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Woman born a man sets world record in first race at world cycling championships

Congratulation to Canadian Rachel McKinnon for winning the women’s sprint 35-39 age bracket at yesterday’s world cycling championship in Los Angeles. Rachel is a natural, tweeting: “I broke the 200m WORLD RECORD this morning. It was my first indoor 200m…” Imagine how much faster Rachel, who was born a man and also holds a PhD in philosophy and focuses on gender studies, would go than the other women if she practiced?

And think how much better the England women’s rugby team could be with few trans players in it – we’d annihilate the opposition, literally. England’s current second row features Rowena Burnfield (5ft 10ins; 77kg); the men’s game boasts Joe Launchberry (6ft 4 inches; 118kg).

Rachel tweeted again, this time with the medal around her neck, hailing herself as the “First transgender woman world champion…ever.”

Plaudits came thick and fast on twitter. “Those poor women who trained so hard only to have this done to them,” said @stringfella_.

@Hitkicker noted: “Amazing! I was so enthused at reading this, I went out and challenged two 8 year olds to a 100m race. Guess what, I ONLY WENT AND FUCKING WON. First time running in a 8 year old’s race too!”

McKinnon was touched:

Which women is moot point?

 

 

Posted: 15th, October 2018 | In: Sports | Comment


‘Wanton and furious’ cycling is a crime but speeding on a bike is not

You can break the law is your cycle too fast. The Mail:

Battery-powered bicycles are being modified to travel at almost 30mph – twice the speed permitted in public places – putting owners and pedestrians at risk.

Cyclists fit devices that override a speed sensor on the bikes that cuts the motor at the legal limit of 15.5mph. Others are being sold bikes with motors that exceed the 250-watt power limit permitted on roads.

The Highway Code (rule 124) states speed limits but there are no figures for bicycles. And why is 15.5mph the maximum? How was that ascertained?

This site says:

Cyclists can’t be booked for speeding, but might be fined for ‘cycling furiously’ or ‘riding furiously’ which is an offence under the 1847 Town Police Clauses Act. However, cyclists can be convicted for ‘wanton and furious driving’ under the Offences Against the Person Act 1861 ( amended by the Criminal Justice Act 1948 (. 58), s. 1()) if they cause bodily harm to any person. They are then guilty of a misdemeanour and could, at the discretion of the court, be imprisoned for up to two years.

 

You can go fast but not go furious.

Posted: 5th, September 2016 | In: Reviews | Comment


Idiocy in a New York City bike lane

Stay in the bike lane. And stay to the end of this video. It’s not easy.

 


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Posted: 3rd, September 2016 | In: Key Posts, Reviews, Sports | Comment


New York Police Criminalise Cycling After Death

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WHEN a pedestrian died after being struck by a cyclist in Central Park, the NYPD reacted by launching a blitz on cycling violations.

Last weekened, police handed out 103 fines to riders  29 riders failed to stop for pedestrian and 26 ran red lights.

That seems not unfair.

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Posted: 23rd, September 2014 | In: Sports | Comment


Cycling Team Regrets Going For Beige

Cycling beige

 

 

Spotter: @StigAbell

 

Managing Editor of the Sun. Sunday mornings chatting on LBC.

 

 

Posted: 14th, September 2014 | In: Sports | Comment (1)


Driver ‘Deliberately’ Runs Into Cyclist In Manchester (Video)

GREATER Manchester Police are seeking the driver of a blue estate car who “intentionally into the back of the cyclist… slamming him to the ground”.

Det Con Darren Byrne says:

“This was a deliberate, shocking attack against an innocent man, who was lucky to escape more serious injury.”

Indeed.

 

Shocking stuff…

Posted: 30th, April 2014 | In: Reviews | Comment


In 1979 the British Cycling Bureau delivered these ‘Bikes of the future’

IN October 1979, the British Cycling Bureau invited designers to create the “Bike of the future”.

WINNER:

bike of the future

 

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Posted: 2nd, September 2013 | In: Flashback, Technology | Comment


Police say middle-aged men in Lycra are now the norm

lycra menMEN of a certain age dressed in Lycra Onesies and Lycra hot pants are on push bikes. It’s an unforgiving symphony of bulges, rolls and boniness. Tim Burton sensibly declined the chance to look like a former roadie for Pan’s People, preferring to wear denims and cotton T-shirt on his cycle.

He was soon stopped by Keynsham terror, PC Keith James.

Mr Burton later tweeted: Just got stopped by the police for ‘not wearing Lycra’ but being on a road bike.” 

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Posted: 26th, May 2013 | In: Reviews | Comment


Criminal investigation starts with Lance Armstrong, but he’ll keep £7.7m

THE problem with Lance Armstrong, now officially a cheat, is that he was tedious. If Armstrong had any discernible personality or was at all eccentric, all this cheating would’ve been really fun. He’s no Jacques Anquetil is he? There’s nothing about Armstrong that says ‘lovable rogue’ or ‘wild man of sport’. He just cheated so he could win.

And that is why everyone doesn’t like him. He’s tedious, ruthless and ambitious and little else.

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Posted: 6th, February 2013 | In: Sports | Comment


Petronella Wyatt and the cyclists: three broken arms and two muggings

COMPARE and contrast:

PETRONELLA WYATT, 19 February 2010, Daily Mail:

Last week I met a friend for coffee. ‘How is your mother?’ she asked. I stared into my latte. ‘Um, she had a serious accident. Her arm is broken.’ ‘Oh, no. What on earth happened?’ ‘She was run down by a bicycle.’

The inevitable convulsion took place in the nerves of my friend’s face. She looked as if she was going to laugh. She could not suppress a gurgling sound before she managed to compose her features into the correct position of commiseration and shock, and say: ‘How awful!’

