Park Lane James
Andy Sinton
I keep on tweaking the spoke on my wheels to keep them in true but they keep on coming out of place. Anyone had this before? Maybe the tension isn't right.
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markysimmo
Johnny nice-tits
Anybody watch the Wiggins documentary lastnight on Sky Atlantic...
Shane Sutton lives basically in a bedsit, total brickpit, surely he must have earnt a few quid from Team Sky
Shane Sutton lives basically in a bedsit, total brickpit, surely he must have earnt a few quid from Team Sky
Danishfurniturelover
the prettiest spice girl
http://roadcyclinguk.com/news/racing-news/katusha-miss-out-on-2013-worldtour-licence.html?
Me thinks something big is about to come out, very odd not to give them a licence.
Not done much cycling the last few weeks but on friday im hoping to get in a 45 mile one if everything else in life falls into place.
How much cycling you ladies been doing recently?
Me thinks something big is about to come out, very odd not to give them a licence.
Not done much cycling the last few weeks but on friday im hoping to get in a 45 mile one if everything else in life falls into place.
How much cycling you ladies been doing recently?
ricky2tricky4city
Tom Huddlestone
Got out on the bike today for the first time in a bit. Up to Goodwood racecourse and back (came back a slightly different way) approx 28miles.
Looking at some of the roads and pavement as i left, then looking at the road tyres on my bike didn't fill me with confidence.
Left at the warmest part of the day (3oC), and as you would know chich, plenty of uphill on the way out (kept the heart pumping) and the usual pleasure of speeding back down was seriously diminished by the sketchy roads and icy air. Luckily i had taken an extra neck fleece in my back pocket so i slipped that inside my top over my chest as for some reason no one was handing out newspapers at the top of my hill.
Always tricky to know how many layers to wear.
Chich-Do you take repair kit or spare tube out with you? as today when out in the sticks i had the worrying thought of the consequences of a puncture......freezing cold, 1hr till sunset, shoes with cleats...........i did have the mobile with me though.
Looking at some of the roads and pavement as i left, then looking at the road tyres on my bike didn't fill me with confidence.
Left at the warmest part of the day (3oC), and as you would know chich, plenty of uphill on the way out (kept the heart pumping) and the usual pleasure of speeding back down was seriously diminished by the sketchy roads and icy air. Luckily i had taken an extra neck fleece in my back pocket so i slipped that inside my top over my chest as for some reason no one was handing out newspapers at the top of my hill.
Always tricky to know how many layers to wear.
Chich-Do you take repair kit or spare tube out with you? as today when out in the sticks i had the worrying thought of the consequences of a puncture......freezing cold, 1hr till sunset, shoes with cleats
...........i did have the mobile with me though.
Danishfurniturelover
the prettiest spice girl
Got out on the bike today for the first time in a bit. Up to Goodwood racecourse and back (came back a slightly different way) approx 28miles.
Looking at some of the roads and pavement as i left, then looking at the road tyres on my bike didn't fill me with confidence.
Left at the warmest part of the day (3oC), and as you would know chich, plenty of uphill on the way out (kept the heart pumping) and the usual pleasure of speeding back down was seriously diminished by the sketchy roads and icy air. Luckily i had taken an extra neck fleece in my back pocket so i slipped that inside my top over my chest as for some reason no one was handing out newspapers at the top of my hill.
Always tricky to know how many layers to wear.
Chich-Do you take repair kit or spare tube out with you? as today when out in the sticks i had the worrying thought of the consequences of a puncture......freezing cold, 1hr till sunset, shoes with cleats
Got a fudging puncture in pagham but i have a small repair kit so not to bothered, thought i was going to get another one by the side of the airfield. took out the racer and if i go over stones on that it is always bad, im a big guy and i do look odd i appreciate. Did a good 40 miles today. So out of shape you would not believe how not doing any exercise for a few weeks effects me, it was like a pre season work out.
Im a sweater always have been, use to turn up on a building site at 6 in the morning in the snow and within half an hour i would be sweating.
Danishfurniturelover
the prettiest spice girl
Yorkshire to get the tour de france grand depart in 2014 and a finish in london again. Great news for me as i am in nice this summer to watch a couple of stages and i hope a cav victory. Also going to florence in september for the worlds, i love tottenham but honestly i think i now prefer road racing to football matches.
