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? "... ride without gloves!!" ............... very stupid advice....... it is difficult to hold the remote to change channels on DSTV without any skin on the palms of your hand. ? nonsense.. I road thousands and thousands of km's for years without gloves and have all my skin... never had a single blister or crack on my hands in all those years... the only time I ever road with gloves was when doing crits cause there was a better chance of crashing...

honestly dude!!! I been telling you for years... ride without gloves!! your hands will get tougher that way! Perhaps its where the gloves end on your thumb that is chaffing and causing the problem in the first place...

Or imagine them putting the presenters in some situations outside of their comfort zone... like put Andrew on a hardcore downhill course with a helmet camera and a microphone... that would be entertaining... or instead of the mundane comentating get some of the presenters from the other sports to come in and commentate on something... like imagine getting old Naas Botha in to try and talk us through a madison.. would be hilarious...

In my opinion the problem with Supercycling is they take themselves way to seriously... that and they rehash the same old boring tips over and over again (ie. how to ride in an echelon)... They need to have some fun with the show... they should try be a bit more like the guys on Top Gear... just have fun... If I watch supercycling I want to be entertained, not just told the info in the same manor as the SABC News... I don't know about you but I'd love to see them clowning around a bit... taking the piss rather then always being so serious... after all cycling is supposed to be fun right?

I think that's the best answer yet in this post.

By taking from one to give to another you are just perpetuating the situation... that is not a sustanable solution, unless of course you would have a sustanable state of retribution and anarchy? The only way to move forward is create equal opportunity, then it is up to the individual to make use of that opportunity... You simply cannot uplift one person at the expense of another that is exactly what apartheid was all about... discrimination of any kind is wrong... the only way this country will ever move forward is if everyone can forget about the past and work towards the future... but as long as we keep using apartheid as an excuse for AA and for the ANC's corruption and crime, etc we are only going one way... and that is DOWN... All I want is a government that is accountable and has the peoples interests at heart... The current government is more interested in disbanding the scorpions then working on our HUGE crime problem... WTF??? Something needs to give sooner or later... but I fear we are on the brink of some really tough times... and it won't only be the previously advantaged that will suffer... the short sighted governance of this country will cost everyone dearly if it keeps on like it is, and only a fool would even try deny that... and that has nothing to do with colour, apartheid, etc... plain and simple the ANC are doing a SH!T job... regardless of what state they got the country they certainly have not improved it...

I was scared of that at first also... but once you glue your first set of tubbies on and realize how difficult it is to put them on and take them off you realize that they don't come off easy... unless you do a really poor job of gluing them... even so, I had a friend who often used to ride in TT's without even glueing his tubbies and reckons he never roled a tubby yet. Remember as you inflate the tubby it gets tighter on the rim, and the beauty with tubbies is you can inflate them to very high pressures. Also a clincher tends to have a bit of a box shape by nature where as a tubby is perfectly round which makes for better more consistent handling.

I weigh 63kg... I felt an immediate difference when I put zipp 404's on... was so ridiculous it was actually scary... Never once had a big problem with cross winds and I raced them in some of the strongest cross winds in Cape Town...

This is a much nicer route then last year in my opinion... Combines the best stages of 2006 with the best stages of 2007 nicely. The old vissershok stage and the new helshoogte stage is great for spectators... while the bainskloof and franschoek/du toits kloof stages were by far my favourite as a participant... I reckon its a really nice route, those of you lucky enough to be riding are in for a treat...

Your whole idea of screwing in cleats while they are clipped in does have one flaw... if your feet are clipped in to the pedals, then how are you going to get a screwdriver underneath the pedals to tighten the screws? if not for that limitation I am sure someone would have thought of it by now...

I used to ride with Look Keo's... but after struggling to get a new set of cleats positioned for months it was suggested I try speedplays... honestly the best move I have ever made! The big flaw with the Look cleat is that you have one triangle shapped plastic cleat and when you move it in any way it affects the side to side placement, the heel in/ heel out position and the for and aft position. With speedplay all three of those variables are completely independant. You have a plate which you set for how far forward you want your cleat. Once you have that you tighten it up and thats it you never fiddle with that again. Then you put the cleat on and adjust the side to side position of the cleat... one you got that tighten the screws and leave it. Then there are 2 small screws which determine your float, this is the real beauty... the one screw determines how far in your heel goes the other one determines how far out you heel can go... which results in completely customizable float... After trying and failing for months to get completely comfortable with my replacement set of cleats for Look Keos, it only took 10 minutes to get the speedplay pedals completely dialed in... haven't looked back since!

