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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One less psychopathic BMW driver on the road.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-51065720
A proper ban when he finally gets out too. Shame it couldn't be lifetime
Odd that the BBC news website said that [the victim] "was hit by the car and thrown into the air."
Not that the perpetrator deliberately drove his car at the victim, as the judge said (which the BBC website doesn't mention) "You drove at him, in effect using your car as a weapon, causing him to suffer the injuries that led to his death, all in the sight of his family."
South Today managed to include the weapon thing and show cctv evidence of the car starting the fateful acceleration towards the victim.
Admitted manslaugher too, tried for murder, not causing death by dangerous.
A shame also that he was still on the road to do this after 13 [courtroom vidiprinter: THIRTEEN] previous offences.
Sorry - my mistake - 13 convictions - 28 [TWENTY-EIGHT] offences.
Could be good for Nottingham.
https://westbridgfordwire.com/almost-1-million-to-be-spent-on-part-of-no...
"It's true that 'road cyclist' is largely a more accurate description, unless you're a mountain biker who genuinely rides up and down mountains. As a regular Bristol and Bath railway path commuter, I am now a proud path biker..."
The French have a more apt description, VTT: Velo a tout terrain (All terrain bike).
A stroke in MTB (mountain/trail bike) would also do, I reckon, unless you are being particular about what a trail is.
A stroke in MTB (mountain/trail bike) would also do, I reckon, unless you are being particular about what a trail is.
I think it's a lovely shade of a very striking orange. Any slight reduction in the chances of being hit by incompetent motorists to their significant investments would seem worthwhile.
Marginal gains...
That Ineos kit, did they just copy and paste from CCC?
Maybe, but it's just training ride kit, Trek Segafredo do similarly with their dayglo yellow training version of their normal road kit.Ineos announced last year their main team coloured kit wasnt changing for 2020 except for the addition of the new uci world tour logo
There's nothing wrong with being momentarily confused by a road layout - it's the driver's response to it that matters. Slow down, pay more attention to one's surroundings? Fine. Sail on through that confusing junction at 40mph without a thought for other road users? Not fine.
There's just as much, if not more, badly designed motor vehicle infrastructure as bike lanes.
I'd never consider my driving to be that perfect enough never to have found myself confused by a road layout,try driving on the new A14 section that opened before Christmas for instance,and some of the roundabouts here about rely on familiarity to use properly,rather than road common sense, and some just seem to be badly designed to begin with
https://www.eveningnews24.co.uk/motoring/norwich-northern-distributor-ro...
That aside theres no excuse for hitting anything that you should be able to see, even if you are confused by the layout
Perhaps these drivers that find roundabouts a bit too complicated might want to avoid them. Perhaps, and maybe going a bit too far, get on a bike, I've never found a roundabout "too complicated, and of course better vision, no need for a blind spot warning on my arse, or find a different route that avoids them.
You can get poor infrastructure that does lead to increased risk and needs to be redesigned. Can't say I have ever found a roundabout too complicated. Even if you have roundabouts around a roundabout, you just treat each one as you come to it and ignore the rest.
Perhaps the driver was one of these people who can't lose face by going around a roundabout more than once due to missing the turn or being in the wrong lane and instead have to force their way into the lane they want.
I know the roundabout in question (https://www.google.fr/maps/@55.0229519,-7.3388255,229m/data=!3m1!1e3?hl=en) and it's an odd one TBH. It's not the number of exits, which isn't excessive at 5, It's more the shape/orientation - sort of elongated/egg shaped as can be seen in the satellite view in the link above. It's a busy roundabout, and when coming on to it from the main approaches (Buncrana Rd either direction in the link above) it seems to have a fairly gradual bend which gets then gets suddenly and appreciably sharper at the apexes to the east and west and can come as a surprise to the unwary. I've no idea why it's not just round - it's not like it the don't have the space (could even do so in the current space it occupies)
I've never had the pleasure of going round it on the bike, but it doesn't strike me as a pleasant piece of infrastructure to negotiate at busy times
Unfortunate...
To be fair, I have seen worse cycle parking infrastructure.
Here's that missing part of the Belgian CX Championship course...
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I like how they've got someboy in the water waving their arms about just after the corner. Presumably their bike is now on the bottom of the canal?
So there's some bike riding. And some running. And now they've got to go swimming.
Kick your socks off and Sharpie some numbers on your arms, we've got a triathlon, people!
...and not a helmet in sight. The 'real' cyclists were all kitted out in vintage style, to be fair, as if they were heading straight off to L'Eroica.