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"Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself" Wittgenstein. She will start to believe the lies herself.

Err who says all these women are tweeting anti cycling rants? Has anyone done a survey or are we assuming that @cyclehatred is genuine stuff? For a start clearly most of the tweets, if not all are wind ups & since there isn't evidence of wholesale cyclist murder going on then clearly it's winding up. However I can vouch for the bitter and twisted venom and dishonesty of the more determined & ardent cycling lobby as I am a victim of hatred tweet, so a lot of @cyclehatred will be contrived and from cyclists themselves.

Emma was just a tweeter and so far that's all she is. There are a lot of outstanding questions to these allegations. If she did hit & run, then she deserves all she gets, but if you follow the sequence from her twitter onwards, an alleged cycling accident was found to match her tweet. I hope that the police will keep that in mind.

In the meantime, she hasn't been charged yet, let alone to court. I suggest we all wait to see what transpires before commenting on this.

I read on the BBC Sport news page that he has been sacked from the Vini Fantini-Selle team and the Vini Fantini team director Luca Scinto said "Di Luca is an idiot. I never wanted him. He is sick and needs help. Ouch, that's probably your career down the toilet then.

No one nicks bikes where I live. If they did they'd get their right hand chopped off (and so have to wipe their arse and eat with the remaining left hand.....and have no mates)
Sam (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia)

Even Wiggo on normal form would not get close to Nibali on this form. You could see Nibali was going to nail this TT the way he flew around that velodrome at the start.

He seems genuine and clean not tainted by the Ferrari scandal. Keep this form and he will make it interesting at Le Tour.

It's not often I get starstruck, but that was just ridiculous. Hinault did use Campag. I think he was in Yorkshire at the time of this bash. Not sure who that is with Lemond.

Cipo: do you mean the pic in the gallery? It's classic. Actually, I think I'll promote it into the story proper.

It was funny how everyone else was there from the start, went to the presentation, did interviews and stuff. You know, they all put in the leg work. Then Cipollini rocks up just in time for dessert, pretty much reflecting the whole of his racing career. And why wouldn't you?

Strikes me that most of the "facts" presented by both parties should be fairly easy to prove - scratches on the cyclist if he went through the hedge, matching dents on brake hoods or bars and car if she did only clip his handlebars, so eventually I hope the truth will out. Trouble is if it turns out that the cyclists were pretty much accurate in the version of events, somebody needs to take a good look at this woman not just as a driver but as a person - to hit another person in your car, to not stop and worse still to almost gloatingly Tweet about it is pretty callous stuff. Throw in lack of remorse, a seeming inability to see anything wrong in her actions and all of a sudden she's ticking boxes contained (amongst MANY others I hasten to add) in the definition of "psycopath". I suppose there's a very faint line dividing someone capable of extreme stupidity from a truly dangerous person, and I suspect she's just the former but I can't quite shake the latter thought either.

Oh, and what sort of solicitor sits next to a client in two interviews and lets them obviously misconstrue the law about stopping after an accident. Perhaps one who is better at publicity than law?

Yes, less chance of Canola falling off his bike! (Actually ate in a restaurant called De Luca today.)

But I made a mistake using 3 transfers last night when I knew I should wait till the morning. I thought after it was rerouted it would be safe but it wasn't.

Hope tomorrow goes ahead, weather permitting and if it's safe to race, otherwise all the mountain stages will have been ruined really and it's Nibali's by default, although I couldn't see him faltering in any case, but I'm sure even he won't be entirely happy about winning this way.

Leader of the fantasy comp. must be happy too I imagine. Less chance of being caught.

Oh yeah, Majka aswell. Nibali and Pirazzi already have their jersey's wrapped up.

Don't worry Enrique, I'll still have 6 for that stage

A decent shop would advise you on the correct size before you buy or pay for a bikefit. Your chosen TT bike should be primarily based on this, as they are all different.

Manufacturers skew their wind tunnel test data to their own criteria so no point trying to choose which is 'fastest'.

Zipp wheels are good but they're not necessarily better than the competition. Don't believe the hype.

Wow that sounds like some star-studded bash. Your eyes must've been out on stalks Mat.

So why no Hinault? They must've tried. Or did he use, ahem, another brand?