Arriving at road.cc in 2017 via 220 Triathlon Magazine, Jack dipped his toe in most jobs on the site and over at eBikeTips before being named the new editor of road.cc in 2020, much to his surprise. His cycling life began during his students days, when he cobbled together a few hundred quid off the back of a hard winter selling hats (long story) and bought his first road bike - a Trek 1.1 that was quickly relegated to winter steed, before it was sadly pinched a few years later. Creatively replacing it with a Trek 1.2, Jack mostly rides this bike around local cycle paths nowadays, but when he wants to get the racer out and be competitive his preferred events are time trials, sportives, triathlons and pogo sticking - the latter being another long story.
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The randy 'cyclist' may or may not actually be a cyclist, but that gear wheel he was trying to shag was certainly not off a bicycle! More likely that it's from a moped or motorbike.
Perhaps he thought he was shagging a bicycle, but after getting intimate with the gears it turned out to be a cross mesher!
Really feel for Pinot, he certainly hasn't had great luck, and for a rider with so much pressure and expectation it must be pretty hard.
I hope he doesn't give up, especially after showing just what kind of form he was in this year, FDJ looked like they've really got their heads around supporting him in races this year. I've always wondered how he might have fared if he'd signed to a different team a few years ago.
Well, that injury certainly beats being bitten by a disc brake rotor... "Yes, doctor, I fell... Yes, it is very unlucky..."
Well he's obviously using the wrong lubrication - in this weather he should have been using wet lube not dry.
If I were the NY cyclists I might be tempted to fight the red light thing, if BOTH officers can be mistaken about the laws that they are meant to be enforcing, they may be mistaken about the colour (sorry, color) of the light when the cyclists rode through the junction.
Wouldn't do you any good. Even if you won (which you shouldn't, as you broke the law), US police forces are basically I'll-controlled paramilitary units. You'd end up being targeted every time they fancied a go at you. Literally sitting outside your house and following you when you left, watching for any minornteansgression and inventing one if you didn't commit any. If you were super unlucky you might end up getting shot. Why anyone chooses to live there is an absolute mystery to me.
To be free?*
*may contain irony. In this case sufficient to be magnetic.
I’ve never crossed the Swiss-Slovenian border. You must show me where it is sometime so that I can go there.
But the Swiss-Slovenian border is huge! - literally millions of people live on the border between Switzerland and Slovenia
Fiona. You rock.
I blame the flooding on all the people on r/britishproblems who wished the hot weather would go away.*
*and global warming.
That sounds like he's retiring
I have huge respect for Pinot and love the way he attacks races.