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Live blog: Cancellara v Gaimon; Strava stats reveal what athletes are eating and drinking; Movistar rider Jaime Rosón is suspended pending investigation into adverse biological passport finding + more
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Rendel Harris 3 minutes ago
@Nigel Garage Ah, there it is. As with all the other dozen plus personae he has employed, the "I'm the courteous voice of reason" facade starts to fade as he finds nobody agrees with him about pretty much anything. If we follow the standard model he'll be banned within a fortnight.
Pub bike 28 minutes ago
@Rendel Harris No, a lever is one of the six classical simple machines defined during the Renaissance (the lever, wheel and axle, pulley, inclined plane, wedge, and screw). For the want of a better source according to wikipedia "the six classical simple machines are not mechanised on their own. They are fundamental mechanical devices that use human or natural physical force—such as pushing, pulling, or gravity—rather than motors, engines, or automated power sources to function". For example a pair of pliers is a classical simple machine. A pair of pliers functions as a double first-order lever joined at a central pivot point (the fulcrum). A hand held mechanical automatic wire stripper that involves levers interacting with other levers is mechanised though. And a bicycle is definitely not a classical simple machine either: it is a compound machine that joins many simple machines together to make work easier.
jackcycles 30 minutes ago
I made a distinction between utility cycling, leisure cycling, and meaningful journeys in a previous article. A distinction clearly lost on you Clem.
jackcycles 32 minutes ago
Motorised, not mechanised. Very good, you got me. Broken clock and all that. Still, pub bore wouldn't have been able to interject if I had written it correctly, would he?
leedorney 32 minutes ago
Oh soo sad!
Rendel Harris 37 minutes ago
@Pub bike Fair point, but if you use a lever to do something then in adding your force plus a fulcrum it becomes a mechanized process, no?
Pub bike 49 minutes ago
@Rendel Harris It also seems unlikely that the late Mr. Hitchens would have so badly confused a lack of regulation with a lack of enforcement.
Pub bike 52 minutes ago
@Rendel Harris There is a nuance here: yes a bicycle is a mechanised machine due to its complexity but not all machines are mechanised e.g. simple levers, hand tools etc.
OnYerBike 57 minutes ago
@mitsky The "next time" is not for a while...
Rendel Harris 59 minutes ago
Deepest sympathies to the Tarling family for this tragic loss.
10 thoughts on “Live blog: Cancellara v Gaimon; Strava stats reveal what athletes are eating and drinking; Movistar rider Jaime Rosón is suspended pending investigation into adverse biological passport finding + more”
Extremely misleading headline
Extremely misleading headline on the Mottram story. Reading the copy it’s clear how out of context that headline is – making him out to be cycling’s equivalent of Gerald Ratner. This site is getting more clickbaity by the day
Zebulebu wrote:
It’s been like this for many many years.
Zebulebu wrote:
crap laggy comments double post
Zebulebu wrote:
That’s the inevitable consequence of a business model which depends on advertising – to pay the team & cover the costs, they’ve got to have revenue. One way of getting revenue is selling advertising. To sell advertising space, you’ve got to have visitors. Too attract visitors, you’ve got to have clickable headlines.
Building up a loyal, regular, valuable readership based on high quality content alone without clickbait headlines takes a very long time, and may not even be a sustainable model nowadays.
I’d agree that there are many clickbait headlines here, more than there used to be. But we’re still voting to support them with our mouse clicks, so they’re doing something right.
Don’t like it? Click elsewhere.
Almost Daily Mail esque in
Almost Daily Mail esque in creating a clickbaitable headline from something by lack of context.
N.B. If there was any doubt that’s NOT a compliment.
pastyfacepaddy wrote:
Guess what guys? This is a business. How much do you pay to read this site? I thought so.
Give them a break.
simonmb wrote:
Guess what guys? This is a business. How much do you pay to read this site? I thought so.
Give them a break.— pastyfacepaddy
Time is money. I lost £0.27 reading this site today.
Nonsense – regarding the
Nonsense – regarding the Mottram headline, it’s not clickbait it’s simple reporting.
Mottram himself said that statement himself to be ‘inflammatory’ so to the trolls above, go and piss over his chips, or Matt Barbet’s who published the interview, you’re not forced to read the site.
peted76 wrote:
Who the fuck are you calling a troll? I’m pointing out that something has been taken out of context. Or do you not understand that? If he’d said that to be inflammatory, trust me – Rapha have an army of publicists who’d do a much better job of using it – it would probably end up in a marketing brochure. There’s a big difference between pointing something out, and someone who is ‘trolling’ (eg: deliberately winding people up to get a reaction). And yes, I am aware that I have fallen spectactularly into that trap here…
I understand the need to drive revenue through clicks. Editorial content needs to be paid for somehow (hence the seemignly endless videos of people being close passed, with attendant wittering in the comments and (true) trolling. However – there is a huge amount of value to be gained in treading that line between compelling content and commercial/’sucker’ content. I’m merely pointing out that this fails to tread that line
Mottram article seems to have
Mottram article seems to have gone from the live blog now. You’ve hurt their feelings