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The pain doesn't end at the finish line... Carlos Rodríguez taken out by broadcast crew after Tour de France stage; Cycling UK figure questions Telegraph claim "Britain's cycling boom went bust"; Vingegaard's bonkers climbing times + more on the live blog

Another double-header of Tour and Giro action, with Dan Alexander (optimistically) trying to keep on top of that plus everything else in the cycling universe this Thursday
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The pain doesn't end at the finish line... Carlos Rodríguez taken out by broadcast crew after Tour de France stage; Cycling UK figure questions Telegraph claim "Britain's cycling boom went bust"; Vingegaard's bonkers climbing times + more on the live blogCarlos Rodriguez Tour de France crash (Twitter)
06 July 2023, 07:55
The pain doesn't end at the finish line... Carlos Rodríguez taken out by broadcast crew after Tour de France stage

After four-and-a-half hours of brutal Pyrenean Tour de France action, ascents of an HC and first-category mountain and battling to stay alongside Tadej Pogačar, David Gaudu, Mattias Skjelmose, Simon Yates and the rest of the best riders dropped by Jonas Vingegaard's dominant attack, you probably just want to get back on the bus, have a shower, lie down and eat some proper food.

Quite far from the top of your list of 'things you'd love to do', I'd imagine, would be... getting knocked over by a backstepping sound guy...

Too cynical to suggest Netflix creating their own drama for season two of Unchained? There's a whole overspilling car park's worth of broadcasters at the Tour so perhaps unfair to blame the docuseries makers just yet. Surprising the guy didn't hear Rodríguez coming... sorry, there was absolutely no need for that atrocious brand of 'comedy' this early in the day...

Moving swiftly on...

Great piss-boiling work from Adam here...

06 July 2023, 16:06
As strong a language warning as we can offer for this one...
06 July 2023, 15:24
Tour de France over already? Think again! Tadej Pogačar roars back into contention with memorable stage win

A stage win AND 28 seconds back on GC, we leave the Pyrenees with Pogačar 25 seconds behind new yellow jersey Jonas Vingegaard. But today was about more than just seconds, a leader's jersey and a stage, it was proof that the Tour de France, which many believed was already decided after yesterday's dominance, still has plenty of life in it yet.

Sealed with a bow...

Jai Hindley's day in yellow was just that, he drops to third on GC, 1:34 behind Vingegaard. Shout-out to Brit James Shaw who took fifth from the breakaway. A huge step up from the British domestic scene two years ago... 

06 July 2023, 14:59
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Tourmalet times

 

06 July 2023, 14:51
Mips new Spherical tech looks good... so fancy they've written the description in latin

We're used to a fair bit of pretentious marketing tosh from cycling brands, but... 

Mips latin

In fairness to them we're guessing this is just a mistake, and we make plenty of them. But hey, nothing says cutting-edge safety tech like an explainer in an ancient language hardly anyone understands any more...

06 July 2023, 14:15
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Another social media app! Whether naming it after a terrifying apocalyptic film about the aftermath of a nuclear war is the best idea from Mr Zuckerberg will remain to be seen, but if you're checking it out you can now follow us in any case (and listen to our latest podcast)... 

06 July 2023, 14:07
Riders all over the mountain as Jumbo-Visma light up the Tourmalet

Now yellow jersey Jai Hindley has been dropped by the pace of Sepp Kuss, towing Jonas Vingegaard and Tadej Pogačar clear. Wout van Aert in the breakaway is presumably going to be very useful over the other side of the Tourmalet. Before then the breakaway, including Nottingham's James Shaw, have a whole lot of KOM points and a €5,000 prize to fight for. 

AND HE'S GONE...

Acceleration from the Dane and it's 1 vs 1... 

06 July 2023, 13:58
Another day. Another Annemiek van Vleuten Giro stage win

Number three of the week...

Van Vleuten now leads by 3:56 over second-placed Juliette Labous and looks almost certain to win a fourth Giro maglia rosa of her career, what would be an eighth Grand Tour too. Oh, and she's still got Tour de France Femmes to come before she retires at the end of this season. I guess we should be enjoying every dominant win while we can... 

