funny and not
Fri Dec 19 13:58:21 EST 2014
tags: cycling, humor
As I've mentioned, I've been spending time on the CrazyGuyOnABike website. I came across the unfamiliar term "KYBO", and I had to go look it up: "Keep Your Bowels Open" or "Kleen Your Bowels Out". The search engine also found this page for the Adopt-a-Kybo Program. (RAGBRAI is the huge [Des Moins] Register's Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa.)
Friday 20:09
not humor:
People on this site have "agreed to disagree" about whether helmets are good/bad/necessary/stupid/totalitarian. (It's like religion - it might be how you're raised; you might have a conversion, or a falling out.) This was from an equipment review at the end of a tour from someone who doesn't wear a helmet:We suppose that helmets serve their purposes when commuting or mountain biking or racing or horseback riding (didn't Christopher Reeve have a helmet on when he fell?)....
When Reeve fell from the horse "He landed headfirst .... shattering his first and second vertebrae. The fall resulted in a cervical spinal injury that paralyzed him from the neck down." These helmets aren't designed to prevent spinal injuries. Without a helment, perhaps he might have had a brain injury as well, and either been killed or left mentally incapacitated as well as paralized - maybe the helmet did work, and things could have been worse.
Saturday 17:08
Road Kill and the daily calorie budget: https://www.crazyguyonabike.com/bookmark/?type=message&id=72512
[2018: Old link isn't right, try: https://www.crazyguyonabike.com/forum/board/message/?thread_id=72512
whole tread has amusing stuff: https://www.crazyguyonabike.com/forum/board/message/?thread_id=72474 ]
[This entry was originally posted as https://syntonic-comma.dreamwidth.org/715373.html on Dreamwidth (where there are
comments).]
tags: cycling, humor
As I've mentioned, I've been spending time on the CrazyGuyOnABike website. I came across the unfamiliar term "KYBO", and I had to go look it up: "Keep Your Bowels Open" or "Kleen Your Bowels Out". The search engine also found this page for the Adopt-a-Kybo Program. (RAGBRAI is the huge [Des Moins] Register's Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa.)
Friday 20:09
not humor:
People on this site have "agreed to disagree" about whether helmets are good/bad/necessary/stupid/totalitarian. (It's like religion - it might be how you're raised; you might have a conversion, or a falling out.) This was from an equipment review at the end of a tour from someone who doesn't wear a helmet:We suppose that helmets serve their purposes when commuting or mountain biking or racing or horseback riding (didn't Christopher Reeve have a helmet on when he fell?)....
When Reeve fell from the horse "He landed headfirst .... shattering his first and second vertebrae. The fall resulted in a cervical spinal injury that paralyzed him from the neck down." These helmets aren't designed to prevent spinal injuries. Without a helment, perhaps he might have had a brain injury as well, and either been killed or left mentally incapacitated as well as paralized - maybe the helmet did work, and things could have been worse.
Saturday 17:08
Road Kill and the daily calorie budget: https://www.crazyguyonabike.com/bookmark/?type=message&id=72512
[2018: Old link isn't right, try: https://www.crazyguyonabike.com/forum/board/message/?thread_id=72512
whole tread has amusing stuff: https://www.crazyguyonabike.com/forum/board/message/?thread_id=72474 ]
[This entry was originally posted as https://syntonic-comma.dreamwidth.org/715373.html on Dreamwidth (where there are
comments).]