But once you stop laughing, it isn’t really funny at all. My mother is elderly and frail. She lives in North London, and was crossing the road after dark when she was hit by a cyclist who did not have his lights on.

She fell on her back and hit her head. She was bleeding. The cyclist didn’t bother to stop. A kind passer-by took my mother to hospital, where was told she was lucky to have escaped concussion or a broken back.

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Posted: 12th, September 2012 | In: Reviews | Comment


Cycling in London: only the very best survive

AFTER all the cycling success at London 2012, what is life like for London’s two-wheelers for a budding Bradley Wiggins, Laura Trott or Chris Hoy? Lewisham Cyclists have produced a video of life on London’s Post-Olympic lanes. The junction at Greenwich High Road, Deptford Bridge, Deals Gateway and Blackheath Road is a great challenge that only the very best – and lucky – can survive.

You don’t need to be on drugs to be good on a bike, but – as Lance Armstrong’s case tells us – it helps:

Spotter: 853

Posted: 25th, August 2012 | In: Sports | Comment


The Huffy Radio Bike – With AM Radio!

CONTINUING Anorak’s look a bicycles and cycling, we bring you the 1955 Huffy Radio Bike. The bike contained an AM radio.

Boys Life: “Not a toy. Powerful radio has lock, sensitive tuner, volume control, clear-tone speaker. The bike’s a beauty; streamlined design, gearshift, new easy-pedal tires.”

The radio is in the body. It uses vacuum tubes. The batteries are on the back.

Wowzer!

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Posted: 4th, August 2012 | In: Flashback, The Consumer | Comment


Elephant does not like being overtaken by cyclist (video)

MESSAGE to Brqdley Wiggins. When cycling in India take care when overtaking elephants…

Posted: 4th, August 2012 | In: TV & Radio | Comment


The cycling sewing machine of 1939

CYCLING. CYCLING! That’s good, Olympic champions Bradley Wiggins, Chris Hoy and Victoria Pendleton. But can you cycle and sew your own knees up..? In 1939, he could:

 

Spotter: PopSci’s Most Impractical Inventions

Posted: 3rd, August 2012 | In: Flashback | Comment


A history of British cycling in brilliant photos – 1895 to the present

ITS as easy as riding a bike. So they say. It turns out that the British are rather good at riding bicycles. We’ve trawled the archives and can bring you the history of British cycling in photos – 1895 to the present:

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Bradley Wiggins, winner of the 2012 Tour de France cycling race rides up the Champs Elysees with his son during a parade after the last stage of the race in Paris, France, Sunday July 22, 2012. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

Posted: 3rd, August 2012 | In: Flashback, Key Posts, Sports | Comment


A Ride of Death – The scary 1940s cycling safety pamphlet

SIR Chris Hoy and Bradley Wiggins have got us all on our bikes. But a word of warning. “A RIDE OF DEATH” is a brochure from the 1940s, produced by the police Safety Council. Children were taught that just looking at a bicycle would you killed. It’s not just the sharp bits of exploding metal that slice your skin. It’s the cars. The buses. The lights. The night. The transport plane. The pavements that “suddenly appear” and causes death…

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Spotter: Gene Gable

Posted: 3rd, August 2012 | In: Flashback, Key Posts | Comment


Romford Road Rage Cyclist Captured On Camera (Video)

SOMEONE call the mayor of Vilnius – a cyclist needs you help.  The peddler, known only as kmcyc, has posted a video on  YouTube of an altercation at the Brewery shopping centre in Romford last Wednesday July 27.

The cyclist passes the roundabout on London Road, Romford. He is shouted at by the passenger in a silver Ford Fiesta. The passenger -flat cap, cartoon walk, clenched fists and low brows – gets out of the vehicle to share his wisdom with the cyclist, who is recording the matter on his helmet camera.

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Posted: 4th, August 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comments (4)


New York Police Stop Dutch Cyclist For Wearing ‘Disturbing’ Outfit

IN New York, Dutch tourist Jasmijn Rijcken, 31, is riding her bicycle. The police pull her over. Says she:
“He said it’s very disturbing, and it’s distracting the cars and it’s dangerous. I thought he was joking around but he got angry and asked me for ID. I didn’t even think for one second that my outfit could be harmful or disturbing.”

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Posted: 14th, June 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)


Cyclist Aziz Awang Wins With Huge Splinter Though His Leg: Photos

AZIZULHASNI Awang is the Malaysian cyclist who crashed at the Manchester Velodrome and got back on his bike with a large shard of wood sticking through his leg.

(And you thought cycling was just going round and round and round. This is pedal-powered Formula one, folks. Buy your Olympic tickets now!)

The yet more incredible thing is that Awang finished third – good enough to earn him the Track Cycling World Cup title.

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Posted: 21st, February 2011 | In: Sports | Comment


Cyclist Hit By Speeding Corpse

HEADLINE of the day comes from China: “Student hit by corpse thrown from speeding car.”

Or: “Cyclist hit by speeding corpse.”

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Posted: 10th, April 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment


Lance Armstrong says no to drugs

DURING a stage in the Tour of California, which finished this weekend, Lance Armstrong was confronted by a non-fan wielding a giant syringe. Armstrong whupped cancer and he has never failed a drugs test, but he can’t escape the whispers that he achieved his trillion Tour wins by foul means. Still, he won this encounter:

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Posted: 23rd, February 2009 | In: Sports | Comment


Schumacher Tests Positive

GERMAN race ace Schumacher tests postive for banned substances:

German cyclist Stefan Schumacher, a double stage winner in the 2008 Tour de France, has tested positive for the banned blood booster EPO, says the L’Equipe website.

You didn’t think it was the other one, did you..?

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Posted: 7th, October 2008 | In: Reviews | Comment