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Jj1234 7 minutes ago
I spend a month most years in China because of family, and a cargo bike there with an electric motorbike style front end and either LFP or advanced lead acid batteries, costs under £100 and is the backbone of every trade. There are a hundred different kinds but what they share in common is functionality and cheapness. Even the ancient pedal pulled wooden wagons with literally welded spokes from the sixties have been electrified with e-motors attached to the underside - and they cost sod all. In China cheap transport for business is a public good like drinking water. Because to get people to work you have to make work affordable. That's a secret of capitalism we in the UK could do better to learn.
vw_mtbiker 2 hours ago
@Zermattjohn handmade genuinely means handmade with Challenge. You cannot compare ride quality of a mass produced, vulcanized Panaracer tyre with these. The ride quality is incredibly supple, and can transform a riding experience. More expensive yes, but worth every penny!
Surreyrider 2 hours ago
@SecretSam 2019 Tour (don't see anyone else putting their hand up to say they won it), 2021 Giro, 2019 Paris-Nice, 2019 Tour de Suisse, 2018 Tour of California. So I'd say Lesterama is about right with his burned bright comment.
mitsky 2 hours ago
"Over 1,000 dockless bikes seized in Westminster The authority said the bikes would continue to be removed where they caused an obstruction, with operators charged for their return." Would love to know how many motor vehicles were removed (and their "operators" charged for their return) for the same reason. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c84g1x0g0d42o
Rendel Harris 2 hours ago
@OnYerBike Thanks for the interesting article link (table below for any interested), as you say it does show that the top 10% of pros manage 4.63 w/kg over four hours, but that only extrapolates to 325W if the rider is 70kg, and of course a lot of them are well below that, e.g. Vinegaard 60kg so his power over four hours would be more like 279W at that w/kg. Note also that the average for the bottom 90% is "only" 3.83 w/kg, so the average 68kg (World Tour average weight) rider in that cohort would be putting out 260W over four hours. So I'd still argue that across the average of the peleton, with 10% capable of about 325W over four hours and the other 90% about 260W, a figure for the whole peleton of around 280-290W would be more realistic.
Shades 2 hours ago
I'm on there 4-6 times a week (mainly commuting, so generally no later than 1900); mostly you see illegal/chipped ebikes and scooters going 'like a bullet' being ridden by people just like me. Haven't come across the balaclava, wheely pulling electric bike types this year though. Mostly, you need to be vigilant for kamikaze squirrels, loafing cats and dogs off the lead.
SecretSam 2 hours ago
@jackcycles Ummm...I think you'll find many MPs have successfully run businesses and worked in all sorts of sectors previously. As for 'business experience', I'm not a plumber, but I know the sort of kit that plumbers carry. My plumber arrives by car, so...
SecretSam 2 hours ago
@lesterama Not sure he burned that bright, he won his sole tour by default, not by merit, and would probably have been mown down by the Pog/Ving double act since
lesterama 4 hours ago
Bernal's statement: I didn't realise he had a background in corporate communications. Seriously, though, he burned bright. It's strange now to think that back in 2019 we thought he would dominate the sport for years.
chrisonabike 4 hours ago
@mitsky shurely it was at most one driver, because the red was not "established" before then...?
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.