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Well hand built wheels are much less likely to be become un-true or break a spoke in a pot hole as someone has spent a few hours checking it over... which means you ll be saving money on truing the wheel in future.

Plus your giving and old cycling legend a bit of beer money, that has to be worth it ?

Yes, it really is. I've had to contend with broken glass, flints from constant road works, carpet tacks, drawing pins, screws, you name it. If it's sharp and small it can be found on a London road. I used to spend Sunday evenings picking foreign objects out of my tyres, I moved to the country and rode much further and for longer and didn't get a puncture in over a year.

Now Montana Carrot is down to 3 star riders like everybody else as TJVG climbs off the bike after the 2nd of the 4 climbs today.

That's rather poor considering the Trossachs Ton with an almost identical route is already scheduled for June 17th. Seems bonkers to have both and disrupt the Sam Robinson.

Even the paper boy market's looking a bit dodgy at the moment, Simon...

http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=1&storycode=48968&c=1

Thats a plan, a mass Road.cc outing and call it, Cycling for cyclists not profit

Where abouts you commute through Newcastle Joe? I commute along the quayside then the 72 cycle path and then into Shields!

Dont want to tempt fate.....so no stats !!! Fingers crossed etc.

I use Bontrager Race X Lite All Weather Hardcase 700-23.

Would recomend.

Well I was wrong 75kms in and Nico Eekhout is not in the breakaway, it is Thomas Vaitkus (GreenEdge), Pim Ligthart (Vacansoleil-DCM) and William Clarke (Champion System)

Course its a joke. I cant believe how readily available this stuff is though, then again who knows what your buying!

yes but its the sharp stuff that gets you and there's more of that in yer urban environment. Part of my route through newcastle is like a glittery diamond highway if the chavas have been on the Bella Brusco the night before.

No probs with Gatorskins for me though but mixed with marathons - I find that glass can get wedged in the tread grooves and work its way in if not caught early

This is all revolves around what you do will reflect back when you need it one day.
I was on the Sportive for the TdF in UK in 2007 and the route passed my house in Kent. As I came past I noticed a guy fixing a puncture just opposite my place and my daughters were helping him with my track pump. It transpired that he had split the tyre wall somehow. As I knew I had a spare tyre in the shed I grabbed it for him and we put it on. I then rode with him for the next 20 miles to the feed stop where he caught up with a few of his mates. He went on ahead there - TBH he was way fitter than me! About 3 weeks later a parcel arrived from Amazon. He'd taken the trouble to thank me by sending me the photographic history of the tour.
If we all just take a few seconds to help or at the very least check that someone is alright with what they're doing, then hopefully the world will be a slightly better place.