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hippy, are you taking the s-works to Wessex? Weather looks a bit cold and wet unfortunately. Wouldn't want all that carbon to go rusty.

Do they start on the left or the right?

Spotted - a courier getting knocked off by a right turning taxi at the Old Street roundabout. Bike & rider looked okay, but a bit pissed off.

Also spotted, Condor charging £1.99 for steerer shims :(

very well done Jos. Congratulations.

So we rode there and back today. Very good. Have updated Brett's route directions as one of the sign posts seems to have changed:

Start – Hyde Park Corner.

South towards Victoria, round 1-way onto Vauxhall Bridge Road.

2nd right at Oval Tube onto A23.
Straight at Thornton Heath roundabout A235 towards Croydon.
Straight through town centre, don’t kill peds. Follow straight down brighton road.

At Purley Cross (Big tescos) turn left onto A22 Godstone Road towards Whyeleafe/Kenley

At Whyteleafe roundabout turn right across level crossing.
Left at T junction.
At Church turn right onto Stanstead Road.

After crossing over M25 take 1st left. (Place Farm Road)
Road bends round to the right.

Straight over A25 at Bletchingly. Signposted to Outwood.
Follow through to end. Turn left at Effingham Road.

Right signposted Effingham Park to Turners Hill.
Right fork at Lindfield towards Haywards Heath.

Through Haywards Heath town centre, follow signs for Ditchling
After Ditchling Village, head straight on for the Beacon where main road bends right.

Go straight over (quick left then right) to get onto Ditchling road which takes you all the way into Brighton.

We can get Rapha priority seating at only 100 pounds a pop.

Only 250 spaces available to book early to avoid disappointment.

$43 for a Merino wool jersey sounds a bit cheap to me.

Elephant & Castle roundabout this morning: Concorde bike, bullhorns with pink handlebar tape, Dulwich cap and aviators. Looked like he was living the dream.

Yeah we seem to be doing pretty well this year. Poor Millar though, can't imagine much worse with 500m to go - not a good advert for Felt, or Shimano.

Here he is watching the peloton come past with his chain in the middle of the road.

Anyone done this yet?

The idea above would only work properly with two freewheels, one of them clicking in the opposite direction to the other. I'd assume also that this would require a customised hub. There would also presumably be an issue with getting even chain tension.

Sheldon Brown did something similar involving a Stermy Archer hub and a couple of fixed sprockets giving him three fixed gears. Seem to remember a note at the top of the article saying "if you have to ask questions about any of this, don't attempt it".

How about the risk of someone thinking "that bike isn't locked properly" and trying to do some weird puzzle with your wheel and drop outs and chainstays, bending the whole lot before finally giving up. If the bike had been locked with the seat tube, they might not have bothered.

Yes, that is true, my point was more about difficult it is to cut through rims - they are under compresion so trap a hacksaw blade. It's a power tool kind of job - enough for me to leave without worrying, but probably not overnight in secluded, scuzzy area.

Okay, fair point. As you say, if it is good enough for Sheldon...

BTW, this works because you cannot remove wheel from frame (or frame from wheel) with the lock in place. Cutting a rim (in two places) is just about has hard as cutting through a frame.

But surely the difference is that rims are a good deal cheaper than frames, so given time you could still steal the entire bike except for one wrecked rim.

looks a steal.

675 pedestrians were killed in 2006 vs 146 cyclists....

But there are also a lot more pedestrians on the street than cyclists.

Some guy in Condor explaining that he likes the Condor Musset because it is really handy for keeping fish in.

Giro d'Italia:

as it's soon to be rested for a few months, with the possible exception of the DD will stick up my trusty Copacetic, captured just before the I.o.W ride last weekend. the same old boat too.

Always makes me sad to see a Copacetic hanging in the rack. Hope to see her back out on the road soon.

loz, why do you want a stepthrough? diamond frames offer better options (so far as lighter, geo, and are a bit stronger)

Stepthroughs are badass. Look at this Miss Mercian:

So elegant.

So what actually happened to Cornelius and Lebowski?

I'm in suspense as to what has happened to them...

Can I paint this bike pink and do barspins? If so, sold.

What is vintage about bib shorts?

They're generally good and better than normal shorts as they don't fall down. Try and get ones with mesh rather than lycra for the straps. Only problem is when you need a wee - I like to HTFU and just go down my leg.

just chatted to hops dropping a package off at City Point on her shiny red IRO. Nice to see you :)