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Dame Sarah Storey teaches safe passing; Cyclist's viral reply to Elon Musk claiming traffic cannot be defeated; Perfect pro racing photos; Two wheels good: Snake Pass still cyclists' paradise; Group riding (+Poll); Weekend action + more on the live blog

Happy Monday! Dan Alexander is rampaging into the new week like Tadej Pogačar at pretty much any bike race ever
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Dame Sarah Storey teaches safe passing; Cyclist's viral reply to Elon Musk claiming traffic cannot be defeated; Perfect pro racing photos; Two wheels good: Snake Pass still cyclists' paradise; Group riding (+Poll); Weekend action + more on the live blogDame Sarah Storey safe pass (screenshot Twitter video)
07 March 2022, 17:25
07 March 2022, 16:55
Top Ganna powers to Tirreno time trial

Filippo Ganna took the opening stage of Tirreno-Adriatico as expected, putting out some quite frightening numbers in the process. Remco Evenepoel did the best of the GC hopefuls, perhaps taking advantage of Tadej Pogačar only getting one day rest post-Strade Bianche to build a seven second advantage on the Slovenian.

Brit Alex Dowsett was fifth...

07 March 2022, 15:59
Fabio Jakobsen wins crosswind-battered stage of Paris-Nice

Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl winning in crosswinds? Surely not...

There are few things more certain in life. Today's beneficiary was Fabio Jakobsen, beating Wout van Aert in the reduced bunch sprint after the wind had split the race to pieces on the road to Orléans.

Yesterday's winner Christophe Laporte was third but holds onto yellow for another stage, five seconds ahead of teammate Van Aert and 11 clear of teammate Primož Roglič.

Max Schachmann's bid for a third straight Paris-Nice crown looks over however, the German lost one and a half minutes in the echelons. João Almeida, Wout Poels, Gino Mäder and David Gaudu also saw their hopes disappear on stage two. 

07 March 2022, 14:48
Dame Sarah Storey tackles close passing with social media video highlighting how to drive safely around cyclists

Britain's most successful Paralympian Dame Sarah Storey has been using her platform to highlight road safety issues, sharing a video of drivers passing her during a training ride to show how it's done. 

The mirror opposite of our Near Miss of the Day series, Storey's video only includes the best, safest passes from motorists keeping at least a 1.5m gap while travelling at 30mph.

Apparently in reply to people who tell her they are concerned about not giving cyclists enough room, Storey said: "I tell them not to be & to overtake with 1.5m at <30mph & much more when travelling faster. Some people need that in a visual format & I think this video from my ride today shows it done well."

Including by a driver who's still got the L-plates on...

Back in September, Storey joined South Yorkshire Police on a close pass operation, with almost one in five drivers getting pulled over for some roadside advice.

> Dame Sarah Storey joins South Yorkshire Police on close pass operation – and almost one in five drivers get pulled over

Today's video comes as it has been announced the 17-time Paralympic gold medallist is stepping down from the role of Active Travel Comissioner for South Yorkshire, having been appointed as the region's first back in April 2019.

"It has been fantastic to lay strong foundations for the active travel network and I am looking forward to seeing the next phase being delivered soon," Storey said.

Working alongside Mayor Dan Jarvis, the pair created the Active Travel Implementation Plan for South Yorkshire, which details how over 1000km of routes, 800 safe crossings and 230 sq. km. of low traffic neighbourhoods will help to transform the region by 2040.

07 March 2022, 14:21
07 March 2022, 12:43
POLL: To group ride or not to group ride?

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See below for all our top reasons not to group ride...

07 March 2022, 12:26
11 reasons why group rides suck and it's better to get out on your own
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To group ride or not to group ride? That is the question...

We've given you 11 reasons to stick on your own...but what do you reckon? From the comments we've been getting on Facebook, Twitter and the feature, it seems plenty of you are happy to go it alone...

marmotte27 offered a 12th reason: "12) You don't pay attention to your surroundings, the landscape, the route etc. When you're in a group you chat and always have to look out for other riders, and so very often see nothing of what's around, or at any rate far less than you might have on your own."