Bit odd them not starting in Edingburgh, maybe the have same opinon of scots as i do.
Bit odd them not starting in Edingburgh, maybe the have same opinon of scots as i do.
ricky2tricky4city
Tom Huddlestone
This should cheer Chich up...........................apparently Wiggo is a yiddo
Danishfurniturelover
the prettiest spice girl
Well he is the most boring cyclist in history but just like how i thought jude law was an awful actor till i found out he was a yiddo(now im disgusted he does not win an oscar every year).
If true i like him more but i still want to see froome go for the tour this year, if he goess all out in the giro he will win some respect from me, dempsey won back some respect from me. I do not hate wiggins but i just do not rate him as a cyclist but i can and do change my opinon on people.
Got 4 punctures in the last 2 weeks i hate this time of year with all the chavs chucking bottles into the roads. Did not know whether to put this in here or in the health thread but i put on 2 pounds over the xmas period. Long cycle ride tomorrow to help get the pounds down not to bad on previous years.
Tour down under starting soon and cav should be in the qatar week race which is also where the worlds will be held in 2016 which i think is his next best bit at winning it.
Danishfurniturelover
the prettiest spice girl
Nope he is a liverpool fan and therefore goes back to being a boring ****.
ricky2tricky4city
Tom Huddlestone
Nope......listen to the Weller/Wiggins radio show on Radio 6 http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01pgq27 and he says he was at the Lane week in week out during his youth.
Do you hate Wiggo because he is just a tempo man with no real explosive qualities (he can hold but not attack) Froomey got schooled a few times in last years vuelta, but i really do think the guys with massive (pantani style) kicks are all on the juice. Everyone is so finely tuned with science,training and diet that it requires the 'extra' help to be able to ride off up the road. Ironically cycle racing may get a tad boring if everyone is tuned up to within a whisker of each other.
I know you like the wind (will it ever stop) but cannot really hack it myself......... good for kiting though, plenty out today (and yday) were you one of them?..........or do you pussy out now the waters turned cold?
Danishfurniturelover
the prettiest spice girl
I think it is not all done to his riding style but maybe the route did not help because it was such a crap route last year. If you compare it to the tour of spain which was so much more interesting. I know what you are saying about people riding away will not happen now cycling is so much cleaner i don't want to tempt fate and say it is clean but it certainly looks that way now.
The vuelta was awesome and it is what i want from the tour de france because if you have a route like last years vuelta then you will get plenty of attacks. Really the route was the main problem last year in the tour and that allowed sky and wiggins to just bore the absolute crap out of me, hopefully be better this year.
Not been in the water since november i guess im a pussy haha shall probably get around to it in the next month or so i don't mind it so much but bussier these days.
Cycled a few miles each day but going for a nice big one tomorrow morning before our game against sunderland who one of my closest friends supports so i hope to fudge we win or i will never hear the end of it.
The wind is the best for cycling it just increases strength so much, i know a young guy(24):-k and he cycles only standing up on his trainning runs because it makes his calfs stronger, chris twine cycles for worthing excelsior top blike and im rather fond of him.
ricky2tricky4city
Tom Huddlestone
Sir Bradley Wiggins ...it is then
Modric THFC
Jimmy McCormick
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/05/s...strong-said-to-weigh-admission-of-doping.html
Armstrong Said to Weigh Admission of Doping
Lance Armstrong, who this fall was stripped of his seven Tour de France titles for doping and barred for life from competing in all Olympic sports, has told associates and antidoping officials that he is considering publicly admitting that he used banned performance-enhancing drugs and blood transfusions during his cycling career, according to several people with direct knowledge of the situation. He would do this, the people said, because he wants to persuade antidoping officials to restore his eligibility so he can resume his athletic career.
For more than a decade, Armstrong has vehemently denied ever doping, even after antidoping officials laid out their case against him in October in hundreds of pages of eyewitness testimony from teammates, e-mail correspondence, financial records and laboratory analyses.
When asked if Armstrong might admit to doping, Tim Herman, Armstrong’s longtime lawyer, said: “I do not know about that. I suppose anything is possible, for sure. Right now, that’s really not on the table.”
Several legal cases stand in the way of a confession, the people familiar with the situation said. Among the obstacles is a federal whistle-blower case in which he and several team officials from Armstrong’s United States Postal Service cycling team are accused of defrauding the government by allowing doping on the squad when the team’s contract with the Postal Service explicitly forbade it.
