Cycling live blog 8 March 2024
“The UCI will probably make it illegal by overnight”: Can Luke Plapp make white bib shorts work?; 130 riders abandon Spanish race after news of doping test at finish line; “I can’t catch a break”: Chris Froome fractures wrist + more on the live blog
Near Miss of the Day 894: Police take action after confused motorist drives onto bike lane and narrowly misses cyclists and pedestrians in city centre square“I’ve seen children hit by a bus and they’ve bounced up and asked for a milkshake”: Active travel campaigners blast councillor’s “reckless, flippant” road safety comments during 20mph debate
So a surprise lead in the general classification, what do you do the next day? Well of course, go full noughties, conjure the spirit of Cadel Evans, and turn up to defend your yellow jersey with white shorts!> "That's going to sting for a while": Jayco-AlUla's Luke Plapp with some of the worst road rash we've seen...
But as usual, where there’s approval, there’s also condemnation, and some weren’t holding back on expressing it: “Where is the UCI when we need them?”, wrote one person, while another added: “White shorts are a crime”. I’m not going to lie, it did make me feel a little better about myself. At least there’s one thing on the bike that I’m better at than the great Jonas Vingegaard.
The significance of bicycle on human history may seem frivolous to some, but the impact of this revolutionary, joyful, and profound tool has not only been on transport and commerce, but also emancipatory, considering the role it played in the suffragette movement in the 19th and 20th century. "Get off the road", taunts of"bitch, "slut", unsolicited photos and sexual comments, groping or slapping when stopped at traffic lights, and even accusations of poor parenting when cycling with children were also appallingly prevalent! It's bizarre how centuries have passed and we are still continuing to fail an entire gender.
I don't follow any bike racing stuff and I am a huge star wars fan. So I may not be best placed to judge an exaggerated & contorted helmet shape. But this seems bad press for bike sport when everyone is discussing who looks the silliest instead of who rides the fastest.Il y a 40 ans un barrage de manifestants bloquait la route de la 5ème étape de Paris-Nice ...
“We all know who is and who is not doping”: Cyclists inflamed as 130 riders abandon Spanish amateur race after news of doping test at the finish line spread through the peloton “Anti-doping control in Villena=punctures and withdrawals. It is not a mathematical formula, it is pure reality. Let's see if measures are taken because this is a f****** joke. By the way, I have passed control!,” he wrote.
> Anti-doping rule change urged after cyclist tests positive because dying dog’s medicine got on her hands The four-time Tour de France winner suffered a nasty crash of day two of the Italian stage-race. However, initial medical reports and scans didn't show any broken bones, and he continued to race for two more days in the peloton.
> Brazen bike thieves foiled in dramatic pursuit after nicking Bromptons from front of store and threatening to knife chasing shop managerAdwitiya joined road.cc in 2023 as a news writer after graduating with a masters in journalism from Cardiff University. His dissertation focused on active travel, which soon threw him into the deep end of covering everything related to the two-wheeled tool, and now cycling is as big a part of his life as guitars and football.
So if there's a change that lots of people don't like - however wrong-headed / to their own disadvantage - AND it's not providing other compensations to those in charge - they're not going to do it. It is true, hadn't there been a few basic routes with segregated cycling routes, I probably wouldn't cycle now.
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