06 July 2023, 12:02
Antonia Niedermaier cleared of fractures after shocking Giro crash, will return to Germany today

Thankfully the extent of Giro Donne breakthrough stage winner Antonia Niedermaier's injuries from that terrible crash yesterday is some now-repaired damage to her teeth. 

Canyon-SRAM confirmed: "At Cuneo hospital, she’s been cleared of any fractures. She has some damage to her teeth, which has been repaired. "She will return home to Germany tomorrow. We're sending our best wishes to Antonia, who's bitterly disappointed to leave the Giro."

Jayco-AlUla's Urška Žigart was also involved and "suffered a light concussion and skin abrasions" and has also left the race.

06 July 2023, 13:50
06 July 2023, 11:53
How skinny is that top tube?! Unreleased Factor O2 VAM breaks cover at Tour de France
2023 Tour de France Team Presentation Dylan Teuns Factor O2 VAM © Zac WiLLIAMS SWpix.com (t:a Photography Hub Ltd)

> Unreleased Factor O2 VAM breaks cover at Tour de France

06 July 2023, 11:40
Trip to the Tourmalet
2023 Tour de France stage 6 (ASO)

A big ol' climb today... 

Thanks to the good folks over at Strava, that's what the ascent looks like, what sort of time we can expect, and all the vital stats...

A fun fact for you as well, 75 per cent of the peloton (131 out of 176) are on Strava, here are the best of the bunch to drop a follow and track their progress...

> Tour de France 2023: The best pros to follow on Strava during the world's biggest bike race 

06 July 2023, 11:37
Learner driver who was speeding and on a phone call, jailed for killing 63-year-old man cycling to work
Centenary Way, Manchester (Google Maps)

> Learner driver who was speeding and on a phone call, jailed for killing 63-year-old man cycling to work

06 July 2023, 10:26
Skills

Less impressed by those grates...

06 July 2023, 10:12
06 July 2023, 10:18
"The bike boom is measured by bike use, not bike sales": Your thoughts on The Telegraph declaring "Britain's cycling boom is bust"
Telegraph story 4th July 2023

Some reaction...

Matthew Acton-Varian: "Of course when people keep up cycling, they are not going to keep the perfectly good machine they are currently using, and go out and unnecessarily buy a new one. In the middle of a financial crisis. So that must be why bike sales have dropped. I can't imagine the financial crisis, or the fact that more people actually now have a bike they bought only a couple of years ago to ride actually being the reason..." 

Do I detect a hint of sarcasm?

cyclisto: "The bike boom is measured by bike use, not bike sales."

OmarCuoreMatto: "People who went back to cycling in recent years generally bought a bicycle once and are going to stick to it for many years to come. Measuring the success of cycling from the sale figures for new bicycles makes no sense."

06 July 2023, 09:11
"There are no more borders in the European Union. However, you will always know where the Netherlands begins."
06 July 2023, 08:45
Cycling UK figure questions Telegraph claim that "Britain's bike boom went bust"

Cycling was back in The Telegraph again on Monday in a very on-brand way...

Telegraph story 4th July 2023

'So how did Britain's cycling boom go bust,' I hear you ask...

Well, according to the national broadsheet, the 'golden age of cycling' seen during the pandemic has dropped off a cliff with bike sales down (they've fallen to the lowest level in 20 years, to be fair), plus all the supply chain and component shortage issues we've heard a thousand times before in the past few years.

Even Roger Geffen, a policy director at charity Cycling UK, admitted to the newspaper's reporter "we do seem to have lost sight of that silver lining" cycling enjoyed during the pandemic. "Some of the people have carried on – long may that continue – but we did miss an opportunity," he suggested.

However, has the bike boom gone bust? Sharing the piece on social media, Geffen's Cycling UK colleague Sarah McMonagle highlighted a different point from the piece... there are still 11% more bikes on the road than there were pre-pandemic...

P.S. see evidence of Britain's bust state of cycling below... 

06 July 2023, 08:09
06 July 2023, 08:16
Jonas Vingegaard's bonkers climbing times

 

06 July 2023, 08:10
REVIEW: Trek Émonda ALR 5 2023
2023 Trek Émonda ALR5 - riding 4.jpg

> REVIEW: Trek Émonda ALR 5 2023

The tyres hold it back a bit, but underneath is a comfortable alloy road bike with a great performance...

