All good recommendations however best cycling book ive ever read is: in pursuit of stardom les nomades du velo anglais by tony hewson, a fantastic read.

Are you Belgian?

Sportives are races,but only in a delusional sense.

Lezyne,best road pump Ive ever owned.Fantastic quality,tiny,light and it works.

Yep and the video evidence supported Evra rather than Suarez’s “story” that is why he got an 8 match ban.

Assos climajet ,it’s okay not the best thing they make but it is waterproof and has lasted fairly well.

Have you tried a full reset of your garmin.My edge was doing this about 18 months ago I eventually tried a hard reset and this cured the problem and loaded updated software and this solved the problem of it switching itself off.

I have custom jersey and shorts by owayo ( they are german company) and really rate the quality and fit.

Get awdetorium truly fantastic app

Byetone -syMeta
Rustie – glass swords
Warpaint – the fool ( deluxe)
Bon iver- bon iver

I would suggest PMP or DT swiss 240s both good quality relatively light hubs.

Cannondale cx9 or ridley xbow both can be got for around £1000 mark. Both are excellent frames which will benefit from upgrades as you go along. The boardman is pretty good too. They are both popular choices and you will see plenty of them at races particularly ridleys

Ed Moses 122 conseCutive wins over 10 years in 400m hurldlesSet the.world record 4 times , 2 olympic golds it would have been 3 but usa pulled out of moscow olympics and 2 world golds.

Ive bought stuff from them via ebay and never had any problems.

Check out if they still do the discount for having a full racing licence as this can be a very good deal.

What sad news. An incredible musician and lovely guy. RIP

Winter=mudguards
Personaly I would look at Ridley Eos or Kinesis racelight t2

Miliband makes dull speech shocker 🙄
However Dave couldn’t win an overall majority against the most unpopular PM in living memory so I doubt he has much to crow about.

I sold mine on E bay and did pretty well with them as I recall.

Rollers- less tedious? A bit . But I still wouldnt class them as an alternative to riding your bike outside.

As a method of training( particularly interval training) great, as an alternative to riding crap. I use mine most weeks and couldnt do without it however it does take discipline.

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Assos are excellent( if perhaps not quite as good quality as they were in the past, maybe.) but castelli are excellent too. Lot of people say gore are very good too.

You will be fine . I would say dont go too hard in the first half of the ride( probably good advice for any sportive) and i am sure you will see a few walkers up scape goat.

Scape goat is hard because ; you have done quite a bit of riding already, it is narrow and a bit windy , road suface is not the best, it steep enough and isnt particularly constant so personnally I find it is hard to get into a rhythm.On the. Plus side its not too long. but long enough.isle of skye I find okay but wind can make it a lot harder.I haventdone the sportive but regularly ride all those roads.

Ridley Eos a very good alernative to the kinesis

Nope he’s not allowed to ride TOB because he pulled out of vuelta and cant race untill the vuelta is over.However this rule can somtimes be over turned.

OK, I’ll shut up

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Rabobank 2008 TDF Menchov 4th in GC and Friere got the points jersey

All I know is you often see triantelopes using them which would put me off for a start. I dont think they make them anymore too

Then try tarptent scarp 2

Try hilleberg very good, very light but not cheap

Just join a club! No really!! This will have the biggest impact on your riding skills and fitness. The fact that ” you don’t do clubs” probably means you will fit in perfectly. 🙂

I really wouldn’t worry about what some triantelopes are saying about a frame.In my experience they no F A about bikes 🙂

Try the algarve I know a couple of people who have done training camps there.By all accounts the roads are pretty good and the weather is good too.

[/quote]An XC race is won by the best rider, a road race (particularly a 4th cat one) is more of a ‘last man standing’ affair, with the winner usually a sit in sprinter who will then take out half the field with their horrendous riding in the last 200m.

Stay near the front, pay attention, don’t do ANYTHING suddenly, and be prepared to watch some idiots in action!

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[list]2nd cyclops fluid2 and sufferfest (truly painful interval sessions)

How would signing cav go against the policy of signing young British talent, he is young and British 😯

As Chris Boardman has said Wiggo would be silly to concentrate on Olympics next year, he already has every colour medal from 2 different games he isn’t getting younger and is running out of time if he wants to do well in the tour. No way would Cav work at Sky for numerous reasons as already mentioned. I think Journos are jumping on band wagon again of rumours last year.

Which ones are they
BTW no particular fan of the gob shite or sky for that matter.

G, Wiggins, Ed Bo, rogers, ,lofkvist etc + eisel and Renshaw no they would be a shit leadout train 😯 f f s .Anyway half of them already did the job for him at high road