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What an amazing attitude that guy has.

Electric prose from Sparky.

Bravo.

Chilli, do you ever have a need for copywriters?

Someone's owned up, I covered it this morning;
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/225426/student-admits-to-palin-email-hack.html

For what seems like the hundredth time since I moved to London, I'm flat-hunting. My last day in this place is December 3rd, and I'll be glad to see the back of it; over-priced, filthy, nothing works and the landlord pops in without warning while I'm at work.

I'm looking for a place where I can leave a couple of bikes safely, unpack my books for the first time in ages and spend the next year not having any flat-related headaches. I'm not too fussy about location because I work quite centrally.

I'm pretty laid back, but I work quite long hours, so to be honest I'm not always around being super-social in the evenings. On the other hand, it's great when you can find flatmates you want to hang out in the pub with.

Anyone else in a similar situation, or have a spare room starting at the end of the year?

It's gorgeous. If that was a 58cm frame it would be in my flat by now, and you would have some cash in your pocket. However, it's not, and I think you should keep it. Build it up and ride it around London. Spend some cash on insurance and stop worrying so much.

I have a Raleigh road/tourer. Needs some new bearings in the front wheel, maybe new bearings in the headset. It looks great and vintage, but isn't worth stealing. Will get some pictures tonight for you.

I actually went to one of the wheel building classes you were at, but I don't have the tools to do it myself. I've got a spoke key, but no stand. I'm thinking about getting the front I built re-trued as well.

I just submitted some nice shots of the games - no blood, no gore. Dale - are you up for building a back wheel for me? I have it all laced already. Beer and/or some folding money are on offer.

I thought I'd give the Cycle London photo competition a shot, but it doesn't look like the Shoreditch polo tournament is a welcome topic. Even though it had council backing. Go figure.

Hi there,

Thanks for submitting your photos to our group.

Unfortunately we can't accept some of them as they look
like they might encourage dangerous riding.

Please feel free to submit other photos to the group which
meet our criteria.

Best wishes
Cycle London moderator

Yeah, River of Death - why the tourist board doesn't capitalise on that name I don't know.

I did it on a geared tourer, a nice old 531 steel one. Fixed would have been way too hard - the route had some 13% climbs, and some 23km descents. We budgeted two weeks, but went for it and did it in 6 days, except the last little bit. We had more time in Barcelona because of that, but we were also wrecked. Total distance I don't know exactly, but it looks like this on Google Maps, without all the climbs and diversions.

I think that would take a lot of getting used to.

Has anyone ever seen anything like Bike in the cafe at the summit of the Col du Tourmalet on Flickr - Photo Sharing!@@AMEPARAM@@http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3265/2839734094_088c421a8d.jpg?v=0@@AMEPARAM@@2839734094@@AMEPARAM@@088c421a8d? It looks mad. There was also a Bike in the cafe at the summit of the Col du Tourmalet on Flickr - Photo Sharing!@@AMEPARAM@@http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3221/2838900335_faa4e7eb96.jpg?v=0@@AMEPARAM@@2838900335@@AMEPARAM@@faa4e7eb96 up there.

I've just finished my great Biarritz to Barcelona adventure. I'm still shattered.

Highlights;

• Four mountains from the TdF route, and the mad descents once I'd finally dragged myself to the top.
  
• Crazy, beautiful views everywhere.
  
• 5 days R&R upon arrival in Barcelona.
  
  

Lowlights;

• Having to get a taxi the last few miles because of a "new" motorway which wasn't on our map. Massive anti-climax.
  
• Legs nearly falling off.
  
• Getting fined by the French police for running a red light (90 Euros) and paying a lot more than that by accident because I thought he was fining two of us.
  
  

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I have, yeah, but it's the same number that I have.

Does anyone know how I can get hold of Matt? I need to see if he's up for being interviewed for an article I'm writing, but my deadline is tomorrow night!

He's done incredibly well; 100 miles a day, day after day, language barriers, strange and changing diet, doing his own repairs, dealing with an - I imagine - very sore arse and having to do a video diary and track mileage for the record attempt. Not easy. Is there a round-the-world fixed record?

Does anyone have a contact number for Matt? I've tried the one listed at www.thehubbmx.co.uk but it seems to be constantly engaged.

Does anyone know who organises the placement of Ghost Bikes in the UK? I'm trying to get hold of someone for a short interview, fairly urgently. I've emailed the admin of www.ghostcycle.org.uk, who I think are the main people behind the thing, right?

Cheers,
Sparky

I like the Steamrollers, but the fork bothers me because of the long-reach brakes you need. I always thought it was slightly limiting, that. Too small for me anyway.

But it works for routing passengers via ferries - given that path costs are time, then you get a overall topology that will show you the fastest way between node A and node B. However, you need to run Dijkstra's for each node in the graph to find the quickest way between any two arbitrary nodes.

SPF algorithms are awesome.

I think he's trying to calculate journey times for ferry crossings, not the shortest route between a set.

Shortest path is for the travelling salesman problem, this sounds like something different. In any case, I wouldn't use that. Depending on the level of accuracy needed I would use a metaheuristic like a genetic algorithm.