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According to on one's blurb, v4 has steeper angles than v3. But those charts contradict that. I think the v3 chart was always wrong, it felt/looked way more relaxed than 73 degrees.

One way roads are something that frustrate me..

Cycling around Soho or Fitzrovia in particular is incredibly frustrating. You can be a few yards from your destination, but have to do some ridiculous detour taking you further and further away from your desired direction of travel.

The saddle looks a lot higher than any of the suggestions in those fit tables.

some people been saying the old pomp geo chart was complitely wrong and never fixed

This is what I've always thought. It was much slacker than the chart would make you think. I wonder if the new version is actually closer to the old geo chart...It looks like they've moved towards a more 'standard' geo 73/73.5 HA/SA.

I always wondered whether, when they changed the fork design (with longer A-C length), they never changed the frame, resulting in raised BB, and super slack angles and an explanation for the wrong chart...just conjecture though...

I know there's not chart yet, but does look better - looks like a lower BB, Steeper HA and SA.

Can male cyclists stop rubber necking/checking out women pedestrians please? It's really obvious and pathetic. Just because you're on a bike doesn't make you anonymous.

Another welcome sight - police talking to driver in ASL.

Saw this in Putney - encouraging.

I've noticed a lot of new bike shops opening recently that are really high end. I think what the UK is lacking is a good quantity of just good, basic and practical bike shops that will do repairs, have all those obscure parts, give out good unbiased advice and sell decent reasonably priced practical bikes. There are some great exceptions, but in general the UK consumer is only aware of places like Evans or Halfords or the high end roady type places that are full of De Rosas and energy gels and £200 gilets. It sort of mirrors the trend of cycling in London, where I see a lot of blokes on their road bikes now acting like twats giving everyone a bad impression of cyclists. While the boom in cycling in London is good, it's sort of unheathily skewed towards 'cycle culture' or fashion or roadie/sportive posing, and there always seems to be some kind of statement made in the activity of cycling rather than just doing the activity in and of itself.

Combined with some turbo and stretching I'm pretty confident things are going better with gears. Geared you can choose how hard you work, and when, and you can ride with normal people ;-)

This is pretty much how I see it. Fixed is great for commuting (and short/relatively flat rides), but the gear I'd use for commuting is a bit lower than the one I'd use for 'training' - which either means compromising or fiddling around changing ratios (even with a flipflop it's not straightforward). The last couple of years I've just used a relatively cheap alu road bike all winter (and summer too) and feel much fitter/stronger when the spring arrives. Which makes sense - if your aim is to be faster on a road bike, then just ride a road bike pretty much all the time (although obviously less hard in winter). I've gotten out of practice going up hills properly when I've ridden fixed for too long, and it takes a while to get this ability back. I just have the odd fixed ride every now and then to keep things varied and fun.

Guy on a black planet x kaffenback riding along Thames Path in Wandsworth - nice winter bike that.

Would it have been better to let that guy on the Monsal Dale Hill climb lie down, rather than trying to prop him up on his bike?

Has anyone used a permanent coffee filter like this:

http://www.anothercoffee.co.uk/products/item110310.aspx

I usually use paper filters and a plastic cone, but it's a bit of a faff in the office with everyone just getting their instant stuff...

I was tempted by the FXE, looks like a fast, nippy, stiff aluminium frame. Re. the precursa - I used to think a track bike would make a 'fun' town fixed. And they do for a while, but can be harsh and uncomfortable especially in winter, when you want a bit more stable handling. Not having a bottle cage would be a bit of a PIA if you do even a slightly longer ride. You can also put full guards on the FXE.

I saw pretty much every type of behaviour exhibited in this thread on a 45 minute ride around SW London today. My fault for not checking there was a massive charity ride, a 7000 competitor duathlon in RP as well as another duathlon in C. London. Carnage, chaotic and farcical are words that come to mind. Huge pelotons of riders, saddles about 6 inches too low, weaving and swerving randomly around the road. Roadies and triathletes giving it the 'I'm a serious cyclist' look while riding like utter tools. Combined with the huge numbers of drivers who decide sunday is a good day to get in the car and drive to a busy town centre. Despair.

Amazing amount of stupid, selfish, self-destructive behaviour on the road today. Black cabs buzzing past or taking up the whole road coming the other way on narrow roads, cyclists going through road works or racing on their commute or undertaking, pedestrians walking down the middle of roads (seriously) then veering off in one direction or another, cars going through reds then turning without indicating. I don't mind busy, but on days like today I just despair of humanity. Is it the schools going back or something?

Or you could opt for the Dura-Ace crankset and the shifters, go Ultegra on everything else.

It's fairly common for people to trick out the big ticket parts of the groupset (cranks being the most notable), and then to cut corners on the consumable parts (cassette, chain) and the parts that others may not notice (rear der).

The differences between the best and the one just below aren't that great, and none of us are professional riders likely to notice.

Invest in the frame and fork, everything else can be re-considered later.

If you have the cash, invest in the big ticket parts of the group, replace the cheap bits later if you ever feel the need.

I'd never want to cut corners on the consumable parts (cassette, chain, tyres etc) as they have massive impact on how a bike rides and performs. It would be no fun to ride a nice bike with mediocre tyres and heavy/poor quality cassette/chain. You may visually notice the Dura Ace cranks, but I seem to remember that the Ultegra cranks were right up there as one of the best/stiffest cranks on the market.

This is a 58cm Felt F1 Team Slipstream frame from 2008. Both David Millar and Brad Wiggins were on this size bike that year, so a possible chance to get one of their old frames:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/58cm-2008-Felt-F1-Sprint-Garmin-Frame-Frameset-Frame-Road-Bike-Carbon-Fiber-/111134172721?pt=US_Bicycles_Frames&hash=item19e01ce631http://rover.ebay.com/roverimp/1/710-53481-19255-0/1?ff3=2&pub=5574889051&toolid=10001&campid=5336525415&item=111134172721&mpt=[CACHEBUSTER]

I'd not seen this before, could be a repost. Bradley Wiggins not getting on well with the CX practice when he was in Francaise Des Jeux a few years ago:

Bradley Wiggins, ses débuts à la FDJ dans un film de maxime Boilon - YouTube

I think saddles can vary a lot not just in how long the rails are but in where the rails themselves are positioned in relation to saddle itself. So you may find one that effectively moves you further back without the need for loads of set back.

ITV's much better.

That could have been largely out of their control. It's when they show world's strongest man or billiards instead of scheduled cycling highlights that annoys me most.

IIRC On One used to do a version of the pompino called the Pompino Pro which had carbon canti forks. They seem to have disappeared now, but seems there's definitely a market for a carbon cross fork that would suit the pomp's geometry.

reminiscent of
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DbUPjEbIvA