"We're going to block a cycle lane!": Anti-vax mayoral candidate Piers Corbyn parks in bike lane after nearly left hooking cyclist; Ganna's TT machine; Busy bike lanes; Jakobsen surprised by Groenewegen claim; Seven Everestings + more on the live blog

The days prior to the start of a Grand Tour also means finetuning the bikes to perfection 👌🔧

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— Lotto Soudal (@Lotto_Soudal) May 7, 2021

The final work is being done ahead of the Giro d'Italia's Grande Partenza in Turin tomorrow. On the menu is an 8km pan-flat individual time trial and another opportunity for Filippo Ganna to wear the maglia rosa at his home Grand Tour. On Sunday, the riders should get a relatively easy day in the saddle before the first bunch sprint in Novara.

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— birminghamcyclist (@brumcyclist) May 6, 2021

Another epic endurance challenge for you now...West Cumbrian cycling club Honister 92 showed their support for Gary McKee last weekend on the wettest day of the year. McKee is running 110 marathons in 110 days to raise money for Macmillan Cancer Support and West Cumbria Hospice at Home. 

One of the club's members, Scott Teare, has helped Gary on his other challenges, including riding alongside him when he ran the full Fred Whitton route in 24 hours. On Sunday, Scott ran the first 13 miles then jumped on the bike with his club mates for the second half.

Kask and Koo eyewear have announced they are official suppliers of helmets and eyewear for the Giro d'Italia and the Giro-E, an amateur e-bike event running alongside the pro race. As official helmet supplier, Kask will award each stage winner with a custom UTOPIA helmet designed in partnership with renowned artist Aldo Drudi.

Drudi has previously designed special helmets for America's Cup sailing teams Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli and Emirates Team New Zealand, as well as MotoGP rider Valentino Rossi. Kask helmets will be represented on the road too, with Ineos Grenadiers and wildcard entrants EOLO-Kometa using the Italian brand. Trek-Segafredo and their leader Vincenzo Nibali will use Koo's SPECTRO and DEMOS models of sunglasses.

It keeps getting worse the more you watch. Thankfully we were lucky enough to find this other clip of Piers Corbyn's terrible driving without having to watch more than a couple of minutes of this six-hour long election day livestream...skip to 4:53:50 to get the relevant bit.

The video we shared earlier showed the anti-vax, anti-lockdown and climate change denying London mayoral candidate nearly left hooking a cyclist...now another snippet from the same live stream shows Corbyn deliberately blocking a cycle lane because he cannot work out where he should go...

Minutes earlier, as Corbyn asks for directions the passengers in the car tell him to look out for cyclists before the cameraman says, "we're just getting a bit wary". After being unable to find where he should be going, Corbyn states, "we're going to block a cycle lane" and drives straight in.

After the mayoral candidate is out the car, the cameraman can be heard saying: "It seems we are now on foot, so it seems the cyclists are now safe, as far as I know."

Who knows what else we would find if we watched the other six hours of driving footage but frankly, who wants to do that?

Chris Froome has hit back at those who say he cannot reach his four-time Tour de France winning level and stressed it will take time to regain his form. In a video uploaded to his YouTube channel, Froome addressed his most recent performance at the Tour de Romandie where he finished 96th, one hour behind race winner and former teammate Geraint Thomas.

"Tour de Romandie was pretty brutal with the weather," Froome explained. "It started off well but the last couple of days the weather really turned. I started to feel my chest acting up. For me especially with my asthma I find the cold is quite a trigger.

"Over the last couple of races I've seen a lot of people on social media saying 'listen mate, hang up your bike. You're done. You're finished, you're never going to get back there' and it just makes me laugh. First of all, I don't think those people know just how bad my injuries were and how far I have had to come just to get back to a professional level of racing.

"Those people clearly don't know me as a person. I'm not just going to hang it up. I know I can get there. it is going to take time, I have got a lot of work that I'm prepared to do. That's what drives me. I thoroughly love the sacrifice and the whole regime. I'm not just going to throw in the towel because I haven't reached that point yet."

We asked you lot for your reaction to the big release of Rapha's special switch out kit that EF Education-Nippo will be wearing at the Giro d'Italia this month. A resounding 77 per cent of you gave it the thumbs up...and I agree, it is a beauty. But is it better than Israel Start-Up Nation's red wine inspired jersey that Alex Dowsett and Dan Martin will be repping? I am not so sure...

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Enjoying both ours and the A grade disrupters last year @EFprocycling new stripes for the giro. 👌👌 pic.twitter.com/SKMcpTl5QJ

— Alex Dowsett (@alexdowsett) May 6, 2021