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@Rendel Harris Rendel, Rendel, Rendel. Stop taking yourself so seriously. Road.cc is part of a business. This business makes money through advertising and subscriptions (and content licensing?), and I would hazard a guess that it's the advertising side that makes more money than the subscriptions side. In order to make revenue from advertising, visitors have to come and view online content. Some content is sponsored, and some content is generated by journalists: staff members who get paid a salary, pay tax and therefore economically need to justify their salary. This means that the stories have to be engaging and enticing. I happen to believe this is a pertinent, engaging and timely story, because (as you are well aware) it aligns with public perceptions of cyclists, and I wholeheartedly endorse its conclusions. It tells a story of someone (George) who has the perspective of a cyclist, but became frustrated by the selfish behaviour of someone else cycling. I have had similar experiences myself, and as you mention you've also been frustrated in different ways due to antisocial behaviour of a minority of cyclists. George is concerned that the behaviour of the cyclist in question reinforces negative public perceptions of cyclists. His disgusted reaction is perfectly reasonable. I've seen a similarly disgusted response from black people about Jason Arday. Arday "let the team down" because his downfall gives succour to racists to claim black people are given an unfair advantage in academia and aren't competent. Cause and effect. Just like this article. And on to comments. Comments are part of what makes this site appealing. They enhance stories with personal anecdotes and lived experiences. When I comment, I take the time to articulate a well-reasoned, interesting point of view. I do this to create discussion and examine my own beliefs. You are perfectly free to ignore anyone else's comments if you disagree with them and don't want to engage, or even if you just think the person is - as is the tag line of this article - an arsehole.

This hot weekend I went up Ranmore Common and Box Hill. I wore a pair of Van Rysel bib shorts that cost me £40. I came home with sore legs but my 'saddle area' was blessedly unchafed. Can anyone out there tell me how my ride would have been better wearing bibs at 6x the cost?

I purchased the Pro bibs last year and they are very basic in my opinion, no way I would buy them again. I have Bioracer and Society Cycling bibs that are twice as good for half the price. My old Pedla bibs are way more comfortable for a similar price, and much better quality.

Presumably, George, you were driving along the A286, which is the only long straight road from Chichester to West Wittering. For the benefit of those who (like me) don't know it, this is the alleged cycle lane running along it. It's a gutter, looks to be no more than 40cm wide if that with vegetation encroaching from the side. I wouldn't ride in that and I'm prepared to bet you wouldn't. Seriously, what is the point of this article, which could walk straight into the Daily Mail as long as you changed the cyclist to an immigrant? Is road.cc trying to appeal to the carbrain market now? When the stupidest, most irritating previously-banned-under-a-dozen-different-names-over-several-years troll (mods, it's revelling in making it clear who it is, you surely have sufficient evidence now to make good on your promise of banning it every time it returns?) says "I could literally have written that article myself" you really should ask yourself some questions. Yes, some cyclists are arseholes. Come to London and you'll see me regularly shouting at and arguing with red light jumpers, 'phone users and others. Hell, I even stopped recently to offer a car driver my video footage when she hit (gently, fortunately) a RLJ cyclist (he soon dropped his threats of calling the police and legal action and scarpered when he realised he was on camera). So what? All this article represents is a solipsistic lazy moan from someone who very much should know better. It doesn't contribute anything to the debate beyond clickbait. Disappointing.

@Jaijai I totally agree with you and I tell people this frequently. Ever since SRAM's first 2x10 road groups, their front derailleurs (and chainring shifting ramps) have been rubbish (not shifting, slow shifting, over-shifting, being super-sensitive to setup, etc.). It's obvious that SRAM gave up making their FDs better and just started pushing 1x as a solution to their inadequacies. If you're using Shimano, there's no reason to not have a front derailleur because they always work great and give more gearing choices/advantages/efficiencies.

@mdavidford To be precise, that depends on how many miles you pound on that bike.

But it says right at the top of the article that you're getting less poundage for your pound than you used to.

That cyclist didn't design the road, he was just using it as designed. Your obvious writing skills would be better used by sending a letter to the authority responsible for the road suggesting improvements to the road design. Writing a complaint about one person solves nothing.

Alternatively, they could make that a "no left turn" for HGVs.