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Thanks chaps. That was my train of thought, and why I'd never dream of doing it with my MTB. Having searched around, I've also found a few posts (including the FSA) for around £50 in a 30.9, so all good.

I just need to find a matching stem and bars, 'cos I'm a tart!

Sounds great - what's your route?

I've a friend who swears by dental floss. you can bind broken bits of your bike together with it, mend clothes (and shoes) with it and even floss your teeth with it if you have any left...

Things I always pack on a tour include:
* a couple of jubilee clips and a bit of metal rod
* some araldite
* a selection of bolts
* a bit of plastic cut from a 4pt milk carton for a trye boot

all the normal stuff like puncture kits and tools too, but the worst thing that can happen is that your bike breaks and you can't bodge it!

Jon, the Bristol City Council Press release of June 2008 says "This funding (£11.4 million) will be matched by Bristol and South Gloucestershire councils and their partners creating a total scheme value of £22.8 million over the next two and a half years".

That seems to imply that that is the total amount of new money. At least that is what the local media seemed to think if you look at contemporaneous reports.

As for "taking part not taking sides", I've always taken the side of the city's cyclists, but the Council seem to dismiss them (us) as unimportant because we're already cycling. It's that attitude on the part of the Council and indeed Cycling England that has caused so much disquiet among cycling interests.

Up until now the Council have gone out of their way to restrict involvement, or "taking part", by cycling interests as I think you know. If that's now changing then we'll see what overtures the Council make.

a few spare belt drives… I hope.

The consensus is that they are extremely comfortable - once worn in and moulded to your particular shape, when they become a saddle for life. (The breaking in process is likely to take a few hundred miles. I have though heard of people who don't get on with them.

As to care, basically you feed your saddle Proofide from time to time.

I had a look around and here a good source of info you might want to check out

http://www.esande.net/features/newbrooks.html

And of course there is the Brooks website too http://www.brookssaddles.com/

Hope that helps

Agreed, the UK law does only apply to motorised vehicles, attempting to trip a speed camera may be daft and unsafe but it isnt 'illegal'. Ive been stopped a couple of times by police saying Im going too quickly (below the speed limit).

I'm not sure what the difference between a fixed wheel bike and a fixie is....

I'm fairly sure that in the U.K., speed limits apply to motorised vehicles only (in as much as exceeding them constitutes an offence in and of itself).

(Which isn't to say that it's right to exceed a posted limit on a bicycle, just that it isn't against the law as such, if I've remembered same correctly).

You'll have to excuse me, I'm a hamster, but what does "goping" mean?

Why do fixed-wheel bikes always look so simple and elegant, and yet "fixies" look so goping?

I prefer if all my bikes weren't black but it was the best fit and value. Ofc I care how I look, commute to have a casual dinner with mates, including some pretty girls, I want to look good while not being cumbersome on the bike.

Yes Spesh has some of the worst colour scheme for 08, wats up with brown, purple with ugly curtain detailing on their P series, yikes. white tyres on their road bikes, white grip and tape in sum places, bluergh.