You've made my day.:cheer2:Returning home from a ride about an hour ago, red P plater went past at about 90 in 60 zone. Still scared the shit out of me even though he was in the right lane. :clap2: cops had a radar both sides of the road 1/2 k further on. Licence gone.... said thanks to the cop on the way past.
Look out! A pebble!! AAAAAAHHHHHRRRRGGG! LMAOAnyone else considering dabbling in road biking ought to take a read of this! :high5:
Pebbles are a hazard to other riders and cars, rarely yourself. With your tyres so hard they can get squeezed out at a terrific speed. I've fired some off at cars that were driving too close which is pretty amusing, for me anyway. You occasionally hear a ping when they hit armco railing or signs. Most dangerous thing is badly repaired potholes. The hot mix sinks and you're left with a hole that you can't see...Look out! A pebble!! AAAAAAHHHHHRRRRGGG! LMAO
Meh.. Try riding along the road when bam hit by cross wind then smashed into a big pile of sand that has been blown up off the beach. Just bunny hop holes/bumps/rocks or assorted gutters... I get bored on my road bike.. lolPebbles are a hazard to other riders and cars, rarely yourself. With your tyres so hard they can get squeezed out at a terrific speed. I've fired some off at cars that were driving too close which is pretty amusing, for me anyway. You occasionally hear a ping when they hit armco railing or signs. Most dangerous thing is badly repaired potholes. The hot mix sinks and you're left with a hole that you can't see...
I'm a man o f reason, a man of understanding and I'm a calculating thinker. The notion that shaving your legs makes it easier to apply treatment to a wound sustained from hitting the deck is so far beyond ridiculous that I won't even argue. I'm aware that shit happens and you fall off sometimes but making it easier to remove a bandaid by shaving your legs?!!! You can slam that idea right up your dot, it's utter bullshit.whens dozer shaving his pegs?, found this
I love this. I am always hearing the 'Whack'! of pebbles hitting fences at high speed as they get shot out the side from my back wheel.Pebbles are a hazard to other riders and cars, rarely yourself. With your tyres so hard they can get squeezed out at a terrific speed. I've fired some off at cars that were driving too close which is pretty amusing, for me anyway. You occasionally hear a ping when they hit armco railing or signs. Most dangerous thing is badly repaired potholes. The hot mix sinks and you're left with a hole that you can't see...
I dunno, while i'm not about to shave my legs, back from when I was a younger and playing hockey on supergrass, you'd take a slide from time to time and strip off big swaths of skin, the hairs hurt like hell when it was raw, then was it scabbed over the hairs were a pain in the butt, as they came off they would attach to the hairs and try to pull them off too, was a pain.I'm a man o f reason, a man of understanding and I'm a calculating thinker. The notion that shaving your legs makes it easier to apply treatment to a wound sustained from hitting the deck is so far beyond ridiculous that I won't even argue. I'm aware that shit happens and you fall off sometimes but making it easier to remove a bandaid by shaving your legs?!!! You can slam that idea right up your dot, it's utter bullshit.
It's about time roadies started wearing body armor if they are concerned about a cosmetic injury.
Possibly the pain is real, no doubting that.I dunno, while i'm not about to shave my legs, back from when I was a younger and playing hockey on supergrass, you'd take a slide from time to time and strip off big swaths of skin, the hairs hurt like hell when it was raw, then was it scabbed over the hairs were a pain in the butt, as they came off they would attach to the hairs and try to pull them off too, was a pain.
Not just the transition mate, also uphill, downhill, every corner, straight, crosswind, tailwind and headwind.and tri guys, at every bike/run transition...
Thats a classic and not surprising that some of the intelligent folk would actually contemplate that!I keep telling roadies and triathletes that the hair on my legs acts in a similar manner to dimples on a golf ball or dimples on Zipp rims. It creates a boundry layer reducing drag. Some of them even take me seriously.
It's probably closer to reality than you may think... maybe not for swimming when the fluid is more viscous (Tri guys) but for the normal cyclist probably not a bad hypothesis.Thats a classic and not surprising that some of the intelligent folk would actually contemplate that!