Arriving at road.cc in 2017 via 220 Triathlon Magazine, Jack dipped his toe in most jobs on the site and over at eBikeTips before being named the new editor of road.cc in 2020, much to his surprise. His cycling life began during his students days, when he cobbled together a few hundred quid off the back of a hard winter selling hats (long story) and bought his first road bike - a Trek 1.1 that was quickly relegated to winter steed, before it was sadly pinched a few years later. Creatively replacing it with a Trek 1.2, Jack mostly rides this bike around local cycle paths nowadays, but when he wants to get the racer out and be competitive his preferred events are time trials, sportives, triathlons and pogo sticking - the latter being another long story.
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The focus on links between things like bacon and cancer are slightly misleading. One of the main threats that eating too much of this kind of food is the saturated fat and its links to higher cholesterol, which can lead to the furring of the arteries, etc. Being fit and thin is not the optimum way to measure overall health. A lot of meat eaters jumped on the revised cancer message though, I get the impression a lot of people get fed up with the constant (and often conflicting) messages of what to eat.
Butty Man; I wondered how old he was, he looked relatively slim, like an older cyclist should, but the wrinkles around the eyes suggested he was quite old, was he in his sixties? I click on the Daily Star link and literally guffawed, he is 47! Put the butty down mate you are dying in front of us.
Fcuk off!!! No way. Did the Daily Star get his DoB from his Tinder profile?
Sh1t I’m wearing well for 50+ if he’s the norm for 47.....
PP
With all those wrinkles, he looks like a smoker.
Floating bridge looks amazing, or the White City Velodrome as it will be called.
So what would you prefer - smash him in the face with a hammer!
Ref the punch up.. LOL cyclists are pathetic fighters. That one was really not worth the 'telling off' he's bound to get.. he literally just tapped him on his helmet and shouted at him.... Car drivers are never going to be scared of us if that's the image we're putting out there.
I don't understand that 'idiot in the road' video. He doesn't seem to be crossing the road, more a case of running line with the riders? Was there a start to it where he tried to get across and then decided he couldn't (&/or get off the road) so he tried to run away from them??
They were in the finishing area immediately after the finish line so possibly a team or race helper. There were not many people hanging around so I think they were connected to the race in some capacity.
Horrible collision with a spectator but not unexpected. My experience of watching bike racing is there are a lot of people who are happy to stay by the side of the road, and suddenly decide they want to cross as soon as the race gets near.
Punctured lungs hurt, and indeed it is very painful to breathe, luckily mine cleared up by itself and I didn't need a chest tube. Bloody innatentive drivers. Or idot runners in this case.
I think runners ought to have registration and insurance, and maybe have to wear a helmet just for good measure