Another rear-right here too. Have run my brakes this way round since early roadie days – cabling with continental brakes and frames is neater, plus Merckx had his brakes that way round, so it must be right :-)
Never had any trouble riding bikes with brakes the other way round either.

A once successful group who split acrimoniously followed by endless legal actions over the rights to the name. And then there’s UB40 …

Yes, Americans really do say ‘heck’ and ‘darn’ and call people ‘sir’ at lot. Can be quite unnerving.
Just ask to borrow a rubber and tell them you’re going out for a fag :-)

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Classy. That can go next to my Princess Di memorial plate.

Is there any evidence of this Blagtagging actually working in procuring free stuff?

@bankofengland @royalmint @hattongarden @fortknox.
Waits expectantly …

You roadies are all weird

Have you ever met a tricyclist? Be prepared to redefine the word weird.

Did they build a fake slum in the middle of the course?

Yes. Then they set fire to it for added realism.

The Spaniard

Lovely shot of him ‘suggesting’ to Marmotte that he take a turn on the front. No subtle flick of the elbow there :-)

What a great race. Really enjoyed that, and pleased to see the comedy Spaniard get bronze, he looked well chuffed.

Yes

Thick? Or too busy to read?

Sorry. Both.

I started ‘proper’ cycling aged 13. Despite not actually having a bike.

The secretary of the local club brought his wife’s bike round to my house, took me out for a 60 mile club run and deposited me a dribbling wreck back home. I was back the next week and was taught the art of bike riding. If you did anything wrong you were told immediately in no uncertain terms.

Years later, I was a member of an ‘elite’ road club, strictly invitation only. If you turned up and wanted to join the chain gang, you would have been very disappointed.

The common thread between the two was an expectation as to how people would ride, safely, and with good manners.
It’s not golf, riding with other people on the road means putting your safety in their hands.

Try turning up to the local climbing club and say “I’ll have a crack, go on I’ll belay you’ and see how much they trust you.

that brilliant loonbag unicyclist that was at Aber uni some years ago!

Ah, that rings a bell. I think I may have met him doing the Brechfa black one time. He had a brake lever under his saddle that he claimed would slow him down. Physics said otherwise.

Corner? Triathletes can barely cope with a straight line!

You can laugh, but I was a marshal on the first London triathlon. On the first corner of the bike leg. After the first few crashes we removed the barriers so they could continue their progress downhill unimpeded.

I’m trying to put my working class roots behind me and become middle class.

We don’t keep coal in the bath anymore. We now keep it in the jacuzzi.
The whippet sleeps in a dog bed made by Vivienne Westwood.
We’re having tripe for tea, but it comes from a small family farm in Tuscanny.
We were going to call our daughter ‘Chardonnay’ but we decided that ‘Pouilly-Fuisse’ sounded classier.
My flat cap is made by a little man in Jermyn Street.

Did I mention that when I collected my mother from the hospital after her hip operation I came 1st in the race across the car park ? By over 30 seconds! I’m getting a tattoo next week.

Yes, but is it PROPERLY aero?

FFS? A unicyling triathlete? What happens when he gets to a corner?
Edit: Please tell me that’s a photoshop job.

It’s a low profile unicycle. I had it specially made.

You’re either a genius, or totally insane. Ok, forget the genius bit.
My son had had a GT Aggressor 2.0 like that, I just hope it came to a more dignified end than that.
Great engineering, but, er, why? And how does it ride?

Proper Olympian spirit from Dan Craven there “TT? yeah I’ll give it a go mate”

I work outdoors on Gower. Its usually the best month of summer.

Yeah, with a compulsory stop at the top of each hill to catch your breath wait for your mates, and a cafe stop half way round. We want a sport that represents what we really do.

