What would someone have to do to spoil the Tour for you?

Switch the tele off?

It’s not my fault!

What would someone have to do to spoil the Tour for you?

Switch the tele off?

IHN – Member

micturate, defecate, fornicate

Thanks, I’ve been looking for a motto to attach to my coat of arms…

Don’t forget “respirate.

I’ve been told you can identify which water to drink, based on the colour of the water.

Gov should issue a colour coded guide to safe water.

Mick Fanning

Wonder what version of truncation of his name, his mates use?

Sir, I must congratulate you on your rapier wit and almost Wildean repartee. Rest assured that no vegetarian in the history of the world has ever heard that jest before, and just three short posts into the thread you’ve exceeded my wildest expectations. Indeed, the addition of my sides splitting coupled with my wasting away on a vegetarian diet has left me almost unable to type.

Hhmmm. I think I’ve read that style of posting, some where before….

Ban-Hammer Monday?
:lol:

What the consensus on “pre-owned” water?

Needless to say we’re discussing low-carb, high fat water?

What tyres for water?

Colour has to be important, too.

Any specific temperature?

Are we talking bottled water or RAW water!

I do hope the public stop that kind of behaviour as we can guess where it’ll end.

Accurately ascertaining an individual’s BF requires specific equipment in the hands of someone who really knows how to collect and interpret the data.
If your underlying markers indicate you’ve no problems, then I wouldn’t get too precious out BMI.
Blood pressure and blood test measuring HDL and LDL subspecies would be my start point.

If BP and LDL was all “on par” then I’d carry on as is.

Bregante.

V happy for you.

Your lad’s now part of the cycling gang, enjoy!
:-D

molgrips – Member

Hi folks!

Yay!
:-D

Ok! The Blockmiester has been mentioned.

Who’s going to post the vid?

Give us something to watch while we await the arrival of our very own, in-house overtaking expert.

Freak!
:lol:

Car Driving/overtaking thread?….

You know who’s missing, don’t you?

MartinHutch.

Good point, I’ve always wondered how important it was to gain that extra 10 sec reduction in journey time or that cars length ahead in the que?

Some folk appear to risk your safety and theirs for little ‘gain’. I let them fly by “be gone!” I say.

The amount times, recently, I’ve been passed by someone who’s pubic hair must be spontaneously combusting. Only to see them moments later at the lights! Muppets.
:lol:

Oh, reading the other posts. Bit more on style.
generally courteous, use my indicators (sooo many people seem not these days)

Recently I’ve been using the big roads, DCs, and while to my frustration on the grounds of safety, I see roadies on the DC, I always hang back if in lane 2 to allow the vehicle in lane 1 to use lane 2 to overtake the roadie.

Also make a point of holding back, crawl along behind a cyclist until I can use the other side of the road. I hate close passing cars/vans and wont do that to other cyclists.

Do you seriously think people are out to get you because you drive a Panda?

Yes, strange how people become fixated on the car brand/cost thing. I don’t get it.

lol @ edlong. I once attended a driving event. I was just another person in a group of people who didn’t know each other.
When I returned from my lap, there was applause.
Not sure if I’ve ever felt more uncomfortable/embarrased in my life!
I know they meant well, but it wasn’t nice, albeit a kind gesture.

Cars: Audis
‘Style’: (whatever that is) Varies between Rapid to crawl.

I appear to be lucky as I see most stuff before it happens and ‘adjust’.

If I may. Driving along at the designated speed or to the limits of the prevailing conditions.
Shouldn’t automatically relieve you of your obligation to remain constantly aware of whats happening around you.
imo.

Purely driving by the numbers fails to make one a good driver. In the same fashion that painting by numbers doesn’t make you a master artist.

Ah, ok! Gotcha.

Is there a Mac version?

Stabilizer.

Your spell check appears to have expired.
:-)

Binners.

I now see you aspire to be the richest man alive, never to have ‘lived’.

Greggs! All round, For everyone!
:lol:

I use to wear Aviators, but then got hold of a pair of Oakleys…

Imo, lenses on the oakleys are lighter weight and clearer to see through. Not sure I’d go back to RBs.

What you talkin abaart? I’ve never worked in that industry!

Is it he who must not be named?

Is, it….. Lance?

