Le pauvre chien qui a eu la peur de sa vie #Dauphin pic.twitter.com/ehQDhVNljf (@keyshawn__bava) June 6, 2024 As this footage shows, the bunch was hurtling along when the crash occurred, with riders falling like skittles This footage, recorded by a spectator on the roadside, captures the speed the bunch was traveling []The post Spectators footage captures speed, sheer scale of Dauphin crash | Video appeared first on Sticky Bottle.

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The ZLM Tour takes place from the 5th to 9th of June this year. The Dutch race has become a popular preparation race ahead of the Tour de France as it features plenty opportunities for the sprinters to fight for and take victories ahead of a big goal. We preview stage 3.Stage 3 is not too different...

Stage 6 of the Criterium du Dauphin is a crucial day for the overall classification. We preview the day after the likes of Remco Evenepoel, Primoz Roglic and Juan Ayuso have crashed. Whilst the stage isn't the hardest of the three remaining mountain stages, it will be a test for those who have fall...

CyclistCopenhagen: City of bikesAsk me how I train for hills, says Rikke Laursen. My husband is 90kg; he hangs onto my saddle and I have to pull him up the short climbs we do have.Its an unorthodox method, but it clearly works. Rikke was 2019 Masters World Champion, beating off high-altitude rivals despite living in the eighth flattest country on Earth: Denmark, average elevation 34m. (Pub quizzers: the Maldives is the flattest country on the planet, just 1.5m above sea level.) Related Posts Wetting the appetite: Behind the scenes gallery at the Tour de France Stage 1 in Copenhagen Government to invest further 175 million in cycling and walking infrastructure Paris and London: A tale of two cycling cities Along with being a highly accomplished cyclist, Rikke runs a coaching company, a coffee-cum-bike shop, a PR agency and various race teams, and from time to time commentates on Danish TV and radio. Obviously, some people just dont need to sleep, otherwise how else has Rikke found time to guide me round Copenhagen today?And were awayAs a one-time Londoner who lived in the capital during lockdown, there was the briefest of moments when the city centre was a cycling utopia for me, and ever since Ive wondered how else this might be achieved without the need for humanity to be facing grim death. And there is a way, I figured: just look at Copenhagen. From the World Economic Forum to the UCI, it has been given accolade after accolade, all declaring the same thing: this is the most bicycle-friendly city in the world. So why here, and why not a city like London?The Kissing Bridge is open to cyclists unless it is retracting to let boats through just beware the tight turn at the end that slows bikes down, sometimes rather suddenly.Mike Massaro / CyclistOK, there is the obvious argument of population; Copenhagens is around 660,000 while Inner London (because Greater London is too much of a sprawl to be a useful comparison) has a population of 3.54 million. Yet this doesnt quite stack up, as Copenhagen isnt exactly shy of people population density here is 7,332/km2, compared to London at 11,098/km2. For context, Manchester is 4,716/km2, Britains smallest city by population, St Davids in Wales, is 1,728km2, and Britains least populated place, Eden in Cumbria, is just 26/km2.But as Rikke and I pedal out from Copenhagens old town, Indre By, another reason is already obvious the sheer number of cycle lanes. Official sources here count 546km, most of which is segregated. According to Transport for London, there are just 360km of similar cycleways in the UKs capital. It also might help that Copenhagens first cycle lane appeared in 1905, some 29 years before the UK opened its first along the A40 in west London. Needless to say the cyclists of 1934 Britain gave it a tepid welcome.Christiana bikes are made in the eponymous community set