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have we had any gays on there yet?.

Not yet.. but that's the plan.. Winston Churchhill.

I think this is news, not nature or nurture, but genetics effected by nurture:
http://discovermagazine.com/2013/may/13-grandmas-experiences-leave-epigenetic-mark-on-your-genes#.UbhDIWS9Kc3
I'd be interested if anyone has more info about this?

Its nothing new. The Torah "G-d remembers the sin of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generations...".

The impact of personal nutrition seems to have an impact on their grandchildren's health.
About a decade ago a number of researchers narrowed it down and observed that cardiovascular and diabetes mortality were statisically linked to the nutrition during parents' and grandparents' slow growth period (just before the prepubertal peak).
Same goes for stress and other factors.

How does this work?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/06/110623130146.htm

"Over 20 years ago, Ishii and his colleagues discovered a gene in yeast (called activation transcription factor-2 or ATF-2 for short)that is required for those tightly packed, heterochromatin structures to form. ATF-2 is altered by stress-activated protein kinases in response to environmental stress, inflammatory cytokines, and reactive oxygen species (ROS). But it wasn't entirely clear what this might mean for other organisms.
Ishii and his colleagues now confirm that ATF-2 is required for heterochromatin assembly in multicellular organisms. When fruitflies are exposed to stressful conditions, the ATF-2 is modified and disrupts heterochromatin, releasing genes from their usual silenced state. Importantly, these changes in genomic structure are passed on from one generation to the next.
The researchers expect that this finding in flies has relevance for humans, noting that we also carry the ATF-2 gene. Those epigenetic changes may influence basic cellular functions as well as metabolism, behavior and disease. In particular, Ishii suggests that epigenetic causes may play a role in "lifestyle diseases," including heart disease and diabetes, and in psychological diseases, such as schizophrenia."

Isn't Emmanuel Goldstein one of the characters in 1984?

"THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF OLIGARCHICAL COLLECTIVISM" is the book in Orwell's 1984.

One major terror attack = 9/11.

That was their first, and possibly last serious terrorist attack, their other incident were domestic (like the Oklahoma bombing).

But terrorism builds on the single, the countable. That's what creates worry, paranoia and insecurity.

"Aber das ist wohl so, weil ein einzelner immer der Tod ist — und zwei Millionen immer nur eine Statistik."-- Erich Maria Remarque "Der schwarze Obelisk" (1956)

Its the potential of 100s or 1000s or 10s of 1000s or .. of Michael Adebolajos, Nidal Malik Hasans,..., Najibullah Zazis etc. Each wanting and able to kill.. that strikes at the hearts and minds.. Whos next!?

"The social atmosphere is that of a besieged city.. And at the same time the consciousness of being at war, and therefore in danger, makes the handing-over of all power to a small caste seem the natural, unavoidable condition of survival."-- Emmanuel Goldstein, THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF OLIGARCHICAL COLLECTIVISM

Feels like I'm riding on a solid styrofoam wheel now.

You are.

http://velonews.competitor.com/2010/12/news/cyclocross/technical-faq-with-lennard-zinn-the-limits-of-sealant_152087

Nieuwhuis confirmed that the only sealant he recommends in his tubulars is indeed Caffélatex because, while it doesn’t fill large holes, it does stay liquid in the tire. He says that he is “not a fan” of Stan’s. He goes on to say, “Stan’s and other sealants with high ammonia content are good products, but after three to four weeks, the sealant starts to dry and is no longer a film.” He says that this destroys the latex inner tube.

Nieuwhuis is also quick to point out the limitations of Caffélatex and all sealants with a quality tubular like a Dugast. He says first of all that sealants won’t protect against snakebites (i.e., pinch flats) or big holes. He also points out that any sealant needs time to fill a hole, and that this is an issue with an inner tube, as opposed to a tubeless tire, whose inner diameter is always the same. The inner tube in a Dugast tubular (and indeed most tubulars and clinchers) is one-third smaller than the inside of the tire. Being elastic, the tube of course stretches more at a weak point (like where it has been punctured), which reduces the chances of the sealant working, especially when the rider starts riding right away again after adding Vittoria Pit Stop or other aerosol sealants.

Furthermore, Dugast offers the service of replacing the inner tube (we saw a method for doing that in this column some months ago) in a tire that has a perfect casing but has suffered a pinch flat. This costs 22 Euros, and the tire is good as new afterward, but not if sealant was used in the inner tube. “The sealant will get smashed around inside the casing, and the tire won’t be as comfortable to ride as it was before,” says Nieuwhuis.

