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imajez 2 hours ago
@ChrisA the surface make up of a path bears zero relationship to it being a footpath/suitable. I once got lectured on why I shouldn't be riding a footpath by a driver of a Range Rover on a lovely tarmacked road. Another time I was lectured by someone blocking my way on a singletrack path that was built by cyclists, who said I should only be on large wide paths. The parallel wide path was a footpath. But these are very rare exceptions. I ride sensibly and most folk are usually entertained by my polite presence. Also most footpaths would have been paths used by horses in ye olde days, they often conveniently got mislabeled/demoted by rich landowners who failed to get path denied altogether when rights of way were being drawn up.
imajez 2 hours ago
@SecretSam Hence the rise of gravel bikes, which are just less capable drop barred bikes.
miksmith 4 hours ago
You state for the audio for the baofeng that they use an in ear design however they don't ship with any headphones with a mic. What did you use for this?
Rendel Harris 5 hours ago
@eburtthebike One of my best mates, a former rugby teammate of mine, is a Kiwi and a teacher (over here). I can imagine him making precisely that joke and he's a mad keen cyclist! Honestly, if this is the whole story it's a hell of an overreaction to a remark that deserved a mild reprimand about appropriate conduct if that (different if it was coming from a police officer or a driving instructor or similar, maybe). Having worked in a number of schools it's my experience that when senior management take agin someone they'll grab any excuse to get rid of them, I wouldn't be surprised if that was the situation here.
Andrewbanshee 6 hours ago
Hi I wasn't implying the ramps were equivalent to a pump track. I was saying many forestry trails are pretty hairy rather than a well designed pump track. The ramps are definitely not suitable and need replacing, but they are replacing with a new design. I suspect much more tame.
eburtthebike 9 hours ago
Oh dear! With my sense of humour, I should have been sacked a dozen times: every year. The Kiwis I've met all seemed to have a reasonable sense of humour, and one was excellent, but perhaps they weren't working for a school.
ktache 10 hours ago
"neither student laughed..." Well, it elicited a wry smile from me...
Rendel Harris 15 hours ago
@60somethingcyclist Unfortunately there are a couple of problems with that: firstly in order to try to manage some of the chaos in the Italian political system, for several decades when a mayor wins an election in large towns they are automatically given a guaranteed majority of 60% of the council seats, and also if a decree of the mayor's is overruled by the council that automatically triggers a no-confidence vote which then dissolves the council and forces a new election. So in order to vote down this decree not only would opponents need to persuade a considerable number of the mayor's own party to vote against him but also effectively to vote themselves out of office with no guarantee of return.
matthewn5 1 day ago
My first road bike was a Raleigh, too. A 1976 Raleigh Record. I dragged it out of the shed a few years ago and got it working again. 14kg it weighed! A 52/42 crank and a 14-28 five speed 'cluster' at the back made hills pretty hard work...
11 thoughts on “Live blog: Muc-Off launch chamois cream for women, Peter Sagan puts Vuelta ride to Twitter vote, #cycletoworkday poll and comp + much more”
Sagan should be careful with
Sagan should be careful with public votes. He’ll end up being called Saggy McSaganFace and trying to somehow leave the cruel tyranny of his Bora-Hansgrohe team while still getting the benefit of massages from their soigneurs.
…and being nominated for
…and being nominated for the Tour d’Nord Korea
Great publicity stunt, he can
Great publicity stunt, he can swing it anyway he wants to, vote to do it and he/the team may have already decided to do it so it then looks like he’s taking advice from fans.
Decide he’s not doing it and there’s still some that will vote not to do it but can easily say, sorry guys, I just don’t think I can do the race/the team justice and someone else in the team has a better/equal chance of victories or can complete the race or whatever blather.
Win, win.
Muc Off Luxury Chamois Cream
Muc Off Luxury Chamois Cream is 250 ml for £8.90 on Wiggle. Or for the ladies, 100 ml for £13.99.
Pink tax?
pruaga wrote:
RRP vs online discount price.
Master Bean wrote:
Ok, fair comment.
Genderless product RRP £20 for 250 ml, pink version £13.99 for 100 ml.
8 p per ml Vs 14 p per ml.
pruaga wrote:
The normal stuff comes in 100ml for £13.99. Nice try but both sexes are equal here.
pruaga wrote:
it’s made exclusively from lady chamois goats, and they are much harder to catch than the males, who come running as soon as they hear you want to smear them all over your arse.
ConcordeCX wrote:
I can’t BELIEVE what I’m READI-
you got me, chief.
That Intense video is awesome
That Intense video is awesome, looks like a video game!
I’m prepared to believe that
I’m prepared to believe that lady bottoms are sufficiently different to gentleman bottoms that different creams might be in order, but I’ll wager the ingredients in the gentleman stuff are sufficiently inert as to make no difference, so I suspect it is pink tax.