Slack Randoms: UCI Takes 'No Pleasure' in Hugging Ban, Adult Strider Bikes & Rachel Atherton's Car Crash
We use Slack as our workplace communication tool at Pinkbike and we have a #randoms channel which we use to share an assortment of videos and stories from all corners of the cycling world and beyond... We thought a couple of the moments from the past week were too good not to share with a wider audience, so here are some of the highlights.
UCI Takes 'No Pleasure' in Enforcing Hugging Ban
![Good mates Bruni and Minaar hug it out infront of the crowds and cameras.]()
The UCI has said it takes 'no pleasure' in enforcing a hugging ban at the end of road cycling races. The measure forms part of the cycling governing body's new COVID protocols that were announced at the start of the month in which UCI Medical Director Xavier Bigard said, “When we show some riders congratulating each other and hugging, that’s not a good message for the fans and spectators.”
On Monday, the UCI released a statement addressing the topic of “celebratory hugs” specifically. It said, “Although from a medical point of view the risk of contamination between members of a team bubble remains low, the UCI nevertheless considers it necessary that riders adopt the basic precautionary measures, including respecting a minimum physical distance,”
“Demonstrations of joy and congratulation are spontaneous and natural, and are part of the beauty of our sport. It is therefore no pleasure for the UCI to strongly recommend all concerned to refrain from hugging at the finish. However, due to the current pandemic it is essential to temporarily modify certain habits so that we can get back to normal as quickly as possible.”
Read the full statement, here.
Rachel Atherton's Car Crash
Rachel Atherton announced on social media she was involved in a car crash this week. We were very happy to hear both her and her baby were unharmed thanks to the seatbelts and airbags in their van. Rachel was initially going to keep the news private but wanted to spread the message about car safety. Her full statement is below:
An Adult Strider Bike
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2017 marked the 200th anniversary of Karl Drais' Laufmaschine (also known as the Velocipede or Dandy Horse), an invention that is often thought to be the precursor to the bicycle. To celebrate the anniversary, Portus Cycles created the Karl200, a wild, homemade full-suspension adult strider bike. It looks absolutely bonkers but amazing fun at the same time. Check out a full gallery on the brand's website, here.
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What Happens When Amazon Takes Inspiration From Your Product?
Find out more about Peak Designs, here.
Dusty Wygle's New Trick
Could we call this a world's first?
UCI Takes 'No Pleasure' in Enforcing Hugging Ban
The UCI has said it takes 'no pleasure' in enforcing a hugging ban at the end of road cycling races. The measure forms part of the cycling governing body's new COVID protocols that were announced at the start of the month in which UCI Medical Director Xavier Bigard said, “When we show some riders congratulating each other and hugging, that’s not a good message for the fans and spectators.”
On Monday, the UCI released a statement addressing the topic of “celebratory hugs” specifically. It said, “Although from a medical point of view the risk of contamination between members of a team bubble remains low, the UCI nevertheless considers it necessary that riders adopt the basic precautionary measures, including respecting a minimum physical distance,”
“Demonstrations of joy and congratulation are spontaneous and natural, and are part of the beauty of our sport. It is therefore no pleasure for the UCI to strongly recommend all concerned to refrain from hugging at the finish. However, due to the current pandemic it is essential to temporarily modify certain habits so that we can get back to normal as quickly as possible.”
Read the full statement, here.
