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Live blog: Ouch! Lance Armstrong “is the nail”; Boardman unimpressed with MPs; red light jumping cyclists to drunk drivers; World’s first gravel helmet, Aussie Grit (MTB) kit comp + LOTS more
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Fri, Aug 10, 2018 07:58
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ktache 4 hours ago
@Mr Blackbird It's quite a skill.
chrisonabike 4 hours ago
@Terry Hutt good point, although while doing testing without a helmet I broke my shoulder and have suffered various other contusions. So I suggest the control should not be "no helmet" as in my experience that adds the confounding variable of your other limbs and appendages as (for some) instinct will mean you sacrifice them to protect your head...
chrisonabike 4 hours ago
@mdavidford or the highly skilled cycle football / radball players...
chrisonabike 4 hours ago
@No Reply dunno about childish, but I haven't heard that one since the 90s. Can't say I miss it.
mdavidford 5 hours ago
Bit harsh on the BMXers.
mdavidford 5 hours ago
@No Reply Er, nope - there are no age restrictions on the site. As previously noted, though, if it were restricted to adults, your choice of language would seem to mark you out as someone who shouldn't be on it.
No Reply 6 hours ago
@Mr Blackbird This is an adult forum. If adults are getting so worked up over the term bum chum, then they need to get a grip. People have a right to be offended, people have a right to offend. But if someone finds offence in something, it doesn’t mean its offensive. It means they are offended. Two different things. I am as free to offend as you are to feel offended. Freedom of speech. Do you want to silence freedom of speech? Or just silence things you don’t like?
Mr Blackbird 6 hours ago
@No Reply You obviously have a lot of knowledge of cyclo cross and make a valid point, but why detract from your comment by using a phrase that is probably offensive to the majority of readers?
Terry Hutt 6 hours ago
@chrisonabike I think the important message here is that your head will fly 20% further if you are wearing a collapsible helmet. Has anyone researched how far your head will fly if you're not wearing a helmet at all? Seems worthy of a research grant.
Mr Blackbird 6 hours ago
Any cyclist caught cycling backwards (on a non-fixed wheel bike) should be jailed for at least 2 years and have their bike confiscated. Such a despicable manoeuvre is dangerously confusing to motorists and pedestrians.
7 thoughts on “Live blog: Ouch! Lance Armstrong “is the nail”; Boardman unimpressed with MPs; red light jumping cyclists to drunk drivers; World’s first gravel helmet, Aussie Grit (MTB) kit comp + LOTS more”
August 15th???
August 15th???
Something like this?
Gravel helmet? Something like this?
Oh, I really think that Lance
Oh, I really think that Lance Armstrong fell a very long time ago…
CB is of course, right, and
CB is of course, right, and there is a plethora of evidence about what is needed to increase active travel. Unfortunately, the establishment and most MPs are wedded to their cars and cannot see past the end of the bonnet, and have such blinkered vision that anything which challenges their prejudices will be ignored; nowt so blind as those who will not see.
And in totally unrelated news, the treatment of cyclists at the parliamentary meeting about cycle provision on the HS2 route makes sobering reading. https://www.citymetric.com/transport/parliamentary-meeting-cycling-provision-route-hs2-showed-me-mps-just-don-t-get-4113
burtthebike wrote:
no, what is neded is tougher laws on cycling.
or it would certainly seem that way to an impartial observer, based on what the government say they want, on what they are actually doing.
I was at Anfield on Tuesday
I was at Anfield on Tuesday night and was impressed when I saw an advert for the Cycle Hub.
The biggest blow to Lance’s
The biggest blow to Lance’s ego possible *He looks old*