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Hadleigh Farm can be done with only one chainring, apparently. By girls, at that.

I got tickets courtesy of the British Cycling raffle someone mentioned here - cheers!) and watched at Deanes Drop and the other more technical bits plus a couple of the climbs.

I can count on the fingers of one hand the number of times I saw any of the women get out the saddle. Impressive stuff especialy since some of them looked about 6 stone.

Or you could just buy the power torque cranks, the cups aren't particularly expensive.

No but if you ever want to remove the cranks on the new set up beware - nightmare!

N-n-n-n-n-n-n-nineteen.

Unfortunately I was 19 when that came out

I confess that when Jacque Rogge invited the youth of the world to Rio in 4 years time I got angry and then depressed 'cos that's no longer me.

Young, vibrant, world at their feet bastards.

The all Ti bike gets a bit expensive. Don't ask me how I know......

For what it's worth I've got a Van Nicholas stem on my Ti Salsa and find it (and the bars but they're flat so no use to you) superlative. I didn't take to the Van Nic post and have seen some photos on line of weld failures (how prevalent/true I don't know) so I went USE for my seatpost which is good.

Other Ti components apart from inumerable bolts and fasteners are a pair of Kingcage ti bottle cages.

For that really special frame I really would be tempted to have a drilled rear brake bridge and also a mech hanger/detachable drop outs.

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** I am only 26 and I don't wish to be called by my first name in the hospital but fact is, my issues remain unresolved. **

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The bad news is that at 26 that first name issue is going to take a lifetime of aversion therapy

The good news - Neil, is that it's the one piece of therapy I can guarantee you're going to get.

Enjoy Watlington Hill - it get's steeper and twistier as you descend plus it's not the greatest surface. I hope everyone's got brakes!

And in case anyone isn't aware, a daily one hour highlights prog on ITV4.

Ace - thanks!

I thought I'd take advantage of a day off work and head out into Essex - I'm in Stratford - on the road bike.

Towards the end of the ride - cut short because traffic was shit - a Golf overtakes just as we approach a traffic island, he realises his error and swerves towards me to avoid it. I was left with about three inches between my wheel and the kerb and his wing mirror drifting in front of my right elbow. I shout 'fucking hell, move you cunt' into his open passenger window, hoping to not die. I was terrified for five seconds or so, until we passed the traffic island and he speeded up.

He stops hard and jumps out. He's screaming about something and holding what looks like a small wooden bat. I roll past him in the other lane.

As I assume he's now going to chase me I ride up on the empty pavement and slow down. He pulls alongside, up a drive, and cuts me off. I dismount and ask him politely through the passenger window 'what the fuck are you doing mate?', he responds, explaining he was upset at my swearing and was rather intent on murdering me for it. In hindsight, the level of profanity in his explanation was somewhat ironic.

I apologise, and explain it was only a result of him nearly killing me. His tone changes and he claims he did no such thing, I explain in detail what happened from my perspective and why it's so dangerous to overtake a cyclist with an obstruction ahead. It was very civil.

He kindly accepts my apology and pulls the 'bat' up from the lap of the blonde sitting in the passenger seat. It's a brown leather knife sheath about a foot long, he takes out a hunting knife and leans over pointing it at me. He says that under the circumstances he will ignore what I had said, but on any other day he'd of 'cut me into little fucking pieces pal'.

He leans back, reverses out and drives off.

Nice chap.

That's a get the registration, 999 call, armed response unit and 5 years mandatory jail sentence.

Unless you were in shock you shouldn't have let that go so he can murder someone else.

If by some miracle funding is achieved it will be in place of another service that is currently provided. No one votes for more taxation so it's either sack a few thousand more idle NHS managers who have time to look at LFGSS or do without something that may be viewed as less of a priority.

Actualy things are completely and utterly f*cked nhs funding wise at the moment despite it not being much on the news. Various mechanisms for rationing are having a catastrophic effect on waiting times, eligability for procedures and service availability.

Given this it's understandable that people who are generally fitter and better (because of their sport) get less service than the 80year old who is curently being denied a cataract operation until she is near blind or dead http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/9470797/Cataract-patients-being-wrongly-denied-eye-surgery.html and that's without the 33% increase in long waits for A&E beds etc etc.

What we really need to do is increase the number of long distance driving, heavy drinking smokers who drop dead without chronic disease.

ps I'll sign

I can't go near the spot. I still have his bike in my shed, his parents couldn't bear to see it. I can't bear to go in the shed now, it is an awful thing.

I am so sorry to hear that. The sign gives me pause for thought 5 evenings a week.

I visited the Stonor site last week. The accident signs were on a narrow sharp bend. No way to overtake anything in that place.

Bought this from Kboy last February. It spent a year or so with modern stuff on it before I gathered together the Zondas, Campag 8speed gruppo etc.

Ribble 8speed by adshools, on Flickr

A friend of mine was killed cycling on the A4130, and we all said at the time if only he had gone up the Stonor valley. The locals are now trying to stop cyclists training for and racing in the Henley triathlon on that road because of the risk. Why can't drivers just slow down, or the council reduce the speed limit?

I see the 'remember me' sign every day. My mate goes the A4130 when he rides to/from work and I go the Stonor road, at least there's fewer cars but I won't nag him quite so much now.

The area around Stonor is very popular with sportives and riders in general.

RIP - awful.

I use this thinking it a safer alternative to the A4130.

Oh shit

Having to watch with no sound. What's going to be a good time?

Those team cars are going very fast into the second corner

Oh dear, the brazilian riders skin suit doesn't fit, the* front* zip is safely pinned, it may not last the course.

There's a back one?

Weird watching this, they are riding a big chunk of my commute to work :)

Sharing this tarmac with the pro commuters - respect!

Hermann Goering was going to live in Goring-on-Thames apparently.

Where he would have been neighbours with 'Bomber' Harris who lived in the house next to the Thames opposite Pierponts and dropped a lot more bombs than Goring did (14,073.66 times more to be precise though that includes the USAF)

"Every time a friend of mine succeeds a little inside me dies"

I think you'd be pushed on a close tolerance 23c only frame.

Thanks but want shimless.

Dibs if you mean 1" headset as opposed to just 1" (25.4) bars

Yep, kitchen scales purchased for cooking duties and pressed into service for component weighing on an ad hoc basis, and the hanging scales (fish scales I think they are) I did buy for bike weighing.

Have you calibrated your hanging scale?

Mine over read by 6.7% at 8kg which I put down to the reverse WW tendencies of carp anglers......