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Nine Australia reports a man has been charged after allegedly ramming cyclists in three seperate road rage attacks in Adelaide. He is also alleged to have lied about his car being stolen.
Police say the white Ford Fairmount was travelling on Lady Gowrie Drive, North Haven at around 6.30am when the driver steered at a cyclist, knocking them to the ground. The rider suffered bruises and grazing.
A short while later a second cyclist was then forced off the road into the verge before a third cyclist was hit by the driver of the same vehicle, throwing him off the significantly damaged bike.
Police arrested a 25-year-old man who has since been charged with endagering life, leaving the scene of an accident, property damage and making a false report to police as investigators dispute the claim his car was stolen at the time of the offences. The suspect is due to appear in court next month.
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— 🍺 Hold My Beer 🍺 (@HldMyBeer) August 26, 2021
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Tomorrow is Local Bike Shop Day, an annual celebration to raise awareness of services offered by independent cycle shops across the country and the role they've played in supporting cyclists over the past 18 months.
New shop The Bicycle Rooms in Stratford upon Avon is launching this Saturday and will offer free safety inspections all day.
Elsewhere Cycle Solutions Uplands is joined by Gower Gelato, who will be handing out Gelato pots free to customers who spend in store or book their bike in for a service. G64 Cycles in Glasgow is offering 3 for 2 on bike maintenance lubricants/cleaning as well as free lights and a cable lock to any bikes sold on the day.
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Cycling in Wales increased by more than 68 per cent during 2020 as motorised traffic on Welsh roads fell to levels not seen since the 1990s, according to new Welsh Government research. Cyclists covered more than 320 million vehicle-kilometres (vkm) on Welsh roads last year, compared to 190m vkm the year before.
The trend follows a spike in cycling activity elsewhere in the UK during the Covid lockdown and emergence from restrictions. Interestingly the the number of vehicle-kilometres clocked up by cyclists in Great Britain in 2020 was the highest since 1962.
By contrast, car use in Wales fell by 26.3 per cent during lockdown, with motorists driving over 7.5 billion fewer vkm than in 2019. However, the volume of motorised traffic in Wales was still equivalent to 7,760km (4,823 miles) per person.
Greg Wilson of Quotezone.co.uk commented on the numbers: "It’s extraordinary that lockdown saw cycling increase to levels not seen since 1962, a time when less than 40% of households owned a car."
IT'S GOLD FOR KADEENA COX!!! 🥇
She WINS the WC4-5 500m Time Trial and sets a NEW WORLD RECORD in the process!!! 👏#ParalympicsGB#Tokyo2020pic.twitter.com/U8I3sl8cH9
— British Cycling (@BritishCycling) August 27, 2021
Kadeena Cox followed up on yesterday's success to add the C4-5 500m time trial to ParalympicGB's medal tally in Tokyo. The 30-year-old defended her title from Rio, beating Canadian world champion Kate O'Brien's time by 0.411 seconds.
"I knew I was going to have to do something special, and that if I put everything together that me and my coach had worked on, it would be amazing," she told the BBC. "I executed a race that was near-perfect - I'm so happy."
Bonjour, Julian 👋
World champion and 2018 Tour of Britain 🇬🇧 winner @alafpolak1🇫🇷 will return to the UK's biggest bike race this September!#TourOfBritain🔴🔵⚪
— Tour of Britain 🇬🇧 (@TourofBritain) August 27, 2021
If Wout van Aert and Mark Cavendish wasn't already enough, Deceuninck-Quick-Step have confirmed their world champion and all round entertainer Julian Alaphilippe is coming to the Tour of Britain as part of his prep for the defence of his rainbow jersey. Some of you may remember Alaphilippe won the race back in 2018, winning the stage into Bristol also.
The race will be the French darling's final outing in the rainbow jersey, but who'd bet against him defending his crown in Flanders next month? "I am really looking forward to racing the Tour of Britain, which will be my last in the rainbow jersey, that I have been so proud to wear for the last 12 months," Alaphilippe said.
"I had a successful race in Britain the last time I was there in 2018, and I know it will be a hard-fought race this time. It will be the perfect race for me to take on, ahead of the world championships. We come here with a strong team and will look to race hard, as we always do."
