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That stretch of road (off the strand via the cyclepath and up towards Covt Garden) seems to encourage bad driving. I think because it's a dead end (for cars), taxis coming out of that junction on the right don't think they have to look left to see if anythings coming.

Funny people refering to In Utero. I was listening to that recently and was reminded how, when I first bought it and put it on, I was disappointed at how they sounded on Serve the Servants. Then I realised that this was actually a much more powerful sound than the rather overproduced Nevermind. Also, Suede's Animal Nitrate came on the radio the other day and (despite sounding really dated) it had a kind of saturated distortion that just would not be accepted by the industry today.

You might think about leaving early, but that might not be possible if you're doing it officially and have a set time. Ditchling has quite a variable gradient I seem to remember, some if it quite steep, and there are a few twists and turns before the top. In terms of overall distance it's not that long, but it can be punishing at the end of a long ride.

yeah, too short I think. Cheers anyway.

sounds interesting. It's for a size Large Pompino and I need quite a few headset spacers to get to the right height (the pompino seems to have a pretty short head tube, to me anyway). Provided it's got a long enough steerer I could be interested.

Looking for a carbon cross fork for a pompino. Seem to remember on one used to do one, but don't seem to anymore. Also, the Alpina cross fork seems harder to get hold of and more expensive than I remember. Anyone know of any deals out there? Was hoping not to spend more than £100.

it's got nothing to do with theorising on the net. Anyone who follows cycling remotely closely, by reading journalists and reporters, will be aware of the massive gulf between Armstrong's popular image and the reality.

clintsmoker, I notice in none of your posts you deny that Lance doped. He doped and lied about it. That's what annoys people. Nothing to do with alpha male blah blah..

Armstrong had a different attitude to Landis just last year when he tried to make his own comeback.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2009/jan/23/amstrong-on-landis-return

Strange how, now Landis has spoken out about doping, he's become the target of smears and ad hominem attacks.

YouTube- An Election Broadcast from the Hung Parliament Party

erik pickles looks even more like a ham than karl rove:

You off then? bye.

Winky mouth-breathing incompetent fuckwit.

^compare with Jackie Ashley's column in the guardian (she was no Brown fan):

It could hardly have been done better. Behind the mask of anger, and the caricature monster hated by the press, there has always been a better Brown, a gentler and nicer man. Now, so late, we saw better Brown saying goodbye.

My guess, as he left with Sarah and his boys, is that he may do very well in his post-Westminster life. Not for him, I think, the super-paid speeches, the executive jets and the swank, but books and good works. My guess is that one day, the country may yet warm to this man.

and nothing to do with Rupert Murdoch all...
of course, that's why I said 'part'. I'm not criticising Campbell. The way he fights against the right-wing press is immensely impressive.

Part of the reason the media were cheerleaders for Cameron was because they had been on the sharp end of Alistair Campbell for so long and wanted to punish him & his party. This clip just shows how he can still really get under their skin.

heartbreaking for Vandevelde. Just as he was coming into his own, towards the end of his career, he's been so unlucky with crashes.

Yeah, it's weird isn't it. Means I've now got a handlebar reach of 56cm on the pompino, compared to 59cm on the road bike. I'd expect to me more stretched out on the road bike, but that 3cm feels pretty drastic.

I'm having difficulty getting properly set up on my pompino. The seat tube angle according to the website is 73.5 degrees, which is the same as my road bike. However, with the saddle in roughly the same position on the seat post, I'm ending up with the saddle further back behind the BB. I think this may be causing me to not have enough power going through the pedal stroke.

speaking of which,
YouTube- Kay Burley bullies a protester in the name of "journalism"

'Fair and balanced' reporting from Kay Burley.

That picture of Cameron on the Mirror's front page is telling, because at the age Cameron was smashing up restaurants as part of the Bullingdon Club, Gordon Brown was campaigning to raise the living wages of university cleaners, and to stop investment in South Africa. Brown was on the side of those who have to clean up the mess after Cameron and his ilk have torn everything apart.

your vote will count towards who is, for example, the next most popular candidate in your constituency, and will therefore affect how people vote come the next election when they look at the share of votes last time. Plus, in the discussions that will take place in the next few days about popular vote vs number of seats, all votes will count equally.

Also, voting is a right that has been hard won, and is not available to all in the world.

sorry, should have acknowledged you'd posted about it before. Just wanted to link to whole article, which I found a powerful description of the parties' differences.

And in any case, in the case of Labour, no one needs to convince anyone that they are dick wads.
This is just a kind of lazy prejudice, which it is fashionable to affect. I think it's based very much on the fact that Labour have been in power for 13 years, and people just like to hate whoever's in power. The reason I have a problem with it is a) Labour's heart is in the right place and it has done a lot of good for this country (minimum wage, reform of house of lords, peace deal in NI, devolution, Human Rights Act, Freedom of Info Act, Sure Start, etc*) b) it does the Tories'/Right wing press' work for them.

*Compare that list of achievements with your glib use of the term 'dick wads', then consider if you've really thought through your assessment of the last few years.