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Congratulations. That's a good average time for hacking through traffic.

Your puncture reminded me of my first Dunwich Dynamo. I threw a slow puncture in the front five miles from the beach and was too tired to find it so I just pumped up as much as I could and rode leant way back to the end.

Perhaps we should organise a full series of tube line end to end races.

Is the King Kog 100% pure plug and play CarbonFibreChipBoardTM? It looks lovely.

12mph tailwind all the way. Should be good for a coupld of minutes.

Not for me. Would go for a PopeSpok though.

Colourchanging spoks?

Just wait one h*pserfsckin moment - can they be threaded with random flashing leds? If so I'm off to mortgage someone's house for that.

Can I get 1 green and 1 blue. But then can you split em and re join them so that they're green on one side and blue on the other. Just use a couple of coachbolts on the rim if needs me.

Also, I don't have respect but can offer dignity.

"skill"
"technical competence"

I start getting worried when my idle tinkerings get referred to like that.

But seriously, I see what you mean. I forget sometimes that some things come easier to some and not others. Still, I'll always encourage people to have a go for themselves. I think it's amazing what you can acheive with a cheap toolkit and a copy of Haynes.

My apologies.
I was just trying to express my amusement at the staged aesthetic of the shoot. Not laughing at it in a cheap jibe fashion, just amused by it in contrast to the article preceeding it.

No offence intended, I asure you.

Much, much less. This is why I only do photoshoots for The Guardian.

Wow, you all turned up to the photoshoot in red, white and black. How embaressing.

£400 still ain't cheap, at least not in my book.

Of course you could build one for far less. It won't be as glamourous or "designed" but I suspect that it will be more precious when ridden.

If I tot up the cost of my new conversion, it comes in at around £150 max and that includes tools that will have a long life.

Go on tombolaprize, get an old frame off ebay and set to work.

tombolaprize - it's far better to have asked and endured than to have never asked at all.

'off' + 'grammar'

You were doing so well ! ;P

Oh the ignominy.

I'm off to drill holes in my chanesteys to make them look betterer.

Utterly useless, there's no way I could hang my Ortliebs on it.

Rather more worried about the bottom of the seat tube being machined out to "save wate". Will also save on stability and integrity in an otherwise survivable accident.

Not entirely sure I would be prepared to buy a bike of someone with such a perverse aversion to spelling and gramar either.

Coprolalia is one of my favourite words. It transliterates as "sh!t talking"

I do audax rides (not on fixed, yet) and although I have fairly bulky thighs, I'm something of an anomaly among the other riders. Most of the other men and pretty much all of the women have nice slender toned thighs. That's except for some of the supervets who have legs like chicken wings.

I don't think it's much to do with distance as much as it is to do with body type and rather importantly diet. If you replenish energy without providing the building blocks of muscle then you won't bulk much. This actually makes beer a good thing.

But they are not very cool, and seem to defeat the point of having a light bike.

How sweaty do I get?
Is there an international sweaty scale, like the Richter scale for wind?
[Not that sort of wind ...]

Ortliebs are cool.

Depending on at work storage and personal wardrobe needs, you could just run panniers once or twice a week and otherwise stick with a nice light racktop or handlebar bag (uncool but I do love mine).

No international sweat scale but feel free to use an adjective between dewey and rancid.

If it's not an impertinent question, just how sweaty do you get? If it's not that much then there are some backpacks that are designed to have minimal contact with the back (shoulders & hips).

I've also heard tell of a technique called riding slowly but can't figure what that's about. I suspect it may be a myth. I advocate the rusty method.

To be fair, it was a 24 hour race and you have to go a long way north, even in Alaska to avoid night time over that timescale.

Of course you then have a whole different kind of bear to contend with.

Check out the ***gritty urban environment ***he's riding through. Cool.

Now, now, some people like to roll past mail order grafitti under studio lighting.