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Managed a 23:36 (geared) tonight on the local 10. 15secs faster than I managed a month or so ago and still all I've been doing is my regular 18mi commute on fixed.

I took gears to my local bumpy 10 last night in the hope of pushing my time closer to 30.00. Spent the last couple of weeks commuting on them since I've not ridden gears for a year. 30s slower instead. I'm not sure that the strategy with gears is working - I noticed that everyone who hammered past had a lower cadence. I forgot to turn Strava on though so I can't compare to see where I was slower - technology fail and effort fail.

Does that mean that the second round is on hold until you've spent 70% of the first round?

SHowever, partial, single-issue messages often get overlooked and/or forgotten more easily, as they are not part of an overall culture change, such as the one that is currently taking place in London.

Speaking of single issue messages I noticed a large yellow and black advert along the side of an Arriva bus in Woking (not London I know) last night with a picture of a car and a bike with the text which read something like "Be seen. Don't ride in the gutter."

Some sellers get round import duty by marking the item as a gift and hope that customs don't inspect every package.

You can expect any package as large as a bike to attract the attention of Customs. In addition to this marking it as a gift will invalidate any insurance you might be paying for - you can be sure that the insurance companies will be all over this as a way to get out of paying.

http://forums.watchuseek.com/attachments/f6/1147712d1373210735-finished-watch-dsc_0240-version-2.jpg

http://www.jamesbenham.co.uk/watch

:-( I hope not again.

Hmmm very nice. I'd be tempted except that I'd look like (more of) a dick riding it (than usual) as I'm not fast enough. How does sizing on that compare to a road bike sizing?

gulp Panorama tonight is about the use of drugs (such as anti-depressants) in pregnancy. As you'd expect, inconclusive.

The little part I saw of that was terrible journalism - the BBC is really going downhill.

If we have only a very short window to invest in the next round can I ask that we get plenty of notice as to exactly when that will be? I really don't want to be away from my PC for a day or two only to get an email saying that it's opening in an hour or two.

You can only take up allocation but cannot increase.

Which tells us that investors will need to be told exactly how much they can spend to avoid dilution - i.e. what is the most they can invest before it goes public.

Balls, I just checked and I'm running 75" - my memory is really shit. Now I have no excuses!

Thanks, that pretty much fits with the advice that the timekeeper had after the event as we chatted about how he used to run fixed.

LOL! It was 31.04 which was easily the slowest of the evening. Now I'm going to have to HTFU and put some effort in to get that below 30.

After months of procrastination and excuses I finally made my first TT last night on the slightly bumpy HCC083. Went surprisingly well all things considered. I did pluck up the courage last week but it wasn't on, so Hippy was proved right about the effect of pinning a number on your back as I managed to knock about 30 seconds off what my unofficial Strava segment time showed from last week.

I did get some mild teasing on the line from timekeeper about my wimpy 65" and I think he might have been right as while it was nice on the upslopes it was a bit twiddly at times on the way back downhill with the wind behind me.

An interesting perspective on potential school reform here

http://the-history-girls.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/the-first-gamers-and-end-of-history-by.html

I know, right - Just look at the people that the profitable private school system churns out.

To be fair I don't see all that many profitable private schools either.

I've yet to see an Academy that makes a profit.

Also, foot retention makes riding fixed 1,000,000 x safer

ftfy

Watches are money for some people. They will buy high end watches such as pateks, and shrink wrap them and keep them in a deposit box

And like money, it's value can diminish over time.

I was thinking about this off the back of the Lazer sale thread. With interest rates being shit and all how do watches stack up as a medium to long term investment. I'm thinking about 5-15 years.

Generally speaking watches don't stack up especially well as investments. As with any investment people will regale you with tales about how well they did with a particular watch but will be silent about the watches which did not do so well. As with any market you can be lucky and I'd say overall the vintage watch market is on an up at the moment. Generally the brands which do best are not the ones which are already well traded such as JLC but the lesser known brands where someone has done some research and then marketed it around the watch forums. But the current up is largely because of fashion and could just as easily nose dive again.

We have a king?

I'm still interested. Saturdays would be the obvious ones for me but I'm not sure I'm up to five hours riding in the woods. Weekdays might be doable but I don't want to be slowing down a small group either, so suggestions for a slower weekday date would be good.

Nice. How is the trailer coming along?

Damn, if I'd not been lazy this morning I could be top of the club leaderboard.

200km short. In hindsight I could have done this, but I didn't do enough miles early on in the month.