Once in a while the UCI will get one thing proper, and velocipedal traditionalists might be happy to be taught that they’re set to ban the turned-in brake levers which are so in style with the youngsters these days:
I’m already seeing biking followers complaining about this on the social medias, they usually’ll usually complain the UCI stifles “innovation” or no matter, however I’ve a classy mental response to that: professional sports activities have guidelines and when you don’t like ’em robust shit. Hey, if you wish to journey round along with your brake levers turned in no person’s stopping you–actually, loads of folks had been unwittingly using round like that lengthy earlier than it was modern. I’m sufficiently old to recollect when bent-in levers simply meant you’d dropped your bike however didn’t know readjust them:
[I’m old. This is my lawn. Get off it.]
Anyway, I doubt biking goes to lose its few remaining followers due to this new rule. ”What?!? No turned-in brake levers!?!” [Turns off Tour de France in disgust] I imply actually, race bikes at present are ugly sufficient, and the final assume we want is them trying all knock-kneed on high of it:
Anyway, it’s a great begin, and if they will now transfer on to banning the next we’ll actually be getting someplace:
- Digital shifting
- Disc brakes
- Carbon fiber
- Aero wheels
- Radios
Talking of professional biking and issues which are crooked, say what you’ll about this man however he’s no dummy:
I used to assume that if he hadn’t tried his comeback then Floyd Landis wouldn’t have outed him, he wouldn’t have needed to go on Oprah, and he’d nonetheless be the seven-time Tour de France-winning most cancers hero he was when he stepped off the rostrum in 2005. Now nevertheless I perceive that the world would have lengthy grown bored with him by now, as a result of there’s nothing folks discover extra tedious than do-gooders who journey bikes, and there’s no manner Invoice Maher can be sitting down with him in 2023 if he hasn’t reinvented himself as Doping Man:
Sarcastically although whilst an avowed cheater with no cause to make stuff up anymore he’s nonetheless making stuff up:
That is one thing that’s broadly identified to be false:
I’m unsure why he’d conceal that, since when you’re going to sit down down with Invoice Maher and inform doping tales, what’s a extra bad-ass doping story than failing a drug check after which paying off the UCI by shopping for them a drug-testing machine?
That’s a a lot cooler story for a chat present than “I by no means handed a check,” although who is aware of what he nonetheless has on them they usually nonetheless have on him and all the remainder of it. I suppose in these conditions all of the attorneys hammer out some model of the “reality” that everybody can dwell with and that’s that. The UCI will get to say they meted out justice by banning him and he will get to say he by no means failed a drug check. Then they transfer on to policing brake lever angle, he will get to dine out on the tales, and all people wins.
Lastly, as regards to reality, you will have heard a couple of comic, Kenny DeForest, who just lately died after a motorbike crash:
It’s trite and pointless to say that is unhappy and tragic, however in fact it’s unhappy and tragic; I didn’t know who he was, which doesn’t imply something as a result of I don’t know who anyone is, however after seeing the story I began watching his particular. After a couple of minutes I forgot I used to be watching the particular as a result of he had died and easily started to take pleasure in it, and I’d prefer to assume as a comic he would take a kind of wry satisfaction in that.
I’m usually disinclined to handle these kinds of issues as of late–particularly on a Friday–however I can’t assist it, due to course when one thing like this occurs everybody desires to move judgement and advance their agenda earlier than they even know what occurred:
And all people will get offended:
And indignant:
However the mainstream media is giving it loads of consideration–actually greater than it’s given to the 27 different victims this yr:
And when you learn that mainstream media protection you’ll be taught the one that organized the GoFundMe marketing campaign for the sufferer says it was not a success and run in any case and the NYPD was not even referred to as to the scene:
This doesn’t imply drivers aren’t horrible, and given how horrible they’re it additionally doesn’t imply a hit-and-run is totally out of the query, because it might have been so swift that no person even noticed it. Nonetheless, it’s additionally potential there wasn’t even a driver concerned in any respect. It looks like the particular person with probably the most data at this level is the one that’s making the assertion, and he’s nonetheless making an attempt to be taught what occurred himself, so the one factor the remainder of us can say at this level is we don’t fucking know.
However that is 2023, and it’s merely unacceptable to exist in a state of not figuring out. As a substitute, you will need to immediately move judgment and apportion blame. Each dying is a choose-your-own-adventure of self-righteousness. So what’ll it’s?
- Blame drivers
- Blame ebikes
- We want extra bike lanes
- Individuals shouldn’t journey bikes in New York Metropolis
- Put on a helmet!!!
Go forward, take your decide. Till the information are available it’s a complete free-for-all, and even after they do are available it gained’t matter anyway, as a result of the headlines could have already been written. (Streetsblog nonetheless stays he was “killed by driver” though that now appears to be in query.) I suppose for this reason most cultures historically take time to mourn when somebody dies. It offer you time to replicate.
Sadly reflection is incompatible with trendy discourse.
