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I'd advise getting a professional bike fit if you haven't had one before.

That said it might be worth trying to move your cleats further back toward the heel of your shoe (if they are not already) and checking that your seat is not too high.

The further towards your toe the cleat is positioned the more the calves will have to work to stabilise your foot during the down stroke.

Having your seat too high will also mean that at the bottom of your pedal stroke your toes will have to dip to complete that portion.

Even though I live in Manchester, I really hope TfGM don't get a penny of it.

They'll have a load of half-baked, overpriced ideas, they'll build them on the cheap, and in 2 years time the stuff they've built will be falling apart.

Give the dosh to a council with a better history of sanity/road upkeep.

As I said in the forum thread

"I am against the government giving more money out to paint some marks on the road and "make cycling safer" until a proper NATIONAL plan is in place, not just region by region. It needs to be a nation wide plan, so that EVERYONE is singing from the same sheet, else we will have huge differences in what local area's put in place."

So by a national plan, I mean, if you want funding, you stick to the rules laid out by a decent selection of bodies that put something together. So cycle paths, crossing sections....etc and ALL places submitting bids would be had to stick to these rules.

A shame this article doesn't include any links to any bid documents.

According to a Newcastle presentation here:
http://www.newcastle.gov.uk/sites/drupalncc.newcastle.gov.uk/files/wwwfi...

...there are First Wave cities (Birmingham, Leeds, Sheffield, Bristol, Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle and Nottingham) and smaller Second Wave cities.

And it states "The Government expects to support one First Wave and two Second Wave cities.".

Of course I don't know if this is correct.

And I'm biased, but Go Manchester!

Full scores:

drheaton - 33
TERatcliffe26 - 39
JAndrewHill - 100
STEVESPRO 79 - 19
ray silvester - 19
Dave Atkinson - 53
Ghedebrav - 45
Philip Unwin - 0
chrisdstripes - 28
Gkam84 - 35
NeilG83 - 47
stumps - 34
Timbo13 - 44
stevemarks - 47
Wig_Billy - 49
spin cycle - 19
livestrongnick - 50
djb123 - 40
SounDaz_7 - 39
hguop13 - 33
rcorbin - 53
m.n.charlton - 45
enrique - 39
fico - 47
obutterwick - 48
taustin789 - 60
Gmancervelo - 39
thorolf - 54
johnny2names - 53
shishman - 21
northstar - 49
letgoup - 19
flying11 - 47
fluffchucker - 28
viveLaPants - 19
farrell - 46
makiavelli - 49
jasonbrim - 47
smiley_boy2501 - 49
stepho - 39
Mikeh789 - 55
TheHatter - 0
Alan Tullett - 53
andynic - 53
d_jp - 28
Tuarts - 49
debbieg - 24
Rant - 49

OK, I will list from top components to bottom for the three main brands.

I won't even factor in that Ultegra brakes are the best Shimano brakes, but they are not the highest model....

Shimano:

Dura Ace (Di2)
Dura Ace
Ultegra (Di2)
Ultegra
105
Tiagra
Sora
2300

SRAM:

SRAM RED
SRAM Force
SRAM Rival
SRAM Apex

Campagnolo:

Super Record (EPS)
Super Record
Record (EPS)
Record
Chorus
Athena (EPS)
Athena
Centaur
Veloce

Managed to cobble together a spreadsheet that's worked out the scores, top three are:

JAndrewHill - 100
taustin789 - 60
Mikeh789 - 55

with lots and lots of people hovering between 40 and 50 points.

that is madness. i guess London-Edinburgh-London isn't far away though...

I had 6 transfers and went on a gut instinct of who would be in the break today, that failed as the 3 guys I left out of the 9 I had picked are in the break.....

Kept my sprinters for tomorrow though

I've scored a century then