In Switzerland you'd have to pay a big dime, go to jail for 1 to 4 years, loose your license for at least two years, and your car can be confiscated and sold, or scrapped. More countries need to be like Switzerland (in this regard).
If you are doing twice the speed limit in Germany police will PRESUME that you are doing it deliberately and therefore double the fine. Which ist still far too little compared to scandinavian countries.
I mean, there are legitimately a bunch of Nazis who unironically like Hitler. Not saying they are responsible for the votes here, but something to keep in mind.
Mikey with Lorax vibes at 36:57 "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, Nothing is going to get better. It's not." Keep up the good work, Mikey.
@@CyclingMikeyEveryone down our way seems to be familiar. I have a friend who seems to know just about everyone. Haha. What are the chances that you know Alice Callinicos or family? Just an experiment.
I've only been a mechanic for a few years, but doing the Shimano "Inspection" made me feel like a chimpanzee assembling a jet plane. It is far beyond anything a normal shop mech would do. Utter stupidity. People are going to get hurt.
It's possible that you're the best bike mechanic on earth, and you're still not going to know if a crank that passes their inspection is just a day or two away from corrosion getting bad enough that it begins to fail. All you can really determine is if it's failed already. In my opinion (I feel like such a dork saying "my professional background is engineering" in a youtube comment, but I feel like in this case it's valid, lol) a good portion of the cranks made this way will eventually fail, and it's just a matter of time, exposure to challenging conditions, and whether or not they are replaced with new ones before that point is reached. The design is inherently vulnerable to it, and the new design seems to be aiming to reduce moisture ingress (to reduce corrosion) rather than addressing the core vulnerability of the way the two pieces are bonded together. I'm not certain with the latest generation of cranks but in the 7000/8000/9000 era, 105 cranks were bonded together differently and are much more robust, so if I'm going to use Shimano cranks these days, it's 105, even on an otherwise higher end groupset. Anyway, all that to say, I think you're bang on with your conclusion. People are going to get hurt. I'm not sure to what degree you could validate these even with non destructive testing using very extensive engineering tools, never mind with the tools available to a bike shop. There are tonnes of amazing bike mechanics, but even Nino Schurters mechanic isn't going to be able to tell you that your crank wont fail in the next month. Only if it's already started failing, and by that point from a safety perspective, it could go from just-in-time to too late very very quickly. I understand how prohibitively expensive it would be to replace all of these cranks, but like you said, people are going to get hurt, and the longer these cranks are on bikes the more that will happen. And I think a lot of people, including myself, are perfectly happy on their really nice 11 speed mechanical setups, and want to ride those for a long long time, which may mean more of the older ones start to fail. At some point that, too could get really ugly for Shimano. If this were happening to a crucial part in a car, there would be a full recall and that's that. It's concerning that so far the strategy for a critical bike part is "we'll replace yours but only if it breaks". What if it breaks when you accelerate out of a corner in your biggest gear on a mountain decent? Yikes.
@@joelecho all the subject cranks should be replaced, no quibble. Shimano’s shareholders have made plenty out of them over the years, it won’t hurt them to each take a one dollar hit on their yearly bonus and it might save a life or two.
can imagine that police are very positive about this kind of reporting - they have to turn up to accidents all the time where phone use is a factor and someone has paid a high price for the distraction
I am a cyclist and I despise this cool wanna be old man! Reporting drivers for holding their mobile phone while being stationary is just psychopathic obsessive-compulsive disorder!
I also ride a motorcycle, which means I take a lot more care, and pay a lot more attention further up the road than a standard car only driver would do. As the same with Bicycles if you come a cropper against a solid object it will end very badly for you. So I feel that all car drivers should be forced to spend X amount of time on a bicycle or scooter/motorcycle to learn their road craft and compassion before they jump in a sealed cocoon. Obviously there would have to be some exceptions due to disability, for example but I feel it would benefit everyone.
Putting yourself in the same shoes as someone else makes a huge difference. I have a neighbor that bluntly said she hates cyclist right infront of me who she knew is a hard-core cyclist. I almost wanted to tell her I hate impatient drivers. People needs to be educated in how to deal with cyclist on the road.
Go Mike!!! I'm a lighter version of you here in Cape Town. Especially with those who place me at risk. I do chase them and I generally ask why they put me in danger? OMG they get agro. But as per usual, it's those doing wrong are the ones who get aggressive. I don't have camera, but do carry pepperspray and a knife. (We get hijacked off our bikes here). Our big problem here are runners who run facing us, so overtaking is a problem. Everyone going the same direction, easier to overtake. Thanks for a great show guys and watch the blood pressure Mike!
have you ever made a change because someone random... or that you disrespect called you out? Probably not, you generally make changes because someone you actually have a relationship with and respect challenged you. I get that Cape Town is not the safest place, but change doesn't happen by creating situations where anger is the result!
He would be dead here in the US. I've been shot at three times, run off the road just about every week, and hit with pickup truck mirrors so many times I can't count (always a Trump sign and flags on the trucks). Reporting to local police does nothing; they all have the attitude I was asking for it by being in the road and in the way.
Riding in London I don't use a lot of the cycling lanes, one the surface is not fit for riding a bike on, two they are often filled with broken glass and puncture risks and three they generally are badly placed last 30m and disappear. The councils need to properly plan and build proper cycling infrastructure.
34:58 They are called Dunlop Valve. They are only rated for up to 6 bar and you can't check the pressure on them. You can only read the pressure while you're pumping up the tire and the reading will be a little higher than the actual pressure. But pressure gauges won't work since the valve only works one way.
I completely quit the “road” after many incidents in Arizona A friend was killed by a woman adjusting her radio-the ticket was $25 failure to yield. After seeing on the news - a 12 year old girl, riding with family in a bike lane… killed by a driver not paying attention, he wasn’t speeding or impaired -NO TICKET EVEN ISSUED ! I’ll only mountain bike from now on.
I’d be interested to know what the person who told you to “mind your own business” would do if they witnessed a mugging. Would they walk away and mind their own business, or would they inform the police???
If you were talking to a mugger, yes, they would say this. I have stopped 2 guys dragging women down the street and they told me it was none of my business. I pointed out I was a human and so was she so it was my business.
I started submitting clips to police after a road-rage close pass. I found I was submitting one for every 15 miles ridden (rural rides). I got a PassPixi and that dropped to more than a hundred miles per incident. Has been really really noticeable.
Huzzah to Mikey and to Jimmi for deciding to send in reports. The naysayers, well, everyone's on their own journey to come to terms with their entitlement, so best wishes to those people.
