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It'd need to be covered in plastic though - wouldn't want as much protection as a damp cardboard box after a rainstorm.

I have heard of this before. Some motorcycle helmet manufacturers are taking a serious look at this particular cycle helmet as it happens.

I have come off, a mates have come off, we were both wearing helmets, if we werent, I wouldnt be typing this now.

Simple as.

I really enjoyed that Vuelta.

Menchov was riding without a strong team. He was pretty much defending the lead which he'd got from a time trial on his own. Heras and team repeatedly attacked and Menchov doggedly stuck to their wheels, he was impossible to shake off. Some people say that Menchov is a boring rider who doesn't attack. But on this occasion he held out against all the odds and against all comers, alone. It was heroic.

On the last stage Heras put in an "incredible" performance. In the sense that it wasn't credible. Menchov will always be the real winner.

Or you could just get an Adamo with no nose at all

Yeah, that's the main problem. Bloody irrational born-again "I'd-be-dead/crippled-without-my-hat" crashers. Try not crashing instead: it hurts less. And if you were in a crash with another vehicle, like 90% of accidents, you have my sympathy, but remember "this helmet is not designed to protect against violent or sharp impacts" (or similar wording on most of them) - they're only tested at stopping 12mph one-metre drop impacts: falling off your bike, basically. Even bike-on-bike crashes exceed the design parameters fairly easily. You'd do much better to campaign for general road safety improvements so those vehicles become less dangerous to riders, rather than campaign for the mostly-irrelevant victim-punishing hat law.

on your other point, think the 7850 are newer as they are the only ones on the shimano site and they have the trendy red anno nipples, but otherwise seem to be the latest duraace???

Looks a lot like Lance Armstrong's salute to Fabio Casartelli in the '95 Tour:

I'm not sure who Bradley might be mourning.

Sad story but perhaps it will be a reminder for some of the idiots on the road.

Have noticed more satnavs attached to windscreens recently. One obscured the driver's face from the angle I was at, which in turn surely means he/she can't see me. Why is this not illegal? After all, a crack in the wrong part of your windscreen is not allowed. I'd be quite happy if they were banned entirely.

Doubt Gerrans has the speed unless he breaks off the front. Rojas of Movistar just won Spanish Title or Goss maybe? That depends on whether Cav allows his train divert attentions to the Aussie.

Brittany is well-supplied with quiet country lanes with limited traffic, and there is an extensive network of "Routes Vertes" marked on the ground by extremely discreet signs - probably no more than 20-25cm wide and 15cm high, arrow-shaped, with a little green cycle symbol.

Getting maps of these routes however is a challenge, ie there aren't any really. When is Cycle West going to publish detailed maps so that people can find these routes?

Meanwhile, the French IGN 25k series of maps is generally pretty reliable as a guide to the quieter roads, and some of the GPS mappers (eg Satmap) offer the whole region on a SD card as a base for the GPS devices.

Also, "queiter" roads is a relative term. French main roads are generally less busy than in the UK and although the provision for cyclists doesn't match the Netherlands, the French are used to seeing sporting cyclists on the road, are much more likely to be cyclists thmeselves, and tend to be rather more considerate toward cyclists than their UK counterparts.

Combine this with the restaurants, auberges etc, and the stunning Brittany scenery, and personally, I would leave out the UK leg of any of these tours!

There are of course the larger units of measurement the "Wales" and its metric equivalent the "Belgium." The Belgium currently is approx 1/3 larger than a Wales but this could of course change if the unit is split into the Flem and the Wallooon

I'm in, if I get approved.