Andymann

That actually looks a hell of a lot better in real life than it sounded in my head!

Couple of years ago we got an old 50's Motorcycle Helmet donated to our Velocette Motorcycle Club. The plan is to turn it into a Trophy (similar to the picture below) and award it every year at our annual gathering. None of the Trophy shops I have spoken to are prepared to do it, and just suggest I try and get hold of a carpenter. Is there anyone who would like to make a bit of spare cash and do something a little different? It won't be difficult - a square base with a rectangular block (to be able to add plaques) with a circle on top to mount the Helmet. It just needs to be tastefully done out of decent wood. Any takers - Gauteng based if possible!

Amazing how some things have gone backwards. On all my old DT's as well as the old XT's, TTR's and XR's the exhaust is nicely out of the way in case you have a fall. My ex-Boss from Yamaha has a nice gouge in the Aluminium swingarm of his T7 because it fell over and bent the exhaust bracket so the pipe touched the swingarm. It was a fairly innocuous fall so he never paid attention and carried on riding, and when he got home the movement of the rear suspension had worn a groove in the swingarm. He's not happy

Who would have thought Googling "Show me the Olympic Woman's Gold Medal winners Snatch" would get you into so much trouble at work

All I hear there are a lot of woman's ovaries furiously clapping hands and cheering him ????

Anyone else listen to JB^2 on The Move and think that Johan Bruyneel is some sort of Soothsayer. His ability to pick stage winners is uncanny. He says he is not a betting man, but with the amount to times he's got the winner correct, he could have made a fortune.

One the subject of Danish, have you heard how you are meant to pronounce Vingegaard.....it's probably better to say Vinegar. You'd still be wrong, but would at least be closer than the two commentators. Danish pronunciation is not the friend of the English speaker they told me when I was there a few years back.

There's one of these bad boys hanging in my roof. The Fatty shock is toast, otherwise I would probably still be riding it....

Ja we also tried that - no human food, no sleeping on the bed.........

We've messed around with various foods but when Grace had her first knee repair and the Vet suspected there was lack of nutrients when she was a stray, he suggested Hills J/D. I can give first-hand experience that the results were apparent after about a week - especially with her ability to move around. It was too much of a mission though to try and separate the two dogs from eating each others food, so we just moved the other Dog to J/D as well. When Lucy-fer the puppy arrived we opted for Hills Puppy but after a while it was just a free-for-all looting spree (????) with each dog for himself. So we eventually settled on Hills Adult for all three. Its a good balance my Vet says - not in the Yorkshire Pork category, but definitely better than el-cheapo. We add a bit of collagen Power for the joints of the older dogs. We also try and avoid the treats, but with a Food-Driven Puppy, training was done with treats, so the other dogs had to get too.... So now we have morning and evening Beeno biscuits. And then also (much to the disgust of my Houghton family) what we call pre-wash before the plates go into the dishwasher. We're saving water by not rinsing the plates I tell them....

Maybe just check on running with a Malinois - we have a Golden Shepherd and the Trainers at puppy school recommended we do the running thing really really slowly to help the joints in later life - it's taken us about 2 years to get her up to 10km - we only started running after 12 months and it's taken another 12 to get her up to 8km. My Wife trained her like she would if someone approached her and asked for a program to do a 10km run from zero! Grace (the one in my pic above) was a rescue and obviously didn't have the correct nutrients when she was a puppy - we've had two knee operations done and her hips are toast - she really struggles in Winter, and it's really sad to see. We didn't want a similar thing to happen with Lucy-fer the Devil dog!

Managed to save a bit of cash by not buying beer so splashed out on two of these from Pet's Planet SA. They were on special. I don't think I have ever seen her this comfortable on a cushion before!

I'm sure all of us contributing to this thread have our little idiosyncrasies - I do Duathlon and I absolutely cannot cycle without gloves - I've tried and I have this mental block - to a point that when I do my first run I run in gloves just to save time in transition. I have no doubt that I'm just as fast on the cycle leg without gloves, but my mind plays tricks on me. I'm certainly no pro, but I do think that us mere mortals do share some similarities with the Pros and I'm guessing maybe Froome just has a block against disks? I think it was also mentioned here somewhere that Cav is just happier on a Spez. I mean it's not like BMC or Cervelo makes rubbish frames, but perhaps he just believes that when he's on Spez, he's a much better rider? Who knows.

There's very few cars that can stay with a bike from zero to 40ish - in fact even to 60 most cars battle. I remember once some guy in an Aston Martin was itching for a drag race with a BMW and I was on my DT200 in the third lane watching this. I couldn't resist and had them for about 200m before they came flying past. Best part was at the next traffic light I filtered past them both, giving a little rev just to let them know I was still going to get to the next traffic light in front of them! There's still some kid in me, even at close to 50!

Oh and of course Nibali from Team Leaky Gas....

I'm missing "Suitcases of Courage", "Dropping the Hammer", "All over his machine" and "Excellent bike handling skills" Is dear old Phil still commentating or has he retired?

I'm actually rooting for him - I think when he burst onto the scene everyone put huge pressure on him by announcing him as our first TDF podium hope and maybe that was a bit much to handle. It looks here like he's just chipping away slowly and maybe a top 10 is possible. A big ask, but I hope he manages it!

Old man Pat might be pleased, but his bank Manager won't be - according to GH on The Move Cav is riding for free, but has some pretty big win bonus clauses in the contract

TsssssssshhSha'Carri would be my guess

I wonder if US Sprinter Sha'Carri Richardson will be offered a sponsorship by Nexthash ????

For those looking for another fix when this one is done, I can highly recommend this book - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/72455.French_Revolutions Similar story, but written by a Journalist, so it's lovely to read. And damn funny too!

The best part about Cav doing so well this year is I finally know now how to pronounce Deceuninck properly. Luckily not the two tours of Spain it took to get me to say Vuelta correctly but still.

Just listened to Pomplamoose now - Bust Your Knee Caps - what an ace song!

A little hijack but as I have mentioned on other forums my wife has a coaching company and was in the HPC squad for the 2012 Olympics so I have been very lucky to meet some ex and current Olympians as well as a few Elite Athletes who she trains now. I've also met some extremely talented Athletes who should have made it, but didn't. And the one thing I can identify between those two groups is what you have mentioned above - a win at all costs mentality - even if it means screwing over your best mate. And there's no sympathy when they do hey - business as usual on Monday after a race. Anyway, back to F1 - I've recently discovered the Beyond the Grid F1 podcasts, and for someone who was a big fan of F1 in the 80's and 90's its been brilliant hearing old F1 drivers talking about events which I clearly remember. There's a few common threads: Senna was insanely talented and ruthless, MSC was not the Angel he made out to be, Prost was also brilliant, Gerhard Berger and Jean Alesi were always causing *** and Flavio Briatore was really really scaly. If there were rules to be broken he had no issue doing so. Of the older driver episodes, I enjoyed the one with Alan Jones the best - would have loved to have had an AJ-type driver in the group of today. As for the local drivers, I have newfound respect for Sergio Perez, as well as George Russell and Lando Norris. And I'll finish with "Cash Money, Bitches!" Guess who taught his Nephew to say that!

Imagine the look on his face if he had to step barefoot onto a Lego brick.....