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Wasn't a commute but I rode the road I used to commute along and I been spoiled I forgot to the shear shitfuckery of the road, long and straight and reasonably wide so drivers feel ok overtaking you at speed and barely leaving the lane. It was a cluster fuck of gooch-thightening constant shit passing with the occasional driver making the effort to leave the lane. I moved further and further out to force less shit-passing but it was a sharp illustration of how the geography of a road influences driver behaviour
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I think a rider's popularity plays a lot into how history judges. Indurain remains high on people's shit list for being an early adopter of EPO and time trialling to his TdF wins, Contador and Pantani are celebrated for their swashbuckling style, like Merckx.
Sky and generally successful British riders, like the Americans before them, are seen an interlopers by a lot of traditional cycling fans, who only seem to like riders from traditional cycling countries, and riders from Southern Europe best of all.
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Unfortunately you can't have a GT without a fair few of those