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Rafa Nadal off shopping (via Instagram).JPGLive blog: Rafa Nadal jumps on bike to go shopping in Wimbledon, Greg Van Avermaet riding yellow BMC Teammachine + more
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Simon joined road.cc as news editor in 2009 and is now the site’s community editor, acting as a link between the team producing the content and our readers. A law and languages graduate, published translator and former retail analyst, he has reported on issues as diverse as cycling-related court cases, anti-doping investigations, the latest developments in the bike industry and the sport’s biggest races. Now back in London full-time after 15 years living in Oxford and Cambridge, he loves cycling along the Thames but misses having his former riding buddy, Elodie the miniature schnauzer, in the basket in front of him.
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Ref: Rapha Slides.;
What do you call a French Pro Cyclist wearing sandals?
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Julian Alaphilippe Floppe
"Shimano show off Greg Van Avermaet's yellow BMC Teammachine he'll use to start TDF stage 3"
It's amazing that BMC knew he'd be in the lead before they started the time trial. And they even had the confidence to give him a road bike to ride it!
Often "special edition" frames are painted, delivered overnight, and then built first thing in the morning in Grand Tours.
That may be the case, but my point was that he didn't use that bike for stage 3 (the team time trial stage) as the artical headline suggests.
If Boris gets run over we should give the EU credit for it.
What a self serving prick.
de Pfeffel Johnson has always been a self-serving tosser. (I never refer to him as 'Boris' because hes no friend of mine)
He only started to do somehting about cycling provisions in London when there was a cluster of 6 cyclist deaths in a 2 week window and he knew that would be his legacy. Prior to that he had argued against it for nearly 6 years, even going as far to suggest prosecuting cyclists wearing headphones not long prior to the death cluster.
The much missed Twitter account @BorisWatch put it most succinctly in 2015:
Slides? They look like sandals to me. These are slides (I think these are by United Colors of Benneton)...
slides.jpg
Borris is an idiot and will say whatever suits his own agenda at the time. Let's stop taking him seriously.
Parallels with Jeremy Clarkson...?
I'm sure that if Boris had a superior safety system to the EU offering, the EU would have looked at it and incorporated it if it were indeed superior. They are kind of good like that.
The EU has all the strengths and weaknesses of a collection of 28 members with sometimes complementary and sometimes competing interests. Lots of extensive discussion, horse-trading and compromise.
On a related safety issue - longer cabs with better visibility - France and Sweden opposed the proposals on behalf of their truck manufacturers. But the case for change was a good one, supported by most, so a compromise was reached (IIRC) which meant the change would happen, but a few years later.
Of course, once outside the EU, Johnny Foreigner will just do whatever we tell him
BJ has built a whole career out of transparent bullshit. It's a deep criticism of this country that that absolute wanker has had the power and authority he is apparently granted.
Well actually, the real blame lies in the massive lobbying of our government by the haulage industry who are against anything that puts their costs up in the name of safety... they fought like heck with side bars for lorries, eventually selling them to companies outside London when the deadline came in. Same with mirrors... and no doubt high vision cabs and camera systems.