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Live blog: Vuelta highlights, Barca star Pique on his (e-) bike after driving ban,man caught cycling on the M6 + more
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Wed, Sep 05, 2018 14:19
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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.
9 thoughts on “Live blog: Vuelta highlights, Barca star Pique on his (e-) bike after driving ban,man caught cycling on the M6 + more”
Yep, back to M56 traffic jams
Yep, back to M56 traffic jams since schools went back, more than a coincidence.
don simon wrote:
The last two days have been horrific getting into and across London from Reading. It’s taking me about 45 minutes (nearly 50%) longer than usual. Pure coincidence that schools have started again.
ChrisB200SX wrote:
that’s an impressive commute – what route do you use?
Edit: ignore that – I thought you meant cycling… you don’t mean cycling, do you?
What?? My precious little
What?? My precious little darling, walk or CYCLE to school?!?!?! With all those nasty dangerous (other people’s) cars on the road???
As for that Silk Road being a
As for that Silk Road being a wide bastard!
That Gerard Pique is not much
That Gerard Pique is not much into pedalling, is he.
Miller wrote:
Yeah that’s less of an e-bike more of an e-moped…looks like he’s easiliy doing 20-30mph without pedalling. Is that even legal in spain?
StoopidUserName wrote:
“MyCampy”. Oh yuk! which
“MyCampy”. Oh yuk! which schoolchild thought that up? “MyCampag” could be acceptable if you’re really that inarticulate.