Here’s a nice tongue in cheek vid (below) from the Netherlands. What would cycling be like if it was like driving? that’s the theme explored in this short which was created as a Dutch school project aimed at promoting bikes – a long way from the situation we’re currently seeing in the UK where bikes are effectively banned at some schools…
Cycling sucks
Fri, Sep 11, 2009 14:14
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OnYerBike 19 minutes ago
@mdavidford Curious if the distinction between a budget cap and a salary cap is more important for cycling than other sports. Maybe I don't follow other sports closely enough to know what's going on behind the scenes, but it feels like for the sports with a salary cap (NBA, NFL, NHL etc.) it's all about the players, whilst for cycling the rider is of course very important, but a lot of money goes on other things - most obviously the equipment, but also things like support staff (chefs/mechanics etc.), training camps, wind tunnel testing etc. I note F1 has done the opposite and has a cost cap that specifically excludes driver's salaries (i.e. aiming to level the playing field mechanically speaking, but teams can still chuck money at getting the best drivers).
Smoggysteve 1 hour ago
@mdavidford Pffft? Is that the noise you make when expelling hot air?
Smoggysteve 1 hour ago
@mdavidford I can see how it confused you when I pointed to the reviewer at the bottom. but hey if you cant read an entire comment before getting all keyboard warrior blah, kind of like you usually do that not my fault. I should have guessed the first person to reply to a comment would be you, you cant help yourself.
Surreyrider 1 hour ago
@chrisonabike It never ceases to amaze me how drivers consider public land to be their private parking spaces.
mdavidford 2 hours ago
Erm - it has - as per the item above: (Technically, a 'budget cap' and a 'team salary cap' aren't quite the same thing, but given how much of the costs are paying riders, it would have a similar effect.)
adamrice 2 hours ago
A lot of pro sports leagues have team salary caps. Curious that hasn't been mooted. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salary_cap
mdavidford 2 hours ago
Well your original comment did rather suggest that was your understanding. The bit 'critiquing' the pros and cons was sandwiched in the middle of railing against the makers. And the amount of ill-thought-out tripe that gets posted under some of these reviews, it wouldn't surprise me at all if someone thought the manufacturer provided the pros and cons.
darnac 2 hours ago
JB may not bé Mr Nice but in this case he's 100% right. I thought when Lappartient was elected he knew sod all about pro cycling and his real ambitions were related to running thé Olympics.
Smoggysteve 2 hours ago
@mdavidford Well duh, is a manufacturer going to put negative comments on their own products? did you really just try to explain that?
3 thoughts on “Cycling sucks”
I long for the day when this
I long for the day when this is reality!
what’s the cop saying at the
what’s the cop saying at the start? any dutch types out there who can give us a translation?
🙂
According to a friend in The
According to a friend in The Netherlands:
“The policeman is saying something like: ‘Well well sir, how fast were we driving?’ And probably obvious, but the voice over does the traffic announcements.”