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i think I might be getting a bit harsh.

But someone has just spunked a lot of money away right there.

The product is crass, incoherent and will handle like a trials bike. (huge high bars + tight track frame)

No. You're pretty much right.

I'll be watching it in similar circumstances in Nottingham. But then I have Eurosport and no regular job so I can do that all day everyday anyway.

Of course there are always exceptions:

James Bubba Stewart - Motocross
Tiger Woods - Something about balls and sticks, can't remember.

I wonder if theres a white danish guy whos really good at Kabadi.

What is it with some of you posting "slack chain" in the pics? Is it a game where the first guy to notice it gets his ass kissed by all the other forum members?

I for one, am tired of the holier than thou attitude of "how dare they take a pic of their bike with chain slack" and i think its high time those that notice and post about chain tension issues be publicly ridiculed for their behavior.

Eff the bastards!

DW

+1

I've not read the thread but I imagine its in part to do with professional cycling being a predominantly white european sport (and as a result ppl of white european origin - Americans, Aussies etc...)and ultimately to do with economic possibilities for some of these ppl.

hahah yeah I missed that but my gf spotted it.

I bet the bookies are having a bit of a scamble to adjust odds now.

Thank god Evans is out of Yellow. I like the guy and hope he wins overall but it'd be so boring to see him wear Yellow all the way to Paris. He might even attack on Tuesday!! I doubt it though. He'll just win it on the final time trial imo.

awesome.

I had a mate who briefly worked for Foxtons. He got so many parking fines he was skint all the time. Apparently its normal there though.

I like that Coventry Eagle.

Yeah I think I'll give the drinks can method a go. The center punch idea is clever but will have to be a bit of a last resort. Cheers guys.

i won't have to take the galaxy to bits anymore cheers for all your advice and general helpfullness

Thank god. I hate seeing perfectly good bikes chopped up. You should ride the Galaxy too (nice bikes). Get out in the countryside or something. Might be a shit doing really long tours on a fixed (although some ppl do and seem to like it).

Its a JF Wilson btw.

I'm building it up for my GF to replace the Sid Mottram (too small) shes been riding up till now (oh and a Dawes Galaxy that shes uses sometimes - trying to slim the collection down to just one bike - also her Galaxy is worn and ugly and in dire need of a respray).

The first ring of the headset that goes on the forks (ie the bit at the bottom of the steerer) should fit tightly. What can/do I do if it doesn't fit tightly? Once its on (and its pushed down to the bottom) its still got a tiny bit of play in it. If I build the bike up like with it loose it'll rattle and annoy the hell out of me.

I really need just a very thin shim or something. I was thinking of making one out of a drinks can. Only problem is I don't know if its thick enough to get a piece of can all the way round and it may offset my steering a bit if the shim is only on one side.

Its a very old frame (well late 60s ish at a guess) so this part of the fork is probably just worn down. Can I get it redone somehow?

Any ideas?

Cheers.

I'd love to have seen a better camera angle of the crash. He must've kicked the bike up in the air as he summersaulted over the road sign. Crazy,

nimhbus, are you starting to like the cavalry now
He's backing up the billy big bollocks manner now, big time.
Only 21, four stage wins, possibly five if the champs elysses becomes a bunch sprint, what more does he need to convince you that he's the real deal.

I for one am enjoying his continued success.

I doubt he'll finish the tour.

Well, I'd expect that's where socio-economic stereotyping and role model effects kick in. The genetic advantages that may have been cooked up for Afro-Americans via selective slave breeding / surviving the conditions during mass transatlantic importation were enough to create some early successes in athletic endeavours, and this led to certain sports being viewed (by AAs and non-AAs) as one of the few jobs where they had a chance of earning some respect or reasonable reward. I don't think US culture ever had (let alone perpetuated) the stereotype of the Chinese sporting hero.

Theres an interesting article on the BBC about the Chinese lust for medals at the olympic games and how they plan to dominate certain events.

@claus & tallsam - it was a substantial exercise in genetic selection though - man-made conditions of an extreme nature being foisted upon one ethnic group. This is different to looooooooongterm genetic drift based on adaptation to the natural environment.

I'm not debating the investment of American athletic associations in talent development (they were, afterall, trying to beat the Eastern bloc at everything), but slavery 'helped' create a genetically advantaged pool of athletic candidates.

I'm not denying that. I just think there are more factors (one of which would be the sports development backing). Also the diet of many African Americans in more recent decades is poor at best. Which is of course a lot to do with their economic background.

Anyway this is really not the place to discuss this. However I've always felt that if more black people came from similar backgrounds to the upper working class and middle class white europeans (that tend to make up the majority of tdf riders) then we'd have a lot more black cyclists giving the white guys a run for their money.

go on Cav!

It could be argued that the dominance of Afro-American track athletes was due to a form of genetic modification. Due to suffering at the hands of enslavers for hundreds of years, it was only the very very strong who survived; and bred. The evolution of an entire ethnic group was tampered with by the actions of others.

Obviously a few gold medals don't really make up for the human rights travesties.

I'd say a lot of that has to do with the backing of the various American Sports development organisations. PPL of a similar build/physique in Africa will most likely be too busy feeding their families to worry about track racing, that and the sports development council in say Angola probably isn't all that amazing.

Of course the Kenyan marathon runners are a different story.

Phil Ligett on Eurosport is blaming it on the commies! [seriously]

Ligget is on Eurosport now?

lovely high res photos of the tour here:
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/07/2008_tour_de_france.html

EDIT: just noticed these were linked already.

On again, I think.
http://www.justin.tv/giac2007

thank god. Thats much better than the cycling fans website video.

Who's up for watching le tour somewhere today? Coupla pints, somewhere safe for bike lockage?

hahaha

hahaha, I hate those foxtons cars.