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Matej Mohorič spotted using dropper post during Strade Bianche recon; Dan Walker hits back at Piers Morgan for accusing him of "milking" collision injuries; Fans divided over AG2R Citroën's denim; Jeremy Vine vs Lamborghini + more on the live blog

It's Friday, the days are getting longer and it's one day until Strade Bianche... what more could you want? Dan Alexander on the live blog? Okay fair enough, maybe not that.....
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Matej Mohorič spotted using dropper post during Strade Bianche recon; Dan Walker hits back at Piers Morgan for accusing him of "milking" collision injuries; Fans divided over AG2R Citroën's denim; Jeremy Vine vs Lamborghini + more on the live blogMatej Mohoric dropper post Strade Bianche recon (Bahrain Victorious/Twitter)
03 March 2023, 17:03
Matej Mohorič spotted using dropper post during Strade Bianche recon

Here's a bit more on that video doing the rounds of Matej Mohorič ahead of his pre-Strade Bianche ride sporting a dropper post on his Merida... 

It's hardly top secret info, to be fair, Bahrain Victorious posted it on their social media and then another video around an hour ago of the riders on the gravel, Mohorič appearing to be riding the same bike (front right rider) with the remote on his right drop.

The Slovenian used the post to incredible effect at Milan-San Remo last year, as well as during the Tour de France, but are we about to see it on the Tuscan gravel? It certainly looks that way...

"It helped me to lower the centre of gravity to handle the bike, but still to remain seated on the saddle. I was looking forward to the race and experiencing the features in the race," Mohorič told road.cc about the tech after last year's big San Remo success.

"In training it seems to me that it made a huge impact, and then in the race it really confirmed it.

Matej Mohoric milan-san remo victory - via sprint cycling agency

"Especially on the safety... I felt completely comfortable and in control [with a dropper post] whereas the other years I remember maybe going a little bit slower and I felt like I was on the limit.

"With a dropper post it gives you significantly more control of the bike. You just feel more relaxed and you can actually brake harder because you can get the weight down more effectively." 

03 March 2023, 17:26
What is Shimano CUES?

03 March 2023, 16:53
Remove conflict between cyclists and pedestrians, urge campaigners in wake of manslaughter case
Celia Ward falls into path of car after being confronted by Auriol Grey (via Cambridgeshire Constabulary and BBC News)

> Remove conflict between cyclists and pedestrians, urge campaigners in wake of manslaughter case

03 March 2023, 16:48
03 March 2023, 16:20
Should AG2R go double denim? (+ Poll results: are the shorts hot or not?)

But what about the shorts? Well, here are the poll results... 

Poll results denim shorts
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03 March 2023, 15:47
03 March 2023, 15:36
The sad news we've all been waiting for (+ is Matej Mohorič dusting off the dropper post?)

A moment of silence for Matej's Garmin, gone forever. One 80km breakaway and a third-placed finish at Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne never to see the light of Strava...

On the plus side, as some eagle-eyed commenters have suggested... is that the dropper post back? The Slovenian is at Strade Bianche tomorrow and then Tirreno-Adriatico next week, but after those small commitments are out the way... it's San Remo time... 

03 March 2023, 15:33
Jeremy Vine vs Lamborghini (with commentary from Jeremy Clarkson

No photo finish required there...  

03 March 2023, 14:48
Fancy winning a £300 POC helmet?

Our friends at off road.cc have a survey up where you can win a POC helmet worth £300 for telling Rider Research Hub your thoughts on all things electric mountain bikes (if you have any)...

Rider Research Hub - Win POC (1)

Admittedly if you're a roadie the lid pictured might not be the POC model you have in mind — that's not going to protect you from the sharp tongue of your group ride companions... anyway, have a go, if you want, you might just win something...

What are you looking for in an e-mtb?

03 March 2023, 11:55
Dan Walker hits back at "bitter" Piers Morgan for accusing him of "milking" collision injuries like he had "survived a terror attack"

Piers Morgan attracting criticism with controversial comments? Who'd have thought it? At least he was right about Cristiano Ronaldo, Manchester United and Lionel Messi... oh, wait a second...

This playground spat was, I'm sure Piers would tell the teacher, started by Dan Walker who hosted the Royal Television Society's awards night on Wednesday and apparently had a dig at the Talk TV 'personality' in his speech.

