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2 eggs 1 cup flour 1 cup milk 1 pinch salt Add water to get consistency "right". The runnier the batter is, the thinner the pancake, but thinner pancakes tear easier. Experiment. Cook in a hot pan, with a small amount of butter in the pan before each pancake. This will make French-style crepes, rather than what Merkins refer to as 'pancakes', which civilised persons call drop scones or flapjacks.

You're barking mad! For one thing, road cones have a hole at the top, so they're no good for carrying refreshments. Secondly, they're much too big to fit in a bidon cage. Honestly, I think you're making stuff up.

The correct response is: "Don't wave it around, just drink it. We all know what it is and we all know what it's for!"

'Cept I think that very few people would be able to ride you down to "ask some questions" about the bike. So the "ride after him" suggestion still applies.

This should be a fun thread...I'll watch this one with interest.

In our next exciting instalment: Valve caps - plastic or alloy?

I've got a pair of Ksyrium SL's. (I know, slightly different.) I got them 2nd hand in 2004 or thereabouts. Rode them until this spring, when I got the bearings replaced before I put them up for sale. The BSG reckoned that there was no need to replace the bearings, but I went ahead and did it anyway to make it easier to sell them. Anyhoo, those wheels gave me no problems at all over several thousand km - I don't keep track. The only issue with the SL's, which may be different on the Elites, is that the spoke nipples can seize into the rims, which would be a prob if it happened and I needed to replace a spoke.

Carry on my wayward son!

Well OBVIOUSLY! That's where he was when he got the inspiration for "What a Wonderful World". (Which he didn't write anyway.)

Who really cares? I hereby award you 10,000 Hub points for use wherever Hub points are accepted, for finding an appropriate pic featuring hotties in cycling gear.

I can save you some time and answer as follows: Pyramids - people. A lot can be accomplished if time is not important and you can treat the entire populace as disposable. Stonehenge (it's not a hedge, Woofie!) - people. If you ever visit there, there are explanations of how it was built. Noah's flood - a small local deluge. There was no ark with 2 of every kind of animal, not even a fleet of arks. And some you didn't ask: Yes, the other Armstrong did go to the moon. No, there are not alien remains at Roswell. Nobody knows how Riaan Cruywagen (sp?) does it, but I don't think being dead will reveal this, or any other answers.

No...the other sort...with Mufty and Tufty, "The Ladies Who Lunch".

And what's changed?

Just a question for those who take this rapture stuff seriously: When persons are "taken up", where exactly are they supposed to go to?

I've seen, erm, documentaries. They certainly moved me in mysterious ways, and made me feel enraptured.

Two men in one bed? Women grinding together? WTF! Luke was writing gay porn all those years ago!

That makes my heart ache to read! Rather restore it and use it as a rat bike/commuter/grocery fetching machine. Every time somebody let's a bike die, god kills a kitten somewhere!

Are you out of your mind? This is the only planet in the entire universe that is known to have: Bicycles Beer Cars Women Chocolate All of which lends credence to the notion that we have already died, and that this is indeed heaven! (On a related note, there is a lovely and ironical version of hell in "A History of the World in 9 1/2 Chapters" by Julian Barnes.)

I learnt to ride on one of these: http://barnfinds.co.za/images/large/bicycle_LRG.jpg It's a thing called a Velamos. The top tube could be bolted and unbolted. Very useful for learning to ride to avoid mashing one's pre-pubescent nuts to smithereens. I got a bike like this when I was 5. When I was 9 my dad upgraded it to a proto-MTB by adding a Chopper rear wheel with Sturmey Archer 3 speed and a pair of only slightly bent MX bars. I learnt to wheelie on that bike. Oh, and it weighed only slightly more than Mars!

'kin hell, and we're to believe you are the fruity one! Copy a screen shot of her status page, 'cause she will feel really silly on May 22. Acshly she won't. History is full of numbnutses predicting catastrophe based on their interpretation of a bunch of middle eastern folk tales. See William Miller as a classic example. What your friend will do, as Miller did, is issue a re-interpretation on May 22, explaining that she made a mistake and that the real date will be, oh I don't know, sometime in August. And we know she's wrong 'cause the world is only 6,000 years old, which means that there can't have been more than around 4,000 BC years anyway. So that settles it!

The secret to a trackstand is to have something to push against. Trackstands are easiest on a slight uphill. Come to a halt, and then balance against the bike's tendency to roll backwards down the hill. Once you have got that right, move on to using the road's camber as something to balance against on a flat road (i.e., no uphill). For me, the right foot needs to be forward at 3 o'clock and ideally, the bars turned slightly to the right, but some different combo might work for you. What is key though, is having some resistance to balance against, so that the bike can be allowed to roll back and forward a tiny bit if necessary to maintain balance. Apologies for the thread hijack.

WTF do you use gels for Mampara? To the OP, try Powerbars. Depending on how many gels you normally use in a race, a Powerbar may offer a small saving. Subjectively, Powerbars seem to provide a slower release, which makes sense as they are not all carb but have some protein (and I think fat) too.

The races are accessible to all who: 1. Have a bike 2. Have some way of getting to and from events 3. Can make the time to train 4. Can afford the funny bike riding clothes 5. Can afford the entry fee. That pretty much looks like **** off poor persons right there. Good job too. I can't stand having to park my Range Rover Sport on the kerb because some poor person has parked his Toyota Yaris in my way.

A shorter stem (and not a longer stem!) will make a bike feel more twitchy because smaller inputs will have larger effects with a short stem. It could be that the Scott just has a more aggressive geometry. FWIW, the first few times I rode my Scott Spark it felt like it was turning in sharper than I had intended. After a few rides I became adjusted to the bike and now it's all good.