Dulwich Hill Bicycle Club

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I read today that the bike lane they will be putting in will be painted gold too.

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But who will podium?

Contador is looking unstoppable...

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Live is probably better, but whatever is easier.

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Sure... I'll have a look.

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In answer to Stuart's question in the other locked thread, I am TPG. What's the issue with TPG?

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I made several posts on 10th March, including one about the death of Lionel Cox. All these posts seem to have disappeared.

What's going on???

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I posted 2 comments on this page on the 9th of March and they are both gone. Did anyone remove them? Anyway, the Plough Inn was located at the corner of Liverpool Road and Parramatta Road, which is a park now. Also, it looks like there were drugs in sport all the way back then, judging by the roid r...

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http://dhbc.org.au/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1017

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Mark Lacy Fan Club

Who?

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Awesome effort, Huw and Amy. Just awesome. Congratulations to both. if they do they can only wear them in penny farthing races :S Penny farthing races are not UCI sanctioned, so Huw and Amy can wear whatever they like. Personally, I think they should wear a jersy that has the Aussie colours on it. W...

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Agree with Stuart, (and strangely, Tim too). Slowies rides to the park, and back to Marrickville from the park. Both these sections are already on roads, and if you ask me, there is a long way to go before the Slowies bunch is fit to ride on busy roads. The point of Slowies is not to get people ridi...

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Other types of bikes: Bicycle specially built for for artistic cycling http://www.cycle-info.bpaj.or.jp/english/ride/rim/ff01.gif http://asian06.hk-icycling.net/photo/news_16s.jpg Features are: forks with no offset, very low gearing, fixed gearing, very short wheelbase, big seat designed for as much...

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The "golden spacer/cardridge" is what FSA refers to as the "middle spacer". There should also be another "center sleeve" [sic.] inside it. These parts are there to stop crud inside the frame from getting onto the spindle, and to ensure that the bearings are not over-tig...

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Well, the other day i found this site You can watch your cycling via peer2peer, though for Qatar it looks like you'll need to install sopcast (easily done). The only problem is you can only watch live, which left me up late last night watching cyclocross. Does anyone else go to http://www.steephill...

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Not slowies: "Cruizers" - with a "z" 'cause it's cool. :mrgreen: The Colnago has done lots of rain riding. Camilla and Adrian will recall we rode 150km out to the Brooklyn Bridge and back - in bucketing rain. Colnago is not up for a ride this week though. If it's dry I want to ri...

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This happens every year. It's a pain in the proverbial, but we ride half the park, and get turned right before the roundhouse cafe.

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Where are the pics???

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In future I will be knocking on your door at 6:15am on Sunday mornings... Neighbour

That's fine if you bring your skillet and a bag of brownies. bacon and eggs before a ride. Yum...

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I will come along and ride with the cruisers on Sunday to help out.

Been meaning to get out on a Sunday for a while anyway...

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Mike, have you finished with my Velocity bars?

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On Thursday I noticed a "user bandwidth exceeded" message when I tried to log in. The site was off for around half the day.

Wonder if that was the result of a "brute force" hack?

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I would be very surprised if that FSA crankset was UCI legal under the new rules.

Probably doesn't matter for triathlon racing, but will obviously affect price and resale value...

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My Malvern Star Five Star technically still has a lifetime warranty. Not much use when the top tube needs replacing, since Bruce Small Pty Ltd has been out of business for decades! These days, life time warranties are a sales gimmick, and typically seen on frames where there is likely to be concern ...

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First you will need to work out your spoke lengths before you order them. I assume the wheels won't be dished. Even so, calculating spoke length might be difficult. I reckon the theory will require you to order 3 lengths, since the wheel build should ideally alternate between these 3 lengths as you ...

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Oh... just found the "View in Metric" button, so I partially answered my own question, although for some reason the estimation of energy used for the ride is referred to in calories, not kiloJoules, and I have no idea why imperial units are referred to as "Statute".

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Thanks Ted, but I was already running late, so I didn't mind scampering home without you guys.

Is there any way to get that Garmin data in SI units or SI unit derivatives? I wasn't born in the 1800s, so the information it gives is pretty meaningless.

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I got home just fine. My mobile phone started ringing, and when I took it out of my back pocket, the plastic bag it was in ripped across the bottom, and dumped my phone, and wallet across the road. I picked up the pieces but decided to call back the person who had called me to make sure my phone sti...

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The trailer hubs don't strike me as being particularly high-end. I would save time, effort and money and buy 2 new trailer wheels in the size desired. I'm sure you can order these from just about any bike shop. Then you can recover costs by selling your old wheels... If that doesn't suit, you can al...

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Okay, now I'm in.

