the journalists behind the investigation, Degenkolb asked: “Why were voices like mine and many others abandoned in the research?”
TNT’s exclusive Tour de France paywall set to stand until at least 2032, as new broadcast deal announced
The potential return of free-to-air Tour coverage appears as far away as ever right now…
“I cringed also”: British cyclocross champion Cameron Mason shamed for flappy helmet strap
The cyclocross season is still young, but the aesthetically sensitive amongst us are already out in force, shaming Cam Mason into tidying things up in the helmet strap department:
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Mason, to his credit, held his hands up, admitting that he also “cringed” at the sight of his flappy strap in Dendermonde.
The trim (don’t get me started on the tash, though) appears to have paid off, with Mason finishing sixth at the Berencross in Meulebeke on Saturday, two places higher than the previous week, when he was being battered across the face all race by his helmet strap.
Marginal gains, kids, marginal gains.
“Paris is burning, London is jousting”
Remember that Lime bike jousting thing we mentioned last week on the live blog? Well, by the looks of things, it went… well, I suppose?
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If that’s how you want to spend your Saturday evening, I’m not here to judge.
Great Britain top the medal table at track world championships, as Anna Morris secures rainbow hat-trick with brilliant Madison win alongside Erin Bootham
A week that began with an all-too familiar story for Great Britain’s cycling team, as reports of bullying, misconduct, and a “toxic” culture spread in the press, ended with another familiar tale: lots of gold medals.
At the world track championships in Shanghai, which came to an end yesterday, GB topped the medal table with six golds, three silvers, and three bronze medals. Half of those golds came courtesy of the on-fire Anna Morris, who completed her rainbow jersey hat-trick on Saturday with victory in a closely fought Madison alongside Erin Boothman.
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Britain’s dominance in the women’s endurance events was underlined by the all-GB individual pursuit final, which saw Millie Couzens – a newbie on the track – defeating European champion Josie Knight to take gold.
There was to be no seventh gold for Britain on Sunday, however, though Emma Finucane did complete her own personal medal hat-trick, taking bronze in the keirin to add to her silvers in the sprint and team sprint.
Meanwhile, in yesterday’s points race, Ireland’s Lara Gillespie secured the second rainbow jersey of her career, beating Denmark’s Amalie Dideriksen by five points after a strong start.
Now that’s what I call a bike-friendly hotel
Unfortunately, considering the Domero Zugspitze hotel – and its indoor cycling infrastructure – is located in the heart of Austria’s Tyrolean Alps, the hardest climb of the day won’t be to your room:
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Full marks to Jonathan in the comments, who came up with this Doug Ford-related zinger: “Hope this isn’t in Toronto, or someone is gonna demand that walkway is removed and replaced with a lane for a car.”
It’s funny because it’s true.
Weekend round-up: Picnic’s sports directors leap to under-fire team’s defence, new LTN data published (and it’s promising), and Silca go all retro with their new bike computer
Just in case you missed ‘em, here’s a quick round-up of our stories from the weekend:
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@chrisonabike ...have impersonated Dutch bike shop owners, people with disabilities, and possibly different genders / sexualities. And have gone from broken English to perfect fluency in a week or so Only a few of us remember those hilariously inept impersonations!
@belugabob Unfortunately going down this route is likely to be a missed opportunity. "Safer streets" can be done in a way that allows access to a virtuous circle with whole suite of benefits. But ... that would mean following something like in NL. So "sustainable safety" - a different philosophy of transport, plus gradual infra and organisational changes over decades. Generally opportunities for concentrations of money beat that. So it looks like we'll get "probably safer on average" but with who knows what side effects, while concentrating insane amounts of power (money) in the hands of a very few. And those will be effectively unaccountable, being almost all overseas, and not having to live in the same streets as their products (they may be flying)...
@Fursty Ferret "...regulator" That should be little comfort, because during previous scandals it became clear that in many cases the regulators were easily hoodwinked, or (especially US) they rely on the companies themselves to mark their own homework. (And in the case of SUVs/light trucks, I heard the US government has been hard a-lobbying the likes of Europe and the UK for "reciprocal recognition" e.g. to accept their product as is without further checks). Needing the makers to help / do the checks is even more likely given the complexity of self-driving vehicles. I suspect self-driving vehicles will likely soon be safer on average than human drivers (a low bar). Of course I think other potential consequences are also a matter of concern (not least - in *theory* humans can be held accountable, but holding humans in large companies accountable for their tech is a *lot* harder)...
@mdavidford Celebrity traitors with Lance? Worse - some of these slippery lycrist quislings deceive people that they're a) pedestrians - by getting off their bike and b) drivers - by getting into their cars! It's all on display in this forum, where IIRC such cyclists have appeared under multiple names, have impersonated Dutch bike shop owners, people with disabilities, and possibly different genders / sexualities. And have gone from broken English to perfect fluency in a week or so...
Politician in "fixing things for my mates / companies I have an interest in" shocker!
@mdavidford Could make that shorter - "we’re letting too many people drive" * I would bet to a first approximation the "damage" could be predicted by number of humans times time driven. Most effective way to fix that - without the UK's "just get rid of the vulnerable road users" - is to remove the motorists, to padded individual lanes, far away from vulnerable road users. Though they'll still crash (and into each other). * Should be "we have incentivised people so that most of them see 'driving' as the solution to most of their transport needs, as well as being part of their status as adults, and we could usefully change that *and* it would also improve health, the economy, the environment..."