up by hippies.Mike Massaro / CyclistAfter 5km of mostly segregated lanes, Rikke calls out for a coffee stop. To our left, the words Bosch and a huge cartoon sparkplug are writ large in neon, a local landmark of the achingly cool Meatpacking District, where industrial spaces like this old auto parts warehouse have been turned into funky cafes, restaurants and galleries.Here is home to one of Copenhagens best coffee shops (after her own, says Rikke), which unsurprisingly given its name Prolog is a popular haunt for cyclists. For snobs and bluffers, Im told the reason a Copenhagen flat white tastes as it does is the Danes use of slightly soured milk.Coffees reduced to tide marks, we wind our way through the streets and across the Cykelslangen, whose twisting, elevated passage makes supreme sense given its translated nickname: the Bicycle Snake. This is one of three pedestrian and bike-only bridges across Copenhagens Inner Harbour, a concrete and wire totem to the Danes love of cycling and design. We think of our architects like other people think of movie stars, says Rikke.Mike Massaro / CyclistWe continue up the eastern side of the harbour, the Copenhagen Opera House ahead, the neighbourhood of Freetown Christiana to our right. The former is one of Denmarks most controversial buildings, gifted by Mrsk shipping magnates and heavily criticised by its architect, Henning Larsen, who wrote a whole book about how much he hated it. Larsen described it as bygherreinficerede, a brilliant word meaning owner infected.Christiana, on the other hand, couldnt be more different. A hippy community set up on an old military base, it enjoys a murky relationship with the city as a place where cannabis is openly sold and smoked. Its also where Christiana bikes are made, those wooden-box cargo trikes you may have seen at the school gates.Speaking of schools, theres another feather in the Copenhagen cap: local authorities, and even schools themselves, can apply for schemes and grants to lower the density of traffic in their area so as to make the school run more appealing by bike.Denmark is full of monuments to itself, such as the 26-metre-tall Tuborg beer bottle and statue of polar explorer Knud Rasmussen looking out to sea.Mike Massaro / CyclistIn London, its estimated the school run is responsible for 27% of all morning traffic, with 20-25% average for the rest of the UK. By contrast, Copenhageners ride a bike for more than half of all journeys, from dropping off the kids to getting to work, whereas this mode share in the UK is less than 5%.We cross back over the harbour on arguably the most famous of the bridges here, Inderhavnbroen, but better known by its nickname the Kissing Bridge, so-called for the way its two halves retract and close to let boats through. Its also infamous with cyclists for a tight turn off the end which has seen its fair share of spills. Apparently the locals actually quite like it this way though. It means people have to slow down, says Rikke.Mermaids, deers and trainsWhos the most famous Dane? While recent years may have seen Jonas Vingegaard knock Peter Schmeichel down into third, top spot will forever be Hans Christian Andersen. Adored by generations and venerated in Disney, Andersen has been commemorated on the edge of Copenhagens harbour with a statue. Only its not of Andersen but of his creation, The Little Mermaid, which now stands as a Danish national symbol as much as anything else. So much so Den lille Havfrue has twice been decapitated, has had her arm removed, her body daubed in paint, a dildo inserted in her hand and had her base blown up with explosives so as to tip her into the harbour, all in the name of political causes.Continuing north, we pass other monuments to Denmark the 26-metre-tall Tuborg beer bottle, Mrsk container ships, a statue of polar explorer Knud Rasmussen looking wistfully out to sea. And, if youre into this kind of thing, one of the most famous petrol