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Cyclist slapped with 'parking ticket' by Lime for leaving bike in car parking bay; Show your council this the next time bike lanes are snowed under; Where's Cav?; If the World Cup was pro cycling; Peculiar puncture; Best new kit + more on the live bloglime ebike green
14 December 2022, 10:41
Cyclist slapped with 'parking ticket' by Lime for leaving bike in car parking bay

It seems this one isn't a new problem...

 According to Lime, who we've contacted for further comment on this specific case, London users like Gaz should "park like your gran is watching" and should "never leave your e-bike in a way that obstructs the pavement or could create an access issue for pedestrians, including those with disabilities or access needs".

And while in Camden, City of London, Hackney, Ealing and Hammersmith and Fulham users are required to leave their bikes in designated parking bays, Gaz was in Westminster and John in Islington.

> Wandsworth says it may start impounding Lime e-bikes if pavement parking isn’t tackled

But, Lime adds, "being in other boroughs is no excuse to park irresponsibly. When you're elsewhere, make sure to still park out of the way, avoiding creating an obstruction for people using the pavement."

Thoughts?

14 December 2022, 17:22
Blasphemy
14 December 2022, 16:35
Brighton bike hangar row rumbles on as councillor says storage scheme went ahead without scrutiny
Cycle hangar in Norfolk Square, Brighton (credit - Laura King, Facebook)

Conservative councillor Robert Nemeth, who last month appeared in the local press supporting a "concerned and distressed" resident who didn't want one of the "giant ugly" bike hangars outside her house, is back in The Argus...

He told the local paper the scheme introduced by the Green Party-run council avoided "scrutiny of financial, legal and equality issues and numerous other related matters".

> Hove woman persuades council not to locate "unattractive" cycle hangar outside her home

Cllr Nemeth argued there was "public frustration" and "unfavourable national press coverage" of the scheme since it started earlier this year. The comments come not long after Green councillor Steve Davis revealed the city's bike hangars had enjoyed a 100 per cent take-up rate since installation in July.

Brighton cycle hangar (credit - Brighton Active Travel)

"Since then we have installed 40 more, and all but one of the total of 360 spaces have now been snapped up. This means that 359 residents now have somewhere safe and secure to store their cycles," he said.

14 December 2022, 16:20
Tadej Pogačar: Phenomenal Remco Evenepoel can win the Tour de France

Okay, maybe we didn't need a Tour de France winner to tell us Remco Evenepoel is a very talented cyclist, it's kind of a given... 

Remco Evenepoel wins 2022 World Championships in Wollongong (@cauldphoto/Specialized)

[📷 : @cauldphoto/Specialized]

But Tadej Pogačar has spoken glowingly about his fellow all-conquering Gen Z superstar, saying he's both "phenomenal" and capable of winning the Tour de France in the future...

Speaking to Eurosport, Pogačar said: "This year he had a phenomenal year but next year he can be even better. He's going in the right direction, for sure. He won the Vuelta, so the Tour is just a little different.

"But I think if you can win one Grand Tour and be world champion at the same time, you can win the Tour as well."

Also on the Gen Z talent list is teammate Juan Ayuso who scored an impressive third on GC on debut at the Vuelta won by Remco... "If I am shit at the Tour, then he [Ayuso] can go," Pog philosophically added. "For me, it's no problem. We understand each other and you can only be good for so many years; you cannot be at the top all of the time."

"For sure, if he gets better we will exchange some races and some roles, but we are all here in the UAE team to take the team as a group together to a higher level, so we try to win as much as possible and it doesn't matter who."

Maybe I'll go tell Ryan that if I'm shit at the blog he can take over...

14 December 2022, 15:58
The world's craziest Strava segment

I mean, there is a Strava segment, right?

I'm now picturing KOM hunters from around the world rocking up with skinsuit, aero helmet and asking if they can fit their own aero bars... although at those speeds you might be better off walking the tightrope...

14 December 2022, 15:57
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Ned's had enough
14 December 2022, 13:24
14 December 2022, 12:33
If the World Cup was pro cycling

Semi-final time and last night, seven years after the fact, Eduardo Sepúlveda finally got revenge on Kristijan Đurasek for beating him to the 2015 Presidential Tour of Turkey GC...

World Cup pro cycling (procyclingstats)

You can't say I'm not putting the Procyclingstats hours in to this live blog series...

'Good luck finiding Morocco vs France' I hear you say. Well, I'll raise you the final stage of this year's Tour du Cameroun, won by pure Moroccan domination...

World Cup pro cycling (procyclingstats)

I'm sure there's nobody in Casablanca, Rabat or Marrakesh who wouldn't take 4-1 tonight...

14 December 2022, 12:23
Where's Cav?

As we reported yesterday, along with the rest of the cycling world, US-based UCI Pro Team Human Powered Health are rumoured to be interested in Mark Cavendish's signature. Like an end-of-PM Cabinet exodus, just about every WorldTour team (including most recently Trek-Segafredo) has come forward to either state their roster is full for 2023 or distance themselves from signing the Manx Missile. 

By our count Ineos Grenadiers, Astana, AG2R-Citroën, FDJ, Bahrain - Victorious seem the only WorldTour options left.

Fiver for the first person who spots a British national champ's jersey in team training camp footage...

14 December 2022, 12:15
Peculiar punctures
14 December 2022, 11:11
The BEST new cycling gear of the month | road.cc recommends episode 21

14 December 2022, 09:10
Check out Tom Pidcock's Pinarello Crossista F cyclocross bike
2022 Pinarello Crossista Tom Pidcock Dublin World Cup - 1.jpeg

After Ryan spent the weekend on the ground at the new Dublin round of the cyclocross World Cup I'm making the case for a team trip to... the Benidorm round in January. 