Rachel Atherton's Car Crash
Rachel Atherton announced on social media she was involved in a car crash this week. We were very happy to hear both her and her baby were unharmed thanks to the seatbelts and airbags in their van. Rachel was initially going to keep the news private but wanted to spread the message about car safety. Her full statement is below:
 | 20 Weeks pregnant // Halfway!! It’s been a rough week - Olly & I were in a car crash a few days ago, an oncoming car came around a corner spinning across our lane & we hit the cars back end as it span & we went off the road down a bank - It was TERRIFYING & a real shock. I felt fine but still went to hospital & got checked over - & the BABY IS FINE!! Thankfully we were wearing our seatbelts & apart from a painful bruised sternum I’m totally fine, Olly is fine & bubba seems fine in there, growing nicely! I wasn’t going to post about this, but then I thought, honestly, we were saved by our seatbelts & I am so grateful the van was strong & with airbags - you never ever think a car crash is going to happen to you, but we had no control over the other persons actions & all you can do is be as safe as you can in your own decisions! The VW Transporter Campervan was my pride & joy & I’m devastated We had it converted by our good friend Swonsons Conversions after my perfect seasons, the camper held many special memories. The main thing is that we’re all safe & ok, but I’m still sad about the VW!! Wear your seatbelt! Stay safe! And thank you to the NHS staff at Bronglais Hospital Aberystwyth for making sure bump was fine |
An Adult Strider Bike
Photo: Portus Cycles
2017 marked the 200th anniversary of Karl Drais' Laufmaschine (also known as the Velocipede or Dandy Horse), an invention that is often thought to be the precursor to the bicycle. To celebrate the anniversary, Portus Cycles created the Karl200, a wild, homemade full-suspension adult strider bike. It looks absolutely bonkers but amazing fun at the same time. Check out a full gallery on the brand's website, here.
What Happens When Amazon Takes Inspiration From Your Product?
| Amazon is one of Peak Design's biggest partners. We've been selling Peak Design products on Amazon for years, and we work closely with Amazon to remove counterfeit and copycat products from their marketplace. Hence, we were astonished when we found out Amazon had copied one of our bestselling bags. They call it the "Everyday Sling," which, funny enough, is exactly what we call our product. Amazon is a revolutionary service that we use and benefit from heavily. Also, Peak Design is not the first brand to see their products copied by an Amazon in-house brand. If we were really serious people, we might get on our soapbox and pontificate about the pitfalls of capitalism. But we're not really serious people. So we got some googley-eye glasses (thanks Amazon Prime!) and made this video instead. It's our goal to make the best things. If we tried to make the cheapest things, we wouldn't be us. Amazon reminded us of that. We appreciate the pep talk, Amazon. Know what we really appreciate? Our customers. Thank you for supporting intense, obsessive design that focuses on novel solutions to real problems. Thank you for supporting design practices that account for a product's lifecycle, and its external impact on people and the planet. |
Find out more about Peak Designs, here.
Dusty Wygle's New Trick
Could we call this a world's first?
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He donates less than a 1/10 of what his ex wife does to charity. He is ruthless and we are stupid enough to feed his behemoth.
It is literally our own faults for giving all of our bargaining power over to a single website.. That ad is trying to make light of a situation they have no control over. Instead of growing to become a business with an idea and company they could retire from, they'll be swallowed up and gone in less than a decade.
“Give me convenience of give me death”
While goods and services makes up a small part of their revenue it is the portion of the business that does the largest amount of harm in terms of making it hard for regular businesses to compete across a myriad of industries. It's buying these items from them that really hurts the middle class.
Even if it ends up costing you a few more bucks, these are lifetime tools. The cost difference over their lifetime is negligible.
Also check out ToolboxWars on Instagram if you haven’t already.
I get in the car and go to the local shops and stores first. Every time !
My wife gets on me sometimes, but I just tell her , "our neighbors are our friends, and they need to eat. And they all work locally."
I do really like the etsy shops and stuff like that though.
"Welcome to the Machine" Pink Floyd
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7S8wllPmazM
let's just take your last corn-laden nugget for a second: you bemoan the fact these guys won't build and run this small business until they retire at 67yrs old. Did you stop to ponder for a second that, this was never their goal? Perhaps, like so many startups these days, their express intent was to grow it into something to be acquired by the likes of Amazon!? That is a perfectly reasonable exit strategy. See, a lot of innovators are what you call a serial entrepreneur. Their goal isn't to build one company and run it for 40yrs. They like to build from nothing, grow into a viable business, sell, and move to their next idea.
As for the rest of your diatribe, it's just made up. Please show your sources for:
Bezos pays no taxes
Bezos gets funding from the USPS(this is a f*cking knee slapper BTW)
Only because they mention not soap boxing about the pitfalls of capitalism. Capitalism is what allowed them the build their own brand, market it, and then protect their product and intellectual property. Capitalism is what would eventually allow them to sell or allow investing in their brand so they could retire in the future. Corporatism is what they got into bed with when the made a deal with Bezos. Corporatism is what allows massive brands to take foot hold into government and sway policy (Google, Facebook, Twitter, Amazon...) they change the rules to benefit themselves, ie. not a free/fair open market.
