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i'd get a tough water bag and lay it on your rack under your tent and kit. it won't affect the handling too much there
yeah its back again. thanks.
Hi Dave, just on your point and not to complicate your life!
but maybe you can have purists competitions for each grand tour? So if no one makes a change for a particular tour, then they are purists. What do you think? is that an easy change from your end IT/code wise? Thanks, John PS I would just like to thank you Dave (and everyone else involved!) on behalf of everyone enjoying this fantasy game! Great work geeza! 
Right guys and dolls
One last question for those who have done longer breaks, What did you do for hydration/water to cook with?
I have 2 x 750ml water bottles and a 2l hydration pack, so thats good for a couple of days just biking, But, i'm going to be away from the beaten track, not near any homes or a river
I packed up my panniers just to see i can get everything in, just about, going to be leaving quite a bit behind and living in cycling gear and shoes, but i'll survive with that, just the water issue to think about
I thought about an empty 2l bottle, but thats going to add weight, lower room and set my bike off unbalanced to one side
Any ideas?
Makes me want to do this event next year, if only to annoy the inbreeds who did this.
Really, now thats going to involve some thinking behind the picks and then working out what stage of either race is going to have more points
Have a look at next month - Tour de Suisse and the Dauphine at the same time and both count for the game. Going to be some interesting team selections for those for the days they overlap...
should be there now...
because you made transfers in the classics, and that ended your run as a purist.
that being said, i'm happy to change the game logic so that you'll appear in the giro purists' league but not the overall. might take me a while though as it's a bit complicated
why does my team not show in the purists league when i have made no transfers since the start of the Giro?
okay, you can all have points for stage 1 of the AToC.
It's been what?
Thanks for the clarification Dave!
I think we should give credit where it is due, Alberto is a natural athlete and the best of his generation by a country mile. Unless Nibali et al can come up with something special in the following week, Alberto will run away with it. I hope they do to make it exciting! I am still baking Nibali for now!
Thanks very much TH - you have mail - I hope I've done it right anyway.
I'm not sure what my second claim club www.velocake.co.uk would have to say about this. Something about prior art. I'll see what their legals say.
I guess it's a broad church though, with room for all pastry disciples, and we should extend the sticky hand of friendship.
I'm a real cynic, I've now lost interst in the giro, a shame after some of the genuine stages.
It's there all year - you can get the timing card off Paul, the guy who organises the FW
Dave - it was pretty harsh today!!!
I've written a long report about my adventure today on my 10FW-in-10 blogspot site
I stopped short of calling the MRT on Wrynose...... just
Come on Dave, earn your money - surely you can allow managers to have two squads for races running simultaneously . . . . lol
@A V Lowe
I don't know where you get your information from but "thrust on a significant body of the local population" is completely in error. The Anti-Etape protesters are a very small but vocal minority and if you had ever ridden the thing, you would know that at every village the event passes through; there are are an abundance of locals out clapping and cheering on every single cyclist.
The truth is completely at odds with your post and your ignorance precedes you.
I've got some old adidas ones you can have - size M - I'm 6' and 34" waist so they should be okay. They were bottom of the range (pun not intended) but they are in good condition.
Make a donation to charity - at least enough to cover postage - and I'll send them to you this week.
Just pm me you address if you want them.
Sorry. I understand. It's alright.
Maybe it's time the organisers move the location of the Etape to somewhere else, where the locals appreciate the vast amounts of money spent on hotels, in restaurants, shops, etc for what is a small inconvience. The scenery is fantastic, but there's plenty more of that in Scotland!! If you so miserable you don't like it, try going away for the weekend somewhere, you never know you might even enjoy yourself, but probably not as you type of folk always find something to moan about. Every the cops will find out who did this and hopefully this time there will be some proper court action taken.
we try to do it as soon as the official result for the race is posted. normally it'll be done by about now, sometimes it's a bit later on in the evening
you're automatically in the purists' league if you don't make any transfers at times when transfers are limited.