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KOM = King of (the) Mountain, which more colloqually means the bit where everyone (who wants to) tries to go up a hill as fast as possible, just for fun.

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I'm keen to do this ride tomorrow.

I'm 75% committed.

I will only not be there if SWMBO plays the veto card.

(Or if it's píssing down.)

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I caught a very brief glimpse of G on the final day criterium too, as the riders came around one of the corners. Well, actually, I saw a flash of something insanely pink behind the riders as they rode past. When I blinked a few times to recover my sight, I noticed a budgy smuggler shape still burned...

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Yep. 'Fraid so. Polite of you to not mention his attire.

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When I used to work for Westpac, back in the 2nd last decade of last century, we all had passwords to log in to the network on the old computers they used to use. You had to log in almost every time you used the computers. If you had not made a keystroke for about a minute, it logged you out. I thin...

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Oh for god's sake!

I've just seen G wearing pink budgie smugglers running up Kunanga Hill alongside the breakaway in the TDU, waving and cheering the whole way.

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It doesn't matter. For a compact frames, as long as the virtual top tube measurement is suitable (eg. Per Competitive's recommendation), there'll be plenty of adjustments available with a suitably selected seat post for leg length. And if one look at all the small frames out there these days (sub 5...

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What's the basis for this statement? For compact frames, because of the lower top tube towards the seat tube, crouch clearance is almost guaranteed, so the critical measurement for frame selection becomes the virtual top tube length. This is in contrast to traditional frames where one has to be con...

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Right, well based on those measurements, I am a better fit for a "WSD" frame than Margo is. I have an 81cm inseam (measured with bike knicks on, of course), and I ride a 53cm frame. You should be aware that the measurements given for all 3 fits you just posted are for traditional geometry ...

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Well, as you quoted, I said "Same with me, but I never got a receipt..." So, yes, I paid on 31/12/2009 just like Stuart, and as I said, they did not send me a receipt by e-mail or in the post. So if you had the same , then the receipt was in that email you received. I thought I made it cle...

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Putting Steve Hogg out of business!

I would like to think that if you told Steve you were DHBC he would look after you too, as much as any of the other DHBC friendly shops in our area.

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Or just say you're DHBC. That's usually enough with Peter Bundy. He often doesn't charge me anything for small jobs! And Jim is so good at fitting people, he doesn't need to put them on the jig. Jim looked at me and said "53". He was spot on. I ride a 53cm road frame.

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What definition do you have Weiyun? CA never sent me any confirmation or acknoledgement of my payment in any form, e-mail or otherwise. In fact, when I received my racing licence this week, there was no receipt in that envelope either, apart from the implied receipt by virtue of the fact that I now ...

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http://images0.cafepress.com/product/65027400v2_350x350_Front.jpg http://images4.cafepress.com/product/54758104v6_350x350_Back.jpg http://images7.cafepress.com/product/54758097v3_150x150_Front.jpg He's tougher than Chuck Norris , but he's also a top bloke and a total sportsman: http://www.cyclingne...

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Strongly agree with the recommendation that you only buy a bike online if you have already ridden the bike, know the geometry and know that it will be comfortable. The most important part of the setup is getting the frame geometry right, and this is more than a little tricky, especially with short w...

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Same with me - I paid on 17/12/09 and got a receipt from the same address. Same with me, but I never got a receipt, although Lindsay did. I get other CA e-mails, like Spoke'n Word, and have already white listed the cycling.org.au domain. My SPAM folder was empty. CA just did not send me a receipt.

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I got my racing licence in the mail this week. I paid for it online at the CA website, and CA did not e-mail me a confirmation or receipt number. Strangely, though, when I was speaking to Lindsay, he said he did get a receipt of my payment! So, I agree with Stuart's suggestion, but if you need a rec...

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We need knicks before socks. I like a bib knick too.

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Can I suggest you lock it up right outside the building manager's office in such a way that he bumps into it and gets grease all over him every time he comes and goes?

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I'm interested in doing a bit of research into blood sugar levels. Glycemic index (GI) comes to mind. I'm wondering if I should eat low GI foods except just before a race, where I should eat high GI to spike the blood sugar levels The term "Glycemic index" as it is used in general parlanc...

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If you want a workhorse bike for commuting and training, I'm not sure why you would choose aluminium, which typically has a working life of no more than 8 years, dents easily, corrodes carbon parts, and has no resale value for the next upgrade. It's also a pain in the neck to have to check for crack...

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I have barcons I might consider selling. I think I have new ones and used ones. They are friction, and quite old. (Early 80s.) I think I have Suntour and Campagnolo. In about a week I expect to have a set of Campagnolo Super Record downtube friction shifters available for sale too. They are currentl...

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This folding bike for sale is a classic. Not so much for the bike though...

