Driving without insurance? Probably don't go down a cycle lane in front of police...; Trainline adds bicycle bookings to app; Canadian cyclist clears cycle lanes with homemade cargo bike snowplow; G's presents; Larry's late gifts + more on the live blog

In fairness, that headline could probably include insured drivers as well...

When you drive down a cycle path in front of a marked traffic car 🤦‍♂️

…WITHOUT INSURANCE🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

… having had had the same car seized for no insurance less than a month ago 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

Reported & seized again🚓
Disqualification now likely!#Team2East
Inc 1172 • @SWPCardiff
^5825 pic.twitter.com/apaWCYumPm

— South Wales Police Roads Policing Unit (@SWP_Roads) December 22, 2022

Anyway, they really don't come easier for South Wales Police than this...

Appreciate where you’re coming from. We can only continue to target out patrols to intercept these drivers (including those who are disqualified) and put them before the courts! If someone continually drives whilst disqualified, they may end up with a custodial sentence.

— South Wales Police Roads Policing Unit (@SWP_Roads) December 23, 2022

Cardiff Council - “Use the Cycleways or we’ll fine you”

The Cycleways - … https://t.co/DJE0TjOwME

— G (@gomedia91) December 22, 2022

Anyway, plenty more from this genre...

> Jeremy Vine films motorist driving down Hyde Park cycle path

> London cyclist films bike lane motorist driving straight at oncoming riders

> Cyclist despairs as Amazon van driver takes cycle lane shortcut before parking on pavement

Apologies all, just been finishing up something special for Boxing Day...

Anyone doing the Festive 500 this year?

Polls

[A.S.O. / Pauline Ballet]

Speaking to Sporza at Jumbo Visma's 2023 team presentation, Wout van Aert said he's after more big wins next year, and isn't too bothered about giving the three-week-long battle for the green jersey at the Tour de France a miss... or at least be a tad more conservative in when he burns his matches...

"Green was a great adventure, but stage victories are more memorable and the World Championships (two weeks after the Tour) is the higher goal," he explained. "That's why I don't want to focus on the points for green from the start. That can become a goal during the Tour, but I will choose my days much more and in the final week you still have many opportunities. You can then make choices and it is much more sensible that way.

"I want to win the Ronde and/or Roubaix. So that goal has not changed. They are high, but also logical ambitions. And I am extra motivated after what happened this year."

A Christmas gift from the Trainline as discovered by road.cc contributor Laura...

Xmas has come early for people carrying bikes on trains... somehow you can now book a bike space with @trainline via the app. The hours I've wasted to call centres, no joke the last one took 45 minutes, one bike space... so this is disproportionately exciting pic.twitter.com/b3JBrB25ax

— Laura Laker (@laura_laker) December 23, 2022

 Whilst booking directly with rail operators adding one of the limited few bike spaces has long been an option... it seems booking through Trainline for those sweet sweet savings has until now meant ringing up to add your bike spot to the booking. No more!

I noticed the wee little bike sign next to trains in the website, too. A good start. Next: actual space on the train.

— thenewlove (@thenewlove) December 23, 2022

pic.twitter.com/KEDSSQwR5V

— SHallam @shallam1 [at] toot.wales (@Shallam1) December 23, 2022

As our US-based readers face weather that puts last week's very British snow-related meltdown into perspective, here's some ingenious cargo bike versatility from a cyclist up in Canada...

Credit where it's due a cargo bike snowplow is almost certainly a better choice of ride than 25mm summer tyres for your ride into town... I mean, I can only imagine that's the case... who would be silly enough to ride across snow and ice on 25mm rubber? Yeah, how stupid...

I’m pretty sure that the allotted budget for Christmas gifts is inversely proportional to the amount of days left until Xmas… the bigger the crisis, the nicer the present 😂

— Larry Warbasse (@larrywarbasse) December 22, 2022