seamus wrote: » In all seriousness, I'm amazed at the amount of apparently world-class athletes who "need" "legal" prescriptions in order to keep their bodies going.
Chuchote wrote: » "Dahling, you call that risk?"
seamus wrote: » In all seriousness, I'm amazed at the amount of apparently world-class athletes who "need" "legal" prescriptions in order to keep their bodies going. When very few people I know are taking anything at all any of the time. But it does beg a question - all those little twinges and tweaks that us mere plebs experience and shrug off and power through; could it be reasonable that a top-level athlete has been instructed to bring every pain and ache to the doctor's attention, no matter how minor? And that these prescriptions are indeed being given to treat symptoms which the rest of us plebs wouldn't even think twice about, but which could make that half-second difference at the elite level? Which of course has a follow-on question too; At what point is a doctor treating a genuine malady and when does that cross the line into masking the human condition and "doping" the athlete.
seamus wrote: » So be it. The grandparents are dead, they don't have to live with your choices.
seamus wrote: » Sig: If in doubt about the right choice to make; Make the one that would make your Grandparents sick and your Grandchildren proud. And not the other way around.
tomasrojo wrote: » https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-7EryJY_jCqg/V_SRJNyRw7I/AAAAAAABKKY/J2N5cfJCt5YxcIKKf1OdIwqH5JAYM3ilACLcB/s1600/mad+lib.jpeg
tomasrojo wrote: » Chuchote, did I see you at 4pm yesterday on the Clonskeagh Road? A Mondrian/Battenberg-clad cyclist passed me. I have only this to go on.
Chuchote wrote: » Anyone read any of Tim Krabbé's thrillers? https://www.amazon.com/Rider-Tim-Krabb%C3%A9/dp/1582342903/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1475569606&sr=8-1&keywords=Tim+Krabbe
Hungrycol wrote: » Just tell CEO that cracked carbon is a seriously bad situation and are working tirelessly in finding a replacement fork and that you hope to have better news for him next month.
LollipopJimmy wrote: » My bike is off the road now until I replace the fork. Further investigation shows a crack in the carbon, if ever I needed to go for a spin it's today. I'm just back after a week of annual leave and my 'cover' completely knackered things up. Currently hiding now because I'm supposed to be in a meeting at 2pm with the CEO to give a monthly update
magicbastarder wrote: » not actually being sold:https://www.facebook.com/RibbleCycles/photos/a.454910090816.242283.202156760816/10154125326395817/?type=3&theater
Moflojo wrote: » Full details, including route
I wasn't badly hurt, but I was shaking like a leaf. Falling off your bike is never a nice feeling, especially if you've been clipping along when it happens. As soon as I'd pulled myself together, I immediately phoned the Deliveroo call centre. I wanted to let them know that I'd been delayed and the reason why. No sooner had I said to the operator that I'd just fallen off my bike, than they were asking me if the food was okay. That was the priority - making sure nothing had happened to the food. Me - the person delivering the order and the only human point of contact a customer would have - just didn't seem to matter to the person who answered the phone to me.
Transport for London, which the mayor controls, has devised a “direct vision standard” that rates vehicles according to how well the driver can see the truck’s surroundings. Vehicles rated zero star will be banned from 2020, and one- and two- star from 2024. TfL said 18 per cent of lorries in London were rated zero. Trucks with zero stars are those typically designed for off-road use and were involved in 70 per cent of cyclist deaths caused by HGVs, the mayor’s office said. Lorries were involved in 58 per cent of cyclist deaths and 23 per cent of pedestrian deaths on the roads. Last year nine cyclists were killed on London’s roads and 378 were seriously injured.