stations in the world, the Skovshoved Tankstation designed by Arne Jacobsen and looking every bit like it has been lifted from The Jetsons a 1930s imagining of a future that never happened.Mike Massaro / CyclistOur turning point is the Jgersborg Dyrehave, a forest-cum-country park populated by deer and used by Copenhageners as a country retreat for walking and cycling. In another world, another city, there would be far fewer families here with cycling kids, but Copenhagen is different. It has the S-train, a station for which is just outside the park.Sure, most cities have trains, and most trains you can take your bike on. But unlike the UK, where obtaining a bike space on a train can be Kafka-esque (and thats if theres even one available), S-trains carry dozens of bikes at a time, in neat carriages where you can sit with your bike.Copenhagens famous Skovshoved Tankstation looks like a petrol station out of The Jetsons.Mike Massaro / CyclistWe board the train at Klampenborg Street for a few krone, and several stops later we emerge from Nrreport station via one of the largest bike parking situations Ive ever seen. Racks upon racks of bikes are parked dozens deep, a small sea of the things, unlike the environs of any station Ive seen. Immediately my UK brain kicks in and I realise I have one more question for Rikke: what about bike theft? Surely thats a problem?No, not really. The thing is, there are more bicycles than people here anyway, and really everyone has the same kind of bike, so why would you want to steal anyone elses?Its simple enough logic and, like everything Ive seen here to do with cycling today, it just works.Planning to succeedAn expert guide to what makes Copenhagen so bike-friendlyThe S-train network is designed for people travelling by bike something of an alien concept in the UK.Mike Massaro / CyclistWe have time on our side, says Niels Hoe, who has worked in urban planning for more than 20 years, including for the City of Copenhagen, and currently runs Hoe360 Consulting, specialising in walking, cycling and green mobility projects. Weve been building bike lanes for more than 100 years but for me the biggest difference between Copenhagen and so many other places is funding.When budgets are discussed here, cycling is a given like car infrastructure is a given, and municipalities dont have to fight for one-off lump sums. That means you can plan for the future. It also means planners dont have that terrifying thing where suddenly theyre given 100 million as a one-off, then if anything doesnt go right and they need to revisit it, the answers no, you had your money.Another thing is people here understand the situation theres a huge societal benefit to cycling and the big thing is health. People in better physical health need less care, take fewer sick days and are happier and more productive. If you cycle a bike you effectively give the economy 7DKK [approx 80p] per kilometre [driving a car actually costs the economy 6.5DKK/74p per kilometre].Often the argument is that if you take away parking outside shops and put in bike lanes then you lose business, but studies show that cyclists spend an equal amount of money. They just shop more often, plus there is a bigger chance of running into someone you know and stopping for a drink or food and spending money that way.Then the last thing: its obvious to Copenhageners that if you replaced the bikes with cars, things wouldnt be very nice the noise, the pollution so I think even when governments change, the cycling policy doesnt. The people wouldnt stand for it. This article originally appeared in issue 153 of Cyclist magazine. Click here to subscribe Related Posts Wetting the appetite: Behind the scenes gallery at the Tour de France Stage 1 in Copenhagen Government to invest further 175 million in cycling and walking infrastructure Paris and London: A tale of two cycling cities The post Copenhagen: City of bikes appeared first on Cyclist.

