Bury, best market in the world. FACT!

Matt

Saccades – Member
I disagree…

We use gina ford as a general (I agree that’s she can be too anal at times) guide – as a result we have our evenings to do what we want and when we are travelling we know when to stop to feed the kids etc.

It’s been completely alien to all the family that we are waking the nippers when they are asleep etc but both have slept through from about 8 weeks (the little fella is a lighish sleeper, the girl sleeps like the dead).

Kids cry when they are hungry, tired or have filled the nappy – unless they are ill obviously. If they never get tired or hungry you always know to change the nappy. You have to be a bit organised but it works so well in my opinion.

+1 for Gina Ford

My daughter has been so much happier since we gave her a strict routine. The parentals were a bit freaked that we woke her up to feed at times, but they tend to come round when they see that she spends the majority of her waking time with a smile on her face.

We can take her away without any problems, as Sacchades has said just takes a little planning, with setting off etc.

Matt

coffeeking – Member

50 p a mile is the total cost roughly as worked out by the RAC – buying from new and doing 10 000 miles a year.

You’d have to either have more money than sense or be a **** moron to buy from new, or even nearly new, IMO. 13p/mile is my current diesel costs, fixed costs (MOT, tax, insurance, oil changes, basic repairs etc) come to 6-7p/mile and these generally reduce with increased milage obviously. Depreciation is practically zero, as it’s way past the curve and onto the plateau

Your model just ignores the most significant costs of driving. If those costs were not incurred by someone you would not be able to do what you currently do, used cars do not just appear from out of the ether.

It means the precision of the results is poor at the concentration you are trying to quantify.

How significant that lack of precision is, is dependant on the use to which you intend to put the data.

Presence/absence it’s probably OK. Anything with a quantitative aspect I think you might need another method.

[Edit] Your analysts need a slightly more prescriptive SOP next time!

Matt

I’m amazed they can just rip DNA off some random kid, on the off chance!

Matt

I beleive Cadel is clean.

I’m not convinced that Cadel was better recovered for the TT than the Schlecks, just that he held it together better upstairs. Andy was absolutely bricking it when he went onto the ramp, Cadel had that far away/focus kind of look.

The year Sastre won it was the other way round, Cadel should have slaughtered him in the TT, but looked and rode like a bag of nerves.

The Schlecks can put in a TT which could have left it close on GC, but they do it so rarely, probably one in 5 or 10.

Loving those pictures of the MTB World Cup, he looks about 12!

Matt

heywayne – Member

GlitterGary – Member
But McDonalds do salads and fruit bags these days!

Ever noticed how the apple slices never go brown…

Perhaps they’ve added a small amount of lemon juice, works for me and good for avocados as well.

Matt

Thanks guys. I’ll start looking.

[Edit] Yes it’s five nuts, I’m guessing the PCD is a similar measurement to chain ring bolts.

Matt

Superb ride, took his chance with both hands.

Voeckler for the podium?

Can’t get a time check

brakeswithface – Member
I’ve never understood all the Cadel love either. If AS wins, the tour would have been won on the Galibier and be legendary. If CE wins it’ll have been all on the ITT and we’ll have forgotten by next year.

I’m not going to forget the ride Evans did on the Galibier.

It’s a fine tradition to win tours on time trials, just ask Miguel Indurain

Now we know why Cadel didn’t feel the need to ride up Alpe d’Huez.

Cadel leads!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Stuey01 – Member
Bloody adverts!

Not on Eurosport, 1 second!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Cadel’s sticking it to him, doesn’t look like it will be worth squabbling over tomorrow unless AS finds another gear in the second half.

Lovin the wumph wumph noises as the microhones pick up the sound off the rear disk wheels.

CaptJon – Member
Can you get one of those Trek’s through the cycle to work scheme?

If you run it ten years on the bounce :lol:

Tommy V and Rolland holding up well, could be a good day for the French.

Cadel second fastest at the first check 20:33

Approx 6 minutes until AS comes through.

[Edit] the DS in the car behind will be shouting the times to the riders.

If it’s single digit seconds I reckon they’ll fight it out.

I’m sure Lance and Kaiser Jan sprinted it out one year, although there were time bonuses across the line in those days.

Matt

And they’re off, Cadel looking pretty smooth to me. Fingers crossed.

Matt

Handful of seconds outside his Dauphine time after a 3 week tour, no wonder he looks so happy.

That’s the stage winner done, now to the GC contenders.

Matt

Head to your local, recommended, physio for an exam. I had similar symptoms to yours, even down to the biking and stairs. I found the very worst thing though was going up small steps, widely spaced on an upward incline.

The physio has given some specific stretches and exercises to do and the pain is now gone completely. A couple more weeks and I’m due to start back with some gentle running.

Matt

[Edit] My pain was right at the back of my knee-cap.

Jeremy Roy for the win, or at least be in the breakaway!

Cancellara will keep his powder dry, unless the schlecks need him, for the TT tomorrow. Expect him and Tony Martin huddled in the autobus.

CaptainFlashheart – Member
Bertie will go for the stage today. Shreks will have to chase him down, Evans will sit on their wheels all day. And Tommy V will wheelsuck the Whining Wheelsucker all day long.

