Colnago Lars Boom Cyclocross

@wtjs £15 - 500 lumen torch set on strobe usually does it when I'm walking the dog.

Ref the mechanic leaning right out of the team car, I'm pretty sure the UCI issued an edict forbidding that sort of behaviour.

Insightful phrasing there.

We were told that we'd need to be really tall to merely fit on 29". Top execs at big bike and tire brands told me 29" would never work, or even get around any sort of corner. This was in 2004 when I was already a while into racing mine, a 2002 Gary Fisher and a 2003 Surly. Now, short ladies are getting XCC/XCO world cup podiums, their season best results on 32", and we're again told we need to be "this" tall. It will be restrictive in climbing and technical stuff. Seewald would have become XCM world champ on BMX bike and that he chose the bike for worlds having just received it days prior...he was probably forced by KTM, right? The evil ploy of the bikeluminiti to sell us bikes by making then better, arrrrrrrrggh! Oh, all the marketing millions being spent to force us to empty our wallets, why oh why? DH and Endoro are largely "safe", same as dirt jump and BMX was from 29". What's curious, is that the bike industry didn't test what size is best, for any terrain or rider height. 700C already existed and was resisted HARD by the big companies. 32" was invented by Walmart to make fun beach cruisers with, just because they wanted to. All of the multi billion bike industry didn't try a thing. Just copy-pasting last year's homework with a slight change, resistance all the new stuff best they could. Except electronic shifting, of course, every must have their bike connected to the mothership...

@mdavidford but it was grrrievious bodily harm!

@Motivated it’s strange how different riders ‘see’ things. My eyes are even older and I’ve done a series of all night road rides with my trusty Raveman 1200PR. Because a needed alight to last the full night, I ran it at 200 lumens, with the odd blast of full power in the trickier bits. I never thought I needed ‘more light’ and we weren’t hanging around. Mind you I come from early 80’s mountain biking when our double Eveready Night Riders were given a massive boost with ‘Xenon bulbs’. To us youngsters it was revolutionary. These and a Petzl Zoom seemed to create almost daylight even though the combined light output was probably around 30 lumens. Luxury…

I'm just confused about where the *inner* earflaps are. 🤔

"your occipital bone – you know, your head’s bum". LOL you should teach anatomy. I'll never forget that word now.

@mdavidford I must admit that my first reaction while watching was that Ciccone had got it. Two things that aren't clear are where exactly was the finish line supposed to be (along the centre of the white line) and what is the margin for error in setting up the scanner to give an unbroken beam signal / image? It may well be that the winning time difference quoted is less than the setup variability of the system. In which case the result should be a dead heat. Perhaps it is more important to have an absolute winner at the expense of a technically correct result?

Maybe that's just underreporting because people don't think it'll be taken seriously, though. "I reported a tiger mauling, and all they did was give me a crrr-ime number."