but as ‘packer’ says, a dropper/ST combo would be great!

Just imagine if Crank Brothers were to make one!

Having just been out for a ride which included Southease to Alfriston I can confirm that it is 100% sheep shit.

It must be all this rain which has led to such lush grass which the most stupid creatures ever to walk the earth are busy converting to very wet shit.

Best result on French soil since 1415, how apt that the BBC should have shown the highlights from that last night. I don’t think that Shakespeare has much of a clue though, not once did anyone put the hammer down or open a suitcase of courage, just a load of nonsense about breaches and some bloke called Crispen.

But he’ll remember, with advantages,
What feats he did that day. Then shall our names,
Familiar in his mouth as household words-
Wiggins the King, Cavendish and Froome,
Boasson Hagen and Rogers, Eisel and Porte,
Sivtsov and Knees-
Be in their flowing cups freshly rememb’red.
This story shall the good man teach his son.

My OM1’s are doing sterling duty as bookends. I would never dream of getting rid of them though.

GW is never one to let experience colour his judgement. 🙂

I ride on the South Downs everyday to get to work and back and I’m still on my winter bike and wearing my Sealskins!

My Fire XC’s are 590g on the kitchen scales.

Berlingo or similar. We’ve had a Doblo for 5 years and they really are about as practical a type of vehicle as you’ll ever get. Cheap to buy cheap to run and cheap to insure.

The type of car no one wants and everybody needs.

I’m still on my winter bike, rigid forks hub gears and mud x tyres.

In my experience they don’t stand up to daily commuting conditions very well

I’ve got one on the front of my off road commuter and never had a problem in 3 winters.

Rain and clean puddles. In this weather I ride a rigid hub geared bike that never needs cleaning. I ride to work off road so keeping anything clean would be a real pain.

The miles and miles of bridleways that start within half a mile of my house.

It would probably cost me more to insure my bike than my car.

watching

was there not someone on here whose wife had a dream that he had an affair and when she woke up she was then cross with him for a few days ???

Guilty as charged, my wife didn’t talk to me for 2 weeks and to this day still refuses to go into detail much to my disappointment.

Mucky Nuts has the added advantage of helping to protect the Fork stantions as well.

+1

We Ran one for 8 years with never a problem other than watching it rust in front of your eyes.

Put the hammer down.

A £5 and you were going to burn down a man’s house and murder his cat! You need to get a bit of perspective.

I lost 2 stone on the 2011 Specialized Allez 16 diet.

Was it this one by any chance 🙂

Save the money for your child’s first bike.

Burn down the house by strapping a Molotov cocktail to his cat and throwing it through the window.

e.g. 100ml of dirt, add 5l of water and you’ve a 2% dirt solution, clothes are 2% dirty. Or add 1l of water and they’re 10% dirty, then again 1%, then again, 0.1, then again 0.01, then again after 5 1l washes 0.001% dirt, so 2000x cleaner than just adding 5l of water in one go.

Wow homeopathy actually works!

I use their website and although stock and delivery can be a little patchy I’ll continue to use them because they have taken the trouble in the past to pick up the phone and offer and offer an alternative because what I’ve ordered is going to take longer to get in than anticipated.

I was given a bottle the other day I think I may keep it for just the same thing.

Get the tracking checked as well.

Just been through my pile of restaurant cards and found the Surma Indian 43 Lower Camden Street, Dublin 2. T-4755011. I’ve eaten there a couple of times when working in Dublin and it’s pretty good.

On my hub geared bike I just use whatever is lying around and only give it an occasional wipe with a rag. The bike is used all year round as an off road commuter and the current chain is 3 years old so I wouldn’t worry too much on a singlespeed.

there is no friction at all on it what so ever

And I bet you have a perpetual motion machine in your shed! 🙂

I bet Gerraint doesn’t pay for his either so he wins all round. No loss at all.

Not quite true, in my eyes he looses all credibility.

never takes long when it’s Bose..

I’m sitting in a conference and we are running Bose 802 speakers and eq units that have been in constant use for 20 years. They have traveled thousands of miles and been loaded in and out of countless trucks and vans and I don’t think we have ever had one fail.

We are replacing them with portable line arrays over time but I doubt any of those will last as long.

I moved from a house with only on street parking in a town center on a route back from the local night club to a house in a quiet low crime area with off road parking. Result – premiums went up, why? because the insurance company reckoned I must be wealthier to be in the new area, no other possible explanation.

Across the Andes by frog.

And Antartica

Duct tape will also remove the hair from your arms very well as I discovered last week when a friendly producer wrapped it around mine and ripped it off.

When I worked on Foulness and cycled to work the only people allowed onto the Island were my colleagues and so if anyone cut you up you knew them and they knew you knew them which kept things pretty safe. In fact the only driver who scared any of the cyclists was the establishment nurse who constantly seemed to be looking for business.

If you do break anything, it’s cos it’s cheap and nasty and not up to the job.

That’s not a nice way to talk about someone’s face.

“If it’s got tits or tyres, it’ll cause you grief”

Or as someone I work with on occasions says “if it fly’s, floats or f…. rent it”

You can see no difference from excellent training and excellent illegal drugs ?

That training is not open to everyone at that level. Why have we not seen a major tour winner from those African countries that have produced the best endurance runners the world has ever seen. It sure as hell isn’t because they are not physically capable it’s economic. You might just need a pair of shorts to run at the highest level but your not going to compete in a bike race without a serious investment of cash.

but you may as well call training cheating,

There was a time when many an amateur athlete would have looked down on specific training as at the very least the behaviour of a cad! 🙂

That wouldn’t produce a level playing field though.

That’s why I used the words so called, with an open market those who have the best controls in place to mask their drug use will lose their advantage.

I don’t like the idea of people using these drugs but I do know it will never go away and therefore you will never get a fair competition until it’s easier for everyone to have access.

he may simply has been able to avail himself of the best doping training or his body may have reacted to doping training better than anyone else’s

I don’t know whether or not he doped but I just put this forward as I find it illogical that we worry that someone gains an advantage from a drug but not from a massive investment of cash which can secure you the best trainers and nutritionists, the best team-mates and the best team management. It also leaves some riders able to purely focus on only the events they want to win with no need to chase prize money in other races.

If you can’t catch everyone who is using doping and we know you can’t then you can only come to one logical conclusion if you want a so called level playing field and that is to allow athletes to use whatever methods they see fit to achieve results. Yes you’ll have athletes dying and being permanently damaged but that is the only possible way to have a competition in which you can be certain no one has cheated.

Edward “Bear” Grylls is going to be ziplining off the Tyne Bridge today, as part of the torch celebrations.

I was working at the Sage yesterday and watching them rehearse it, looked like fun.

And then drinking his own piss.

The line ends near the Jury’s Inn where we were staying – he should be able to pick up a pint of it on draft there.