Cycles and "Rules"

There are recurring themes in cycling (cycles, if you will), so the same things come up again and again.

One of these is the exciting possibilities of the “invisible” helmet to keep you both protected and hat-free. I’m going to put in a spoiler here and tell you (in case you can’t be bothered with waiting several minutes into the film) that the secret is that it inflates:



I know I’m not an expert, but I’m still not convinced.
Talking of the sort of idea for which you can almost imagine the drunken night that it was conceived how about a glow in the dark bike? Just don’t keep it in your bedroom. It’ll annoy the hell out of you.

Changing tack, have you ever wondered what it looks like to be Cameron Zink, from his point of view riding the Crankworx course? Wonder no more:

Zink Hits 60 Footer in Joyride Course with NEW Proto Contour Camera on Pinkbike

And on the subject of videos I was more than happy to see that the redesign of the Mpora site now makes all the videos viewable on an iPad. I know this makes me look like the sort of person who has an iPad but it really will make things better as I don’t have to then use several computers to get my extreme sports video fix. Keeping it mountain bike this happened on Monday, and the results and write up is here:

That looks ace. However, I want to be saved from articles like this. They irritate me. That is all.

I’m not ignoring the Vuelta, and yesterday’s stage was won by Australian Simon Clarke, beating the unluckiest man in cycling this year, Tony Martin, into second place. Froome and Contador finished together in the main chase group putting Froome into second place overall, one second behind Rodriguez as Valverde came in nearly two minutes back.

In fact Valverde's loss was the big story as he was split off from the peloton by a crash as Team Sky attacked. With the race leader on the tarmac Sky continued to attack, along with BMC and Katusha, despite the Movistar car moving up to have a word. Should they have waited or was the race on as the crash happened after the attack? The debates over those unwritten gentleman's agreements will undoubtedly continue and we will see if Movistar's anger, at what they see as a deliberate move to bring down the leader, will play out to work against Sky down the road.

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