I wouldn't have thought it would be enough although I generally use mine fitted to my bars on my roadrat with the odd bit of rough thrown in here and there. The beam is a bit narrow to use for hard core MTBing IMO

They do sponsor teams, but I don't think they have the cash to support a full team at pro-tour level.
BMC is pro continental next year with Cadel Evans and George Hincapie, there is the new Raleigh team and others that I can't think of at the moment apart from Cervelo of course. I think Cervelo worked out that supplying CSC/Saxo bank was going to cost them something like €2 500 000 which prompted them to set up their own team so just supplying the bikes is cost enough.

A set of stacking cups, It's kept our two amuzed longer than any other single toy.

" the controlls are on the other side"

Not official yet is it?

I don't think LA designed it, but I expect he has some veto over which design was chosen in the end.
I don't mind them getting exposure, I just like nice looking bikes. It seems that the era of simple bike graphics may be coming to an end again.

Mine rub on they tyres and it's very annoying so I took them off.

Tarw??

Is that Welsh or just a made up word?

I'm running racing ralphs at the moment and they are useless in the mud. I can't get the Kenda navegals that I have onto the ZTR rims and I don't have the cash or inclination to blow £70 to £80 on a new set of tyres at the moment.
I am only using it for racing anyway at the moment so I suppose it will do, I just have to run up the steep bits 🙂

I think it is actually being considered. I am sure I read about is somewere…

I think the 25% income tax rule was invented to attract foreign footballers!

Turns out I was exagerating a bit

The population of Denmark is about 5.5 million. There are about 2.75 million workers. 35% of the workforce are public employees so that means that 1.75 million people are earning the money to keep the remaining 3.75 million fed, entertained healthy and educated. No wonder we have high taxes 🙂

I was using the commonly banded about numbers above so I jsut checked them to get these numbers. They come from an official paper here

http://www.netpublikationer.dk/um/8585/html/entire_publication.htm

I agree about the value for your tax money. Some of it is good BUT
We have the most expensive education system in the world, but I think it ranks 17th best on quality and the health care is also very expensive, but we are finding out the hard way that the quality of the care is actually not very good. We have had to travel to the UK for some treatment for my son because it was messed up here.

Stuff like trains they can get right, but we suffer from being such a small country when it comes to complexities like medicine. There are, after all, only about 1 million of us paying for the other 4.5 million people…

The tax dodging is used to explain why there is a Bang and Olufsen shop in every town with more than a few hundred people in it. The builders etc like to pay cash. I still can't understand why or how people buy those things!

Beer: 30 bottles for ~£12 at the supermarket or ~£5 per pint – the choice is yours.

I have no problem with inviting people into my home, but somehow you need to get to know people somewhat before that first invite.

Perhaps the problem is made worse by the fact that I am a miserable, antisocial swine with no social skills and refuse to make sufficient effort to learn their language.

Could be.

Oddly though, now we have the opportunity to move somewhere else, I am starting to see the nice things about being here – the bike club, nice working environment, 6 weeks holiday per year and leaving work at 4…

As a butchers dog 😯

OMG that's where I've been going wrong all this time 🙂

Danes tend to socialise at home as there is not much of a pub culture here and I suspect it is partly the result of me being over 30 with kids. However, the affect is that you can get to know people to some degree, through the good social type work events and things that they like to have here (organised fun is a huge industry) but to get to be real friends you need to be invited into their homes. This is a bigger step than agreeing to meet at the pub or whatever.

BTW, I met Mrs OJ whilst we were both living in France. She is more negative about Denmark than I am in many instances…

It's not a bad place to live at all, safe and secure, just a little dull

Quick review of taxes

IF I need a plumber to fit a tap

I earn £200 so that I have £95 to spend
I pay him £40 for the tap (25% is VAT)and £55 for an hours work
He pays 55% income tax so is left with ~£30
Final score assuming 100% mark up on the tap:
Tax man:£145
Plumber:£50
me: a new tap

BTW new bottom of the range Ford Focus ~£25,000 🙂

I am married to a Danish bird and have been living here for 5 years. If you can get a decent expat package then you'll be laughing and if you have some really specialised skills there are in fact tax breaks available for the first 3 years you are here, but it is mostly for accademics and pro sports people.
+ves:
good public transport
cheap child care
free higher education (including living allowance)
good cycle paths and cycling culture (especially for roadies)
fit women (I've got one :wink:)
-ves:
Flat
long dark, cold, dark, damp, dark, grey and miserable winter
windy all the time
rediculous taxes (you can't comprehend this to it's full extent unless you've lived here and somewhere else to compare it with)
cars are approx 2-3 times the price of the UK
You can't make real friends, just superficial ones (it take a couple of years to realise this)