07 March 2022, 12:56
07 March 2022, 12:20
"Cycling is for everyone! (So long as you've a half dozen men to lift you over the barrier)":
07 March 2022, 12:11
Bold and bright new jerseys from Stolen Goat - which do you rate?
2022 Stolen Goat Spring/Summer Collection

Spring is just around the corner and Stolen Goat is the latest brand to have revealed its new spring/summer collection, with a new range of vibrant designs on jerseys across its Bodyline, Climbers and Epic lines. 

From classic stripes and fresh spring colours, to graphic designs and gradient fades, Stolen Goat certainly remains the brand to go to if you want to stand out. 

Stolen Goat’s Bodyline jerseys are the brand’s all-rounder for all day comfort. The new Lebowski design is very tropical and then there's another bold look available, with paint drip effect on the bright Waffle jersey.

2022 Stolen Goat Spring/Summer Collection

The Epic jerseys are all about delivering an aerodynamic race fit for speed and now come in an ultrabright pink and green Jelly design. 

The lightweight Climbers jerseys are the most subtle with cool tone gradient fade designs with the Minty green and the Skint light blue options. 

07 March 2022, 12:06
Two wheels good: Snake Pass still cyclists' paradise

Despite the rumours last week that Snake Pass would no longer be open to cyclists as road closures due to landslides continue, it seems more than a few on two wheels got to enjoy the Peak District climb over the weekend.

> Snake Pass now “belongs to cyclists” as Peak District climb closed to motorists for at least a month

One rider said, "as far as I'm aware it's only open to bikes on the weekend"...

Just watch out for that "big slice of road missing"...

07 March 2022, 11:44
A weekend of incredible cycling photos

How good was Jumbo-Visma's three-up TTT at Paris-Nice yesterday? There's word of potential crosswind chaos on stage two, so maybe we'll see a repeat performance later today?

Over in Tuscany the most photogenic race of the year didn't disappoint. Once again providing us with an album of iconic Strade snaps...

07 March 2022, 11:36
07 March 2022, 10:04
Weekend round up: Pogačar's procession; NMotD (with a happy ending); Serial bike thief jailed for 52 weeks; Winter nutrition; Bike at bedtime
Strade Bianche crash (screenshot, via GCN)

First it was crash drama, then Pogačar's power at Strade Bianche on Saturday. Better than the men's race was the finish to the women's edition, with Lotte Kopecky and Annemiek van Vleuten slugging it out up the final climb in Siena, before the Belgian narrowly got the win.

Elsewhere on the sit this weekend, we brought you the news of a serial Bristol bike thief jailed for 52 weeks after admitting six thefts. The sentence was handed down to Ryan Hack in same week that Avon & Somerset Police is named top force for fighting bike theft.

On the Near Miss of the Day front we're up to number 728 now...although this one at least had a happy ending.

> Near Miss of the Day 728: “A bit of a happy ending on this one with a positive outcome”

It's still a bit nippy out there. My numb fingers could attest to that fact out on the bike yesterday...and with winter not over just yet, here's our winter training nutrition guide...

And finally, our bike at bedtime last night was Trek’s Emonda ALR 5 with an advanced alloy frame that ‘looks and performs like carbon’, so if you're just off the nightshift, have a read before your head hits the pillow...

07 March 2022, 09:45
Tesla's next big announcement?

Innovative. 

07 March 2022, 08:53
Cyclist's viral response to Elon Musk claiming "even the most powerful humans in the world cannot defeat traffic"

"Defeating traffic is the ultimate boss battle. Even the most powerful humans in the world cannot defeat traffic," Elon Musk dramatically told his 76.8 million Twitter followers yesterday evening...

Traffic has been one of the Tesla CEO's obsessions for a while...prompting his ingenious brainwave of 'Teslas in Tunnels', which would (apparently) "solve the problem of soul-destroying traffic" by shoving all his electric vehicles into an underground tunnel network. More roads, presumably more cars...less traffic?

> Tesla using Full Self-Driving Beta crashes into cycle lane bollard...weeks after Elon Musk's zero collisions claim

Anyway, Lava Sunder suggested a solution to Musk's traffic tribulations. Something a fair bit cheaper than digging out thousands of miles of tunnels too...something accessible to the vast majority of people currently sat in a traffic jam, something cheap, easy to maintain, and most importantly...which doesn't cause traffic jams.

