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Yeah I reckon that hub's a write-off. Still, every cloud and all that - you don't have to use a mavic hub any more!

You've mostly got to be a bit of a dick to win I think. It's fairly rare for any winner in any sport to not have that steely determination that can sometimes slip into outright dickishness. If you're prepared to descend a mountain so fast that a mistake will risk your life, then occasionally you'll do other things which wind people up. And sometimes you'll get it catastrophically wrong, and get caught on camera taking a gigantic slingshot off a team car.

Yeah Kruijswijk obviously was suffering - maybe I should have made that more explicit. Wasn't aware Chaves had bronchitis though - he sounded ok in his post-race interview today?

I'm fairly sure it's not possible to dope your way to a form switcharound like Nibbles's this week and get away with it any more. It kind of makes you think that whatever was keeping him just below the level of Chaves and Stephen K (and he wasn't too far off really) was in his head. Another thought occurs - Chaves is pretty young. GT winners are at their peak in their late 20s/early 30s - you just have that bit more endurance as you get older, which is pretty important when it comes to a 3 week tour.

Agreed, in 2014 Nibbles looked pretty imperious.
I mean, fuck knows really. He could be doped up to the eyeballs - but that rather begs the question of if he's prepared to dope to salvage his Giro, why wasn't he doped in the first place to ensure a win from the off? It's not like there wasn't huge pressure and expectation on him.
If you want to get your tin foil hat on, then know that most commentators seem to believe that having off days and good days in GTs is far more an indicator of being clean than consistent high level performances. Floyd Landis is the exception that proves the rule, I guess - only he was doing it in one of the dirtiest years during the dirtiest era, so there you go.
There's no way of knowing for sure. What we do know is that this race has been fucking exciting, the lead changing hands 6(?) times. No wait, did Dumoulin win the opening TT? Maybe it's 7. Actually that's just 7 different jersey wearers. Think it changed hands more than that.
It's been amazing, anyway. Sport should be a spectacle, and this Giro has been smashing.

It's been an epic. I'm not sure why Nibbles is being called dirty though?
Great teamwork from Astana - not a team I love, but kudos to them for executing a plan perfectly.

Chaves' time will come, as will Kreuiskkwllkffkk's. Again, no huge feelings towards Nibbles either way - he's done cunty things but then which GT winner hasn't? But whatever, this is one hell of a bike race.

Think the best on the road is the Schwalbe One Pro. Well I hope it is, since that's what I've got. I definitely think it's a better tyre than a Conti GP4000ii clincher.

Think that was a neutral car.
Yeah Nibs may be a cunt, but chapeau to him today. His form's not been great, but he battled the fuck out of today. Sets us up for a hell of a stage tomorrow.

It's weird; the RCC hat is great - much bigger, far more achievable luft. Every other hat I've had from rapha, pretty as they are, just don't fit as well.

Just had a lunch meeting in Ladbroke Grove - meant crossing London from Old Street. My old commute, more or less, so was interesting to see how much I'd forgotten and how many times I could get lost.
Black range rovers abound from Harley St onwards.
Had a van undertake me dangerously on gloucester terrace, who then nearly took out a deliveroo moped - who, having had the temerity to beep at the van for the cunty move then got brake checked as a reward.
Then between Clerkenwell and Old St roundabout, watched another van sail through three red lights.
Still, bloody cyclists, eh?

It is. Rode for the first 40k yesterday with the peak tilted up, and wondered why i had a headache.

Other hole could have a permanent flower arrangement in it, like some show home disaster.

Oooh, I do like the idea of a filter tap.

My old flat had the shower on the top (second) floor. If anyone used the downstairs loo or the middle floor kitchen tap, the shower would just dribble pathetically at you.
Shittest setup ever. Flat sold for £480k in 2012.

Loldon.

We'd quite like a kitchen tap with a pull out hose, so that rather rules out bathroom taps, annoyingly. A Deck mixer might cover the holes, I guess. Ideal world, we'd be able to swap the spout out for something and keep the taps. That'd save money, maybe - but I can't for the life of me find a lone spout that would do the job.
I guess I could accept a FM Mattsson of Grohe single hole tap/spout thing, and cover the other two holes. I wonder if there's any useful thing I could use those holes for?

Sounds like a plan - any idea where I look for old stuff?

Great stage that - was afraid it would be so hard that the riders wouldn;t be able to attack. How wrong I was! A real shake-up, and whilst there's people who have lost a lot of time there's still no obvious winner.

The coffee's a bit better than at the Ide Hill cafe too.

Anyone recommend a make for kitchen taps? Something modern and simple, ideally with a hose thingy. To add to complication - is it possible to get a spout on its own? I've got a weird three hole tap thing - i.e. the taps each have their own hole, the spout another. My spout's broken and held together with gaffer tape. One hole spouts without taps on them hardly seem to exist.
Also don't want to spend an insane amount.

Anyone recommend a make for kitchen taps? Something modern and simple, ideally with a hose thingy. To add to complication - is it possible to get a spout on its own? I've got a weird three hole tap thing - i.e. the taps each have their own hole, the spout another. My spout's broken and held together with gaffer tape. One hole spouts without taps on them hardly seem to exist.

I've done a lot of today's climbs - sadly not the Giau though. A big thunderstorm turned me back.
The Dolomites are possibly the most incredible place I've ever been. So spectacularly beautiful, a new mountain round every corner. As amazing as it looks on telly, it's not a patch on seeing it for yourself. I really, really want to be back there. The riding is awesome... and so intensely hard. The easiest climbs average at about 8%; some of them average more like 10% with huge long 15% stretches - and I mean like 3-4km long stretches. Awesome. I was broken.

Wonder how much they're actually selling at full price then?

Confession - I bought the Vulpine insulated jacket. I was after a light down jacket anyway, and it was in the sale.
Regrets, I've had a few.
I'm 6'1", and on advice I bought a size small... and it's still pretty big. Vulpine is tailored for box shaped people, not cyclists. Oh sorry, cyclists come in all shapes and sizes apparently. So let's put them all in clothes that don't fit anyone.
Vulpine are the Boden catalogue of the cycling world, but at Rapha prices.

This is fucked. Unless he has a good alternative proposal, he's being an utter dick, having run on a very pro-cycling ticket. He's into the idea of the fucking garden bridge though.