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Hi I will take the screw on freewheel. Can you send me your details
Andy

was lucky!

I got...

an "id rather be cycling" mug
a tyre belt (ex specialized mondo)
2 copies of 100 greatest climbs!
two wheels book
click together pen holder with cyclist!
copy of cycling plus

“a small number of aggressive cyclists were spoiling it"

This is exactly correct. Cycled at a gentle 5-8 mph the whole stretch, but particularly the Lambeth Bridge/Westminster Bridge stretch is perfectly safe and pleasant for everyone. There is simply no need for a ban.

It is also, typically, crawling with flabby clueless PCSO's wandering about rubbing their manboobs under their stab vests, who have presumably been watching this small number of people spoiling it without comment before weighing in behind a total ban. Great work all round.

I have been using turbo and HR monitor since the long ago advent of the Polar Accurex monitor, inspired to do so by the Moser book on his hour record adventures. I was never going to be a top athlete but together with my HR monitors and my modified magnificent, (still) Cateye C1000 trainer I set out on a love hate relationship that has lasted twenty years or so. At the end of the day fitness and all that goes with it are attained by dedication to whatever you are aspiring to do. The HR monitor and turbo will do wonderful things for fitness and general well being but knowing ones self is perhaps the better side of it all. It is well documented that intervals, hard intervals, work wonders, together with the new power workouts a better insight to fitness is able to be formed, but it is only a part of the story. A winner is still a winner with more of everything we would all aspire to have, but to know that even if you will never be a winner you are a better and fitter person by your endeavors is inspirational in itself. I speak as a seventy three year old who still enjoys the local track league, not always finishing last, and still leading the club runs on a Sunday, from the front most of the day. I still enjoy my turbo and roller sessions, little home grown programmes keep me motivated and I have learned also when not to 'go for it', the old maxim of know thyself coming in very handy. I could tell you what my regular HR max is but that is likely to frighten some one to death, suffice to say it is usually reached when feeling very good. I hope this little insight of mine may be of some use to your regular posters.

we'll find out soon enough, since we have some of them in and all

this seem equal to BBB tech-stop brake shoes.

http://www.bbbparts.com/proinfo3.php?N=TECHSTOP&BC=BBS-22T&SC=Brake Shoes Road&LC=EN&Y=2011

...and they cost roughly the same.

Excellent initiative! Gonna tell my local bike shop.

Morning all. Happy Christmas.
I got a merino skull cap and a copy of Will F's Cyclopedia.
Just need to source a copy of Chasing Legends and all will be complete.
Nice sunny day in Guildford so may venture out for a small one later on once the wife goes to work.

brilliant idea for getting an sneaky view of anyone getting a jump on sprinting for road signs racing

What a question to ask a chap half way through his first Christmas G&T!

Hard to say, my main point of reference was the Dura-Ace blocks that they replaced. Without swapping between blocks mid-ride I'd be hard pushed to give you a definitive answer. That said, I have used the (green) Swiss Stops in the past and I don't recall being blown away by the performance especially given the amount they cost, although my wife recalls that they lasted for ages. As the Ashimas are much cheaper (£6.99 vs £19.99 for the Pro Green pads) and the difference in braking performance is not going to be that significant I'd say the Ashimas were better value, at the very least.

Hope that helps, now I'm going back to my G&T!

the bonts sounds like a nice pressie, no bike related pressies for me, actually not that much choc either, but it was my birthday last week and still eating through the small hill I got for that so prob just as well. Am treating myself to some bike related pressies in the sales though. Some new bars for the Roadrat and poss something from the Rapha sale too.