Surely no such thing exists, right?

Congratulations to Lava on the new 'one of the most powerful humans in the world' status.

Cue the memes...

So, Elon, what do you reckon? Found your solution?

Dan Alexander

Dan is the road.cc news editor and has spent the past four years writing stories and features, as well as (hopefully) keeping you entertained on the live blog. Having previously written about nearly every other sport under the sun for the Express, and the weird and wonderful world of non-league football for the Non-League Paper, Dan joined road.cc in 2020. Come the weekend you'll find him labouring up a hill, probably with a mouth full of jelly babies, or making a bonk-induced trip to a south of England petrol station... in search of more jelly babies.

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ktache | 2 years ago
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He'd used a car as a weapon to deliberately injure a cyclist previously.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/mar/07/man-found-guilty-of-afte...

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JustTryingToGet... replied to ktache | 2 years ago
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Less than a year after he used a car as weapon to seriously injure a cyclist, he used a car as a weapon to murder someone.

Maybe, someday, there will be a realisation that when someone uses as a car as a weapon, the only thing that stops a murder is luck.

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eburtthebike replied to ktache | 2 years ago
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Horrific crimes and failure to take appropriate measures to prevent repetition.  It's time that drivers had to be proved mentally suitable to gain a licence.  They kill many more people than guns but face lesser rules.

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brooksby | 2 years ago
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St. Louis Lawmakers Refuse to Ban Legislating While Driving … While Driving

https://usa.streetsblog.org/2022/03/04/st-louis-lawmakers-refuse-to-ban-...

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St. Louis’s controversial decision to vote down a resolution that would have banned legislators from voting over Zoom while driving — a measure which one lawmaker debated while actively operating a car — is sparking a heated conversation about distracted driving, and how little America does to stop it.

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brooksby | 2 years ago
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All-female cycling group recreate a 500-mile tour of the Highlands done by Scottish teens in 1936

https://metro.co.uk/2022/03/07/female-cyclists-recreate-a-500-mile-tour-...

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... back in the 1930s teenagers had to create their own adventures.

Which is exactly what 17-year-old Lanarkshire lass Mary Harvie and her two sisters did in 1936 when they embarked on a 500-mile cycling tour of the Scottish Highlands.

‘Complete with haversack and camera, we start the climb of Ben More – 3,842ft. We added another stone to the cairn… and had a lovely view all around Loch Lomond, Ireland and the Trossachs,’ reads an extract from Mary’s diary, which was recently donated to Hostelling Scotland by her son, Harvie Paterson.

To celebrate Scotland’s Year of Stories 2022, Hostelling Scotland (which turns 90 this year) called upon the Adventure Syndicate – a collective of women endurance riders who promote mental and physical wellbeing through their cycling challenges – to retrace the Harvie sisters’ original trip.

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brooksby | 2 years ago
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I hope that somebody forwarded that 'barrier' tweet on to the relevant local highways department... 

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marmotte27 | 2 years ago
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You've got to hand it to those capitalists, they're very good at what they do: exploiting human gullibility.
First the make shitloads of money selling you stuff you didn't need. Then they make shitloads of money selling you the pretended solution to the problems created by the stuff you didn't need. And when time finally comes to clean up the whole mess, they'll profit shitloads from that too. Unless we stop them now.

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Rich_cb replied to marmotte27 | 2 years ago
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There doesn't seem to be much traffic in North Korea so perhaps you're on to something...

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marmotte27 replied to Rich_cb | 2 years ago
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How very original.

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Rich_cb replied to marmotte27 | 2 years ago
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'Capitalism sucks' - sent from my iPhone.

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marmotte27 replied to Rich_cb | 2 years ago
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How very original - again.

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Rich_cb replied to marmotte27 | 2 years ago
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If you want original replies you'll really have to post original comments.

Regurgitating anodyne nonsense that has been posted a million times before, by sixth form communists the world over, and then complaining about originality seems risible at best.

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chrisonabike replied to Rich_cb | 2 years ago
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Rich_cb wrote:

If you want original replies you'll really have to post original comments. Regurgitating anodyne nonsense that has been posted a million times before, by sixth form communists the world over, and then complaining about originality seems risible at best.

