Commuter diaries – Cobble Wobble

@ktache ITV4+1 was/is available on freesat. I appreciate that this fact isn't much use to you now but it is perhaps worth noting that in general Freesat SD channels have better resolution than Freeview which really helps with the +1 channels (e.g. 5+1) which seem pretty degraded on Freeview. Seemingly Freesat SD is 704 × 576 pixels whilst Freeview often shrinks these same channels to 544 × 576.

@Pub bike 2a. Being driven into by someone exiting a side road through queueing traffic. n+1. Being driven into by someone cutting the corner turning into a side road you're waiting to exit.

"If you start the stage at 10 instead of 12, you get a couple of hours in the stage. They could do that, though they’re looking at prime time television." Has the definition of prime time television changed?

It's 'bara', isn't it?

@Pub bike Being reversed into by a driver who'd gone over give way/stop line/into yellow box Being reversed into by driver exiting parking space Driven into by driver cutting the corner turning into a side road

@quiff Iechyd da!

@Pub bike Gave this a go last night, but no subtitles available on iplayer, so it is a full immersion experience. However, I think I did learn the Welsh for Pogacar.

NB - credit to road.cc for their commitment to cribbing other people's content, which even extends to reproducing Velo's closing 'for more information see the Castelli website' link, despite there not actually being any more information there.

So I found a video and a picture of it inflated on BikeRumor: https://bikerumor.com/soudal-quick-step-castelli-ragaz-team-up-to-get-cyclist-airbag-into-pro-peloton/ It's fairly low-profile, so the jersey has enough give to accommodate it without damage. However, it does look like it's going to be difficult to remove and replace all that without removing the jersey. Unless you can swap out the activation unit separately from the bag, which might make it possible. It also looks like it'll give you a fair old kick in the backside when it goes off. And you're carrying the bag in a fairly wide strip up your back the whole time, which doesn't look great for ventilation.

Most of them are at least choices you can make when you buy a bike. Internal routing isn't really avoidable. It offers me nothing except a pain in the arse. Bikes are harder to maintain, harder to transport, and all for an aero gain I'll never get and a 'clean' look I don't care about And the manufacturers all proclaim it like it's a good thing, and we're all out there racing and with our 400w FTP :(