kokorodoko wrote: Sun Feb 12, 2023 4:38 pm Trugoy the Dove of De La Soul.

Damn. RIP Trugoy.

Eileen Sheridan died, still sharp at 99 judging from a recent letter she sent to a friend. She was one of Britain's standout cyclists during a period when the country's authorities idiotically, pigheadedly obstructed the transmission of the Continent's passion for cycling in that Golden Age. Her Lands End to John O'Groats ride astonishes me: almost 900 miles in under two and a half days on what would've been a pretty heavy machine, hammering the first 400 miles to Carlisle before getting off her bike for the first time to switch to wet weather clothes and put some lights on. A very pleasant person to be around, by accounts.

sparky wrote: Wed Feb 15, 2023 3:59 am Eileen Sheridan died, still sharp at 99 judging from a recent letter she sent to a friend. She was one of Britain's standout cyclists during a period when the country's authorities idiotically, pigheadedly obstructed the transmission of the Continent's passion for cycling in that Golden Age. Her Lands End to John O'Groats ride astonishes me: almost 900 miles in under two and a half days on what would've been a pretty heavy machine, hammering the first 400 miles to Carlisle before getting off her bike for the first time to switch to wet weather clothes and put some lights on. A very pleasant person to be around, by accounts.

Imagine the sheer force of will necessary to cycle 400 miles, in the knowledge that you're going to end up in Carlisle. Fuck me that's some doing.

I think she would’ve laughed at that as well

No RIP for this one, but one of the prominent quasi-Nazis at the Charlotte Unite the Right rally killed himself a day or two ago.

He was supposed to have started a trial on drug-smuggling charges, as authorities caught him transporting 15 kg of fentanyl over the Mexico-US border.

I hope DeAndre Harris cracks open a cold one tonight.

from https://www.thedailybeast.com/charlotte ... fore-trial

[Molly] Conger’s research identified Von Nukem as one of the men who attacked Deandre Harris in a parking garage. She also connected the dots to show how Von Nukem gloated about the attack in text messages to another white supremacist rally organizer, who was later prosecuted in a separate case.

sparky wrote: Wed Feb 15, 2023 3:59 am Eileen Sheridan died, still sharp at 99 judging from a recent letter she sent to a friend. She was one of Britain's standout cyclists during a period when the country's authorities idiotically, pigheadedly obstructed the transmission of the Continent's passion for cycling in that Golden Age. Her Lands End to John O'Groats ride astonishes me: almost 900 miles in under two and a half days on what would've been a pretty heavy machine, hammering the first 400 miles to Carlisle before getting off her bike for the first time to switch to wet weather clothes and put some lights on. A very pleasant person to be around, by accounts.

I just drove from San Diego to Portland over two days, which is roughly 1100 miles. We had to stop a little over halfway and spend the night because I was tired from driving.

That distance, on a bike, in that timeframe, is astonishing to me.

Earned her rest, she did.

Raquel Welch

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RIP to a legend.

iembalm wrote: Wed Feb 15, 2023 10:55 am
I just drove from San Diego to Portland over two days, which is roughly 1100 miles. We had to stop a little over halfway and spend the night because I was tired from driving.

That distance, on a bike, in that timeframe, is astonishing to me.

Earned her rest, she did.

British bureaucracy practically banned road races in the UK while the Continent experienced the glorious golden age of racers, and your observation has me wonder if this inculcated a sort of masochism in British cyclists. In the UK, you either raced fixed on circuits or got up godawful early to time trial on big roads before traffic picked up, staying away from respectable people and their motor cars. From what I’ve been reading, to be into serious cycling here back then, you had to be obsessive. Mind, I think all successful cyclists have to have a peculiar relationship to pain.

Yeah, 900 miles though! And then after a couple of hours break, she did another 100 just to grab the 1000 mile record! In that weather and with the bumps you have to cross from one end of the island to the other, the implied average speed is fierce.