Re: Cycling : Mon Aug 27, 2012 5:45 am  

Anyway to talk about cycling cheats. Alberto is starting to look good again. Froomdogs lack of tactical nouce has shown his limitations. Yeah he can have these explosive out of the saddle sprints, however I'm more sure than ever now that Wiggo and his superb VAM stats would've brought him back.

The last mountain stage at the TDF was due to Wiggo getting over excited and wanting to go with a bang instead of playing to his strengths. I'm even. more certain of this now.

[John_D]

Re: Cycling : Mon Aug 27, 2012 12:21 pm  

Fungus The Muffin Man wrote:

There's also the alledged payment of something like 200-400,000 us dollars that he paid to the uci that has been muted about. It's widely thought that this was some.kind of hush money. Which was used ironically to help purchase a new drug detection equipment.

Satire is dead.

Re: Cycling : Mon Aug 27, 2012 2:48 pm  

the artist wrote:

if you want a classic touring bike you can spend long hours on banging out the miles, then the dawes galaxy should be on your list - retails about £1100, though you should be able to get one for a grand. this bikes been around for ages, steel frame and very strong. obviously its not a speed maching but for lugging stuff around and being a comfy ride i would have a look at it.

the other major maker of tourers is ridgeback

I've got a Ridgeback Bullit which I use for commuting in winter & for shopping at weekends loaded with panniers & a rack. I've never really liked it. My next multi-purpose bike will be a Specialized Tricross. At the moment Edinburgh Bicycle have them down from £799 to £599 for a basic. They have drops rather than the flat bar of my Ridgeback.

Re: Cycling : Mon Aug 27, 2012 3:25 pm  

John_D wrote:

Satire is dead.

FFS - don't tell Ian Hislop !

we may never have any more "Let's parlez franglais" etc !

Re: Cycling : Tue Aug 28, 2012 10:42 am  

tigertot wrote:

I've got a Ridgeback Bullit which I use for commuting in winter & for shopping at weekends loaded with panniers & a rack. I've never really liked it. My next multi-purpose bike will be a Specialized Tricross. At the moment Edinburgh Bicycle have them down from £799 to £599 for a basic. They have drops rather than the flat barof my Ridgeback.

I was looking at edingburgh cycles the other day. Their own brand audax and cyclocross bikes look rather good. The spesh tricross is a bit heavy and cumbersome from what I've heard about it.

Re: Cycling : Wed Aug 29, 2012 12:01 pm  

Fungus The Muffin Man wrote:

I was looking at edingburgh cycles the other day. Their own brand audax and cyclocross bikes look rather good. The spesh tricross is a bit heavy and cumbersome from what I've heard about it.

The tricross is far lighter than a Dawes Galaxy or Ridgeback tourer, with the added benefit of off-road trail use.
I've not owned an Edinburgh bike but have bought loads off other stuff from them & they are excellent value & service.

Re: Cycling : Wed Aug 29, 2012 7:08 pm  

Can you carry weight on those?

other than my girth.

Re: Cycling : Wed Aug 29, 2012 9:22 pm  

tigertot wrote:

The tricross is far lighter than a Dawes Galaxy or Ridgeback tourer, with the added benefit of off-road trail use.
I've not owned an Edinburgh bike but have bought loads off other stuff from them & they are excellent value & service.

Of course it is lighter. The dawes and ridgebck are tourers the tri is a cyclocross bike. I meant that there are lighter options.

Agree about edingburgh stuff . all the stuff I've bought has been too quality.

Re: Cycling : Wed Aug 29, 2012 9:24 pm  

Horatio Yed wrote:

Can you carry weight on those?

other than my girth.

Do you mean can they carry weight as in panniers etc..? Yeah they are well known for being good for carrying all you need for week long touring.

[John_D]

Re: Cycling : Thu Aug 30, 2012 10:24 am  

I think Froome is done as far as this Vuelta goes. Workload finally catching up with him? Still the Worlds to come as well...