We've got a lot of racing in Switzerland coming up. One of the most exciting days of racing will be at the one-day race: GP des Kantons Aargau. The hilly race provides an opportunity for climbers and classics specialists on the 7th of June. We preview the race ahead.The 175-kilometer race starts a...

Primoz Roglic has been involved in the massive fall of the fifth stage of the Criterium du Dauphin along with other favorites of the race as Remco Evenepoel and Juan Ayuso. The Slovenian was suffering from shoulder pain in an image offered by Eurosport during the transmission and after the stage he...

As technology infiltrates the cycling world, two big benefits it brings are safety and security. Japans AlterLock has just announced the third generation of their discreet bike alarm and tracker, simply dubbed the Gen3.The Gen3 offers new features and improved worldwide connectivity over AlterLocks previous Gen1 and 2 devices. Since theyve moved the new device from Sigfox to LTE-M/NB-IoT connectivity, the Gen3 is now available in the USA. The Gen3 uses a loud alarm to deter theft, but if your bike still gets stolen it functions as a tracking device so you can hopefully find and recover it.AlterLock Gen3 Alarm and Tracker:The AlterLock Gen3 mounts to standard bottle cage mounts, and can be partially hidden underneath a water bottle. The device comes with a security bolt and installation tool so it cant simply be removed from the bike with normal Allen keys. The Gen3s dimensions are 167mm x 28mm x 9mm, and it weighs 53g.An improved battery now offers three months of life, and it charges via USB-C (cable not included). The water and dust resistance of the device has also been improved to an IP66 rating (safe for bike washing). The Gen3s operating temperature range is -20 to 60C.Bike Alarm:The AlterLock Gen3 features a three-axis accelerometer that uses a unique algorithm to detect motion. When the device is locked and motion is detected, an alert is sent to the users smartphone. If you are close to your bike the Gen3 uses Bluetooth to send a notification, but if youre somewhere far away it will use LTE-M/NB-IoT instead.The motion also triggers an audible alarm to scare a potential thief. The device starts with a 10-second warning tone, but subsequent alarms are louder and will sound for 5-60 seconds (customizable in the app). The alarm reaches up to 95dB, and you can choose between three different alarm sounds.The alarms motion sensitivity can be adjusted between high, medium, and low levels. For use with bike racks, the low setting should ensure it wont go off when your bike sways on the rack or gets nudged by another bike. You can also mute the alarm if desired.The Gen3 can be armed in three ways. If you and your phone are close to your bike, you can use the button on the side of the device to arm it. You can also arm the alarm through the AlterLock App, or use the Auto-Lock function to automatically arm the device when you move far away from your bike. In Auto-Lock mode, the device disarms itself when you are close to your bicycle.Location Tracking:After the Gen3s alarm goes off a set number of times, the device will start tracking itself silently. Unlike the Knog Scout bike alarm and tracker we recently covered, which uses Apples Find My App to locate itself, AlterLocks device is GPS-based. The Gen3 uses a combination of GPS, WiFi signals, and 4G base stations to track itself, which they say ensures visibility even in remote locations.If one of those signals is weak, the Gen3 will automatically switch to the most effective communication network to find itself as quickly as possible. Furthermore, AlterLock has improved its location information-finding algorithm to reduce positioning time and improve accuracy.One thing to note is that despite the Gen3 using GPS tracking, it wont send constant tracking data unless it has been set off while in locked mode. To preserve battery life, the device only sends out tracking data when its motion sensors have triggered it. However, the device does send out periodic transmissions in adjustable intervals of 6-24 hours even when the device is not in locked mode. These data transmissions could make it possible to track the device even if it wasnt armed when it was stolen.AlterLock App:The AlterLock App is compatible with smartphones running Android 8.0 or higher, or iOS 15 or higher. To take advantage of all the Gen3s functions, a service agreement is required. Without a service agreement, the device will still function as an alarm, but only when you are within Bluetooth range of your bike.With a subscription, the device works beyond Bluetooth range and allows for tracking and crash detection/notification capabilities. The Accident Detection function will send SMS notifications to your emergency contacts in the event of a crash. If you crash but dont need help, you can cancel the crash notification by pushing the Gen3s button within 30 seconds.You can also record information about your bike in the app, such as photos, specs, and serial number. Service plans are currently priced at $4.99/month or $49.95/year. One subscription allows you to use up to three Gen3 devices at no additional charge.Availability:Images c. AlterLockThe AlterLock Gen3 now uses LTE-M, NB-IoT, and Bluetooth connectivity to provide broader and faster worldwide communication versus the outgoing Sigfox. This switch opens up the Gen3 for use in the United States. Currently, UK customers cannot use the new Gen3 device due to a blockage on LTE-M access by telecom providers. AlterLock will continue to sell its Gen2 unit in this market until the situation is fixed.AlterLocks Gen3 is available in the following countries: Japan, Australia, Belgium, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Latvia, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Romania, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, United States.The AlterLock Gen3 will be initially sold in the USA through Amazon but AlterLock plans to offer direct online sales as well. MSRP is $169.95 USD or 159.95, and the Gen3 should be available by early summer. alterlock.netThe post AlterLocks Gen3 Bike Alarm and Tracker Updates Connectivity, Now Works in the USA appeared first on Bikerumor.

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For the first time in nearly two years, the Women's Tour of Britain returned in 2024 with an opening stage this Thursday in North Wales. Taking victory in a thrilling finale, Team SD Worx - Protime's Lotte Kopecky powered her way to a narrow sprint win ahead of Letizia Paternoster.Heading into the...