How many stars did Stu give it? 

06 July 2023, 13:50
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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marmotte27 replied to quiff | 1 year ago
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Proving thereby that the transport of people is far from being the actual object of the car industry. (And before some wise guy thinks he's come up with a great put-down, it isn't the aim of the bike industry either.)

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AidanR | 1 year ago
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Looking at Vingegaard's time, I do question whether he is clean.

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ErnieC replied to AidanR | 1 year ago
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AidanR wrote:

Looking at Vingegaard's time, I do question whether he is clean.

could probably ask that question about most of the gc contenders. 

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AidanR replied to ErnieC | 1 year ago
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Yeah, true. But Vingegaard's going up the same climb more quickly than two other top GC contenders by a considerable margin.

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ErnieC replied to AidanR | 1 year ago
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AidanR wrote:

Yeah, true. But Vingegaard's going up the same climb more quickly than two other top GC contenders by a considerable margin.

Early days of the Tour, so all still fresh, perhaps Pog was having an off day? He is certainly having a better day in Stage #6 and did a decent time I would say. Doping - who knows, all is possible and they probably are but no positive tests so I'm going to naively go with no. 

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ErnieC replied to AidanR | 1 year ago
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AidanR wrote:

Looking at Vingegaard's time, I do question whether he is clean.

Now I'm wondering if Pog is clean. 

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AidanR replied to ErnieC | 1 year ago
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Fair!

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Hirsute | 1 year ago
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Came across this absurd clickbait
https://www.essexlive.news/news/essex-news/should-cyclists-essex-made-us...

Have insurance, number plates and indicators.
Indicators....

Tell me you are a moron without stating it.
They also included the claim that Italy are doing this. How does any of this relate to journalism?

Comments are as ill informed as the "article", so don't bother reading it.

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perce replied to Hirsute | 1 year ago
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Could it be Nigel?

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DoomeFrog replied to Hirsute | 1 year ago
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Well as we all know manual Indicators are also known as Arms and perfectly legal to use in cars, horses, bicycles etc.

It would be nice is the motoristas also used thier indicators when turning, overtaking, entering and exiting roundabouts.  So many just don;t bother on roundabouts, it is one of the biggest bugbears I have when driving let alone cycling.

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Bowks replied to Hirsute | 1 year ago
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It would be great if the drivers in Essex abided by those 3 things. 

I've never cycled anywhere with such a high percentage of twats in cars as in Essex.

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Cyclo1964 replied to Bowks | 1 year ago
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Suffolk is getting there but then we are next door !

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SimoninSpalding replied to Bowks | 1 year ago
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I dunno, I really notice it whenever I venture from the flatlands to Rutland around Oakham. Lots of people in a hurry on a Sunday close passing in Range Rovers and Audis, they can't all be brain surgeons on their way to perform a life saving operation - can they??

My experience of cycling in Essex is around Great Dunmow and Saffron Walden which you always get the impression would rather be in Cambridgeshire anyway!

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Robert Hardy replied to SimoninSpalding | 1 year ago
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Rutland has the worst road death rate of any county in England.

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Robert Hardy replied to Bowks | 1 year ago
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Don't try Birmingham then! My son who happily cycled round Liverpool and took rocket firing scallies in his stride refuses to cycle now his work has taken him to Birmingham outside a handful of routes.

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wtjs replied to Hirsute | 1 year ago
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Comments are as ill informed as the "article"

Worth reading, just to experience what passes for thinking in that lump of  scrap above the neck in the other 95%

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Hirsute replied to wtjs | 1 year ago
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Yes, depressing.
Also 83% voted in favour at the point I voted.

Halo II headband is working well though.

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wtjs replied to Hirsute | 1 year ago
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Halo II headband is working well though

Yes- hang the expense!. Thanks to the recommendations, I'm getting one when I decide on the colour, and the Lawrence of Arabia neck protector too

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redimp replied to Hirsute | 1 year ago
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Currently 78% of the people who have voted are morons

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