As an AV technician, please leave some slack at the ends of your XLR cables at the connectors! Tight bends like that are extremely harmful to cables and connectors. Just a lil bit of slack can make a huge difference!
A few lambast Mikey, in thr conversations I've had with him he at least gives you the respect for a reply 👍 ive got every degree of respect for him because he actually looks at things from a cycling pov. & so some are shocked by his reactions but im the same myself after nearly being killed after countless times your attitude changes quite a lot...
Regarding Shimano and fully wireless groupsets: I don't think it's a case that Shimano COULDN'T already do fuly wireless, I believe SRAM has the patent for individual derailleurs with their own batteries which makes it very difficult for Shimano (& FSA We etc) to make fully wireless groupsets
Some people (non cyclists) find it hard to see the bigger picture. A motorist who is willing to put a cyclist in danger, knowing just how vulnerable they are to a motor vehicle, won't think twice about doing dangerous sh!t around other motorists or in situations where the risk is not so obvious. These are the drivers who speed ALL the time, tailgate, block junctions, race the lights, overtake on blind bends/hills, and drive through the 20mph zone past our kids schools at 50+. But "nobody likes a snitch"? LOL some people just need to grow up.
Wonderful episode. I love Mikey. My perception as a cyclist is that drivers are now more emboldened and dangerous than before covid, and as cars keep getting larger and larger they also perform more close passes as roads are getting too narrow for everyone.
Re: the Shimano recall, I'm in partial agreement with Nic that cyclists should be keeping a close eye on their own bikes, however if it were a car company who's accelerator pedal might randomly fall apart as you're driving along, there's no way that the manufacturer would get away with saying 'just keep an eye on it yourself'.
They literally make this exact calculation….. in cars it’s actually easier because of the mot. The crank failure wasn’t a fault that occurred from new, it took a few years to develop. In car land this would actually be annual mot inspection.
Mikey inspired me to get my own safety camera and start reporting close passes and other dangerous behaviour on the road. But the main benefit for me is the deterrent effect of having an easily visible camera on you. It definitively makes an impact on how motor drivers behave around you, to the point where it's easy to manage the few odd d**khead cases. Those I do report.
With the latest statistics more cyclists are killed on country roads than in built up urban areas like London, this guy is a Legend showing people what they dont want to acknowledge themselves and its shocking to see what people resort to, to try and justify their actions. When the new rules for the highway code came in to try and give cyclists more visibility as road users, it was sadly ignored and dismissed. If we want change to make cycling safe in the UK we can always vote for a government that will actually do something productive about it.
SRAM patented having a removable battery on each derailleur. This is why Shimano have had to use a built in battery and not a swapable one. Most of the barriers to component development now are patent related. This is why SRAM still can not make a reliable front derailleur, why their chains have no chamfers and why it took until Shimano's patent to run out to use hyperglide style ramps.
It surprised me that I have encountered much more violence from car drivers as a cyclist over the years than Mikey has. I had one gentleman overtake me, then park on an intersection and get out of his car to fight me. I had one who accelerated into me and my bike while I was facing him on the road. Another one chased me through the traffic and tried to drive over me or hit me from the side. That's the most violent examples that I can think of. The two latter cases I reported to the police but they didn't take action. The driver in the last example sued me for damaging his car and harassing him with my apparently presence on the road and his case came to court. The first judge found me guilty and I needed to escalate it to the next court to get most convictions reversed. That all happened in Germany.
I get the ease of installing E-Tap, but all electronic groupsets are pretty much set and forget (mostly). With that said, Di2 is faster and the battery life is much longer. It sounds like people are just getting lazier. We went from mechanical to Di2, and the issues solved, noone had an issue with before. Now wireless groupsets. I have been using Di2 since 2011 and E-Tap since 2020. Currently running Red AXS ETap 12 speed on a bike and Dura Ace Di2 12 speed on another. I also have two mechanical Dura Ace 11 speed bikes. I love them all and have no complaints with any of them.
the interesting thing is that the submissions to police of footage is mostly drivers. but people complaining about it won't confront or abuse other drivers.
As a Bike Shop carrying out the Shimano Crankset inspections I always advise the Customer that if the Crankset passes the inspection it does not mean it won't fail at some point in the Future and the inspection is a bit like the MOT on a car its only good on that day and if they hear any creaking noises they should bring it back in for another inspection asap. I tend to air on the conservative side when inspecting the Cranksets and if there is any doubt it will fail the inspection and be returned for a warranty replacement. I am sure I am not the only Bike Shop taking this approach.
Cool that you got Mikey on! Great topic and discussion. In the US, there's so much more risk to doing this because of the firearm laws and the unrealistic equivalency between driving cars and freedom that we have.
RE Shimano cranks. My Ultegra crank looked fine but started clicking. I have a spare tiagra crank that I swapped it with including the 1x chain ring I use and pedals. So the entire drivetrain is the same except crank arms ... no clicking. Took it for inspection at my local bike shop, told them about the clicking and was surprised they passed it and when i questioned them they became quite combative. Looking at the crank afterwards it was as dirty as when I gave it to them. Given that a thorough clean is part of the inspection I can only assume it wasn't actually inspected properly according to the protocol. Not happy, I spoke to Madison and they told me that the clicking should have triggered a return to Shimano and to get it inspected at a shop further away that they recommended. I did and they failed it. The assumption is that all bike shops are scrupulous and honest which is why we hear about shops sending all cranks back but of course less than honest shops also exist. Why would a shop not properly inspect a crank but still pass it? I'm speculating here but my understanding is they get paid the same pass or fail, but a fail involves a whole lot of work whereas a pass involves filling out a form and claiming the inspection fee whether the work was carried out or not. For a lazy and dishonest shop owner taking a cursory look and passing it is easy money compared to doing the job properly.
