The second act of the Étoile de Bessèges did some damage, forcing the stewards to end the stage more than 20 kilometers from the end (read here). The ambulances had work, because the medical bulletin published by the organization announces several wounded this Thursday.The bulletin reports three hospitalizations. They concern the Belgian Sébastien Grignard (Lotto Dstny), victim of a head trauma + multiple traumas, the Spaniard Marti Marquez (Equipo Kern Pharma), who suffered a shoulder trauma and a wrist fracture,...
Space shared slowly. Since Monday, the municipality of Amiens, in the Somme, has been much less conciliatory with the speeding bicycles and scooters when driving in the city centre. If the presence of cyclists and users of motorized personal transport devices (EDPM) is always authorized in the pedestrian area, they will nevertheless have to ride at a walk or risk receiving a fine which can be very high.The city assumes that when you ride a bike or scooter in a...
On a rainy, cold, and nasty day, which has been our frequent occurrence this week, it's hard to think about riding a bike. But not so in Moosach. There, four men passionately devote themselves to this topic, rain or rain.Nicholas Schick, Nico Windecker, Jens Schubert and David Farmer founded a company together that CS Cycling Sport. At Taubenstraße 1, in the old rooms of the village shop, you will now find high-tech carbon bicycles instead of mason jars, which Schubert...
The timetable for the conversion of the bike racks at the station in the district town is available. The number of parking spaces is to be increased by June and the old bicycle shelter to the east of the station building is to be replaced. The west of the station is also being expanded, there will then be a total of 308 bicycle racks, up from 211 so far.A little more than three years ago, an investigation commissioned by the...
If the idea takes you to do the Lyon Festival of Lights on electric scooters, forget about it right away. Not only does this risk being dangerous given the expected crowds, but they will simply be banned from circulation that evening. Same as bikes and cars.The Rhône prefecture has delimited three perimeters where two-wheelers and soft modes of transport will be banned: the Lyon peninsula and Fourvière, the Tête d'Or park and the Blandan park. The measure will apply from...
mobility Berlin: Bicycles can soon be parked free of charge in parking lots for cars From January, small vehicles such as bicycles, e-scooters and motorbikes can also be parked free of charge in street parking spaces in Berlin © Imago From January it will be allowed in Berlin to park bicycles, motorcycles, mopeds and e-scooters free of charge in parking lots for cars in order to create more space on footpaths. Parking should become more expensive for drivers. In Berlin,...
Tense atmosphere, this Monday morning, at the coffee machine. Damien, who has just parked in the car park, fumes: "No, but, seriously, this big c... on a scooter that zigzagged in the middle of the road...". The scooter is precisely what Justine took to come to the office. "Wait, I'll stop you there," she replies. The worst is people on bikes who have forgotten that there are red lights”. Fabien, helmet still on his head, gears up: “Ouhhh la la,...
A pedal stroke, then it advances (almost) on its own and effortlessly. Very useful, self-service electric bikes will gradually completely replace the old mechanical bicycles to which 14,000 people are subscribed in Marseille.The metropolis has signed a contract with the Spanish company Inurba mobility (formerly Citybike Global) providing for the gradual deployment from the end of the year of 2,000 electric bicycles, replacing the old mechanically powered ones. This contract doubles the number of bicycles currently available and plans the...
The energy bill promises to be high for the transport network of the Bordeaux TBM metropolis. During the back-to-school press conference on Tuesday, the director of Keolis Bordeaux, Pierrick Poirier, announced "an additional cost of around 20 to 25 million euros" for the year 2023, due to the increase the price of electricity "which has been multiplied by five or six" and that of gas "multiplied by three". On the network “traction energy represents 90% of energy needs” he specifies.Will...
war in Ukraine Russian soldiers flee on stolen bicycles and in stolen civilian clothes Remains of a destroyed tank at Balakliia in the Kharkiv region. Ukraine has almost completely recaptured the territory from the Russians. © Juan Barreto / AFP 09/12/2022, 13:42 2 min reading time Ukraine drove Russian forces out of most of the Kharkiv region in just a few days. According to reports, the escape of the Kremlin troops was hasty and chaotic. The Ukrainian counter-offensive in the...
