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I finished after the Agnel and rode back to Turin as I'd crashed a few times and was not feeling the offroad stuff any more. As a loop it was good though.

He managed to unite the UK at last!

In one single defense of the Tories (and, shock, Boris) they did fix the stupid 15-year limit on non-resident citizen voting. That said I have a feeling it was self-interest as I think they assumed all Brits outside the UK are backing them.

PR would have made Lab-libdem (assuming they could meet somewhere in the middle, which we couldn't guarantee with Clegg) a bigger coalition. Depending on how the rules were, perhaps given the Tories had the bigger vote they'd have had the first chance to pull together a coalition. That said, they wouldn't have been able to beat the lab-dem outright as their vote share together was 52% and you can assume greens and other smaller parties would have been happy to pitch in to shut down a "Tory+UKIP+DUP+BNP (who got 2% of the vote)+other nutters" coalition for ever.

Thanks all. I was going to ride my Kinesis but a 500km road ride on French roads isn't really like TnR and I don't think I need the added ruggedness so it's my Winspace instead (maybe with an alloy dynamo front)

.. and disconnected di2?

He was in the Alps at the weekend so probably.

Technical-ish question; as said before, dipping my toe in with a 500km event at the end of the month. Going to adapt my bikepacking setup for the ride itself, but pondering cassettes. After 200km or so, I've got the Ventoux to go up from Malaucene and thinking about moving from my 11-34 to a -36 or even a -40. Good idea? Pointless? I found the Ventoux a bit tough last weekend and that was without 200km and a 4am start in the legs.

On the plus side, the route has changed, cutting out climbing the gorges de verdun in the middle of the night which was my least favourite part of the whole thing.

And another 4-year ban. Robert Stannard this time

Emily Hewertson has denied being the thrower. Would be a strange denial if the arrest is true so I assume she’s telling the truth.

Why wouldn't she just have said "I think you need to ask Liz Truss about this but it's something I wouldn't do for the reasons you just mentioned" and then the issue is gone. Instead of trying to weasel out of taking a stand beyond party-first, women-second.

How big is it armpit to armpit? I'm a large usually

They do a short sleeved one?

I guess he's also wearing the new Rapha gravel racing skinsuit that they announced the other day

Does any clothing maker have a short/no sleeve rain "jacket"? I've got an older castelli one but it's like a short sleeved binbag, end up wet from sweat rather than rain

Once you've sorted @plasticniki can you see if you have a second one (seems unlikely)?

Reminds me; I need to get some pressure into a caliper and shifter to see if it’s worthwhile building an entire new bike around a shifter.

Well that's what I was asking, wasn't it. Also, this is the one she liked, from what that post says.

https://x.com/phl43/status/1789653035456643277

The problem is, she admits that she shouldn't have done it, that the post is problematic and doesn't remember liking it.

That said, all seems like a storm in a teacup. It's not something that should have her replaced as a candidate unless something else happened we don't know about.

Did she do what they said tho; liking anti-semitic posts on Twitter?

Superman given a 4-year ban

He's appealing it, apparently

Just finished my quick trip to the mountains. Did the ventoux as my mates wanted to. Pissed it down on arrival in Briançon so we sat around and “recovered” (mostly went to the brewery). After that did a loop into Italy via the col de l’échelle and back via montgenevre. Today did the izoard which is officially open but still very snowy. Would absolutely recommend the loop into Italy; really quiet climb along the valley, one of the best descents from the summit to Oulx I’ve ever done and the tunnel is always nice.

I can't see how Vingegaard will be on decent enough form to compete at the Tour but Roglic should be able to make it less of a done deal.

He's not had a single race day yet since his crash in April. He's almost as much of an unknown as Jonas I think.

https://www.bipandgo.com/en/

and

https://www.certificat-air.gouv.fr/

Is Jonas close to his parents? Surely it's between him and his folks, not some conspiracy

I've never had a problem.