Soon to be a thing of the past? Unrepentant Taxi driver squeezes past ‘wobbly’ cyclist on soon-to-be-pedestrianised Oxford Street; Indian summer Lime Bike mayhem; “Strava AI stole my KOMs” + more on the live blog

I have a few Brevet items and like them a lot. I miss the chest pocket, which was the original reason for the name as it was somewhere to put your brevet card. I tend to use it for my charging cable to stop it getting tangled up with other things.

@matthewn5 I don't see this as a problem. USB-C takes up more space and is not waterproof by design. It's the same reason why most watches have non USB-C charging pins. The most important bit is the other end, that plugs into the power source itself.

I declare myself officially brainwashed. My first thought about the 1,199 quid price tag was "Huh, not that bad".

@arowland Which again makes sense, given that such limits are for where vehicles are 'guests' in pedestrian spaces, and you're not going to be able to go much faster than a cyclist anyway, so attempting passes would be both pointless and inadvisable.

Brilliant, another new charger plug style. They really didn't get the USB-C memo did they? FFS, every iteration of Di2 has a new plug style.

These new (Spanish) rules sound good... providing all road users learn them and choose to abide by them.

@goodolfin And if *I* understood the article correctly, if the speed limit is 20km/h, cars can only overtake when stationary...

@MarsFlyer I like it without the band, as it’s more discrete (and the band design was getting on). But it’s personal preference. However, I dislike the price. £195 is exorbitant in my opinion.

@Zjtm231 I completely agree. So many streets around me have cars perpetually parked on one or both sides, effectively losing a lane of highway each way, and nobody even seems to be aware of the impact, but someone leaves a lime bike lying on its side and everyone loses their minds. I think the other point to make is that badly parked lime bikes are almost always left by thieves who take them without paying for them, or by hacking them. Anyone who actually uses lime bikes will know that they simply don't let you end the ride, unless and until you send them a photo of it parked neatly in a location where parking is permitted. So further outlawing/restricting hire bikes won't have any effect, because people who break the law don't take account of said further laws/restrictions.

@Zjtm231 I completely agree. So many streets around me have cars perpetually parked on one or both sides, effectively losing a lane of highway each way, and nobody even seems to be aware of the impact, but someone leaves a lime bike lying on its side and everyone loses their minds. I think the other point to make is that badly parked lime bikes are almost always left by thieves who take them without paying for them, or by hacking them. Anyone who actually uses lime bikes will know that they simply don't let you end the ride, unless and until you send them a photo of it parked neatly in a location where parking is permitted. So further outlawing/restricting hire bikes won't have any effect, because people who break the law don't take account of said further laws/restrictions.