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Was talking to a guy who runs a bus company here. He said that the problem with electric buses is outside cities they're pretty complex to run (and not that straightforward in cities for that matter). He's replacing his diesel buses but for each of those he needs 2 or 3 electric buses as the recharge time is "not trivial" even compared to cars and if you're out in the sticks, you need get back to a proper charging location (not the local public charging point like cars). He said that hydrogen fuel cells are better but the buses are 2-3 times as much to buy (think he said over 1M euros but I might be misremembering).
Even charging infrastructure for cars and motos in a Grand Tour will be problematic, let alone that for buses.
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I’ve always thought this, plus how many vehicles aren’t really essential eg today in the women’s tt why did they need a team car with bikes and a shimano car covered in bikes? Shimano for any small nations without a car fine, but it’s a tt- where else will the team car be?!
What you don’t see watching on tv is how many official vehicles there are just to ferry around officials and vip’s- when I was involved in planning the Manchester track worlds years ago the cars were the main thing they talked about!
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Sponsorship deals? Auto companys love using bikes to Greenwash & look cool.
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This article from last September has the background to British Cycling's Shell deal https://www.cyclingnews.com/features/shaking-hands-with-the-devil-inside-british-cyclings-controversial-deal-with-shell/
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he really enjoyed the irnbru
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Yes they're awful.
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This - looks like Pidcock cycled into a space and Schwarzbauer tried too late to close it. I understand why you'd be annoyed if it cost you a medal.
Interesting that Schwarzbauer clearly views Pidcock as a dilettante which isn't a great look for the sport I don't think.
“But when he rides like this, I’m going to crash because he was straight into me and he used me as a barrier. I think no mountain biker would do this at all, like a pure mountain biker, [of] the community.”
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He took the inside line and pushed Schwarzbauer wide. It's the kind of thing that happens on every corner in CX, but I guess Schwarbauer wasn't expecting it here. In the broadcast the actual contact was obscured by a tree, so you can't see what kind of contact there was. My opinion it wasn't the most sportsmanlike move but it's a racing incident.
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I thought it seemed fair and I'm pretty ambivalent.
Corner seemed to be fairly loose surface with out-of-your-skull level of fatigue, in a World Champs...
I'd bemiffeddevastated if I was Schwarzbauer, and sheepishly pleased with myself if I was Pidcock.
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"big chunky boi". I'm all aquiver.
Pidcock should certainly lose his knighthood. If, as Jacob Rees Mogg said, we ruled an empire with only 75 civil servants, we can certainly race mountain bikes without recourse to rough and tumble. -
Reading that Schwarz claims Pidz rode into him. That’s false. Schwarz makes contact by turning into Pidz, who got ahead before the corner and took it as fast as he could, as is his right. If Schwarz had his head in the game rather than already on the podium he could have contested a sprint for bronze. INNOCENT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iomIyE5vmeY
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Someone should tell the mtb ‘community’ if you get done up the inside …
- Drag the back brake and wait for Pidders to run wide, sprint up the inside
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- Drag the back brake and wait for Pidders to run wide, sprint up the inside
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Cars, not very far.
Motorbikes, probably a little further.
Buses, etc, idk.