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Yes, I would. Albert Londres was a proper reporter for a newspaper that was a rival to L'Auto. He had written a series of reports on 'Devil's Island', a french penal colony, that scandalised France, and was a name in his own right.

The french title Les Forcats de la Route, doesn't really translate properly. Forcat (c sydilla) is a convict sentenced to penal servitude. 'Convicts of the Road' isn't quite right, either.

Anyway. It's a slim volume but gives a clear account of the savage nature of the Tour's early years. If you want to understand the sport, and its heritage, then it's far more important to read this book than, say, 'It's all about the bike' or anything else written in the last 20 years.

quite the review! went to check amazon, but it's not there...

I'd have been more than happy to hike the hills with you ralph, but I ended up buying and putting on a 18t.

Not that it matters. While goofing around with my new super easy skidding ratio I took a quasi-spill. Caught myself with my arm but it hurts like a fuck now. hopefully the pain will ease up before tomorrow morning, but if not... :(

I've also gone to Cavendish to get some stuff though. Also very nice guys and also not a mega-chain.

blb is a couple minute walk from me though, so they win (for my situation)

I have one of the blb frames. I'm happy. Had them build something which was half their otp anf half what I wanted. They've also been good to me since.

As far as powder coating iros. I think they're probably just getting the same Taiwanese company that makes iros make their frames. Although that's my hunch, not based in any actual knowledge.

Damn. Maybe I will. I'm gonna run over to one of they half-dozen bike shops around Spitalfields and see if they have a cheap 18t + tools. And I guess some t(i/y)re tape and tubes.

I'm tempted to do this as I haven't done any touring in a couple of years (and even then it was just a couple of return rides to Chambly from Montreal - 70kmish). And the Brighton ride sounds too hilly for my weak-ass. Sooooo. What kind of gear ratio did people use when they did this last year/are going to use this year? I'm 48x16 right now - thinking of changing to a 17 or 18 for this ride (74" or 70", rather than 79ish"). Someone mentioned the elevation was "pancake", but I'm not sure if that means easy or there is none (as in, the terrain is like a pancake). If it's really flat I'm not sure it's worth changing.

maybe under the avatar there should be a space for another image, which would have to be of the bike. click it and it expands.

make this happen, VB, i'm going for a long lunch. i'll expect it on my desk when i return.

I like this idea (if possible), but the one fault I see is that many people have many bikes.

yup my parents live in a small town outside of montreal and the fuzz there (during winter) wipe the snow and slush shit off of one head and tail light to cars parked outside the 2 (yes there are only 2) bars so they can tell from a distance if someone has been at the bar:ergo drinking.

v clever but you dont score a magnet when you get back. :(

Second person on this forum (other than me) with a Montreal connection! Go Montreal! Where is it your parents live? Rural Quebec is probably the only rural anything in North America I could imagine ever living in.

Maybe a magnet could signify whether a bike's been left all day/overnight/all week.

If it was ridden (but then relocked in the same place the next day), the magnet would probably have come off due to vibrations. If it's still there, the bike is 'dormant', and possibly seen as a more justifiable take...?

Pure conjecture. Bike thief isn't one of the many jobs on my CV.

I was thinking the same. I think Montreal cops (parking cops) use chalk on tires while making their rounds to see if they've been parked longer than allowed (maybe this is done here as well?).

Googling web pages that they could sell bikes on maybe?

Re: Snow Crash - this maybe?

Stephenson explained the title of the novel in his 1999 essay In the Beginning...was the Command Line as his term for a particular software failure mode on the early Apple Macintosh computer. About the Macintosh, Stephenson wrote that "when the computer crashed and wrote gibberish into the bitmap, the result was something that looked vaguely like static on a broken television set — a 'snow crash'". A similar behavior can be observed on computers with graphic cards after a GPU crash.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_Crash

I'd say that's more Camden than Shoreditch.

TriBeCa bars also boast the narrowest profile of any comparable fixed-specific alleycat monstertrack Spitzer bar ever, allowing for easy entry and exit out of subway turnstiles, taxi-vans, and condominium storage units.

Awesome.

'twas a pun I think.

http://www.last.fm/user/mark7714/

Saw a courier-ish (maybe not ish?) person in a Costa in the city today. I had my gf guarding my bike outside while I got an americanno. Went outside and saw a white Genesis locked up (locks are for people with out gfs I guess).

There's a guy riding one around oxford.

Oxford the city (rather than the street)? You happen to live there?

This would happen to me with my old KHS. Turned out the threads were fucked (the chain ring had made its own threads when put back on at some point) and the rear chain ring would slip loose when I'd skid, and then move back in when I'd pedal hard.

ah, balls! they have found out and changed it.

What was it?

Ahhh.

I'm glad it sold, but it's almost too nice for a pub/polo bike.

Is each letter one change, or is there something else!?!

1 Chris Crash
2 Sparky
3 Phil
4 RPM
5 Polybikeuser
6 lucky
7 mdx
8 asm
9 villa-ru
10 shinscar
11 squoocher
12 splatbucket
13 Aidan "Turd Furgurson" McFallon the 14th Duke of Enfield
14 MA3K
15 eeehhhh
16 ornmnt
17 kipsy
18 velocipede
19 fruitbat
20 silver (in mourning suit)
21 jamesaallen
22 Joe.S +1

1. mikec + the wife
   
2. mashton (ooooh, I love the number 24)
   
3. Skully (forgot to actually add me name til now)
   
4. Cloudy (my pal not on here)
   
5. Aroogah
   
6. Robofoxx
   
7. Cornelius Blackfoot (I'm in if I can still turn a gear after london to brighton)
   
8. Horatio + 1
   

This sounds like mucho fun. I'm quite in.