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All I want for Christmas is this beautiful bike lane; WorldTour pro handed four-year doping ban; Qhubeka-NextHash ends sponsorship hunt — team set to fold; 'But cyclists' Xmas special; Only two sleeps until WVA v MVDP v Pidcock + more on the live blog
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Christmas bike lane (screenshot Twitter video/ Andrew Pendleton)24 December 2021, 15:12
Feeling festive?
Who else is happy that Christmas is coming? 😁 pic.twitter.com/MZncmA1Z6V
— Deceuninck-QuickStep (@deceuninck_qst) December 23, 2021
24 December 2021, 15:03
24 December 2021, 14:45
All I want for Christmas is this beautiful bike lane
This two way, segregated, King Street cycle way 9 was all I wanted for 🎄 @LBHF 🙏 🙏 It’s a beauty. pic.twitter.com/dzaG23mpts
— Andrew Pendleton (@AJPendleton) December 23, 2021
Don't worry, I haven't passed out in a pool of mulled wine just yet... I got distracted by a best of the live blog 2021 feature which will be coming to your screens soon...keep your eyes peeled...
Back to the main order of business...Andrew Pendleton got what he asked for this Christmas — a segregated bike lane with all the trimmings.
Jeremy Vine is a fan of this one too, calling it: "Wonderful. It will make the street better for everyone."
The reindeer must have worked hard to drag all that white paint and wands down from the North Pole...maybe we'll have to include proper infra in our '2022 Christmas gift ideas for cyclists who have family members in government'...niche, I know.
I reckon it's about time for a beverage...
24 December 2021, 11:56
24 December 2021, 11:31
The sequel we all needed to see
Just another ordinary day at Robin Hood Island. pic.twitter.com/UNnlvQG0F0
— James Goes Cycling🚴🏻⛵️🇪🇺 (@JamesKPatterson) December 22, 2021
Remember this 'but cyclists' special from yesterday? Well, here's the full incident...
And for those wondering how the feck you end up upside on a traffic island ….the answer has been revealed- you drive like a tw*t! pic.twitter.com/s3fj1uSSO7
— James Goes Cycling🚴🏻⛵️🇪🇺 (@JamesKPatterson) December 23, 2021
24 December 2021, 09:51
World Tour pro handed four-year ban for doping
UCI hands Mexican rider Villalobos four-year ban for doping. Two-times Mexican national champion Luis Villalobos has been banned for four years after cycling's governing body UCI said on Wednesday he had been found guilty of an anti-doping rule violation. pic.twitter.com/4ZwXRiFyMB
— Sports Crunch (@SportsCrunch_US) December 22, 2021
Two-time Mexican national champion and former EF Pro Cycling rider Luis Villalobos has been banned for four years by the UCI. Villalobos, who rode for EF Pro Cycling for one year between 2019 and 2020, tested positive for a presence of GHRP-6, a prohibited growth hormone-releasing substance, from a sample provided while he rode for the US-based Aevolo team in 2019.
The 23-year-old was provisionally suspended in May last year and was suspended by EF Pro Cycling too. "The Tribunal found the rider guilty of an anti-doping rule violation (presence of GHRP-6) and imposed a four-year period of ineligibility on the rider,” the UCI said in a statement.
"If we’d have known, we would not have signed Luis," EF Education-Nippo CEO Jonathan Vaughters said last year. "The burden of this is on the UCI because there is no internal testing program that has access to the level of equipment needed to screen for GHRP-6."
24 December 2021, 09:24
Only two sleeps until Wout van Aert v Mathieu van der Poel v Tom Pidock
Who is ready for Dendermonde? pic.twitter.com/KKUC5OxMla
— Cyclocross Social (@Cyclocrosss) December 23, 2021
This is all anyone cares about this weekend, right? The trident of terror going head to head in the Dendermonde mud. 2pm GMT, GCN Race Pass...grab yourself some leftovers and try not to fall asleep before it gets underway...
24 December 2021, 09:04
Qhubeka-NextHash ends sponsorship hunt — team set to fold
Let's get the serious news out of the way early before the mulled wine turns the blog into a sloppy minefield of bad grammar and silly stories (no change from usual then...)
