[Cugel]

A number of ubermen hereabouts like to dismiss the notion that one day, if allowed by the patriarchy, a woman might win high level open races against all including the men. Women are dismissed as inherently weaker beings who should be confined to the ghetto of badly (if at all) supported races for women only.

Ha!

Here’s an interesting little story from another cycling website.

https://www.cyclingweekly.com/fitness/indoor-cycling/real-world-success-top-ranked-zwifter-crushes-first-real-bike-races

Note the various data values involved.

A quote from the article:

After cordially warning her competitors that it was the first time she would ride in a group, she rode away, winning by almost five minutes over the hill climb series leader, Sonya Bodick. Her 5.24 wkg average for 22:52 earned her another QOM, a course record, and the victory – and even one position before her coach Josh Lipka.

The recently crowned Men’s Masters 35-39 Open US National Time Trial Champion put out 4.83 wkg and averaged 425 W to hold Kristen’s wheel and, when asked about it, could muster no more than an, “It was awful!”

Gawd – the ubermen must be feeling all trembly at the knees! 🙂

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[chrisonabike]

bigwheeler88 wrote:

Impressive, but online cycling is nothing compared to the real thing. Then it’s a mental game, and as much as I love my wife, I know that women just aren’t as strong mentally as men.

I guess you’re fishing, but … is it your wife you’re extrapolating from to all women, or … a similar looking one?

[Anonymous]

Impressive, but online

Impressive, but online cycling is nothing compared to the real thing. Then it’s a mental game, and as much as I love my wife, I know that women just aren’t as strong mentally as men.

[Rendel Harris]

chrisonatrike wrote:

Well I’m pleased they’re well.  I always wonder, if someone disappears.  If it’s not a Nigel / TIMUN / Socrati/Martin / other frequent revenant spontaneously combusting.  And if it’s not an obvious flounce (like IIRC ShutTheFrontDawes did) – I do find myself thinking “hope they’re OK”.

I did ask him a few months back what he was actually playing at, and he answered he liked to stay on a site for a few months at a time and “offer the benefit of my wisdom and experience” [sic] and then disappear again. Highly peculiar and often deliberately vexatious but not actually malicious, I thought?

[Rendel Harris]

SaveTheWail wrote:

Don’t worry; we’re all Rendel Harris anyway

I’m reminded of an old Stephen Fry piece to camera on the F&L show referencing the Milton Keynes advertising of the time (“Wouldn’t it be nice if all cities were like Milton Keynes?”): “No, I don’t think it would be at all nice if all cities were the same, but especially not if they were all like Milton Keynes…”

[chrisonabike]

Bloody cyclists…

Bloody cyclists…

[SaveTheWail]

That’s what I’d like to know.

That’s what I’d like to know.  Hopefully not where I most often see them.

[chrisonabike]

Où sont les blaireaux d’antan

Où sont les blaireaux d’antan?

[SaveTheWail]

Don’t worry; we’re all Rendel

Don’t worry; we’re all Rendel Harris anyway, according to some.  Seriously, though, I have wondered more than once what happened to Captain Badger, so I know what you mean.

[ktache]

Are marathons directional and

Are marathons directional and should the logo be aligned with the valve?

[chrisonabike]

Well I’m pleased they’re well

Well I’m pleased they’re well.  I always wonder, if someone disappears.  If it’s not a Nigel / TIMUN / Socrati/Martin / other frequent revenant spontaneously combusting.  And if it’s not an obvious flounce (like IIRC ShutTheFrontDawes did) – I do find myself thinking “hope they’re OK”.

Cugel said they did a lot of country road riding and while it sounds like they’re in a local paradise in south-west Wales, country roads are where some of the worse crashes occur.

Anyway, thanks for the update.  Obviously they needed an outlet for their prose so that will be good for them too.

[mark1a]

Update. We may not see

Update. We may not see responses from the OP on this debate, Cugel appears to have PFU status (previously flounced user). He is active and well back on the Cycling UK forum after an 8 month absence, educating and informing the forum denizens in a pompous and sneering manner, 15 paragraphs at a time. 

[mark1a]

Well, it’s been a week now

Well, it’s been a week now since this was posted, and I had gone out and bought extra popcorn for Cugel’s replies… oh well. 

[chrisonabike]

To be fair Workcycles

To be fair Workcycles actually make this job “easy” – just remove “a few” bolts and detach a section of the frame “for easy tire changes”…

[chrisonabike]

Of course – this is the

Of course – this is the international version.  Locals swear by (and during) their own version of the contest, featuring at minimum a bike weighing a significant fraction of your bodyweight, sporting a chaincase…

[andystow]

mark1a wrote:

“Next up Brian, the qualifiers from this heats round will be removing and refitting a rear Schwalbe Racer on a 6 speed Brompton with mudguards at the roadside in the rain. I don’t know where this is going to go. There could be tears before we get to the medals. Remember the call of shame home is instant DQ.”

#beenthere

I’ve been there too. In the dark.

[Author]

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