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If you were a member for the liability insurance, London Clarion gives membership and that for a total of £15 and the opportunity to join in some very slow and social rides.

Cancelled. Felt sorry for the chap on the phone who was must have been dealing with constant calls. He was very polite and helpful.

This was the last straw. The transphobia, the ludicrous “don’t cycle on funeral day” and now this. It means my racing career is over but I’ll have to come to terms with that.

I am very sad to bring the news that Mick O'Rorke has died of his injuries following a road traffic incident while out cycling with the CTC near Bintree in Norfolk. Mick was a member of and regularly rode with the London Clarion.

https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/traffic/cyclist-flown-to-hospital-after-crash-bintree-norfolk-9265258

Ho, thank you!!!

A question if I may.

We went away for a weekend using my wife’s car. I popped my new Brompton in the boot.

When we got home I took my folded Brompton into the house and next day unfolded it.

This plastic bit dropped out. I can’t find anywhere on the Brompton that it might fit and suspect that it might simply have got lodged in the bike somewhere. Could anyone tell me if it is a Brompton component and if so what or, hopefully, it is something altogether unrelated. I have ridden the bike a few times since and nothing seems to be missing.

Is it all over yet or will the grief news cycle go on until the coronation news cycle starts?

Wish I could emigrate.

So Boris Johnson (remember him?) wants her to be known as “Elizabeth the Great”.

How does he work that out? She didn’t even shag a horse let alone expand the Russian or any other empire.

My new catchphrase to justify anything:

“It’s what the Queen would have wanted”

Will we get a fortnight of Republican royal bashing on the BBC to give balance to the content they are currently airing?

Pharaohs were buried with their retinue. Is it too much to hope that Witchell might be buried with the Queen?

First thing Charles should do is to dissolve Parliament and call an election

Football fixtures will have to be postponed which will give Potter more time too work with his new squad. Silver linings.

Will give Potter more time to prepare for his first game which will then be the CL game next week.

Looks like the Fulham v Chelsea game might be postponed.

Jason Sudeikis is another option

Sadly both Johnson and Dorries are available and more likely to get the nod than her.

I would love to see Emma Hayes get the job at Chelsea, ideally permanently but I would take her as an interim for the Fulham game.

In a live video Q&A, James Houston described the CP4 Parcours. He rode about 400 metres of it but decided that it was simply unsafe to ride any more and so walked the equivalent of a marathon pushing his heavily laden bike. He said he was concerned about damaging his bike and about coming off, breaking a bone and being left lying there until someone passed. There was no phone signal on the parcours. The latter (and possibly the former) problem would not have been an issue for those at the pointy end of the race as other riders were on their heels and they would have been found soon. James's issue was compounded by the aftermath of heavy rain that fell just before he got there and turned much of the parcours into a deep muddy quagmire.

He also said that he would never ride the TCR again as the danger from trucks and traffic was too great. He will be riding the Pan Celtic again.

Well done Ors. Although it does look like he’s more set up for touring than racing.

He still managed over 170 km per day, day in day out for over three weeks. That is pretty impressive.

Ors Kelemen is just about to finish. James Houston broke off a live Instagram feed to go and welcome him in.

Ors Kelemen is about 100 km from the finish. One would hope that he will arrive later today. Happily James Houston is following his dot and will go to the finish line to welcome him home.

One rider still on the road. The race will end later today or tomorrow

James finished at 4am local (2am London)

The first rider to complete the TCR on a Brompton. Amazing ride.

Thanks Ronnie

Interestingly, Ors has ridden 4203 km to James's 4559 km and so, even allowing for the gap currently between them, has routed over 200 km shorter. James is averaging 185 km per day whereas Ors is on 171 km. I am presuming that James has taken a less hilly route. They are both in the 25th day of their race.

James lost much of a day at the start when his rear triangle broke.