Does the idea of wearing cycling gear make you more or less likely to ride to work? That’s the question the peeps from the Cycle 2008 are posing the nation’s cyclists in an online questionnaire. Share your thoughts on cycling and sweat you could win one of 10 tickets to next year’s show. Well, it’s nice to have something to look forward to. We like a nice bit of tight Lycra at road.cc (although the line is drawn at dressing up like a Belisha beacon), but there’s no accounting for tastes and it seems to put some people off. When it comes to riding to work – depends on how far you have to go… current road.cc split is: 1 Lycra 1 Bike Baggies 1 Jeans + cycling shoes (we don’t sit near him)
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How do you feel about Lycra?
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I don't need to read any further than that eye watering price.
Another example of an unduly lenient sentence, which is particularly galling in light of the driver's history?
Lovely colours on that C:68X.
I worked in outside broadcast (mostly sport) for a quarter of a century, and although I didn’t astutely monitor the situation, one could easily notice the differences in diversity according to sport. Football - very diverse. Boxing, also diverse. Athletics also diverse - especially at international championships. Formula 1 - white. I also covered many ‘minor’ sports like basketball, hockey, swimming. Basket ball was diverse but the latter were white. I never worked at a single cycling event now that I think about it and one thing was certain, the TV crews were exclusively white.
And how are those attracted/paid for? Through bigger audiences. There are 53 million black people in the USA, and around 1.2 billion in Africa. How much extra sponsorship and TV coverage do you think women's racing might get if there were a few black US and African women competing? That's not, in your idiotic phrase, "wokeism", it's good sound commercial common sense.
@chrisonabike I don't know how they would get confused - one's called Jack and one's called Nigel.
There is so much depressing deja vu here. The defence factors taken from the usual tick box list : "poor lighting", "dark clothes", "didn't see him" etc. The usual rehabilitation path comments : "full of remorse". The common previous : "drugs, and alcohol", "no licence" etc. Even your comments about the tipper truck industry ring a bell. Look up the 1957 British film "Hell Drivers", if you haven't seen it. It must have have been inspired by events of the time. I did wonder why Renshaw had been on remand. Was he a flight risk?
The cycle path at that point is (part of) the main road, not the side road.
Its not fucking careless if you drive a vehicle and don't check your mirrors. Its fucking dangerous and its fucking deadly. How on earth are we still dealing with this bollocks. Everything about this is maddening. The fact he tried to weasel out of it and blame the cyclist. The fact hes avoided prison. The fact he was still driving after such a long history of dangerous driving. The fact he is still only banned for 12 months despite killing someone due to his inability to drive safely.
The tipper truck industry is an absolute Wild West. Scandal ridden, partly because of the complete lack of regulatory oversight and the pay-by-the-load system which incentives dodgy driving. I hope there is an investigation into the firm’s recruitment process and a corporate manslaughter charge. We urgently need a HSE investigation into the whole industry
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Bike wear
I ride in baggy MTB stuff and change into my suit & tie at work after having a shower and shave. 🙂
Getting stuff dried before the ride home can be a nightmare…
What about…
taking an extra set of kit in with you on Monday so you’ve got a dry set to ride home in and then on tuesday going home in Monday’s (now hopefully dry kit). You’d only have to do it once… And Friday’s kit would get a whole weekend to dry! Which would be nice.
If only…
We don’t have lockers or even a store room I could use to dry / hang things… I put my suit jacket on my chair ( or coat rack ) and the rest goes in the bottom draw of a file cabinet. 😉
Wet kit
Or buy some wet weather gear;-)