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Tim. Sorry to hear about your crash. Fix fast.

I will be working on the basis that if I am going over the speed limit, others around me will be going faster. Mind you, I might be the one that the police can catch.

Perhaps we need a "fine pool".

Seriously, it is always worth riding with at least £30 in cash on you plus some fom of photo id. First, if you have a really bad calamity, you can get a cab to a decent bike shop or home; secondly, if you are hurt, you can be identified and thirdly, you can avoid arrest if stopped for a traffic violation.

A legal challenge would be an idea. The CTC or LCC might be willing to support this.

No buses on Arlington Road; but lots of 4x4s taking little girls to the nice primary school there (where my daughters used to go.) Stylish to go under a Range Rover surely? A really romantic death rather like dying of consumption when it was something that poets did before it became TB and became something poor people died of.

eyebrows. Really sorry to hear about your crash but glad you are on the mend. Were you carrying a spare frame? Take care and get some brakes!

bother

I found this link to a survey of traffic in Richmond Park. Apparently the police surveyed all traffic speeds and discovered that some cyclists exceed the speed limit but that there are few accidents. Accordingly there is no intention to introduce further traffic calming measures but now police will be allowed to issue on the spot fines to speeding cyclists.

I sometimes dispair about the instrusive nature of authority in this society.

http://www.londondynamo.co.uk/downloads/park_survey.pdf

PS JimmyBilly, it is taken, you will note from your chums the Dynamos ;o)

I've never been stopped.

Having said that I probablyy will be stopped this evening on my way home from work.

Chris. It was a pleasure and an honour to meet you.

Winston

I am delighted that you enjoyed the 1000m. I would enjoy watching you ride it too ;o)

It was good (if almost suicidal for the elderly among us) and it will make a 500m easier and faster.

Pre Christmas would be great. Ideally when the younger Os can accompany their parents and be embarrassed by them

Thanks Stelle. I might add that the calendars we sld for sharity were all purchased by Girls!!!

My wife bought one - she said it was a present for me.

Will's picture (with Tynan's editing) was kinder.

what times were people getting for the 1k?... out of interest...

I did 51.06. The fastest time was 41.23. Others were in between.

RP was spectacular last night and put many men (including me) to shame. Mind you, most of the women did.

I almost died.

Part 3 actually.

We haven't even got onto European teams yet.

I hate:

Leeds
Tottenham
Liverpool
ManU
Arsenal
Wrexham
Southampton
Portsmouth
West Ham
Fulham
Millwall
Brentford
QPR
Man City
Everton
Tranmere
Blackburn
Bolton
Leeds
Newcastle
Sunderland
Sheffield (both)
Bristol (both)
Stoke
Port Vale
Shrewsbury
Wyccombe
Oxford
Norwich
Boro
Leeds
Ipswich
Palace
Brighton
Gillingham
Swindon
Leeds
Bury
Wigan (but not Will)
Brum
Wolves
Leicester
Villa
Walsall
Tranmere
Leeds

[to be continued]

Pistanator

A fine post and one with which i concur wholeheartedly.

Hey, we could have a whole new rep system based upon money donated. People could try and outbid each other; VB could have all the drink money he could ever possibly desire and die a sad and early death of some nasty alcohol related condition and the forum would fall apart. Alternatively, we could just have an anonymous donation button and all live hapily ever after.

Perhaps we need a poll?

Oliver, you cunning linguist ;o)

Basien, I think I know a cousin of yours, the Basin d'Arcachon. You will learn plenty of English here but not necessarily of the correct sort. Ignore Hippy as his English is colonial. Platini, however, speaks English like a queen. Bienvenu.

Continental pros have, historically, eschewed fixed wheel bikes and gone for dopage instead.

Tom Simpson, however, tried both.

If someone put a heated hat on me, I WOULD kill them.

Heated fanny pack?

Anyone know why "A smooth fast cadence is the most efficient way to ride" as in the Bikeradar article?

It's all down to simple physics; inertia and momentum.

Getting bad flashbacks of Dancing James stretching routine at RP on Saturday. Eyewatering.

Taut Rapha. Ugh!

Another useful one from a few months ago.

http://www.bikeradar.com/fitness/article/technique-stretching-the-truth-17237

http://www.bikeradar.com/fitness/article/training-get-your-fitness-fixed--18458

Nik Cook, who wrote this piece is a top endurance athlete. He has an MSc in sports science from Bristol; has been a "celebrity personal trainer" completed two Iron Mans and run the Marathon de Sable (125 miles through the Sahara). He now lives and rides in the Peak District and writes professionally for cycling and Tri magazines. He rode the Paris-Roubaix with me this year (albeit a little ahead of me). His endorsement of fixed riding as a training tool is noteworthy.