Ready? FIGHT! #LaVuelta21🤜🤛 pic.twitter.com/y3Q0359Xaw
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Ribble Cycles has taken on sponsorship of Garden Shed UK - Ribble - Verge Sport CX team as they look to build upon previous success in the upcoming season. Full disclosure, when I first looked at this press release I thought Ribble had sponsored an actual garden shed. Not my sharpest moment. There was me thinking Clive from Telford would be nipping out to get his lawnmower from a Ribble branded shed.
Anyway, Garden Shed UK - Ribble - Verge Sports the cyclocross team was founded in 2019 by Tom Dussek and Jenson Young to offer support and racing opportunities to U23, Junior and Youth riders. Key rider Oli Akers, winner at Koppenbergcross and Youth National Series enters his third season with the team.
The best way to do the school run. Welcome to the cargo bike club, @chrishoy! pic.twitter.com/z54efcoHZ3
— Adam Tranter (@adamtranter) August 26, 2021
Top comment from someone questioning Chris' abilities to ride a cargo bike on British roads. Yeah, the six-time Olympic champion and 11-time world champ is going to struggle...
Perhaps they were from Bath Conservatives...who on Wednesday said you can't use a cargo bike anywhere hilly, only to get shut down by a cargo bike courier who's been delivering up Bath's steep hills for years...
And while we're on the subject of Tories talking nonsense about 'steep hills', you might have seen the news this morning that a Camden cycle lane has been voted through despite a Conservative claim the three per cent incline was too severe.
Ouch, ouch, ouch. Poor Nelson Oliveria ended up in the barbed wire on stage 12 and finished the stage 14 minutes down on the day's winner Magnus Cort. The Portuguese rider on the Movistar team rolled across the line bloodied and with little of his team shorts left around his legs.
The veteran campaigner reassured concerned fans on Instagram: "Don't try to go against a barbed wire net - I'm fine and nothing serious, tomorrow will be another day - thank you all for your affection"
Shades of Mitch Docker at the Tour of Flanders and Johnny Hoogerland at the Tour de France in 2011. Many other riders, including Ineos' Adam Yates and Dylan van Baarle were involved. Max Schachmann has abandoned the race and Alpecin-Fenix Grand Tour debutant Tobias Bayer didn't finish the stage.
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Home trainer maker Peloton will slash the price of its flagship model in response to slow sales off the back of gyms reopening and reduced demand for home workouts. The US firm will cut the price by around 20 per cent to $1,495 from Thursday, which will apply to all its markets in the US, UK, Canada, Australia and Germany.
More to follow shortly...
If Boris to rewrite Highway code to favour cyclists fine, BUT law must mirror their responsibility on the road and other road tax playing motorists safety so HELMETS MUST BE MANDATORY!!
— C19 GET SERIOUS!! Judes Butt (@JudesButt) August 25, 2021
Let's start Friday with some local politics silliness. Cllr Judy Butt from Poole's hot take stemmed from the proposed Highway Code changes that will see cyclists given priority at junctions when travelling straight ahead. It will also establish a hierarchy of road users, with those with the potential to cause the most danger to others deemed to have greater responsibility.
"HELMETS MUST BE MANDATORY!!" is Judy's price for the changes and she couldn't help herself having a sly point about the "law must mirror their responsibility on the road and other tax playing (sic) motorists safety". Yes, sometimes it does seem like we play road tax when talking about cycling online.
In fairness to Cllr Butt she was happy to engage on the subject (if you can give a local politician credit for explaining controversial their opinions?)
Saves lives and if precedence given to cyclists then they need to be responsible and like motorist not all of them are! Re Road Tax if you want to hair split fine but cyclists pay nothing to use the roads..now there's a gov revenue opportunity!! https://t.co/oOYrbkJPR6
— C19 GET SERIOUS!! Judes Butt (@JudesButt) August 25, 2021
And here it comes...
Road tax clearly the generic term for the £30 to over £200 paid by motorists each year depending on car to put yr car on the road. Cyclists pay no such levy, if they did perhaps finances would be available to provide better safety measures for them? https://t.co/f0P5IvkS6G
— C19 GET SERIOUS!! Judes Butt (@JudesButt) August 26, 2021
Thanks for this info. I agree there are many other ways too. Thank you for advising me much appreciated. J. https://t.co/AEbxzEZ1jf
— C19 GET SERIOUS!! Judes Butt (@JudesButt) August 26, 2021