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Thanks,

I wonder if people go down with 'docking stress'...

The tfl guys are having to dock them to end people's journeys,

Sorry, I don't quiet get it. Does this mean people are unable to dock their bikes and are just dumping them and leaving the'meter' running?

I've never ridden one of these so don't know the drill.

They used to occasionally when I was young growing up in Zimbabwe.

Welcome to Lonbabwe Martina!

The government couldn't enforce a tax on people cycling

In this digital age all things are possible. ID cards will be here are well with biometric microchips in them.

You will pay!!! (Dalek voice)

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Telegraph wankers have got space for about 20 bikes in their shitty offices in Victoria. I hope they've all had to power-walk in their trainers from the home counties and are too exhausted to get their crappy copy out for deadline.

Many more Boris/Ken/Jenny bikes than normal

Lol...they should double the prices for bike hire on transport strike days just like mini-cabs do at Christmas.

This image seems suitably apocalyptic, where is it from?

Regarding that red light jumping, wheeling bike along and then rejoining stuff. Just lift the bike onto your shoulder cyclo-cross style carry it accross and then remount at your convenience. The old Bill shouldn't be able to do jack shit because you are then a pedestrian carrying luggage.

I fuckin hate this country sometimes, its more money more money more money from they government leeches

Their schtick is all about cuts so it seems but they want more money to fund what?

Abolish all politico-cunts now and run the country via software.

And yes cyclist taxing will come...

Pity he wasn't riding a Merckx.

That lamp post.

Hello Chaps,

I wonder if any of you know the correct term for the type of bolt shown here in the picture?

Basically, my otherwise fantastic Merckx Arcobaleno frame has one of those dumb internal seatpost binder arrangements, which has failed...
I suspect finding an exact replacement will be nigh on impossible, however this type of fixing is not unique to the bike world and is used in automotive and other applications so could be relatively easier to find if only I knew what to ask for.

The chewed up part with the black O ring is the Merckx bolt and the other one is for comparison which is from a handlebar stem.

Thanks,

Virenque is North African

Virenque's family were rich white French colonials. Bouhani is a proper North African.

So good for riding if you dont want to have to poo.

So would have been very useful for Greg Lemond...

Had a Pacemaker fitted this year.

You weren't being naughty in your cycling heyday were you?

Yeah man SMP should ideally force people to effectively become otherkin and identify as snakes, chameleons or bulls so you'd have an easier time choosing a saddle.

Lol...no bull dude! i'm a snake!

Recently purchased some Fizik Cyrano R3 handlesbars in 'Snake' form.

Chin up: sixty is the new forty! :)

I'm a little way off that one dude.

Get yourself a juicer and loads of leafy greens.

I have a juicer and use it maybe a couple of times a week and i do like my greens but the idea of drinking them makes me feel a bit queasy... but yes thanks i'll give it a go.

I passed another poxy age milestone this year so perhaps i should start considering myself a youth no more.

the dropped nose has little effect (imo)

Cool, so all they have to do is market a straight nosed variant and they'd have a winner.

chocolate milk talk on a nutrition thread

I'm out

Believe it or not but chocolate flavoured milk is recommended by some sources as a post recovery drink.

More anecdata:-

True Mr. Greenbank,

However i can only relate to my own experience with the stuff and my body is saying "non"

I guess we are all different aren't we?

Lactose intolerance, exposing people who should've died as babies since 1993.

Mr. Hippy,

Behind my quip there is a story. Like most English kids growing up in the 1970s I ingested a lot of milk being told it was beneficial to health etc.. in fact they used to give the stuff away free in school in little glass bottles! (do they still?).

Anyway about 10-15 years ago I started to feel bloated all the time and...leaving behind mucous with my deposits...

As it happened I mentioned this to a colleague at work back then who immediately said he had suffered the same thing and that it was a milk problem. So right away I stopped drinking cow's milk and switched to altenatives (soya, coconut) and the symptoms vanished.
However...I noticed recently that my local mini-mart stocks Yazoo chocolate milk, so just like Mr. Greenback here I thought "hmm post recovery drink?" and after consuming about a dozen bottles of it (not all at once) the 'stuff' started to reappear...

So that's it no more milk for me full stop.

Having said that I wouldn't mind trying one of these SMP saddles just so that I can have an informed opinion if nothing else, after all cycling is bloated with 'snake oil' products.

I ride San Marco Concor light saddles of which there are two sub-types one with reinforcing and one without. The un-reinforced variant is quite concave (banana shaped) and allied with the none slip embroidery keeps you locked in rather nicely. Also I've had Flites with cut-outs, didn't notice anything special about that except more creaking noises.

So the unique selling point is the Concord shaped nose? is that concept really making a difference?

The one thing I do agree with Mr. Pearce on is padding. Shape -> padding everytime.

Two quotes from Mr. Pearce's piece...

"Consider the origin of the aesthetics of most traditional saddles: they are made to look like Italian men’s dress shoes: long, slender, slightly phallic, covered in leather, pointy. Traditional saddles must be narrow, because a wide saddle means you have a wide ass, which means you are slow. In the old world, a saddle should be narrow, slender and sleek, barely noticeable, a silhouette under the rider. A seat is a leather perch upon which to conduct symphonies of pain and suffering."

and

"Cycling has a history of participants who make aesthetic choices, and as a sport it has an unusually high appeal to the artistic type. We don’t see many football players drooling over carbon fiber or worrying if their shorts match up with their tan lines. Riders sometimes make equipment choices based on how things look rather than how they perform."

This man is American I take it? and in my eyes Yanks are cycling heretics that have brought nought but uglyness to our beautiful sport.

Why i really came to this thread was to find out what you guys take post work-out to deal with any possible Immune system problems that can occur due to prolonged efforts?