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I come from Groningen and was on a bit of a 'farmer' school. One guy did his 23km ride in 45 minutes on a 7 speed with aero bars. The normal speed on a dutch bike is about 20-25kph on a singlespeed when not in the city.

I lived in Groningen for a year, I love it there. Amazing city to ride in and great surrounding areas too, just missed hills when I was there!

and its gone!

sorry to all that have pm'ed someone got in there quick so if I didn't reply to you you haven't got it. If the person doesn't pick it up I'll get in touch with the next person.

Ribble 64cm Dedacciai Frame, BB and Headset (not sure if its complete)

Gear hanger was bent on a flight but its been bent back straight now, might snap off might not!

Pick up only in Clapham Junction first PM can have it

Does anyone here work for Evans?

I've got a Bianchi frame that I think might be cracked, never bought it in Evans got it in a running/tri shop that now don't sell bikes. Would I be able to take it back to Evans even though I never got it there?

I would get paid more if I worked in Aberdeen, but thats just my line of work. Most places you should expect a 4 to 6K London waiting.

Wow got mine and packed it up, its amazing! Holds loads and is more solid than my other saddlebag that only holds 2 inner tubes!
Cheers Scott

I can't recall ever seeing one of those bikes being ridden before. I guess it does make sense that they would have smaller rather larger sizes, as you say.

Still, quite a story!

I was in France last year for the tour and a saw the mavic car on display with all the bikes, they all looked like they'd been used a lot which I found quite surprising.

Also some of the team cars would have one or two bikes on it that had toeclips on. Suppose this might of been incase someone ripped a cleat out as I take it they would all use the same pedals in a team?

Although Lance will be working for Levi I can still see Lance trying to get a stage win, will need a lot of Beans tho!

Just push the star nut in further

He still has a shop in Edinburgh, has a few of his old Flying Scot Track frames that he used to race on displayed. He won't sell them though!

http://road.cc/content/news/19678-have-you-seen-andy-schlecks-specialized-tarmac-sl3?utm_medium=email&utm_source=Emailmarketingsoftware&utm_content=1105153967&utm_campaign=rcctues2010-07-06&utm_term=HaveyouseenAndySchlecksSpecializedTarmacSL3withitsunfeasiblelargejockeywheelsWehaveokayitwasprobablymissingforallof30seconds

I imagine a lot of riders will change their bike before the cobbled sections start.

They're not allowed to do roadside changes, they have to get a bike from the team car which would make it a bit slow.

They don't want Cancellara picking up his 'special' bike and freewheeling to victory then stashing it in the bushes just before the end!

Me too

What don't I ride?!

I have a Brompton, my cyclocross bike is a Salsa La Cruz, my road bike is a carbon Felt, my track bike is by a bike shop from NYC that sponsors me called Continuum, I have a 1970's Bianchi touring bike, my day to day commuter is a Surly Steamroller with a coaster brake and sit up and beg bars, and I've just been given a steel Kona Explosif MTB.

I ride everything, all the time.

I'm not any good at any of it.

One of my biggest regrets in life was selling my steel Explosif, is it a purple one?

Are you calling me a scouser?!

I beat Boardman once*.

*in a pub quiz

Actually you've beaten him twice then, Etape last year!

There building a new one for the messenger worlds in Guatamala

As an inexperienced track rider and racer if I was making any stupid mistakes I would hope someone would tell me. Theres a lot going on on the track and its way easier to rectify what your doing wrong when you know about it!

Sorry to hear about all the crashes, hope everyones healing well.

Hopefully be back on the track next week, was wanting to go this week but rather annoyingly snapped my seat bolt.

Dave Yates will be able to replace the top half of the steerer without messing up the paint

If your going to have a problem it will be with the chain, a 10 speed chain might not work on an older chainset without getting new rings as the chain is thinner I think. Best check up on this though.

Perhaps he's got a trials body double? :)

Or a roadie double? maybe he doesn't like how he looks in lycra!

Seen him doing a backflip at Fort William before, he broke his back or neck learning them into a foam pit which seems a bit unlucky!

Eh? You do know the rider is/was one of the best trials riders in the world, right?

When I looked at the first time I didn't think it was Martin Ashton either and I know who he is. It must be though as doing something like that would be pretty easy for him, reckon his hair is dyed or something.

I take it his own bike brand has been taken over by Raleigh now?

I was working on this putting the hand drawn design into a CAD model a while ago:

http://www.carryfreedom.com/bamboo.html

Although I sent him some of the CAD files and he never got back to me so I stopped doing it. Not sure where it is now but if you get in touch with him I'm sure he would sell you a copy for a few quid or give it away free. I think I've lost my copy but I'll have a look. This design could be made around the size of a massage table easily as its very versatile. Its reasonably easy to make and will be light as well. It would probably have to be looked after well though as any homemade ish design will be hard to make straight and get tracking bang on which will make more problems the longer its used.

If I was doing this for myself I would start with this and build a frame on top to hold the table

http://www.carryfreedom.com/Y-Frame.html

Condor has some TT helmets not sure if they have the Giro one though. Would never go back to a Tri and Run shop they are very uninspiring.

theres a shop on north cote road in clapham that only sells honey, they have local honey and even some special anti hayfever honey, costs £20 though!

Last year I was crippled by hayfever and was suffering asthma attacks because of it, beconase was brilliant and pretty much stopped it. Been fine this year with only a bit of sneezing and mild itchy eyes.

I also find wearing contact lenses helps with the itchy eyes.