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Live blog: Muc-Off launch chamois cream for women, Peter Sagan puts Vuelta ride to Twitter vote, #cycletoworkday poll and comp + much more
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mdavidford 49 minutes ago
... and we still had apostrophe rationing.
ktache 1 hour ago
@Rendel Harris There was a bit in the bicycle hating Guardian, a nice little read, part of his justification was to acclimatise to the heat and humidity, which if he was in a better car might have been worth it. Good luck to him, chapeau.
Rendel Harris 2 hours ago
@SecretSam That's not really fair, in fact not fair at all. It wasn't his fault that the last two mountain stages were shortened and on the first one he had dropped everyone and was a minute clear as he summitted the Iseran when the stage was neutralised, and on the second he stayed with or dropped all the other GC contenders. You seem to have forgotten his Giro win as well as Paris Nice and the Tour de Suisse. Only the fourth rider to have won the Tour and Giro before the age of twenty-five. Yes he probably couldn't have stayed with Pogacar even if he hadn't had the awful crash, and probably nor could any other rider in history except perhaps Merckx.
Mr Blackbird 3 hours ago
@lesterama Bernal has had two whammys. His crash, which he has probably never fully recovered from and Ineos taking a nosedive. They have no focus and no identity.
No Reply 4 hours ago
@Zermattjohn Read the comment I posted about my experience
No Reply 4 hours ago
I bought some Challenge Strada tyres. After a while the sidewalls began to detach from the tyre and the tread became rippled making them unsafe to use. The shop I bought them from asked me to drop them in and he would show the Challenge rep as he was due in the following week. The rep bizarrely firstly claimed that the tyres had failed because they may have been punctured (they hadn’t), then immediately claimed that they had failed because the rear tyre was more worn than the front! I emailed pictures to Challenge and was told they had failed because they had been fitted incorrectly. The black strip they had introduced to stop the issue I had was supposed to be above the rim. Which it clearly was shown to be correct on the pictures I sent to them which proved that the tyres were correctly fitted. This seems to be the norm now in the cycle industry, if there is an issue with a product, the company automatically blames the end user rather than look to address the issue, thereby pissing the customer off. A pissed off customer rarely returns.
eburtthebike 4 hours ago
@kingleo And there are hundreds, if not thousands of people holding up a shattered helmet saying it saved their life, the doctor/policeman told me.
Jj1234 5 hours ago
I spend a month most years in China because of family, and a cargo bike there with an electric motorbike style front end and either LFP or advanced lead acid batteries, costs under £100 and is the backbone of every trade. There are a hundred different kinds but what they share in common is functionality and cheapness. Even the ancient pedal pulled wooden wagons with literally welded spokes from the sixties have been electrified with e-motors attached to the underside - and they cost sod all. In China cheap transport for business is a public good like drinking water. Because to get people to work you have to make work affordable. That's a secret of capitalism we in the UK could do better to learn.
vw_mtbiker 7 hours ago
@Zermattjohn handmade genuinely means handmade with Challenge. You cannot compare ride quality of a mass produced, vulcanized Panaracer tyre with these. The ride quality is incredibly supple, and can transform a riding experience. More expensive yes, but worth every penny!
Surreyrider 7 hours ago
@SecretSam 2019 Tour (don't see anyone else putting their hand up to say they won it), 2021 Giro, 2019 Paris-Nice, 2019 Tour de Suisse, 2018 Tour of California. So I'd say Lesterama is about right with his burned bright comment.
11 thoughts on “Live blog: Muc-Off launch chamois cream for women, Peter Sagan puts Vuelta ride to Twitter vote, #cycletoworkday poll and comp + much more”
Sagan should be careful with
Sagan should be careful with public votes. He’ll end up being called Saggy McSaganFace and trying to somehow leave the cruel tyranny of his Bora-Hansgrohe team while still getting the benefit of massages from their soigneurs.
…and being nominated for
…and being nominated for the Tour d’Nord Korea
Great publicity stunt, he can
Great publicity stunt, he can swing it anyway he wants to, vote to do it and he/the team may have already decided to do it so it then looks like he’s taking advice from fans.
Decide he’s not doing it and there’s still some that will vote not to do it but can easily say, sorry guys, I just don’t think I can do the race/the team justice and someone else in the team has a better/equal chance of victories or can complete the race or whatever blather.
Win, win.
Muc Off Luxury Chamois Cream
Muc Off Luxury Chamois Cream is 250 ml for £8.90 on Wiggle. Or for the ladies, 100 ml for £13.99.
Pink tax?
pruaga wrote:
RRP vs online discount price.
Master Bean wrote:
Ok, fair comment.
Genderless product RRP £20 for 250 ml, pink version £13.99 for 100 ml.
8 p per ml Vs 14 p per ml.
pruaga wrote:
The normal stuff comes in 100ml for £13.99. Nice try but both sexes are equal here.
pruaga wrote:
it’s made exclusively from lady chamois goats, and they are much harder to catch than the males, who come running as soon as they hear you want to smear them all over your arse.
ConcordeCX wrote:
I can’t BELIEVE what I’m READI-
you got me, chief.
That Intense video is awesome
That Intense video is awesome, looks like a video game!
I’m prepared to believe that
I’m prepared to believe that lady bottoms are sufficiently different to gentleman bottoms that different creams might be in order, but I’ll wager the ingredients in the gentleman stuff are sufficiently inert as to make no difference, so I suspect it is pink tax.