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I hear that there are still some cheap train tickets for Holland available on various dates during the summer...

Speaking as a former Timbuk2 sponsorship coordinator, I reckon this is a very good deal for Brooks, and the riders.

Pitfield Street Brewery?

Somewhere on Broadway Market? Costcutter on Hackney Road has got Hoegarden, Newcastle and some other english ales.

signed?

you know we have to wear full rollapuza lycra (and tennis socks)!

Tennis socks - but only as long as I don't have to wear the cap.

buffallo bill get your act together son!!!

Forms are at Roxy's house!

The forecast says it should be clear - the stuff currently beating off the roof here should be long gone.

Keep riding 42-18, and learn how to spin. It takes a little while, but it's worth learning.

It's not totally clear if the collision took place on the footway or in the road but this telegraph article we have the following:

"Mr Collins said that the defendant admitted in a police interview that he could have steered away from the pedestrians but thought a shout was enough to avoid the collision."

The cyclist had a duty of care towards the pedestrians, ie to try and avoid colliding with them if he could. He did not.

There is NO SUCH THING AS JAY-WALKING IN THIS COUNTRY.

Nor, in my view, should there be.

Sorry, but pedestrians have a more of a right to be in the road, anywhere in the road, than cyclists do. Just as cyclists have more of right to be in the road, anywhere in the road, than motor-vehicles.

Results and report from Chandra here

http://www.movingtargetzine.com/article/faster-pussycat-kill-kill-results-and-report-from-chandra

1.teenslain (if his knees/spine are in working order)

1. andyp
   
2. Mini..Cooper (I'm all for the B group)
   
3. dulwichrider
   
4. J-D-S-H
   
5. Buffalo Bill
   

Tomorrow's weather looks shit. Thursday anyone?

There's a bit here

http://www.movingtargetzine.com/article/faster-pussycat-kill-kill-a-hit

Luggage - personally I wouldn't use handle-bar mounted stuff (apart from a map-holder which is absolutely essential!) or anything on the front-wheel. Have a look at the Carradice under-saddle bags. If you are serious about travelling light, then I think those might do for you - and they won't affect the front-end handling in the way that h/bar bags do.

+2 F1 Mille shorts. I was wearing those for the tour, with a cheaper pair over the top, but still ended up hurting like hell.

I wouldn't bother riding to Dover. To get a nice route, we ended up going Sevenoaks and south of Ashford, looping around over the A20 and coming in through the North Downs. 170k or something.

Report and links to pics

http://www.movingtargetzine.com/article/faster-pussycat-kill-kill-a-hit

I can let you have 2 tomorrow, if you want.

Actually, if the test batch works out, I might be heading up there next weekend to buy a whole lot more.

I found a shop selling new hollow s/s clubs for 1.50.

http://www.londonfgss.com/thread7697.html

I got 3 clubs - you can buy one off me. I need to come by and sort the rest of the stuff out.

I did this exact route with Krzys 3 years ago. Except we rode to Dover. We did 950km in 5 days. We were both pretty fit, but that still added to 10 hours at least riding each day. For a more comfortable experience I would aim for 100 - 150k a day.

I recommend you get a 1 200 000 and a map-holder. That way you can plot and follow a quiet lane route, and stay off the long, straight and fast highways. We stopped at Cambrai, Verdun, Remiremont, rode across Ballon d'Alsace and into Basel.

I can send you a rough outline of the route we took, but are you planning tents or hotels? It makes a big difference. North Eastern France is pretty empty once you get away from the major towns, there is nothing. Especially in August. On the way to Verdun, me and Krzys didn't see a single open hotel for 100k. And believe me, if we had seen one, we would have stopped!

Don't even think about taking a bag, at least not one you carry on your shoulders. Me and Kryzs had a trailer, a big messenger bag each and swapped the trailer over between us.

Forget it being flat - just cos there aren't any hills over 300m doesn't mean it's flat - it's up and down the whole way until you get to the Vosges. Each little rise is nothing, but taken together they add up to a lot of effort. I don't think we had more than 1k of flat the whole way (apart from when we finally arrived in the Rhine valley.

RIding it fixed? If you are really fit, yes, why not? If you aren't really fit, forget it. I pulled the trailer over Ballon d'Alsace (I think I was towing maybe 20 -25 k) and I ran out of gears, even with 39-32.

And finally, that ride was one of the best experiences of my life. And Krzys said one of the funniest things that anyone's ever said to me: after 260k from Cambrai to Verdun we were on our hands and knees. And our arses were RAW. Krzys summed it up by saying: My arse feels like I have been fucking with 1000 monkeys...

is jan the dude with the beard ? ? ?

the two ladies are nice . . . well when they wanna be and depends how much u bought from them . . .

I spend almost nothing in there (compared to the hordes who throng the shop - buying complete bikes etc), but the two ladies are nice to me whenever I go in.

Whatever. There's another team that reckon that Jon was riding for them too. If Jon really doesn't want to ride for Moving Target, and would rather ride for some other team, then that's fine by me, but it's for him to say.

Found a golf shop on the corner of the A1/Great North Road (between Highgate, East Finchley and Hampstead Garden Suburb) called The Golf Centre. The fellow has a large number of new hollow s/s shafted clubs on offer for £1.50 each. I bought 3. I cut the club off one in about 5 mins with a hacksaw.

The guy will also put grips on clubs for about £4.

If anyone's interested, the address is 19 Aylmer Parade, Aylmer Road N2.

Now racing is different

When racing you are much much much more likely to come a cropper

Because if you slow down you lose the race

Most helmets will not protect you from impacts over 20km/h. When I was playing polo the other day, I contemplated the thought that it made more sense to wear a helmet playing polo than racing.

Get a helmet that fits (different brands are different shapes), and is comfortable. There is absolutely no point having a helmet that is so uncomfortable that you undo the straps all the time to ease the pressure.

I found that Giro's are too wide, whereas Spesh fit just right - my head is long and thin.

It's also important to get the straps right. The straps should hold the helmet tight enough that you can't push the helmet around on your head. Too many people have their helmets loose, or pushed back on their head.

Also be careful with the helmet - a hard knock with a lock, say, whilst the thing is on the floor, or in your bag, will compromise the helmet. And make sure you replace the thing after a couple of years.

Italia Uno in Charlotte Street will be showing on at least 1 of their 4 tvs!

And I am sure that the sports place on City Road will be too.

VB on clerkenwell road - riding some hybrid thing? Hmmm.