Monday, June 16, 2003

SADDLE SORES

A quick update: I cycled 43 km over the weekend.

National Bike Week kicked off with a scare story in the Sunday papers (because there's never any real news on a Sunday) about cycling causing impotence. Some daft Belgian thinks that yer 'nads take too much of a beating in the saddle. Whereas we all know petrol heads like the Sun's Jeremy Clarkson have enough sperm to impregnate the entire female population of a Central European country over one weekend.

The best article was in the Torygraph (which seems strangely missing from their website). In it, Britain's top cyclist (when he stays on his bike) Chris Boardman said it was a load of bollocks. All the cyclists he knew were rampant sex fiends or something like that. You'll have to do with this one from the Independent (we charge for articles by that Fisk bloke because we know only political bloggers read his shit so they can have a rant on their meme sites).

Update: More cyclists wear helmets.

:: Posted by pete @ 13:11