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Nice cheap entry level fixie for sale...

http://www.bicycles.net.au/forums/viewt ... 25&t=22647

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Prices are there...

3mm = $45

4mm = $60

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Anyone want a new chainring or two? Cycle Underground are offloading all their orders that were never picked up, or were made in the wrong size by mistake. Grab a cheapie. http://www.bicycles.net.au/forums/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=22389 If you don't want to join the forum to PM him, let me know, and...

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The charity G mentioned is something that he and his friends support, not DHBC. Hope that clears things up.

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I have just come home from a 6 hour, 6 course Christmas party lunch. I got up at 5.30 this morning when I remembered I hadn't put the bins out last night. Bit cloudy headed. Definitely NOT sober, but no need for Panadols. Backing it up a second day when not fully sobering up from the first one is wh...

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Impressive post Orphic. Good thing you stopped. To me it sounds like you had heat stress. No doubt you also have some cool new bruises on your arms and legs to show off at the cafe. I'm not convinced about your reasons for suffering. Sounds more like a virus rather than a medication issue. The effec...

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Oh that is way too cool. Pics of a desired early 90's Colnago frame please?

Hard to find...

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The plan is for everything to be early 90s.

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I wouldn't make any knee jerk decisions based on one article in a rag like the Telegraph, especially when they use terminology like "inexperienced Lycra-clad fanatics".

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I just bought a Colnago mountain bike saddle.

I also have a complete and unused Campagnolo MTB groupset from 1992, still in boxes.

Now I just need to find a Colnago MTB frame, and I can contribute to this forum.

Do I need suspension? Colnago MTBs don't have suspension...

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Perhaps you get one of these before going into the Channel Tunnel.

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Mike eats over 16,800 kJ per day. That's not a low food intake.

Orphic has an advantage over others, in that she can regulate how much of the food she eats gets stored as fat. However, the long term complications can be unpleasant, to say the least.

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Torpedo7 have another helmet on sale for $79.99.

http://www.torpedo7.com.au/products/LRHLRN9CT

Not the same on as the other one, but similar...

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I'm with Mark on that comment. I was 87kg when I left Sydney. I was 84kg when I weighed myself on Monday morning AFTER breakfast. Pretty sure that makes me close to the heaviest rider for the weekend, unless Huw can top my weight? My fixie ride was an adventure. Started off well, with Huw me and Lin...

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Toff snuck in 2 photos!! Number 1 - http://www.flickr.com/photos/paulboundy/4078178157/in/set-72157622684603208/ Number 2 - http://www.flickr.com/photos/paulboundy/4078989988/ Does this mean there are only 349 cyclists now?! Paul actually took pictures of about 380 cyclists all up. He knows he has ...

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http://cgi.ebay.com.au/BT-Superbike-Single-speed-fixie-track-bike_W0QQitemZ140354701892QQcmdZViewItemQQptZAU_Sport_Cycling_Bikes?hash=item20adcaca44 I would love to see someone riding the fixie century on that next year... Meh... I'd rather see someone riding the "Chris Boardman" Lotus ti...

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I assume that Option 2 is Noog's group, and we will be meeting up with T-Bone at Moss Vale for the ride into Bundanoon. I will join this group... Is anyone planning on getting on at Green Square or is the plan for everyone to meet at Central? I am roughly the same distance from both stations. Option...

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Can we re-name this thread to "My Christmas Wish List"?

My own list would be several pages long. Anyone got any of these lying around they want to give away?

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Also, if anyone wants to get me a Christmas present, I'm keen on a Hetchins with "Curly Stays". :mrgreen: Here are some crackers: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=110447244726 and http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Pair-Curly-Hetchins-Frames-CONSECUTIVE-NUMBERS-c1948_W0QQitemZ22...

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Riders are free to use any bike shop they like. Unlike other clubs, we do not have jersey sponsorship, and like to develop relationships with lots of bike shops as our club continues to grow... However, the club endorses and recommends the following bike shops which are regular sponsors of the club,...

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Now now Rainbow... You are already getting a new bike. I saw it yesterday! Of course it's still nude, but a combination of celeste and purple would look nice. :) The seller of that Bianchi is a Cyclart: arguably the most respected vintage bicycle repainter in the USA. It is interesting that Bianchi ...

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Anyway, i think i've finalised the route. The decision now is whether to reveal or keep it all a surprise....

The route down or the route back?

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Eagerly awaiting review.... Well, I had a look at it. It's solidly constructed, and heavy, and comes with a fairly wide range of gears, not the close ratio gears the old ones had. I would have preferred close ratio gears. Oh well... For example, to get a useful gear range out of the hub, you need a...

