How was your cycle commute?
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Rebelda
Nearly as bad as Badgers
han
love is the answer
I've got 650c wheels. Does that make me cool? [emoji605]and...
Oakley eyeshades, 650c front wheel, Panasonic skinsuit, Vittoria shoes, no.4 haircut...this pic is so cool it just cracked my screen.
It's funny, I used to be in the hi-viz brigade, but now lights have got much better and brighter in recent years I sport a black ninja look. Albeit a slightly rotund ninja.
Rapha is a bit poncy isn't it? Personally I think anyone who has a company's name emblazoned on themselves in big letters looks like a fashion victim.
Boo to logos!
ChrisFilter
Like a boss.
Very nice. I do like Vulpine.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Eeuugghh. Is that Rapha?This is the sort of thing I think you'd like, less the hat:
Ted Striker
Foot's on the other hand
For OU #3. This wanker goes all the way to Paris Roubaix with his posho bike, in head-to-toe Rapha, and forgets his fucking helmet 
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Winot
I wholeheartedley agree with your viewpoint
BigTom
Well-Known Member
hope it's not feeling too bad in the morning.There's only so much you can do really, and you never know if those times you had hi vis you were seen because the drivers you encountered were looking or because they happened to see the hi vis. I dunno how you really go about data gathering this stuff.
Dogsauce
I’ve got Skol but I’m not a Scholar
Handlebars are bent, might just be twisted at the headset. Front wheel surprisingly unbuckled, though had a lot of trouble getting the wheel off so might be damage to the forks (the person who knocked me off gave me a lift home and I had to remove wheel to get my bike in). Front brakes seem a mess, back wheel not turning but the chain was off and possibly just a bit tangled in the dérailleur. I haven't really had much of a look at it as I had to get a train to London later (which I'm on now) and this incident took half an hour out of the usual eating/cat feeding/frantic packing routine.
Classic moving up the inside of traffic (short queue of maybe two or three cars) and someone turning right across through a gap, appearing in front of me. Someone at the front of the queue waiting to turn right, I was focusing on the junction from that side as I've had people cut in to join the main road from that side before without looking, didn't/couldn't see car coming up main road and turning into very small side road on my left. Hit the front wing initially then kind of into the side of it with my body before falling back into the road. Must have been about 20-25mph, I'd just belted it down a hill at about 30 to stay in front of traffic so I could ride in primary (in fact further to the right) and away from some really shitty surfacing, slowed a bit when I saw traffic bunching, but it's a wide road so plenty of room moving up the inside. Drivers should expect to see cyclists in places like that but they don't look. I'm usually pretty good at anticipating risk in these situations, could have done a bit better here but I shouldn't need to take account of other people driving without enough attention - just one of those things you have to do for the sake of self preservation.
Both knees and my right arm took some damage, left knee feels the worst. Right arm hurts if I lift stuff.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
deffo wanker gear. i'm looking for smeeeuuuthhhFor OU #3. This wanker goes all the way to Paris Roubaix with his posho bike, in head-to-toe Rapha, and forgets his fucking helmet
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
i love it
DownwardDog
Riding a Brompton with a power meter.
We've got lots of dedicated cycle lanes here (Western Australia) but you still get plenty of people riding like Abdoujaparov on them. So there's more to it than just build the infrastructure and everyone will turn into Scando style Herberts.
ChrisFilter
Like a boss.
Now I know you're on a wind-up. It's near exactly the same style as the Rapha one I posted
ChrisFilter
Like a boss.
For OU #3. This wanker goes all the way to Paris Roubaix with his posho bike, in head-to-toe Rapha, and forgets his fucking helmet
As if you weren't content with raising both electric shifting and Rapha, now you're raising the big one! Duh, duh, duh... the helmet debate!
In countries where helmets are made mandatory, the death rate for cyclists goes up.
When wearing a helmet, cars don't give us much space when passing.
It's arguable that mortal injuries sustained in collisions with cars wouldn't be prevented by helmets.
Neck injuries increase when helmets are worn.
*lights touchpaper, stands back*
ChrisFilter
Like a boss.
