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The Vaya is Salsa’s triple-butted steel all-road adventure bike, with clearance for 45mm tyres, as well as versatile frame and fork mounts for a wide range of cargo carrying options. Plugged in at the front is a Waxwing carbon fork which has internal routing for dynamo hub wires and mounts for mudguards (that can accommodate 38mm tyres when in use). Full-length cable housing guides can be found on this light touring bike. Frameset only the Vaya is £980, while the Vaya GRX 600 build comes in at £2,400.
The Marrakesh is Salsa’s world touring bike with a geometry that is designed to keep the bike stable and predictable when fully loaded. The triple-butted Cromoly steel tubing has Alternator 1.0 dropouts, with its chainstay length adjustable from 455-472mm. There is ample clearance for tyres up to 50mm, and 40mm with mudguards mounted. It also comes tour-ready with two three-pack mounts on the fork legs, an Alternator 135 Low-Deck rear rack and Down Under front rack, spare spoke mount and kickstand plate. The Marrakesh frameset is £870 and the Marrakesh Alivio is £1,990.
🔴 BRUTAL AGRESIÓN A UN CICLISTA EN GRAN CANARIA
El suceso ocurrió en la carretera que va desde Sta. Lucía de Tirajana hasta Ayacata, cerca de Cruz Grande. Tras una discusión, el conductor arremete contra el ciclista dejándolo en el suelo. Otro conductor tuvo que separarles. pic.twitter.com/XFiM4LfG4l— Conexión BTC (@Conexion_BTC) January 25, 2021
This shocking road rage incident happened last weekend in Gran Canaria. A driver can be seen punching a cyclist to the ground before continuing to attack him. The attacker has been reported to the police for the assault which was captured on video by another driver. It happened between Santa Lucía de Tirajana and Ayacata on the Spanish island where several pro teams, including Ineos Grenadiers, have been training this winter.
Bahrain Victorious' Heinrich Haussler will take to the start line in Oostende for the cyclo-cross world championships this Sunday. The 36-year-old told Belgian newspaper Het Nieuwsblad that the discipline is an off-season hobby and that he won't have a camper or mechanic like most competitors. Instead, the Aussie says he's just happy to have the opportunity to compete at the biggest races.
"You can't imagine how happy I am – like a child – to be able to attend the World Championships," he said. "I don't have a camper or a mechanic, but that doesn't bother me. I'm a hobbyist among pro cyclists, but I know that even as a veteran on the road I get better from such an intensive winter in the field."
Haussler's best result at the UCI World Cup series was 47th in Dendermonde and the veteran competitor says he regrets not racing cross sooner, saying it has helped improve his performance on the road too.
"I was immediately attracted to this discipline and immediately experienced how hard an hour in the field is. The cyclo-cross itself is only ten per cent of the work. I go to the races all by myself, I arrange and pay for everything myself. I do the reconnaissance and then I have to quickly clean my two bikes myself before the actual race."
Yesterday, the UCI confirmed the World Championships will go ahead as planned, despite an outbreak of the South African coronavirus in Oostende. All riders, media and organisational staff are having an additional test tomorrow before the women's and U23 races on Saturday.
Conor and Nic, two local cyclists to road.cc offices in Bath, are undertaking a monumental Everesting challenge to raise money for World Bicycle Relief. The pair will attempt to ride seven Everests in seven days on Ralph Allen Drive. That's 76 ascents of the 1km climb, which averages 10%, every day for a week...On their GoFundMe page they say lockdown "has sent us crazy, so we decided to do something even crazier". They've even taken into account Everest's new height, 8849m, after scientists agreed on a new figure for the summit's peak before Christmas. So far they've raised £440, almost half of their £1,000 target.
Vidéo insoutenable. pic.twitter.com/KeyUrHXIux
— Dans la Musette (@DansLaMusette) January 28, 2021
The Tour Series will be delayed until August, the races organiser SweetSpot has confirmed. The multi-round circuit race series across several locations towns and cities in the UK is normally held in May but will be run during the first two weeks of August due to the global health situation. Exact dates and locations are to be announced in the next few months. Should the pandemic not allow for the traditional crit format, SweetSpot say they have actively explored the possibility of staging the event virtually. As with previous years the event will remain free-to-air on ITV 4 in the UK.
Mont Ventoux or Passo dello Stelvio?
Photo: @GettySportpic.twitter.com/KyfsdjZwzV— Deceuninck-QuickStep (@deceuninck_qst) January 28, 2021
Bully for you!
Hope they all had lights - been pitch black other there for a good couple of hours https://t.co/k73eMI9Keh
— Rupa Huq MP (@RupaHuq) January 27, 2021
Rupa Huq tweeted this bizarre response to someone pointing out how many people had been out cycling, walking and scooting in an LTN in Ealing. The Labour MP for Ealing and Central Acton has been a vocal critic of LTNs and suggested in a Telegraph column that a referendum could be the only way to reach a decision on their future...No, really. In the same article she described the "Lycra brigade" as "surprisingly vicious".
Huq tweeted saying: "Bully for you! Hope they all had lights - been pitch black other (sic) there for a good couple of hours," and left a link to The Highway Code: 'Rules for Cyclists 59 to 82'. Earlier in the thread she shared a photo of an article claiming £1 million has been wasted on LTN schemes that were later reversed. Yesterday, Adam Tranter pointed out an Auto Express article on the same topic and suggested they weren't as concerned by the £49 million spent on an abandoned roundabout near the M49.
Every tweet like this makes the streets more unsafe for the individual trying to do the right thing and travel under their own steam as it directs hate towards users. It also makes it harder to redesign our cities for a low carbon future. You really need to wind it in.
— The Ranty Highwayman (@RantyHighwayman) January 28, 2021
What a strange response. Do you respond to tweets about people shopping for food with "I hope they weren't stealing it"?
— The Dynas Low Traffic Neighbour (@TheDynaslow) January 28, 2021
The cyclists did. Admittedly, I didn't see any pedestrians with lights. 🙂
— Andy Hillier (@andy_hillier) January 27, 2021
I refuse to be cynical about this. It is legitimate progress.
AAA officially declares that it will use the term crash and not accident. pic.twitter.com/R1kPKFMGmJ
— Peter Flax (@Pflax1) January 28, 2021
This is something that many cycling advocates have been hoping would become more widely accepted standard practice. The American Automobile Association (AAA) has said it will no longer use the term 'accident' when describing a 'crash'. Molly Hart, a spokesperson for the group, explained that crashes are drivers' responsibility and not something that "just happen".
It's not the first the AAA has helped promote better safety for cyclists. In 2013, they teamed up with the League of American Bicyclists to produce a Share the Road public service announcement video that spread the message that we're all people regardless of how we choose to travel.