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"I always wanted pro tour team jerseys to have the tourist boards of countries with questionable human rights practices on the chest" That's sponsorship for you

@inked-up-metalhead: He probably said all those things too, and the editor not speaking Yorkshire, cut it thinking exactly that

You must be wearing it wrong, lycras supposed to prevent rubbing

Unless it's absolutely awful, at which point language turns to "development" and "evolving design", what else would you expect them to say?

An inspirational medley of crashes as usual to remind us how now to ride. A couple of technical suggestions to the PinkBike Devs and editors; 1) Please stop with the video autoplay, or give us an option to set it to manual control. Not so much of an issue with FF, but in other articles it drains bandwidth if we just want to read what's under the vid 2) Vertical aspect ratio entries should be compended into the YT Shorts format. I'd wager most pb users are phone forward and vertical aspect makes the content about 1-1.5" wide. Even on good phones that's not enough pixels to make it a decent viewing experience.

For most road races it's a completely different set of bike handling skills required compared to XC. His CX experience is more relevant to MTB and shone through in his win at Paris-Roubaix this year; pumping dirt gutters off the cobbles like a mini berm.

@iainmac-1: My primary concerns are: 1) The questions are obviously leading, in favour of pushing personal responsibility. A concept I'm not opposed to if it hadn't universally been used as a scapegoat for the owners/operators to absolve themselves of responsibility. (Think Shell and carbon footprint) 2) It's not a well publicised mode of engagement. I'll grant that it going up on a PB article is a positive step, but there is little other information about the survey, it's authors, sponsors, affiliations, or the alternate avenues of the stakeholder management plan. 3) Suggested completion time 7 mins; only if you don't have anything to actually say. I'm not a fast typer especially on my phone, but I was at 15 mins for about 80% of the way through before an accidental swipe put me back at the start which leads to.. 4) If I want to give a comprehensive response I want to be able to save, step away, research my response and return to it at my leisure which this Typeform survey doesn't allow. I love my bike riding, it is my way of escaping towns and cities and getting to a space I can breathe and relax. It is something I feel passionately about and want to do what I can to protect it. I don't want a glorified Google survey to be the last line of defence in protecting all that

If this is the future of public consultation, the countryside is fucked! How does the impact of my 2.4" wide tyres tracing a line over a 2' wide path cut between the trees even begin to equate to hectares of formerly managed woodland recently being ripped up to build new housing?

@kyle10bike: You'll need to ask a man in Brussels, he's 6'4" and an absolute unit. He may not speak your language.

Ignore me, had head in sand and just missed the other announcements