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Where are jumbo? I know wout is in group 2 but commentators just said he had no one to help pull things back together? Are the rest of the team all sitting on the back of g1?

If you normally run in calf sleeves do you also swim in them when doing a tri? Presumably they’ll be ok getting wet.

Totally fine, I’ve done this loads. Maybe you want to do a practice run to confirm though… I never had even the faintest trouble with compression calf guards. But I’ve also done it with aero coach trip guards but they fell down when I removed my wetsuit so you have to be a little cautious if the guards aren’t super tight.

I think it works roughly as follows:

At each turn the engine assesses which move is the best move, and this is done by thinking N moves into the future. A brilliant move is defined as a move that is better than the best move identified by the engine. I think this is most likely to occur because the quality of the brilliant move is only revealed when you consider a longer time window.

So, the “best move” might be best when looking 10 moves ahead, but the “brilliant” move is revealed as best when considering 15 moves ahead.

lol... first time I've had an opportunity to get one in years and I'm too late! Oh well, at least I can confirm that that empty beer can is still there.

You don't need to pick a lane, but if there are evenly spaced lines on the road it will be much easier to judge or justify a ruling that someone deviated from their original line.

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Must have been changing a nappy!

Heinrich Haussler is wearing gloves and Robbie McEwen has gone off to enjoy a delicious beef lasagna prepared by his mum.

Eugh… so frustrating

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GRX is designed for gravel, not CX.

Yeah but other groupsets are designed for road, right? Surely the demands of gravel (clutch mech etc) are closer to the demands of cross than road? Or are most people running hybrid setups of road shifters with mtb derailleurs as suggested above?

I just trashed my rd… what’s the current thinking on groupsets for cx?

I’ve got a focus mares cx and am currently on an old version of sram rival (hydraulic disc).

I’m thinking I want to swap to shimano for consistency with my other bikes. Looking for 11sp, hydraulic disc, probably 1x (I’ve literally never used my big chainring on my cross bike 😭). Other than that I probably want the cheapest option out there.

I’m guessing grx is the best bet, do they have a 105/rival equivalent? I’ve not really followed recent tech so is there anything else i need to worry about?

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Yeah just a shame, I’ve always found it valuable.

What happened to steephill.tv? Just visited to look for strade updates and saw this:

Sorry, there will likely not be any significant updates to this site going forward with the possible exception of the Grand Tours and the Monuments. Currently evaluating options to keep this site going. -- Steve

What is the motivation for farmers to string up dead corvids along paths? I just removed the body of a dead jackdaw hanging suspended by its neck in the crook of two branches right next to a small footpath bridge. This is the third dead corvid I’ve found suspended in a tree in the local area recently and it just seems a shame. I know it’s legal for farmers to shoot corvids under certain circumstances but why hang the bodies so obviously?

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Smart. Are your extensions wonky?

Edit: I mean different lengths

Does gcn need some kind of app to play it? Our tv is shite so we watch Eurosport via a web browser on my laptop connected to the tv via hdmi

Cheers all. I’m not sure butterfly or mayfly is what I originally had in mind… neither sound nearly as derogatory as I recall, but I think buttfly seems like the best bet for now.

[buttfly was a typo but leaving it because I quite like it as a shitty version of a butterfly :) ]

The word “gadfly” is used to describe someone who persistently challenges authority, often by repeatedly asking potentially uncomfortable or pointed questions.

I’m sure there is another word, possibly also in the form of a “[something]fly”, often used to describe a dilettante or someone who flits incessantly from topic to topic… but I can’t think of it. Can anyone help me remember what it is?

Maybe @Oliver Schick?

I don’t think you can enter as many as you like. I used to be mates with the Bermudan cross country skier (at the last 3 Olympics) who said that he and representatives of many smaller nations were only able to qualify because of country quotas. He’s a good skier but iirc he barely qualified for US national events and never qualified for a World Cup where there are no quotas and 90% of the field come from the top few countries.

Whaa? How many words are there with those last 4 letters?? I had three letters and it took me all morning to find a single word that fitted the pattern!

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It feels churlish to suggest that his career limiting crash was his own fault, and I'm sure it informs his current comments that he was on a TT bike at the time.

I have always liked Froome, but IIRC wasn’t he was riding his TT bike no hands down down a descent during a storm while putting his jacket on? And didn’t his team mate (Puccio?) tell him to put his hands on the bars just moments before? That doesn’t seem like the bike’s fault to me.

Yeah but Chanel is the real star there.

Yeah I was almost caught out… but on reflection it’s just a regular noun.

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I’m all about the 5s. I usually do mine at 2am when I’m dead on my feet, or that’s my excuse anyway.

5 for me too. I feel well and truly put in my place by VB’s aggregate stats… I’m a noob and thought I was doing well on an 8 day streak, but 50% of my wins have taken 5 goes :(