That being said, Strava makes people do silly things. Early on in the Syrian civil war I was in Reyhanli on the Turkey/Syria border with a colleague who decided to borrow a bike in order to create a … (View Post)

I hit 80kph (55mph) on a fully loaded touring bike on the Andean downhill from Santiago to Mendoza in a stonking tailwind. It was terrifying but I was young and foolhardy at the time. (View Post)

Agreed but the bigger challenge to all of us, I think, is that we cheerlead a system that enables and indeed encourages this sort of behaviour. There will always be Sacklers in this world. Our curren… (View Post)

Is this your cough or unrelated? Regardless, hope you're okay. (View Post)

Bloody hell. With apologies to those who are better informed and for which this is old news, I just listened to the Slow News podcast on the Sackler family (https://www.tortoisemedia.com/audio/the-sa… (View Post)