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merc@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
A related question: why is the “big tough guy” image a guy in a truck?
Like, you push a pedal with your foot to make your vehicle go vroom vroom. A granny could do that.
Surely a tough guy is a guy who is straining huge muscles to make a bike hit 50 km/h. A skilled guy is one who can maneuver his bike down a narrow mountain-bike track.
Imagine looking back in history and seeing a dude being carried around in a sedan chair and thinking that was the ideal image of masculinity, rather than the surely jacked dudes carrying him.
Benaaasaaas@lemmy.world 1 week ago
To be fair, cyclists are disadvantaged by weight so if you look at all the top cyclists (with the exception of track cycling) they will look like twigs to make climbing easier.
merc@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
By “top cyclists” I imagine you mean the guys who compete in very long road races. Not BMX riders, not mountain bikers, and definitely not this guy?
Most serious cyclists have big muscles, and they did for a long time on the Tour de France too, it’s only in recent years that they’ve optimized so much for their particular niche that they’ve shed every possible gram of weight.