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aidan
do any of you all year round commuters have any tips/suggestions.....bear in mind that im a very skint student:)

Unless you're going a long distance: get wet and then change when you get there. I've got overshoes/trousers/jacket etc, and they all get overlooked in favour of just carrying some spare clothes with.

Mudguards will keep you drier than any plastic overtrousers. And cleaner, too.

Foska make decent breathable jackets that are waterproof enough for a short ride.

I can't say enough nice things about Tamas and Bagaboo. He's really nice, and the bags are rock-solid.

The only thing I would change is that the strap is very thin (being a seatbelt 'n'all), so it does tend to twist and can dig in if it's not seated right.

-mr_tom. Bugger. Have a good ride for me!

mareeoh + Al (he doesn`t use the forum)
hovis brown
murtle
brett
MA3K
slamm
glow
danger joel
velocity boy
Stef
edmundane
smeear + emilie object (doesn't use the forum)
dt
mdja (probably)
Markie4
rakan †
aidan:)
cornelius blackfoot + guttersnipe (he doesn't use the forum)
stompy.
joris (doesn't use the forum)
tim (doesn't use the forum)
punkpixel
badrider (don't forget the gherkin is mine)
steves - can i have southwark bridge.....it always gets forgotten about!
Tom (I'll be the fat one at the back)

joe_b i demand to know why she is so upset and she refuses to tell me because
apparently ill get annoyed and tell her she is stupid.
she eventually tells me she feels like she is constantly in the way of me
and my bike and that she doesnt think im interested in her at all.

I hope you got annoyed and told her she was stupid. ;-)

Someone lovely on UKNova is seeding each day's highlights. If anyone has space/bandwidth for them (velocity boy? Anyone? Bueller? Bueller?), I'll happily upload 'em. They're about 400Mb each.

I think that we should hire bike messengers to deliver spoke cards to fakengers.

Jacobs Engineering Group have banned their employees from cycling, on 'health and safety' grounds. Given that they're in bed with TfL, that's simultaneously horrifying yet unsurprising.

"If Jacobs does not understand how important cycling is to TfL, we need to ask whether they are the right sort of company to work with." - Jenny Jones

jv What bag could be recommended to hold a suit and shirt without it geting creased to f**k?

Any bag that can hold an Eagle Creek Folder. They're great.

SKS raceblades are OK. The no-name clones are rubbish, though.

I have a silver 1" campy ahead that I'm not using.

Also: http://www.steephill.tv/2007/tour-de-france/

Some more pics: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_tom/tags/tourdefrance2007/

Rounded boxes, gradient fills, sans-serif fonts, drop shadows. It's all a bit Web2.0, innit? ;-)

It's nice. You do have a typo on the clothing page, though: ; amp ; should be & amp ;

I need a workstand (before my knees/back pack in). Any recommendations? Anything I should specifically avoid? Are the ones that clamp onto the fork and BB better than those that you just clamp onto the seat/down-tube?

Something that folds up would be nice - even if it's just a matter of folding the legs in so it can stand up in a corner. And I'd like something that's high enough to work on the crank/BB area without having to bend over it too much.

I like the look of the Tackx Cyclespider and the Topeak Prepstand, but don't really have much frame of reference. Workstands aren't something I imagine buying a lot of, so any advice is much appreciated!

You can put spacers on top of the stem, too. That way you can move it up/down without needing to cut the steerer.

Y'know. I'd rather see radios banned than drugs. As it stands, the riders are just following orders from the DS, rather than working the strategy out for themselves.

I don't really think that one should take sport that seriously at all. Especially one that inovolves world-class sportsmen clad in day-glo lycra carrying polystyrene buckets on their heads and riding up mountains. Frankly, that's just silly.

Still going to watch it on the tellybox, mind.

lpg Hey guys, did any of you try this?

hate marmite but looove guinness ...

I have a jar of that. It's definitely more like Marmite than Guinness.

wayne_f14
http://www.barterbooks.co.uk/barter/gifts/Poster.jpg

http://www.keepcalmandcarryon.com

I refuse to believe that no-one makes a cycling jersey with French cuffs.

edmundane
"GPS your bike" julian? how much capital you got? count me in if you're starting the business but be mindful that i have no money and no technical know how.

There's a company that make a childs watch with a GPS receiver and a GPRS transmitter within. So if you carelessly leave your toddler lying around somewhere, you can check on a website to find out where she went. I reckon that sort of thing could be re-purposed to fit a bike.

velocity boy What they really need to do is to use RFID tags.

That's what Datatag use. You get a handful of stickers, an RFID tag and some epoxy to attach it to the frame. £20 a pop, though. Which isn't cheap, but the kick-back is that it lowers your insurance premiums.

No idea what proportion of stolen datatagged bikes are returned, though.

Apparently, for the sequences were you have a following view of JLM on the track, Obree was the cameraman - being the only person in the room that could keep a camera-loaded bike going in a straight line.

I have a 1" threadless King headset. It's really nice - a vast improvement on the well-indexed Campy loose-bearing one that it replaced. Not sure if it was really worth the money compared to other sealed-bearing headsets, though. Chain Reaction have 1" threadless for cheap.

Thanks to the power of the interwebthingy, I appear to have 60 cover versions of 'Popcorn'. My brain hurts.