And while he enjoyed Saturday night watching England's crushing quarter final exit alongside a certain Tom P, come Sunday morning he got even more behind the scenes access — taking a look at his rather fancy bike.

Now you can too...

> Check out Tom Pidcock's Pinarello Crossista F cyclocross bike

14 December 2022, 09:09
14 December 2022, 08:59
Show your council this the next time the bike lanes are snowed under

Look at this hero go...

 These are nothing new in some parts of London, but does anyone outside the capital get the same glorious gritting?

Cycle Superhighway gritter (via TfL on Twitter).jpg

 

Dan Alexander

Dan joined road.cc in 2020, and spent most of his first year (hopefully) keeping you entertained on the live blog. At the start of 2022 he took on the role of news editor. Before joining road.cc, Dan wrote about various sports, including football and boxing for the Daily Express, and covered the weird and wonderful world of non-league football for The Non-League Paper. Part of the generation inspired by the 2012 Olympics, Dan has been 'enjoying' life on two wheels ever since and spends his weekends making bonk-induced trips to the petrol stations of the south of England.

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BIRMINGHAMisaDUMP | 1 year ago
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regarding the cycle hangars in Brighton: 'a "concerned and distressed" resident' contacted their MP. It's just ridiculous. You look at any urban environment; there are hundreds of privately owned parked cars, there are bins and lots of them big and small, there are dual carriageways and shops selling junk food every 5 metres, there is litter and vermin, smog and noise. There is plenty to be concerned about and plenty to be distressed about . . . but a cycle hangar? 

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RoubaixCube | 1 year ago
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I mean if youre in Islington or Camden. The usual place to park hire bikes is the local canal. (Regents Canal)

No wonder you got fined. Cant speak for Westminister but they have the River Thames.

Better luck next time.

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Steve K replied to RoubaixCube | 1 year ago
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Very tenuous link, but at lunchtime today I saw someone slide out on the ice riding a Lime Bike having just crossed a bridge over the Regent's Canal. She was unhurt, thankfully.

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RoubaixCube replied to Steve K | 1 year ago
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Glad she was ok.

As much as the cold doesnt bother me, I wouldnt even consider going out on the bike with so much black ice about on the roads nevermind the cleaning after said ride if i manage to come home without any broken bones or scrapes.

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NickSprink | 1 year ago
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Westminster council currently does not allow any dockless rental e-bikes in its borough, and has begun seizing them, which may be why Lime charged the parking fine, and not for bad parking

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Backladder replied to NickSprink | 1 year ago
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Unbelievable! On what grounds and under what authority are they restricting our freedom of movement? If I lived in the area I would be doing my best to fill the place with dockless rental e-bikes.

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Steve K | 1 year ago
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The problem in London with cycle lane snow clearers has been the bridges.  The gritters can't get past the anti terrorist barriers at each end of Vauxhall and Blackfriars (and presumably other?) bridges.  I saw a Pedal Me rider clearing the snow from Blackfriars Bridge on Monday.

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Rendel Harris replied to Steve K | 1 year ago
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I saw that on Twitter, fair play to them! Perhaps it's time to reconsider the spacing of the anti-terrorist barriers (personally I don't see the point of them anyway, given the number of unprotected crowded areas there are in London, but I suppose nobody would dare risk removing them now), the cycle lane gritters I've seen don't look much more than half a car width so it ought to be possible to accommodate them without allowing cars through.

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Steve K replied to Rendel Harris | 1 year ago
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Yeah, it was me who tweeted it 1

It's still slippy out there - https://twitter.com/NoContextBrits/status/1602963989243506688

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SimoninSpalding replied to Rendel Harris | 1 year ago
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The point is that pedestrians on bridges have no means of escape, and this has been used at least twice by terrorists to murder people in London. If they weren't there or got removed and there was a third incident there would quite rightly be hell to pay for those that made the decision. In streets and squares you have options, doorways etc. to get out of the way.

The problem therefore is not the barriers, it's the fact that nobody has bothered to come up with a plan for gritting areas protected by them. And as a rural resident where getting any of my regular cycling routes gritted is a distant and unrealsitic dream I would say be grateful for what you have got.

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IanMSpencer replied to SimoninSpalding | 1 year ago
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Surely the opportunity for a cargo e-bike based gritter?

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Steve K replied to IanMSpencer | 1 year ago
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IanMSpencer wrote:

Surely the opportunity for a cargo e-bike based gritter?

Well, it was an cargo e-bike based man with a broom.

Blackfriars Bridge has now been gritted - I know not how - so it is clearly do-able.  I suspect the issue was more the plough element than the gritting element.

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chrisonabike replied to Steve K | 1 year ago
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Now disappeared from the 'net but Dave McCraw (mentioned recently) used to have an article on his blog detailing him making and using a bike-fitted snowplow... Couple of bits of wood on a towed frame as I recall.  Could certainly see this being doable with an eBike.

Again "just copy the Dutch already"!  Or alternatively it's just "decide to make cycle / pedestrian areas part of the priority "routes" cleared.  There *will* exist small vehicles which could cover this.  I've seen mini-diggers used in Edinburgh IIRC.  And once we're going - use brine not salt, it clears things better and I believe requires less salt!

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Rendel Harris replied to SimoninSpalding | 1 year ago
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Calm down chap, I simply said there might be a way of adapting the barriers so that the cycle lane gritters could get through. I don't think that really warrants such an aggressive response. I am grateful for what we've got but as routes like Blackfriars Bridge are used by many thousands of cyclists a day I don't think it's unreasonable to suggest it might be a good idea to find a way to grit them. 

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ktache replied to Rendel Harris | 1 year ago
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I have seen some walk along gritters when perusing work supply catalogues.

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