Cycling land speed record

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But she's faster than any man, so let her have the outright record.
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JLv3.0 wrote: Thu Sep 20, 2018 10:02 am
Jobbo wrote: Thu Sep 20, 2018 10:00 amThat photo must have been taken a while ago or heavily photoshopped :lol: ETA: ah, it's the girl on the right pictured above. Not the one who broke the record, centre...
My apologies - my clear reference to "her driver" must have got encrypted after I pressed Submit :lol:
I was only looking at the picture :lol: Presumably it's her daughter.
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Jobbo wrote: Thu Sep 20, 2018 10:02 am But she's faster than any man, so let her have the outright record.
But it would be the outright record, wouldn't it? Or are there male, female and outright records? :lol:
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Male and female, are there not? Why not just have one?
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Jobbo wrote: Thu Sep 20, 2018 10:00 am I'm with Dave. Amazing achievement and I don't disregard land speed record cars for not being able to pull away from traffic lights without help.

That photo must have been taken a while ago or heavily photoshopped :lol: ETA: ah, it's the girl on the right pictured above. Not the one who broke the record, centre...
I still think it has been pretty heavily photoshopped!

Looking at that picture made me LOL as to me it looks (going right to left) like the ages of man - the same person at 40 years old, 60 years old and 120 years old :lol:
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Jobbo wrote: Thu Sep 20, 2018 10:11 am Male and female, are there not? Why not just have one?
I agree with this. I'm no SJW (as I think we all know) but gendering sport, etc. is to not disadvantage the 'weaker' (cue howling) gender - if there's no disadvantage to women from being lumped in with men in this instance then let her have the outright record.

This logic surely applies across the board... other than for Serena Williams. I'm up for her playing in the mens tournaments from now on - if we're going to have to listen to her whine about made up gender inequality in tennis umpiring and smash rackets like a petulant child then it may as well be for a real reason :lol:
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Rich B wrote: Thu Sep 20, 2018 9:46 am Nope, I am OUTRAGED!!!! 😂
As OUTRAGED as I am TRIGGERED, one assumes?
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One assumes CORRECTLY :lol:
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Cheers for the close up of the bike, interesting double chainring thing going on for the gearing.
Bonkers riding that close to the vehicle in front. Amazing driving keeping that steady. I wonder how many times in testing she went out of the slipstream and suddenly got a 150+mph wind in the face.
Left over crest; tightens.
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