Professional biking:
For years, it has languished in obscurity behind way more standard sports activities corresponding to racewalking and curling:
Curling: the place the thrill’s on ice.
Nicely, right here comes the umpteenth try to make professional biking extra standard, and it’s one thing referred to as “One Biking:”
The reply to the rhetorical query within the headline is, in fact, “No.”
Right here’s why:
Should you even bothered studying that in any respect you then most likely gave up studying midway via, so there’s your reply. I did my finest to learn the entire thing, and it seems like One Biking is a Saudi funding agency slotting themselves in just below the UCI and above everybody else:
If I perceive that appropriately, then the UCI is the Burger King drive-thru, the race organizers are your hungry associates, and One Biking is you providing to go decide meals for everyone with the intention to eat all their fries on the best way dwelling.
In fact, right here in america, we don’t want the Tour de France or any of that stuff since we’ve received the Nationwide Biking League:
Oh wait, no we don’t:
This isn’t stunning. The NCL appeared like they have been making an attempt to create type of an NBA on Wheels, which was a mistake, since People actually don’t relate to biking as a workforce sport. Nonetheless, they do get the idea of a bunch of self-managed endurance freaks torturing themselves on distant roads whey’re they’re not inconveniencing anyone, which is why gravel is basically the way forward for home aggressive biking. So perhaps that Corridor of Fame isn’t so untimely in spite of everything:
By the best way, the Gravel Corridor of Fame shouldn’t be confused with the Gavel Corridor of Fame, and listed below are your 2025 inductees, who’ve been awarded the coveted “Golden Gavel” for excellence in authorized advertising and promoting:
[From here.]
I ponder what number of different individuals have landed on that website whereas looking for the Gravel Corridor of Fame, as a result of I can’t be the one one, and it’s most likely driving them loopy.
Lastly, in additional professional cycling-adjacent information, Ritchey will now not use the UCI World Championship rainbow bands on its WCS elements:
Apparently their settlement with the UCI is up, and it’s “not eligible for renewal”
Lazily, Ritchey will merely take away the colour from the stripes, although they missed an enormous alternative by not changing them with Tom Ritchey’s mustache:
These are supposedly Ritchey’s top-tier elements in spite of everything, and they need to make it clear to the patron {that a} mustache trip is the easiest you may get.
I’m additionally stunned they’re maintaining the “WCS,” because the acronym stands for “World Championship Sequence,” and I’d assume with the termination of the settlement they’d now not be capable to try this as properly. Then once more, perhaps it’s simply so simple as altering the acronym, so maybe it stands for “Successful Biking Stuff.”
Let me know when it is available in a threaded model.
