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Small point in favour of BLB, which I recently discovered: they carry Ambrosio Excellight rims, which are irritatingly hard to track down otherwise. (Cue 53 people telling me their local Tesco does them).

They didn't have the 293 I was after, but I suspect that's a fairly unusual size (smallish flange Royce hub to very low profile Ambrosio Excellight rim). They had 292 and a fair number of others though. DT Swiss and Sapim were mentioned - the 292s were DT Swiss so that's what I got.

Definitely worth a go, and one could always call ahead.

75p apiece. More expensive than buying online, but not unreasonably so IMHO. Especially given that I can have a pie and a chinotto there and that the people are lovely.

Max Crowe, Eastbound on Old Street as I went to get some nosh and spokes at LMNH. Didn't shout as you had your game face fully on.

Eggbeaters by any chance? They have (or had, anyway) a reputation for snappable axles in the way you describe.

FYI Guardian company policy is to sack its sub editors a day before they receive full employment rights and re-employ them the next day.

/bitter hack

In the true spirit of Blair (whose tax affairs are hilariously complex and obfuscated) they're also ultimately owned by a Cayman Islands trust IIRC.

I'm getting precariously close to buying a Athena groupset. Like, moments away. If anyone can find it for cheaper than 500 (with 175 cranks) or 575 (with 175 carbon cranks) I will buy you a beer tonight.

Yeah, thanks for that. You've got me browsing for Athena now, despite having perfectly good Centaur 10 on the Yates course bike. Git. ;-)

"What is Chris Hoy going to do next ?"

"The day that Chris Hoy talks about Chris Hoy in the third person is the day that Chris Hoy's head disappears up Chris Hoy's arse."

as quoted on this promising-looking new site: http://www.londonaletaster.co.uk/

Chap on a colourful MBK going into the building opposite my office on Baches Street last night.

Oh you should always complain when it's a big company like Sainsbury's that promotes itself as ethical and friendly. Taking the I-am-a-customer-of-yours line and the this-is-damaging-your-reputation line. Adding for good measure the how-does-this-fit-in-with-your-commitment-to-being-green line.

If I'd got the plate I would have done. Unfortunately, trying to turn right onto Pitfield Street from Gt Eastern means a level of concentration on the rest of the traffic that rendered getting the number inconvenient :-(

Quads aren't intrinsically illegal on the roads AFAIK - I've seen a few with plates in North Wales, where the shepherds find them handy for Scrapheap Challenge-style moving about of bits of farm. The ones you saw will either have been stolen or just cheapies off eBay though - they're this year's pit bike.

Had my first dickhead (Sainsburys delivery van driver) shouting something unintelligible about Superhighways as I waited at the lights on Great Eastern Street this morning. Joy.

I absolutely love Veloflex, but I couldn't really recommend them as a London tyre - they're more of a lazy man's tub.

Report the taxi to the public carriage office, rather than the police.

If a taxi didn't hit, you, no point in talking to the police since there's no 'collision'.

The form here specifically mentions "cycling near miss": https://secure.met.police.uk/roadsafelondon/ - if nothing else, reporting it means it's in the system and will come up in the stats/reporting.

And the PCO are provenly (over many years) utterly useless for anyone but cab passengers.

1250 starters? Strewth! Maybe I picked the right year not to do it - the cafe queue will be epic. If Latitude is using cell triangulation, it'll get very approximate once the masts spread out a bit in the sticks, and there'll be no augmentation based on Google's mapping of wireless SSIDs either.

So very tempting, especially as it's a ready-made, preserved-in-aspic L'Eroica bike. Truly a lovely thing.

@chaliapin - my grandparents lived in Knowle and Solihull for some decades, if that helps.

I'm guessing these saddlebags weren't as urgent as i thought then? where is everyone? :]

Would Easts be OK to pick mine up? I'm greatly looking forward to it. Might have the Royce rear hub that will allow me to build up the Webster by then too - 'citin.

Isn't it just. Irritatingly, I was in Pozzuoli for a few days a couple of years ago, with nothing much to do but mooch about and eat extraordinary quantities of delicious food while gawping at all the young Sophia Lorens. If only I'd known :-/

Needs an accordion-like section the middle and a little notice saying "This vehicle is 18 metres long". Also, ace.

Bravo! Good on Wee Bert for not trying to pip Schleck at the post.

I'll be along, I think. I have some work drinks to go to now, but will detach myself and amble over.

S

I'd be tempted to very gently take a small file to it, just in case the bit that's spread over interferes with the movement of the balls.

If you're in a car by yourself, you're doing it wrong.

Agreed, but stand on a major road in London and work out the average number of occupants per car. Last time I did it (Whitechapel Road, a few minutes waiting for a mate and admiring the solid traffic jam) I got a figure of about 1.3 or so.

I can recommend the BlueQuinn Method(tm) with the addition of replacing all the electrolytic caps (look like little tin cans, two legs). They have a tendency to fail with time and heat and are dirt cheap anyway.

I took that view of the stock 48/15 on the Fuji too. Then I rode Barmouth-Trawsfynydd with a rucksack load of walking kit, which cured me.