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http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/print/2012/07/hell-on-wheels/9008/

I’ve biked dozens of American states and all over western Europe, and nowhere else have I encountered a cycling culture so cutthroat, vicious, reckless, hostile, and violently competitive as London’s. New York City’s cyclists are, by comparison, genteel, pinkie-pointing tea-sippers pottering around Manhattan with parasols, demurring, “No, after you, dear.” London cyclists accumulate in packs of 25, revving edgily at stoplights, toes twitching on pedals like sprinters’ feet on the blocks at the starting line. Rule No. 1 on the road here is that submitting to another slender tire ahead of you is an indignity comparable to allowing oneself to be peed on in public. Bafflingly, this outrage seems to be universal: purple-faced octogenarians on clanking three-speeds, schoolkids with handlebars plastered in Thomas the Tank Engine decals, and gray-suited salarymen on fold-up Bromptons—all will risk mid-intersection coronaries to overtake any other bicyclist with the temerity to be in front. To stir this frenzied sense of insult, you needn’t be slow. You need simply be there.

"cutthroat, vicious, reckless, hostile, and violently competitive", I think I want this to be my epitaph.

I'm worried I might be too slow for the slow group in my current laughably unfit state, so I'm prepared to give up if you have to wait five minutes for me at the top of Hampstead.

What Tibbs is doing this year instead of the party peleton

Eurostar was better when you could get Duvel in the bar on the trains. A couple of those on the way home and it's snoozeville Tennessee. Mmmm.

Now you just have to remember to pick some up, or something even more Belgian, at Gare Du Midi.

They've stopped doing Duvel? Heresy! I was recommending the Eurostar Duvel to clefty on Monday, shame if that was in error. A few bottles of Rochefort 10 obtained beforehand would be a good alternative though.

TfL should teach these guys there is no aero advantage to drafting cyclists.

Unless it's hippy

Gear this morning: flouro waterproofs, lights, winter boots, gloves and socks.
Fellow cyclists spotted this morning: 1
Proportion of these who gave a cheery hello and generaly DGAF about the weather: 100%
Proportion of bike rack spaces free at 9am: 100%

Why were there hundreds of flouro nodders riding through Greenwich at midnight this evening?

Paging the Daily Mail to thread 83927...

Your mum looks familiar. To everyone.

It's almost the end of May and I haven't had a mild all month. Ale fail.

yeah why are 70% of the top beers stouts
and russian stouts to boot
anyone seen a russian stout let alone drunk one ?

It's a style that's based around the premise that if some is good then more must be better, and is consequently very popular with Americans. They're strong, dark and heavily hopped, and they aren't really brewed by many big UK brewers. Fullers past masters double stout would be an example, or Guiness extra stout (the 8% one).

Meh. Herd mentality.

The best beer in the world is the one the drinker likes the best at a given time.

Indeed. Note that 70% are Imperial stouts, and 20% lambic/gueuze; and 90% are American. It's ridiculous.

ETA Oh and here's ratebeer's England top 50.Total number of milds, ordinary or best bitters? Zero. There's scarcely a beer on that list under 5% ABV.

http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/country/england/240/

Westvleteren 12 is #1 and #2 on the big beerspotting websites, for those who don't follow this sort of thing

http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/top-50/
http://beeradvocate.com/lists/popular

^This is the 2nd best beer in the world. After this

Which is unavailable outside Belgium

A pedant speaks: that's westy 8, note the blue cap. The one everyone raves about is 12, the yellow cap. There's also a green cap which is nothing special.

I've had it a few times and have several bottles at home now. It's an excellent beer, but opinions are usually split on whether it's better than Rochefort 10. It gets a lot of hype because of its rarity. I can say with confidence that it's not worth 5 times as much as Rochefort 10, which is roughly the price difference.

The whole idea of declaring one beer "best in the world" is pretty silly anyway. At most you could say it's best of its style. Beer nerds end up excited about really OTT styles like belgian quad and Russian imperial stout. There's just as much honour in making a fantastic best bitter, but nowhere near as much glory.

My homebrew lager. Possibly not strictly on topic, but it is bottle conditioned, uses no adjuncts, and is hopped with pure Saaz, so it would probably qualify to sell in the Southampton Arms or whatever

This doesn't seem to have been posted before, and it really really should've been

Bicycle skill VIDEO - YouTube

Met someone in the pub tonight wearing a bloody nice dress chrono, complimented him on it, and he handed it over for me to take a look. One of these.

Uuugh. It actually hurt, quite how gorgeous that was in the flesh. I'd rather have the perpetual though of course.

** We will stagger the coaches/trucks again bringing the first departure to 10am approx.**

Isn't that rather late? Last year I think the forum coach got away not long after 9, and there were plenty ready to go much earlier than that.

6pt on Sidcup High Street

That hits some of the nails on the head, the aesthetic is a bit chunky, do they come with a simpler/more spare dial?

Function and price are bang on.

Have a look thought the Seiko 5 range, which all use a similar auto movement.

http://www.creationwatches.com/products/seiko-automatic-sports-89/

Yep, that's where we were. £5 a bottle, seemed bloody good value for a 9% pint, which sells for more retail, if you can find it.

Looks legit, it's just a photo that did the rounds of the watch blogs a while back, not mine.

Natos are always the answer