If you exercise enough then you can get away with eating absolutely anything you want really... of course as has been said before eating at regular intervals and drinking a lot of water also helps...

I work on a strict diet... basically I eat as much as I can as often as possible and try to get a regular intake of junk food

Orion II is a really good all round wheel... they damn strong and the hubs perform well... took them with to Belgium this year and they handled a lot of abuse and they still as good as new... I would definitely buy them over any other similarly priced wheels...

Yeah he hasn't hit a truck before... was on the decent of hels... think one of the european guys might have hit a truck in one of the stages of the giro this year if I'm not mistaken...

anitbiotics are used far to commonly for simple colds which don't require such treatment... I have found that it is usually best to treat a cold without the use of antibiotics... Ask for Locabiotal at the chemist, its a localised anti-bacterial and anti-biotic mouth and nasal spray. Use that every coupe hours and that will help kill the infection and it won't get absorbed into your bloodstream like an oral antibiotic... It is quite likely that the infection is a localized viral infection in which case all antibiotics will do is help prevent a secondary bacterial infection... however once the course is finnished you will still have your cold and on top of that your immune system would have taken a hit from the antibiotics... You said this was a recurring problem which is why I think that your immune system is probably depleted... so you need to fix the route of the problem rather then treat the cold itself... thats where the immuno-globulin injection comes in... It will bolster your immune system and help prevent future infections... I have been down this road before, and always struggled with silly colds and could never come right... eventually I got an immuno-globulin shot after being ill on and off for 3 months...since then I have been going strong... I suggest you speak to your doctor and tell him your concerns... he will be able to advise you on a suitable course of action...

If you are really struggling and your immune system is low you can ask your doctor to give you an immuno-globulin injection... fairly pricey, but should help you kick it...

oh, getting the odd vitamin B injection doesn't hurt either...

just overdose on vitamin C and try suck medi-keels or some other anti-bacterial losenger every 2 hours.... that usually works well for me... I also take extra care to gargle with a anti-bacterial mouthwash as often as my day allows...

My point with regards breaking down of muscle was not refering to typical workouts that a body builder does. A body builder will never work out the same muscles 2 days in a row... where as it is nothing special for a cyclist to do 5 or 6 hours a day meaning that the muscles never get a chance to "build"... Okay, your explanation with regards muscle fibres is far better then mine The information about Type IIa's is interesting, definitely gonna read up a bit more on that... thanks. My point although incorrectly made was just that big guys with loads of fast twitch muscle fibres aren't suited to endurance

To be honest I don't know how you guys all afford all the races and travelling etc that goes along with it... if I didn't have sponsors to cover my expenses I would probably be forced to give up just cause of the sheer cost of the sport...

Cyclists are continuously breaking their bodies down and as a result tend not to build muscle as such... When you have a particularly strenuous ride your body starts to break down muscle as a form of fuel (which is called muscle catabolism)... this makes it even more difficult for your body to build muscle... Why is a big body builder not going to make a good cyclist... well body builders tend to build a lot of fast twitch muscle fibers which are good for short high intensity bursts... so even though a body builder could produce loads of power he wouldn't be able to sustain it that long... as we know cycling is an endurance sport... which is probably why the big guys usually make good sprinters for the last 200m of a race... its also probably why cycling is suited to guys with smaller builds with more slow twitch muscle fibers...

Well, ask yourself why none of the top riders smoke... oxygen is one of the most important things required to cycle well... hence the reason EPO has become cyclings drug of choice... Mechanically I believe they reckon the most efficient cadence should be around 60, but for cycling its actually closer to 90 in practise... however that is just what the "experts" say... Through experience I have learnt that the best advice is usually to just do what comes naturally to you... if you feel comfortable riding a cadence of 75rpm then by all means continue riding that cadence... ever since Lance Armstrong every keeps hammering on about how good high cadence is, but what is good for one rider is not always good for another... my 2c worth.