Armstrong, 41, has been in discussions with the United States Anti-Doping Agency and has met with Travis Tygart, the agency’s chief executive, in an effort to mitigate the lifetime ban he received for playing a lead role in doping on his Tour-winning teams, according to one person briefed on the situation.
Armstrong is also seeking to meet with David Howman, the director general of the World Anti-Doping Agency, that person said.
Herman denied that Armstrong was talking to Tygart.
None of the people with knowledge of Armstrong’s situation wanted their names published because it would jeopardize their access to information on the matter.
Tygart declined to comment. Howman, who is on vacation in New Zealand, did not immediately respond to a phone call and an e-mail.
Armstrong has been under pressure from various fronts to come clean. Wealthy supporters of Livestrong, the charity he founded after surviving testicular cancer, have been trying to convince him to come forward so he could clear his conscience and save the organization from further damage, one person with knowledge of the situation said.
Armstrong also has hopes of competing in triathlons and running events, but those competitions are often sanctioned by organizations that adhere to the World Anti-Doping Code under which Armstrong received his lifetime ban.
According to the World Anti-Doping Code, an athlete might be eligible for a reduced punishment if he fully confesses and details how he doped, who helped him dope and how he got away with doping.
Marion Jones, who won five medals at the 2000 Olympics, denied doping for years until giving a teary-eyed confession on the steps of a Westchester County courthouse in 2007. She spent six months in prison for lying to federal investigators about her doping and for her involvement in a check-fraud scheme.
The timeline for Armstrong’s deciding whether to confess is unclear, but it is partly based on whether the United States Justice Department will join the whistle-blower lawsuit, which was filed under the False Claims Act. The sole plaintiff of that lawsuit is Floyd Landis, Armstrong’s former Postal Service teammate who was stripped of the 2006 Tour de France title for doping.
If the Justice Department also becomes a plaintiff, the case would be more formidable than if Landis pursued the case alone. Landis stands to collect up to 30 percent of any money won in the case, which could be in the millions. The team’s contract with the Postal Service from 2000 to 2004 was more than $30 million.
Armstrong Said to Weigh Admission of Doping
Lance Armstrong, who this fall was stripped of his seven Tour de France titles for doping and barred for life from competing in all Olympic sports, has told associates and antidoping officials that he is considering publicly admitting that he used banned performance-enhancing drugs and blood transfusions during his cycling career, according to several people with direct knowledge of the situation. He would do this, the people said, because he wants to persuade antidoping officials to restore his eligibility so he can resume his athletic career.
For more than a decade, Armstrong has vehemently denied ever doping, even after antidoping officials laid out their case against him in October in hundreds of pages of eyewitness testimony from teammates, e-mail correspondence, financial records and laboratory analyses.
When asked if Armstrong might admit to doping, Tim Herman, Armstrong’s longtime lawyer, said: “I do not know about that. I suppose anything is possible, for sure. Right now, that’s really not on the table.”
Several legal cases stand in the way of a confession, the people familiar with the situation said. Among the obstacles is a federal whistle-blower case in which he and several team officials from Armstrong’s United States Postal Service cycling team are accused of defrauding the government by allowing doping on the squad when the team’s contract with the Postal Service explicitly forbade it.
Armstrong, 41, has been in discussions with the United States Anti-Doping Agency and has met with Travis Tygart, the agency’s chief executive, in an effort to mitigate the lifetime ban he received for playing a lead role in doping on his Tour-winning teams, according to one person briefed on the situation.
Armstrong is also seeking to meet with David Howman, the director general of the World Anti-Doping Agency, that person said.
Herman denied that Armstrong was talking to Tygart.
None of the people with knowledge of Armstrong’s situation wanted their names published because it would jeopardize their access to information on the matter.
Tygart declined to comment. Howman, who is on vacation in New Zealand, did not immediately respond to a phone call and an e-mail.
Armstrong has been under pressure from various fronts to come clean. Wealthy supporters of Livestrong, the charity he founded after surviving testicular cancer, have been trying to convince him to come forward so he could clear his conscience and save the organization from further damage, one person with knowledge of the situation said.
