Right here in New York Metropolis, advocates have been crucial of the NYPD for partaking in motorcar pursuits of suspects. It’s a tough argument. On one hand, chasing down a legal solely to hazard harmless bystanders is unnecessary:
Alternatively, letting criminals merely get away with stuff additionally is unnecessary:
So what are we to do?
Properly, look no additional than Lone Tree, CO, the place one officer not too long ago break up the distinction through the use of a toddler’s bicycle as a substitute:
After all by the point he obtained there the suspect had already been apprehended by one other officer in a automotive:
However, he clearly has a brilliant future forward of him within the burgeoning sport of city cyclocross:
And I stay up for the brand new line of police bikes from Woom:
[Color works, it just needs a siren.]
In the meantime, apparently Campagnolo is coming again to the professional peloton:
I used to be unable to learn the article in its entirety as a result of my lack of a Bicycling subscription. (Is it lame that I don’t subscribe to publications to which I sometimes contribute?) However, I’m assured that I can reply the query posed within the headline:
It Doesn’t Imply Shit
I don’t imply it’s dangerous, I simply imply what implications might it probably have? All skilled street racing bicycles have digital push-button transmissions now. Who cares which of them they’re utilizing? Does anybody actually suppose Cofidis will experience any higher or worse with Campagnolo than they’d with Shimano or SRAM? And I’m not disparaging digital drivetrains, both–I imply I personally don’t take care of them, however I’m additionally not an elite athlete competing on the highest ranges of the game. I’m not even frightened concerning the hacking:
[Nope, can’t read this one, either. But don’t let that stop you!]
Sure, professional biking is ready for this, since no one cares sufficient concerning the sport to place that a lot effort into disrupting it. I suppose you might use hacking to repair race outcomes, however biking barely even figures into the world’s sports activities playing market, and is presumably buried someplace deep within the “others” class together with canine racing and caber toss:
The one individuals who care sufficient about biking to mess with it are the eco-terrorists, and it’s uncertain their race disruption techniques will ever advance any farther than mendacity down in entrance of it:
By the way in which, it’s been about 520 days since that specific protest, that means we solely have 469 days left. So that you’ll need to deal with all these bucket checklist gadgets earlier than March 18th, 2026. And don’t fear about maxing out these bank cards, as a result of if there’s one factor we’ve all realized over time it’s that extremely particular predictions in regards to the finish of civilization and humanity all the time grow to be right.
So sure, I feel it’s protected to say Campagnolo’s return to the peloton means nothing to biking, except after all they decide to additionally providing a silver mechanical rim brake drivetrain on an indefinite foundation to fulfill its core market of getting old riders who’re rising exponentially slower by the day but nonetheless need to experience street bikes. However judging from their web site that’s not going to occur:
It could be good to know you all the time had an aesthetically right possibility for that cherished fin de siècle street bike with out having to show to the used market, however then once more I suppose the absence of 1 will hasten the inevitable conclusion that it is best to Simply Purchase A Rivendell Already. In actual fact the CPSC ought to mandate each adjustable stem bought have a warning on it saying precisely that:
It could actually be extra helpful than the torque specs–although I suppose just like the torque specs everybody would simply ignore that too.