Very interesting podcast! Out riding few weeks back and saw another guy with one of those PassPixi camera signs pinned to his jersey pocket It was very visible but mainly to notify drivers he’s recording and said it makes a huge difference to the amount of space people leave… food for thought for those experiencing close calls way too frequently
People think he's out there as a vigilante all day with no life, when actually bad driving is so rife that you could report hundreds of people on a single commute to work. I've had enough of it and it's scary being at the mercy of idiots in control of lethal weapons, so I'll be getting a bike camera for commutes soon
End of the day, use of the road by anything other than your own 2 feet is a privilege not a right. The more dangerous your mode of transport the more of a privilege it is. I think many car drivers are upset by the fact that the world is trying to build them out of it - and with good reason. For far too long we have relinquished huge amounts of space purely so those with cars can drive them around, and now in the modern era we're realising that we should really be prioritising people, not their private transport. Cars are an exceptional tool for getting where you want, but every tool has it's use case. You wouldn't use a saw to bang a nail into a fence, and you shouldn't really use a car for driving around town. End of the day, the people who react badly to this are the people who commit these offences themselves. After all, if they didn't run red lights, text while driving, and drive down the on-coming lane to skip traffic, what have they got to fear? It's one thing breaking laws that are purely an issue of convenience - for example, illegally streaming content because you don't want to pay extortionate subscription fees - but it's another thing to put other's lives in danger when doing so. It's similar to drink drivers. Plenty of videos from UK local police forces on youtube of them arresting drunk drivers and they all say the same thing. "I wouldn't hurt anyone" or "I'm not a bad person", all the while they are oblivious to the ambulance crew just meters away desperately trying to resuscitate the mother and child that they very much did hurt. Most, if not all, of these drivers seem to think that it's fine to be on their phone because they're stationary in traffic, or that they wouldn't hit someone while speeding, etc. They all seem to fail to grasp the concept of lethality. The average car is capable of killing a person at 5mph. That's a simple fact. All it takes is to ease your way forwards, still texting, and rear-end the traffic in-front of you, and in doing so crush the pedestrian who had decided to cross the road while the traffic was at a standstill. Imagine if those cars were loaded guns. Would these people flagrantly point their gun around and then complain when someone reported them to the police for putting everyone else in danger? The responsibility of driving is being aware of your surroundings - you have at your power the ability to kill and maim with little to no effort, it is your duty to ensure (as much as is possible) that those things do not happen.
I have a new hero! Part of the problem might be that drivers (and cyclists and pedestrians), never get any feedback on their behaviour in traffic. "Here is your license and off you go."
I need to get my cranks inspected. Rung the LBS, they wont inspect my crank unless its on a bike purchased from them because there are so many inspections required. My other LBS has said they will see me in three weeks... Are shops paid by Shimano to undertake the inspections?
I regularly change between several bikes with different electronic and mechanical groupsets and yes, electronic shifting is great, but having a fully mechanical and well maintained system ist an absolute blast. The lever throw, clickiness and general feel of the shifting mechanism in a mechanical groupset is unparalleled imo. electronic shifting works awesome but feels kind of generic and not that exciting...
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What a legend! :D Props for not sharing the face of Nics daughter all over the internet in such a nice way :)
Also Mikey's point about British driving standards is spot on -- as hard as it may be to imagine when you have a car buzz you at 18 inches on a country lane, they really are far higher than most other countries. Trust me, I live in America, where we've gone in 50 years from having a lower accident rate than the UK to having around three times the UK's accident rate, mainly due to faster, more reckless and more distracted driving.
In regard to having to bring your bike to a shop for inspection even though you work on your own bike. Removing and installing a shimano road crank takes MINUTES- you can do that yourself and inspect the crank for cracks, then bring the crank to a dealer if you see a crack. Easy Peazy.
Nearly all cyclists are also motorists, why do we speak as if no motorists cycle & no cyclists drive, someone visiting from another planet would think you must do one or the other the way we use the language on this subject.
I agree completely. This anti driver from one side and anti cyclist from the other treat people like different species. The right wing press seems to hate cyclists and the cycling press seems to do the same to drivers. Most cyclists are drivers, we are all pedestrians! Where as Cycle Mikey started off with good attentions, it's now all about views and shock value.
Found that really interesting. I ride with a camera purely because when it’s seen you have one drivers give you more room rather than reporting the drivers. I may reconsider my not reporting. Interested to know what others are using as I use the ghost xl mounted on helmet
At 56:16, so good to hear London police taking road safety seriously. I've been in a meeting with management from Chicago police where an administrator quite openly admit to speeding herself and regarded speeding on Lake Shore Drive as a victimless crime. Aside from the exposure of the bike trail to reckless driving, and the injury- or fatal-causing accidents, and the boost to motor vehicle insurance costs for Chicago, I see all the damage to infrastructure, coming out of my property taxes. Victimless my foot.
I used a hire cycle in London from Clapham to Battersea yesterday, as I have done many times. But decided to keep a tally. 11 cyclists blatantly jumped lights, 16 others including me (of course) didn't. 1 ran through an occupied pedestrian crossing dodging people. Of those 11, 5 were on hire cycles, 2 were food delivery, 4 were drop bar, I think id guess 1 was a document courier. Conversely, 2 speeding motorbikes, 4 cars in ASL boxes, 6 jumped lights, 2 failed to stop at a crossing with people waiting. 3 close passes. Been watching Mikey on Twitter for a long time, and he's right, there are bad drivers and cyclists and there are good ones. The divisive "us v's them" is nonsense, as we know around 85% of cyclists drive, and thousands of kids cycle to school. If I see another comment that "you don't pay road tax" I will have an embolism.
I don't ride road anymore. 4 years now. Only gravel and some MTB. Not looked back since. Of course it depends a lot on where you live, what the terrain and the roads are like.
I was driven off the road this morning by a psychopath driver, he knew exactly what he was doing and accelerated off in a 20 mile an hour area much faster than 20 miles an hour (no I don’t have calibrated eyeballs). I am definitely going to get some kind of camera now, could you do a review of cameras on the channel perhaps?
@@CyclingMikey You inspire & validate many of us now following your example sir, so I salute you, though it my compromise your humble nature. Great podcast.
I cycle every day and see my fair share of close misses and full respect to Mikey. My biggest concern is the tech in cars and the fact that to change for example heating vent etc. you have to navigate levels of software interfaces. Is anything being done about this? This is my opinion, is much more of a distraction than phones.
I imagine Shimano will eventually replace them all. But by doing the inspection process, it means it'll be a trickle of replacement cranksets meaning they can keep up with demand. Imagine if they said, we'll replace them all straight away, they'd have more upset customers as they wouldn't be able to keep up
He's controversial because he says out loud what cyclists grumble under their breath. I now record all my commutes and will be reporting anything I see. Everyone in a car has a licence which they paid a lot of money for. That alone should be incentive to not lose it.
And every cyclist has no incentive to not ride like a complete dick as for the most part they are untraceable. I drive , cycle and ride a motorbike and the standard of all 3 visibly deteriorates the nearer you get to a big city in this country
Some great discussions here. All I ask of drivers is to acknowledge that they are operating a potentially lethal machine and to treat driving with that in mind with the respect and seriousness that it warrants.
This conversation reminds of the one time I was on my motorcycle and saw this guy on the A13 watching a video on his phone. He had propped the phone against the instrument cluster of a really cool late 90s BMW. Only noticed because I was admiring the car. Really shocking.
The Shimano cranks are a bad design. The two parts will separate eventually. While classical designs from the 1920s and 1930s are still safely rideable if the bikes survived so far.
