Talk:Road cycling

Removing link to manufacturer

Unless we link to all of the major bike manufacturers I don't see why we should link to Trek only. I'm going to remove that link. --Wikipediatastic 15:25, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

I think more info is better than less. But how do we decide who the major bike manufacturers are? I supposed that's a community discussion to have. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Alwaysateacher817 (talk • contribs) 19:48, 6 October 2016 (UTC)

Scope

Looking at this article it would appear that people have become rather confused as to what it is about. I think it should be about utility cycling. However people ride on the road for a variety of different reasons, commuting, couriering, going to the shops, fun, sports etc. Do the last two count as utility cycling? I would argue that Sport certainly doesn't. However in the UK at least when cyclists talk about Road Cycling they are thinking of road racing. I think this article needs a total re-write. --Wikipediatastic 15:51, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

Road cycling is a very general term and encompasses any kind of bicycling that is done on paved roads. I think the current article defines it well enough. The See Also section lists the relevant related subtopics. Limiting an article titled Road cycling to just utility cycling or just road bicycle racing doesn't make sense, especially since those specific topics already have their own dedicated articles. --Serge 22:30, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

To me this comes across as a pretty uninspiring article which could possibly be cut down to a stub with a bunch of links to more specific articles or possibly just a disambiguation page. There are however a lot of inward links many of them probably relate to a particular type of cycling. PeterEastern (talk) 16:22, 7 October 2010 (UTC)

First thing to do might be to cleanup those inbound links to the more correct article e.g. I see a lot that should be pointed towards road bicycle racing. Severo^TC 06:11, 11 October 2010 (UTC)

move helmet section

Could I suggest moving the helmet section to the bicycle helmet page? Adenosine Triphosphate (talk) 00:11, 17 October 2022 (UTC)

I do not think that is wise I think the small section on this page is required and not too long to be moved to the larger article. Paulpat99 (talk) 03:46, 17 October 2022 (UTC)