Any question answered...

I think those two are part of the same plan. I'll call it plan B.

Finished my beer and realized I have a bag full of a weeks dirty laundry.

Crisis adverted.

And now I have a bottle opener.

One is steel and one is alu.

Cheap alu will get weaker the more you used it, whether steel held it shape, even can be bend to make it a snug fit.

It's something I choose when I have the bottle mounted underneath the downtube.

Blackburn do a perfectly decent stainless one for £12.

Defo worth saving the fiver or so.

King cages. Myth busted?

Who cares.

In other news, am I right in thinking Condor does Gore stuff - specifically bib shorts?

Anyone bought one of those two-up bike stands that Aldi are flogging for 30 quid? Any good?

Are they back again? I need something like that.

Any suggestions for good waterproofs?

I have some but they are a bit shit, more into leggings/trousers that will work well.

Am becoming a big paramo advocate. They have directional wicking fleeces which if combined with their breathable windproof jackets act as a waterproof.

Am hoping they'll soon do a similar solution for bottom half.

Top half is easy can go into most places and come out with something that works, bottom half not so much.

Have a pair of eVent overtrousers made by endura, which were great in terms of waterproofing and fairly breathable

Are cork handlebar grips durable, or do they end up all grimy and cracked?

I think it depends which brand, and over at RBW they shellac their cork.
They look pretty weird, but I like the Ergon grips and some of their models come with cork "in the mix".

best website to book a couple of train journeys in Europe? specifically Vienna-->Prague and Prague-->Berlin

thanks

I used SNCF recently. They have a euro wide page. The prices were the same as buying domestically for me (Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany). So it was simpler using one rather than three sources, more than anything else.

thanks, will check it out... it says winter sales open 15th Oct...

trying to get cheap as poss as http://www.thetrainline-europe.com/ states a 45% discount if you book early, but nothing for christmas is up yet...

Not got a direct answer, but this site is really useful for finding out about train travel around Europe
http://www.seat61.com/

Best free thing to download a video off YouTube right now?

There are plenty of Chrome extensions that should do what you need...

I tried the first one that came up ("Video Downloader professional") which was cack.

The interface was baffling and after I'd clicked around a bit I got a big popup saying chrome has disabled all downloading of videos from YouTube anyway. Soz! But imploring me to "please don't rate us bad".

Investigating...

keepvid.com

Investigating...

If you can't stream rip, there's always screen recording. Autodesk Screencast Recorder seems pretty simple to use.

Appears you have to go into developer mode to install/enable it...

I'm on a work PC and I'm not gonna risk it for the moment.