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Live blog: Invisibility training for cyclists video; drivers ignore road closure and diversion and drive in cycle lane; Ofo pulls out of London; Edvald Boasson-Hagen's monster six hour Zwift ride + more
SUMMARY
Invisibility training for (motor)cyclists (via YouTube)11 January 2019, 16:22
Video: Invisibility training for cyclists
For motorcyclists actually – but the principles apply in exactly the same way for cyclists.
11 January 2019, 12:40
Two abreast is best, agree lions
Just your average traffic jam in South Africa pic.twitter.com/ieCe2rev1v
— CBS News (@CBSNews) January 10, 2019
Bloody lions should be in single file... think they own the road!
11 January 2019, 12:18
Ride with Team CCC on Zwift
Team CCC are having a pre-Tour Down Under warmup on Zwift and you're cordially invited to rant around with them. You'll have to be up with the lark though, it's at 0530 on Saturday morning. We don't reckon we'll be of a mood to hit the turbo then...
Ready to train with @CCCProTeam? Join us on @GoZwift on Saturday 12th at 16:00 ACDT (06:30 CET) for our pre-#TDU training ride.
You can access the @CCCProTeam kit and @Giant_Bicycles TCR Advanced SL race bike during the event https://t.co/rlpTh32qex
See you on the road! pic.twitter.com/5DNzLYbiJm
— CCC Team (@CCCProTeam) January 11, 2019
11 January 2019, 12:10
400 bike bottles stolen from Velobici factory and put on eBay
Vélobici has urged cyclists to be wary of purchasing its branded biodegradable bidons from unofficial sources after thieves broke into a shipping container and stole ten boxes of them.
Approximately 400 bottles were stolen with a combined retail value of around £6,000, plus assorted machinery and tools.
The thieves used an angle grinder to cut through a lock securing the container, located outside the brand’s Leicester factory, overnight between Sunday January 6 and Monday January 7.
Shortly after the raid, the bottles were listed on eBay at £5 for the 500ml version and £7.50 for the 750ml version – a fraction of the RRP of the products.
The bottles are the new biodegradable model. Some feature Vélobici’s Modernist logo with a striking mod target and the larger bottle is clear, with the VB branding surrounded by a green leaf motif. All bottles feature a drip-proof Tacx spout.
“It could obviously have been a lot worse,” said Chris Puttnam, Vélobici founder and managing director. “But it’s still infuriating to know that someone is so brazenly selling them on eBay after they were stolen.”
Police have been informed of the theft.
11 January 2019, 12:03
Farmer denies failing to stop tractor after incident at Tour of Pembrokeshire
Cyclists met farm vehicle on narrow country road.
11 January 2019, 10:07
About that six hour Zwift ride...
It looks like Edvald Boasson-Hagen's monster Zwift ride was made all the more mentally tortuous by completing it on a Tacx Magnum cycling treadmill - if you've ever had a go on one they're not the easiest to find your balance on, let alone five hours in.
11 January 2019, 09:34
Drivers ignore road closure and diversion to drive in cycle lane
Motorists staying classy this morning on Priory Lane, Roehampton. Screw the Road Closed and Diversion, let's just drive along the pavement and the cycle lane. #entitled #illegal @MetCycleCops @MPSWandsworth @wandbc @RichmondCycling @RichmondPkCycle @LBRUT pic.twitter.com/dr2HM6FFnz
— ClashCity Womble (@clashcitywomble) January 10, 2019
Perhaps even more surprising is my wife saw cars still doing this at 9:15am in broad daylight, sadly she doesn't have a video camera on her bike. See what's happening tonight....
— ClashCity Womble (@clashcitywomble) January 10, 2019
Perhaps even more surprising is my wife saw cars still doing this at 9:15am in broad daylight, sadly she doesn't have a video camera on her bike. See what's happening tonight....
— ClashCity Womble (@clashcitywomble) January 10, 2019
11 January 2019, 09:04
Edvald Boasson Hagen does six-hour ride on Zwift
We always say that Zwift’s a great way to make indoor training more fun, but… six hours?
Cyclist reports that the Dimension Data rider did a 212km indoor rider.
11 January 2019, 09:04
Ofo pulls out of London
Dockless bike-share firm Ofo is currently suffering “cash flow problems” with millions of people currently waiting to get their deposits back.
The Guardian reports that the firm’s now pulling out of London. It’s dissolved its international division, which includes the UK operation, and offered its 50 remaining employees the option to leave by Thursday or take a 50 per cent pay cut and transfer to the Chinese business.
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Latest Comments
- ktache 2 hours 37 min ago
The small frame, the aggressive posture, lots of standover height.
- mctrials23 3 hours 32 min ago
As i've said before, the police should be sued for a lot of money when someone they have knowingly ignored has gone on to commit a serious crime....
- David9694 3 hours 40 min ago
'Bad parking' blocks firefighters multiple times on same emergency call-out...
- David9694 3 hours 44 min ago
Cambridgeshire boy, 13, crashes Audi into garden wall after taking it from home...
- Adam Sutton 4 hours 30 min ago
Good stuff. Now do it on cycleway C9 through Hammersmith to Chiswick.
- mark1a 4 hours 39 min ago
It's technically allowed but it's not known as "London's Orbital Car Park" for nothing.
- Dogless 5 hours 47 min ago
You're defending bombing hospitals and refugee camps and starving children.
- mattw 8 hours 27 min ago
Used car salesman is a complete attention-seeking plank....
- tubasti 8 hours 44 min ago
I don't know if they're any better, but they's certainly become more boring.
- FionaJJ 9 hours 10 min ago
At risk of being cynical, and stereotyping the police, it's so they don't have to leave the comfort of their panda cars and pursue on foot when...
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Jeez, I though someone had died, but Edvald just did a bit of turbo, must have been the flowers.
EBH's turbo trainer is really cool! Wish I had room for such a thing.
Re driving on the pavement. Entitled does not even scrape the surface.
there was road closure on Farringdon a few weeks ago, due to a burst water main I think, and I saw several drivers ignore it and drive along the segregated cycle lan, at some speed too.