Ironically motorists always complain about cyclists not following the rules of the road when at the same time they need to follow the rules of the road too. We need this awareness that we all need to share our roads responsibly.
It is classic whataboutism. Once a cyclist does something wrong, everyone is up in arms. Nobody bats an eye when motorists speed, run reds, make illegal turn on red/illegal u-turns, follow too closely, drive at a speed inappropriate for weather conditions, drive distracted, and the list goes on and on. Motorists are absolutely the worst. I would know, I was a shithead before I matured and realized how stupid I was being. Sure, there are definitely cyclists that break laws or do something dangerously; I won't argue that some do. But a majority of the time they do this, they aren't actually risking anyone's safety but their own. I've seen the videos of cyclists blatantly running red lights, and its definitely not a good idea, especially in busy intersections; however, there are instances where it is actually legal to do so and I've been yelled at when I am 100% within the law and do run through a red light on my bike. Before anyone starts telling me its illegal no matter what, you are wrong. Where I am, if a cyclist is at a light for 2 minutes and the light does not change, so long as the path is clear from oncoming traffic, it is fully legal to then go through the red light.
In the state of Victoria, Australia the close passing laws are >1.0m for 60km/h zone or less, and 1.5m for greater than 60km/h zone. And yes I really need to get a camera because I've been close passed many times
The Shimano crank issue should be solved by paying back each affected customer. With that each customer would accept responsibility for what they do with the cranks, if that's legally possible. Then everybody can decide if they want to use the money to replace the cranks or just keep it. Replacing all of them is a lot of waste, depending on the actual failure rates.
It's legal to operate the automobile's computers but not the mobile personal computer whilst driving. I don't think one distraction is less harmful than the other. The laws should be changed and allow handy phone usage whilst driving. Just don't be an idiot. It's already illegal to drive like the honorable veteran in the video who looked to the back side whilst driving for several seconds.
What will people do? What they know they can get away with! Facts! Keep up the good fight! However, never forget that there are people who place zero value on your life! Be safe!
Talking about ABS coming in and drivers getting faster , it reminds me of a comment a psychologist made , if we didn’t have an airbag in our steering wheel , but a 12” bayonet , we would all drive a lot slower and brake a lot sooner . Food for thought . Like money said , we all have skin in this , but as car drivers we feel protected and the cyclist are pain.
🎵 Hey Mikey you're so fine You're so fine you blow the mind Hey Mikey Hey Mikey 🎵 "Most hated" ? And there l was expecting a certain 7 times TDF "legend":)
@@CyclingMikey 🐔 😁 May the cycling Gods watch over you Mikey and in the interest of balance, to our friends on 4 wheels, there are some "fruit bats" on 2 wheels ! Namaste 🙏
I wonder if you can detect the crank cracks by tapping on them. With china (okay possibly not an ideal facsimile) you can hear a crack that isn’t visible. It makes a flatter sound rather than the usual ring. The same I seem to recall is true of train wheels where long, long ago, they used to check the ‘ring’ of the wheels. Might be interesting.
What the Shimano approach is ignoring (conveniently for Shimano) is most cyclists never have their bicycles regularly serviced. We can hope this is different for Ultegra and Dura Ace owners (those affected by this), but I don't think this is a given. By recommending annual inspections, Shimano are tacitly acknowledging that the issue can arise as a result of moisture, stress and corrosion at any time in the life cycle, and having passed an inspection at a single point does not guarantee the crankset against future occurrences.
My crank broke just before the inspection and replacement was in place so I bought a replacement crank (used). I’d be interested to know what’s the recourse is for those with a broken and a replaced crank?
Love what Mikey is doing! How does work reporting a driving offence in the UK? I was looking how it's working here in Italy and sadly any evidence provided by a citizen isn't considered enough to persecute because must be verified (in person or by remote means) by an officer
I’d like to think, that the cyclists that called Jimmy a snitch (and worse) for reporting the 72mph pass, were NOT cyclists at all.
Yup... and it's not snitching... this person sounds clueless... as well as presenting completely unrealistic reactions to the report...
Yea nobody who regularly rides bikes on roads would ever say something like that. The near death experiences tend to be hard to ignore.
Driving at 72mph in a 30 zone, can in no way be described as accidental, it’s deliberate and criminal.
In Switzerland you'd have to pay a big dime, go to jail for 1 to 4 years, loose your license for at least two years, and your car can be confiscated and sold, or scrapped.
More countries need to be like Switzerland (in this regard).
If you are doing twice the speed limit in Germany police will PRESUME that you are doing it deliberately and therefore double the fine. Which ist still far too little compared to scandinavian countries.
Why are cars built and designed to break the law?
@@buzzman4860because they can?
31:00 SRAM components brake too much, costing manufacturers more than labour costs in Asia.
Close your eyes Mikey is basically Nic from the future..
😂😂😂
Yes! I was thinking this guys manarisims really remind me of someone
Maybe it's the African accents that are similar?
All the ones voting for Mikey being worse than Hitler, it actually tells more about them than Mikey. Take it as a badge of honour.
Thanks, yes, that's how I feel about it too.
I mean, there are legitimately a bunch of Nazis who unironically like Hitler. Not saying they are responsible for the votes here, but something to keep in mind.
@@CyclingMikey Highlighting these issues can only be described as a national triumph. It will save lives if it becomes the norm.
I frigging love Mikey! He's a true hero, and should be celebrated!
Thank you kindly!
My god, the guy running away... that's proper GTA lol
What an absolute legend. Wish every city/country could have people like you! Cheers from India. P.S. People hate cyclists here too LOL
Yeah! The aggression we face *daily* is immense. Would love if more people did this kind of stuff around here.
Thanks!
Mikey with Lorax vibes at 36:57
"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot,
Nothing is going to get better. It's not."
Keep up the good work, Mikey.
Came here for Shimano news... left with admiration for Cycling Mikey 👍🏻
This is by far the best South African cycling podcast in 2024
LOL, I do sound South African, but I'm Dutch-Zimbabwean.
@@CyclingMikeyEveryone down our way seems to be familiar. I have a friend who seems to know just about everyone. Haha. What are the chances that you know Alice Callinicos or family? Just an experiment.
@@Hirsutecyclist LOL, nope, sorry!
Cycling Mikey is a hero and a gent who is doing god's work. Well done.
Thank you! I'm more of a leg end tbf.
I've only been a mechanic for a few years, but doing the Shimano "Inspection" made me feel like a chimpanzee assembling a jet plane. It is far beyond anything a normal shop mech would do. Utter stupidity. People are going to get hurt.
