“Real tangible advantages”: Schwalbe reckons 32in tyres offer more grip, more stable handling and faster cornering

@slownomad An EAPC is only legal to use on the road if it conforms to the EAPC Regulations 1983. An EAPC with a cut-off speed of say 20mph or a bigger motor is still an electrically assisted pedal cycle, but it is treated as a motor bike & needs registration, tax, insurance & a helmet.

@DS2025 That was my thought. My octogenarian father is prone to bouts of vertigo so he has given up cycling, motorbiking and driving. Declaring that medical condition publicly after a serious collision is quite incriminating.

700 quid and less battery life. I'll stick to my 1040 solar, thank you very much. Has more features than I'll ever need. Actually, THE star of the Garmin ecosystem is the one feature they make available for free: Garmin connect and its online platform. Were it not for that I'd have switched to an Apple Watch and other brand bike computer a long time ago.

Don't bother then, get out & watch the racing instead!

So because I have nothing better to do with my life I went and looked out a picture. Meh. Not much in it, but I think I prefer the new one - nicer purple.

Here's me and tens of thousands of my closest friends (not all pictured) not riding bikes in IOWA.

@mdavidford I think there's context and audience (for want of a better word). The discussion could have already clarified the type of bike. But for an audience who are bikers or have biker friends, relations or aquaintances, bike may well default to motorbike. I think the e- bike naming thing is probably a lost cause. The public and popular press seem to view any kind of fast moving bicycle, with or without pedals, provided it is not obviously petrol powered, as an e-bike. Whilst you might have expected a little bit of tinkering with your bike (motorised or otherwise) 40 years ago. It is now easily possible to very substantially modify the performance of your steed. That, the total disregard many people seem to show for (or ignorance of) the rules and the lack of effective enforcement means that this problem is probably going to get worse, before it hopefully gets better.

Oh, ok. Whistled right over my head. The jersey (or perhaps more accurately, kit) looks perfectly fine to me. I've no idea what it looked like before, though, and our blogger helpfully hasn't provided an image, so...

@mdavidford It's a quote from The Godfather (Vito when Sonny was killed); the young folks like using the clip as one of them there newfangled meme whatnots whenever something is changed for the worse.

What's with the weird title on the white jersey item?