This forum proves that cycling is more popular and interesting than running

real biker wrote:

I've never been on a specific sport forum that talks about another sport so much, No cycling forums I'm ever on ever talk about the Boston/NYC/London/Etc. marathons, or track races or the like, even during the Olympics.

But every day there are multiple Tour de France threads on this forum. I think it's quite telling.

The Tour is definitely one of the biggest sporting events in the world, full of drama, doping and blokes in tight shorts. The Letsrun kids love it.

But check back during the Spring Classics or the Vuelta and you are not going to see many threads.

You will see other cycling threads on Letsrun year round...

What is harder, running or cycling?

I keep getting hurt, can I be a competitive cyclist instead?

is xyz cyclist a doper? (but the cycling forms have plenty doping threads about other sports as well, check out 'The Clinic' on Cyclingnews.com)

Cyclists also talk about running to some extent. Jens Voigt ran a marathon in the middle of this year's Tour de France, where is a commentator, apparently just on the spur of the moment on a morning before a stage began.

But alas, in running, and in track and field generally, nobody pays much attention to the sport between Olympic games, unless the topic is doping or Caster Semenya.

I remember about half my high school xc team used to follow the Tour but I was the only one who ever watched any other races.

Runners love cyclists and cyclists love running.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Krp2reC9528

Cycling = reliance on external machine

Running = no reliance to machinery

Internet = full of fake news

No Internet = more peaceful

MAGA

Trump2020OP wrote:

Cycling = reliance on external machine

Running = no reliance to machinery

Internet = full of fake news

No Internet = more peaceful

MAGA

So?

It's all a degree of equipment, right?

Technically, swimming takes even less equipment considering the technology of running shoes...

Soccer has less equipment than cycling but more than running.

Guess which is more prestigious?

Hockey has a huge amount of equipment.

(Sick athletes too, my high school 4 x 800 team went sub 8 with 4 hockey players straight off of hockey season. ---must be some thing to flying full speed for 2 minute shifts for 60 minutes!)

Last I checked, Nationals in Sacramento a few weeks ago had fewer fans than a badminton tournament.

Most Farah's net worth, total, is 5 million.

Mark Cavendish's 2014 salary was 6 million for a year and he's not even a yellow jersey guy.

Running, while done by many, mostly hobby joggers, is about the least exciting to watch for 99%, period. LRC forum members opinions aside, the TdF in real quantifiable terms, is harder than anything in running, period. It's simply not possible for a runner to go for 6 hours a day at all paces for three weeks straight. Running limits the body from going that long. Facts is facts. No fake news here on the internet.

...As I sit alone watching Lausanne DL 1500 tonight!

real biker wrote:

50yr old virg wrote:

You mean the threads where someone defends dopers like Lance. "Oh everyone was doing it and he was still the best 7 years in a row. I still worship him. He's cooler than Jesus"

No, I mean the threads about this year's tour de france.

And Jesus isn't real.

Too bad you didn't inform many of the Apostles who were executed for testifying about him.