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It is good to see that Remco Evenepoel is willing to fold into a domestique role for Florian Lipowitz when necessary. #VoltaCatalunya105
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Evenepoel: "Lipo was at the front, so it wasn't up to me to chase. There wasn't great cooperation in our group, with riders taking turns attacking; otherwise, we might have ridden towards the group ahead of us."
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@fmp_rosie @s8mb Cars haven’t even gotten here yet and they are talking about taxing them. Too smart for their own good
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Ben makes a strong case that we need to bring in a congestion tax on driverless vehicles, and we need to do it soon.
1. Congestion charging is very desirable for all vehicles, but it’s politically impossible to tax current drivers. Right now, very few voters would object to a tax on autonomous vehicles – many would actively welcome it.
2. Autonomous vehicles will be so much better than existing driven vehicles that a congestion tax will not slow down adoption much.
3. Without congestion charging, autonomous vehicles could cause much more gridlock than we currently have, because it will be less painful to be stuck in traffic (you will be able to read a book, watch Tiktok, sleep, etc).
The window for doing this is open right now, but it needs to happen fast, before too many people switch to AVs and form a voter bloc that will oppose congestion pricing them.
This is a rare example of a tax that is likely to raise money, improve efficiency, and be popular with the voting public.
Ben Southwood@bswud
We need a tax on self-driving cars. Beneath eight states of the American Great Plains lies the Ogallala Aquifer, one of the largest bodies of groundwater on Earth. For centuries, extraction was constrained by the modest capacities of wind and hand power. At that rate, this 'fossil water' resource was effectively limitless. Farmers could draw as much as they wanted without ever running it down. worksinprogress.co/issue/escaping… But in 1949 Colorado Farmer Frank Zybach invented centre-pivot irrigation. Combined with electricity and the centrifugal pump, farmers could now draw thousands of gallons per well per minute, enough to irrigate 40 acres at a time. Since then, the aquifer has gone down 10%, losing a Lake Erie's worth of water. It is down 50% in the dry parts, where it recharges just 0.02 inches per year. Without intervention, modern pumps will bring about the total end of irrigated farming in the arid parts of the Great Plains in 20-30 years. This is what I call the Ogallala Trap. Technological change can create a new tragedy of the commons. The telegraph enabled the destruction of the passenger pigeon; sonar, radar, and diesel enabled the industrial trawling that devastated the North Sea cod in a decade; chlorofluorocarbons came close to destroying the ozone layer. Self-driving cars are about to do the same thing to roads. When you can sleep, work, or drink with friends in a moving vehicle, you will take many more journeys by car. Roads, which are free at the point of use almost everywhere, will grind to a halt. People who have to go to the office or the hospital will be stuck sharing the road with people having beers, working remotely, and taking naps. There is a fix, but it depends on acting now, before autonomous vehicles go mainstream. Voters balk at being charged more for something they already depend on. The tax needs to come in as soon as possible. Waymos are already in dozens of cities and do millions of journeys per month. We have very little time left. If we want to save our roads from omnigridlock, we must introduce road pricing for autonomous vehicles.
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@s8mb It’s just so depressing. We don’t even have driverless cars yet, but smart UK thinker are already proposing taxing them into non-existence. Like Uber is basically as expensive as black cabs: why would I replicate the cost (if not even more expensive) but with no driver?
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At 16:30 today, a guy jumped through the ticket barrier at St. John's Wood tube station right in front of me. I shouted to call the attention of the @TfL staff sat in his box thing. The staff member just told me he can't do anything. Silly me had to pay to get through the barriers.
So I walked down the escalators (which has finally been fixed after six months), caught up with the fare dodger to ask him why he didn't pay.
The guy said "I can't afford to. Cost of living and that!". I told him I have to pay for him not paying and I am affected by the cost of living too.
He had the cheek to then say "Well that's up to you man. We are all struggling and walked off"
Yes we are all struggling, but what exactly is the point of TfL staff when someone blatantly crashes through ticket barriers and they literally do nothing.
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@InsideOut2912 Fucking insane. Banning radios is just retarded. Zero merit to any argument for going backwards in safety.
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Banning radios should never be an option for that reason alone
La Flamme Rouge@laflammerouge16
#VoltaCatalunya105 Tom Pidcock crashed on a descent and plunged into a ravine after missing a corner. He got back up, changed bike, and finished the stage unharmed. Thankfully for him he was able to contact team with radio. tuttobiciweb.it/article/177463…
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@EX0RSZ @MaxBets001 Me? Of the moment? 2023/5 flanders. Out of all the cobbled classics, it’s possibly the only one I’d say suits him, but it does, and way more so than MVDP.
