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Like this?
Just add SRAM Red
Like this?
Just add SRAM Red 22 and some sexy wheels for a mean machine…
“post bike things which make
“post bike things which make you go weak at the knees”
I’ll get my coat.
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The website was still up the
The website was still up the other day and said something about a planned closure for two days. Beginning to look like they’ve gone.Defo the Ritte, and those
Defo the Ritte, and those Enve wheels it’s wearing.Also, these:
A Colnago CLX3 isn’t exactly
A Colnago CLX3 isn’t exactly a shabby bike, good thing you weren’t on mine!I can see both sides of the
I can see both sides of the debate, but regardless, he does sound like a weapon.The iphone has data roaming
The iphone has data roaming switched off by default these days. Someone with the first gen iphone complained about an £8k phone bill or something after watching youtube vids on holiday.So you shouldn’t have to do anything.
Very true, and that TCR looks
Very true, and that TCR looks like a reasonably-priced option for my next bike.It’s like washing powder, new Daz whites are so much whiter that you’d think last year’s Daz whiter-than-whites were dull grey. Alwight?!
Anyway, Raleigh started racing for the VO2 Dev Team, so that’s understandable. However I do think he should have to change his username every time he changes his mind…
Whereas I am fickle, my head is turned by something else every few days.
We should just have a page
We should just have a page where our biases are listed, and you’ll have the opinions before you even start!Super Domestique – Spesh
Raleigh – VO2
etc…Agree with 700c though, if I had a frame that was ‘developing’ a crack I wouldn’t be riding it at all, I’d be worried about the effect of cobbles, potholes or just the stress of throwing the bike around when riding hard.
Nice present!
If you pull the
Nice present!If you pull the insole out of the shoe, what is the arch like underneath?
If the high arch is in the insole, then I guess a custom insole would resolve it. If it’s in the shoe construction, then I guess not.
700c wrote:notfastenough, I
notfastenough, I quite agree. I was more referring to public perception and acceptance rather than my own view.I genuinely believe the British guys who have come up through British cycling share none of the doping culture.
The ‘new generation of clean riders’, as a concept, does not exist yet with the British public at large. Cycling will have extra work to do, compared to other sports, to convince people of it’s cleanliness, even though other sports such as tennis, football are likely to now have dopers at the very top levels.
I think more scandals are waiting to break, just hope they don’t hit cycling
Hmmm, you might be right, although I think Wiggo’s press conference outburst at the TdF last year did seep into Joe Public’s mindset.
I think in many regards the problem is that, as it turns out, coaching in cycling really hasn’t been that advanced. There are numerous accounts from the guys in BC/Team Sky that some of the gains to be made from effective training can’t even be considered ‘marginal’ – the gap between effective training and just riding a bike every day then turning up to a race and seeing your DS for the first time in couple of weeks is potentially much more substantial. Thus, the peloton is essentially made up of three groups. Those just riding a bike every day and hoping that pummelling themselves on a regular basis will make them better riders, those who are doping, and those on the more closely-managed teams like Garmin and Sky where effective training is the order of the day and where, hopefully, doping isn’t an issue.
Ultimately, USPS won everything it wanted to because it was doing both the scientific training and the doping.
Eh?
Eh?700c wrote:There is no such
There is no such thing as a ‘new generation’ of clean riders when you have people in the peleton still doping and getting caught.It’ll take a long period -perhaps years – of concerted efforts by the testers with consistent clean results before people even start to believe that there is a ‘new generation’
Even then they’ll still be doubters, and understandably so.
Don’t think I can agree with this – no matter how clean the sport gets there will always be a minority of idiots, just as there are in any walk of life. What would it take for you to believe the majority of riders were clean? Surely you can’t expect the sport to simply have no idiots?
I note that there is a poll
I note that there is a poll result in Cycling+ this month on this very subject. Something like 64% say wear what you want. Only 15% say you shouldn’t wear it because you haven’t earned it.
