Unfortunately, there haven’t been too many jokes today. So, here’s a bit of an update instead…

(Apologies there hasn’t been one earlier. Squarespace, the platform host for our website, is based in New York City and seemed to be having a few issues over the weekend. One of them was thinking our hosting plan was out of date. But it isn’t. All good now though.)

Bike riding in the times of Covid-19

Here’s the latest update from Cycling Victoria on cycling at the moment.

Stay safe.

There looks to be a few other relevant things on the CV site too, like this and this.

Other stuff to view and read while you’ve got nothing much on…

(Thanks to Pink Bike, Cycling Tips, Pez Cycling and SBS amongst others…)

An article on encouraging riding at the moment.

An almost unbelievable article about coronavirus being blamed on a bike rider!

Some good news in cycling circles during the lockdown.

Looks like this might be the only spectating option for a while.

We’ve often discussed we need to get more girls riding. We’re not the only ones, Behind The News thinks so too.

Cycling Australia are offering a series of coaching and Commissaire courses. Here’s the link to them - this is for the theory section which you’d normally do online anyway - the practical test will be held some time in the future when we all get out of ‘prison’.

Those who used to go to Club de la Lanterne Rouge will be a little familiar with this.

In case more of our riding has to go indoors only, an article about Zwift on a budget.

We should be getting ready to watch the Tour of Flanders this Sunday night. As that’s obviously not going to happen, SBS are showing highlights of the Classics online when the Classics should be on.

It’s starting this Sunday night with the whole of the 2013 RvV and follows on for the next few Sundays as well. Here are the details.

Until Sunday night, here are the highlights from the 2019 and 2018 Ronde van Vlaanderen.