Although this does explain what's been going on at Boeing recently...
It's possible that you're the best bike mechanic on earth, and you're still not going to know if a crank that passes their inspection is just a day or two away from corrosion getting bad enough that it begins to fail. All you can really determine is if it's failed already.
In my opinion (I feel like such a dork saying "my professional background is engineering" in a youtube comment, but I feel like in this case it's valid, lol) a good portion of the cranks made this way will eventually fail, and it's just a matter of time, exposure to challenging conditions, and whether or not they are replaced with new ones before that point is reached. The design is inherently vulnerable to it, and the new design seems to be aiming to reduce moisture ingress (to reduce corrosion) rather than addressing the core vulnerability of the way the two pieces are bonded together. I'm not certain with the latest generation of cranks but in the 7000/8000/9000 era, 105 cranks were bonded together differently and are much more robust, so if I'm going to use Shimano cranks these days, it's 105, even on an otherwise higher end groupset.
Anyway, all that to say, I think you're bang on with your conclusion. People are going to get hurt. I'm not sure to what degree you could validate these even with non destructive testing using very extensive engineering tools, never mind with the tools available to a bike shop. There are tonnes of amazing bike mechanics, but even Nino Schurters mechanic isn't going to be able to tell you that your crank wont fail in the next month. Only if it's already started failing, and by that point from a safety perspective, it could go from just-in-time to too late very very quickly.
I understand how prohibitively expensive it would be to replace all of these cranks, but like you said, people are going to get hurt, and the longer these cranks are on bikes the more that will happen. And I think a lot of people, including myself, are perfectly happy on their really nice 11 speed mechanical setups, and want to ride those for a long long time, which may mean more of the older ones start to fail. At some point that, too could get really ugly for Shimano.
If this were happening to a crucial part in a car, there would be a full recall and that's that. It's concerning that so far the strategy for a critical bike part is "we'll replace yours but only if it breaks". What if it breaks when you accelerate out of a corner in your biggest gear on a mountain decent? Yikes.
Yeah, I don't understand how you can see the start of such degradation without ultrasound/xray.
@@joelecho all the subject cranks should be replaced, no quibble. Shimano’s shareholders have made plenty out of them over the years, it won’t hurt them to each take a one dollar hit on their yearly bonus and it might save a life or two.
Isn't it just Shimano outsourcing the liability if it fails after the inspection to the bike shops?
BRILLIANT! Cycling Mikey! Now that's an interesting character to interview! Love him!
Thanks!
can imagine that police are very positive about this kind of reporting - they have to turn up to accidents all the time where phone use is a factor and someone has paid a high price for the distraction
They appear in his videos. They love him.
Respect to Nic for not plastering his kid's face all over the internet.
I am a cyclist and I despise this cool wanna be old man! Reporting drivers for holding their mobile phone while being stationary is just psychopathic obsessive-compulsive disorder!
I also ride a motorcycle, which means I take a lot more care, and pay a lot more attention further up the road than a standard car only driver would do. As the same with Bicycles if you come a cropper against a solid object it will end very badly for you. So I feel that all car drivers should be forced to spend X amount of time on a bicycle or scooter/motorcycle to learn their road craft and compassion before they jump in a sealed cocoon. Obviously there would have to be some exceptions due to disability, for example but I feel it would benefit everyone.
Can you ask your motorcycle friends to stop close-passing cyclists? Thanks
@@bjmaston it's the same with car drivers and cyclists you get good ones and bad ones.
Putting yourself in the same shoes as someone else makes a huge difference. I have a neighbor that bluntly said she hates cyclist right infront of me who she knew is a hard-core cyclist. I almost wanted to tell her I hate impatient drivers. People needs to be educated in how to deal with cyclist on the road.
This man is a legend ❤
Thanks, although TBF I'm more of a leg end.
Go Mike!!! I'm a lighter version of you here in Cape Town. Especially with those who place me at risk. I do chase them and I generally ask why they put me in danger? OMG they get agro. But as per usual, it's those doing wrong are the ones who get aggressive.
I don't have camera, but do carry pepperspray and a knife. (We get hijacked off our bikes here). Our big problem here are runners who run facing us, so overtaking is a problem. Everyone going the same direction, easier to overtake. Thanks for a great show guys and watch the blood pressure Mike!
have you ever made a change because someone random... or that you disrespect called you out? Probably not, you generally make changes because someone you actually have a relationship with and respect challenged you. I get that Cape Town is not the safest place, but change doesn't happen by creating situations where anger is the result!
I fully support Mikey.
Thank you!
+1 Mike
He would be dead here in the US. I've been shot at three times, run off the road just about every week, and hit with pickup truck mirrors so many times I can't count (always a Trump sign and flags on the trucks). Reporting to local police does nothing; they all have the attitude I was asking for it by being in the road and in the way.
Riding in London I don't use a lot of the cycling lanes, one the surface is not fit for riding a bike on, two they are often filled with broken glass and puncture risks and three they generally are badly placed last 30m and disappear. The councils need to properly plan and build proper cycling infrastructure.
34:58
They are called Dunlop Valve.
They are only rated for up to 6 bar and you can't check the pressure on them. You can only read the pressure while you're pumping up the tire and the reading will be a little higher than the actual pressure.
But pressure gauges won't work since the valve only works one way.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunlop_valve?wprov=sfla1
I completely quit the “road” after many incidents in Arizona
A friend was killed by a woman adjusting her radio-the ticket was $25 failure to yield.
After seeing on the news -
a 12 year old girl, riding with family in a bike lane… killed by a driver not paying attention, he wasn’t speeding or impaired -NO TICKET EVEN ISSUED !
I’ll only mountain bike from now on.
There are changes coming here. It's part of maintaining control of your vehicle.
That was great. Top work Mikey! On the close passing business, I doubt whether most drivers even know it’s an offence.
I’d be interested to know what the person who told you to “mind your own business” would do if they witnessed a mugging. Would they walk away and mind their own business, or would they inform the police???
It just changes if it happens to them personally... before that they are not interested in interaction
If you were talking to a mugger, yes, they would say this. I have stopped 2 guys dragging women down the street and they told me it was none of my business. I pointed out I was a human and so was she so it was my business.
They probably would indeed ignore it. Turns their heads and walk briskly away.
Thank you for having CyclingMikey as a guest. He is a very decent human being.
Thank you kindly! Sometimes I'm an arse too, just an ordinary person mostly.
I started submitting clips to police after a road-rage close pass. I found I was submitting one for every 15 miles ridden (rural rides). I got a PassPixi and that dropped to more than a hundred miles per incident. Has been really really noticeable.
