Just watced the highlights and it looks to have been a great days racing. Sagan is a monster – beats Cav and Greipel in a sprint one day then wins a stage like this.

I have the K-Edge one (think i got it for about £35 though) and is far better than the gopro – it is solid and doesn’t rattle/wobble plus you can actually tighten the thing without the danger of breaking it like is a big problem with the plastic gopro ones.

Fits good on the bars, put the camera on upside down and it sticks out a bit you dont really notice it when you are cycling

They usually publish the routes with downloadable gps files in the week before the event. I imagine it will be the same route as last year

If you are on garmin connect then do a search for rides from callander on the 31st march last year, should be something there.

It got old very quickly – never known a meme / internet viral to appear so quickly and then jump the shark so soon afterwards, seemed to take about a day between exposure and over exposure!

here is another toronto raptor one

Bibs are more comfortable – partly because they dont have a waistband and partly because the pad tends to stay in place better. They will also cover the base of your back so good for cold days too.

heard an interview with the shoe thrower – she said she just wanted him to touch something that belonged to her 😀

the sooner i cut it the sooner i’ll have to start mowing it regularly…it can wait a few weeks yet!

anyone tries to do a funny handshake with me they get an exploding fist bump next time i see them 😀

I have a mobi, got it when crc had them pretty cheap. Works pretty well and makes the constant cleaning of bikes during the winter (after every ride for me) a bit less of a chore.

It is still a chore all the same, just a bit less!

Dont think it is the clothes as i’m just using my regular summer cycling gear.

It is a specialized romin saddle, was a barelli something or other previously. There is a cut away channel on the saddle but it is on the middle rather than the nose.

I thought it might be position related but when i am going round at a moderate pace (even for an hour or so) i dont have the problem, only when pushing hard…perhaps i am further forward on the saddle when doing that though. Will need to try and tinker a bit and raise the bars see if that makes a difference.

I dont think it is dehydration as ive experienced the same problem when drinking quite a lot as well as when cutting it back.

ive entered i doubt i’ll get past the qualifiers though 😀

The riding in Renfrewshire itself isn’t good enough to travel too but as something local to ride to in the evening it is enjoyable. Although despite saying that i went months without riding most of it last year because of how wet and muddy it was.

There has recently been some hardpack trails built in windyhill woods above elderslie – not mtb specific and not technical would be great if these are eventually extended up the hill a bit so a meaningful loop can be done when the weather is shite, but i dont know if there are any plans for that.

Road riding is pretty good though – amongst the better off road parts of the sustrans cycle network plus lots of quiet lanes to explore that miss out on the busy roads.

Track slack, less friction or something like that

Thanks for the advice going to stick with 5600. Wouldnt want to spend extra money for worse shifting performance.

Why?

Crank came loose and now it wont go back on as the splines are chewed up. 🙁

you need to get a special track nut for it to fit

i think this is it http://www.evanscycles.com/products/tacx/axle-nuts-3-8-x-1-ec042693?

It is like helmet use, it is up the individual to choose what they want to do. However unlike that personal choice of wearing a helmet or not (which doesn’t bother me either way) I wouldn’t want to ride in a group with someone using headphones, i see it commuting and i’ve even seen it see it on some sportives and they are away in their own little world and are a liability to other riders.

nice video, would be great to see a series of them based on other Smiths songs.

although the crappy video tape transition effect whoever edited the video added is bloody annoying!

the minoura action rollers are supposed to be good for their price, have been thinking of getting a set myself but not got round to it yet.

If i’m trying to avoid work i have been known to string them along a bit and play the role of the idiot with these sort of calls (playing the idiot comes quite natural to me!)

Well i turned the box on, its slowly coming on. It is now asking for my password before i continue. Do i need a special password number or just put my normal one in? I can never remember it, let me go and get my bit of paper with it written on, it is in the other room please hold on.

