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Did Contador infiltrate a breakaway? Can someone please summarise.
Reading back over http://live.cyclingnews.com/ it sounds like Contador just had the energy and a team mate where Rodriguez was out of gas and mates. One ascending and one fading, big gap.

What the hell happened?
This. WTF?

Any opinions on which of these is best?

http://www.evanscycles.com/products/cannondale/caad8-5-105-2012-compact-road-bike-ec031474
http://www.planet-x-bikes.co.uk/i/q/FBPXPRORIV12/planet_x_pro_carbon_rival_road_bike_2012

Are you looking for a 48cm frame? Evans shows only that size available.

CAAD8 (48cm) 528mm stack 364mm reach 510mm top tube
PX (small) -5mm stack +15mm reach +20mm tt

Yesterday morning, just riding along then suddenly pffffff-thwhack-thwhack-thwhack. Broken key with a jagged end and enough teeth remaining to rip a hole. Scared the shit out of me.

http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/Models.aspx?ModelID=78426

Easy mistake to make TBF.

I'm guessing all the cables were cut the same length so on a tiny frame like that there's slack, and someone wasn't paying attention. Anyway, minor quibble easily fixed. Decent looking bikes really, though Halfords wont let you test ride which is pretty dumb for a bricks & mortar outfit.

Innovative cable routing on these Boardman bikes..

Too sensible. eVent DVL is the new news: http://www.trailspace.com/articles/2012/07/26/rab-westcomb-event-dvl.html

Pleased that this Year's race is mainly in the more picturesque north of Spain. Even so,there is something about Spanish roads that make the Vuelta less visually compelling than the Giro or the Tour. The racing, however, is top notch.

I haven't watched much Vuelta but some of the scenery is mesmerising, more so for me than le tour. Eurosportplayer will have proper coverage, right?

Shame that new and excitingly cheap CAAD8 has the old 8 speed thumb-paddle Sora instead of the new 9 speed STI version. Boo.

Stupidly realised my bobbling issue was due to reaching into shoulder bag and dragging the cuff over the velcro hooks.

Yep. Wear it off the bike more than on since it's a bit cottony. Fixed the pointy corner with a quick stitch. Thinking of having right thumb surgically removed to make pocket fit better.

Not many sizes left. These were more meant as examples of whats out there at this time of year. But if it fits, superb.

Yeah weird sportive geometry. Headtube length needs checking. Also it comes with a compact crank and a 11-30 cassette.
He's after a ~60cm so the clearance stuff is good. Wird sportive geo and granny gears probably fine for a newbie too :-)

Cor that Felt is a good deal.

Nudging a friend toward a Pinnacle Three from Evans for his first road bike.. seems like nice spec for the price (£650 with 10sp tiagra gears, carbon fork, and they're throwing in £100 of accessories which will cover lights/lock/fender/etc).

FWIW the Roadlite 6 is out of stock in small/medium sizes. I emailed them and was told they won't be restocking the 2012 stuff - 2013 range will be announced at Eurobike next month.

Should I just get a ribble winter/audax 105 bike, or wait for something better in the sales? I'm not fussed about branding at all but want at least 105 or equivalent.

Any good/bad ribble stories?
You could save 50 squid by going with SRAM Apex instead of 105, put it into more appropriate wheels/tyres/saddle/etc. I miss my Ribble 7005.

Are those Norco bikes at Evans terrible? Canadian brand I think.
Norco Valence Forma with Tiagra for around £700.
Comparing with 2011 Rose WSL 200 (Apex or 105) or Canyon Roadlite 6.0 (105) for £800 but no chance of pre-purchase fitting.

Gotcha, that makes sense.

Exactly:
https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere/

It's a shame there isn't an Apache module that implements that and re-writes content generated by web servers to convert http:// links to https:// so that users don't have to have the extension installed to get the benefits.
Did you stick with HSTS in the end?

The overhead replay was beautiful

Is Froome confirmed for the Vuelta? Might keep my eurosportplayer subscription alive a bit longer..

The design discussion is local and it's welded up in Russia AFAIK. Happy with mine. Pretty stellar service for the price.

Not to mention cutting up the controlled pedestrian crossing at 56s.

Amazing riding from everyone, sad for Evans. He must be really disapointed with him self.

If this really is the post-doping era maybe it's also the end of incredible back-to-back tour wins, in which case good on him for trying anyway. Maybe unassisted humans have a longer recovery time than one year. That said he's only a few minutes off the lead and barely a minute behind 2nd and 3rd.. lots of steep windy miles to go.