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Either should do.

Are you mounting on flats or drops?

Can make a difference to the aesthetic in terms of feel and comfort.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/DIA-COMPE-287-V-BRAKE-LEVERS_W0QQitemZ180260921559QQcmdZViewItem?hash=item180260921559&_trksid=p3286.m14.l1318

These might be a bit more favourable.

That was still a pretty late catch on the breakaway yesterday. It'll be interesting to see how breakaways get treated now. I won't be surprised if they get put down and spit out the back pretty quickly now.

Is the picnic this weekend? Do send an update.

Don't forget: pork pie, scotch egg & ginger beer. Picnic essentials! (+ a condom - you never know your luck...)

Yep, if you impress her with a culinary Heath Robinson machine, she's bound to tell you her name.

Hippy -
If the Metro article didn't put up a picture of him with devil horns and a speech bubble proclaiming his love of terrorists I'll be bloody surprised.

^ Spoilers

No more dangerous than on geared. The idea is that you're supposed to tuck the laces down. Takes half a sec to pop them under the bottom lace line.

Crap, that means I can only use it on rest day.

Cheers matey. Will abuse this as much as the gf will allow.

all pigs are wankers

So when do you think I should break the news to my dad then?

looks like there isn't much left to do apart from coughing up the dough then.

If you're going to do that, I would strongly advise the go to them, through the legal advice, and admit the riding on the pavement, apologise for not heeding the authority of an officer of the law and refute the other two. Add to that he will not level an official complaint for the racism and intimidation and I reckon they'll accept.

Contact the police, obtain their official complaints procedure and follow it to the letter for starters.

Also, do all of the written communication for your friend and make sure you spell check and grammar check everything you do. I say this because from the above it's obvious his English isn't fully fluent and it looks better if it is. Also, if you write from a more dispassionate viewpoint, it will appear as if he is "getting help". It'll make the cops adopt a by the book approach in case the help is coming from the legal sector.

Racist Cops Target French Terrorist In High-Speed City Chase

Or as the Daily Mail would say; National Heroes Avert French Terrorist Armageddon In Our Beloved Capitol.

Cop meets frenchman, cop loses frenchman, cop finds frenchman again, cop falls over, cop blames frenchman, frenchman falls foul of institutionalised bigotry and is ill equipped to deal with the machinations of the British Jutice System.

It's one of the classics.

Sources of funding for road building and maintenance;

Motorways - Car Tax (correctly called Vehicle Excise Duty) topped up by funding from the Treasury as that isn't enough. Treasury funding comes from Income Tax, VAT (including that charge on bicycles) etc.

Major trunk roads (i.e. non urban A & B roads) - Treasury funding as above.

All other roads - Council Tax.

Can we note Spoilers?

Like this

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
SPOILERS BELOW:

[insert spoiler]

or something like that please?

Sorry, I should have thought about that. It was a dick move to post whilst the stage was still underway and I will be more circumspect in the future.

Although, to be fair, in a thread about an ongoing race, there is a good chance that there will be information about the progress. And when do details and results stop being spoilers? It's not as if a poster is going to know when everyone has had a chance to catch up on the days action and therefore be able to discuss it freely.

is there anyway that he could be banned from cycling as you can be banned from driving?

Technically you can but you would have to use something like the ASBO mechanism which lack effectiveness and policeability outside a local community situation. Then again, driving bans are also notoriously useless unless the driver gets caught again and you can then indulge in a book throwing exercise.

Nothing can be worst than last year!!!

If it is, I'm holding you personally responsible.

If you're using normal shoes, get some bungee laces. They'll make it a damn sight easier for shoe changes than fiddling with laces with wet fingers and when you jump off the bike.

How much should I spend on the table?

Keep riding 42-18, and learn how to spin. It takes a little while, but it's worth learning.

What do you class as spin?

I was easily pushing above 120 on the flats and loosing control on the decents. Do I need to be going at that rate as a matter of course?

Yes it will be harder to brake. 42 x18-> 52x18 is a massive jump 61.3 g.i -> 75.9 g.i (assuming 23 mm tyres and 7000 wheels). Consider a smaller step.

Fair enough. I was trying to be lazy and use the other chainring on my conversion. Might have to see if the lbs has a 16 available.

Also, I seem to remember Balans on Old Compton Street being open late and serving food/good coffee into the wee hours.

McDonalds do coffee.

Only in the loosest possible interpretation of the word. I'd rather drink the camel piss that gets churned out by Starbucks.

But I'm still struggling to find out exactly what the cyclist did wrong.

Bearing in mind that jaywalking is not actually a crime in this country, he had a legitimate obligation to make a reasonable effort to avoid a collision. Shouting at the pedestrians did not fulfil that obligation as there is no legitimate case for transference of the onus of responsibility.

Oddly, whether or not he could have stopped in time is a moot point in this case. Taking into account the nature of what the rider said, it is safe to assume that he perceived that he could have done but chose not to.