I disappear for a while and come back and then apologise saying it took a while to find the bit of paper. They get me to enter it…ok wait a moment i am a really slow typerist….P….A….S…S…do you know where the W is i cant see it, where is it?…oh there it is….W….zero…hahahahaha maybe i should not have said that as it is my secret code a zero looks just like an O when typed noone will think of that will they, please dont tell anyone my secret code …..R…..D. Thats it now got the box on.

Then start with the small talk: did you see american pie last night? i love this movie, have you seen it before? The bit with nadia in jims bedroom i have a clip of that on my computer…..Do you want see me it? You can even see her boobs! Continue talking shite for a while, it becomes a battle of will to see if they will cave in and hang up first.

(typing this out makes me realise how pathetic i am, maybe i’ll just tell them to **** off in the future 😀 )

One of my first gigs was a hole one at the barrowlands about 1995…courtney love saw someone wearing a pearl jam tshirt and stopped playing and told him to remove it…he wouldnt so she said she would give him her panties if he gave her the tshirt. The shirt was quickly chucked up on stage and she started playing her guitar again…stopped then whipped off her knickers and chucked them in the crowd.

Never seen a moshpit fight quite like it!

The team garmin chef has some videos on youtube about easy race food – rice cakes and things like that. The most popular one amongst their riders is really easy to make as well its just a boiled potato rolled in parmesan and salt

iainc – is it the drop in tonight at 7 you are going to?

Hopefully going with the kids club in a couple of months. Looking forward to having a go but not sure I’d want to spend £70. Can you wear knee pads?

You dont need to do the full accreditation you could just do the accred 1 / introduction session for £10 and see how you like it. Once you pass that they you would book onto 2, you dont need to book the whole package up front.

When i was at school we used to chuck banana skins at a tree to see who could make them hang on the highest branch…i realise now doing that was a bit of a **** thing to do but they never lasted anything like 2 years!

One of my favourite albums of the mid 2000s…cant believe it is a decade since Give Up, makes me feel ancient 🙁

It is just for track use so no hills other than the banking so im definitely no riding god! A flip flop hub would have been ideal but they are banned i think.

Sound like a bunch of pricks, fair enough taking the piss if then helping out but not just riding by… if you know what club they are in then see if they are on strava then cheat your way to few of their KOMs to get your own back 😀

Before Sunrise

Thought it was going to be soppy romantic pish….actually it probably is but despite that it really struck a chord with me…the sequel Before Sunset is just as good, 2 of my favourite films.

Assos Mille, comfiest shorts i own – although recommending shorts is a bit like recommending saddles, what suits one person might not suit another.

I used to like dhb but the newer versions i find a bit uncomfortable when in the drops because of how thin the pad is at the front.

I remember wanting hope quick releases that would match my hubs rather than shimano ones he recommended…i go back in a couple of years later (to get some shimano quick releases!) and before i say a word he was asking me if that was me in for the shimano quick releases 😳

hope you had your strava on!

http://www.bikely.com/maps/bike-path/Jedburgh-Justice-Trail

Very dependent on the who is taking it – i’ve had one in the past that got the group to pedal backwards and do pressups on the bike and other shite like that.

depends on the ride – if for leisure / training then i’ll go out of my way to avoid traffic.

If for a commute / utility then there is not much in the way of quieter / alternative roads. However i will take a few detours to miss dodgy junctions or roads with surfaces so poor that they are a danger cycling on.

awful news, sorry for your loss

i’ve got both too, the K-Edge is less versatile however it is much better made and the camera is secure

I’ve broken a couple of the gopro bar mounts in the past so i dont have much confidence in them now. There is a thin line between tightening them up enough to stop them moving and over stressing the plastic

At first i found it a bit hard to clip the second foot in – not so much because the cleats are difficult, just i’d never riden fixed wheel before so found it a bit awkward clipping it in while the pedal was going round.

I’ve noticed that alot of people (not just beginners but experienced riders too) just clip both their feet in while at the side so they can hold onto the barrier while doing so