Amazing what one major terrorism attack can do.

Hardly one major terror attack There have been numerous terror attacks alone this year in the US. The real problem is that monitoring can do little to prevent terrorist attack as the rules have changed.
Taking a "poster example"... Could Nidal Hasan have been prevented? But wait.. The JTTF had been aware of e-mail communications between him and Anwar al-Awlaki.. so ?
Really there is nothing one can do. That's the part that the government can't tell.. The monitoring is hardly a scandal.. its political.. The State showing that its trying to do something.. Private sphere? Civil liberties?
Greetings from Emmanuel Goldstein and "The Brotherhood" ..

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/09/edward-snowden-nsa-whistleblower-surveillance

How long before this guy is dead or insane?

The cute bit is that he goes to Hong Kong ... a town that even when it was a Crown Colony had civil rights and freedom of speech dictated by "self-control" or "self-censorship".... which has witnessed a near takeover of the press by Mainland China based companies playing by Mainland China rules... Internet in Hong Kong as in much of Asia (including Singapore) is controlled.. In China now for comments people must use their own names.. No need to go through the trouble of using providers dbs...

But to your question.. he is already insane.. QED..

Pit stop worked, but my tub is no longer a tub.

Ab uno disce omnes

The store that stocks the Dugast now stock FMBs. They're £20 per tyre more expensive.

Against what baseline? You might want to consider ordering direct as it might be cheaper..
Dugasts used to be really good.. Like the best of the old Wolbers... But the new Dugasts seemed to be less rigid quality.. perhaps they ran low on the old Wolber materials, I think, that Andre was using.. Dugast cross tyres still seem the only game in town but the road tyres have met their match.. FMBs seem to take over now where Andre Dugast left off.. These are the tyres that a lot of pro-riders are even paying out-of-pocket for...

They have both cotton and silk, Dugast and FMB. But I did'nt think the silk was worth the extra cost and reduced robustness. I'll rethink that somewhat.

Silk rides much nicer. Back "in the day" the ultimate tubulars were Clement Campionato del Mondo Setas. I just could not afford them...

Veloflex Carbon were top of my list. I get on well with their open tubulars. They seem to hit the sweetspot for me in terms of performance vs robustness/cost. But I can get the Dugast cheaper here.

You might want to import them from Germany... Sub 60 EURO/each. Norway is outside the EU so you might be able to get the 19% taken off .. Not sure about Moms these days... but even if it gets added on.. If still under 450 NOK..

"We’re proposing more arithmetic and algebra in maths, more detail in science, more clarity on punctuation and spelling in English, more emphasis on modern methods of computing like coding."

DId he then go on to talk about those "muslamic ray guns" too?

Dugast Strada cotton, 22mm front, 25mm rear.

For posh bling... If its good weather only I'd go with FMB Competition CX 227/25s in silk.. Silk is a bit more expensive but in good weather its much nicer riding.. just just don't like getting soaked too much as they can tend to rot out.. If you want robust then the FMB Paris-Roubaix are a much better choice.. If not PRs front and rear.. PR rear and a CX front.
From an aesthetic point of view, however, FMBs and Zipp carbon are not quite harmonious--- the tyres are quite old school. Something like the new all-black Conti Comps or Veloflex Carbons will, I think, look nicer and make a better statement at the espresso bar..

What about tape just for the emergency pissing-down-with-rain mid-ride tyre fitting? I'd rather have properly glued tyres normally, but if it's just a get-you-home gentle-riding fix then would it be better than a pre-glued tub with old glue?

Don't think so. Tape is just not something to do in the field.

Unless you are trying to replace a tyre at the track, race a criterium or ride quickly down mountain serpentines there is little to worry about with spare tyres and glue on the rims. The point of tubular mastic is to stay sticky. As long as the glue has not "dried out" (then it did not really work with the old tyre either) its designed to maintain stick. That's the difference between road mastics and what we use on the track or in criteriums. Track glue is designed to hold better and provide much lower rolling resistance but its not "reuseable".

How well does old glue hold? WIth a bit of riding and heat I've found it to hold very well. I've often found it very difficult to remove my spares.

Seeing, however, that its an emergency spare and perhaps the old tyre was not properly glued just don't ride hard. Even without good cement tyres hold remarkably well to rims. If there are no strong lateral forces there is something to push the tyre off the rim. Its these forces that the glue restrains. A tyre inflated to 8 bar has a very strong grip on a rim.

Unite against fascism counter demo anything the EDL does.

