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I don't know where you got that info from, but that's not true at all. Carbon essentially has no fatigue life. Now, there's bad carbon and good carbon, just like bad and good alu and steel. Bad carbon will be a problem, just like bad steel. Good carbon is really good. Carbon has had issues when it started in cycling, just like anything new has growing pains. You have to do research on pre-2000 carbon. Carbon needed a different quality control than metal. 2014 carbon is safe. NOTE: I'm not pushing you one way or another. I'm just trying to stop bad information.

You should always panic when reading medical advice on the hub...

When you wake up from surgery and you're told the anaesthesiologist panicked when your HR dropped below 30...

Rode one on Monday. Very keen on this as well.

It might only be Skynet SA that's bad. Skynet Germany, for instance, could be great.

At the back of the peloton the door was wide open. People were getting dropped out of the peloton chasing Jungle Bob. Bora and Jumbo guys did their work, and then dropped off. If they were chasing slowly you wouldn't see that. Peloton was down to 32 riders. 69 riders finished.

ironthrone @ harties cableway?

Jainism? Buddhism? There were vegetarians 2500 years ago.

It could be argued that food storage (grains and salted meat) are why we were more successful than the other apes. It could also be argued that diet adapted to circumstance (exercise, and environment.) More exercise needed more protein, and a diet in the arctic likely contains much more fat than a diet in the tropics. It's very likely that we have gene expressions that activate under harsh conditions and change our dietary requirements. "Harsh" could be starvation, extreme temperature, or just exercising 40 hours a week. So what does the average couch potato in a moderate climate (or heated / cooled house) need? That's what most of the research tries to answer.

I supertucked on the indoor trainer this morning and managed to crash it. The sweat towel fell off.

Maybe even a carbon aero dropper.

Roadies have to practice skills too. Braking and cornering and descending are skills that need to be learned and practised and not banned. Do you want your first emergency stop to be to avoid a car, or to learn how to do it?

This is also the attitude that will ban riding no-handed, and ban all the fun bits in MTB races.

Easy. Absolutely under no circumstances: engage brainproof readwait to be sober

I've had exactly that. Something in the shirt pocket got stuck on the piece of plastic that holds the saddle rails to the saddle nose. Brown pant time.