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Live blog: Zwift Companion updates, Team Sky… dildo thing, MAMILs on the rise in Oz, Vulpine returns + more
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Mon, Dec 10, 2018 20:05
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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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Sredlums 1 minute ago
@Borisface No one questioned your experience or knowledge. It's irrelevant, because your comment doesn't show any sign of that experience or knowledge.
Sniffer 6 minutes ago
The comments on this thread mirror the comments I get when I roll out with my steel bike, a Fairlight Strael, to a group ride. Some people think it is a thing of beauty and like the idea, others don't understand why I have spent that kind of money on something that isn't carbon and weighs a bit more. I have a carbon race bike with aero tweaks. I love it for the chain gang and other fast paced riding, but when I was out on my own this weekend the steel bike was a joy to ride. Proper mud guards are back on, and it even looks good to me with those fitted. I think Mason, and Fairlight, know that there is a chunk of the market that will not be interested in a steel / alloy bike, but there will be enough customers willing to spend their cash on nice versions. If that is not you @Borisface, that is fine. I have not ridden a Mason, but I would like to. I fondly remember my Kinesis T2, bought as a full bike on the cycle-to-work scheme many years ago. The frame is still going strong, currently sitting on my son's turbo trainer.
Paul J 7 minutes ago
@Rendel Harris With all the regular stories of shockingly reckless, and sometimes deliberately aggressive, drivers who end up seriously injuring or even killing cyclists we read, it is hard to be shocked anymore by the next such story. However, this story, and that behaviour - stopping to try pull the man out, failing, then continuing on and veering from side to side to dislodge the *still alive* cyclist from under the car - has managed to shock me. It is incomprehensible. How could anyone do that to another person? Not just deliberate murder, but murder with the certain knowledge that it would lead to a prolonged, slow, gruesome, most painful death. And he did this with a *passenger* with him in the car!
Sredlums 10 minutes ago
@Freddy56 Following that line of reasoning, what's next? Will the First Aid volunteers be replaced by a First Aid kit and a a kiosk computer with ChatGPT to tell you how to take care of yourself? The announcer replaced by a computer voice, spitting out names based on race bibs and facial recognition? Have some pride, man. If you cannot organise an event in a proper way, with human attention and care, then don't. Just don't. Events don't have to be perfect. Perfection is not to be expected of things that are mostly run by volunteers. And perfection is overrated anyway. But they should feel human. You should feel the enthusiasm and the pride of the organisers and volunteers. An event with an AI poster send the very opposite message, and it is reason for me not to even consider partaking.
mdavidford 23 minutes ago
@sheridan This is an opinion piece (it's clearly labelled as such at the top). I'm not clear what facts are in dispute - the article was in response to the existence of AI-generated promotional images for the races, and those clearly do exist.
DS2025 58 minutes ago
@Freddy56 Nice assumptions.
jasperdog 1 hour ago
@Borisface With all that experience I find it odd you'd dismiss by all accounts an absolutely brilliant bike simply because of it's frame material. Are you worried what people might think or something?
sheridan 2 hours ago
@This Wreckage You must have missed that story about a park which has a cycle park with no (legal by byelaw) entry. Hint - it wasn't in London.
sheridan 2 hours ago
@DS2025 It does make the club look rubbish, if I hadn't had time to have a look in the comments today I'd have been left with a bad impression of the club. Journalism is supposed to involve checking source, researching and following up leads - I presume this article was written by a reader as an opinion piece and not a paid journalist?
Rendel Harris 3 hours ago
@brogs Five years to reply to a comment must be some sort of record. It's a shame that it's absolute nonsense then. Most drivers believe they are more skilful than they are (surveys have demonstrated that up to 93% of drivers believe their driving is better than average) and have an attitude that they are safe at speeds at which they are not. That's why we have speed limits. With 35 million or so drivers in the country it's both hopeless and ridiculous to say "let's not bother with speed limits, let's change skills and attitudes", it's not going to happen and drivers have consistently proved that they are not sufficiently responsible to behave in a safe manner, that's why they need restrictions. Seriously, "speeding kills nobody it's simply the act of exceeding a number on a sign", tell that to the parents who lose their child because they were hit by somebody driving at 30 mph in a 20 mph zone so didn't have time to stop when the child unexpectedly ran into the street.
16 thoughts on “Live blog: Zwift Companion updates, Team Sky… dildo thing, MAMILs on the rise in Oz, Vulpine returns + more”
UCI now in frantic meeting to
UCI now in frantic meeting to go through the rulebook as regards dildos. Maybe the last place guy now has to carry la dildo rouge?
Yorkshire wallet wrote:
Surely ‘Le Dildo Rouge’ – I can’t imagine it would be a feminine noun!
KendalRed wrote:
fench is very odd, more about the sound than the sex of the object.
So it’s le zizi (willy) but la bite (dick)
Yorkshire wallet wrote:
UCI have now permitted their use but have to be no bigger than 7″ and cannot contain a motor.
Simmo72 wrote:
in addition, UCI have insisted on keeping to a 3:1 ratio on tube profile, since “aero”gains are not permitted.
Yorkshire wallet wrote:
No. He has to wear a purple helmet.
All my dildos are gender
All my dildos are gender fluid.
Only doing it to get
Thomas is only doing it to get attention otherwise why post it up on social media? He’s quick to criticise Wiggins for attention seeking and then pulls this out of his arris and thrusts it onto tinternet, now he thinks he’s the big dog he’s such a media whore just like the rest.
BehindTheBikesheds wrote:
They did it ot take the piss out of Wiggins. If they didn’t post it, how were they going to make their point?
While I a sure they found it hilarious, I doubt it was a wise move.
Road cycling and sexual
Road cycling and sexual perversion go hand in hand. Minority interest with tight clothes, pain for pleasure mindset and the usage of gadget and drugs to get more out of it.
I’m sure there’ll be stiff
I’m sure there’ll be stiff opposition to this from other teams.
Is Durex Sensations the new official lube for team Sky?
Team Dimension Data rumoured to be following suit, and now “powered by Duracell ”
I’m considering carrying one
I’m considering carrying one with a sucker to stick on the roof of the next driver to cut me up.
In the forties and fifties my
In the forties and fifties my father always referred to traffic lights as ‘robots’ probably a common description on countrywide installation.
fixation80 wrote:
they’re still called robots in S Africa.
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I’m not Froome’s biggest fan, but come on…!
Maybe it’s not a dildo but
Maybe it’s not a dildo but just a phallic shaped sealent applicator to be thrust into a punctured tire?