Shimano Metrea groupset is aimed at urban cycling market

@GravelIsNothingNew also it would be really hard for him to carry a car or even a motorcycle.

I've ridden at 35-40 °C before, including the first day of a tour from St. Louis to Chicago doing 100+ miles with much of it at a "feels like" temperature of 41 °C. This is in the humid midwestern USA, corn and soybean country, so it's not a "dry heat." On my nine mile commute home, I just fill my bottle with ice water and go for it. I can stand in front of a fan for a few minutes when I get home, and take a cold shower. On the 100 mile day, I really needed electrolytes. Two Nuun tablets per bottle or equivalent. No straight water, no matter how cold. Any kind of Gatorade doesn't have enough electrolytes. If you stop at a shop to refill and you're craving the salty crisps, that's your body saying "more sodium please." The strongest in our group of four bonked from dehydration and was suddenly behind us doing well under 10 MPH. We ended up stopping somewhere with air conditioning for over half an hour while he rehydrated and ate salty snacks.

I think there are some countries where cyclists don’t even need to wear helmets because of barriers separating them from motorists. And also the motorists respect for those that ride alternative forms of transportation. Here in the US a helmet is highly recommended. What I find perplexing is that I will see cyclists out on the road, in traffic, without lights. Anybody riding in traffic would be smart to have lights that could be seen clearly in the brightest part of the day. But to answer your question. No. I do not think a cyclist contributes to an accident by not wearing a helmet. Do they bear some responsibility if they hit their head and they do not have one on? Yes I think so. But I would not blame the cyclist for an accident, regardless of whether they are wearing a helmet or not.

@psyrog So a cyclist who is not wearing a helmet is not only being irresponsible but may be contributing to accident?

'22-era BMC RM01 with ACR-ish cable routing

Personally, I think all on-street parking should be a mix of disabled bays and loading bays. If you can afford to run a car and you're able bodied, you can pay to leave it somewhere for an hour or so and walk to the shops. Or better still, leave the bloody thing at home.

@OnYerBike I suppose it's all the crap appear in sports and recovery products that are troubling. But no one should take my word for it, try a real expert - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra-Processed_People

@jaymack By itself, the fact that delivery is free if you spend over £55 tells you very little about the value of the actual product - if you were getting loads and loads of bars for that £55, they could be great value. If you do a £55 shop of "real food" via your local supermarket's online shop, in most cases you would still have to pay for delivery on top. I would say that at full price and using the "one-off purchase" option, these are pretty expensive, but there are frequent discount codes and free shipping if you "subscribe" which make them more affordable (and you can cancel your subscription straight away - you're not locked into a fixed period). As for making your own real food, sure you could. But it's a bit silly to say "if you’ve got time to train, you’ve got time to make you’re own grub" - well I suppose technically correct, but if you spend all your time making food, then you no longer have any time left to train, and that's defeated the whole point! There's also something to be said for snacks that you can just leave in the cupboard for months at a time and grab as and when you need. I have dabbled in making my own snacks, but they tend to go off far faster than I can eat a batch. Sometimes freezing works, but then you have to remember to take them out of the freezer the day before (not to mention I have a pretty small and perennially full freezer).

For anything like this to truly take off we need to fix the issue of people not wanting to cycle and being unwilling to cycle with their kids on the back. My partner won't go near the roads on her own on a bike and was very against the idea of me getting an ebike to take the kids to school. Shes not wrong really either. I still get really stupid and bad driving around me despite people being clearly able to see I have small children on the back of the bike. I am a very competent cyclist and reasonably strong and fit. Someone who was smaller, less skilled and competent would likely run a mile from seriously using a cargo bike on our roads especially with children. Its a real shame because its a great way to travel, the kids love it and any exercise is good exercise but until we sort out the safety aspect, expensive tools like these will always be niche.

Nope. I don’t carry. Just probably desensitized. Being angry or scared is too mentally exhausting.