Three-time Tour de France winner Greg LeMond has appeared in a video showing how to quickly change and inflate an inner tube, which is in direct response to a similar video featuring Lance Armstrong recently.
You wait ages for former pros to show how to change an inner tube and two come along at once.
If you missed the Lance Armstrong video, you can watch it here.
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I'll counter that by saying the Bryton 750se I have drives me nuts at times. Inconsistantly picks up on routes created on Komoot and the app re-syncs every few seconds when trying to set up the device and sends me back to the home screen. The most infuriating one is that I turned live track on. Once. It now won't turn off and repeatedly flags up the live track is starting, and then disconnecting every few seconds whilst riding. I haven't timed it but it wouldn't suprise me if 10-20% of the time the the screen is covered with an error message. That's been about 6 weeks now. Other than that it's great :/
RE: Police launch road safety operation... by clamping down on cyclists using footbridge Meanwhile in Glasgow, Police Scotland are riding their motorbikes over the pedestrian and cyclists only bridge. https://x.com/FietserGlasgow/status/2065106152917012523?s=20
@Paul J Van Schip certainly seems a bit of a dick, but he's a European and multiple World Champion on the track, pretty sure you don't get there without having some talent in your legs.
Poor Vincent cannot get over the simple fact that given the choice people prefer dedicated cycling spaces, rather than pretending to be cars like vehicular cyclists.
What is the point of the fancy air sensor if it can't account for changing weather conditions?? If all you care about is a delayed approximation of aerodynamic watts in steady conditions, you don't need any special sensors for that. Just your speed on a decently flat course is enough to approximate rolling resistance and drivetrain losses. And the rest must be aero. If you assume a less aero body position at the same watts, your speed will drop while rolling resistance also drops, which means approximated aero watts goes up. And that's enough to demonstrate what you've shown in your testing protocol ("I sat upright and the number went up a little while later").
Your correction is accurate - it's almost always been "the (lack of) thought that (doesn't) count". "Massive" - less than a billion a year spent on active travel (trying to catch up / building a network across the entire country) Not massive - 6 billion every year (2026-2030) spent on road *maintenance* of existing "already built, goes everywhere, very convenient" road network for inactive travel Ultimately the reason "cycle infra" is *needed* is those unbelievably colossal amounts spent every year (and for more than a century now) on making mass motoring not just viable but apparently the "best choice" for most journeys. As the Dutch and others have shown, the majority of people *are* prepared to cycle and even mix with very light, slow local motor traffic *if* cycling is also made safe and convenient for the whole of their journey (including secure parking at both ends). (The history of the financial drivers of the current situation are a complex topic but note that while people complain about "crumbling roads" and underfunded motor infra - with some reason - by us continuing the fuel duty escalator freeze (for example) we're actually helping motorists pay *even less* for that activity / subsidising more of the cost of driving than ever.)
yes, but people will still object - which was my point.
So ' Priority of Road Users' and 1.5 metre clearance at 30mph has been been reduced to 'sharing'? NCN route 2 here in South Hams is an absolute scream with white vans, tractors and total idiots who refuse,or are totally incapable,to reverse on high Devon banked lanes ...means you have to get off and pedal back to a passing place....could be at that all day...so I don't bother...
@MaxiMinimalist Agreed. The big problem I see now is today's parents grew up being driven to their schools, and therefore, see private motor vehicles as the only viable form of transport. The vast majority of UK infant and primary schools have a catchment area that is within easy walking distance from home to school. Yet, the traffic caused by pupils being driven to/from school is astonishing. Banishing the "School Run" should be a priority for all schools.
When I was a kid (that was during the previous millenium when phones were connected to a plug in the wall), I rode my bicycle to school, music academy, sport grounds, parties even during the winter. The government didn't have to spend, correct that, didn't have to think of spending massive amounts of money to build cycling specific infrastructures. Over the past 3 or 4 decades, cars have grown bigger, taller, safer (for their drivers) and faster. Meanwhile, motorists have become abusive, aggressive, hypersensitive to people moving on two wheels, aka cyclists. Spending billions upon billions on new infrastructure won't address the crux of the matter. Sadly.
28 thoughts on “Video: Greg LeMond shows how to quickly change an inner tube”
Very clever response. And he
Very clever response. And he can fit a Gatorskin with just his hands! Top man.
Most folding tyres (i.e.
Most folding tyres (i.e. non-wire beaded) tyres can be changed without using tools. I have Gatorskins on my SS commuter and levers are not necessary at all…
What’s this sudden mania for
What’s this sudden mania for having people who spent their entire lives having their tubbie wheels changed by a professional mechanic while they look on showing us how to change a tube?
What made the Lance video
What made the Lance video amusing was the irony of former champ reduced to bike shop mechanic, a deliberate acknowledgement of his change in fortunes. Those who have only watched the video should also read the accompanying article from Outside magazine about the background
http://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/the-current/inside-outside/Are-We-Ready-for-Lance-Armstrongs-Return.html
This just seems a cheap shot in the everlasting Lance Vs LeMond feud. Take it outside, guys….
