Tour de Links - Climb

Maillot Jaune: A cyclist who fell off her bike and broke her collarbone writes about why that caused her to consider giving up the sport, while a running injury would not. Running injuries are often hidden — like a torn hamstring — and tend to heal gradually on their own. Bicycling injuries, he told me, “tend to be more acute and dramatic — often there is blood or even bones sticking out,” and “if it’s a gory image, it tends to deter us.”

Maillot Vert: A Dutch soccer player shows up at the FIFA announcemnt of 2018 and 2022 World Cups. He arrived by bicycle naturally. Nonetheless, they failed to secure the 2018 games.

Maillot a Pois Rouge: Some data from Lyon's bicycle sharing system shows that cyclists, on average, go 10km/h - about the same speed as cars in the inner city, go faster during rush hour, and faster still on Wednesdays. The last part is theorized to be because (sexism alert) more women stay at home on Wednesdays.

Maillot Blanc: NYC man will only buy a place with room for his bicycles. And he preferred an apartment with some kind of interior hallway where he could lean his two bikes against a wall. He wasn’t interested in a building with a bike room. “I want my bike with me where I am,” he said, “because it is the way I get everywhere.”....So he checked the map and found that Astoria, Queens, was just across the Robert F. Kennedy Bridge from the Bronx. He could certainly bike to school from there.

Lanterne Rouge: A bike lock that lifts your bike up a streetlight pole, away from thieves. It seems like a lot of work.



Comments

[oboe]

Did you just call Ruud Gullit a "Dutch soccer player"? :)

[washcycle]

That's what the examiner photo caption called him. Is that wrong?

[Eric_W.]

I only know him as "lama".