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Hippy did the title yesterday.

I used the Moon XPower 300 at muddy hell for my distance light with an old cateye aimed just in front of my front wheel and have no complaints with visibility. On the road the moon has a good strobe at 300 lumens and full beams of 300, 200 and the two lower than that. Stats for power and run time compare to a joystick but the moon only has a bar mount so for helmet use a bit of blu-tac and gaffer tape might be required. Two big advantages though are price (£55 from Parker International) and charging (standard mini USB).

Can someone put 'LMNH' in this thread title please?

http://www.lfgss.com/thread45805.html

i recommend the first match on the football league show on bbc.

Anyone who missed this cracking result can get a replay here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_div_1/9132194.stm

I cannot recommend it enough.

Anyone know if the Rapha pants are worth £100 for three pairs.
Initial thoughts are that as they are Merino they could be worn for a few days longer than my M&S pants before they need washing so saving on laundry bills.

Why is the iPhone App free?
Hopefully there will be a paid version soon followed by an even more expensive Paul Smith collaboration.

I will download it, but it makes me feel cheap.

I skipped the 3gs so that's me out. I will stop buying Rapha immediately.

Assumption:
Everyone who wears Rapha owns at least one iPhone.

please, it's lunchtime. Some of us are tucking away a battered sausage.

I saw Caspar in his overalls building stuff on Sunday, looked like something off scrapheap challenge stood by a pile of sleepers. I was half expecting him to start shouting proper job before customising a tractor.

Sorry, you've lost me there.

This is my first season in London League after a gap of about fifteen years since racing around the midlands and south yorks. I take it as seriously as my current ability determines ie race the people around me and try to lose less time on the top guns. I just don't see the point in splitting the field up and would rather race against everyone.

As for rep of the league, I have found it very friendly.

For the sake of argument I would say
a) unsupported for local league events, but support her in area champs and on really muddy days when a clean bike every lap is a key advantage rather than a nice to have.

To be honest, the logistical argument put forward by couples and dads is a strong one but since neither apply to me I would rather be in the main race than a shorter one.

Yes I do,
Notts/Derby have not split, Eastern have a hybrid split for vets, North East have not split. For each league that has introduced a split there are others that have not so I will agree that it is an argument that may be worth having after splitting out for geography then voluntary splits using a go-race category if numbers are still too high.
Sometimes the splits do work well logistically in that couples can pit crew for each other and dads for son's but my preference is a fully open race where backmarkers are as much part of the course as the mud, sand and hurdles.

Sunday was fine, busy but not dangerously busy and certainly not time to start calling for old men (which I nearly qualify as) and the ladies to do a shorter lesser race. Herne Hill is narrow so passing will always be tough. The key to overtaking is of course a good shout of whichever side you want to pass on clear and early so the rider ahead can adjust their line and give you the room you would like. Just shouting rider with no indication of where you want the poor bugger in front to go and gives them only a 50/50 chance of getting out of your way with an equal chance of being blamed for causing a crash.

I will never win at cross without serious mechanical failures in the top half of the field so for some I am one of the back markers to be got past, but for others I am one of the people coming past. I know how important it is for me to get out of the way when a racing group is approaching and how grateful I am when a backmarker gives me some space to pass. But I still want to test myself against the best in the league and see how far behind them I really am (a long way to be honest).

Splitting by geography is always the most preferable as it retains the open format that is the spirit of local cross leagues, next is a voluntary split by means of a go-race at each venue.

Splitting by age is unjustifiable when vets routinely win up and down the country, splitting by gender is as sexist as making the women start from the rear (Rd 1) and splitting by road Cat fails as 'cross is a cross discipline event bringing in all forms of cyclist where not everyone competes in events that get categorised in the same way as road racing does.

c'mon Clive, have another go

Possible free stuff, don't be ashamed

For those that do not want to watch the whole trailer
Scan to 1 minute 4 seconds

For those that can't even be bothered with that, the quiz answer is white

you just entered the go-race cat on your mates SS 29"

good job you wrote it down otherwise you could have forgotten what you just did

cross is like a drug, you will crave more

fuck me... i'm a lurker and i don't care what anyone says, this is better than Hollyoaks any day of the week...

+1

Who would deliver my pizza?

OK, call for a cull rescinded.
I do support motorcycles in bus lanes as on the whole they are no worse than the average cyclist (albeit heavier and faster) and their prescence does mean that cars look for more than buses and taxis before pulling out or across. Scooters just seem to be more suicidal but that is probably more to do with the age and experience of the rider rather than the actual choice of bike.

I pride myself on my tolerance and broad mindedness but I would support a cull on all scooter riders. Any such cull must be done humanely though, we would not want to come across as barbarians.

I've never noticed Germans to be racist, if anything they tend to overcompensate to be overly inclusive.

As for chains on railings, does this leave them vulnerable to being tampered with to facilitate the theft of your bike the following day, or are the chains recomended here so good that this is not a practical concern?

Pro's running red lights, riding on the wrong side of the road, riding four abreast, disgraceful.

http://www.geelongadvertiser.com.au/article/2010/09/25/213651_news.html

Glad the senior sergeant's wife has brought it to his attention so he can crack down on such awful behaviour.

^^and even if it's a family name (Swayne), it would be rude not to include all members of the family; so plural again, if at all.

http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=65009

Swayneslane -> Swines Lane -> Swain's Lane

Always knew it was a pig

is it so hard just to anser my question...

Try this: http://www.nuttycyclist.co.uk/cycling/roundabout.htm

or skip to the bottom of page 3:
Don't forget, techniques and advice that are correct for one roundabout could be dangerous on a different roundabout. Each and every junction must be assessed individually and carefully.

To be better at making that assessment, try some cycle training.

In many respects cycling is harder than driving. As an example consider positioning within a lane. A car has one option, drive in the lane. A cyclist has four options far left, left, centre and right. Depending on what you are doing, what the traffic around you is doing, the layout of the road and what you are approaching will dictate the answer. Training will help you choose. FYI the answer is rarely riding in the gutter (far left).

Anyone own Rapha and Santini jerseys? I need to know whether to go for L or XL in Rapha. I have a Santini large and it's toight like a tiger.

I am XL in Rapha (Classic ss) and XXL in Santini (Giro centenary retro top) and the Santini is still tighter than the Rapha

Hope that helps