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"A spokeswoman from the Royal Borough of Windsor & Maidenhead said: “The planning inspector has made it clear that groups of cyclists meeting outside Velolife café cause a nuisance to nearby residents. The appeal decision has concluded that the lawful use of the site is as a café with cycle repair. In this decision the planning inspector upheld and varied the enforcement notice and deemed that cyclist meets should not take place at the café but that cyclists are still welcome to use the café facilities but must not congregate outside.”

The councillor is directly contradicting the injuction which states that cyclists can't meet there before, during or after a ride, and that cyclists cannot go there by any means of transport. Twitter thread showing the injuction text here: https://twitter.com/thevelolife/status/1157614352024920065?s=08

If you are a member of a cycling club, going there to drink coffee by any means of transport, technically you would cause them to be in violation of the injuction. People turning up or not turning up is lose lose for them. Really awful.

It's very clear that the borough want the business closed. Madness.

I bought mine ahead of a 1200 audax. They were fine for that, but haven't worn them since so no idea about durability.

Yeah, their tactics are beyond my understanding.

Landa chasing down the break.

It was a guy in a green/white/red jersey who was having some issues with his sciatica but was going quite well despite it. It’s a bit of a blur but I thought I saw him coming back from Inverness when I was still on my way there. Next saw him at Paisley after he’d scratched. Definitely (at least) 2 of you with similar issues.

That is a big first day! Found doing 350km was enough, particularly with the relatively late start. Glad you enjoyed your ride.

Sorry to hear that, sounds awful. Strangely, another rider scratched with identical symptoms though I think his kicked in a bit later on as he'd got himself back to the Paisley control.

@motoko how did you both go? I’ve screwed up both Achilles and have numb toes. I suppose there’s a little time to try and sort those issues out ahead of PBP.

I think you'll struggle to find another physio who's effectively combining 2 skills, bike fit and physio, also based in the SE. You'll need someone to understand cycling biomechanics, can analyse your riding position, then correct it - be that cleat fitting, etc., which is basically bike fitting, and then give you physio treatment & exercises. There was some discussion about physios / osteos in the ultra cycling thread in the last 2/3 months. Cycling physio recommendations probably warrant their own thread.

I've bought a midge net but it does rather obscure vision. I have back up Avon Skin so Soft - apparently it's a good midge repellant. I can confirm it has all the negative hallmarks of insect repellant - greasy, smelly. No idea what you're supposed to use it for.

Doing the 1200.

Had the merch/e-commerce team hit the beers hard whilst doing the sale pages? The mistakes aren’t even consistent.

This. So much this.

Also, more generally, I noticed Bullheart had said he'd pit this if he was still around. Maybe nice to have his banner, or pin badges with team LFGSS?

FWIW one of the RCC members has suggested unlacing the strap from the buckle, turning the buckle over then relacing the strap. It might mean there’s more friction to hold the strap in place. He’s done this based on people’s photos of the issue and having made bags in the past. Low effort thing to try in any case.

I had a driveside click that I thought was my Speedplay pedal/cleat. It was actually the Ultegra 6800 crank delaminating which apparently is a known fault.

Are you using Ultegra 6800 cranks by any chance?

FWIW, I found LWL harder than the Bryan Chapman (which I did 3 years ago with not enough distance riding in my legs) and harder than the 600km I did the following weekend. This year's LWL was really windy on the outbound leg. Combined with very harsh roads - I'll fit fatter tyres if I ride it again in future, it was a surprisingly tough day out. Fast riders I know who finished in 18/19 hours also said how much harder it was than the 500km they did on the Easter Arrow.

I was also wracked with anxiety during LWL for no good reason. I sorted my head out much better for the 600 - took it a check point at a time. Had time goals to help keep me on track but didn't think about anything other than the next check point which helped massively and made for a much more enjoyable ride. The roads were much better quality and I did manage to avoid the bitterly cold section of the night though.

Audax is elitist because of mudguards. This is satire, right?

+1 for Nichola at Velophysio. If you considero osteopathy, Alice Monger Godfrey is great, ex-pro cyclist, is/was osteo to Team Dimension Data. She's got a clinic somewhere in Central London and one in Clapham junction. https://www.amg-osteo.com/

LWL was hard. Will ride bigger tyres next time. Dhal at the end was amazing.

Felt dreadful last weekend, weird chills/hotness and assumed I had a cold. Only when I realised I kept rubbing my eyes did it dawn on me it was hayfever.

I have turned full grown yoghurt weaver and am trying this https://www.viridian-nutrition.com/Shop/Quercetin-B5-Plus-Complex-P711.aspx because Loratadine has never worked for me, I've become insensitive to Cetirizine so I'm concerned about becoming insensitive to Fexofenadine which I think is the last over-the-counter, non-drowsy anti-histamine.

Apparently Quercetin is a natural antihistamine. It's an antioxidant found in lots of the usual suspects in smoothies but I cba with trying to get it through nutrition. Started taking it this week and given last weekend and early this week I was feeling a bit asthma-y and was scratching my eyes out then today I was out all day on the bike and felt fine, either through placebo or actual effect it's made a difference.

I also found that Haymax helped reduce the itchyness of eyes and sneezing/running nose. It's a barrier balm and I thought that was going to be total woo, but couldn't deny the difference. Again, maybe placebo. Eyes still a bit gritty after using it but no where near the discomfort without it. Haymax give tips on managing hayfever on their site, which is where I read about quercetin.

Anything I can do which means I only use antihistamines because it's a particularly bad pollen day is good with me.

Also only for men. They do seem to have done a lovely range of mountain bike shorts for women that don’t at all suggest that women’s mountain biking constitutes riding on a hybrid bike for fitness.

you won't find a twat in an Audi 40mm off your rear wheel honking their horn and revving their engine whilst screaming out of the window at you.

looks at @coldharbour.

Hang on, is this how you plan to make people buy the Isen mountain bikes?

The collapsible water carrying thing that we bought for camping that lives somewhere in the garage.

Like you, was considering DNS but had a hotel booked. I thought maybe the weather would change and I'd be annoyed I hadn't started. Got the train home at Chepstow, which I was pleased with given that from about 60km I was thinking of stopping at Newent. the section from Stow to Newent has to be the longest 55km I've ever ridden, hated every minute of it! Couldn't face another 150km of cross winds. A friend completed in 14 hours (very experienced rider) but he said the section past the white horses was "heinous" but there were a few "magic bits" on the way back. He got rained on for 2 hours so I'd have been looking at 5-7 hours of rain. I was totally miserable apart from through the Forest of Dean which was beautiful, and a welcome distraction. My arms hurt almost as much as my legs today.