As with any good feud between adult males with a combined age of 102, word got back to Morgan who took to Twitter, saying Walker had been "kicked off Match of the Day and BBC Breakfast", was "washed up on Channel 5" and had been "milking" his "grazes" from being knocked off his bike by a driver in Sheffield like he had "survived a terror attack" (particularly tasteful when you read the front page of your morning paper today).

 In reply, Walker said: "What a laugh. Interesting idea of taking a lesson on bitterness from a fella who has written article after article attacking a woman who had one drink with him & thought he was a numptie. We missed you last night. You should have come."

At least we didn't get to hear Morgan's, I'm sure esteemed, contribution to the helmet debate...("Siri, remind me to pitch 'Piers Morgan: talking helmets' to Talk TV")...

> Why is Dan Walker's claim that a bike helmet saved his life so controversial?

03 March 2023, 10:59
Jeremy Vine "notorious" for cycling around London

Notorious: /nə(ʊ)ˈtɔːrɪəs/ (adjective) famous or well known, typically for some bad quality or deed...

It's been some week for the BBC and Channel 5 presenter...

> "He has to wait, that's all there is to it": Jeremy Vine slams bus driver for near miss

> Jeremy Vine collision "caused by a cyclist going through a red light"

03 March 2023, 10:02
03 March 2023, 09:54
Have Bahrain Victorious solved the mystery of Matej Mohorič's stolen Garmin?

In short. No. From the Garmin 830 box in shot and the fact Matej never uploaded his Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne file to Strava, we're taking an educated guess this is a new device for the 2022 Milan-San Remo winner...

Anyway, well played...

> Matej Mohorič's Garmin stolen after Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne, tells thief to keep device... just "please send today's file over" 

03 March 2023, 09:20
POLL: Denim bib shorts — hot or not?

Don't act surprised, you knew this was coming...

Polls

03 March 2023, 09:18
Who wore denim the best?
03 March 2023, 09:12
03 March 2023, 08:51
Cycling fans divided over AG2R Citroën's denim bib shorts

A crime against fashion? A crime against cycling? The best thing to come from pro cycling in 2023? An eye-harming denim disaster? The coolest bibs in the peloton? AG2R Citroën, the team fabled for splitting the room with their brown shorts, have done it again...

Don't worry, the brown shorts will be back on Sunday, the team promises. In the meantime the cycling world was left to debate denim...

On our story, lesterama suggested the team missed a trick and should have deployed brown denim for maximum piss-boiling effect, or worse, Jem PT added... corduroy... *shudders in French*...

Luke Orr: "I knew it, only taken 30 years for the Carrera 'denim' bibs to take off"

Piers Stanbury: "Well they've managed to get us all talking... sponsors must be happy..."

The replies section of Katy Madgwick's tweet about the news was a superb summary of public opinion...

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Dan Alexander

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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ChrisB200SX | 1 year ago
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Imagine seeing Dan Walker's crash video and choosing to publicly tweet that he only fell off a bike, got a few grazes, and is milking it.

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JustTryingToGet... replied to ChrisB200SX | 1 year ago
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ChrisB200SX wrote:

Imagine seeing Dan Walker's crash video and choosing to publicly tweet that he only fell off a bike, got a few grazes, and is milking it.

Imagine Piers Morgan letting facts get in the way of spewing bile, so morons give him clicks. No me neither.

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chrisonabike | 1 year ago
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road.cc wrote:

Dan Walker hits back at "bitter" Piers Morgan for accusing him of "milking" collision injuries like he had "survived a terror attack"

EDIT missed the quote marks:
"Journalists" have tiff shocker!

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Mungecrundle | 1 year ago
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Piers Morgan - A difficult man to ignore, but so worth the effort.*

*Copyright someone far wittier than I.

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mike the bike replied to Mungecrundle | 1 year ago
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Mungecrundle wrote:

Piers Morgan - A difficult man to ignore, but so worth the effort.* *Copyright someone far wittier than I.

I believe it was Stephen Fry who said the definition of countryside was the murder of Piers Morgan.

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grOg replied to mike the bike | 1 year ago
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that is phonetically foul abuse of English by Fry but very funny..

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eburtthebike | 1 year ago
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Jeremy Vine "notorious" for cycling around London

Don't read the twitter comments.  No; don't.

Really, don't.

