July, 2007
July 26th, 2007
Man In Black
This from Tom Boonen made me laugh…
Boonen further claimed that Vinokourov was indeed one of the so-called ‘Men in Black’ - a term used to describe professional riders training in plain colours to avoid detection. “I saw him myself, wearing black,” said Boonen.
[Cycling News, 26 July 2007]
I’m not sure the “Men […]
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July 25th, 2007
Wow.
It’s hard to keep up with who’s still left on the Tour right now…
First this…
Rasmussen pulled out of Tour
[http://www.cyclingnews.com/road/2007/tour07/news/?id=/news/2007/jul07/jul26news]
Then this…
Leader Rasmussen pulled from Tour
[http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_sports/cycling/6916698.stm]
Say what you like, but this years Tour is anything but dull.
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July 25th, 2007
While targetting the “Men in Black” Anne Gripper, director of the UCI’s anti-doping program made a statement that appeared to respect the process for dope-testing.
“we have to respect the process, the analysis of the B samples, before we can make any announcements.”
UCI goes after the “Men In Black” [cyclingnews.com, 21 June 2007]
Sadly, that all goes […]
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July 24th, 2007
My wife and I (grammer) had been commenting on how this tour resembled those of the 80s and early 90s than any after, say, 1995. A proper duel between climbers and not something that is going to be decided entirely by time trials.
Lots of riders just didn’t seem to be doing as well as they […]
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July 24th, 2007
99% recycled materials from Worn Again
Looking for a replacement for my long dead skate shoes I was alerted to Worn Again by the Surfers Path. So I decided to try them out. I like. Using 99% recycled materials and offsetting the carbon emissions of transporting them from China to the UK makes them easy on […]
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July 21st, 2007
We just installed a script on this site called Snap Shots that provides visual previews of the destination sites of external links. This lets you “look ahead,” before deciding if you want to follow a link or not.
Snap Shots is enabled for the site by default, but if you decide this is not for you, […]
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July 20th, 2007
The Specialized Skillet helmet comes with spare Specialized S stickers in the box. If I write that as “spare Ss” then you might start to have an inkling of why this is rather unfortunate.
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July 19th, 2007
That I would love to ride…
Maybe we should campaign for the 2012 Olympics to do something a little different.
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July 18th, 2007
Three Peaks Entries have been confirmed.
Good luck to all those who got their entry in on time.
I see that 360 got a head start on the young ‘uns the owd giffer.
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July 17th, 2007
1 gear
1 Dave Yates
3 venues
5 solo
5 Singlespeeders of Destruction
9 Spot
10 singlespeed
10 years
about 90 laps
240 hours
about 900 miles
Mayhem X was the culmination of a ten year goal. In the short term I’m aiming for my 20th 24 hour race, but that is only a year away.
I need a new long term goal.
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The things we listen to are occasionally logged on Last.fm

New! iPod updating courtesy of iScrobbler.
It doesn't update from the wheels of steel though :-)
Remember kids, vinyl can't carry Digital Rights Management.

in no particular order...

For all that we like the up-to-the minute offerings of the web there‚s nothing like a proper badly photocopied A5 fanzine or a glossily printed proper magazine to keep you occupied on the throne. Here, in no particular order, is our material of choice.

Singletrack

The Outcast

Dirt Rag

Bike
If anyone has a full set of NEMBA results (that‚s North of England for you colonial types) then please forward them.
sometimes you just gotta take action, or at least be able to get our hands on the FACTS