Nobody?

Not bad for a warm up.

3.2.153 A team shall be relegated to the last place in the stage of the competition if one of the following infringements has been committed:

1) if a rider draws away by more than 15 metres before the end of the lap that he is to lead
2) if a rider does not draw away by more than 15 metres after the end of the lap that he was supposed to lead
3) if one rider pushes another.

Not exactly clearly written…. But I suppose the riders know what they mean or do they?

Thanks for that Joe.

Flaperon – yes I have the size of the datasets. edited to show that.

Perhaps you should take more care of your pager. Just a thought.

Dont think there are any restrictions on what you can park on the road. My brother inlaw used to park his artic and 45ft trailer outside his house. Nobody complained though.

MAkes me wonder how many Strava times are internal combustion engine assisted.

Now that sport is professional are there many events where the Olympics are the pinnacle of the sport?

Athletics – winning all events in the Diamond League could arguable be a better achievement than an olympic gold.

Football – World Cup,
Cycling – World Championships of any flavour,
Boxing – Pro Circuit,
etc etc etc.

What GW said. With a wee bit of thought, pretty much any car with rear seats will take three kids in the back in proper car seats.

Is it definitely tennis elbow? Or do you have a neck problem which is referring pain into your elbow.

How about doing some fast paced hill walking followed by running back down. That way you learn to pace yourself and get a wee bit of technique practice for descending.

Movement is indeed the best thing for knees – but nothing to stop you going down the old ice, compression and elevation route when you’re not moving it. You could also try sticking a tubigrip bandage over it during the day if you can tolerate it.

From the Cochrane Library:

Spinal manipulative therapy = cracking backs.

“Spinal manipulative therapy (SMT) is an intervention that is widely practiced by a variety of health care professionals worldwide. The effectiveness of this form of therapy for the management of chronic low-back pain has come under dispute.

Low-back pain is a common and disabling disorder, which represents a great burden to the individual and society. It often results in reduced quality of life, time lost from work and substantial medical expense. In this review, chronic low-back pain is defined as low-back pain lasting longer than 12 weeks. For this review, we only included cases of low-back pain that were not caused by known underlying conditions, for example, infection, tumour, or fracture. We also included patients whose pain was predominantly in the lower back, but may also have radiated (spread) into the buttocks and legs.

SMT is known as a “hands-on” treatment of the spine, which includes both manipulation and mobilisation. In manual mobilisations, the therapist moves the patient’s spine within their range of motion. They use slow, passive movements, starting with a small range and gradually increasing to a larger range of motion. Manipulation is a passive technique where the therapist applies a specifically directed manual impulse, or thrust, to a joint, at or near the end of the passive (or physiological) range of motion. This is often accompanied by an audible ‘crack’.

In this updated review, we identified 26 randomised controlled trials (represented by 6070 participants) that assessed the effects of SMT in patients with chronic low-back pain. Treatment was delivered by a variety of practitioners, including chiropractors, manual therapists and osteopaths. Only nine trials were considered to have a low risk of bias. In other words, results in which we could put some confidence.

The results of this review demonstrate that SMT appears to be as effective as other common therapies prescribed for chronic low-back pain, such as, exercise therapy, standard medical care or physiotherapy. However, it is less clear how it compares to inert interventions or sham (placebo) treatment because there are only a few studies, typically with a high risk of bias, which investigated these factors. Approximately two-thirds of the studies had a high risk of bias, which means we cannot be completely confident with their results. Furthermore, no serious complications were observed with SMT.

In summary, SMT appears to be no better or worse than other existing therapies for patients with chronic low-back pain.”

Cracking joints is nothing more than a party trick. Go to your GP and get referred to a physio and save yourself some cash.

From what i can make out from your original post you squeazed the brake lever and had no rear brake – nada, zilch, heehaw. What retardation effect did the remaining backing material and remaining “good” pad have?

Sod it – I call troll.

