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Some idiot clearly took it

Neither I nor any of my mates have done any of the things on that list... Come hang out at the back of the pack some day - cyclists aplenty but not an idiot in sight

Thats right, but if you wrap it to the outer diameter of the rim rather than the inner, then it will always be a perfect offset to the inner diameter. The picture you drew the inner and outer arcs of your text aren't concentric. Go have a beer.

Difference between ASG and CWC (IMHO): ASG - Business that just happens to sell cycling kit. CWC - Cyclists who just happen to do business

That having been said, Its nice to see the shops attempting to come to the party.

Agreed... Wayne says: "I will put R7500 on the table if you will" ASG says: " I will put R7500 on the table if you will drum up R75000 in free publicity for me over the next 14 days" ...I say if CWC puts cold hard cash on the table, with no conditions attached, I will always buy from CWC before ASG.

http://www.alltheevents.co.za/

All these formulas and guidelines are rubbish, and cannot replace the real deal - a max HR test. I am 27 and female, my sister's boyfriend is 25, we seconded each other doing treadmill max HR tests. the formulas say he is younger and male so his max HR should be higher, the test results were: him 178bpm max, me 204bpm max. Also your HR max is sport specific, these formulas are more often than not for running, cycling max will be significantly lower. Do the test!

Yeah, I think the UCI & WADA need to take all the pre-bio passport samples, put them in a crate and toss them in the ocean. They need to toe a zero-tolerance line going forward, but they have to admit that cheating only ran rampant because they created a space that nurtured it and they failed to stay ahead of the curve. Making examples of a few men decades after the fact to wash their hands of their own ineptness is doing the sport more damage than good. An entire laboratory team now holed up retrospectively testing samples from beyond statute of limitations, could be better put to work devising better testing practises going forward.

Not cool!

We look forward to your "I suck at road riding" post later this year Nothing more heart breaking and rewarding than seeing your kid going from student to master. Compliments to his teacher

HAHAHA!!!!

I have that same sick feeling in the pit of my stomach as I do watching a horror flick...

Yeah, I'd also heard that it was "ego troubles"

I meant that the Tour/grand tours created the culture, the more prize money, coverage, sponsorship the greater the incentive to dope, ergo the more dopers, the more difficult to win without doping, the more difficult to maintain your place on a team if unwilling to dope, the greater the imperative to dope just to stay in the sport... In the era of amateur sport there were fewer dopers, fewer ways of doping. If you create the incentive, the onus is on you to create the fair sporting environment and enforce it. There is too much (natural) testosterone in a peleton of 200 riders to expect anything short of atavism if not effectively policed. I'm not condoning doping, but I am more than mildly amused at the pretence that we're all so shocked that they dope when we, in effect, created the fertile breeding ground for it, and then held them to a higher moral standard than that to which we even hold ourselves.

I assume that you are only being facetious, but "many a true word spoken in jest" comes to mind.

dracs made one very crucial mistake here, he assumed everyone can read a graph... dracs, pehaps a trendline for the gent?

Thanks, I appreciate that, I may just open a twitter account so as to have the pleasure of not following you.

Wow, nice (and simultaneously terrifying) to know that its not a behaviour unique to women. I have a deep envy of those people whose friend lists consist only of close family members and close friends, Their mental filing process must be a reassuringly logic thing to behold!

I suppose its merit is in how you use it. I also imagine it is easier for a guy. No one gets especially catty if you refuse to follow or friend them.

Against my credit card's better judgement, I'm in! What're the girlie options?(answered)

"The only tweet conspicuous by its absence in apologising to a former SA TDFrance stage winner is from a certain MTB course builder." On a serious note... That is why I hate twitter and facebook, it revolves around an overdeveloped sense of self. SELF: "oh I'm having scrambled eggs for breakfast." SELF IMPORTANCE: "Do you know who would love to know that you are having scrambled eggs for breakfast?" SELF: "no, who?" SELF IMPORTANCE: "Your followers!" SELF: "Really???" SELF IMPORTANCE: "Just make sure you preface it with something totally hipster and nonsensical like #omnomnom" What did Evans think that he even stood to gain by calling out Robbie on not congratulating Impey? The mind boggles.

Agree to disagree. I look forward to hearing his answer to the question "do you consider yourself to be an African?" cause right now I'm hearing a lot of "I like the place but no."

Thank you, I fully appreciate his obligation to paint himself as a Brit. I am not so sure I appreciate his decision to remove Africa from that picture entirely. Yeah, he gave the British reporter the answer that he thinks the British public want to hear... good for him. What will his response be when its an African journalist? Shouldn't the answer to the question be constant and irrespective of the nationality of the journalist? If it changes to pander to the nationality of the audience then the public are entitled to treat him and his nationality with a healthy measure of scepticism.

Yeah, saddened by this... but I would agree, being of European descent, African is a state of mind, some people are 50th generation African and still consider themselves Dutch, while others are first generation and have Africa written on their hearts... Froome, by his own admission, is a Brit.