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Live blog: James Hayden’s Transcontinental Race-winning ride on Strava, Stefan Definil previews World Champs killer climb + more
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Mon, Aug 20, 2018 14:10
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Simon joined road.cc as news editor in 2009 and is now the site’s community editor, acting as a link between the team producing the content and our readers. A law and languages graduate, published translator and former retail analyst, he has reported on issues as diverse as cycling-related court cases, anti-doping investigations, the latest developments in the bike industry and the sport’s biggest races. Now back in London full-time after 15 years living in Oxford and Cambridge, he loves cycling along the Thames but misses having his former riding buddy, Elodie the miniature schnauzer, in the basket in front of him.
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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.
6 thoughts on “Live blog: James Hayden’s Transcontinental Race-winning ride on Strava, Stefan Definil previews World Champs killer climb + more”
That’s what I always do when
That’s what I always do when I help out an old friend or colleague: Instagram it for all the world to see.
I would do too. If I was a
I would do too. If I was a horrible little narcissist! Personnally I’m not quite sure that Road CC should have posted this “news item”
I expect out of touch old men
I expect out of touch old men won’t understand this but social media can help the creator of the content focus on what is important to them and their friends. Moaning about “ho ho showing off to the world” is to exhibit how ignorant you are of how people use social media.
roadmanshaq wrote:
I’ve long been of the opinion that social media is a great showcase for narcissists, so I’d welcome the chance to swap my ignorance for your wisdom.
To date, I’ve mainly just read some of the scientific literature on social media e.g. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0306460316301095
Highlights:
So, can you fill us in on what kind of focus increase these content creators can expect?
Social media is one of main
Social media is one of main sources of modern-day mental illness IMO.
Then again forums are sort of a gateway drug to social media.
“I only posted a few times on road.cc and ended up on the Instagram with Lance Armstrong”
Modacity is the name of the
Modacity is the name of the people whose book you refer to, they have a facebook page https://www.facebook.com/modacitylife/ and have been doing amazing work in NA to get utility cycling and safe ways to travel around cities actually come to fruition.
The video is okay but they’re still putting unecessary onus on the vulnerable … hi-vis/helmets, not recognising that children are children and that you in the big killing thing need to graspthat they do children things. I need to see you, okay so we’re forcing you to wear hi=vis because otherwise we can’t see you.
Also if you are to insist on no undertaking at long queues of traffic then why isn’t there a seperate cycle lane, you’re using this as a bullshit reason to remove the responsibility to ahere to the law, you know that bit about actually looking in the mirror/over your shoulder before opening a door whilst in traffic!
Share the road my arse, still too one sided.