I think you can get a band going with that strategy though?

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Rich_cb replied to chrisonabike | 2 years ago
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chrisonabike replied to Rich_cb | 2 years ago
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Is it too early in the day for songs from Team America?

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Rich_cb replied to chrisonabike | 2 years ago
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It's never too early for that classic!

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chrisonabike replied to Rich_cb | 2 years ago
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I love that trackball on the console, BTW.  Is it "nuclear red" or do you think they're all playing Marble Madness?

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hawkinspeter replied to chrisonabike | 2 years ago
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chrisonatrike wrote:

I love that trackball on the console, BTW.  Is it "nuclear red" or do you think they're all playing Marble Madness?

I love a good trackball. For some reason Japan seems to make the best models - I'm currently using a wireless Elecom left-handed one which works really well (despite me not being left-handed, though that's how I use it). Back in the day, I remember Centipede in the arcades had a great trackball - really satisfying to spin it to move around quickly.

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brooksby replied to hawkinspeter | 2 years ago
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Wasn't 'Defender' the classic trackball game, IIRC?  The one that Matthew Broderick plays at the beginning of Wargames?

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hawkinspeter replied to brooksby | 2 years ago
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brooksby wrote:

Wasn't 'Defender' the classic trackball game, IIRC?  The one that Matthew Broderick plays at the beginning of Wargames?

Defender had an up-down joystick and buttons for thrust and reverse (and shooting). Defender was one of my favourites - I do like a good wireframe game (Tempest was another one and that featured a spinning dial to control it).

After a quick search, it was Galaga featured in Wargames and that used a joystick.

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brooksby replied to hawkinspeter | 2 years ago
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Huh!  One of those early eighties arcade games (shooting aliens/asteroids/etc) used a trackball, I was sure.  Ah well...

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hawkinspeter replied to brooksby | 2 years ago
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brooksby wrote:

Huh!  One of those early eighties arcade games (shooting aliens/asteroids/etc) used a trackball, I was sure.  Ah well...

Maybe Missile Command?

Here's a good list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_trackball_arcade_games

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brooksby replied to hawkinspeter | 2 years ago
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hawkinspeter wrote:

brooksby wrote:

Huh!  One of those early eighties arcade games (shooting aliens/asteroids/etc) used a trackball, I was sure.  Ah well...

Maybe Missile Command?

Here's a good list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_trackball_arcade_games

That looks like the most likely suspect 1

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chrisonabike replied to hawkinspeter | 2 years ago
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I seem to remember playing Elite on the BBC Micro (or Master?) with a trackball. I could be confusing this with memories of the futuristic experience of taking a "virtual walk" on a BBC Domesday project machine (some content now here) though. Pizza-sized laserdiscs!

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hawkinspeter replied to chrisonabike | 2 years ago
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chrisonatrike wrote:

I seem to remember playing Elite on the BBC Micro (or Master?) with a trackball. I could be confusing this with memories of the futuristic experience of taking a "virtual walk" on a BBC Domesday project machine (some content now here) though. Pizza-sized laserdiscs!

Was it something like this?

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chrisonabike replied to hawkinspeter | 2 years ago
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The cable looks familiar.  I'm also pleased to see that we were more diverse in the past than people commonly think.  I've used one of these, for sure:

 

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chrisonabike replied to chrisonabike | 2 years ago
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Ah - looks like a Logitech Marble. They've got taste...

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mdavidford replied to chrisonabike | 2 years ago
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Clearly not a marble, though. It's a giant aniseed ball.

(Mmmm - giant aniseed ball...)

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hawkinspeter replied to mdavidford | 2 years ago
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mdavidford wrote:

Clearly not a marble, though. It's a giant aniseed ball.

(Mmmm - giant aniseed ball...)

Reminds me of when I pranked a co-worker with a trackball - just swap the ball out for an identical looking plum.

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chrisonabike replied to Rich_cb | 2 years ago
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Also: why is it so many North Korean propaganda photos look like they've tried to recreate scenes from the A-Team / McGuyver and have built their weapons using only the equipment they found in a garage?

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