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What shoes do people use? I got some oldish Castelli road shoes with cleats - they look the business, but riding in them is petrifying and painful (they make my ankles hit the cranks quite often) and the soles are like glass so just removing the cleats not really an option. Not everybody in the pictures seems to be wearing period correct cycling shoes!

Shimano, never mind, I'll pass, thanks all the same.

When you said the "pedals have gone" did you mean in the bin? already sold? just removed? If you've still got them and they're keo compatible (are they? looks like it from the picture, don't know what they are though), would you be interested in selling them?

I have a Fratello - I printed out an online bike builder spec and took it to the shop. We discussed it a bit, what I wanted to use it for etc and they suggested some better compromises than mine! Then they worked out the sizing using an adjustable fitting/measuring device (ideally take your own shoes). It is a stock frame size, but carefully fitted. It's very comfortable.

Sounds tantalizingly doable, but he must be tired as hell with all that work he is doing, while Valverde even seems to be on Quintana's wheel for a good fraction of the time! His combination of good climbing, good descending, fast finishing and cunning makes him a tough proposition to crack, though Perraud and Pinot managed it eventually last year. Now it really is too bad G lost a little over half a minute or so flying into that ditch!

please, please let it happen! (didn't see it today, how much time does he need to gain?)

I really hope he can make it to Paris, his 12 consecutive grand tours thing is one of my favorite on-going stories in professional cycling.

1 lucyh - women's M
2 7VEN - girls size suitable for 8yo
3 Cafewanda - wimmin S
4 Poots - Ladies L
5 Ethel - Ladies M
6 kat - Women's M
7 Clefty - Womens XXL
8 tricitybendix - women's M
9 mands - Womens L
10 Cazakstan - Women's L
11 blowfish - women's S
12 Dr Cake - women's S
13 Raksy - Womens S
14 khornight2 - men's xl possibly with Customisation...
15 Husy - men's M customised if possible
16 Sam Dunn - Womens XS
17 youramericanlover - mens small - race fit if possible
18 shoosh - womens L
19 Soul - Mens Medium - Customised if possible
20 xsvcx - womens small
21 lucy's sis, lolz - womens medium
22 Ecunard womens xs (have never hard a miltag jersey so would have loved to see how the no death no stiches fits first)
23 eyebrows - men's small
24 xrayspex - women's XS + mens S

I went to Jens Voigt's effort at Grenchen (it's not far from where I live). There was nothing else on, but it was totally worth it (don't remember the actual price, but being Switzerland it may not have been much less...). You just saw Jens going round and round, numbers going up, other numbers going down, it was strangely completely compelling, even when it was clear he would definitely do it. Wiggins has more at stake I think, I'm sure it will be very exciting.

what does anybody think of this:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Colnago-Super-roadbike-Shimano-Dura-Ace-Cinelli-excellent-/321700645775?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item4ae6da4b8f

I'm asking because:
1) I'm coincidentally a few bits and pieces away from doing an almost identical build - right down to dura ace plus yellow cables, surely chosen to match the yellow lug cutouts, and I wonder what people think of it?
2) I'm curious if anybody thinks that really is original - the paint is in such good condition I can't believe it's not a respray and did Colnago ever use Shimano on a Super?

I haven't actually used any of these places, but some bike shops I've seen that might be of interest:

http://www.velo-citta.ch/ (looked in the window, looks quite good - saw a bunch of old brake levers, chain rings and stuff (don't know if they actually sell them!), think they mostly recondition old frames with newer groupsets, the staff looked pretty down to earth).

http://www.urbanrider.ch/ (serious (or pretentious?) looking fixie/single speed shop)

http://www.caprez-zueri5.ch/index.php/home (strange hybrid of a bike shop and old-skool electrical shop, I got some nice oldish campagnolo toe clips which were in the window, along with some old disk wheels and jerseys, and also some vintage hoovers)

http://www.raddna.ch/ (deadly serious swiss-style designer bike shop selling Genesis amongst others)

All of the above are a few minutes from each other, near the station, so worth a quick look around. This one is out of the town centre, lovely vintage roadster in the window when I went past, and the website looks promising, would guess it might be closest to what you're looking for:

http://www.veloschmiede.com/

Don't know much about any cycling scene or whatever cos I live in Brugg, but I've seen people doing what must have been this: http://styleride.ch/about/ Looked like they got into it quite properly.