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re trades on bikes, have they never seen or heard of telescopic ladders? As I posted on my loal rag earlier, re 'you cant do your shopping on a bike' my panniers hold 60 litres and approximately 20kg plus of groceries are easily accomodated provided one bends or tears the excess packaging a little. I weigh around 100kg and my old fashioned iron bike does the job marvelously. Add in a rucksack and thats another 10-15kg as well!

@mdavidford exactly, looks pretty spacious - why look, you can fit a bike through sideways.

Is it just me or is Roglic riding an invisible unicycle in that podium pic?

@OnYerBike But that would be to forget that that person may have built the company up themselves in the first place and provided jobs for all those people in this case for many tears even while making a loss for some of the time up until that point likely paid out of previous profits or their own money. And hopefully they will go on to continue providing some employment. Alternatively they could have not bothered and lived off the income from their previous venture. I think the former is better.

Don't know what that reddit user's complaining about - at least it isn't a puddle full of leaf mulch with a bush growing halfway across it, like it would be round here.

@NickSprink 30 seconds! is that all, I can do it for nearly 3 minutes on one of our local descents ;-)

World tour races are averaging around 42 - 44 kph. I too can cycle that fast. For about 30 seconds...

Erm, it was 300km a couple of days ago. I know inflation is persistently high, but I didn't realise it was that bad.

Re the TDF Vs ordinary cyclist claim. This sort of thing happens a lot. Probably because elite sports people often make it look so easy. It is impossible to appreciate the talent and skill required until you try it yourself. A few weeks ago a supporter of my local div 1 football club commented on BBC Sports HYS that their new winger was fast enough to win an Olympic 200m medal. He was making this judgement by comparing the winger to other div 1 footballers. In reality he would probably not make the GB women's team. About 10 years ago I took part in a club group turbo training session. Part of this entailed a 12 minute sustained effort. Afterwards the fastest time triallist of us said how pleased he was with his average power (I can't remember the figure, but I think it was in the range 325 - 350 watts), to which the coach replied "Excellent. An average TDF rider would only be able to sustain that for 3- 4 hours!"

It always rankles when a company goes into administration, staff lose their jobs, creditors go unpaid, but then the CEO/managing director (the very person who led the company into that position) always seems to be the one person who emerges have done very well for themselves out of the whole affair.