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Thanks Kerley, I have raised the saddle. But I do have long legs and arms. I had a 60cm frame before this bike, but it was too small.
How much did you raise it by? I learnt the long way that small differences in saddle height make huge changes in ride comfort, power etc. Best to use some rule of thumb, like inseam measurement X 0.883, to get saddle height, then tweak it from there.

I read it all, and realised that there's loads I do that is probably bad practice. Agree about taking the lane and making your movements absolutely obvious to other road users. I was watching the nodders riding across waterloo bridge at rush hour and there's very little understanding of holding a line.

It infuriates me that people think they can attack and abuse cyclists with impunity simply because they are on the road in front of them and they don't like it. I've just come back from reporting an incident (much less serious than yours) and it was definitely worth being there in person.

Do my eyes deceive me or is that 650c front and rear though?
Or is he a monster?
Don't think so, as that's a standard Felt TT frame which presumably suits 700c wheels. Still a monster to turn that gear though.

Tour of Lombardy is on Eurosport today I think. One of the best classics.

"

Alberto Contador is relaxed about the launch of a preliminary investigation into suspect medical material that was seized during the 2009 Tour de France. Syringes and transfusion equipment believed to belong to teams were found in medical waste containers during the race and are currently being analysed."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_sports/cycling/8305492.stm

http://www.thestatesman.net/page.news.php?clid=5&theme=&usrsess=1&id=271665

I've used the search, but couldn't find an answer to this question.

I've just taken the cranks off my Miche Primato BB to inspect them, as they had come loose 2 or 3 times now. The edges don't seem to have rounded off, so I guess I'm going to just clean, leave to dry and re-install with a lot more force than previously (the cranks are Miche). However, just turning the spindle I noticed it doesn't feel very smooth. It's about 7 months old and I'm think I remember it not being that smooth to begin with anyway. So, my question is, does this have any effect during actual riding, and what is the different between a quality BB and a cheaper one like the Miche? Does it alter the characteristics of the ride?

I watched this, it was great actually.

I remember our Spectrum 48 had to be taken back to the shop 2 or 3 times due to bugs. Apparently Sinclair is still 'researching'. He came out with a folding bike a few years ago, and reckons flying cars are a possibility.

+1 on taking the right turn lane fully.

Couple of thugs try to beat up some drag queens, only to find out they're actually cage fighters in fancy dress and get a complete beating themselves.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2009/10/07/we-re-very-cross-cross-dressers-115875-21728860/

I was just in Amsterdam recently and hired a similar thing (Mac Bike, I think it's called). Very quickly got used to the city's transport system, and had no problems at all. I'd be wary of a visitor coming to London and thinking it's going to be as easy, though. You have to be much more assertive here, and there's a limit to how assertive you can be on a bike that weighs about 5 times what a fixed weighs. But then again, Paris traffic is similar to London and it seems to work there.

what kind of organisation is it you work for? could you take this higher up?

Expert bike fit?
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It's a conversion too. Waste of a v nice frame.

wearing a jacket that doesn't breath in this humidity.

I've no idea if he's surrounded by sycophants, but I find he's still worth reading. I'm not a big fan of repetitive misanthropy, but Brooker puts in enough imaginative metaphors and genuine eulogies to stuff he does like that he is one of the few media commentators worth paying attention to.

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Surely it can't be allowed to completely fabricate whole elements of the proposed legislation in a newspaper? And it's not just leaving out the small print, it's completely misrepresenting what is being proposed. There is a serious debate to be had about this kind of law, and I'm not 100% in favour, but if the papers can just print anything they like it makes it so much more difficult.

you could do something like this, booby trapped bike action at 1:50

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as i say, I am weirdly happy for the dog-lover. i wouldn't have expected to feel excited when he attacked, but i was - i think i thought the 'nearly-man' tag was a hard thing for anyone to bear when they have worked pretty hard.

...we'll just have to see how his tests look when they come back.
me too, and I like the fact he looks like he's just hanging on in the grand tours through sheer grit. Didn't he say 'I bloody do everything right in this sport, and still get bad luck'? I guess I'm just hoping there's one of the top riders who is clean.

I don't know much about English politics and have no idea who Norman Tebbit was, but I don't see that being total bollocks. Perhaps assigning it to a particular political party or philosophy is silly, but I think many of us choose to cycle through an individualistic streak. I hate taking public transport and being limited due to engineering works, strikes and poor service. The bike allows me to do what I want, when I want.

My wife lived in Copenhagen for 3 years and cycled everywhere. It's the norm there. Even when we go to visit, all of her friends show up on bikes whether it's a fancy restaurant, a social dinner or just drinks at a bar.
yeah, it's more the assigning of cycling to a particular political philosophy (and to Toryism of all of them). And in what sense, exactly, are bendy buses 'collectivist'?

I guess i didn't like the fact that a decent article was slightly let down by the journalists lazy attempt at shoe-horning in her own political prejudice.

"Indeed, to cycle in Britain today you must embody Tory philosophy: be a rugged fearless individual, wholly responsible for your destiny, battling against the collectivism of bendy buses and the red tape of illogical one-way systems. Norman Tebbit, after all, instructed the jobless to get on their bikes, not the train"

^This is bollocks, though.

But yes, it was a surprisingly decent article, and prompted me to read more about Copenhagen.

This site has some interesting info on bike sizing.

http://www.competitivecyclist.com/

Basically, it says you can go for 3 different bike sizing methods: competitive, traditional and French. Although the competitive method suggests something like a size down from what you'd normally go for, I think a 54cm for a person of 6 foot is slightly too small even for this.

Hanson: How tall are you?

The frame looks about a 54/55cm. The bullhorn bars look like they might extend the reach a bit, compared to ordinary drops.

I reckon if you're anywhere near 6 foot, the frame will probably be too small for you.

Of course, its fucking bonkers to go on the wrong side of these island things. But most of us here do it. And lots of Mbikers do too. In the end, we think of ourselves as not deserving to sit at the back of long jams of four-or-more wheelers. It's called filtering, right? Its an easy step to nipping round these islands.
I know this area well (Shaftesbury Ave leading up to Cambridge Circus, nr the Fire Station). It gets jammed with traffic all the time, and you need to filter down the rh side of the traffic. But then there's those traffic islands. I don't think going down the rhs of those is a dangerous move, provided there's nothing coming the other way. Peds do all kinds of jumping across traffic moves in that area. The only thing you did wrong was misjudge the traffic coming in the other direction slightly. The other driver acted disproportionately by trying to 'punish' you for this error by directing his vehicle at you. The driver will always claim that 'you were in the wrong' so it's best to let those incidents go, and save your comments for those times when your riding is faultless.

You in East Anglia, Eddie? I'm living in Norwich, working in Diss right now.
Bit of a tangent this, but does anyone who lives in the E Anglia area know anything about Carbonology. Apparently they can do repairs to carbon frames, and I'm trying to get people's experiences. For some reason there seem to be a lot of carbon workshops etc in that part of the country.

Mansun's Taxloss really feels like a different era. Or rather the beginning of the era that has just ended. Liking the prescient lyrics, too: 'We think you are stupid/We give you money cause our assets are fluid/We'll sell you down the river/Just remember that we said we'd deliver'. The freeze frame on the guy about the hurl the money is great.