swansonj
Guru
http://www.theguardian.com/environm...s-it-ok-to-get-off-your-bike-and-walk-up-hill
It's not the discussion about whether it's OK to get off and walk that makes my blood boil (though both the quotes, while ostensibly asserting that walking is not a failure, betray a mindset where it clearly is, which is a shame). It's the attitudes that emerge in the course of the discussion. For example, that triple chain rings and 34 teeth sprockets are "performance enhancing technical trickery". And the idea (apparently endorsed by Chris Boardman) that low gears are a recent innovation that we owe a debt of gratitude to the sportif craze for.
It's not the discussion about whether it's OK to get off and walk that makes my blood boil (though both the quotes, while ostensibly asserting that walking is not a failure, betray a mindset where it clearly is, which is a shame). It's the attitudes that emerge in the course of the discussion. For example, that triple chain rings and 34 teeth sprockets are "performance enhancing technical trickery". And the idea (apparently endorsed by Chris Boardman) that low gears are a recent innovation that we owe a debt of gratitude to the sportif craze for.