When we went to lunch or dinner, it was with little regard to cost. It’d likely cost 3 figures.

Only two things niggle. Micro portions, to the point where you’re made to feel that the chef really is taking the pisch. I’m hungry, feed me!

Also, staff offering unsolicited advice on selections or combinations that might make the bill cheaper.
“Cheaper”! If I wanted cheaper, I’d cook at home. Furthermore, why just assume everyone wants as cheap as they can get?
It can be irritating, I find.

£50 for that ^ sounds ok.

Edit:
Spacemonkey. Your post reminds me why if I decide to eat out, I don’t much care for the pricing as if it “got my goat” I’d not enjoy the experience.
Although that doesn’t mean I ignore poor service or food!
If a restaurant screws up, it’s “bye bye”.

When I switched to 175s is when I began to get issues with fit and comfort.
Had a spare 170 so swapped it out for the 175 I was using. Straight away, improved comfort, no loss in, err, “speed”.
A relative term, in my case.
;-)

8O
Bacon?

Amedias.

Ok, apologies if I’ve missed anything.
:-)

Amedias.

I think its a flawed approach to try to draw a conclusion on incidence rates in the peleton, comparing word class pro cycles to the general population.

Just by shear nature of the sport, you need to be special, to begin with.

Crank arm length, for me, is about bike fit, not clearing obstacles. Personally.

Kcr.

Good post.

So my point was it’s (the BP) not actually much cop is it?

I thought the biological passport was significant in the JTL case?

Egg log!
:lol:

I thought that the stone, which precipitated the avalanche was the retrospective testing of a sample, from 1999.

The testing had been carried out on samples that had been anonymised. However, it was, I believe, a French journalist who managed to obtain a UCI document recording the anonymised samples with the names of the riders.

The sample that tested positive belonged to LA and then it all started to unravel.

IIRC the retro testing was being carried out to assess the sensitivity of a new/different test. Not to retrospectively “catch” anyone.

Nemesis.

Thanks for sharing your experience, useful to know that.

Of course, there’s a documented advantage to using inhalers if not asthmatic which is where my points about the TUE system being abused come in.

Couldn’t agree more and was the point I was also trying to make.
:-)

ampthill – Member

Why would you ban a dietary advance?

Depends on one’s interpretation of the “advance” in question, ie, is that advance to promote health, or performance, etc, etc.

Then as a sport’s governing body you’d be on the look out for the use of anything which may provide an “advance” in performance, but might also bring with it a risk to health. As we see in modern, top level sport.
Some would appear to be ready to risk their health for reaching the top step.

Its a sport, and the idea is that someone wins, subject to the rules. That means that someone has to be better than the next best person. They will do this by being physically, mentally, physiologically better than the guy in second place taking advantage of all of their natural abilities and enhancing them through training, diet, appropriate medical care, nutrional supplementation etc etc

In my opinion, and not wishing to give offense, that sounds a little naive. Teams/sports persons, have to look at the rules to their sport as though they were looking through a template. They look for the areas which are not covered.
I read about certain pro cyclists, declaring they have asthma so as to get to use inhalers. I’d of suggested that if you’re asthmatic, then pro road racing possibly isn’t for you. IANAD.
Loopholes and the ethics of exploiting them, in the context of and under the pressure of competing in top level sport.

So back to my point, when beetroot juice is band, I’d hope the teams who aspire to race “clean” will cancel their supply of beetroot juice. But until then would anyone call a pro cyclist a “doper” for consuming beetroot juice? Yet beetroot juice is widely held as giving an advantage the consumer would not otherwise have had.

It’s a strange situation, you see Team Sky, for example, simply ban the use of needles and you get it, you see what they’re doing. But that doesn’t mean that Mitchell, Kerrison, etc aren’t looking for dietary/methodological advancements to use, until, or if, those advancements are banned. Indeed, I believe Sky came under the spotlight recently for use of pain killers, etc.

Rules tell the honest sports person/team, what not to do, but rules simply can’t cover what a team or person might do next. Therefore rules will always be reactive, can always be updated and revised, but can only respond to whatever “improvement” teams and people believe they can use.

^^^ Aaaaand…. We’re off!

I think I’m with Cougar on this one, it’s a flippin minefield.