He's not on a wind up, he's just an obstinate bugger!
Sometimes I wonder if OU is the world's most consistent troll.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Is it? I still don't know what the fuck you mean by Rapha.Now I know you're on a wind-up. It's near exactly the same style as the Rapha one I posted
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
ChrisFilter
Like a boss.
Despite multiple explanations and pictorial examples? See post 16457.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
I can't tell what 16547 is on my phone, but you posted a very murky pic of a silhouette of two riders wearing Rapha. I still don't get a sense of what it's about and you keep mentioning it.
Rebelda
Nearly as bad as Badgers
ChrisFilter I don't wear a helmet, for the reasons you list and because I like the wind in my hair. But I do when I'm cycling with my girl because I can't insist she wears one and not myself. I know I'm a hypocrite 
Orang Utan it's Ted Striker's post that you quoted on the last page. Or google it if you want to know! But you're being just as tribal by bluntly refusing - you're asserting that you're a cyclist who refuses to engage with the stuff. Which is fine, but don't damn everyone else for doing it.
Orang Utan it's Ted Striker's post that you quoted on the last page. Or google it if you want to know! But you're being just as tribal by bluntly refusing - you're asserting that you're a cyclist who refuses to engage with the stuff. Which is fine, but don't damn everyone else for doing it.
Ted Striker
Foot's on the other hand
As if you weren't content with raising both electric shifting and Rapha, now you're raising the big one! Duh, duh, duh... the helmet debate!
In countries where helmets are made mandatory, the death rate for cyclists goes up.
When wearing a helmet, cars don't give us much space when passing.
It's arguable that mortal injuries sustained in collisions with cars wouldn't be prevented by helmets.
Neck injuries increase when helmets are worn.
*lights touchpaper, stands back*
It was a genuine mistake - I left it in my car and left my car keys in the hotel. I had been riding for 18 months at the time, and spent a year or so without a helmet defending my position that sans helmet gave me greater visibility/manouvrability/confidence on the bike (and a bit of other BS I didn't necessarily believe in to labour my point...) But I had relented and was a prohelmeter for 6months/year or so until the above...But I forgot it on the very worst day - you just want to go balls and survive, and worrying about going down (which was highly likely owing to the cobbles) and being surrounded by other determined pedal mashers was a thorn in the back of my mind and tbh felt a right wally the whole day. I consider it my penance for being a prick about helmets in the first place
To go back to the helmet debate, like I said, do what you like - it's not the most logical or unemotive stance, but I don't think I'd ever forgive myself (nor live it down) if I was in an accident and my (dear old!) Mum had to visit me in Hospital knowing I could have prevented some of the (potentially serious) damage
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ChrisFilter
Like a boss.
It's a cycling wear brand. They make expensive clothes for cycling in. A bit like Ted Baker, Hackett or Ben Sherman but for cycling.
I don't know why I'm humouring you when I have to be up at 6am.
I don't know why I'm humouring you when I have to be up at 6am.
Ted Striker
Foot's on the other hand
It's just his online character, I'm sure he's ok IRL.
Seen other places where the miserable/cynics/interest-crushers take over the place, glad to see even Rapha can unite the vocal majority for the common good
DownwardDog
Riding a Brompton with a power meter.
As if you weren't content with raising both electric shifting and Rapha, now you're raising the big one! Duh, duh, duh... the helmet debate!
In countries where helmets are made mandatory, the death rate for cyclists goes up.
When wearing a helmet, cars don't give us much space when passing.
It's arguable that mortal injuries sustained in collisions with cars wouldn't be prevented by helmets.
Neck injuries increase when helmets are worn.
*lights touchpaper, stands back*
At least Tony Martin has now legitimised the previously forbidden big-big chainring position demonstrated in the photo.
Ted Striker
Foot's on the other hand
It's only a 50 up front
. A more recent photo has also seen the rear QR switched to the drive side to tuck in the rear derailler cable. Even the leccy ones.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Finally someone explains. I really did not want to have to Google it. Thanks for saving me from it.
Ted Striker
Foot's on the other hand
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
tony martin is the fella who shot the gypsy in the back, right?
