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Whack on VAT, the box, and postage, it's a few pence shy of £100.
They're great rims though.
I've gone for the box section ones for a few years now, which were £45 a pair 2 years ago, like tokyofixedgear mentioned.
But that was before he went VAT registered, before the pound fell so much, and before bike part fetishism went completely stratospheric.

And bearing in mind that you can now buy a cordless angle grinder (albeit a shit one) for £35, the above video is very relevant to your choice of lock

94.9 presumably related to this article:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/london/hi/people_and_places/newsid_8528000/8528353.stm

At 40 secs a bike goes through a red light, and so does a 7.5t lorry.
Which one do the pigs stop?

Paul Gambaccini
Mike Read
Cliff Richard
Noel Edmonds
Phil Collins

I once got hit by a royal mail lorry.
I was walking on the pavement at the time (between Victoria bus and railway stations), the next thing I knew me and my rucksack were pirouetting along like a spinning top.
Fuck knows how he hit me, but he did. And then he drove off.

But it's still a screen - I bought a 24" widescreen monitor to read PDFs on, as you can either have two pages on the screen at once at 100% (i.e. A4), or, have one page filling the width of the screen, enabling me to sit further away from it.
Shit all use if you need it to be portable though.

I fail to see how Primatos fail the "quality to price ratio"?
You are right, they're not the best hubs by a very long shot, and I know they certainly score very low on the hipster value index (mainly due to their low price and the fact that you need to be a bit handy to swap parts out on them), but at £50 a pair the "quality to price ratio" is pretty good. Mine were £50 about 5500 miles ago, dunno what they cost now.

You are right, it is shit.
I'd like to have seen James Cameron spending $1/3 billion on rainforest conservation.
But no, he spends $1/3 billion on making a dogshit film about imaginary rainforest conservation.

Hombré.
Paul Newman dies.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7Kf2ZWqmkc

The north-western part of your map (i.e. Hardwar, Simla etc.) runs a high risk of being wet and cold in early December.
If I was going to fly all that way I'd head for the sun down in the south - Tamil Nadu, Kerala, the Western Ghats as ad441 mentioned.
That northern region is one of the poorest and most politically dubious areas in India, and could be quite harsh on the senses. And the food in the south is amazing.
But take spares with you wherever you go, particularly stuff that is metric.

Well I don't know about Australia and NZ, but when touring in France and Italy I've had nothing but encouragement from passing drivers and peds - certainly for France I feel you could get by without any sort of guide as it's such a pleasant place to cycle around.
But I can't help but being cynical about cycling in the UK, especially when you read stories like that one about the bloke who cycled around the world on his old banger, and then, upon arrival in Dover, someone nicked it.

I've got the Britain one. It's quite interesting although I've not actually done any touring here.

What does it say? "Cycling in Britain is simply great, if you enjoy lashings of verbal abuse, broken bones, attempted murder and general hatred towards you, then get on your bike!"

Motivational work poster fail! (An email I received today)

Please forward to your teams.

It was brought to my attention that the posters we have placed near the door to encourage you to connect with your managers advocate and experts on this floor, have been defaced. (Defacing company property is gross misconduct.)
This is so disappointing when I think of the challenges we face as a department to work towards where we need to be in terms of the experience we create for our customer, that one or more of us are prepared to cause the inconvenience and cost of having to replace expensive large colour prints, that are here for your benefit.

As we are not able to identify who did this unfortunately I have had to blanket brief you all, and for those of you who continue to come to work every day with the right work ethic and behaviours, Thank You, and I apologise to you for having to hear of an example where your colleague has let your group down, and for the time this has taken away from what I have been able to do to support you whilst you do your best for our customers today.

Regards,

Kate.

Are there really people in the world who would write an email such as this (without having a wry grin on their face)?
The thought that someone wrote this in earnest actually makes me feel sick. Has someone killed the author yet?

True, however judging how dangerous you're driving purely on speed, with all due respect, is a fucking stupid idea.

I have been in a car with drivers who regularly break the speed limit, but they are good drivers, they know how to handle a car properly, at times I have been in cars going over twice the speed limit, but still felt safe, because I knew the car was being driven by a skilled driver. I have never, ever been more afraid in a car than when I was in my mates car a few months after he got his licence, 15 minutes of pure terror. Not once did he even approach the speed limit.

Fast driving does not mean dangerous driving, people need to learn that.

To infer that driving at higher speeds is not any more dangerous than driving at slower speeds is an old and very silly argument.
Of course, it's so very obvious that skilled drivers can handle a car at high speeds better than unskilled ones can at slow speeds (and don't they like to tell people this too - the old 'well if you knew how to drive as well as I do' argument...)
But, the fact is that (beyond passing a once-in-a-lifetime test) driver skill is largely irrelevant in everyday life - it is both immeasurable and and too highly variable to be able to base legislation upon.

To suggest that speed *doesn't *kill simply because a minority of people somewhere in the world are skilled at driving at high speeds, means that the majority of people, who are useless at driving, will still be causing accidents because they are driving too fast.
Reducing speed limits does reduce accident mortalities, because the sad truth is, not everyone is as good at driving really really fast as your mates are. And there's a very good chance that they aren't as good at driving fast as their mates think they are.

Why do delinquent Kevs shout "your wheels are going round!!" ?
It is confusing me, because it is such a daft thing to say, no matter how you look at it.

I notice that (after clearly failing in it's mission to stage an anti-cyclist hate-fest) all evidence of this debate ever existing has been removed from The Spectator website.

What a bunch of yellow-bellied hysterical old windbags.

search for tubemiter.zip and you'll find it straightaway

Cassette removal tool is fairly important safeguard if you're doing long distance, as well as the means to use it i.e. 6" wide-mouth adjustable wrench. On a panniered bike the spokes most likely to break are those on the rear drive-side, inaccessible with the sprockets still on. Crank removal tool is fairly important too - with all this and a multitool you're fairly sorted.
I take either a bivvy or a expedition hammock, with every 5th day in a b&b to have a good wash. You don't necessarily need to cook on the road in Europe as you can eat out very well for not much money.

Glastonbury = big fields + lots of urbanite hedonistic Brits who are typically fairly self-centred and often shitfaced to boot.
The countryside/rural aspect of it (or 'eco' if you choose to use this phrase) is to most of them totally inconsequential, and therefore so is making a mess of the place.
Their rubbish disappears by as if by magic when at home, so the presumption is that it will do too when they're at Glastonbury.
No thoroughly modern twenty-something festival goer would be seen dead taking responsibility for their own actions.

These are very good - high quality and relatively cheap