Monday, June 29, 2009

[cyclists] and the problems that dare not speak their names

Confession time - some distances are just too great, even for Super-OAP

Professional cyclists should consider freezing their sperm before embarking on their careers, say researchers. They found sperm quality drops dramatically with rigorous training. However, a UK expert said the average man cycling to work would be unlikely to suffer fertility problems because of their time in the saddle.

Having a bit of trouble reading this about the UK expert. 'The average man' suggests singular number but then the article uses the 3rd person plural 'their'.

Strange.

Anyway, the sperm count, I should have thought, is the last of our worries. More worrying is the shape of the hard, narrow leather seat. Now I haven't wanted to raise this issue but when one has a certain normal size of ... well, I can't mention their name ... um ... where exactly are they supposed to go when you're riding? Either side?

This is a bit embarrassing but as there are so many men cycling, there must be a solution to this issue.

8 comments:

  1. If cycling does lower the sperm count the not-wife would ahde me doing the Tour de France a long time ago!

    Not that it would ahve had anything to do with sperm counts but me suffering, that's a different thing!

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  2. Just toss them over your shoulders, Hob. On second thoughts, that's not perhaps the verb juste.

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  3. Try one of these
    http://www.rido-cyclesaddles.com/shape-c3.html
    or try a recumbent bicycle.

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  4. Love the way you picked up on the grammar! What an interesting dilemma.

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  5. The shape of the hard, narrow seat is the cause of the loss of sperm count. That is meant as a scientific, factual comment rather than anything else!

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  6. Hasn't this tedious load of old tosh been done to death?

    Strewth Lance Armstrong only has the one nut and he's just had a natural child fer crying outloud. Jens Voigt has five kids.

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  7. It'll be that saddle - like sitting on't razor blade.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMYZyUygW6Y

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  8. Oh, those comments and that vid were enjoyabubble. Thanks, folks. The tadpole's the way to go though.

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