you can tell pro road cycling is one of the sports of all time because every time i hear more about it, i'm like 'why tf would anyone do anything like this to themselves?'
today i'm learning about the paris-roubaix cobbles.
@thedeadparrot oh god. Is there, like, a way to change onto a fatbike before you hit them?
@Betty i feel like this race mostly still exists as a way to keep bike engineers happy, because the riders have bikes explicitly designed for cobbled races.
@thedeadparrot terrible. Like, the AestheticTM, but cobblestones are so bad for being an actual surface for transportation of humans and/or wheeled aparati
@Betty pro road racing is just thinly veiled BDSM, change my mind
@thedeadparrot counterpoint: I believe doing drugs while doing BDSM is frowned upon?
@thedeadparrot @Betty tbf “frowned upon but unfortunately definitely happens” seems to also be the dominant mode in both groups
@Satsuma @thedeadparrot I see. Not so much a counterpoint, then, I guess.