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Now get the sneakers 

Oh, and as Prime Ministers and Presidents and hermits living in caves in the Outer Hebrides already know there's one less bike thief plying his evil trade in the world tonight - they got the guy who nicked Lance's bike, and the guy they reckon bought it .

The last couple of days have seen more mud slinging in the sporting soap opera that is Lance Armstrong. I am desperately trying to sit on the fence and write an objective piece here, but it is becoming increasingly difficult not to pick a side as the arguments become more polarised.

Actually, we made it to 200 twice: once when TiffanyMynx started following us but we weren't sure she was genuinely interested in cycling. you can judge for yourselves at http://twitter.com/TiffanyMynx. Thankfully not five minutes later the much more wholesome and interesting Alastair Mckinlay (http://twitter.com/amackinlay) stepped in to fill her shoes. Next stop 300, then the world...

 … and thank whatever god you pray to that you are not a celebrity and don't have to put up with people like Annie (second comment down) on the Celebrity Baby Blog talking rubbish about you, and your ex-girlfriend.

Before I barf I will just observe that that man Lance really does get everywhere.

You may be amazed to hear this but I have been busy training recently. The Rutland sportive is less than a month away and I have been trying to ensure that I can sustain a reasonable pace over the 50 mile distance.

I have also been working on my own site (which I wont plug again on here) and deciding whether or not to form my own club for next season. Throw in loads of work and not much time for road.cc.

Hopefully things are calming down a bit now and we can get back to blogging about the key issues in cycle sport.

The phenomenon that is Lance Armstrong generates such a vast amount of news and comment on the web, that there's now way anybody would ever be able to cover all of it a vast amount of it comes through the news feeds here at road.cc and never makes it on to the site… what a waste. So I've decided to launch Lance Watch to bring you regular tasters from the wilder shores of Lancedom… many of which have very little to do with the great man at all, well not directly.

Here's an interesting piece from that interweb thingy – a tongue in cheeck (I presume) call for US cyclists to help kickstart the US economy… by buying stuff.

To help the process a handy equipment checklist is provided so that you buy the right sort of equipment to fit in with what your image of your cycling self.

Yes indeed -  come easter monday we'll be lining up for a bit of early season sportive action, and we'll be bringing the camera to record it all for posterity, including the bits where we fall in a hedge or get swept up by the broom wagon, possibly. Certainly the bits where we clean the tea stop out of cake.

weather permitting we'll be the guys in the road.cc jerseys so come say hello!

I think there are still places left at http://www.cotswoldspringclassic.co.uk/ if you haven't made plans for your bank holiday yet

If you've got a BlackBerry great news Lance Armstrong is going to help save you from yourself.

Don't panic he's not going to come round to your house and make you ditch your favourite piece of convergent mobile technologies all wrapped up in one BlackBerry shaped package and instead making you actually talk to people … would that necessarily make you a better person anyway.

We took delivery of one of these a short while back and it sat in the box for a bit while we worked up the strength to lift its 42lb heft out, and remembered to bring some ols-skool spanners to put it together with. I've been riding it around the last couple of days and I'm fast falling in love with it, it's such fun. Things i particularly like include: