“The ‘cycle lane’ people keep talking about”: Cyclist fed up with ‘use the bike lane’ comments counts how many parked vehicles are blocking it; “We will keep improving”: Rouvy CEO on being bought by Zwift + more on the live blog
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"The 'cycle lane' people keep talking about": Cyclist fed up with 'use the bike lane' comments counts how many parked vehicles are blocking it
If you’ve just cycled into work, ready for another day of live blog scrolling (sorry, I mean very important employee activity, of course), this may well be an all too familiar scene from your commute too…
In fact, Stoyan got so fed up with the ‘use the cycle lane’ shouts that he decided to run a little in-the-field data collection to answer the question: just how many parked vehicles will be blocking the cycling route today?
Well, we counted six in this short clip from a short stretch of London cycle lane, one driver even managing to create an obstruction on the segregated part of the route at the end of the video.
“On my way home… this is the ‘cycle lane’ people keep talking about,” Stoyan explained, before joking in the video, “‘Use the cycle lane’, they said. Not avoiding it — just can’t use what’s constantly blocked.”
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Tadej Pogačar is winning sprints now... world champion takes his second victory of Tour de Romandie
Reduced bunch sprints, but sprints nonetheless. Dorian Godon in second has, of course, already won fast finishes at Paris-Nice and Volta a Catalunya this year, but even the French powerhouse was no match for the all-conquering world champion in today’s kick to the line. From the flags, it suggests Pogačar did well to target the right-hand side (as he looks at it), darting up the inside well sheltered by Godon.
Looking at the rest of the week there’s a decent chance Pogačar leaves Switzerland with five out of six… can anyone stop him?
"A practical step towards making cycling a more attractive option for commuters and visitors":
On the theme of today's live blog...
Over in Worcester, the council reckons it has come up with “a practical step” to boost the number of commuters and visitors cycling into the city and to the station.
The BBC’s local reporter had news of a series of secure lockers that are now operational around Worcester Foregate Street railway station.
There’s an app, so no need to think about locks or keys, councillor Hannah Cooper saying they will make things more practical and attractive for people wanting to cycle into the city.
The good news is there are different sized lockers for standard bikes and cargo bikes, both at the same price. Said price did raise some eyebrows over here, the lockers priced at 45p per hour or in bundles of £1.40 for four hours or £2.40 for eight hours.
Definitely cheaper than car parking, but still £2.40 does seem like quite a significant extra daily cost for commuters. What do you think?
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Why don’t cyclist use the cycle lane? #405.
— David Gregory-Kumar (@drdavidgk.bsky.social) 28 April 2026 at 08:59
"Been a tough start to the season and hard not to feel like I’ve let a lot of people down": Oscar Only out of Romandie with stomach bug
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Oscar Only was a DNF on yesterday’s opening road stage of the Tour de Romandie, the Scottish climber suffering with some illness. Onley was upfront about the disappointment of the situation and even went as far as suggesting he feels he has let his new team down in the opening months of the season (something I doubt anyone at Ineos would, even privately, agree with).
“Gutted to leave after some kind of stomach bug the last few days,” he wrote on Instagram. “Been a tough start to the season to be honest and hard not to feel like I’ve let a lot of people down after all the time and investment from everyone at Ineos Grenadiers. Looking ahead to the next goals and get back amongst it soon.”
In fairness, Oscar, white shorts and the fuelling required for mountain stages is no combination to press on with if you’ve got a stomach bug.
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"Rouvy and Zwift will continue to operate as separate platforms... we will continue improving Rouvy with the same focus on quality, realism, and listening to our community": CEO addresses Zwift's purchase of Rouvy
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Yesterday Zwift announced the ‘strategic acquisition’ of rival indoor training subscription service Rouvy, the brands insisting both businesses would still be run independently. Rouvy CEO Petr Samek has now commented on the news, saying his team “will continue improving Rouvy with the same focus on quality, realism, and listening to our community”.
“Our journey to create the most realistic indoor cycling experience has led us to join forces with Zwift, which has strategically acquired Rouvy,” he said. “This step is a huge recognition of everything we have built together with you, our riders.
“Rouvy stays Rouvy. Real routes are, and will continue to be, our heart, and our mission remains the same: to help you achieve your cycling goals. We will continue to build the product we believe in and love. Now, supported by Zwift and the Zwift hardware ecosystem, we have an opportunity to create even more experiences in the world of indoor cycling reality!