UAF is even more wack then the EDL. Behind UAF are quite a few groups that are express Holocaust-revisionisism and condone, if not support, hate crimes against Jews. Ken Livingstone is just their poster boy--- not that he's untainted by Jewish stereotyping if not a wee bit of instrumentalized antisemitism (gets votes, just ask Nick Griffin and George Galloway ). UAF's joint secretaries are Weyman Bennett and Sabby Dhalu with Azad Ali as vice chair. Azad Ali is not just an Islamic fundamentalist, al-Awlaki fan-boy and anti-democrat (“Democracy, if it means at the expense of not implementing the sharia, of course no-one agrees with that.”) but deep set Jew hater and supporter on a number of groups whose roots are shared with the NSDAP (German Nazi Party). I guess they'd argue that Hitler was an anti-Fascist.. Its creeps like the UAF that spin the EDL.. Its funny since guys like Ali, I'm sure, would have been a fan of the BUF...
Nothing like going to a peace and AntiFa demo hearing cries “Itbah Al-Yahud” and ‘Khaibar, Khaibar ya Yahud…"
Sure a lot of well meaning people show up to UAF demos..

Here's my solution for spare tub carrying, just in case anyone's interested. A Tufo Elite <120g rolled up in a Scicon Aeronaut saddle bag

The Tufo Elite 160 is quite popular for that use. I'm, however, not too convinced as I suspect that the spare might not be useable when it comes time to use it. My experience has been that tubular tyres don't keep as well tightly jammed into a bag on the bike as back at home in a cardboard box (or wheel bags). The Elite is also a flimsy tyre.

They are also not cheap.

As a tubular tyre user one nearly always has some junked tyres about. Too good to throw away but no longer good 'nuf to bother with. These make, I feel, the best spares. Weight? The real weight of the Elite 160 is more like 220g. Both the 22mm Conti Tempo and 19mm Conti Competitions are about the same weight. Space? A 19mm Conti Tempo is pretty darn tiny (and much lighter than the Tufo)! I would never purchase a Tempo as a road spare but a lot of us have them from the track... The Tufo track Elite 125? Don't know anyone that uses them on the track.. On the road.. forget it..

Sad news for Oliver Schick,

The word "Rindfleischetikettierungsueberwachungsaufgabenuebertragungsgesetz" is no more...

I expect most of us English speakers will treat such news with floccinaucinihilipilification.

That article is silly. In contrast to English--- which also has compounded words--- German allows nearly unlimited compounding. In English the route is first through dash. Because nouns can be compounded nearly as one wishes in German dictionaries don't take it upon themselves to include more than those commonly used. There is nothing in German equivalent to the OED. The closest in the German language is the Grimm (aka DWB). That work started in 1838 was finally completed in 1961 and encompased 32 volumes. In 1971 a additional volume was released, The 33 volumes contain nearly 35,000 pages.

Its function, however, is not to set style but to document words.

Das wörterbuch ist kein sittenbuch sondern ein wissenschaftliches allen zwecken gerechtes unternehmen. selbst in der bibel gebricht es nicht an wörtern die bei der feinen gesellschaft verpönt sind. wer an nackten bildseulen ein ärgernis nimmt oder an den nichts auslassenden wachspraeparaten der anatomie gehe auch in diesem sal den misfälligen wörtern vorüber und betrachte die weit überwiegende mehrzahl der andern.

See: the digital Grimm

wow

I suspect wrong intended semantics for "True Track"!

You could consider a Suicycle Lo-pro.

Handmade in Germany, as slave as a Low///.

• Suicycle is a shop and not a bilder. Their best frames are from Hagen Wechsel. He sells frames though a number of shops around Hamburg.. Lubeck, Bremen,...
  
• Hamburg is over 350 km away from Cologne. Too far, I think, just to have a casual lookie-lookie..
  If one wants to widen the German search.. then alongside Wechsel and Krautscheid I'd also have a look at Agresti and Wiesmann. Wiesmann (near Freiburg) also does Steel and Titanium. Agresti (in Hanau, a town just north of Aschaffenburg into Hessen) does also Alu. They all do really nice work. From Cologne to Aachen is also not far and from there .. Belgium.. Holland is at ones feet...
  

I am in cologne and right now I would prefer a true track geometrie in aluminum..

Probably the closest builder to Cologne would be Krabo (Günter Krautscheid) in Bochum.. His son too is now making frames so there are two to choose from.. Krabo has been around for awhile and he made frames for, among others, Zabel... Distance to Bochum is 80 km...

