Is this the best cycling lockdown video on the web?; Police report mega increase in speeding drivers; Zwift testing new 'Boost Mode'; "Make sure that drivers see you" says road safety partnership; France to offer everyone 50 euros for bike repairs + more

Writing about the impact of coronavirus and the way in which ‘the daily rhythms of life have been turned upside down’, Sadiq Khan says that many more Londoners will walk or cycle when the city begins to emerge from lockdown.

Looking further ahead, he adds: “Quieter roads and fewer jet planes have made for a more pleasant environment. Londoners will rightly demand neighbourhoods that permanently work for walking and cycling, and a renewed drive to address the climate emergency.”

Via the London Evening Standard.

🤔🔍 ¡Encuentra las 7 diferencias! / Find the seven differences! #SeguimosConectados pic.twitter.com/gXstmwite5

— Movistar Team (@Movistar_Team) April 30, 2020

We spotted as many as one and now we've lost interest.

We consider spot the difference to be altogether too demanding.

(Update: We just spotted another, but jeez it makes your eyes hurt. Spot the difference is not a game for the digital age.)

Danny Washbrook appears to be taking an old school approach as well with no Zwift or Rouvy or whatever.

Today was supposed to be the start of @letouryorkshire 🙌

So, former @hullfcofficial and current @YorkKnightsRLFC player @Washy85 decided to ride the entire 612km route in his back garden to raise money for @Dove_House and @NHSCharities 👏

Donate 🔗 https://t.co/cNpiAMF9Xn #TdY pic.twitter.com/dTgpRHFhFD

— British Cycling (@BritishCycling) April 30, 2020

This may explain why he's only doing 10 miles a day.

Props to the Mendips' own Pete Naylor, who is currently repping the road.cc kit in Zwift as part of Mark Beaumont's virtual peloton: 80 riders aiming to ride 240 miles (385km) each in a day, the equivalent of getting all the way around the world. Pete started at 4am and is currently less than 30km away from his goal, so if you're on Zwift in the next hour or so give him a thumbs up!

> Mark Beaumont looking to recruit “virtual peloton” to ride around the world in a day

> Ride in road.cc kit on Zwift

Detective Superintendent Andy Cox, from Scotland Yard’s traffic teams, said 2,020 speeders were recorded between April 20-27 this year, compared to just 268 in the same period last year.

He said that wile the number of motorists on London’s roads has dropped during lockdown, the number of people suffering life-changing injuries in road traffic collisions is about the same.

“We’ve seen incredible speeds, incredible risk,” Cox told the London Evening Standard. “Some of the people we’ve stopped have said things like ‘because of Covid-19 we didn’t expect you to be doing enforcement’, but it’s an absolute priority for us — probably more so than ever because of the increase in speed.

“Every one of those extreme speeders is entirely selfish: they’re not considering other road users, the wider impacts. They are frankly disgraceful. We’ve had since the lockdown, nine fatalities, so many people seriously injured.”

He added that NHS workers were “walking and cycling in a lot of these zones” which is kind of weird when you think about it. Obviously he thinks that speeding motorists are more likely to pay attention to that fact.

He's probably right: some speeding motorists will only moderate their behaviour to save the lives of people who are saving people's lives.

Boardman's on Radio 4 as I type, talking about bike sales, the French bike repair fund mentioned further down the page and more.

Here's a link if you want to listen from the start.

The online uproar around @GoZwift having the (alleged) temerity to further gameify what was - at its core - a cycling gaming experience is incredible. Users sign up to a platform that allows you to disappear in game...yet blow up when a different gaming feature is added.#gozwift pic.twitter.com/T6D2ppPOS8

— Nick Squillari (@N_Squillari) April 30, 2020

Announcing it on their forums, Zwift said: "Boost Mode is a new event type that will allow users to charge a boost (with their own watts of course) and then discharge that boost at a time that’s right for them. This mode will be exclusively available in a limited number of FutureWorks Club Jarvis events as we test, tune and tweak the experience."

Weird.

The Road Safety GB North East group is made up of the 12 local highway authorities in the region, three regional police forces and four fire and rescue teams.

Its recent ‘make sure that drivers see you/always wear a helmet’ tweet has not gone down well.

How do I make sure that drivers see me?
By how much does a helmet reduce risk of death and how does it compare with other activities that people don't generally harass other people about, such as getting insufficient sleep?
Show me the facts and I'll make my choices.

— steve abraham (@steve_abraham74) April 30, 2020

.@RSGB_NE It's very simple people.

It's all about looking!

Tell drivers to look. Anything else is secondary. If you look you will see someone regardless

— Real Gaz on a proper bike #fbpe (@gazza_d) April 30, 2020

Drivers, always wear a helmet, it could save your life

— MSeries (@mseriesMMXIV) April 29, 2020

Just signed off further batch of 64 @wfcouncil #wfminiholland #ResidentCycleHangars. #HoeSt- 4 #WilliamMorris-1 #HighSt- 28 #LeaBridge- 21 & #Markhouse- 10. Taking us close to 500 hangars in WF! Cos we’re serious about permanent change! @willnorman @london_cycling @WeSupportWFMH pic.twitter.com/47s3OPCPDk

— Labourstone (@Labourstone) April 29, 2020