"Cycling has become the new golf. It’s what men of a certain age, men with money and power, chat about after meetings."
"The focus has moved to sportives, to carbon fibre frames, to Rapha Sky-branded kits, to gels, training techniques, times, pace and cadence." "It’s hard to find the hippies and the explorers any more. It’s all about the competition and the conformity." " . . . a miserable slog of unsmiling, un-nodding pink and black Lycra-clad sports cyclists." Hmm. Are the roads of England really clogged with unsmiling, affluent, Lycra-clad zombies? And do they all "look down on" the author of the article? That sounds like a sweeping condemnation with no particular evidence to support it. (And, yes, the road-cycling atmosphere sounds like particular segments of cycling in the USA, circa 2008.) Anyway: If the Guardian article is indeed more or less accurate, then England needs more just-riders and Riv riders! :) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
