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Cyclingnews ratings

Equipment reviews on Cyclingnews include a rating system, the Cyclingnews yellow jerseys. Gear is scored from zero to five, like this:

 Hopeless - deeply flawed. Back to the drawing board
 Very poor - not actually dangerous, but too many drawbacks
 Adequate - there are better things out there to do this job, but it's okay
 Good - Does the job well, though with a tolerable minor fault or two
 Very good - works very well, downsides are trivial.
 Excellent - perfect; faultless. Stays crunchy in milk.

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