Olympic pootling about, it would be great.
They could spend half an hour at the start waiting for Spain until Germany suddenly remembers that he saw him in the pub on Thursday and he said he wouldn’t be coming because he’s got to visit his mum. Then Italy would discover that he’s forgotten his helmet but USA says it’s OK he’s got a spare one but by the time he’s got it from the car France has got his shock pump out and is fiddling with his forks, at which point Australia says sod it and goes off on his own, then everybody else decides to just go straight down the pub because it looks like it’s going to rain.

It’s what I run on my CX bike – Ultegra 6800 levers, XT 10 speed cassette, XT 9 speed rear mech.
There have been some threads about it here in the past if you can track them down with the search function.

Pull ratio on STI levers is different to MTB levers.
I know it’s not logical but it does work, and a 10 speed rear mech won’t.

10 speed STI levers
10 speed MTB cassette
9 speed MTB rear mech

Astana bickering already!

Discussing WTF they’re doing chasing down a break that has their own man in it. While Froome sits on their wheels quietly giggling to himself.

Motor pacing (‘stayer’) bikes used to have a 24″ wheel and reversed front forks to get the rider closer to the back of the motor bike. They could go round a track at 50 mph, so not completely unstable.

the pub down the road has just reopened

And offers accommodation as well http://www.forestarms.com/accommodation-in-brechfa.html

There’s a political science argument against referendums that I sort of agree with

Or as expressed by Noel Gallagher

It’s like, okay, why don’t you *ing do what we pay you to do which is run the *ing country and make your *ing mind up?
What are you asking the people for? 99 per cent of the people are thick as pig shit.

http://www.nme.com/news/noel-gallagher/94417

My son just texted me to remind me that it’s the Remain vote today and the Leave vote tomorrow. What a good lad, preventing me from making an awful mistake :-)

NCIS. Great fun spotting David McCallum sneaking The Man From UNCLE references into the script.

The In campaign have gone for substance, lots of very sober facts and figures carefully explaining the issues at hand and solid reasoning for their point of view.

Yep.

That would probably keep the National Edible Oil Distributors Association happy. But which goes in the fryer first? Fishy doughnuts or sugary fish?

Bollocks to that! It’s national Fish and Chip day today

The second annual National Fish and Chip Day is promoted by the National Edible Oil Distributors Association and sponsored by Seafish. The dish has been eaten in the U.K. for over 150 years.

i sort of agree rusty, gnarmac being the one
its a real niche which doesnt have a tag line

adverture bike, yuk, gravel bike, same, cx, not really, tourer, not quite,I’m not totally convinced it’s a real niche, feels more like the equivalent of ‘soft-roaders’ in the car world – looks the part but never gets used for anything other than the occasional bridleway or fireroad. Gravel bike has some meaning in the US, where there are lots of genuine gravel roads (and races on them), but most usage in UK seems to be covered by what people have been doing for many, many years on tourers (c.f. the Rough Stuff Foundation).

But I suspect this needs a thread of it’s own rather than derail this one.

The whole ‘CX’ thing gets me annoyed*, as in “I want a CX bike for commuting”. If you’re going to be running round a muddy field for an hour with a bike on your shoulder you want a cross bike. For everything else you want what used to be known as “a bicycle”.

*I’ve got one, it’s got cantis and knobbly tyres and ‘Cross’ written on the top tube :-)

Why not consider Britain? (Without the skiing bit) Mudtrek[/url] seem pretty successful in the mountain bike chalet type holiday thing, and an mountain bike guiding qualification (e.g. MBLA2 + REC2) is reasonably easy to get.

you might enjoy the lifestyle and think it’s worth it.

In summer you’ll be able spend 18 hours a day cooking, cleaning, doing paperwork and handling complaints while everybody goes mountain biking and in the winter you’ll be able spend 18 hours a day cooking, cleaning, doing paperwork and handling complaints while everybody goes skiing. Live the dream!

As ridden by Johan Museeuw in the 1994 Paris Roubaix. Chain stay broke 24Km from the finish and cost him possible victory.