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Rear racks - do they mount in the same holes as mudguards, and if so can I run a rear rack and mudguards at the same damn time.

Something like, for the sake of argument, this, and I'm running Chromoplastics.

Good luck all. Just remember to enjoy yourselves.

Kenny De Haes' crash at De Panne today could have been nasty. Slid straight into a barrier/bollard on the final corner.

The finale of yesterday's De Panne stage was actually pretty good. Very narrow road for a sprint.

I don't know about everyone else, but I tend to go through shoe uppers far before soles. That is on trail shoes though so maybe it's a rocks/roots thing.

Only paraphrasing very slightly.

Finally got round to trying this out, first bag being shipped tomorrow.

I used to ride (and raced Mountain Mayhem) on a too big rigid singlespeed cross country bike so I'm not too bad off road on unsuitable bikes. I'd always have the big suspension bike to fall back on as well. I think a quick blast on a CX bike to confirm and I'll set the plan in motion.

Absolutely gutted. Stage 6 looks like it's going to be going almost past my old home. Only moved out in January.

I don't currently race. Cyclocross is actually the most appealing racing to me so it would kind of help.

I'm just trying to reduce required storage space and consequently maintenance costs.

Interesting points about riding position, cheers.

I think the starting point is to try and get a go on a crosser to see if I could cope with one offroad.

Cycling fever has one

Ok, some thinking aloud and I figured this is the best place for it.

Currently I have

A cross country hardtail with 100mm forks, 2.1" tyres.
A carbon forked, skinny tyred road bike.

(As well as a downhilly/all mountainy full suspension and a commuter but that's by the by.)

I'm contemplating chopping in the first two (the XC bike needs some serious work - wheels/forks/drivetrain probably on last legs. It's also a 26" frame so stuff's starting to get phased out) and building myself a CX/road bike with discs. I'd then probably like to run two sets of wheels so it could still be a road bike when I needed it and a cross bike when I needed it. Is this a stupid idea, and am I going to end up with a hugely compromised bike I won't enjoy?

Main concerns are riding position and clearances - weight on a new cross frame will be lighter than current, no worries.

hats - cheers I'll have a look at goodrunguide. I had tried MapMyRun and found nothing suitable.

Juanito - I've heard Bristol half is very fast - completely flat out and back. That said, I've never done it. Am contemplating it this year but it's a hefty entrance fee.

I ended up doing 17 miles of trails this afternoon, with about 3000ft of climb, very very slowly.

Are there any good websites where people upload running routes?

I'm supposed to run ~20 trail miles tomorrow and I'm wondering about taking a drive down to the Mendips as here it would just be laps, and CBA for that. However I don't fancy a wasted journey if I can't find anything good.

Dragged the downhilly bike out for a lap or two of the local XC trails and a wonderful time was had.

First ride on it since Alps last summer, oops.

Nah that was yesterday (unless it happened again today...).

Timbersports, apparently. Bizarrely watchable.

Right, Eurosport 2 are supposed to be showing Catalunya highlights right now, followed by E3 highlights at 11. Currently Snooker, with some men sawing stuff up on ES1. Great.

Jay Electronica has released two songs in the last two weeks.

Please please let this be a sign that he's finally going to release Act II.

Also, who is the bloke commentating on Catalunya?

The one Maggie Backstedt has to correct about once every seven seconds.

Worth finding Dwars on Youtube? Not on Eurosport which is annoying.

The only program I know of where you can overlay multiple GPXs is Garmin Basecamp.

Doesn't look particularly neat mind.

As a contrast I went back to Leicestershire and did a long run and the vast majority of people were far jollier than me.

does that include races and track sessions?

I'm on 433 + races and track sessions.

500 is definitely on track for 2014 in 2014. keep it up.

Everything. Sadly I don't have a track, would like to do speedwork on a track. Have to make do with marked out trails in parks at the moment.

I tested this (kind of) with my 405 Forerunner.

While running an activity, charged it, took it off charge and the timer had continued throughout.

Obviously wasn't able to test GPS due to being plugged into the PC.

Bloody hell, I've done 229 this year, 500 is fantastic!