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God I want a bell so badly, seems the iPod brigade are out in force at the moment. Anyone noticed that they seem to do it in threes? If someone steps out and then maybe has a look at the oncoming traffic they've just stepped into, seems to me two more about to do the same.

Exactly how I managed to smack into a young lady last summer - this bloke on the right (who had seen and acknowledged me) started to cross, and 3 or 4 people on the other side saw him crossing and *without looking *started to cross too - this resulted in my front wheel going between this poor girls legs, and my bars going into her belly!
Lucky it was me, as only a couple of seconds behind me were cars that they had neglected to notice too. It was a right fucking mess. And she had an iPod on so didn't hear my yell - but it wouldn't have done much good as I was only about 2 metres away when they went into the road.

Thought this may be interesting

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8061050.stm

A few of the TT specialists aren't doing too well today, Wiggins is 3rd so far I think - not the most exciting race I ever seen though.

Fucking cyclists are always fucking moaning about other cyclists. Most I've met over the years are annoying cocks at the best of times.
And some others are really decent people.

I like anything by these two, especially on days like today of course

YouTube - Alton Ellis and Phyllis Dillon Why Did You Leave Me To Cry

It's a given that the BNP are a bunch of total cunts.
What I can never get over is the tiny time delay between mentioning the letters BNP and all the cunty secret bigots coming out of the woodwork (like what Horatio said on the 1st page).
Maybe they feel they feel they should keep it secret as they'll get torrents of abuse from liberal hand-wringers like me, but I don't care about that.
Last time the elections were on there was discussion about overcrowding on the roads at the same time and some cockpiss actually tried to blame that on 'ver immagrunts' too! WAC!
I know a lot of our internet diatribes can be quite hateful, but I don't actually want to inspire hatred in people, which is what these cunty fuckfaces try to do.
I wouldn't be surprised if they've got someone siging up to this place now to try and pretend that they're just like us, a fixed wheel enthusiast (blurgh) yet they just 'want the best for this country and it's indigenous people'.
Give it time, one of the cunts will turn up.

I get the kind of reverse effect when people tell me that they earn x hundred thousand a year - I can't quite believe that it's possible to firstly do something that pays that much, and secondly that people can actually get shot of that much too.

I used to have a nice brass one, but people seemed to take offence at it more often than not, so I took it off and have gone back to yelling at them

6.50 an hour... that's about 13.5 grand a year before tax roughly.
That's about right for a lot of people I know; I've earnt more than that for the last ten years, but not much more.

Spayne innit

Missed it today, apart from the ending on youtube, listening to the Italian commentators.
Tomorrow looks interesting... a time trial along the Cinque Terre. Not exactly wide, flat roads around there.

"Should you one day get out of bed, be fucking careful, you might end up dead"

Tut Tut Chris Lewis

Apologies if it's a repost...

Is it the one with electric curtains and an inbuilt karaoke machine?

Presumably your brother's (or sister's, depending), too?

Slightly odd indirect description. :)

No nothing like that. My sister is marrying her brother. We're close.

*It's actually my wife's sister's wedding, so don't quite know how that works. Two people I'm not related to essentially.

Shite. Sister-in-law's wedding night.
I could try to join in but probably won't know who I am, where I am or how to put one foot in front of the other, so cycling might be a little foolish that night.

I had a minor bike accident the other day, and I wasn't wearing a helmet.
Fuck,is B&Q still open?!?

I have a rather nice road frame to build up, and it's the first one I've had that has straight forks with dropouts that point pretty much to the back of the bike.
The dropouts don't have the old 'lawyer's lips' on them either, and something makes me think that if I slam on the anchors a bit vigorously the wheel may be inclined to pop out.
Is this a realistic concern (I know on MTBs there was an issue with discs and regular dropouts)?
Will I explode or my flat burn down?
More importantly do any of you lot have a similar set up which is absolutely fine?
Ta.

Could've told you that was going to happen

If you do a search using 'undrilled' 'fork' and 'brake' I reckon you'll be on to a winner

That's what the police are for and that's what they cost.
I imagine they're zealously overstaffing the protests, but I'd rather my tax money goes on that than blowing up Iraqis and building bloody motorways left, right and centre.

And they're all paedophiles to boot. And they're nazis. And they eat dog food.

Any protection offered by a wooden shed that you might buy in B&Q is fairly superficial.
I've got one at the allotment that was marked up as £700 in the shops (I got it for £0), and it is so shit you could fart your way into it. They're made of very thin sections of fast-grown softwood and are crap.
Of course if you've concrete footings and ground anchors etc then the shed is good for keeping the rain off, but in themselves they don't offer any real security if you live in an area where attempted theft is likely.
I've not seen one of the metal jobbies, but they're probably better.
Ultimately though, you need some sort of fixing point made of concrete or masonry that will still be there once they've killed your shed.

Jesus that wheel building website has fucked my eyes! I really wouldn't recommend reading all the guff on there cos by the time you do you'll have a headache and vision problems.