Huzzah to Mikey and to Jimmi for deciding to send in reports. The naysayers, well, everyone's on their own journey to come to terms with their entitlement, so best wishes to those people.
I wish for everyone to do occasional reports - that is how we will collectively make a massive difference to road safety.
As an AV technician, please leave some slack at the ends of your XLR cables at the connectors! Tight bends like that are extremely harmful to cables and connectors. Just a lil bit of slack can make a huge difference!
I was about to post this so many times! Gives my anxiety seeing that bend😂
A few lambast Mikey, in thr conversations I've had with him he at least gives you the respect for a reply 👍 ive got every degree of respect for him because he actually looks at things from a cycling pov. & so some are shocked by his reactions but im the same myself after nearly being killed after countless times your attitude changes quite a lot...
6 close passes on my commute home tonight, Mikey has inspired me to get a camera and start recording my commute! Huge respect for his work.
Mikey is a true hero and its high time he is recognized for what he’s doing to keep us ALL safe . Thank you Mikey 💙
Regarding Shimano and fully wireless groupsets: I don't think it's a case that Shimano COULDN'T already do fuly wireless, I believe SRAM has the patent for individual derailleurs with their own batteries which makes it very difficult for Shimano (& FSA We etc) to make fully wireless groupsets
Some people (non cyclists) find it hard to see the bigger picture. A motorist who is willing to put a cyclist in danger, knowing just how vulnerable they are to a motor vehicle, won't think twice about doing dangerous sh!t around other motorists or in situations where the risk is not so obvious. These are the drivers who speed ALL the time, tailgate, block junctions, race the lights, overtake on blind bends/hills, and drive through the 20mph zone past our kids schools at 50+.
But "nobody likes a snitch"? LOL some people just need to grow up.
Wonderful episode. I love Mikey. My perception as a cyclist is that drivers are now more emboldened and dangerous than before covid, and as cars keep getting larger and larger they also perform more close passes as roads are getting too narrow for everyone.
The 'honor' nutter in the hairdressers cabriolet was weird, but the shirtsless muscle mary guy in the Range Rover was equally bizarre.
Re: the Shimano recall, I'm in partial agreement with Nic that cyclists should be keeping a close eye on their own bikes, however if it were a car company who's accelerator pedal might randomly fall apart as you're driving along, there's no way that the manufacturer would get away with saying 'just keep an eye on it yourself'.
They literally make this exact calculation….. in cars it’s actually easier because of the mot. The crank failure wasn’t a fault that occurred from new, it took a few years to develop. In car land this would actually be annual mot inspection.
Mikey inspired me to get my own safety camera and start reporting close passes and other dangerous behaviour on the road. But the main benefit for me is the deterrent effect of having an easily visible camera on you. It definitively makes an impact on how motor drivers behave around you, to the point where it's easy to manage the few odd d**khead cases. Those I do report.
Awesome, thank you so much!
With the latest statistics more cyclists are killed on country roads than in built up urban areas like London, this guy is a Legend showing people what they dont want to acknowledge themselves and its shocking to see what people resort to, to try and justify their actions. When the new rules for the highway code came in to try and give cyclists more visibility as road users, it was sadly ignored and dismissed. If we want change to make cycling safe in the UK we can always vote for a government that will actually do something productive about it.
Mr Driver and Mr Wheeler - Disney, Goofy - It’s amazing
And the movie was done in the 1940s. It was used to raise the visibility of increasing pedestrian versus vehicle collisions.
@@jamesmckenzie3532 I love this movie, It’s so actual …
SRAM patented having a removable battery on each derailleur.
This is why Shimano have had to use a built in battery and not a swapable one.
Most of the barriers to component development now are patent related.
This is why SRAM still can not make a reliable front derailleur, why their chains have no chamfers and why it took until Shimano's patent to run out to use hyperglide style ramps.
It surprised me that I have encountered much more violence from car drivers as a cyclist over the years than Mikey has. I had one gentleman overtake me, then park on an intersection and get out of his car to fight me. I had one who accelerated into me and my bike while I was facing him on the road. Another one chased me through the traffic and tried to drive over me or hit me from the side.
That's the most violent examples that I can think of. The two latter cases I reported to the police but they didn't take action.
The driver in the last example sued me for damaging his car and harassing him with my apparently presence on the road and his case came to court. The first judge found me guilty and I needed to escalate it to the next court to get most convictions reversed. That all happened in Germany.
I get the ease of installing E-Tap, but all electronic groupsets are pretty much set and forget (mostly). With that said, Di2 is faster and the battery life is much longer. It sounds like people are just getting lazier. We went from mechanical to Di2, and the issues solved, noone had an issue with before. Now wireless groupsets. I have been using Di2 since 2011 and E-Tap since 2020. Currently running Red AXS ETap 12 speed on a bike and Dura Ace Di2 12 speed on another. I also have two mechanical Dura Ace 11 speed bikes. I love them all and have no complaints with any of them.
the interesting thing is that the submissions to police of footage is mostly drivers. but people complaining about it won't confront or abuse other drivers.
You can lock the doors on your car. You are out in the open on a bike
As a Bike Shop carrying out the Shimano Crankset inspections I always advise the Customer that if the Crankset passes the inspection it does not mean it won't fail at some point in the Future and the inspection is a bit like the MOT on a car its only good on that day and if they hear any creaking noises they should bring it back in for another inspection asap. I tend to air on the conservative side when inspecting the Cranksets and if there is any doubt it will fail the inspection and be returned for a warranty replacement. I am sure I am not the only Bike Shop taking this approach.
I do use my speed control also. Its way more relaxing.
That's what I've found! Great tool in the car.
Cool that you got Mikey on! Great topic and discussion. In the US, there's so much more risk to doing this because of the firearm laws and the unrealistic equivalency between driving cars and freedom that we have.
as a consumer, 12-speed di2 not needing batteries ever time I ride is so much more appealing than eTap
We NEED a cycling Mikey here in Chicago. The level of arrogance of drivers throughout almost the entire city is off the charts.
RE Shimano cranks. My Ultegra crank looked fine but started clicking. I have a spare tiagra crank that I swapped it with including the 1x chain ring I use and pedals. So the entire drivetrain is the same except crank arms ... no clicking. Took it for inspection at my local bike shop, told them about the clicking and was surprised they passed it and when i questioned them they became quite combative. Looking at the crank afterwards it was as dirty as when I gave it to them. Given that a thorough clean is part of the inspection I can only assume it wasn't actually inspected properly according to the protocol.
Not happy, I spoke to Madison and they told me that the clicking should have triggered a return to Shimano and to get it inspected at a shop further away that they recommended. I did and they failed it.
