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Don't like the guy but getting a bike stolen is a major pain in the butt - and as for two...

By far the best value item on the Rapha site. I wouldn't part with me and don't regret a penny of the price. Being merino it works well in mild weather right down to sub zero.

Cyclist swerves to avoid dog - that's an automatic reaction.
Motorist does not swerve to avoid cyclist? That;s no reaction at all! With reactions as poor as that surely he should not be driving, clearly did not give the legal safe distance stated in the highway code. And speeding too...
Could you make a more open and shut case. and still...

"The price of one life - £340. And five penalty points."

Well, that's a lot more than the driver who killed the lads at Rhyll got a couple of years ago.
He went on on icy roads on his bald tyres and drove too fast round a bend and killed 4 cyclists.
His fine was 30 points and worked out at £60/life. He didn't even bother going to court.

So we're getting somewhere

Well, it's only a bloke on a push-bike isn't it?
And they don't pay road tax, so they shouldn't even be on the roads.

Didn't he know the driver was in a hurry?, yet he still got in the way. Serves him right.

The above is NOT what I think, but it is the attitude of so many, I doubt we'll ever change it.

Sad and tragic.

Perhaps Carntyne Transport and their key tanker clients - the Scottish whisky industry can match the efforts of RMC in driver training and awareness. It won't heal the immediate loss but it will move to prevent any family having to suffer in the future.

Your move John Russell? (owners of Carntyne Transport) - based in Springburn just up the road from the Glasgow Infirmary. http://www.carntyne-transport.co.uk/about/about.html. Perhaps a statement of condolence?

I would take the set-up back to the LBS where you purchased them, reason with them that the set-up is not working. If they want you as a log term customer they should work with you............If you bought the items from an online retailer then, Blahahahahahahahahahahaha

I'm wondering about his appeal to "the Big Society" to help him get his bikes back could be tongue in cheek but then isn't everything political… so maybe he doesn't actually want to get the bikes back cos that would prove that the Big Society actually works… or maybe I've watched too many episodes of The Thick of It

Either way, take Mr_Andrew's point and hope he gets his bikes back

I like the design of the Torm T1 Jersey, but to me their T6 Jersey with its pointless bands of material in the same colour on the sleeves, plus the rear pockets with ring pull zips and inset reflective panel, shouts "Rapha knock-off" to me. The only thing different about the T6 is that it is symmetrical, as opposed to Rapha's asymmetry.

Having your bike nicked is awful. Are we really going to start judging the crime based how much we love or hate the victim? As much of a tosser as he is, it shouldn't really come into play.

Yet another cyclist, Danish, blood tested positive for banned muscle builder Clenbuteral:
"I can safely say that I have not taken the substance knowingly. I have been fully aware of the team’s values and philosophy — which the team has always turned to — any kind of doping is cheating and not under any circumstances acceptable,” Nielsen said on the Danish cycling site.
The irony: that anyone with half a grain of sense should know that this guy, and Alberto Contador of Spain, are speaking the truth. Neither of these guys is so stupid as to risk the ruination of a $-multi-million career by taking such an overly-easily-detected banned substance. It's an illegal substance in the cattle industry, but still in use. You're a world-hopping champion cyclist; you can't go into a restaurant & know-for-sure the meat isn't contaminated with Clenbuteral...!
The "Gotta Love It": here the cycling world is ripped-apart for months now debating the guilt/innocence of Contador; to where they're so late with the verdict, he may not have time to enter this year's Tour de France. And @ the 11th-hour (as they are about to decide...) along comes this Danish cyclist with precisely the-same-circumstance-and-statement! If the big guns in the industry don't "take the hint" & exonerate Contador, they're total MORONS.
Contador has already - shouting his obvious innocence - said that if he is given the 2-year penalty, that he'll not return to the sport. And I wouldn't blame him. Maybe this case will wake up the officials to the vulnerability of their tests.