The bike industry is full of entrepreneurial people. Capitalism benefits these people and allows them to bring consumers high quality and innovative products. Corporatism is what allows people to steal all of the product, produce it at a cheaper/lower quality, and then use their unlimited funding and power to smash anyone who tries to fight back.
The issue isn't with the USPS workers, or even necessarily the upper management. Politicians use the USPS as a political tool, not as a method for mail delivery. Despite the best efforts of the people who work there, as long as its a government agency it can't operate at a profit.
I would be all for it if their government consciensely and wisely ran our system for us.
But I really don't want the monkeys that run the US government to hash out anything to do with my healthcare based on USPS, Social Services, Welfare, Medicaid, DOT, DMV, etc. prior performance.
But if we were living in one of these other Utopian healthcare systems I hear so much about, I might.
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All we can do is stop feeding them.
one day these capitalist pigs will finally pay for their crimes, aye comrades!?
one day these socialist commie pigs will finally pay for their crimes!
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@cuban-b-can-blow-me: don't worry about it until he appears in your outbox
So let me ask all of you now. If I saw a copy of your credit card statement or Paypal, how many would have "Amazon" listed? Are you willing to be inconvenienced? Again, most of your statements would say, "no".
That said, let me encourage you a bit. If you needed it right now, you could probably get it somewhere locally. If not, you are stuck with Walmart or Amazon. For most things, you don't need it tomorrow.
For the next month, try this:
- For 1 of every 3 purchases, buy it straight from the manufacturer or search around for smaller retailer online to a get a good deal.
Tell Amazon how you feel. If everyone purchased 1/3rd less for 1 month, you would put a dent in Amazon's numbers. Money talks, BS walks. You are empowered and capable to do something inconvenient (but not really that hard). go with confidence. #powerfultogether
But hey, they're anti-Trump, or were in September 2020: aws.amazon.com/blogs/publicsector/jedi-why-we-will-continue-protest-politically-corrupted-contract-award That $10B went to Microsoft, a known monopolist, or would have if lawyers weren't getting a taste...it's enough to make one take up regenerative farming
do with that information what you will
To even think that you can be utterly immune to someone correcting you means you grew up with not a single punishment in your world for anything you did wrong. When you get to your little evil utopian world where somehow typing online entitles you to be a worse human than you would be in person, I hope you stay in that tiny little space.
If you cannot confidently make your statement to another person's face and run the risk of a punch in the face when you become disrespectful, insulting or are instigating that person....then you should NOT type it.
Anything I say online, I will say to that persons face and I may very well get punched if I cross the line with them. That's respect for human beings.
You act like everything you type should come with the same burden of anonymity of political dissidence
I'm not stupid enough to risk my livelyihood by assaulting a stranger for muttering stupid things. The fact you feel like you need to punch someone because they had a cross word with you is a bit pathetic. You need therapy man.
I would encourage you to step back, take a deep breathe, and reevaluate. You seem to be wound pretty tightly here.
Oh yeah, still waiting in that source for Bezos pays no taxes LOL. Or are you just a compulsive liar? #fakenews
Yeah, this conversation would go so differently in person. Plain and simple. And I am NOT implying any violence on my part. I am specifically stating that people will say and act online in an antagonistic and nasty fashion online that is bad simply because they aren't saying it to a person's face.
I have no desire to hurt someone right now. I know what all these internet flexers online are...keyboard warriors. But if people want to have a discussion online, they need to treat people as though they are in person.
They don't. They respond with impunity instead of respecfully.
LOL
Love it!
you know that really annoying motherf*cker @Mtb_scotland that always interjects his undying love for lockdowns and want to shame anyone that disagrees with them, by labeling them granny killers? yeah, that's you here, just with a different subject matter. you are no different than an incoherent Schizophrenic hobo in the intersection screeching about alien 5G cancer rays.
please STFU
ctrl c + ctrl v = $$$
... Now bring it in buddy. :
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