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] Are you seriously stumped by the questions? Lol. Edit: post up the really, really, really difficult question and I’ll see if I can give you a hand.
Sounds to me that TJuice and nnif are just saying the answers aren’t sufficient to be able to complete the question properly – they both discuss a number of differing cycling ‘things’ and where they might variously be stored, but the answers are in terms of a singular location for all the ‘kit’. The questions aren’t difficult – they’ve not said they are either – they are just not answerable, in general, given the choices.
I imagine the point marked “other” is the place for this to go and the OP can then pick the bones out themself, giving the lad a hard time about it, isn’t positive.
I mostly agree, although it still might have been better to rephrase the questions or answers or the questionnaire starts to lose cohesion and been more work to analyse. I also didn’t think they were giving the OP a much of a hard time. I was mainly reacting to your apparent lack of understanding (really ?) of what they were getting at, wee bit snarky I thought – was that because you felt they’d been unhelpful ?
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] Are you seriously stumped by the questions? Lol. Edit: post up the really, really, really difficult question and I’ll see if I can give you a hand.Sounds to me that TJuice and nnif are just saying the answers aren’t sufficient to be able to complete the question properly – they both discuss a number of differing cycling ‘things’ and where they might variously be stored, but the answers are in terms of a singular location for all the ‘kit’. The questions aren’t difficult – they’ve not said they are either – they are just not answerable, in general, given the choices.
There are some cases already
There are some cases already where disc equipped bikes appear more aero than rim, e.g.
https://www.slowtwitch.com/Tech/Disc_and_Rim_Brake_Aero_Drag_6073.html
(disc better over most of the yaw range they tried, rim brakes more slippery at high yaw towards NDS, head-on is never going to be much different) but what i’m looking to see is what folk can come up with now that aero/deep-section wheels are increasingly being properly designed without needing to consider a brake track, as Canyon48 alluded to.
Agree on the motorists – for
Agree on the motorists – for cyclists, it’s somewhat junction dependent but in the city centre here there seems to be a reasonable percentage of people that just seem to ride through oblivious to much anything – other traffic, pedestrians, what-have-you – stare straight ahead and pop, through they go.. reminiscent of the traditional student walking glaze. Odd.
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Would be nice, though I tend to think half the drivers like to deliberately block cyclists as they feel we shouldnt be able to bypass the queue.True. It’s not that they hate cyclists (well, it might be) but that they’re jealous!
Hence the rage about RLJ – I suspect it’s just that many motorists wish they could too. (EDITED:) Actually, many do. I notice far more motor vehicles either going through a light just turned red, or moving off on amber, than bicycles.To take central Bristol as an example, which you’ll be familar with, I do too – in absolute numbers – but I tend to notice a higher proportion of cyclists ignoring the lights than other road user types. That may well be highly inaccurate, either way, so i’m not really drawing too much of a conclusion from it.
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Hey dumb ass Sky fanboys – you suck! No one else gives a pair of fetid dingo’s kidneys about this political bullshit!Yeah, reality’s a bitch isn’t it ?
No smoke without a fire. Can you name one case in cycling where this hasn’t been true?Chris Froome’s AAF for salbutamol?
Interesting quip on GCN the other day that there are rumours apparently, and that’s all they currently are, that when Froomes lawyers started looking into this they may have indications that upwards of 10 other athletes have gone through something very similar to Froome – with the obvious caveat that they were conducted out of the public eye. One things for sure, we don’t still don’t know what we don’t know….
Well, quite – but if we let
Well, quite – but if we let the truth get in the way of a good stoning, then where would we be eh ?
Condor – £110, includes mudguard eyes. Optional upgrade for the Fratello. 658ghttps://www.condorcycles.com/collections/forks/products/condor-1-carbon-fork-for-mudguards
That’s not a bad price and nice and simple looking but very heavy (not much tyre clearance either) and the weight was important to the OP
I’d prefer black, simple with little text, but more importantly that it is light
..or the people with all the
..or the people with all the information and expertise agreed the AAF was not due to non-permitted use.
No matter how good the helmet, it does nothing to prevent the brain bashing against the inside of the skull, because of the massive deceleration forces involved in any crash. It will help prevent the skull breaking but not the bruising to the brain, and swelling of the brain which is what’s going to cause problems.That is exactly what the research was investigating, as does some existing tests.
