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i was just about to suggest sheldon browns gear page myself, if you do find you need a bigger cluster of gears shimano do a 'junior' range in the ultegra sl dept (on their website) 13-25, 14-27 etc.. lose a bit in the higher end but good for hills, esp. with a 39 on the front.

There is a Philiposterous URL where the CE team and many of those who worked with CE have posted pictures and stories of that 6 years. As Philip noted on perhaps the last public platform he appeard on for CE - a Conference tellingly sponsored by the PTE Group and supported by CTC and Sustrans, they had for the early years managed to exist without the cabinet office really noticing such a minnow, especially as the output was being delivered at such minimal cost, but eventually the results got them noticed, and he wryly noted that only weeks earlier a call from the heady realms of Whitehall, sought his availability to discuss CE matters ... later this year (obviously the message hadn't got into that particular silo).

CE lives on perhaps in a transformation phase that moves the wealth of its legacy to the Chartered Institute of Logistics & Transport- Cycling Forum, and - an area I personally feel is ripe for working on, where cycling specialists can actually be joining the debates with PTE's and their bus & rail operators, many of whom are slowly realising the monetary value of cycling as part of the transport deal. Give this a month or two to bed-in and consider checking out the local CILT group - chances are you'l find a place to start gently talking-up cycling to rail and bus managers.

Bike parking at many key stations is getting rammed full to capacity, yet vast mega car parks built at great expense by many big stations are not filling up - and prices are being slashed by 30% with no apparent success. Demand for cycle carriage on trains and buses (or a workable alternative) ain't going away and the punters are getting faster and cheaper journeys that beat those possible by car, that drives this demand ever upwards. Those fortunate enough to have trains which are not rammed to 200% of seated capacity, and a customer friendly rail operator will know that many key commuter corridors have well above that 2-bikes per train at commuting times, and weekend trips see even greater numbers (current bid for the record is 14 bikes on a 102-seat train - generating a massive boost to the revenue for that service)

Philip rightly rebuffed my question that CE could have been 'privatised' to operate in a manner similar to Cycling Scotland - a not for profit company delivering for government but not totally dependent on this funding stream - as this could easily add to a crowd of organisations - each progressing a facet of cycling development

Cycling's Obi-Wan Kenobi continues to work on the Cycle-Rail Task Force, and doubtless in the ways unseen that he used so effectively with CE, I only wish I could deliver so well, in making matches and getting the most unlikely folk sitting around the same table.

That New Zealand bike bungee was a spoof as well, right? Something as astoundingly dangerous as that could not be sold as a real product.

Right?

I will only touch the red lid stuff, green attracts too much dust for me (richmond park).

I quite fancied the firebox bike:

http://www.firebox.com/product/3512/Re-Cycle-Cardboard-Bike

Then I spotted the 'chain'..

The sad thing with that nursing times spoof is that my mate who's a GP isn't allowed to ride his bike on house-calls, even though he wants to! Means he has to drive 5 miles to work, rather than ride in, as he needs his car at work.

rear wheel is too far from the seat-tube - looks weird.

Looks like someone at DfT reads road.cc. They've already pulled the plug..

I have been impressed with SQuirt.
Lubes well in all conditions and it doesn't leave much of a mess.
http://squirtlube.com/

Might be worth noting that your bulleted points are over a three year period in CDTs not the 6 years of Cycling England.

heh, but it's true

i'm new here and i found out you could not take more than 1 sprinter after i wanted to take a seccond
but it was possible to take a 5th domestique
so i asume my team will be aproved?