The assumption is that all bike shops are scrupulous and honest which is why we hear about shops sending all cranks back but of course less than honest shops also exist. Why would a shop not properly inspect a crank but still pass it? I'm speculating here but my understanding is they get paid the same pass or fail, but a fail involves a whole lot of work whereas a pass involves filling out a form and claiming the inspection fee whether the work was carried out or not. For a lazy and dishonest shop owner taking a cursory look and passing it is easy money compared to doing the job properly.
Very interesting podcast! Out riding few weeks back and saw another guy with one of those PassPixi camera signs pinned to his jersey pocket
It was very visible but mainly to notify drivers he’s recording and said it makes a huge difference to the amount of space people leave… food for thought for those experiencing close calls way too frequently
People think he's out there as a vigilante all day with no life, when actually bad driving is so rife that you could report hundreds of people on a single commute to work. I've had enough of it and it's scary being at the mercy of idiots in control of lethal weapons, so I'll be getting a bike camera for commutes soon
End of the day, use of the road by anything other than your own 2 feet is a privilege not a right. The more dangerous your mode of transport the more of a privilege it is. I think many car drivers are upset by the fact that the world is trying to build them out of it - and with good reason. For far too long we have relinquished huge amounts of space purely so those with cars can drive them around, and now in the modern era we're realising that we should really be prioritising people, not their private transport. Cars are an exceptional tool for getting where you want, but every tool has it's use case. You wouldn't use a saw to bang a nail into a fence, and you shouldn't really use a car for driving around town.
End of the day, the people who react badly to this are the people who commit these offences themselves. After all, if they didn't run red lights, text while driving, and drive down the on-coming lane to skip traffic, what have they got to fear? It's one thing breaking laws that are purely an issue of convenience - for example, illegally streaming content because you don't want to pay extortionate subscription fees - but it's another thing to put other's lives in danger when doing so.
It's similar to drink drivers. Plenty of videos from UK local police forces on youtube of them arresting drunk drivers and they all say the same thing. "I wouldn't hurt anyone" or "I'm not a bad person", all the while they are oblivious to the ambulance crew just meters away desperately trying to resuscitate the mother and child that they very much did hurt. Most, if not all, of these drivers seem to think that it's fine to be on their phone because they're stationary in traffic, or that they wouldn't hit someone while speeding, etc. They all seem to fail to grasp the concept of lethality. The average car is capable of killing a person at 5mph. That's a simple fact. All it takes is to ease your way forwards, still texting, and rear-end the traffic in-front of you, and in doing so crush the pedestrian who had decided to cross the road while the traffic was at a standstill.
Imagine if those cars were loaded guns. Would these people flagrantly point their gun around and then complain when someone reported them to the police for putting everyone else in danger? The responsibility of driving is being aware of your surroundings - you have at your power the ability to kill and maim with little to no effort, it is your duty to ensure (as much as is possible) that those things do not happen.
I have a new hero! Part of the problem might be that drivers (and cyclists and pedestrians), never get any feedback on their behaviour in traffic. "Here is your license and off you go."
OH boy, i adore Mikey! Keep up the good work!
Thank you kindly!
I need to get my cranks inspected. Rung the LBS, they wont inspect my crank unless its on a bike purchased from them because there are so many inspections required. My other LBS has said they will see me in three weeks...
Are shops paid by Shimano to undertake the inspections?
Yes they are paid a fixed fee by shimano
I regularly change between several bikes with different electronic and mechanical groupsets and yes, electronic shifting is great, but having a fully mechanical and well maintained system ist an absolute blast. The lever throw, clickiness and general feel of the shifting mechanism in a mechanical groupset is unparalleled imo. electronic shifting works awesome but feels kind of generic and not that exciting...
What a legend! :D
Props for not sharing the face of Nics daughter all over the internet in such a nice way :)
Also Mikey's point about British driving standards is spot on -- as hard as it may be to imagine when you have a car buzz you at 18 inches on a country lane, they really are far higher than most other countries. Trust me, I live in America, where we've gone in 50 years from having a lower accident rate than the UK to having around three times the UK's accident rate, mainly due to faster, more reckless and more distracted driving.
In regard to having to bring your bike to a shop for inspection even though you work on your own bike. Removing and installing a shimano road crank takes MINUTES- you can do that yourself and inspect the crank for cracks, then bring the crank to a dealer if you see a crack. Easy Peazy.
Nearly all cyclists are also motorists, why do we speak as if no motorists cycle & no cyclists drive, someone visiting from another planet would think you must do one or the other the way we use the language on this subject.
I agree completely. This anti driver from one side and anti cyclist from the other treat people like different species. The right wing press seems to hate cyclists and the cycling press seems to do the same to drivers. Most cyclists are drivers, we are all pedestrians! Where as Cycle Mikey started off with good attentions, it's now all about views and shock value.
Found that really interesting. I ride with a camera purely because when it’s seen you have one drivers give you more room rather than reporting the drivers. I may reconsider my not reporting. Interested to know what others are using as I use the ghost xl mounted on helmet
At 56:16, so good to hear London police taking road safety seriously. I've been in a meeting with management from Chicago police where an administrator quite openly admit to speeding herself and regarded speeding on Lake Shore Drive as a victimless crime. Aside from the exposure of the bike trail to reckless driving, and the injury- or fatal-causing accidents, and the boost to motor vehicle insurance costs for Chicago, I see all the damage to infrastructure, coming out of my property taxes. Victimless my foot.
I used a hire cycle in London from Clapham to Battersea yesterday, as I have done many times. But decided to keep a tally. 11 cyclists blatantly jumped lights, 16 others including me (of course) didn't. 1 ran through an occupied pedestrian crossing dodging people. Of those 11, 5 were on hire cycles, 2 were food delivery, 4 were drop bar, I think id guess 1 was a document courier. Conversely, 2 speeding motorbikes, 4 cars in ASL boxes, 6 jumped lights, 2 failed to stop at a crossing with people waiting. 3 close passes. Been watching Mikey on Twitter for a long time, and he's right, there are bad drivers and cyclists and there are good ones. The divisive "us v's them" is nonsense, as we know around 85% of cyclists drive, and thousands of kids cycle to school. If I see another comment that "you don't pay road tax" I will have an embolism.
I don't ride road anymore. 4 years now. Only gravel and some MTB. Not looked back since. Of course it depends a lot on where you live, what the terrain and the roads are like.
42:30 that man has never seen the inside of a barracks let alone been a SF member
I was driven off the road this morning by a psychopath driver, he knew exactly what he was doing and accelerated off in a 20 mile an hour area much faster than 20 miles an hour (no I don’t have calibrated eyeballs).
