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I have to say that while I wouldn't have purchased Torm before any more than I'd purcase an 'Georgina Armoni' tshirt the new kit looks good and I'm tempted. Certainly you can see where the inspiration comes from but seems its no longer a copycat.

What's that quote? "If you can remember the sixties, you weren't there."

Presumably on account of all the NON-perfomance enhancing drugs...

I'm sorry Michael5 reading a book about the 60s is not the same as knowing what it was like, it's knowing what the author thought it was like. To know you had to be there.

History doesn't get more accurate over time the interpretation simply changes. To actually know what a period of history was like are those that actually lived through it. You can build an idea or theory of what it was like from books, pictures, contemporary accounts or historical or archeological artefact, it can be a very sophisticated idea as our picture of the Roman world is, it may well be accurate, up to a point – it will give you a chronological list of the important events, dates, and places and the major characters that animated them but it can never be the real picture. We know so little about the lives of those that weren't major historical figures for a start but also because the mindset, values and thought processes of a typical Roman would be so alien to us that we might find them very hard to relate to – certainly in a sympathetic way – possibly a bit like old time cyclists) in that respect.

I was alive in the 60, 70s, and 80s and my memories of what those decades were actually like are far removed from what books, pictures, or films depict - it's why my kids couldn't stand watching Ashes to Ashes or Life on Mars with me because of my constant comments on the innaccuracy of the musical bits, the clothes, & the hairstyles. Yes, I'm a saddo in that respect.

Contador talking about the drug testing regime of the 60s is laughable because any information he has to base his assertions on will be partial in the extreme… his ignorance is made glaringly obvious by the simple fact that he chose the 60s as an example – organised drug testing programmes didn't exist for much of that decade.

@bikecellar I suspect that Sustrans would need a heck of a lot of donations from us lot to get that off the ground! I wonder what the impact of installing all that infrastructure is - and how easy it would fit in with our other street furniture/powerlines, phone cables, etc.

If Boris gets this off the ground, it would be amazing, but what in towns with big hills? Going down would be great fun but going up would still be a chore. Perhaps having solar panels for a boost would help.

I love the idea but cannot see it working in the long run... imagine pods with gum stuck to them, smelly and sweaty, vandalised, parts stolen, basically becoming like any other mass transit system in major cities. Then again, yobbos are usually lazy little blighters, so perhaps the thought of actually exercising would put them off!

Wouldn't work in London- it's more of a Shelbyville idea.

Weren't monorails what every expo used to think was the future?

And yet the most blatant copy, their arm warmers, remain unchanged?

There must be a point of diminishing returns with regard to money spent on lights (or indeed on pretty much anything to do with a bike). I use Cateye rear-lights on all (ok, both) my bikes. Can't remember what I paid. Around twenty-five squidoons I think. I can see the sense in paying more for a front-light if riding unlit roads or tracks - purely from the 'able-to-see-where-I'm-going' point of view. But my Cateye surely provides ample safety coverage from behind. Can anyone convince me otherwise?

Just a guess, but he can probably read and that's how he knows.

To claim he can't know because he wasn't born suggests we can't know anything about Roman history because it happened before we were born...

Often history gets more accurate the further into the past it gets because there's less reason to want to show it in a positive light. Still far too many riders alive from the 50's, 60's and beyond for the real truth about what they were taking to come out yet.

looks smart indeed
big improvement
and cheap.
and the were cheap to start with
hurrah

Surely it should be applied AFTER chamois cream, not before?

quite a bizarre thing to say for all sorts of reasons the two most glaring being that there probably wasn't any drug testing for a fair chunk of the Sixties - amphetamines were only banned in 1964.

The second being that Contador was born in 1982 so how would he know anyway?