Any question answered...

100mm Blackwell tub rims are always popping up on eBay

I'd prefer Bakewells.

^fat.

I'm stumping up some dollars for a Mission Workshop Vandal, but can't decide whether black or charcoal is better. Any thoughts?

black

charcoal

I'm leaning towards black...

Racist, but yeah.

I prefer the grey personally, but it sounds like you've already decided on black so go for it!

Interior colours the same?
Always easier to find stuff when the liner is a lighter shade.

This problem - simply a longer BB needed? Or another solution?

Plank of wood and a rubber mallet... 'tis only a pomp after all, even if a very nice one.

Did a u-turn and ordered the charcoal...

Definitely a racist

This problem - simply a longer BB needed? Or another solution?

Instead of whacking the chainstay, you could consider:

Shorter cranks;
MTB cranks;
A bottom bracket spacer on the drive side, unless both sides are clipping the stays, in which case;
Longer axle bottom bracket.

^^you got me

I really do not want to know the result of today's Tour of Flanders, I'm reluctant to ask in the Pro cycling thread or search for a suitable video on YouTube as the titles some times give away results.

Could someone be super awesome and post an appropriate video (highlights and/or last 10/20k) for me here?

Wiggins won, Froome second

Harrison Ford finished received the turquoise pyjamas

What size seatpost will a Reynolds 501 frame take?

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=What+size+seatpost+will+a+Reynolds+501+frame+take?

A raleigh 501 frame I had took a 27.0

^this

Cheers

What training is useful for long (7-12hr) events if you only have say an hour'sturbo, 2-3hrs and 4-5hrs available most weeks? In the past I've just HTFUd but I'd like to maximise what time I've got towards this.

Ride all of those hours. Closer to your event ride the turbo faster than race pace, ride the bigger block near to race pace. Ride the other stuff a bit easier.

Interval training... no two ways about it.

Is it possible to pop a tube by overheating your rims?

I got a sudden front flat today, near the bottom of an absolutely horrendous descent. Super steep, narrow, with lots of switchbacks and a really bad road surface which meant I had to ride the brakes a lot. The tube gave suddenly with an audible hiss and when I checked it, there was nothing obvious stuck in the tyre, no bulges, no problem inside the rim and the hole on the tube was more like a 3-4mm split, on the side where it would be closest to the brake track. I was running 115-120psi so it's unlikely to be a pinch flat and there's only the one large hole anyway, no snakebite. Tube was seated properly (I checked when I fitted it) and I'd put nearly 100km on it today before this with no problem, and countless km before that.

When I came to remove the tyre I had to give the rims a few minutes to cool down because, hot damn!

Did I ride a route so gnarly it exploded my tyre? :)