Tommy V to stay in yellow again….!

We can but dream

Where’s the yawning smiley, trotting out the same old tedious bilge, irrespective of the riders actual performance in the race and without the slightest inkling of what he has to do to acheive what he does!

Matt

Munqe-chick – Member
It is nothing to do with dodgy descents Schleck is miffed he got beaten fair and square. One crash for Beloki doesn’t necessarily mean whole descent is dangerous. Are you going to scrap others where there were nasty crashes. that is twaddle sorry Schleck is a bad loser and mad himself look like a complete jessy today.

^^^^^

The Beloki crash happened in blistering sun when the tarmac melted and pulled the tyre off the rim. Hardly comparable to the conditions we saw yesterday.

It’s not as if there were multiple incidents or close calls either and alot of riders were absolutely bombing down it.

I have seen Andy Schleck led down numerous mountains by Fabian Cancellara, because he can’t descend. If he could he would have caught Contador (who’s no stone himself) after chaingate last year. It probably confirms what Thor Hushovd has always said, ‘the sprinters are the best descenders’.

Percussive maintenance, it’s what we use in our house.

Matt

aracer – Member

How can a team of 9 support a green jersey campaign AND the GC? Is that really possible?

I presume most on here haven’t been following the TdF all that long, but 96/97 is hardly ancient history.

The thing is, an overall contender doesn’t need 9 riders working for him on a flat day and a sprinter doesn’t need the train working for him in the mountains. A good leadout train can do useful work in the early stages of the hills, whilst climbers can help pull the pack earlier in flat stages.

It seems like a huge amount of energy being used though. I’m just not sure that a single team could control the peleton on flat days and then blow it to pieces in the mountains. HTC often have the entire team at the front, which is not going to happen if you have a genuine GC contender, rather than Tony Martin.

None of the GC riders have green jersey contenders in their team and vice versa. Even since 96/97 it might now be too much, especially as the peleton is generally riding cleaner.

None, I don’t imagine anyone outside of cycling regards it as a team sport :roll:

Matt

I think you have to have a sprinter that’s pretty self-sufficient, think Zabel or Robbie Mackewen (sp).

These type of riders seem to have been less successful in recent times though, but when it’s a sprinters stage there’s generally a few teams who will pull back the breakaway for you.

Edit: The other problem is that even with an immensely strong team, you can’t ride at the front every stage. Tommy V was making his guys back off yesterday, letting them know it wasn’t their stage.

To be fair, or not, Brailsfords selections and policies have not always been universally popular on the track and on the road either, but he talks about being judged on results. I’m not sure his selections are always to do with the best result right now, but what he beleives will benefit in the longer term.

I think team Sky is slightly different in that he has to deliver now and plan for the future.

I agree with those saying that if Cav goes to Sky there will be too many split loyalties, I can’t see Sky team time-trialling him over the mountains the way HTC have done. Not with the stated aim of a Yellow Jersey in the next 5 years.

Matt

MartinGT – Member
Brailsford is just a pupper for BC and his is w@nk at that too.

Go on then I’ll bite. Why don’t you compare the performance of BC before Dave Brailsford and now. When you can show how c**p BC are as a result of his ham-fisted leadership, please post it up.

Matt

Wow 8O

As above, that goes back. I’ve never seen that many spokes snap in the straight length before.

Matt

whatnobeer – Member
Yup, Cav got it – pretty close though I think.

You do wonder why the Schlek waited until the last dew hundered meters before attack. They need to mtfu and sort their tactics out. Dropping one if it means the other can get big time gains. 2 seconds gained today – pointless. Not to say I didnt enjoy the stage though.

I agree, it was a great stage to watch, always something happening. Alot of the things were quite dumb though. The breakaway group, broke up and came together, then attacked again so many times they must have been shattered by the time they got to the final climb!

Matt

I think the Schlecks are going to lose this as Contador gets back into form for the alps.

They don’t seem to want to take the risk of blowing each other out, or blowing up big style. I do think a big risk is going to be the only way to beat Contador.

Evans I can understand with the more cautious approach as he will be close to Contador or even beat him in the TT.

Did the bus get in within the cut-off?

matt

[edit] Eurosport have talked up Vanendert quite a bit this week [\edit]

I’ve used Royal Mail for a frame and boxed bike. No issues when it got to the other end.

Matt

I’ve got the larger Asgard Steel shed (for want of a better word). Had it two years, very secure and looks good.

They are very well built, mine is built on a huge concrete base with a Tork (sp) ground anchor.

We have a smaller one at worker for storing grain, again very good quality.

Matt

yossarian – Member
The peleton seems to be in transition at the minute. Whether its a post Armstrong thing or a Contador related issue, or something else, there seems to be a certain amount of distrust. It’s a bit more cut-throat, and dare I say it, a bit more exciting as a result.

My vote would be for Spartacus, but he’s not a GC contender so perhaps doesn’t have the leverage. Evans? Well I think he needs to win something first…

What, world championship maybe? Cadel’s palmares are up there with the top 1-2% of the peleton.

Matt

I’d like to see a couple of teams try and work Contador over on this stage. I’m not convinced about the strength of his team this year.

Matt