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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: Connor Swift gets a custom Genesis Zero SL to celebrate National Champs victory, Team Sky reveal full Tour of Britain line-up (with one small error), Cavendish battling Epstein-Barr virus +more”
Had to google what EBV is. So
Had to google what EBV is. So that you don’t have to – its the cause of glandular fever.
CygnusX1 wrote:
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Yes, the Dutch have two words
Yes, the Dutch have two words, fietsen and wielrennen. ‘I wish this was more openly talked about…’ Really? I wasn’t aware it was some big secret.
I suspect the distinction is highlighted by people who want to differentiate ‘good’ and ‘bad’ types of cycling. Of course the good type is the slow one that they personally do.
A lot of us ride road bikes for leisure and an everyday bike to the shops. It’s all cycling.
Sad to see a number of
Sad to see a number of cyclists in the Macron visit to Copenhagen wearing helmets seems to have increased. Is this just an aberration of the video or are more wearing them now then a few years ago?
In a TedX talk in 2016 Michael Colville-Andersen explained (in pretty robust language) how manufacturers have helmets to sell so ramped up ‘project fear’ to increase sales in Denmark. The result was an increase in helmet sales but a significant drop in people cycling. If this correlation is correct that is a pretty depressing way to do things.
darrenleroy wrote:
Danish government and indeed the EU road safety commission have been pushing to increase helmet wearing as the solution to cycling injuries/deaths. The EU ‘safety’ commission even use Denmark and Netherlands in a disgusting slant of stats to ‘prove’ cycling was more dangerous than the UK by using deaths per million population and thus making the case that that was due to low helmet use and that the obvious answer was to encourage more helmet wearing.
It’s a fucking disgrace how this supposed ‘safety’ commission can use these facts to massively distort the truth and to be allowed to push the problem/onus of safety back onto the vulnerable. it’s like they have some sort of an agenda and utterly ignored the fact that cycling in DK and NL massively exceeds that in the UK and other countries. Helmet wearing in places like Germany is huge and yet they have 400 cycling deaths a year, despite the larger population their miles travelled is still much less than NL as a total.
Macron in Danemark also said
Macron in Danemark also said that we (OK I’m french) are “reluctant to change, gallic people”. That can only mean one of two things:
– since he also cycled there, cyclist OTOH are open-minded, modern people, whatever french or not
or
– he’s got a brit counselor 😉