Team Sky reveal new kit for 2013

If you’re used to disks or Vs then cantis will always feel a bit weak – try riding a road bike with side pulls for a while, after which cantis will feel amazingly powerful :D

I use CR720s with Ultegra levers and can lock the rear wheel

3 things to try :
If you’re using standard pads, change them to something like koolstop salmons.
Check the pads are correctly aligned so that the whole of the pad surface is hitting the rim (in both planes), and slightly toed-in.
Experiment with the length of the straddle wire – I have mine so that the cantis are just about horizontal when the levers are off (i.e. straight line from centre of pad to centre of straddle wire clamp)

Wipe baby’s bottom with cat. Two birds, one stone.

If you’re looking for someone to donate some wildfowl, don’t try Mark Green Disco, apparently he doesn’t give a duck.

I’m on my new iPhone 5

Just gets better :D
(posted from my Cray super-computer)

Albert looked absolutely knackered on the last lap.

Is the dog OK?

AA patrolmen on motorcycle and sidecar, who saluted.
Asking at the garage for ‘5 gallons and a shot of Redex please’.
Bubble cars.

Never found anything worth riding there, and never seen anyone on a bike or even any tyre tracks.
The Brunant Arms is a nice pub, but that’s about it.

Paul Milnes does junior CX chainsets, 165mm 46/34

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/junior-165-mm-34-46-road-cyclo-cross-crank-chain-set-short-small-/130603026166?pt=UK_sportsleisure_cycling_bikeparts_SR&hash=item1e688c06f6

I go for koolstop dual compund

Ditto

Just watching the reports on CNN, Bloomberg, etc. Lots of OB units standing around in NY doing to camera pieces in full foul weather gear with absolutley nothing happening. The Bloomberg piece being slightly spoilt by the backdrop of flat calm water with a guy going past on a jet ski. Might snow a bit in Virginia apparently.

excellent refund service

Ah, that’s good to know. Sizing is always a problem with bike clothing. I bought some Mavic gloves from CRC; starting of with small, since I have the hands of a teenage girl (don’t tell the cops), and gradually worked my way up to large, which finally fitted. God knows what someone with large hands would have done.

Good find CG. Some genuine bargains there, well hidden under a pile of rubbish only available in sizes XS and XXL. Quite tempted by the SealSkinz Leather Road Cycle Gloves, which look gorgeous.

Got Mrs Rusty’s Xmas present sorted as well –
Accessories » Miscellaneous » Fitness Aids / Stress Relief » Tiger Tail 18″ Self Massage Tool

Just been talking to some colleagues in South Carolina who were all very amused.
“Them yankees worried their money’s gonna get wet” was about the only comment clean enough to repeat.

Those lads in that piccy MrSmith posted look way cool man

They look as though they’ve had specs and tache drawn on them by a child with a felt-tip pen :D

I actually have a vet in the house as we speak. She says take it to a vet who can prod and poke the lump in question and give a diagnosis. (And adds “it’s probably a cyst of some sort”)

The Road Not Taken – Robert Frost

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim
Because it was grassy and wanted wear,
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I marked the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

Ours is a Pinocchio connected to his origins, happy, athletic and attentive.
He is looking at the horizon, expressing an optimistic attitude versus the future. The expression of his face is smiling, happy, positive and at the same time astonished.

Not as astonished as I was to find out that this actually for real.

There was a woman on the radio last week who made what I thought was an excellent point – “If you don’t believe in same sex marriage” she said “don’t marry someone of the same sex”.

Does he get knocked off by a water buffalo?

My iPhone has my current location as just outside Droitwich Spa. Funny how many people in this part of Worcestershire speak Welsh.

They either need to get rid of Yates or if he really didn’t dope they need to find some way of corroberating his story.

Therein lies the problem – how can anyone prove they didn’t dope? If Sky were to fire Yates on the basis of guilt by association I imagine his lawyers would have a field day.
Is every ex-pro who raced in the ’90s now tainted?

Try the Gilfach Wen bunkhouse http://www.brechfa-bunkhouse.com/%5B/url%5D ?
Not near a pub (or anything else for that matter) but might be better than nothing.
The Cothi View cottage owned by the Black Lion in Abergorlech is very nice, but a bit pricey.

http://www.glasfrynguesthousebrechfa.co.uk/%5B/url%5D in Brechfa village, has it’s own bar. Cheap and cheerful.

http://www.tyrcae.co.uk/%5B/url%5D
Near the start of the Derwen and Raven trails, nearest pub is Black Lion in Abergorlech (about 3 miles away).

So if you turn off the wi-fi, that will just leave the ‘radiation’ coming from all the mobile phone networks and TV and radio stations. A drop in the ocean by comparison ?

See Anyone climbed kilimanjaro?
Yes, the Crane brothers did it in the 80’s (?), basically an extended advert for Saracen mountain bikes :D

Depends which model I think.
The 4s have moulded pads that don’t take inserts. The ultimates take road pads which Kool Stop do and I think the 6s take standard v brake cartridge inserts.
You could always just buy whole new Koot Stop pads which take their replaceable inserts. They’re not much more expensive than the inserts alone.

Tektro 720s are pretty good at around £35 to £40 a set (2 pairs) and have adjuster screws.
The pads they come with are pretty rubbish though (same with most cantis I think), I changed them to Kool Stop dual compound inserts for another £18 which improved the performance a lot.

To quote Johnathon Davies “If he can’t take a little slap, he should be playing badminton”.

It’s not the brakes that are the problem, it’s the pads. Some carbon specific pads would probably make a noticeable improvement. E.g. SwissStop RxPlus Yellow King

My X9 long cage measures (roughly) 13.5 from top of upper jockey wheel to bottom of lower, so I’m guessing yours will be a medium.

Latest odds:
Alberto Contador 15/8
Chris Froome 4/1
Bradley Wiggins 6/1
Andy Schleck 11/1
Cadel Evans 33/1

The penultimate stage is believed to be an uphill time trial to Semnoz.
Sounds like the Tour’s a Wiggo killer then.

One thing that hasn’t been developed is an accurate way to simulate a motorbike noise on a pushbike.

Turbospoke the Bicycle Exhaust System

I’ve got some bits of steel conduit in the shed, might get the welder out this weekend

No need, you can buy the frames ready built

Cav will be happy – he can put his beloved rainbow jersey back on.

And if he’s played by Rhys Ifans – Ifans’s portrayal of Wiggins’s life; production halts due to apostrophe uncertainties.

http://www.bikehike.co.uk
OS mapping, create routes, download and upload gpx files

Thanks for the offer Junkyard, I may take you up on that.
Although it seems that rig tubing, as used for sea fishing tackle would do the job (and is available in sexy colours as well), e.g. http://www.uk-hooks.com/details.php?selected=705
A quick trip to the nearest fishing tackle shop is coming up.