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Haha, strava is a cruel mistress. Knowing youre on for a PB and seeing that crucial light change to red in front of you, finding out you've got a KOM just when you lose it, its bloody genius.

Yeah - the word is stress - as I only found out because some fucker matched my time so it sent me an email! I had decided to give my knees a break this week and switch back to 42:16, but clearly switching back to 42:13 tomorrow and hitting whitehall kamikaze style flat out with a Viking helmet.

Holy shit, Didn't realise but turns out I've got KOM on Whitehall earlier this month. 1 minute flat from traf square end to parliament Square. Out of about 500 people! Did it fixed too on 86 inch gear. Sweet!

I guess it's just down to number of volunteers etc but it would be great to have another novice session held during the week. I'm going to try and go this saturday just so I can have been enough times not to go on saturday again for a while, it's so busy.

Haven't found a career advice thread that doesn't just relate to a specific person so let me know if I've missed it.

I'm looking for some advice from people on careers in the bike industry, and in particular, about what jobs might suit the experience that I've got. I'm fed up with what I'm doing and want to try and switch industry.

My background:
BA business studies, MSc international public policy
1 year political experience (Parliament etc)
4 years civil service (foreign office)
2 years management consultancy (public sector specialist)

I'd like to do something that gets me out and about, not just desk bound in a soulless office. I've thought about extreme changes like starting up a bike tour company with a mate. I'm still progressing some stuff on that as a side project. To that end, in terms of bike experience, other than having a few, building one, and general obsession with bikes and bike design, I've organised a 20 person 24 hour london to paris bike relay before, with vehicles, routes, food, the whole works, and am planning to try and run a week's bike holiday for acquaintances, paid for, next year (as part of that side project).

Personality trait (career wise), I'm creative, like problem solving, quick to pick up quite complicated concepts, enthusiastic, adaptable, build good relationships. my attention span's not great, but i'm working on ways around that, keep a very tight grip on things within my control but very relaxed about things outside my control.

I'm not sure if anyone on the forum can help me with this, but I figure it's a start, so why not.

Other things I'm into - writing, music, wine / beer / alcoholic drinks (not getting boshed ,appreciation of!), bike sport, current affairs, being outdoors / out in the sticks, etc.

I'm incredibly open minded about this. I just want to do something different. I want to feel happy or ambivalent when I go to work, not downtrodden and depressed. I'm also pretty exhausted of consultancy hours and stress, even though i've only been here a couple of years. Maybe it's because I know that aspect of my current career won't change however long i'm here, just get worse.

Thanks for the space to get it down on 'paper' somewhere.

cheers XH, i have looked at it extensively but it's hard to tell which of the budget places are basic but well looked after ,and which aren't - but i think we've found somewhere now.

on that note.......

if you were driving to southernmost France from London, and wanted to stop somewhere interesting overnight, on the way there or back, where would you stay?

round the coast from kalkan is Kas {cash}. some good restaurants there, including one on the corner in the square, one of many anatolian places. as ever, patlican kebap is phenomenal. there's a fanstastic hippy bar in Kas too. Follow the harbour road past the town square and up a hill. you'll see the bar on the right, it's on wooden stilts and is open air. tons of stray cats, but don't let that put you off. beautiful sunsets, a bar manager / dj that looks like the lawyer in carlito's way, and great folky hippy tunes / ice cold beer. if you're after something upmarket, try the lighthouse hotel on the peninsula. a very good restaurant with unbelievable views. we stayed there for our honeymoon last year, bliss.

Some old school tossery this morning, riding from angel to holborn.

rant begins.

did anyone else spot the cavalcade of fuckwits on theobolds road this morning? one girl, who's parents had clearly only dipped their toes in the gene pool when conceiving her, pulled into Grays Inn road on her mtb on a red, got halfway across having not looked at all, then had to avoid traffic going in both directions whilst staionary in the middle of the road. subsequently, two gentlemen cunts, one had red shorts on I think, RLJ'd straight through several peds rightfully crossing on green.at the crossing of lamb's conduit and theobolds. If you're on here, learn how to ride, wankers.

Rant ends.

cheers both, found one on owners direct today, looks great. shoosh, your boss's place looks good but there's only two of us so we might get lost in it!

reckon it's going to be hard to get a grandstand seat today?

beer van?

dunno about taht but draft lager and cider is on offer.

Great

Do any beer vans turn up to HH races? (Nb not to compete but 'capture the pint' would be an awesome event)

Three gites and counting, come on, who knows one...

Riding down pentonville today at about 20mph, just pumped the tires up to 120psi before leaving home as hadn't seen weather forecast, starts raining, gingerly pulled brake, front immediately locks and bike slides right / left on the front locked wheel, is about to enforce a very heavy face plant and I managed to catch it back and keep it upright. All happened in about 1 second. Got my arsehole twitching like a rabbits nose.

Think me and fräulein worst-name-ever-scape will be down tomorrow, looking forward to it

my tubus cargo rear rack arrived today, i can't imagine i'm this excited about a rack, but this rack can take 90lbs, and apparently they courier out replacement parts to you, anywhere in the world, if something goes wrong. that's cool.

Hi

I've looked for a thread / recent thread on this and can't see one, happy to merge / shift etc.

I'm looking for a nice, basic, CHEAP, gites or place to stay for 2 people in SW france, on the Med side, area of Carcassone / Beziers / Perpignan. Anyone have any recommendations based on experience or know anyone that rents places out?

Dates would be 17th-24th September (Mon-Mon) , maybe a few extra days if possible.

Cheers

^ hipster

i've seen a hell of a lot worse than that, at least it's not fluoro, even if there's far too much white going on

central means central london to pretty much everyone I know, in the context of being in London i would have thought that this was more likely than assuming someone was stating that they were going to hong kong at any given time, albeit less fun.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6-_HDNCZjI

it might work with minimalist straps on a single speed with a high bb but even then you'd grate them fairly regularly.

they would do yeah, big time, particularly with that low bottom bracket - I didn't fit them for instant switch , more for quick switch through taking the cages off, it's only four little crosshead screws and you're laughing.

fanks!

Or just getting snagged and dropping your wheel out. As you wheelie over the line at 40mph, like Awang.

I'm guessing some safety reason, the lever sticking in someone/the expensive Canadian maple track in the event of a chris crash.

Fair enough, I just wondered why HH have that rule too as it's outdoors, I guessed it would prob spaff up an indoor track, but couldn't really understand why it was a big deal on outdoors tracks given that any wheel could drop out, it's just down to whether the part fails or isn't tight enough [or gets A-wanged.]

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