I think your missing the
I think your missing the point. Many people feel LA does not deserve forgiveness because he hasn’t actually apologised. He only gave in to the story when there was no other way out. Armstrong does not deserve any platform to further his celebrity status or to try and improve his image. The guy still believes he didn’t do anything wrong. He ruined people in the sport and he gave a fraudulent story to cancer sufferers to idolise. He is a massive loser and LeMond is a massive Legend.
jaylamont wrote:I think your
So if LeMond is such a legend, why is he lowering himself to these cheap shots? As was stated above: “take it outside”. Move on.
Surely Lance should be
Surely Lance should be showing us how quickly he can change an underarm bulb of piss, and Greg should be showing us how quickly he can change his shorts?
LeMond legend
LeMond legend
Next week, how to hose off a
Next week, how to hose off a diarrhoea-coated seatpost
andyp wrote:Next week, how to
Really? That’d be just peachy.
I like the picture at the top
I like the picture at the top of the article. It looks like Greg’s technique involves eyeballing the wheel and praying to the puncture gods…
KA-blam! It’s fixed.
I love LeMond
I love LeMond
Nice response to the equally
Nice response to the equally good Lance vid.
Nerd point – VO2max is the wrong parameter to quote in regards to ability to blow up a tyre – TLC is more relevant. VO2max is dependent on far more than just having big lungs, although it certainly helps. A VO2max of 92 *is* enormous, mind you.
I liked checking the tyre for
I liked checking the tyre for pellets 🙂
I thought he was going to add
I thought he was going to add needles to his list of sharp foreign objects. 😉
Chuck wrote:I liked checking
Raised a laugh here too.
Lance appeared slightly
Lance appeared slightly quicker than Greg…
Random mechanic testing might need to be introduced.
Nice one Greg, good banter.
Nice one Greg, good banter.
While a expect to get shot
While a expect to get shot down I think the L.A hate a bit too much. Yes drug cheats are wrong, thought I qualify this by the question, when L.A won’t the tour was he playing on a level playing field by taking drugs? I would also ask why other drug cheats are still admired and no one sees that as a problem , Coppi (speed), Simpson (speed and alcohol), Merckx positive test 1967 Giro, Mosser when training for hour record, Kelly had corticode injection, Chiappucci, Roach implicated in EPO 1993, Pantani, LeBlanc, the list goes on and on and on. I’m not fed ending any of them but why does Lance get the stick while others are still heroes? Is it because he set up a cancer charity that did and does still do good or is it because he survived cancer and inspired millions of patient, who benefitted from that inspiration even if it was a lie? Can any of the Lance hate gang explain why he is treated differently? Genuine question.
‘the lance hate gang’?
‘the lance hate gang’? really? ffs.
and why would anyone hate anyone because they set up a charity?
That’s just a bizarre thought process. And no, he wasn’t on a level playing field. Read up on that a little.
The drug cheating thing, for me certainly, is the minor part of it. The perjury, slander, intimidation, ruining of others’ lives…that’s the side of it which really stinks. Simple ‘cheating’ can be forgiven, on the whole. Stamping all over anyone who gets in your way, that’s a different thing altogether.
andyp wrote:’the lance hate
Exactly what I wanted to say.
For those saying LeMond should grow up/be the bigger man, or that this is a cheap shot, he more so than many was victim to Lance’s bullying and intimidation. His much loved bike brand was shut down by Trek solely due to pressure from Lance because LeMond dared to be honest with the press about Lance’s relationship with Michele Ferrari (the gentleman largely responsible for Lance’s doping program).
andyp wrote:’the lance hate
he’s is from the USA that’s what they do if your small or poor you get squished its capitalism , you can’t condemn him for his national culture! :^o
Of course, nobody could match
Of course, nobody could match the controlling evil of Lance. However, I’m far form convinced that Greg is a perfect angel. Just read this pre epo scandal Sports Illustrated article on Greg and search for “iron”:
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/cycling/1998/tourdefrance/tourdefrancearchive/tour2.html
It’s weird. My take is he figures he may have been used as an EPO guinea pig and is trying to hedge against his morality by half explaining it. I don’t hold anything against Greg for this, but I think the video is kind of bitchy, considering.
Yeah it was good wasn’t it
Yeah it was good wasn’t it (|:
So you noticed that when he put the wheel back in, he threw the chain off, and then gave the bike back. 8|
Cheap shots… Grow up.
still too soon?
still too soon?
Most Americans I know aren’t
Most Americans I know aren’t psychopaths. I’m not sure you can legitimitely make such a sweeping generalisation.
What a legend. LeMond was my
What a legend. LeMond was my first cycling hero as a kid/teen, top bloke.
It’s Jim Kirk, saves the day.
It’s Jim Kirk, saves the day.