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Classic!

Just wondering is it against the law to ride listening to an iPod? Don't want to get into a discussion if its ok to!

Definately take a mini pump, I expoded a CO2 inflator at the weekend borrowed someone elses to fill my tube then 'fixed' it in the evening. Punctured the next day and inflator never worked so had to resort to a pump, would of been crewed if I never had it!

Sorry to hear about this hope everyones ok and heals quickly.

Stelle take your OK arm out first then get someone pull the top over your head trying to not move your upper arm. Then gently take it over your arm. I dislocated my collarbone and broke my arm at the same time and thats what I had to do. Maybe leave it as long as you can as the pain will reduce alot in the next few days and it'll be easier to get off, or drink half a bottle of vodka first.

I'll be happy to help with some sweeping, no broom but sure I can pick one up somewhere.

We lost the key to our rental van on the Saturday but very luckily someone handed it back in, it fell out my mates saddle bag which was open. The rental people couldn't get another key to us till Wednesday so it could of been a disaster. Then we crashed it in a petrol station on the way back!

You can do a course in bike fitting with Serotta, a SICI or something, not a degree. I'm not sure BW have this but from hearing about them it seems they have years of knowledge, experience and understanding of bike fitting which in my opinion you can't get in a 2 week course anyway.

Maybe bike fitting should be part of a bike purchase but its not and there isn't enough bike fitters in London to have one in every shop either so this is your only option if you deem it nessesary to get a proper fit done. Having had to go to a physio at a young age from screwed knees from using badly set up SPD's I would say £45 is nothing. I got it on NHS so it cost me nothing but having to stop riding for a year you can't put a price on.

Have any cyclists been to jail for PED's before?

I'd never thought about this before really as I always presumed its something I'd sort out when I bought property. Definately going to sort one out

6 weeks after a leg waxing? I got mine done last year and had hairs growing back after 2 or 3 weeks and then managed to get millions of ingrown hairs so I've decided against doing that again. Just shave them now.

One tip though if you are getting your legs waxed, make sure they are properly grown back if you've been shaving them before, there is nothing more embarrassing than being told they can't wax your legs as they aren't hairy enough!

Not got one but know the guy who designs them and part owns the company (he obviously likes them!). He gets a lot of very good cyclists buying them for travel and training, think Emma Pooley got one. They're based out near Cambridge if you want a test of one first.

I'm finding this all very exciting which is quite annoying me as it could destroy pro cycling which is a sport I love. I've always like Lance but always known he'd been doping so I suppose he was always going to get caught eventually.

I still think this will be twisted into a Floyds nuts and not to be trusted and he's being bitter, and all forgotton about in mass media. But if everything does come out.......Lance banned, surely Contador must be implicated since he's been with Bruneel. Maybe we could see Wiggins winning the tour (I'm assuming the main GB riders are clean but who knows?).

I was in Edinburgh at the weekend and saw Graeme Obrees hour record bike in the museum, it had his integrated pedal shoes on it. He basically butchered a Carnac shoe and bolted a pedal into the sole and then covered it all up in fibreglass so you are lower on your bike and can't pull your foot out and the whole assembly in more aero. Is there a reason this hasn't taken off? Not nessesary? To hard to adjust for foot angles? Outlawed by the UCI? Safety?

I'm aiming for a whole point by the end of the season!

I did the Thames Turbo Sprint Tri on Monday, first tri so wasn't too sure what to expect. Wasn't overly pleased in the morning about having to cycle there for 6 especially since I'd got a bit carried away the night before and only had a few hours sleep but once I got going I enjoyed it way more than I thought I would. Swim went better than I thought and I was overtaking people (pool swim so you were set off every 15s), the cycle was fine and seemed to get an alright time. I got a pretty slow time in the run, not really been doing much running lately so wasn't too surprised by that!

Got beaten by 19 seconds by a really annoying guy at my work which is getting more and more annoying the more people that come up to me telling me he's been over gloating about it. Both doing the Windsor Tri so I'm planning on thrashing him there!

Enjoyed it last night but my legs never really felt that up for it so spent most of my time trying to hang on the back of groups.

I'd be prepared to take photos of the races I'm not in, can't do it this week though batteries aren't charged up!

The sessions worked out well, I liked doing 2 devils one after the other as it gave me a chance to try and do the races totally different, first one stayed close to the front while the second I hovered around the back and tried to nip in at the line.

Cheers, I'll set them up tonight and have a tinker with the position. I suspected I might be slower with them to start with but treating this race as a training exercise so not too bothered, got an olympic one in a month or so so want to get the position OK by then.

I'm doing a short triathlon on Monday, not done any TTing before but got a set of clip on bars that I've not had time to use yet. Whats the general rule of getting them set up? Is it saddle forward, bars down try and get your back flat with elbows at right angles? Might have to set them up on the turbo tonight looking at the mirror.

I wear tights for recovery from long hard rides and when I'm doing multiday stuff, I think it helps. I was at a talk by some guy from SIS last year basically about nutrician but someone asked him about them. He was wearing some at the time for recovery and travelling but also said he wore them time trialing and gained 1 or 2 more watts.

I really enjoyed it, didn't know what to expect but found I was keeping up alright. Had a few school boy errors so definately need to work on my tactics and positioning but I'm sure I'll pick more of that up the more I go.

Think I may have even picked up a fraction of a point!

What races are planned for tonight?

The mech hanger got bent on my old road bike while travelling with easyjet, not badly, I managed to bend it back but it hasn't been used a great deal since as I got a new bike, don't think it would last long.

I've travelled loads with bikes and that is the only problem I've had, I used to get away with cycling my bike there and turning the bars round and it always came back perfect. I definately have got less confidence taking my bike now and try to avoid it at all costs. Would only use a soft case for MTB's and if I have to take my carbon road bike I'll be getting a hard case or the dakine one. Hopefully that should be a thing of the past though as my new frame with S&S couplings arrives tommorow!

I'll be there next week, sh!tting it already!

I got this video on your recommendation, it's brilliant. Makes me want to go out on my old rigid MTB