@This Wreckage The other point is the observation that efforts to fix the transport systems which reduce motoring convenience almost always meet with very noisy opposition. But when a lot of motor (through) traffic has been removed it turns out that people don't want to go back. They don't all necessarily say how much nicer it is or connect that to the lack of motor traffic. But this experiment has been run in many different localities in different countries and the results seem to hold. Caveats as usual - it's always possible for authorities to bungle things terribly - or even deliberately mess things up with ulterior motives. And people have to have enough time to adapt to the new situation, which is probably nearer a year or two.
@This Wreckage And yet - in the poorest parts of where I stay (Edinburgh) it's not uncommon to see bikes with flat tyres rusting in the closes of flats, or on balconies, and they aren't all kids' bikes... I do agree that storage is an issue. IIRC some places (Edinburgh now) are starting to bring in guidance on having some cycle storage for new flats. Nothing like NL though where for decades it's been a part of the building regulations. I think most people who don't own a bike have simply never considered owning a bike as adults, because they're not "cyclists" (e.g. not practicing a sport) and transport cycling isn't "a thing" for most people in the UK currently.
It's really not smart to alienate so many potential buyers by putting hookless rims on a road bike. I personally don't think it's safe, but everyone can agree it greatly limits tire choices and inflation pressures. Both very important things on a road bike.
@This Wreckage I think we've covered that one. (It's the what the young (18-20s) adults are doing on social media isn't it...) You certainly have to engage with people, but if you ask people about something - like transport cycling in the UK - that they don't do (and more importantly *others* don't do) and have probably never thought about doing ... you have to take the answers with a large pinch of salt. Indeed even for things people *do* you might not get immediately helpful answers. Witness people being interviewed in NL about why they cycled to the shops to do the shopping: very few of them mention the infra or motor traffic reduction (or even the bike...). In that case you'd hear the truth e.g. "it's the easiest way" / "I like to go with my friends" - but *why* that is the case would need further investigation.
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I saw “CADEL: Lungs on Legs” at the weekend. It was excellent!
https://riversidestudios.co.uk/whats-on/ld-cadel-lungs-on-legs/
There was an article about it on Road.cc a while back
https://road.cc/content/feature/cadel-evans-actor-cycling-full-gas-stage-315891
RE hateful comments / “angry drivers” – while there does seem to be a strong correlation between “possibility of any inconvenience to my travel” and “unjustifiable anger” * …
… I think this is mostly a story about “modern Internet-mediated interaction”, no?
* Which is mostly drivers simply due to numbers. Although things like “the advert said cruising on the freeway, the reality is queueing on the Westway” and “person on horse shouts at peasants on foot” no doubt contribute.
Both stories re ghost bikes unfortunately sound very similar to one local to us.
Cyclist killed by a driver, ghost bike put in place, ghost bike vandalised/cruel notes put on it then ghost bike disappears with no explanation from the council or anyone else.
Of course everyone on local Facebook is against removing it, but there always seems to be one or two who can’t seem to stand ghost bikes!
Your Quebec City story needs an edit: “Unidentified 76-year-old woman.” Unless, of course, her name is available somewhere, which I doubt. Part of the safety problem here is the length to which law enforcement agencies in many countries – notably the U.S. and Canada – go to protect the identities of killer motorists. These agencies need to be called out for their failure to, at the very least, identify the killer drivers in the wake of these homicides. It’s bad that sentences are often so light when legal action is taken against drivers, but it is far worse that some killer drivers are never, ever publicly identified.
@cmedred I can’t find anything online with the name of the suspect or about her being charged – do Canadian police maybe have the same rules as the UK where only age and gender is released until a charge is preferred? Admittedly four months seems a long time between arrest and charge but there can be legitimate reasons for that.
With reference to a hotel where ” You can take your bike right into your room” …
Premier Inn have been doing this for years and therefore have had lots of our custom, on multi-day trips. Not once has any member of staff batted an eyelid – in fact, on one occasion we asked if they had paper towels to clean our bikes before we took them inside, and they shrugged then gave us 2 enormous fluffy white bath towels (needless to say, they weren’t white for long.
@belugabob At a certain Scottish branch that shall remain nameless just in case any of Premier’s brass are reading we turned up shattered with filthy bikes, when we asked the manager if there was somewhere we could clean them he said, “Ach it’s just mud, it’ll hoover off in the morning, up ye go!”
@belugabob I’ve been in a few different hotels in recent years and never had any difficulties with keeping my bike in my room. I always take a couple of newspapers with me to spread out under the bike to stop any drips of oil/water etc getting on the carpet. One hotel even had a nice timber post in the room, for me to lock my bike to.
One of the hotels had a secure lock up room for bikes, but were happy for me to keep the bike in my room because it meant I didn’t have to drag away a member of staff to get my bike at busy breakfast / check out time.
When I went to stay in N Yorks for the 2019 World Champs, the only inconvenience was breakfast being crowded because the Italian Junior women’s squad’s bikes were being stored in the main dining room!
The only slight downer is looking like a bit of an eccentric as I carry my bike down the stairs and through reception in cycling kit.