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I still think Mathieu is better than ever. Attacking so early with so many flat roads in between just wasn’t that smart.
His strategy will be totally different next week.
Inside Out@InsideOut2912
Boah, it was close but a confirmation of what we observed at MSR last week: MVDP is not quite at the level of previous years. Congrats Pogačar on your 3rd RVV win 😶🌫️
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@MaxBets001 You had this take 😂😂😂 you clearly don’t know much… x.com/maxbets001/sta…
Max@MaxBets001
Zero chance. Let them do this race a 100 times, he won’t beat him in a single one
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I don’t know man, homey running a Louis Vuitton bag of “excuses” with Olympic gold buckles and world champion rainbow design.
If you can drop and ride away from the entire world tour peloton on a crosswind giant highway then you are welcome to roll with whatever bag you want with whatever you want in it.
Rúben Silva@EchelonsHub
The internet quickly becomes very fatiguing when every single social media app recommends ragebait slop nowadays
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Going to neglect my family for a couple of nights.
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In my opinion, Zone 2 is actually high-intensity training.
Shouldn't be the majority of your base work.
Use cautiously.
Steven O@SJOesq
@Alan_Couzens I'm glad that you posted this. I've seen people bringing back the notion that anything less than the top of Zone 2 (in a 5+ zone model) as "junk." I get a lot of pleasure out of using lower intensity rides for fun and recovery.
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We studied 59,000 sauna days - the effects are immediate; Nighttime heart rate drops by 5%
That's roughly 3 bpm, pointing to a recovery effect that goes beyond movement
Women show lower nighttime heart rate on sauna days across the cycle, but the clearest shift shows up in the luteal phase
Sauna pushes the body, then the body shifts into recovery
Heart rate rises during heat exposure, then cooling brings a parasympathetic response that shows up later that night
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@lucasaganronald @laflammerouge16 Easy for the organisers to say, players should risk their health and scupper training so the organisers can make more money from their races of which the riders get nothing from. Entitled
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The E3 organizer Jacques Coussens about Wout van Aert skipping E3:
"Many riders try to copy Pogacar. They think they will be able to focus more on their biggest goals if they ride fewer, smaller races. But the big difference is that Pogacar actually achieves his big goals, and they don't."
“But riders have to make choices in modern cycling. And of course, he has a point there. Only a handful of riders are competing in the E3, In Flanders Fields, and Dwars door Vlaanderen. His calendar is packed.”
“But you know, I get the feeling that the big names are trying to avoid each other. I feel that more and more. And I don't think that's very nice. That's a shame for cycling. Suppose you get an extra clash between them in the E3 Saxo Classic in the run-up to the Tour of Flanders, then the whole cycling world would be happy.”
“But anyway, we shouldn't make it bigger than it is. For all we know, Van Aert and Pogacar might not ride here this year, but they might next year. I don't see it as a definitive problem for us or anything.”
“Our race does not depend on one or two men. We still have a very fine field of participants. I am happy to mention a list of names riding for us that many races would envy. Think of Christophe Laporte, Matej Mohoric, Biniam Girmay, Mads Pedersen, Romain Grégoire, and Mathieu van der Poel.”
Tomorrow, don’t forget we will have the E3 Saxo Classic with Mathieu van der Poel as a big favourite. Can he do a hat-trick?
📷: visma_leaseabike
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'Tadej is Tadej' - Why no 🇧🇪 E3 is no problem for 🇸🇮 Pogacar with Flanders in mind according to UAE 👇
📰 domestiquecycling.com/en/news/tadej-…
📸 Harry Talbot
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It takes political leadership and guts to convert a 3 lane road into 1 lane for cars and 2 lanes for cycles. Thats when you know a politician cares about future and not next election vote bank.
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@RichardHanania Children cannot be expected to have such "personal responsibility". You could blame parents I suppose, but we have swung too far in the direction of absolving these parasitic companies of any accountability.
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The small bump where Remco moved his hands from hoods position to drops and crashed. A roundabout that entered cycling history, no doubt.
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Sergi López-Egea@sergi_lopezegea
Me he desplazado a la rotonda donde se ha caído Evenepoel y la única irregularidad que veo que ha podido provocar el accidente es esta pequeña grieta transversal #Volta
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