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Live blog: Muc-Off launch chamois cream for women, Peter Sagan puts Vuelta ride to Twitter vote, #cycletoworkday poll and comp + much more
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60somethingcyclist 11 minutes ago
This is our local petrol station's prices today. If anything they're going to get a lot worse. Diesel is forecast to hit the £2 mark very soon. I'd be very surprised if we don't see refinery blockades like those in 2000. Let's see how anti-cycling they feel if that happens.
Paul J 1 hour ago
@Rendel Harris Interesting thanks. We do have to go back to the fundamental issue here. It is a _race_. And the GC is meant to reflect who is the best rider overall, over a range of conditions, over the 3 weeks. And part of that is using their judgement to navigate the course. I mean, riding in a big, tight, bunch on a straight road is dangerous too. See Pogacar. Should _all_ of the Grand Tours be neutralised, bar the uphill sections and TTs? Where are we going with this? I definitely agree with the many comments - ranging from commentators on TV, to road.cc journalists, to comments here and elsewhere - that this question needs to be addressed more formally within the rules of the UCI. Or else this fester and get ever more ridiculous.
chrisonabike 1 hour ago
I'm guessing he's a day-only Captain Nemo? On the other hand if he simply can't commute to work perhaps he's just a ROV pilot?
mark1a 1 hour ago
@Riggers I used to buy a lot from Wiggle, and since then, unfortunately nowhere has come close in my opinion for a one-stop shop, so for me now it's a combination of: Decathlon (clothing) Merlin (tyres, drivetrain components) Woolly Hat Shop/bikeparts.co.uk (tools, drivetrain components) Sigma Sports (clothing, misc accessories) SJS (components) BikeInn (misc accessories)
mdavidford 2 hours ago
What exactly do you think I said you said that wasn't what you said? Because you appear to be saying that you did say what i said you said - that it may provide useful information to inform the way that clinical cases should be assessed and handled when they present. Or as you put it: The issue is that they themselves didn't conclude this - they claimed that it provides information about the risks of ebiking and related behaviours, and that it could inform policy in those areas. It doesn't and it shouldn't.
mdavidford 2 hours ago
Do you work in a secret bunker in the middle of a mountain? Or a mine?
mdavidford 2 hours ago
Mountain biking does a lot less harm to nature than, er, paving trails. Also, I'm pretty sure that "federal court" has no particular sway in the UK.
Mr Blackbird 2 hours ago
I think horse riders would prefer not to ride on the roads, but they often have to use them to get between stables and bridleways. Also if one horse rode behind another the one in front can sometimes kick out at the one behind because it feels threatened. The point is that many drivers travel too fast on narrow twisty country roads and fail to allow for unanticipated (by them) events such as cyclists, horses, pedestrians, sheep, tractors, fallen trees etc being on the road and badgers, pheasants etc crossing the road.
Rendel Harris 2 hours ago
@Paul J More information has come out today which indicates that the riders did not believe that the conditions were fine, apparently a lot of the roads were extremely slippery (this seems to have been a problem throughout the race, presumably due to dust caused by the excessive heat) and so the many hairpins had become hazardous. Secondly the riders felt that the nature of the circuit made it impossible for any riders suffering a crash or mechanical to get back on as the peloton would be so strung out and it would take so long for assistance to reach anyone in need. Decathlon rider Sander de Pestel told journalists that in his opinion a GC rider wouldn't be able to get back on even if they had an incident at 40 km to go. Take that with a pinch of salt or not as you wish but those two sound like quite legitimate reasons for the riders to be concerned.
Geoff H 2 hours ago
@Chris RideFar ..... and the first thing they do is crank that throttle all the way! WHOO HOO!!! Look at me go!!!
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.