Commuter diaries – 1st ride of 2011

Seeing as it is a national title for cyclists to compete for across various age groups, I would have thought it hasn't missed the boat. Maybe the event could be held over several races on consecutive weekends and the UK gravel title awarded based on the best aggregate points total.

This article (and probably this post😀) would be greatly improved with a few images of the additional screen layouts and individual icons for the various vehicles. I upgraded to the Rearvue 820 and have found that the lack of disappearing vehicle icons -from when they match your own pace- a game changer. The intelligent use of new size icons also really excellent. Other than that, the additional added screen showing 2 lanes of approaching vehicles, interesting but not really adding much value. This screen lasted a month before I removed it from my activity profiles and I don’t miss it .

I wonder if councillor Moutray considered spray painting a bicycle with a raised red hand to indicate no cycling. That may have raised the profile of his campaign within the community and perhaps provoked further debate.

I can see compromise coming. Droning round a 20k or whatever lap 10 times will bore the pants off riders, spectators & so ultimately sponsors. That said, we cannot continue putting lives at risk from lack of funding. Maybe some funding from the stupidly expensive streaming services. Maybe cutout some of the tediously long bits, have a combination of laps but keep the sense of adventure, like rallying compared to roundy roundy racing.

Does "embracing gravel" have similar meaning to "faceplanting"?

Being a councillor doesn't actually give someone a carte blanche to go around spray painting on the public highway. Hopefully the police take an interest in this case of criminal damage (with the evidence helpfully documented by the perpetrator), and the council serves him a graffiti removal notice to recover their cost in removing it.

@capedcrusader It's actually pretty simple - sex (or to more precise: attractive appearance) sells. It works exactly the same way with cars. Making the final product look better often costs next to nothing, but it does add value and thus allows the manufacturer to charge more for the same product.

It does mean something: f*** off you lycra-clad car-botherers.

It might mean that, if it was red. But since it's blue it doesn't mean anything.

YMMV. To my eye, while the 'ruby', only available for SRAM S-Works is the clear standout, the rest of the options on the top two tiers (including the single option for Shimano S-Works) are either really boring or, in the case of the two-tone efforts, actively rubbish, while the solid blue that's only available on the bottom two tiers is easily the second best.