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Should be great - can't wait for the big mountains. And my god I want to go to Toscana again. Food, wine, incredibly pretty climbs.
Anyone got a prediction yet? I think Landa's the best placed to make big gains on the climbs to come, but I can't help but think he's gonna lose time elsewhere.

Great pic, that.

My fake POC glasses came on saturday. Really chuffed with them - they look clean, no random bits of plastic from the moulds left on, and came with 4 lenses (including polarising) and a hard case. Only tried the mirror lenses so far, but they seem really good - no/minimal distortion, clear, nice. Very pleased for 20 dollarbucks. Only took a few weeks to deliver too - less in fact. Ordered on April 29th.

And it does!

Jamaica and Kenya have very special dope testing regimes.

It is pretty magnificent

Yeah. You can argue for the home advantage, but I completely understand what you're saying.
Kenya and Jamaica top though.
I'm gonna say Ennis was clean - technical events, good facilities could give you as much of an advantage as doping.
Christine Ohugaru - dirty, most likely - she got a sanction for missed tests
Mo Farah - genetically gifted, comes from the right part of the world for distance running, but also trains with Nike/Salazar. Uncertain.
Greg Rutherford - probably clean. No one's been exceptional in the long jump for ages; he won with eight thirty something? Not exactly a huge jump. Technical event.
Robbie Grabbartz - did well for his bronze, technical event again.

Oh fuck, I just realised you posted the world champs, not the last olympics. Fuckit

The sun came out, and his magnificent hair absorbed the powers of its rays.

Yep, saw a vid last night that said much the same wrt tape width. Don't think the Stan's I used before was quite wide enough.
I've got the normal gaffer-esque gorilla, and a clear one which looks a bit like the stan's. I reckon the gaffer type one will be a bit more stretchy, and so fit in the channel a bit better?

Yeah, that makes good sense. Will try that tomorrow.

Ace pic!

I'm having yet more problems with one of my wheels.
Bodge repair on the rim tape of a wheel failed at some point - I'd stuck gaffa over a bit. The sealant had loosened the stickiness of the gaffa, and eventually it came off. This exposed a spoke hole, presumably depressurising the tyre rapidly. This in turn meant the bead jumped off inwards, which took with it the good bits of stans rim tape, exposing more holes.
Now, is this a common problem? I've noticed the tyre bead catching on the rim tape when you push the tyre off before. Is there a fix for that? Not sure what I'm doing wrong really.
Anyway - gonna try my luck with gorilla tape this time. Will report back.
(q regarding gorilla tape while we're at it - one layer or two?)

Well, the medal table argument is a little disingenuous - we do well because we target sports in which throwing a shit load of money at them can give us a return. Cycling's the very obvious one, but other stupid sports like sailing, rowing etc, where most of the world doesn't give a fuck are good prospects for medals. Russia loves the banner sports, like athletics. There's a lot of complaints from middle distance runners particularly about the russian athletes. Tends to be that dirty athletes don't complain about other dirty athletes so much.

This is all getting a bit mind boggling.

Going back to the increased traffic predictions - we're already in a place where, as I read the other day, we've got almost 100,000 private hire cars on the road in London. A huge number of those are Ubers - I read Uber want to have 45,000 cars on the road, I think. I find it interesting that the increase in private hire vehicles is almost never mentioned when talking about traffic and pollution. Most of the time it's blamed on roadworks, infrastructure, #bloodycyclists, lorries etc. All of these are contributors (except us cycling cunts, obviously), but a huge daily increase in vehicles means more traffic. It's rather simple.
Many friends of mine habitually use an Uber instead of taking the bus, much to my chagrin. Certainly if you've got a young kid it's a lot easier to use an Uber, and it's so cheap now.
Extrapolate to driverless cars - they'll be cheaper and more available. Who the fuck's gonna use a bus any more? The roads are going to be clogged.

Yeah, don't need it right now! Tomorrow is fine. Good, I'll go to Maplins on my lunchtime Raphe run.

Where can I get Gorilla tape in Shoreditch? Or anywhere between there and SE15 I guess.

Yeah, I've had a creak going up a mountain on my own before. Brain melt.

Ha, great minds.

Wellens' bike seems to have a massive creak. Rain earlier, BB30 culprit?

Looks like there's gonna be a shake up... Nibbles is keen as mustard.

They could at least put them in cleated shoes and make them hobble up the road, for the lols

My lord the models wearing the jerseys thing. I know it's Italy, I know it's pro cycling, but jesus.

Honour, and powerful friends. I reckon Vino knows a few nasty fucks. Though I'm not sure I ever heard of anyone paying Vino to lose?

I'd also say, if you possibly can afford it and can get it working properly - do subscribe. It looks like they operate on a fucking shoestring as it is. And a world without dodgy euro adverts is not a world worth living in.

I would love a random assortment of stickers, if you could put some in an envelope/jiffy and post em? How much would you do that for?