Looking in the corners of the clothing drawer, prospecting for warmer leg lycra I unearth my old Livestrong bib-shorts.
I’m sure I put them away clean.
Dirty Laundry
Tue, Oct 16, 2012 15:37
VecchioJo unearths more Lance evidence
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Jo Burt has spent the majority of his life riding bikes, drawing bikes and writing about bikes. When he’s not scribbling pictures for the whole gamut of cycling media he writes words about them for road.cc and when he’s not doing either of those he’s pedaling. Then in whatever spare minutes there are in between he’s agonizing over getting his socks, cycling cap and bar-tape to coordinate just so. And is quietly disappointed that yours don’t He rides and races road bikes a bit, cyclo-cross bikes a lot and mountainbikes a fair bit too. Would rather be up a mountain.
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Rendel Harris 42 minutes ago
@mdavidford Yes, equally spread but I think if I were Sepp Kuss (if only) I might be saying, "Hello? Only GT winner - in this very race to boot - and I get the lowest ranked card?"
ktache 55 minutes ago
The flames make it so much more...
mdavidford 1 hour ago
Fuddlement
chrisonabike 1 hour ago
"Haud ma bagpipes" sounds like something murmured urgently in the depths of the Cowgate. While bagpipe touring is a thing: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cz09p8kplxko ... uni-piping seems to be an overseas discipline: https://m.youtube.com/shorts/MEVSlNBHv58 Though I'm looking forward to Danny MacAskill bringing a skirl to his trials adventures.
wtjs 1 hour ago
@Sedis I find it incredibly difficult to believe that there will be a “dedicated police patrol” I don't. They can just nab the odd cyclo-villain and 'throw the book at them', while sitting around at the station the rest of the time writing badly-spelled essays bemoaning 'lack of resources
gnarlyrebel 1 hour ago
I have a driving licence and regularly get behind the steering wheel of my very expensive drive ornament but I can't drive a rally car down a narrow forest track at 90mph, neither can I drive a Formular 1 car at 200mph around a race track! Does that mean I'm not a driver? I could go on stating various examples. Of course someone is a cyclist even though they can't wheelie or ride no handed.
Mr Blackbird 2 hours ago
@thereverent I suppose it depends on whether the busway builders owned or were able to purchase any land beyond the width of the original railway. For instance about half a mile of the busway butts up against the perimeter of the Chivers Hartley jam and jelly factory at Histon. On the factory side there is a site road and lots of services and it is highly unlikely that a strip of land would have been offered for sale.
polainm 2 hours ago
He was killed by a driver, not a 'vehicle'. Nor are pedestrians hit by a bicycle. Unless Murdoch is funding the reporting.
ChrisA 2 hours ago
@ROOTminus1 An electrically assisted pedal cycle can be outside of the UK legal requirements, such as a Class 1 from the US, but it is still, technically, an electrically assisted pedal cycle. Likewise, your "US suburban" shed is still a house and the cybertruck is still a piece of shit. The original point was about classification of the vehicles and the lack of granularity within the classification. Are these bad boys, EAPCs, overpowered EAPCs, throttle controlled EAPCs (now an e-motorbike) or just e-motorbikes? This needs to be a technical appraisal. Legally they are all illegal (if unregistered, taxed, insured, etc.), apart from the first one. What are people wanting to achieve with these illegal machines? Is it faster, further, fun, food, felony, f... the rules? If you want to deal with the problem, you need to know what the problem is.
polainm 2 hours ago
Logical: use limited police resources/intelligence to deal with the number one killer of U25s; drivers (source:WHO) and the biggest deterrent to cycling; close passing drivers. UK policing mindset: Follow the Murdoch brainwashing mode and target people riding bikes at over 15mph, despite a bike speedo not being a legal requirement.
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You could put yourself
You could put yourself through a lie detector test to find out for sure. “Allegedly”
Must be some strong gear,
Must be some strong gear, they’re still glowing!
They look well made you can
They look well made you can hardly see the needle marks on the contrast stitching!
http://newsthump.com/2012/10/
http://newsthump.com/2012/10/11/lance-armstrong-launches-livestrong-yellow-rubber-tourniquet/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Newsarse+%28NewsThump.com%29
Such a waste, just because
Such a waste, just because some of the black/yellow kit looks cool, but there’s no way I’d buy it now…
I’ve got the Special Ed 6th
I’ve got the Special Ed 6th Tour USPS kit they wore for the final stage. Its cool kit, but I can’t see myself ever wearing it again.
http://store.theonion.com/p-5
http://store.theonion.com/p-5045-cheat-to-win-bracelet.aspx
I think it’s time we had an
I think it’s time we had an Armstrong Team Kit Surrender Amnesty : –
The current kit style enforcement Officer Patrick McQuid said”
This dirty Armstrong kit problem-malarky had grown to epic proportions and normal steps to control it had failed . . . . “we know it’s controversial but something drastic needs to be done now to rid the streets of this yellow and black menace”
Officer McQuid, who is up for re-election next year, went on to set out the terms of the amnesty : –
“Anyone handing in Armstrong kit to our local re-cycling centres by the deadline will be guaranteed anonymity and freedom from sanctimonious jibes ”
When pressed on what would happen to those who continued to wear and harbour the dodgy kit McQuid said . –
“Anyone caught with dodgy kit after the deadline will be required to wear it unwashed for three consecutive club runs”
When challenged on whether the immunity from enforcement or sanctions were too lenient or draconian McQuid commented ” Not at all, we at the station have been struggling with this pernicios kit problem for years and, despite our best efforts including our ground breaking DIY Kit Dyeing Kits it’s still every where you look especially at those cyclo-sportivo thingy’s all the rage on the continent”
Ex armstrong kit wearers saddened at the state things have come to have commented that Officer McQuid was desperate to hold on to his job at the station and this was his last chance to prove he could get to grips with the kit issue.
McQuids retired predecessor at the station, Heineken VinBroodin, is rumoured to be the source of recent leaks about the dodgy kit amnesty that forced McQuid to go public about it earlier than he’d intended – when we contacted him he said ” Pat’s stock is riding low at the moment – if successful (the amnesty) may just enable McQuid to hang on for another term”
At the end of the press conference Officer McQuid added that if the amnesty was a success at riding the streets of this stuff and if the result of the “Italian Padova investigation thingy” confirmed the existence of yet more varieties of dodgy kit the amnesty may be extended to deal with those other “allegedly lurid and hideous team colour-ways at Astana, Lampre, Liquigas, Rabobank, RadioShack and Vacansoleil”
As he left the briefing McQuid was challenged by the mother of now downhearted ex armstrong kit wearer about the rumours circulating (vehemently denied by McQuid) that style Officers at the station had been gifted non-branded socks by the dodgy kit manufacturer (Acquascrotum). McQuid said he couldn’t comment as “everything has been passed now to the Laundry for washing”.