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if you like the spesh saddles, try a toupe

they come in different widths

I've busted two of those, both of them snapped just behind where the rails join at the nose of the saddle. I've got an Avatar which lasted longer, but has recently bust in the same place, although it's still rideable.

I could knock nails in with my perineum.

Depends what kind of event you are after having. If it's going to be a po-faces-and-lycra style crit race, or a family-all-welcome kind of event then you're going to need permission from the police, insurance etc etc. If its scamps, ragamuffins and ne'er do wells then organise an alley cat.

She's going out tonight, loves drinking just champagne
And she has been checking nearly all the men

why does everyone insist on calling it "tesco's"? it's not as if there was some dude named "tesco" who founded it.

The "dude" in question was Jack Cohen, who added TES to the "CO" from his own surname, so there kind of was a dude called Tesco.

was this from the holding cell?

42 day detention now. bummer.

A mate of mine asked the chief mechanic af the T-mobile (now Highroad) team how he managed to clean 9+ chains every day for the TdF. The answer was;

Put the chain in old plastic milk bottle with some solvent (they use diesel) and shake. Poor the solvent away. Half fill with hot water and add some dishwasher powder, shake again. Wipe the excess water off and leave to dry. Re-lube.

I've tried this, and it works really well. Dishwasher powder doesn't foam up, and doesn't contain too much salt either. It really shifts all the gunky stuff that washes up off a wet road.

Does it cover trackstands and skid-stops?

I commute out to Debden about once a month, which is about 23 miles from my house in SW london. My best time is 1hr15 riding fixed, mostly along the A11. The key to it is going against the flow of traffic, and the bus lanes. This lets you build up speed and keep it there.

Have you got a date for this? I'm up for some domestique duty, although it would also be useful to have someone who knows the route as well!

Also, if he's leaving High St Ken, then he'll need to go up to Notting Hill Gate and change to get the central line. You can have a couple of miles under your belt by the time he's done that.

This thread's all about me isn't it? You're all talking about me.

^^^ Utmost ellipsis slavery... I'm gonna have to up my game... ;)
FWIW I wear padded lycra shorts under my other shorts if I'm gonna be in the saddle a long time... My buttocks demand it...

Oooo. You and your demanding buttocks.

A friend just told me of this diy approach he has taken to skidding through tyres and puncture protection...
He cut the wire bead off a tyre and placed that between the inner tube and tyre.
Crazy,Genius or been done before?

A roadie mate of mine does this with spesh Armadillos on his training bike. They're heavy as fuck, and give very little cushioning, but come race day he reckons the payback is huge.

The inner tyre needs to be 23mm and the outer a 25 or 28.

Yeah I knew about the Mi-Kay thing but if you say it like that no one knows wtf you are talking about.

"I really love my Mi kay hubs".

See?

Changes a lot of the film puns from the other day.

Oh Miche you're so fine,
you're so fine,
you blow my mind,
Hey Miche!

The ASO is bigger and more powerful than the UCI in commercial terms as it owns the TV rights to the World's biggest bike race. The UCI holds the TV rights to nothing and is therefore commercially nowhere. Formula 1 sorted all this out in the 70s, where a single company sells a package of TV rights for the whole world championship, and then contracts to the promoters of the circuits to provide races, and teams to provide cars and drivers. TV companies get a marketable series of races to televise, punters get an annual World Championship to follow. When you consider how dull F1 races can be, its amazing how many people follow it.

People (rightly) complain about how much Bernie Ecclestone makes from it, but to be fair, he is the person who created the lucrative product in the first place.

@willski: You asked. I answered.

No I asked, and you made a sniffy remark about spelling, and then made a sniffy remark about Cervelo being Candian and not Italian. I know that, but I inhabit a world were discussions are allowed to evolve.

[I'm off to loosen my bra now]

Well you get more of a clue if you spell it right - Cervelo. Pronounced Sur-velo. BTW it's a Canadian, rather than Italian, company.

Is your bra too tight?

yeah I would presume it was pronounced mi-keh, I lived in Italy for a while and know something of the language. But Jan at BLB corrected me a while back and said it's pronounced "meesh". So he must know I guess..........................................

I always pronounce it "meesh" which I suppose is a French pronunciation.

Anyone know how to pronounce Cerevelo? is it "Curve-ello" or "Seray-vello" or something else?

Thanks Cuppa. This is very much business use (a work thang). We have ~120 analysts running bespoke quant models front ended on PCs and with a mixture of Windows/Linux back ends. All this stuff plays well together. Then we've got a publishing department of 6 Macs, and its just a PITA getting them to play with the bespoke stuff. Software license costs are by-the-by compared the man hours we spend getting the in house software working.

Have you ever met a sub-editor???? ;)

Our editor is ex-FT. She's great. She makes all the quants re-write their articles such that they make sense. (I hate quants even more than designers)

Thanks for your pointers daddy-slain.

Indesign is not an option I'm afraid. If I had my way we'd farm out the design function, and chuck the whingeing designers in the skip along with their Macs. As it is, at least moving Quark onto Windows would resolve a lot of our interoperating problems.

Any HHSB riding designer types out there that use Quark Xpress?

The question is do you run it on PC or MAC? I know that Mac lovers love their Macs, but I'd be interested if there's anyone out there who has used both platforms. Is there really much difference these days?

Are there any good resources about running different platforms?

I don't believe people who are permanent residents here should be allowed to drive here without passing the UK driving test.

Which is pretty much what the law says. If you don't have a license issues in the EU then you've got 12 months to take a test;

http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Motoring/DriverLicensing/DrivingInGbOnAForeignLicence/DG_4022561

What do you do when your tyres don't match your handbag?

HTFU and catch your own lunch. What, you don't know how to hunt and fish?

Do Condor count? I thought their frames were made by Dedaccia in Italy?