Swapping four wheels for two 🚲
Great to see @MrJamesMay in our West End store today, collecting his new steed.#EnjoyTheRidepic.twitter.com/fDdScZsnww
— Evans Cycles (@EvansCycles) February 13, 2020
Not an enormous surprise as May has often spoken positively about cycling.
In 2017, he professed a lifelong love of cycling and more recently he's delivered an impassioned speech urging drivers to "live in peace" and "not to buy into the anti-cycling thing."
May's colleagues are not necessarily as anti-cycling as they often pretend either. Jeremy Clarkson was pictured leaving his house aboard a bicycle after being sacked by the BBC, while Richard Hammond has also expressed that he likes cycling, even going as far as admitting to the BBC that he prefers cycling around town to driving.
"We'd love to organise a Gravel World Championships," Giancarlo Brocci told Cycling News.
"I can’t think of a better place for it than here in Tuscany on our strade bianche gravel roads that inspired the original Eroica event."
Great that construction is underway at Brunswick Square:
🚲Removing a roundabout
🚶♂️Removing through traffic on Lansdowne Terrace
🌳new public space with new trees, planting & seating
🚶5 new/upgraded crossings
🚲two-way cycle track
👍👍@CamdenCouncil@AdamDKHarrisonpic.twitter.com/oe7CCNtH1U— Will Norman (@willnorman) February 13, 2020
Couple of emojis short there Mr Secretary 🚶♀️ 🚲 especially as communities mean everything 👍 https://t.co/096BPRPzyP
— Chris Boardman (@Chris_Boardman) February 13, 2020
A driver who jumped a red light and hit a cyclist in Camden in January 2018 has been convicted of causing serious injury by dangerous driving.
My London reports that Angelo Kaminski also pleaded guilty to perverting the course of justice after he and his family concocted a story about his car being stolen. His father, younger brother and cousin were found guilty of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice.
All four will be sentenced at Wood Green Crown Court tomorrow.
The cyclist, Abdul Hadi, was taken to hospital with a number of serious injuries, including a skull fracture, a bleed on the brain and a fractured pelvis.
He remained in a coma for the next 18 months but died in hospital in July 2019 having not regained consciousness.
Kaminski drove away, running another red light in the process, before abandoning his car 1km from the scene of the collision.
Detective Inspector Cheryl Frost of the Metropolitan Police said: “Angelo Kaminski drove through a red light and struck Abdul Hadi, leaving him with catastrophic injuries.
"Instead of stopping and trying to help Mr Hadi, he thought only about himself, fleeing the scene and then, along with his family members, instigating attempts to cover his tracks.
“I would like to thank the Hadi family for all their support throughout the investigation into this tragic incident which has left them deprived of a loving husband and father."
HAVE YOUR SAY: @TamesideCouncil has plans to change walking & cycling across the borough and you can input into the plans.
You can find out more online or attend an event near you, including a Family Event on Tuesday 18 Feb - more here: https://t.co/lTBzVkmLmH#BeeNetwork🐝 pic.twitter.com/IdpNezoywN
— TfGM (@OfficialTfGM) February 13, 2020
Nukeproof launches the Cub-Scout kids' bike with 20", 24" or 26" wheels, off-road.cc have all the details here.
The only thing "unrealistic" is the fact that there are two people in the car! 😀
By far the best sketch from annual Icelandic Lampoon show of 2019, thank you @ruvsjonvarp🙏#modacity#mobility#aðförin#cycling#sustainabletransportpic.twitter.com/VF8NrLryk7
— Björn Teitsson (@bjornteits) February 12, 2020
We've found the worst driver in London, everyone https://t.co/q0LB6m1srl
— Jeremy Vine (@theJeremyVine) February 13, 2020
Manager Rod Ellingworth says there is “potentially” room for a sprinter in Bahrain McLarens’ team for the Tour de France, even though the route is “excellent” for Mikel Landa, who will battle for the overall.
"We’ve got a long way to go yet but it could be part of the plan,” Ellingworth told Cycling News. “I think it can be done, definitely."
Of Cavendish’s chances, he said: "For Mark, if he’s winning and performing well, why would we not think about going on that journey and trying to be the greatest stage winner in Tour de France history? That dream is still there. He knows it’ll be a hard challenge. If he’s winning at WorldTour level, why wouldn’t we take him?"
Cavendish recent raced the Saudi Tour, at which he helped fellow sprinter Phil Bauhaus to two stage wins and the overall title after crashing twice on stage two.
“I certainly think that last stage, Cav could have won that himself,” said Ellingworth. “I have no doubt at all that his condition is good enough. It was the way the race played out.
"For Mark individually, physically he’s in the right place. He’s got some work to do still, but he’s certainly on track. Then there’s also the confidence around going for that sprint and putting yourself on the line. That’s not easy."
He did however say that Cavendish was showing no signs of the Epstein-Barr virus that has blighted recent seasons.
“The game we’re playing with him is step-by-step," he said.
"In terms of his health, we’ve now ticked that box. He had really struggled on and off – that’s what that virus does, it limits you, you can’t go deep, you can’t back up day after day – but he’s been training well for four months so that’s good. Then you have the race condition, which has not been there for a while, but we’ve ticked that box now.
"He still wants to win for himself. 100 per cent we want to see Mark Cavendish with his arms in the air again. Where that will be and how it will happen, that’s the question."
#OnThisDay 1955: Cross-country cyclists took turns slipping down an icy hill. pic.twitter.com/ak0Uz0m9Ee
— BBC Archive (@BBCArchive) February 13, 2020
De @Telenet_Baloise plooien niet voor ciara. @TrekBikes@aadrink#teamtraining#goodvibespic.twitter.com/zBpJR1Em5m
— Sven Nys (@sven_nys) February 12, 2020
Forbes reports that Mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, has announced plans for every street in the city to have a cycle path, and for all of the city’s bridges to have protected cycleways by 2024.
🚲 Prendre un vélo c’est :
👉vivre Paris avec un nouveau rythme
👉le moyen le ➕ rapide pour traverser la capitale
👉s’accorder un temps d’activité physique
👉promouvoir la nécessité absolue de mieux partager la rue
👉c’est agréable, pratique, économique et écologique #Thread👇 pic.twitter.com/A1xSy11Syg— Anne Hidalgo (@Anne_Hidalgo) January 28, 2020
The bold vision is part of her re-election campaign.
She says cycling infrastructure would be built mostly at the expense of motor vehicles. The plans would see the removal of 72 per cent of the French capital’s on-street car parking.
Speaking in 2018, Hidalgo said that cycle lanes had helped slash the number of motor vehicles driven on the streets of the French capital.
February of that year saw 705 vehicles recorded per kilometre per hour, down 11.4 per cent on the same month in 2017.
Earlier in the week we reported how Nairo Quintana had put out an appeal on Facebook after his black Schnauzer, Rocky, went missing in the city of Tunja, Colombia, on Tuesday.
The Arkéa–Samsic rider and 2014 Giro champion has now proclaimed himself “super happy” after Rocky turned up.