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This massive dossier, this could just be cases of other Arsenal players diving.

Nah, he's almost as big a twat as his brother, which gives me an excuse to post my favourite ever footy pic.

In other news, Phil Neville will be out for a lengthy spell after a challenge on Sunday causing him knee ligament damage.

Thank fuck!

Couldn't happen to a nicer bloke (except maybe his fucking brother)

Looking like I may do this, though never ridden this sort of distance before. Nes, cheap trains leave Manc at 18:16 on Friday.

YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.

Mid-section of the Malaucene side is tougher than anything on the Bedoin side, though the final 3 or 4km on the exposed section are a fair bit easier than Bedoin.

On the way to Bedoin took the D901 to L'Isle sur la Sorgue, then due North to Carpentras via the D938, all very nice and took a long time as we had a couple of cafe stops. Did the return journey on my own via the D942 from Carpentras, took about 80-90 minutes, averaged about 20 mph as I was fucking terrified, the D942 is a 2 lane motorway with a 110kmh spped limit.

Pretty shit I'd imagine. I'm lending it out for some polo filming, but will try some experiments when I get it back, when do you need one for ?

Good, only issue is going in and out of sunlight (happens a fair bit descending Ventoux), get a bit of screen glare initially, or gloomy when going into shadow, otherwise fine. If I get my shit together I'll upload to Vimeo over the weekend.

Worth a dabble at a £100 I reckon.

I used an Oregon Scientific to film a descent of Ventoux, the ATC3k model, worked fine on handlebar mounts (albeit nice smooth roads). Borrowed it off a mate who bought it for snowboarding and zip ties it to crash helmet. Quality on handlebars is excellent for £100.

Can pop by, where you playing and what time ?

I borrowed a handlebar camera thing off a mate for Ventoux, so if you want to borrow to film some polo before I give it back let me know. It's great quality too.

Coronation Street has been filmed at a friends house 3 or 4 years back, they got £500 per day, however they don't pay for any damage, which at my mates inluded a deep scratch on a table top. Another mate got £150 a day, because they were filming scenes in and outside a house opposite and wanted him to move his car away.

Just back from Ventoux. Bagged my bike with one of the £40 Cinelli ones from Evans. No probs at all on Eurostar or TGV, bag folds up nicely and rode 40km from Avignon to Bedoin with it attached to my rucksack with no problems. Two people I went with booked their bikes onto Eurostar unbagged at €20 each way, then when getting on the TGV at Lille encountered problems with the conductor who wasn't letting them on. After discussions with him, he stuck it in the luggage coach for €20. Though they are now trying to buy bike bags in France......

Slim pickings.

Vaguely possible I might do it, what are the dates, and how many miles is it ? Appears to be >210

so the long winded answer is you don't actually have any proof that it happened.

The whole thing was played out live on TV on that momentous day. A City fan on a message board entered into long-winded emails with the FA over why they weren't charging united, answer was the offended party (spurs), needed to make an official complaint before they could take action, which of course they never did.

Don't mind it myself, I'm fucking glad united got him, he's been and will continue to be utter shite.

Dave Gorman is great

Mark Thomas is quite funny and educational, but could do with being a bit fucking quieter.

Had one when I was a kid, but it's second nature to be looking over your shoulder when you ride regularly, only people I see with 'em are on big touring bikes occasionally. Might be OK for you with impaired hearing, who may not hear loud exhaust etc close behind.

Hughesy

I do 24 a day to and from Manchester on a fg 42/17. I think the advice about picking a gear and giving it a go is a damm good idea. I've just rebuilt an abandoned unloved Ridgeback MTB which I used last week. Bizarrely I found that I couldn't get used to gears again and left it in one gear, not to mention the free wheel. Frightened the life out of me when the pedals didn't go round on their own!

BTW, was feeling very sorry for myself on the ride in this morning: driving rain, six foot wide puddles and the masses back to work after the school hols when I had my "this is why I do this moment". Riding on the other side of the road past 100 meters of standing traffic, nipping in front of a white van as the temporary lights changed to green and sensing his frustration as he revved the arse of his his transit because I wouldn't let him pass! Cue nice warm, feeling-very-worthy moment.

Palatine Road ?

Dickov!! He must be what, 46 now??

Doesn't matter, he was as shit at 26 as he will be now (36).

Yep - selling Dunne to Villa was a great bit of business, along with not swapping Bentley for Petrov.

Chances are fine, I think plenty of polo types use this method to get around, as Virgin trains have a 3 bike per train limit. Or if you're gonna do it regularly get a Cinelli bike bag from Evans for £40, and it rolls up quite small and has a carry case with straps.

How do you measure your rpm? Do you actually count it or have a speedo device thing? The bouncing happens to me a bit. I might try all the smooth circles stuff but up to now I've just been bracing my arse into my saddle - works ok, hard on my wrists and arms though :/

Can do it with a cheap coomputer to measure your MPH, then check that against that rabbit gearing/cadence chart.

They both look bloody miserable. Don't they have tarmac in the provinces?
No road, no pub, big horrible heavy mountain bike? And they call that fun?

Seriously, of the two I'd go for the dales for the simple reason that Yorkshire is a beautiful rolling paradise of green and pleasant land, whereas North Wales is a rough craggy shithole full of chippy gogs who refuse to speak a proper language.

Good shout, and there is tarmac in the provinces, though on yesterday's evidence most of it is taken up with cars with MTBs attached to the back of 'em.