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I'll take the SRAM S350 cranks please! PM incoming.

I was going down Holloway Rd last night round 10.30 and I got overtaken by what looked like a club run from Pretorius cycles - http://pretoriusbikes.com/the-shop/kit/ - Really good visible but simple kit, and they were all on these custom Ti bikes: http://road.cc/content/review/61953-pretorius-outeniqua-frame-fork

As an advertising activity, it was a pretty effective one...

I was complaining about this lane in the Bad Cyclists thread the other day - when it was blocked by a lorry, cyclists were either riding on the pavement or going round the lorry on the far right of the roadway, effectively into oncoming traffic. Noone crossed to the left lane of the road.

Personally I quite like the lane, in that by the time I get there I've done the fast part of my commute and it's nice to have a slow 2 or 3 minutes before I get to the office. What really gets me is dickheads speeding down the lane overtaking everyone in that big queue when the road to the left is empty. If you want to go fast, go in the road!

tl;dr The cycle lane is for slow people

Just walked down Torrington place and saw three incidents of terrible cycling:

1 & 2: A lorry was stopped on the north side of the road, blocking the segregated cycle lane. Two nodders coming towards it in the lane; one goes onto the busy pavement to get round the lorry, the other cycles on the outside of the cycle lane barriers, ie. on the right hand side of the road and into oncoming traffic. The road, in their direction of travel, is car-free.

3: Nodder-on-nodder undertake in the cycle lane; the two guys stopped and had a good shout at each other about how to behave. Since the road is right next to it, shouldn't you leave the cycle lane for people who want to cycle at a more leisurely pace?

I reckon people feel like they have to stay in or next to (why?) the cycle lane, and in the moment they don't even consider that there's an entire fucking road that they can legitimately use.

As soon as a pedestrian leaves the footway and enters the carriageway they have right of way, but in the junction in question there is no official crossing so right of way would stay with the cyclists until the pedestrian stepped into the road. Who would then decide whether the pedestrian made an unsafe move into the carriageway? I'd always be inclined to slow up to allow a pedestrian to cross on that junction, as I always do when riding or driving, but clearly not many others would.

Cheers all. The difficulty with that junction is that slowing to allow a pedestrian to cross the flow of cyclists isn't always safe; there's invariably some super aggy alpha commuters coming along there who are happy to overtake at the point of the barriers by going through different gaps, plus a couple of cars that have just gotten out of the Drayton Park traffic jam and want to let loose... and as NH says, it's not always clear what a pedestrian's intention is because there's no clear crossing.

What I should have said was that I'm in no position to speak 'as a cyclist' per se...

I had an interesting encounter with a ped this morning, at the junction of Horsell and Ronald Rd behind Holloway rd. I was walking with my girlfriend to H&I station, and pushing my bike so that when she got on a train I'd cycle off to work, and a flustered woman stopped me and asked me, as a cyclist, to explain who has right of way at the junction.

Pic of the junction here: http://imgur.com/XQHaEpQ

She was saying that she was walking from C to B to A, and cyclists travelling D to E and vice versa weren't giving her right of way. I realised I wasn't actually sure; since the cyclists are crossing an end-of-a-road line, they're supposed to give way to cars going along either of the roads, sure, but what about peds crossing? And complicating it, should cyclists take into account the safety of stopping suddenly for a ped when there's often a lot of bike and car traffic coming fast behind them?

Halfway down Highgate West Hill at about 1230 today, a rider being attended to by paramedics.

He was sitting up against a wall and talking to the ambulance crew and cops as we went down the hill, walking as we came back up but looked like he was getting into the ambulance to go to hospital. Hope you're okay dude.

What a cool day - I wish I knew enough people off of here to have recognised anyone there... and a big thanks to rider no. 94, Philip Ryan (Adams Town IRELAND), whose sisters couldn't make it and whose dad gave us their seats. Sorry you didn't win anything, Philip.

