5 cool things from Topeak, Julbo, WTB and Compass Cycles

Generic …like virtually all new carbon road and gravel bikes. …it no longer looks like a Bianchi, nor a Specialissima. Mainstreaming in the bike industry is rife, as if everyone needs an aero race bike, despite the fact that 90% of customers don’t. …Small frame makers rejoice! Carbon is on its way out.

@mdavidford Barreling suggests he was travelling at speed whereas he had just started riding and was making a turn so his balance might not have been good enough to have slowed and adjusted his line.

Not sure what relevance what he'd just done previously has to the question.

Shurely an internal investigation *might* have taken place, which if it did, and if it came to the conclusion there had been any wrongdoing (two big ifs) "unfortunately the officer being investigated has retired and so there's no further action we can take"?

I suppose in the good old USA you're grateful if the officer doesn't shoot you, especially if you have an attitude they don't like. I assume the victim wasn't a person of colour?

Only one line in the article has information on the womens races, saying the 2027 Tour de France Femmes will have highlights broadcast. In the absence of other information I assume other women's grand tours and other years won't have highlights shown? There was no link to the announcement in the article but I'm off to find out. It would have been nice for road.cc to be clear about this though.

The cyclist also told Streetsblog NYC that he frequently files complaints about illegal parking by police officers in the area, including on cycle lanes, but says “they just close them out” Yep, that sounds like Lancashire Constabulary. They refuse to act on any close-passing report and have never, as far as FoI requests are able to establish, prosecuted any driver for close passing. They certainly didn't act on or respond in any way to this report, because LancsFilth is as bent as a Nine Pound note: ttps://upride.cc/incident/kn21axh_lancspolice_closepass/ Neither did they act on or respond in any way to this more recent report https://upride.cc/incident/px12dmy_stagecoach40_closepass/ They refuse to act against Marcus Wright and his eponymous joinery company Transit HN21 VXB now without VED for over two years and without MOT for almost 1 year, despite being seen regularly around Garstang and regularly reported by me, being listed at Companies House and even showing a photo of the offending vehicle on the business Facebook page. The police in general, OpSnap Lancs and Wyre NPT refuse to act against driver RLJs, mobile phone offences, white line offences and so on, and are a bunch of inept, useless lying tossers. Therefore, I do not agree with 60somethingetc's rose-tinted spectacles view of UK police - Lancashire would have immediately binned any report like that in the NYC case above, and the totally useless PCC would simply write: this is a matter for the police and I cannot interfere. Thank goodness the PCCs have also been binned, although I doubt anything better will appear in their place. What with Charing Cross police station and the tragic Nowak handcuffing case, the Met's Carrick and Couzens cases etc. etc. - the IOPC is going to need more officers than the combined strength of all the police forces they claim to regulate.

@60somethingcyclist Hahah, oh wow, I miss being this naive about the cops here.

@Mr Blackbird "our streets have become a freak show" - like his party.

This is disgraceful. If this had been a UK Police officer he'd be prosecuted and disciplined; quite possibly losing his job.