Re: OT: British thighs are the Envy of the World

2012-08-12 Thread knarftheria...@gmail.com
Of course the difference is that one can't quantify art. At least not the same say one can quantify a timed race against a stopwatch. I guess one could use sale prices in which case Gursky is twenty thousand times better than me since he's sold a photo for over four million as opposed to my

RE: OT: British thighs are the Envy of the World

2012-08-12 Thread Bob W
It shouldn't be measured by sales value, but by lifetime sales volume. Which makes me as good as Vinnie Van Gogh. B From: pdml-boun...@pdml.net [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of knarftheria...@gmail.com Of course the difference is that one can't quantify art. At least not the

RE: OT: British thighs are the Envy of the World

2012-08-11 Thread Bob W
The one about forces is well worth watching, and includes a bonus for you of featuring some bloke who designs Canadian bikes. Most importantly, it explains why it's always uphill, into a headwind, and raining hard whenever I go for a spin. But it's encouraging to know that with the right

Re: OT: British thighs are the Envy of the World

2012-08-11 Thread Bob Sullivan
It's all because you use a Leica, Bob. On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 12:58 PM, Bob W p...@web-options.com wrote: The one about forces is well worth watching, and includes a bonus for you of featuring some bloke who designs Canadian bikes. Most importantly, it explains why it's always uphill, into a

Re: OT: British thighs are the Envy of the World

2012-08-11 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 11:09 AM, Bob W p...@web-options.com wrote: I am a member of the CTC (Cyclists' Touring Club), who send me a weekly newsletter email. In this week's they have included a piece with some links about what lies behind Victoria Pendleton, which some of the Hoy-polloi on the

Re: OT: British thighs are the Envy of the World

2012-08-11 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 10:58 AM, Bob W p...@web-options.com wrote: .. Most importantly, it explains why it's always uphill, into a headwind, and raining hard whenever I go for a spin. But it's encouraging to know that with the right clothing and helmet I could achieve the same speeds as

RE: OT: British thighs are the Envy of the World

2012-08-11 Thread knarftheria...@gmail.com
I think Cavendish says the fastest he's been clocked in a race sprint is 78 km/hr. That's the fastest anyone's been clocked btw. But it was kilometres, not miles per hour... I don't have a cyclocomputer anymore so I don't know how fast I get up to on my road bike. Several years ago we set up a

Re: OT: British thighs are the Envy of the World

2012-08-11 Thread Matthew Hunt
On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 10:58 PM, knarftheria...@gmail.com knarftheria...@gmail.com wrote: All that to be 30% slower than the world's best (who regularly do the flying 200 in under 10 seconds. Look at it this way: I'd be pretty damned happy if my photographs were 30% worse than the world's

Re: OT: British thighs are the Envy of the World

2012-08-10 Thread Walt Gilbert
Having beheld Jessica Ennis's thighs, I'm not sure envy is quite the word. No, I'm quite sure it's not. But, I won't venture to further elaborate. -- Walt On 8/10/2012 1:09 PM, Bob W wrote: I am a member of the CTC (Cyclists' Touring Club), who send me a weekly newsletter email. In this

RE: OT: British thighs are the Envy of the World

2012-08-10 Thread knarftheria...@gmail.com
So far I've only watched the video on The Hour; very interesting stuff! Amazing that 28 years after Merckx got the record it was bested by Boardman by a mere ten metres (in the athletes hour). Goes to show how amazing Eddy's record was, especially when one considers how much training techniques