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Category: Cycling

  • Race Tactics

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    Hope is not a tactic. Christian Christian Vande Velde, to Bob Roll during commentary of Liege-Bastogne-Liege cycling race, 2025-04-27

  • That’s not cycling

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    “Roubaix is a different sport, in my opinion it’s not cycling. It’s a mixture between hurting yourself and suffering a great deal, but cycling is something else,” Filippo Ganna told Bici.Pro.  Cycling News, 2025-01-12

  • Some urging end to right on red, or at least caution

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    “What’s really behind this movement [right-turn no red semaphore] is part of the agenda to make driving as miserable and as difficult as possible so people don’t drive so much.” —Jay Beeber, Executive Director for Policy at the National Motorists Association To which I say, “Amen.”

  • Magic autonomous vehicles

    Magic autonomous vehicles

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    Car jumps median, hits busA Minneapolis Park Police officer examined the crash scene Friday after a woman’s car jumped the median and struck a school bus at the intersection of Hennepin Avenue and Vineland Place near the Walker Art Center. The school bus was not transporting students at the time of the incident, but the…

  • Equality vs Equity

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    League of American Bicyclists, 2019 Winter

  • Wet

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    The body doesn’t know when it’s comfortable, it only knows when it’s uncomfortable.  We don’t have the ability to sense when we’re wet—we just notice the loss of heat.Ray Davis, Gore Corporation in Bicycling magazine, Issue 2, 2020

  • Suggested rule additions

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    From: Jonathan Lord Date: 2019-09-19 9:39 PM To: therules@velominati.com I know it sounds like I have a zipper fetish, but I think these are pragmatic suggestions that will save new adherents to the way immense frustration. Rule #96 // Jerseys shall be full zip. When wearing bibs, the pockets of quarter-zip jerseys must be unloaded…