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I don't think he is good enough to win it yet.

I'll also say that I don't really want him to win either. It's not that I dislike him, it's just that he seems really dull. Maybe a bit Tour win might elevate him from being a joyless dullard though?

An overly flattering 4.5 for me.

who else can win TdF?

If you sit on the "sit bones" - you'll be fine. If you lean forward onto the perineum (the bit behind the scrotum) then you squash the nerves. This is essentially a posture issue/bike fit issue.
Cut-out saddles work by removing the pressure so that your bad posture doesn't cause numbness - but many miles may screw your back.

Spinal flexibility may be a factor in that you can slouch or hunch easier (ie poor posture)whilst keeping your pelvis level.

Sit bone width, as mentioned by many, is the key, as that is the main supporting contact point.

Australia has abysmal usage rates for it's 2 bike shares the helmet law is the reason. Ask a Helmet law advocate and they will LIE and come up with every excuse imaginable but wont admit the obvious. In the survey in this article I reference below for example 71% are in support of exemption for bike share users.

http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/helmet-law-makes-nonsense-of-bike-hire...

Bicycle mode share in AU is 2% or less in spite of very considerable efforts by government to try and get people to ride.
With the mild weather and quality of roads and paths bike usage should have a natural balance of around 5 to 10% mode share in australia. So the helmet laws and related scaremongering have kept it closer to 1% in spite of government efforts to try to get it higher.

FYI rates of helmet usage are actually no where near the 99.7% suggested by Sakurashinmachi who posted above. In fact they struggle to reach even 90% for adults and lower for children - helmet law supporters are not know for telling the truth and would never admit the law is a failure. Rates of helmet infringement tickets are in the order of 25 thousand each year and many times that number of threats, warnings and police letting peoples tires down etc.

We have a rapidly increasing growth in inactivity disorders and public health costs to go along with under the exclusionist style helmet laws we seem to have been sucker punched with.

Here is another recent news article. The debate is clearly increasing and it is probably only a matter of time before one state trials a helmet law repeal. After that the remaining states law's will fall like domino's thus putting an end to this bullying and worthless law.

http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/newshome/13656583/fremantle-in-call...

The headline makes him seem more arrogant than his actual quotes suggest (i.e. he wants to ride the tour for a few more years).

Of course winning a grand tour isn't easy, but nevertheless shut up Froomey, because at the end of the day you've not won the Tour and you lost the Vuelta to Contador.

Cool. Will there be druids?

Actually - I should postscript that recommendation with the fact that Merckx's performances are never questioned - the author accepts wholly the explanation for Merckx's failed doping tests.

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And in Seven Deadly Sins, the author casually mentions that Merckx introduced Armstrong to Michele Ferrari. So.

might be getting carried away, he good but not that good. come on

for once I chose not to change

I have these on my tribike. When one-legged cycling on round rings on the home trainer, I found that when I'm in the aero position, I could not get my leg over at the top of the stroke. The Q-rings make a big difference to my power and fatigue when I'm in the aero bars. I wouldn't go back.
Don't have them on the road bike, but would like to try them.
I'm old enough to have used biopace. I went to round rings from there. Q-rings are a different shape, and they do seem to do what's claimed. Foo-foo dust that seems to work....

Oppps, I forgot to make changes