“For you, our users, nothing changes in your daily experience: you can keep riding exactly as you are used to, and your current subscription and its price remain the same. The entire Rouvy team, including myself, is staying on board, and we will continue to listen closely to your needs. Rouvy and Zwift will continue to operate as separate platforms, with independent roadmaps and subscription models. The same faces, the same great people, the same passion behind Rouvy.
“We have always believed in a bigger vision for Rouvy: one connected cycling experience that brings more value to riders indoors and outdoors, all year round. Now, we are even closer to realizing it than ever before.
“We will continue improving Rouvy with the same focus on quality, realism, and listening to our community. Thank you for your continued support, and I look forward to every ride we share in the saddle. Doesn’t matter whether it’s outdoor or indoor.”
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Made worse by the fact the road has recently been closed for services works for a few weeks, and that was brilliant while it lasted.
Whilst all the changes made are broadly good, there are a host of businesses that can and will suffer for them if they are unlucky enough to hire bad people or simply have bad luck. Small businesses are already really hard pushed to turn a profit with all the pressures of NI, wages, rent, energy costs etc so at some point we do need to find a way to support small businesses and encourage their growth rather than encouraging their demise at every opportunity by treating them in exactly the same way as big, wealthy businesses. A country is built on the businesses people start. When all people see is risk with little chance of reward, why would they even try. Its already an issue for plenty of people who start up a one man band and grow to the size where they could and should start thinking of turning things into a proper company with employees. Do you take this risk or do you just in a comfortable place and take more holiday to avoid the pitfalls of VAT and all the issues with hiring people etc?
First casualty already: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd95ezw4003o [Particularly bitter about this one as it's a regular running route for me.]
Difficult to know as (a) most teams don't publish accounts, (b) even if they did, riders may be treated as contractors and buried in with other things, and (c) what gets counted is complicated (there are sponsors paying riders directly, sponsorship in kind, release payments to other teams, etc. etc.). Seems to be about 70-80% (and growing) of costs related to paying riders in some way, though. Don't know what the picture looks like in those other sports for comparison, though. Most of them do tend to have stadium costs to factor in, which may be not inconsiderable (though also a source of income, especially if they own them and can host other events there).
@mdavidford Curious if the distinction between a budget cap and a salary cap is more important for cycling than other sports. Maybe I don't follow other sports closely enough to know what's going on behind the scenes, but it feels like for the sports with a salary cap (NBA, NFL, NHL etc.) it's all about the players, whilst for cycling the rider is of course very important, but a lot of money goes on other things - most obviously the equipment, but also things like support staff (chefs/mechanics etc.), training camps, wind tunnel testing etc. I note F1 has done the opposite and has a cost cap that specifically excludes driver's salaries (i.e. aiming to level the playing field mechanically speaking, but teams can still chuck money at getting the best drivers).
@mdavidford Pffft? Is that the noise you make when expelling hot air?
@mdavidford I can see how it confused you when I pointed to the reviewer at the bottom. but hey if you cant read an entire comment before getting all keyboard warrior blah, kind of like you usually do that not my fault. I should have guessed the first person to reply to a comment would be you, you cant help yourself.
@chrisonabike It never ceases to amaze me how drivers consider public land to be their private parking spaces.
Erm - it has - as per the item above: (Technically, a 'budget cap' and a 'team salary cap' aren't quite the same thing, but given how much of the costs are paying riders, it would have a similar effect.)
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*Onley
No – you’ve misunderstood – he’s Only out of the Tour de Romandie.
Because of the great Bob Marley’s pronunciation, every time I listen to Could You Be Loved now I think of Oscar, “Onley…Onley…Onley the fittest of the fittest shall survive…”
The video clip isn’t working.
Assuming you mean the TdR clip, it’s working for me (albeit with road.cc’s typical shonky embedding meaning you can only see either the top or bottom half unless you pop it out to picture-in-picture).
Another hot day, another vehicle unable to resist a quick dip after work:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm2pyxpwmdro
No charges to be brought, as the driver was found to be in Seine.
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Poor chap, he certainly wasn’t au quai.
A passing British bus instructor was heard exclaim “C’est magnifique, mais ce n’est pas la gare routière!”
(Pinched from the joke about Keble College. )