No, I don’t think there is no risk compensation in sport – quite the opposite .It’s an interesting topic. I’m not sure how much of this is strict ‘risk compensation’ and how much is just evolution of the game and other factors… but there are definitely unintended consequences of more padding, and I’d take a punt on some of it being attributable to risk compensation. It must be really difficult to measure in a competitive environment with risks being taken anwyay.
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Indeed – agree completely. The boxing one is interesting, and has a link with this study and MIPS – there is still a deal of debate about whether or not headguards caused more and/or differing injuries. One thing that came out IIRC was again the realisation that impact concussion is not simply the brain getting knocked back and forward in the skull, but there is a surprising rate of it due to tangential shots (which headguards can make worse). This was known for a long time elsewhere, e.g. in the army with oblique shot deflection from helmets, and is / was not at all obvious. If studies such as the one in the article can help hightlight such cases and get more – and better targeted – improvements in helmets as PPE from manufacturers, then I think that’s a good thing for those that choose to use them.
No, I don’t think there is no
No, I don’t think there is no risk compensation in sport – quite the opposite – although you may want to ask what age group the race was. I did wonder whether you’d ever watched BMX though, or remembered what it was like to be young, or combinations; it was quite interesting you thought you had much influence on how you fell in a BMX race which regard to head strike. You also might want to consider that risk perception and why people racing would want to take a potential performance hit against their competitors. Also have a look at the effect of anxiety on motor skills, a flip-side to over-confidence, interesting..
The Bristol Post is running a story about a woman up north (how does that work?) who’s telling everyone they must wear a helmet when riding a bike. This is because her son was doing stunts on his bike and face planted and had to go to hospital for very serious cuts and scrapes and stuff all across his face. She cannot see a difference between riding to the shops and teenagers stunting. Plus, I hadn’t realised that a bike helmet would protect me from cuts and scrapes on my face…Me and my son were BMX racing this weekend. He crashed out in his final and I’m glad he was, as is a BC requirement, wearing his full-face lid. He also had on knee and elbow pads. Despite the padding, he did fracture an elbow and has had to have surgery. He was also mildly concussed.
But this was a BMX race. It is an inherently dangerous sport, pretty much like MTB racing.
We both have been BMX racing a while and know the risks and wear the kit. But it’s a lot different from riding to the shops.
so the helmet didn’t prevent a concussion and that wasn’t even involving a motorvehicle, doesn’t sound good does it! What if by not wearing the helmet your sons head would have not actually come into contact with whatever it was he struck, you know because you increased his head circumference significantly?
How many times have you or son crashed out (in all cycle riding wearing a helmet), how many times have you hit your head between you?
Do you not see that taking more risk means more crashing/injury and you take more risk because you feel more protected? Given we know that more children die in motorvehicles solely from head injuries in E&W only than all child cyclists by all injury types in the UK would you ensure your child wears one whenever in a motorvehicle, if not why not?
Risk compensation ? It happened during the final of a BMX race.. and as for head injuries in kids in vehicles go and have a look at your statistics for the details such as retention system (e.g. seat belt on or off), safety features (e.g. air bags – active when they shouldn’t or not present), physiolocal factors (e.g. age of child/head to body ratio) and child seats – you want prevention of deaths in infants ? How about you bitch about the historical lack of action on rear facing child seats. FFS
Love this weather, for longish rides I find it a good idea to freeze half a bidon of water and top up with just before going out. Proper long rides will see a full frozen bidon. Warm water is disgusting.Still riding with 3/4 bibs and Gabba over jersey.
Might get the shorts out for the weekend.Sitting at the opposite end of the spectrum is me – Shorts when it’s 8 degrees or warmer. 3/4 bibs when it’s 6-8. Gabba only when it’s 4 degrees or colder. I’ve been wearing my thinnest, meshiest clothing for months! For those who really boil, I can highly recommend the Stolen Goat Bodyline bib shorts which are the least sweaty of the many, many pairs I have tried
Same here temperature – looking for another pair of shorts at the moment as well, what do you think of the pad on the SGs ?
Hence the rage about RLJ – I suspect it’s just that many motorists wish they could too. (EDITED:) Actually, many do. I notice far more motor vehicles either going through a light just turned red, or moving off on amber, than bicycles.
Might get the shorts out for the weekend.