Originally Posted by
canklecat
Anyone who believes bicycles are more efficient in every situation hasn't watched a grand tour race climb with the world's fittest athletes grinding along slowly while tubby old guys dressed up like giant pandas and half naked vikings carrying giant foam rubber hammers trot alongside the cyclists blowing kisses, groping the cyclists and whatever other awful things crazy fans do on grand tours.
If the old guys were running alongside marathon runners marathoning uphill ten days into a marathon-a-day marathon, do you think they'd have any more trouble briefly keeping up?