Get something like this and stick it on. http://www.halfords.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/categorydisplay_storeId_10001_catalogId_10151_categoryId_165681_langId_-1

I love this kind of thing. Well done on getting it all set up and running.

http://ridewithgps.com/routes/859557

That of any interest to you?

Well a kids bike that looked like a BMX. Group of mates messing around of an evening type of thing.

Neither of the above. Go past the entrance to pennel’s vennel, go up the fire road, go past the spooky wood climb, take the left fork at the next fire road, then take the next fire road on the left. Takes you right to the start of spooky wood – no messing about. ;)

As for your next question – I have ridden everything from full on DH bike to singlespeed cross bike down spooky wood. Had most fun doing it on a BMX.

Enjoy that. for my money it is the best hill in scotland for taking a road bike up and more importantly down. brilliant descent.

Apparently 10 speed mtb chains and 10 speed road chains are different widths or have plates which are differently profiled.. Not sure that I believe that though.

Find a KMC 10 speed road chain – that’ll work and will last longer than the bike.

Octavia Scout in your list of decent cars to buy? Given that your plan is to fire up and down the road to Glencoe and back of a weekend in winter you might find that the steel sump guard comes in handy when you’re trying to park the thing off the road.

I’d avoid the BMW even with the half price servicing and parts as with a car that age you wouldn’t really be wanting to get those done at a main dealer anyway.

Maybes aye.

I do the school run for my two oldest two days per week. Round the front of the school is absolute carnage. Round the back of the school there are single yellow lines for which the school issues permits that allow you to park there while you’re dropping kids off. Hardly anyone uses the rear of school option, so there is no problem getting a space – there is also a side gate to the school which means you are actually closer to where the kids line up. This is Tollcross in Edinburgh – so pretty close to being in the middle of a city.

Cav was taking huge turns on the front early on in the stage before the time trial. He is doing plenty there for the team.

Yunki – if you are going to go down the controlled cryin route that you describe – you need to stick to your guns. No caving in after 67 minutes. I did that with my eldest and he has no problems sharing his emotions or expressing himself – he is a bit mental though.

Good luck.

If you’re up in Edinburgh any time give me a shout and I’ll sort you out with some free treatment.

ampthill. I’ve had good improvements in range of movement in patients who’ve had frozen shoulders by doing thoracic spine mobilisations on them. Maybe suggest that to a physio if you go and see one.

Kiwifiz – fair enough I misread your reply. Can I ask what your postgrad msk qualification is and whethere or not it’s any good. I am considering going down the MACP post grad route. It’s glupton btw, not glumpton, although today I am quite glum as I’m just back from a funeral.

Regular is however often you want to do your stretches. Anyway – frozen shoulders pretty much sort themselves out given time – most of the time. Just be careful that you dont do too many adapted movements that lead to further imbalances and muscle shortening and you’ll be fine.

kiwifiz – why on earth would you need to go to a specialist shoulder clinic to see someone who had done a post registration postgraduate msk qualification? Frozen shoulders are amongst the most common conditions that physiotherapists see in any outpatient department up and down the length of the UK.

Ampthill – do your stretches, but dont take them into pain. Do them regularly. If it’s bothering you a lot – get referred to whichever medical (not physio) specialist and see what they suggest.

Anyone from the evening shift got any ideas?

wwaswas – That would leave us with LEJOG via a random route or Oban to Antalya as the two options. He didn’t really do short rides.

That’s a real shame that. Sounds like he was a very inspiring bloke.

Flap-jack – i’m contemplating doing an offroad LEJOG to raise some money for an as yet undecided upon charity in his honour.

He died today.

Wallop – she’s got a bit of local support, but as I’m sure you can appreciate she’s getting a little bit smothered by spending so much time in the company of people who she wouldnt normally chose to spend a lot of time with.

Wife is getting a wee bit claustrophobic for one reason or another down in Frenchay – any suggestions for places to go/things to do to help her get a bit of space and clear her head?