At this rate Milan San Remo is getting closer to being an individual TT than a bunch race 😬
— Alex Dowsett (@alexdowsett) March 18, 2022
In fairness, I'd get dropped in the neutral start...
Mathieu van der Poel, on the other hand, seems to be treating the 290km Monument as a training session...
#MVDP was added to the roster for MSR due to the several sick riders in the team and because his rehab has been going well. However, he will participate without expectations. The 293 km race was preferred over a training session on Saturday.
(complete lineup will follow soon)
— Alpecin-Fenix Cycling Team (@AlpecinFenix) March 18, 2022
So...50km three-up break? Van der Poel, Van Aert and Pog?
Unfortunately, @Sammmy_Be is sick and therefore unable to participate in @Milano_Sanremo this weekend.
Get well soon, Sam 💪🏼👊🏼
— BORA – hansgrohe (@BORAhansgrohe) March 18, 2022
Sam Bennett won't be on the startline in Milan tomorrow, he's sick, but most of the other stars will...Wout van Aert, Tadej Pogačar, Caleb Ewan, Mathieu van der Poel, Tom Pidcock, Filippo Ganna, Primož Roglič...take your pick...who wins? How?
I'll go Wout van Aert sprinting from a small group...hardly putting my neck on the line, I know...
RideLondon FreeCycle is back, returning to eight miles of closed central London roads on Sunday 29 May. Aimed at families and riders of all abilities, the traffic-free route passes many of London’s most famous streets and iconic landmarks including:
- Bank of England
- Guildhall Yard
- Holborn Viaduct
- London Eye
- Piccadilly
- Pall Mall
- Somerset House
- Southbank
- St Paul’s Cathedral
- Strand
- Trafalgar Square
- Waterloo Bridge
- Westminster Bridge
- Victoria Embankment
The day starts at 10.00, finishing at 15.00 and includes four Festival Zones at Lincoln’s Inn Fields, Waterloo Place, Guildhall Yard and St Paul’s Churchyard and Paternoster Square.
Hugh Brasher, Event Director of RideLondon, said: "RideLondon FreeCycle is a unique day. It’s wonderful and uplifting to see London’s most famous streets handed over to bicycles with riders of all ages and backgrounds on all sorts of different bikes enjoying traffic-free roads."
Why Don't Cyclists Use Cycle Lanes, pt 9,473: Lancaster pic.twitter.com/Z9kb1I5MWk
— Rob Ainsley (@realcycling) March 18, 2022
Another classic for the folder....
'Every little helps' presumably refers to how much extra space you should give this Tesco delivery driver whacking the van into a space, regardless of the cyclist waiting to ride off.
Hello @Tesco. Broom Rd, Teddington, TW11 9PQ, 11.11 this morning. My bike is on the road, I’m about to mount and move off. Your driver wants to park where I am so he just pretends I’m not there. Unbelievable. @RichmondCyclingpic.twitter.com/Hp23lxFuZZ
— hauntedbastardmeat (@hauntedbastard) March 17, 2022
"My bike is on the road, I’m about to mount and move off. Your driver wants to park where I am so he just pretends I’m not there. Unbelievable," the rider explained after this incident in Teddington yesterday morning.
Reporting supermarket drivers is a bit hit-and-miss, pardon the pun, with another rider predicting either no response or an all-too-public 'ask you to DM us' to get the angry mob off their back...
They rarely respond, same for all the supermarkets, they have only one directive to their drivers, get the job done and we don’t care how you do it
— Urban_Manc (@MancUrban) March 18, 2022
We've covered our fair share of dodgy delivery driving in our time...
> "That's a human being" - Chris Boardman slams Sainsbury's response to close pass video
In 2017, a cyclist sued Tesco for more than £100,000 after a delivery driver allegedly drove into and then over her in London.
Kate McElroy was riding to work in December when the driver pulled out in her path at the junction of Southwark Bridge Road and Great Guildford Street.
McElroy was knocked to the ground and went under the van. The driver is said to have driven over her, crushing her pelvis.