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ktache replied to eburtthebike | 1 year ago
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Has anyone noticed that he really does seem to be able to spot approaching hazards, having experienced them seemingly often, and have an uncanny ability to slowdown and come to a relatively gentle stop and so avoid being hit by an incompetent and impatient motorist?

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peted76 | 1 year ago
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With so many teams this year of all years having kit which looks the same and making them harder to spot in a bunch.. it's pleasing to know that AG2R are once again doing things their own way. 

Denim bibs... probably looks better on Benoît Cosnefroy than it would me.. but I'm down with it. 

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alansmurphy replied to peted76 | 1 year ago
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Ooooh cyclists would bring a new level to the 'super skinny' jeans (drain pipes gone mad for the readership) - think I'll be a boot cut!

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BalladOfStruth | 1 year ago
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On the JV thing:

There was a thread on Reddit a couple of days ago where someone posted a video from Jeremey. It wasn't even a car/driving sub. A short summary of the clip:

  • JV is cycling through a pinch-point when a van tries to squeeze him, JV gestures for the driver to stay back.
  • When the road widens a little, the driver pulls alongside JV and winds down his window (at which point it becomes clear he’s also on his phone).
  • There’s a little back-and-forth: “what was that?”, “how dare you stop me from murdering you”, etc. Y’know, the usual.
  • At this point, the two arrive at a zebra crossing. JV stops. The driver blasts through, narrowly missing a pedestrian.
  • Van driver at fault 110%. He was the initial cause of the danger, he was distracted by his phone, he was the one who decided to divert yet more of his attention to arguing with a road user he’d wronged. He was the one who blasted through the crossing.

Now what do we think the thread was called? "Van driver nearly hits cylist and pedestrian"? Of course not, it was: “Cyclist endangers pedestrian by distracting van driver”.

I'm no JV fan, but it’s insane how eager many are to excuse any level of dangerous driving and perform inhuman feats of mental gymnastics to shit on cyclists.  

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Awavey replied to BalladOfStruth | 1 year ago
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He posted it on twitter, so just search his timeline if you want to watch it, I thought it was alot less marginal than the bus setup, driver totally at fault, and JVs brakes clearly work 3

but still a couple of interesting points it raised I thought.

Like if I'm at a junction and I know I've got a less experienced rider directly behind me, do I ride this differently to provide better protection to them,am i responsible as lead out rider not to create problems for them or treat it like theyre adult enough to cope with whatever happens next just deal with it?

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grOg replied to BalladOfStruth | 1 year ago
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I saw that video; JV could have used the cycle lane to let the van driver get past but no, JV had to move over on the van because he wants content for his tweets and it was JV that started the verbal confrontation with the van driver, who wound down his window to reply.

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levestane | 1 year ago
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Denim (serge de Nîmes). French fabric for a french team.

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The Larger Cyclist | 1 year ago
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https://metro.co.uk/video/driver-caught-using-elbow-to-steer-car-transpo...

Notorious Police driving around in HGV's and posting footage online.....

 

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Awavey | 1 year ago
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Im less bothered by the look, than the fact theyre made out of denim,and I appreciate cowboys used to wear them in saddles too, but cycling is going to make things alot more bio hazard unfriendly after a few hours racing a bicycle

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Daveyraveygravey replied to Awavey | 1 year ago
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Awavey wrote:

Im less bothered by the look, than the fact theyre made out of denim,and I appreciate cowboys used to wear them in saddles too, but cycling is going to make things alot more bio hazard unfriendly after a few hours racing a bicycle

Talking of bio hazards...  used to have what were called Touring shorts about 20 years ago.  They had a cycling pad, and they were cotton or some similar material, with a reasonable pocket on each leg.  Very practical, very comfy.

Until I got a pilonidal sinus, partly because of the big seam straight up the middle of the back of them.  Never wore them again...

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SimoninSpalding | 1 year ago
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It's a shame they didn't really lean into it and go for the full double denim look.

I have never liked the brown shorts, I think these are OK, would always wear black myself.

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lesterama replied to SimoninSpalding | 1 year ago
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Carrera pulled off double denim perfectly with panels on the team tops

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rct | 1 year ago
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Just the lack of originality that gets me.

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the little onion | 1 year ago
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Ag2R have always had the best kit in the peleton. From the waist up.

 

And the worst from the waist down.

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