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I will gladly trade my "No Slip System" San Marco Squadra for anyone's carbon saddle. The writing on that saddle is as good as razor blades after 20km, let alone 160km! I will match Shrubb Face's offer, and also let them keep my saddle if anyone can ride the whole century on it. http://img...

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How does the shifting work? Does it have a lever, like normal gears or does it have to be done manually by hand like a flip flop? One of the rules of the fixie century is no gears!!! The hub has a shifter to change gears, and a cable to where the shifter is mounted. This hub is pure fixed. There is...

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I heard the price was around $250 for the hub, and all the bits to make it work, like the cables and shifters, etc.

I suspect there would be better value getting the hub as part of a built up wheelset. I will know more in a couple of days...

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I don't care either. For the record, my last name is Harris.

Chubsy, what happened to your squeeze? Wasn't she coming and staying with you?

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Good news! - The new Sturmey Archer 3 speed fixed gear hub has arrived. Available right now from Peter Bundy Cycles. I'm going to check one out on Monday. May even have one built up for the Fixie Century. So while everyone else is flippin and floppin their hubs with big ugly spanners, I'll be flicki...

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Glad to see you found a sucker to ride that one with you, Orphic.

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Her seat is too low, her cranks are too short, her top tube is too short, and there is no way to adjust the fore/aft position of the seat, or the horizontal distance of the handlebars. At least the brake is on the correct side, but for me, if I want to ride a bike, I will ride a bike. If I want to w...

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Bike with collapsible everything ... even wheels!
http://dvice.com/archives/2009/10/collapsible-bik.php

Just remembered where I'd seen something similar...

Still just a one-off concept wheel, I believe.

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Some may recall my previous post on Bowral Velodrome . I'd like to suggest that we do a lap of this velodrome at the start of the ride, and finish with a lap of Tempe Velodrome... Location of Bundanoon Velodrome is here . Eridge Park, on Eridge Park Road, East Bowral. Roughly 18 km from Bundanoon in...

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The wonderful leather grips and saddle are made by Brooks England, who is renowned for their high standard bicycle accessories. Now owned by an Italian company which is currently outsourcing production to China, with a noticeable drop in quality over the original stuff. Gotta love "Brooks Engl...

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The statement should say "Burn energy", or better yet, "burn food" or some other fuel. Calories are a unit of measurement of energy, and in Australia we use the Joule, or, more commonly the kilojoule anyway. Now, onto the irony of the statement. Substantially more energy is used ...

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I would suggest getting some new track wheels, and migrating your track wheels to the fixie. Radial spoke pattern is not really an issue on the front wheel, since there is no dish, and braking loads each side of the wheel equally. My radially laced road wheels never go out of true. Velocity from Al'...

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I see Chidgey and Ian D are still being burglars! Great. They can do all the work for me and Amy.

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Already been posted. At least twice before on this forum, and numerous times on every bike forum I've been to. It's got to be the most persistant video out there. If that's what viral is, then the people that put this one out have certainly got their money's worth...

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I'm guessing that the rain means it's off... Any interest in meeting at the German club for a beer?

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They are a point and squeeze bottles. I have used these for a couple of years now and much prefer them over the older style.

Which is fine if you are riding, but if you want to take a bottle with you in your bag, it sounds like a leak waiting to happen if someone bumps your bag.

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Yep. That one crossed my mind, but I posted a reply in the same vain as the video's contents. I.e. pro cycling crashes in competition, with a focus on TDF. There are lots of others. What about Amy Gillett? Including a car is always going to be horrific, but arguably not relevent as a reply to that v...

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This one came up under the suggestions for that one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMAJf-hf1Zk&NR=1&feature=fvwp Meh. "The Worst Cycling Crashes & Falls Ever!" - that's one hell of an overstatement. Every crash in that video happened in the last few years. Most were taken from...

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Both the Look pedals in that link(aside from being shite) use different cleats. Can't go wrong with Dura Ace pedals tho. Saw numerous busted Keo pedals(body came off the spindle) when wrenching at a shop, and the other ones are.. plastic.. don't bother. Statement seems a bit ambiguous. Look Keo ped...

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I've been looking for that link for ages. Thanks for finding it for me again.

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Let's not judge anything by last weekend's bunches. The wind was atrocious. People were going to get dropped no matter what the pace was. At one point, when I was on the front, going uphill into the wind, I was amazed that I was actually going forward. Then the crosswinds came in, and there was nowh...

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I'll get a couple, and I like clear ones.

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Aldi is doing bike gear again this week: http://aldi.com.au/au/html/offers/2827_10186.htm I like the fact that the helmet cam is waterproof to three metres. Yes, but it doesn't specify whether that's 3m down or up. If you climb to 3m above sea level and it rains, expect your camera to break. Might ...

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