I totally agree with slates, supporting a local company, and avoiding shipping for a variety of reasons make total sense..

Now I need to find a local frame builder that equally inspires! And I am in Germany btw...

Loads of great builders in Germany.. Depends upon where you are.. And what corner.. oh.. and what material.. Steel? Alu? Ti?

I like their approach to quality and non-Italian craftsmanship. the pelizzolis are nice no doubt, but they don't do it for me...

What is their approach to quality? Handmade? South East Asian frames are "handmade" too.. Being American? Being non-Italian?

I actually the look of the mash frames, and if I get something a tad rarer with less hype but of equal quality

Cinelli/MASH frames are.... Chinese...

and maybe more of a true track geo that would be great!

What is "true track"? Looking at the stock Lows I don't see anything about them that seems "true track".. 74 degree seat-tubes across the board on their Standard reminds me more of the road frames that Colnago sold in North America than "true track". Surely not a 6-days frame.. Nothing about them that says "no track" but..

I'm sure they are OK.. I'm just not a fan of long long seat-posts and riser stems.. With modern alu (OS, shaped etc.) tubes not much weight is saved.. Don't see really any advantage.. but some negatives.. like flex in the seatpost.. But.. hey... who said fashion needs to make sense or ...

52cm seattube to a fucking 59tt, what is?

Its not really a 52cm but a 59 using fashionable extra-long 31.8 seat-posts and riser stems to set position rather than longer head-tubes with "old school" drop stems. Looking at the frames they seem to be too C'dale 90s and just too "groovy" with "mashy" graphics for my taste.. all together a kind of bad pastiche.. made even more "Monty Pythonish" by their Web text... "San Francisco, we are at ground-zero of one of the most vibrant cycling communities in the world."

Heard too many horror stories about normal cement, carbon rims and heat.

Told by people that have experienced problems?

Frankly carbon is not the world's greatest material for rims. Alu alloy replaced wood on the road for good reason. Carbon is even in some ways inferior to wood. Both are insulators. Alu has proven itself to work well since its not only strong and light but also has very good thermal conductivity. The entire rim acts like a big heat sink. This improves braking but also allows for the rim bed to heat and melt glue. With carbon since its not well conducted the rim does not dissapate heat and the walls can get quite hot. The walls of carbon rims can sometimes deform. This is why folding HP clincher tyres are not a good match. Even with really good "carbon pads" braking on carbon is not as good as with alu.

But back to the issue.. Howat's tests showed that Conti Carbon cement was somewhat stronger than the general formulation but also found it much more difficult to use. I'm not familiar with any thermal tests of the "Carbon Glue" but he found that at 60C the general Conti glue looses 50% of its "performance" compared to @ 20C--- Mastik1 did a bit better (65%).

As an aside.. In real praxis heat from braking effecting tubular glue is MORE a problem with alu than carbon/wood rims. Bonding, on the other hand, is more a problem with carbon.

Not that my commuter will ever get used in the Alps, but the road bike is being used in the mountains next month, and I'd rather I didn't roll a tyre there.

Just try to not ride the brake... As long as you are going more or less straight and not terribly fast into curves even if the rim cement is flowing you are not going to "roll" a tyre. If you think its bad then stop and let the wheels cool down--- I known more than a few people that have blown out their clincher inner-tubes riding down the Brenner pass into Italy.

I ride a lot in the pre-Alps and I've had to stop on more than a few occassions riding very steep serpentines in heavy traffic--- one can't do anything but ride the brake. Since one is going pretty slow one can feel when the glue is going soft. With carbon rims your main worry, I think, will be the brake pads.

With carbon rims I'd just mix a bit of Patex into the cement. TEROKAL 2444 outperforms rims cements with Conti tyres but is ill-suited to road changes.

Mastik-One has a longer working window than Conti Carbon cement, and is therefore easier to use.

Don't bother with Conti Carbon cement. The standard Conti glue works well and if one wants to get a better hold on carbon rims one can use a bit of Patex (contact cement)--- this is what a number of pro-riders do.

Tape is much less intimidating, however

One should not be so easily intimidated. Glueing tyres is neither rocket science nor the ancient art of fashioning the Kiku-ichimonji.

My Gators arrived today, I'll get them stretching tonight.

Anywhere in town stock Mastik1?

Mastik-One is good but Conti is also good. Conti glue is trusted by most of the Peleton that used Conti tyres. Conti tyres has open backing tape so one can also use shellac and other cements such as TEROKAL 2444 if one wants absolute bonding for the track.