I can pedal my carbon fibre recumbent up to 53km/h on the flat, and I pass cars in a 70kmh zone on a downhill exit ramp, so yeah speeds can get pretty high. It would be good if cycle racing organisations required road racers to wear appropriate PPE so ventilated protective gear could get into the general population and be seen as reasonable

OTOH I don’t think riders of slow bikes should be required to even wear helmets (they are required to in Australia)

Yes, that is the OP article’s point is

I reckon if the sports organisations required pro cyclists to wear protective gear it’ll be more common for amateurs to also use PPE and make that stuff easier to get

It took a few hours on a grassy hill to learn to balance it

My fast bike is an M5 carbon high racer

It got too easy to ride, also I don’t trust carbon composites to last a long time in Australian sunlight, so I also now have a steel (CrMo) shockproof 559

My experience is on recumbent bikes where you’re not falling far and not going over the handlebars. I think the most skin I have abraded was in a 50kph crash on concrete and grass where about a 2cm circle of the skin over the thumb mound of my left palm was gone. That would have been prevented by gloves

In cycle racing that’s all of it, they cannot wear protective gear as it would slow them down and they would lose to people who don’t wear it

In recreational cycling it hardly matters, speeds aren’t all that high.

My experience with heat is different to yours. In winter I wear shorts and short sleeves and gloves. In summer it’s the same but the gloves don’t have fingers.

You are the power source for your travel on a bike, you need to be able to dump heat. Also generally the top speed isn’t all that high

They want it, they have just restricted their ability to buy it. Also, didn’t Ukraine blows up the pipeline, meaning the gas has to be moved by ship

It could have been rotated slightly to move Africa away from the edge, Canada back towards the rest of the Americas, then a slight move could avoid splitting any land, and NZ could be better centred

I wonder if they actually meant the British Isles rather than the UK

This really shows how bad Russian equipment is. Russia hits a western armoured vehicle in the window and stars the glass; Ukraine hits a Russian tank in the steel and destroys it

Aussie here, I don’t use any of those companies products, but just coincidentally. I guess there’s no surprise that otherwise evil companies also continue to trade in Russia

They haven’t been able to produce enough working encrypted radios and they need to communicate

You can get people to do that