I took some crappy photos and a video, here they are:

Warming up: http://i.imgur.com/ekjm7Ha.jpg

Golden Wheel scratch race: http://i.imgur.com/Z4OIQF4.jpg

Dernys on parade: http://i.imgur.com/ZsahFv5.jpg

The derny paced race. Ed Clancy is in black+pink behind the derny with the red helmet, and he was laughing the whole way round: http://i.imgur.com/w80SlKS.jpg

This video gives a sense of how fast it was. Just before the end of the video you can see the leaders come round again: http://twitpic.com/e1j8pl

And here's the speed on the board - 141.788km/h, can that be right? http://i.imgur.com/yaxAU4y.jpg

The womens sprint. Nicky Degrendele takes a look back before kicking with about 400m to go and winning easily: http://i.imgur.com/ZFQDjhQ.jpg

The velodrome at its fullest: http://i.imgur.com/Ebmibxu.jpg

Everyone cycling East there seems to just go on the pavement, it's a ballache. Also, I'd add that if the park is closed and you want to avoid the A12, you can still go over on the footbridge from Cadogan Terrace to Chapman Road/Wallis Road - it's open all hours.

I DASed someone in a summer jersey and cap cranking up for Highgate West Hill on a light blue fix yesterday... I don't think it helped your pace! Chapeau though

I once found Roymund's Visp on the ground on K Town road outside a shop and hung around for about 10 mins before he turned up (from down the road, not from in the shop).

I'll take this. PM'd

Dibs for a friend, PM'd

Dibs Golden Saddle kit pending price and pics...

My chain snapped on Old Kent Road yesterday am, by Burgess Park, and the nearest open bike shop (no chain tool in kit, sadly) was Evans at London Bridge - a long way for the coasting-with-cleats shuffle of shame. I'd also never realised that OKR to Great Dover St is veeeery slightly uphill.

SO I was feeling fairly chipper despite being very late for work, and looking forward to a shorter cycle to the pub, when I realised that some dick at work has pinched my rear light from the bike (which was in the secure bike parking in the basement). I mean, is there a more petty thing than to steal a light when it's dark outside?

/venting

Dibs:

1. Deda Zero 100/SRAM Carbon Rival cockpit. 1 1/8th steerer, 110mm stem.
   Stripped down Carbon levers and V-brake cables/noodles.
   £40
   
   

PM coming

Has this been resolved yet?*

*ie. is there a final-ish jersey design on the way?

Cheers for this Picco - but on Saturday we picked up a lovely c. 2007 Condor Italia from Mullycron. I hope someone else does snatch that one up, it looks grand especially at that price.

Hi, I'm looking for a small road bike for a small lady - her comfortable standover height is around 25 inches so a 52 with a straight top tube would be too large. This Pompino http://www.lfgss.com/thread118355.html#post3971345 would have been perfect but gears are the aim!

50 or 48 (or smaller!) compact geo might offer more options size-wise, and would definitely be better than a mixte.

The budget is £300 tops - what have you got?

Provisional dibs for a friend, PM'd

Hi, what's the standover height? Asking on behalf of a small lady.

I've just built up a Giant Cadex, this looks like a lovely example. GLWS.

(Info for eventual buyer of Cadex: if you're using a modern braze-on front derailleur like a SRAM, you'll need one of these: http://www.mcconveycycles.com/store/product/14459/Giant-Road-Bike-Braze-On-Front-Mech-Mount/)

Nice!! going to be so smoooth!

Cheers Luke - it's all finished now, rides lovely! Will post some proper pics when I get home.

Do you mean like when you're in a bus lane and the bus is jetting up behind you - eg. on Gower Street - and you've got a bit of respite when it stops, but it keeps accelerating up to you like the Bullet Bills in Mario? Not really about skillz but more about sprinting when you don't need to really.

I also try and not put my foot down on Kentish Town road, between the Pizza Express and the Assembly House (especially when there's lots of stopped traffic).

A little over a year since I got the frame + group, my current project is coming together. Took ages because I was looking for a 1 inch carbon threadless fork with more than 230mm of steerer, which is a hen's tooth:

(sorry for crappy phone pic)
Giant Cadex alu frame+fork (cheers whatok)
SRAM Red+Rival group (cheers Roymund)
Mavic OpenPro on Hope hubs (cheers cheesecake_intl)
Thomson 0degree stem (not sure about this but it's the right length for now)
Maxxis Refuse tyres
My old favourite saddle
(+my skanky old Sidis)

Just got to change out the cassette and do the cabling now, very excited.