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Thanks for that.

I took my fancy plastic bike with 25C tyres last year, was OK but fell off twice on pools of gravel. Cross bike would be ideal for the terrain but agree with the other comment about being too slow on road sections, also you're supposed to be mimicking a bit of P-R... no cross bikes on P-R.

DAS'd a bright red showroom-shiny planet X with an 80mm rear wheel this morning around Parliament Square.

ffs...got an email today, but you're right, code doesn't work.

REPLACEMYBIBS code = 30% off bibs until midnight March 15th

Girl on CS7 had a nice new Knog rear light... completely hidden by the rear rack.

Saw someone pull out of a row of cars to filter on the outside, but didn't look behind them first. Got bumped by a moped. Nobody hurt but they will need a new rear wheel at least.

Loving that.

@greenhell and others on the nodder conversation...

To me the nodder thing is a bit of fun, as it always is to play with stereotypes and pigeon hole people. I don't really have anything against them; very low down my list of annoying road users, but, other than of course bobbing their heads at speed as if it'll make a difference, there's really only one thing they do which pisses me off.

I'm very careful to overtake safely, sometimes waiting several minutes for a good opportunity to do so smoothly with plenty of room... all the while of course looking behind me to make sure there isn't another cat6 warrior like me going past. So it's discourteous when they pull up ahead of me at the next traffic light and make me go through the whole thing again.

Some favourite nodder things:

• Do you take the bus when it's raining?
  
• Have you invested in fluoro everything but still use a crappy 99p rear light with an almost dead battery?
  
• Does a squeaky chain not bother you?
  
• Do you ride on flat ground in the small ring?
  
• Does your bike get left at your office gathering dust clogging up the bike room all winter?
  
• Do you ride in lycra running trousers blissfully unaware of the builder's crack you're displaying?
  

The highway is extremely light on nodders as the dumper trucks scare them away. I feel safer on the highway with the trucks than on CS3 with its nodders, nutters, pedestrians and sideroads.

@hugo7 Assos all the way for socks here. With SIDIs that have lots of holes, I wear Early Winter up to 16C, then the Mille. The Intermediate is good but if it's too cool for the Mille then the Early Winter is fine for me. They last a long time, and can cope with being washed a lot. No holes yet, but I did buy a bunch of pairs during sales. Ideally don't tumble dry them.

That was never going to take long...

I couldn't get to an advance stop line / bike box today because there was a policewoman standing in between the two lanes of stationary cars I was filtering through, ticking off a driver about protruding into the ASL. Luckily I was able to brake in time not to hit her. I thanked her, but liked the irony.

See previous few pages...

Haha made me smile

Ski gloves can be expensive too - I give you Arc'teryx.

I don't like the pockets on the lightweight jersey. Too small and the material is too stretchy to hold contents in place. I wear it mostly for indoor sessions and it's very good for that. No good for long unsupported rides as you can't carry what you need without ugly bicycle attachments.

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B&O 3i. I don't ride outside with earphones any more but these are very good at adding music as a background to what's going on, rather than replacing the background with music, and surprisingly durable.

See also https://www.lfgss.com/comments/5904804

My thoughts exactly.

Also on CS8 - a twonk on a single speed who mounts the pavement to dodge every light from Parsons Green to Vauxhall Bridge.

Have to say these look more than six months old. Do you have any paperwork?

The thing it does really well is help you down a mountain. It's a wind breaker as well as being waterproof. It was cool enough up the Tourmalet on the Etape 2014 but warm enough (with arm warmers) to get me down it while other pussies took refuge in a makeshift shelter.

Frankly though it has to be very cold for me to prefer wearing a waterproof jacket on the bike than not. The Rapha jacket doesn't fix that - it's still like wearing a bin liner above 10C if you're pedaling.

That's good to know. Mine deserves to do a ride that isn't going to work and back - so far except for diversions and LMNH, it has only seen the same 12 miles of tarmac.

:)

I find the jersey pockets fine under a bag for the commute...