I am definitely going to get some kind of camera now, could you do a review of cameras on the channel perhaps?
Mine was fine but I still replaced it with a 105 crank. Old reliable. Wasn't taking any chances with companies only worrying about their bottom line.
thank you for making the roads safer, we all benefit
Absolutely Zero tolerance on bad or illegal road behaviour and better education is the only answer. We should all be able to enjoy safer roads
The legend is with us!
Jimmi, Emily, Nic and Francis are the legends, I don't have the magic they do. :)
@@CyclingMikey You inspire & validate many of us now following your example sir, so I salute you, though it my compromise your humble nature. Great podcast.
I cycle every day and see my fair share of close misses and full respect to Mikey.
My biggest concern is the tech in cars and the fact that to change for example heating vent etc. you have to navigate levels of software interfaces. Is anything being done about this? This is my opinion, is much more of a distraction than phones.
Mikey is so thoughtful about what he is doing. Thanks for sharing some of the time you spent with him.
Thank you!
I imagine Shimano will eventually replace them all. But by doing the inspection process, it means it'll be a trickle of replacement cranksets meaning they can keep up with demand. Imagine if they said, we'll replace them all straight away, they'd have more upset customers as they wouldn't be able to keep up
He's controversial because he says out loud what cyclists grumble under their breath. I now record all my commutes and will be reporting anything I see. Everyone in a car has a licence which they paid a lot of money for. That alone should be incentive to not lose it.
And every cyclist has no incentive to not ride like a complete dick as for the most part they are untraceable. I drive , cycle and ride a motorbike and the standard of all 3 visibly deteriorates the nearer you get to a big city in this country
Some great discussions here. All I ask of drivers is to acknowledge that they are operating a potentially lethal machine and to treat driving with that in mind with the respect and seriousness that it warrants.
It's ALL over once you try the electric, Emily. Jimmy is bang on. It's so nice. I now want electric shifting for MY TRAINER BIKE!!
This conversation reminds of the one time I was on my motorcycle and saw this guy on the A13 watching a video on his phone. He had propped the phone against the instrument cluster of a really cool late 90s BMW. Only noticed because I was admiring the car. Really shocking.
Mikey is an absolute hero.
Thank you so much!
The Shimano cranks are a bad design. The two parts will separate eventually. While classical designs from the 1920s and 1930s are still safely rideable if the bikes survived so far.
What an absolute legend....
Ironically motorists always complain about cyclists not following the rules of the road when at the same time they need to follow the rules of the road too. We need this awareness that we all need to share our roads responsibly.
It is classic whataboutism. Once a cyclist does something wrong, everyone is up in arms. Nobody bats an eye when motorists speed, run reds, make illegal turn on red/illegal u-turns, follow too closely, drive at a speed inappropriate for weather conditions, drive distracted, and the list goes on and on. Motorists are absolutely the worst. I would know, I was a shithead before I matured and realized how stupid I was being.
Sure, there are definitely cyclists that break laws or do something dangerously; I won't argue that some do. But a majority of the time they do this, they aren't actually risking anyone's safety but their own. I've seen the videos of cyclists blatantly running red lights, and its definitely not a good idea, especially in busy intersections; however, there are instances where it is actually legal to do so and I've been yelled at when I am 100% within the law and do run through a red light on my bike.
Before anyone starts telling me its illegal no matter what, you are wrong. Where I am, if a cyclist is at a light for 2 minutes and the light does not change, so long as the path is clear from oncoming traffic, it is fully legal to then go through the red light.
In the state of Victoria, Australia the close passing laws are >1.0m for 60km/h zone or less, and 1.5m for greater than 60km/h zone. And yes I really need to get a camera because I've been close passed many times
As far as electric shifting goes I have the LTWOO group set and absolutely love it and will never go back for my road bike.
My Dad's Ultegra crank 'passed' but its definitely clicky!
Willllllll!! Can’t wait to see Will Girling again. So good.
I prefer Shimano Di2 purely for the battery life and don't mind the slower build or wires since that allows a big internal battery.
The Shimano crank issue should be solved by paying back each affected customer. With that each customer would accept responsibility for what they do with the cranks, if that's legally possible. Then everybody can decide if they want to use the money to replace the cranks or just keep it. Replacing all of them is a lot of waste, depending on the actual failure rates.
It's legal to operate the automobile's computers but not the mobile personal computer whilst driving. I don't think one distraction is less harmful than the other. The laws should be changed and allow handy phone usage whilst driving. Just don't be an idiot. It's already illegal to drive like the honorable veteran in the video who looked to the back side whilst driving for several seconds.
What will people do? What they know they can get away with! Facts! Keep up the good fight! However, never forget that there are people who place zero value on your life! Be safe!
Talking about ABS coming in and drivers getting faster , it reminds me of a comment a psychologist made , if we didn’t have an airbag in our steering wheel , but a 12” bayonet , we would all drive a lot slower and brake a lot sooner . Food for thought . Like money said , we all have skin in this , but as car drivers we feel protected and the cyclist are pain.
What a nice guy!
Talking a lot of sense!
Fantastic!
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🎵 Hey Mikey you're so fine
You're so fine you blow
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"Most hated" ?
And there l was expecting a certain 7 times TDF "legend":)
Cheers John!
@@CyclingMikey 🐔 😁
May the cycling Gods watch over you Mikey and in the interest of balance, to our friends on 4 wheels, there are some "fruit bats" on 2 wheels ! Namaste 🙏
In Poland it's allowed to use your phone while stationary, like on red light.
Cycling Mikey President !
I wonder if you can detect the crank cracks by tapping on them. With china (okay possibly not an ideal facsimile) you can hear a crack that isn’t visible. It makes a flatter sound rather than the usual ring. The same I seem to recall is true of train wheels where long, long ago, they used to check the ‘ring’ of the wheels. Might be interesting.
What the Shimano approach is ignoring (conveniently for Shimano) is most cyclists never have their bicycles regularly serviced. We can hope this is different for Ultegra and Dura Ace owners (those affected by this), but I don't think this is a given. By recommending annual inspections, Shimano are tacitly acknowledging that the issue can arise as a result of moisture, stress and corrosion at any time in the life cycle, and having passed an inspection at a single point does not guarantee the crankset against future occurrences.
My crank broke just before the inspection and replacement was in place so I bought a replacement crank (used). I’d be interested to know what’s the recourse is for those with a broken and a replaced crank?
Love what Mikey is doing!
How does work reporting a driving offence in the UK?
I was looking how it's working here in Italy and sadly any evidence provided by a citizen isn't considered enough to persecute because must be verified (in person or by remote means) by an officer