Clip-in carnage: Tricky transition troubles triathletes; New year, same bad driving caught on camera by Jeremy Vine (+ cop defends not using 'murder strip'); Aero wizard Dan Bigham joins Ineos; Marvellous memes + more on the live blog

The most annoying bicycle maintenance task is installing and removing bottle cages. Boneheadedly simple yet takes way more time than it deserves. Think about it and you'll agree.

— Bike Snob NYC (@bikesnobnyc) January 4, 2022

Shout-out to my 3T stem with the bolts facing towards the saddle, meaning tightening and loosening with a multi-tool makes you want to lob your bike in a hedge...but yes, I agree, bottle cages are another frustrating one. Honourable mention to forcing a tight tyre over the rim, especially when it's January, pissing down and you last felt your fingers two hours ago...

Which maintenance jobs really grind your gears?

Any idea who installs these crap not-fit-for-purpose bike stands around Mayfair? @CityWestminster @Westminster_LCC @WestminsterSts pic.twitter.com/JeBU8e8USH

— RossiBike (@RossiTheBossi) January 3, 2022

If Carlsberg did bike parking solutions, they'd be a hell of a lot better than this...

Le Col has backed up its passion for women's cycling by investing in the development of female riders via the pro team formerly known as Drops—Le Col. Now, Drops has been...well, dropped, and the team will continue under the Le Col Wahoo banner for at least two more years.

"Our commitment goes beyond the kit," Le Col founder Yanto Barker said. "With the Le Col Wahoo team we have a collective set of matched goals, values and ideas to work on. This is an incredibly exciting team, with some of the strongest young bike racers. It’s been an honour to work with the team for the past few seasons, and we are looking forward to that relationship continuing as Le Col pledge to triple our investment with title sponsorship."

Bike-sharing alla milanese pic.twitter.com/UogBIZRrOP

— Simon MacMichael (@simonmacmichael) December 26, 2021 

I'm guessing not many of you took a dip onto the Express' website this morning, but if you have you might have seen this 'personal finance' story...

It centres around Dragons' Den's Peter Jones taking issue with John Readman's cycling pitch for Ride25, a trip allowing riders to cycle from the UK to Australia in 25 individual chunks. The article highlighted Jones' issues with the £1,250 trip, which includes food, accommodation and any medical expenses. The problem? The pitch was from 2015...

We're not really sure why it's been dug up now...someone must have been watching repeats over Christmas. However, the Express shared Jones' views on the trip...which turned into a rant about cyclists more generally..."I find it difficult enough living out in the country as it is.

"When I see and go through groups of like 50 going down the road, it drives me up the wall. You could have a stream of eight hours long worth of cyclists travelling from here to Amsterdam. I think that’s bloody annoying."

So what did we learn about personal finance? Not much.

Mark Hodson of the Central Motorway Police Group channelled his inner Surrey traffic cop to educate one unhappy replier claiming Vine should have been in the painted cycle lane.

That's a murder strip not a cycle lane, all it's fit for is collecting debris... I wouldn't use or expect any one else to, I'd be in the "prime" position all the way through that pinch point, @theJeremyVine cycling was excellent, the driver is an incompetent buffoon 👍

— Mark Hodson (@markandcharlie) January 3, 2022

Retired police cycling instructor Anthony Hunt added to Hodson's point, "Jeremy Vine was correct to take that position to protect his daughter from cars or maybe a truck trying to squeeze through and take his daughter out for the sake of five seconds progress. It’s a no-brainer really."

When cycling is life pic.twitter.com/81Trswk1GN

— Cycling Memes (@Cycling_Memes1) January 3, 2022

Cyclo-cross fans might take issue with me saying racing needs to start again. For what it's worth, wrestling control of the telly for the Boxing Day WVA v MVDP v Pidcock battle was well worth it. "They're not even riding their bikes," was heard muttered as the field lugged their machines up the stairs...

With the Australian races cancelled it looked as though Argentina's Vuelta a San Juan would be the season curtain-raiser on the road. Alas, that has now been cancelled too...

My attempt to convince my daughter that "it's safe to cycle three miles to Chelsea on a Sunday afternoon, don't worry" was always doomed to failure.
Bear in mind — official advice is to move into the centre of the lane as you approach a pinch point, so this driving is bizarre: pic.twitter.com/xyYIXetOjr

— Jeremy Vine (@theJeremyVine) January 3, 2022

Not even 10am on our first day back and Jeremy Vine has delivered the goods. A "safe" three-mile cycle across town on a Sunday afternoon interrupted by a driver taking issue with the presenter riding in the middle of the lane and not in the painted cycle lane in the door zone. 

Needless to say the new year hasn't brought a change in attitudes on social media...

No, that's a negligently designed cycle lane - you should never ride at the edge through a road narrowing. Paint is not protection. Someone with cycle instructor training like me would tell you to ignore that lane as it's showing the most dangerous bit of that road to ride on.

— CyclingMikey tired of road crime. 🇪🇺🇳🇱🇿🇼 (@MikeyCycling) January 3, 2022

Col, this is urgent now. YOU MUST STOP DRIVING UNTIL YOU HAVE RETAKEN YOUR TEST.

— Jeremy Vine (@theJeremyVine) January 4, 2022

use the cycle lane-that's what they are for and proving a point by putting your child at risk is madness. the driver was giving the recomended space you drove into their space

— BAC (@BAC64) January 3, 2022