Get a copy of the new Chris Charmichael training book called the time crunched training plan. It would be ideal for you and I think it is pretty good stuff. I am following it at the moment

" we all ride bikes and fundamentally bike wear looks a bit cockish to the untrained eye. "

Totally true – baggies or lycra, we all look daft to the rest of the human race, just slightly different sorts of daft

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If you can possibly afford it then I suggest going to see a qualified therapist. I had similar problems to the ones described here a couple of years ago and it still comes back every once in a while. My wife made me go and see someone about it, I went about 6 or 7 times and it cost me about £50 per visit for 1½ hours each time and it helped enormously.
If you can't manage that, then find someone to talk to about it all totally seperate from your normal situation, not in the pub or at home, but go out walk, bike, sit in a cafe or whatever and open up a bit. The problems are probably nothing too great to overcome when you look at them rationally, but sometimes you need to state all the problems to someone to realise that they aren't that great.
Exercise is good, drugs probably work, but they are treating the symptoms, you need to work on the cuase.
Good luck with it 🙂

I've never seen a pair of baggies in Denmark. i have a feeling that the baggies are a bit of a British thing. If you want something that you feel comfortable strolling around town in, then it's a different matter, but I think on the continent, most people are pretty used to cyclist wearing lycra and it doesn't raise many eyebrows

I don't care what you want to wear, but I think lycra is by far the best material for cycling clothes.

RAAM
End to End
Trans alp (on or off road)

I've been racing the slush cup in Denmark and have done several other events over here and never heard about that rule.

I can't really imagine it being enforced, I guess it was just to keep CX bikes out.

Amazingly I saw a guy riding with long pointy tri bars for a mtb time trial recently which was insane becuase there were riders everywhere.

If he has the 1st generation shuffle then I would suggest buying him a nano instead of the speakers 🙂

The centre lock disc must be a little bit heavier though…

I race my 29er and I am never going back to a 26" wheeled bike. I am in Denmark but I have raced in the UK and there isn't much difference. I thinkthey roll better over ruts and rough stuff so I think you gain a bit there, but it may not be as quick through really really tight single track.
I am 6'3" and I have never felt so well ballanced on a mountain bike as on my 29er and now that I have some good wheels, I think I have found the ideal platform for me in a 29er hardtail.

I've noticed a patern emerging here.
It seems that the general opinion is that you should pay up and do it quickly with an apology, a smile and a bunch of flowers for the inconvenience.

Teachers are important and I think there are some of those on here.

Anyone emplyed by the catholic church should be somewhere near the bottom of the list.

I'm not even important in my own home, let alone in the outside world 😆

MOOTS

That's what I'd have 🙂

I'm a recovering triathlete 🙂 I did 3 or 4 years competing, couple of halfs and a full ironman and then had kids so the time to train dissapeared. Now I am just cycling and TBH happy with that although I miss Manchester Tri club.

I quite like slowtwitch.com but it is more or less totally American which can get a bit annoying at times. I haven't bothered with any other forums, if you want quality chat and boll0cks, then it's here, if you want techy tri-geek, then you'll get it there.

I have a 305 and as far as I know you can't load maps. It is a fancy bike computer that allows you to download your training route to google earth etc. It's interesting a couple of times and then the novelty of seeing where you just rode wears off pretty quickly especially if you tend to take the same routes a lot.
The best thing is being able to swap from bike to bike withough changing anything at all.

😯

Very very envious

Thankfully you chose the single speed so I don't have to come round your house and take it 😉

Sounds cool in every way 🙂

MTT I pay 330 Danish Kroner which is about £35 in real money. I resent it every time, but there don't seem to be many alternatives. He does a good job and anywhere esle will charge about the same unless I go and get a Lionel Blair cut at one of the cheap places in Copenhagen.

What will happen if you ignore it all?
IME nobody ever follows up on these things from France, Italy, Switzerland or Spain…

3 months?!
I spend more than I care to admit and have to get it done every 5 weeks as a general rule.

Gutted that i was beaten to the "I've only got an 8" tool" quote.