Racing roadkill
Guru
The fact they have been referring to it as "one of the world's toughest bike races"
is enough to make me not want to watch it.

Was it a support car, or was it the camera car, perhaps doing double duty?(a support car on a 60 mile sportive?)
Why not, if they want to? But giving her good rubber block pedals would clearly have been better IMO and reduced the risk of hot foot.why let anybody ride 60 miles in trainers and spd pedals?
I don't think they said... but does it matter anyway? I know my hematocrit but not my FTPPity they didn't say what the FTP results were, unless of course
I'd nodded of by then...![]()
I don't think they said... but does it matter anyway? I know my hematocrit but not my FTP![]()
Haha, brilliant.I`m orginally from Northern Ireland so FTP means something completely different - I was gonna put lol at the end but again, that means something different too
With the almost pro levels of support they are getting (a support car on a 60 mile sportive?) it seems to me almost anybody could manage the Etap after 8 weeks. I'll keep watching but parts of it make me cringe- why let anybody ride 60 miles in trainers and spd pedals?
Back in the early 80s I was working as a programmer and wrote a program called ftp (this was before the file transfer protocol was widely famous, certainly in the area I was working, so there wasn't a name clash). We had a meeting and I was explaining what it was and what it did and how to use it and one team member (from your neck of the woods) was sat at the back creasing up with laughter and shouting "FTP".I`m orginally from Northern Ireland so FTP means something completely different - I was gonna put lol at the end but again, that means something different too
Back in the early 80s I was working as a programmer and wrote a program called ftp (this was before the file transfer protocol was widely famous, certainly in the area I was working, so there wasn't a name clash). We had a meeting and I was explaining what it was and what it did and how to use it and one team member (from your neck of the woods) was sat at the back creasing up with laughter and shouting "FTP".
Actually, I was far more concerned by this than the clips. It seems irresponsible and negligent to be encouraging someone to train on the public highway when you know that they will not take their hands off the bars and therefore presumably aren't signalling and probably aren't looking behind. Addressing that should have been their top priority and I don't mean shouting at them repeatedly as they rode past a target to hit.They did the same thing with learning to drink from a bottle, instead of first getting the novice confident in riding one handed, and then moving on to getting the bottle, they had someone else thrust a bottle at her while riding: she clung on to the bottle and the other person, and fell, making more good TV.
the mad idea of sending the non-sportspeople on an assault course.
I'm trying not to take it too seriously, but I was watching with my wife who is a bit of a nervous cyclist and had to keep pointing out that no, cleats are not mandatory for going up hills, no, people do not keep falling off like that ... etc etcI am enjoying it as a bit of not to be taken too seriously light entertainment.
I like Austin. He is a complete and utter knob and windup merchant. And has been known to get his comeuppance (If you're interested read about his spat with Justin "plank" Harrison on the 2001 Australia Lions tour. Austin lost that one comprehensively, and JH managed to single-handedly steal the series for Australia - sort of).Rugby bloke is coming across a bit of knob,