Professional biking:
For years, it has languished in obscurity behind much more common sports activities equivalent to racewalking and curling:
Curling: the place the thrill’s on ice.
Properly, right here comes the umpteenth try and make professional biking extra common, 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:
In the event you even bothered studying that in any respect you then in all probability gave up studying midway by way of, so there’s your reply. I did my greatest to learn the entire thing, and it appears like One Biking is a Saudi funding agency slotting themselves in slightly below the UCI and above everybody else:
If I perceive that accurately, then the UCI is the Burger King drive-thru, the race organizers are your hungry pals, and One Biking is you providing to go decide meals for everyone with the intention to eat all their fries on the way in which residence.
After all, right here in the US, we don’t want the Tour de France or any of that stuff since we’ve obtained the Nationwide Biking League:
Oh wait, no we don’t:
This isn’t shocking. The NCL appeared like they had been trying to create form of an NBA on Wheels, which was a mistake, since People actually don’t relate to biking as a workforce sport. Nevertheless, 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 absolutely the way forward for home aggressive biking. So perhaps that Corridor of Fame isn’t so untimely in any case:
By the way in which, the Gravel Corridor of Fame shouldn’t be confused with the Gavel Corridor of Fame, and listed here 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 folks have landed on that website whereas trying to find the Gravel Corridor of Fame, as a result of I can’t be the one one, and it’s in all probability driving them loopy.
Lastly, in additional professional cycling-adjacent information, Ritchey will now not use the UCI World Championship rainbow bands on its WCS parts:
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 parts in any case, and they need to make it clear to the patron {that a} mustache journey is the easiest you may get.
I’m additionally shocked they’re protecting the “WCS,” because the acronym stands for “World Championship Collection,” and I’d suppose with the termination of the settlement they’d now not be capable of do this as nicely. Then once more, perhaps it’s simply so simple as altering the acronym, so maybe it stands for “Profitable Biking Stuff.”
Let me know when it is available in a threaded model.