Qhubeka-NextHash have given up the hunt for a sponsor, ending hopes of keeping the team running beyond 2021. Earlier in the month the team was refused a UCI licence for 2022, signalling the beginning of the end for 'Africa's Team', which helped get 30,000 people bikes through Qhubeka's charity work.
Yesterday, a statement sent out to riders was leaked, in which team boss Doug Ryder told riders and staff, "I am very sad to send this message. We have tried everything to find sponsors for our team for next season, right up until the last few days, but nothing has materialised in time."
The team faced a similar last-minute scramble for a sponsor last off-season but survived thanks to Assos' intervention. The team was rewarded at the Giro where Victor Campenaerts, Giacomo Nizzolo and Mauro Schmid won stages. All three have already confirmed moves to new teams for 2022.
24 December 2021, 09:17
What day is it, Alex?
IT’S CHRISTMAS!!!!! eve
— Alex Dowsett (@alexdowsett) December 24, 2021
Dan is the road.cc news editor and joined in 2020 having previously written about nearly every other sport under the sun for the Express, and the weird and wonderful world of non-league football for The Non-League Paper. Dan has been at road.cc for four years and mainly writes news and tech articles as well as the occasional feature. He has hopefully kept you entertained on the live blog too.
Never fast enough to take things on the bike too seriously, when he's not working you'll find him exploring the south of England by two wheels at a leisurely weekend pace, or enjoying his favourite Scottish roads when visiting family. Sometimes he'll even load up the bags and ride up the whole way, he's a bit strange like that.
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Just wanted to wish a warm "Merry Christmas" to everyone at Road.cc, all subscribers and commenters, and all your families. Have a good one, Nige.
Is that the road.cc community you've frequently described as "a warped echo chamber" and that you continually attack with nonsense and lies?
Yes - but there's the bloated, tired 26th for that, surely?
Yeah...but didn't fancy letting the sexist racist pro-car alt-right Trump supporter think that he could make up for a year's worth of polluting a really good website with his foul opinions with tuppence-worth of hypocritical good wishes.
A very happy Christmas to you though Chris, and all others on here who are interested in sharing, discussing and debating about cycling, rather than trolling!
AlsoSomniloquism
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2 years ago
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Following on from a few weeks ago. According to the BBC, Tesla are now disabling the Gaming whilst driving feature. Seems they didn't want "yet another" investigation into their cars and the functions they allow as they already have several pending.
IanMSpencer
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2 years ago
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Robin Hood Island north of Shirley near Solihull is a nightmare of peculiar lane arrangements and too many intersecting desired paths of travel.
So any motorist is normally on edge negotiating that roundabout which needs your full attention.
What was spectacularly lacking therefore was attention.
It was interesting to see the interaction of a small, oddly shaped car with the high SUV (Solihull's finest). One wonders if it would pass the elk test after that performance?
(The elk test caused the Mercedes A Class to be withdrawn and delayed due to falling over during a swerve test some 20 years ago).
Either they were distracted, or thought they would "bypass" the stationary traffic and was lokking over their shoulder for space and zoomed without realising they were too close to the car in front.
However Aygo(?) V Range Rover and Aygo winning should be worrisome for all the people who claim they want these large cars for their "safety".
The acceleration was quite strong yet the path of the car indicated a deliberate lane change. Perhaps instead of signaling they accidentally resumed cruise control? The Discovery steering wheel controls look hellishly complex.
Just Googling, some Land Rovers have adaptive cruise control with stop and go assist. Perhaps they had engaged that and it got confused???
TheBillder
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2 years ago
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Very disappointing about Qhubeka-NextHash. As Rendel said in response to the previous story when the team's licence was refused, it's an indictment of the world we live in that planet wreckers and dictatorships are suitable and successful team sponsors but teams trying to do something good live a hand-to-mouth existence.
Stable teams are necessary - riders need to be paid reliably, sponsors need to know that their investment is safe, events and TV need to be sure that everyone will show up. But this feels brutal.
I expect nothing positive from the UCI given the president's chumminess with various regimes. See https://cyclingtips.com/2020/06/the-uci-just-gave-its-highest-award-to-a... for details (and a really excellent article, not that I'm disloyal to road.cc, but other interesting sites do exist).
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