Armstrong also has hopes of competing in triathlons and running events, but those competitions are often sanctioned by organizations that adhere to the World Anti-Doping Code under which Armstrong received his lifetime ban.
According to the World Anti-Doping Code, an athlete might be eligible for a reduced punishment if he fully confesses and details how he doped, who helped him dope and how he got away with doping.
Marion Jones, who won five medals at the 2000 Olympics, denied doping for years until giving a teary-eyed confession on the steps of a Westchester County courthouse in 2007. She spent six months in prison for lying to federal investigators about her doping and for her involvement in a check-fraud scheme.
The timeline for Armstrong’s deciding whether to confess is unclear, but it is partly based on whether the United States Justice Department will join the whistle-blower lawsuit, which was filed under the False Claims Act. The sole plaintiff of that lawsuit is Floyd Landis, Armstrong’s former Postal Service teammate who was stripped of the 2006 Tour de France title for doping.
If the Justice Department also becomes a plaintiff, the case would be more formidable than if Landis pursued the case alone. Landis stands to collect up to 30 percent of any money won in the case, which could be in the millions. The team’s contract with the Postal Service from 2000 to 2004 was more than $30 million.
Modric THFC
Jimmy McCormick
Absolutely explosive stuff here bigger than the flimflamathon that will be Armstrong on Oprah
http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/lau...armstrong-key-to-beating-epo-test-says-tygart
Lausanne laboratory gave Armstrong key to beating EPO test, says Tygart
USADA CEO Travis Tygart believes that the head of the WADA laboratory in Lausanne provided Lance Armstrong with the necessary information to avoid positive tests for EPO in the early part of the last decade.
Martial Saugy has already admitted to meeting with Armstrong and US Postal manager Johan Bruyneel to explain how the EPO test worked in 2001, a year after Armstrong returned a ‘suspect sample’ at the Tour de Suisse, which had been tested in Lausanne.
Speaking in an interview with Showtime’s 60 Minutes Sports programme on Wednesday evening, Tygart recalled meeting Saugy at a dinner in 2010 and discussing Armstrong’s sample from the 2001 Tour de Suisse.
“He [Saugy] sat beside me and said there are samples from Lance Armstrong that indicated EPO use. He also told us that he had been instructed by the UCI to meet Lance Armstrong and Johan Bruyneel to explain the EPO testing process,” Tygart said.
“I asked him: ‘Did you give Lance Armstrong and Johan Bruyneel the keys to beating the EPO test?’ And he nodded his head yes. He explained it to the two of them. As far as I know, it’s unprecedented. It’s totally inappropriate to bring in an athlete with a suspicious test and explain to them how the EPO test works.”
Swiss Cycling president Richard Chassot, meanwhile, moved to defend the reputation of Saugy and the Lausanne laboratory. “In many cases, notably the Landis affair, they haven’t been afraid to put themselves in danger,” Chassot told 20min.ch. “Martial Saugy is a good and serious guy, who has often taken a strong position against doping.
“Regarding the samples tested, there are only numbers on a tube. At the laboratory in Lausanne, they couldn’t say to themselves, ‘This is Armstrong’s sample, he can’t be positive.’ If something happened, it’s at UCI level.”
Elsewhere in the 60 Minutes interview, Tygart confirmed that USADA had rejected an offer of a donation from Armstrong in excess of $150,000 in 2004, saying: “It was a clear conflict of interest for USADA and we had no hesitation in rejecting that offer.”
Tygart also discussed the responsibilities of heading up USADA’s investigation into doping at Armstrong’s US Postal Service team, which continued after a federal investigation of the squad was shelved in February of last year. Tygart said that USADA had a duty to make full and correct use of the funding it received from the US government.
“We’re always concerned about the grant we get from the federal government,” Tygart said. “If we’re unwilling to take this case and help this sport move forward, then we’re here for naught. We should shut down. And if they want to shut us down for doing our job on behalf of clean athletes, for clean competition, then shut us down.”
http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/lau...armstrong-key-to-beating-epo-test-says-tygart
Lausanne laboratory gave Armstrong key to beating EPO test, says Tygart
USADA CEO Travis Tygart believes that the head of the WADA laboratory in Lausanne provided Lance Armstrong with the necessary information to avoid positive tests for EPO in the early part of the last decade.
Martial Saugy has already admitted to meeting with Armstrong and US Postal manager Johan Bruyneel to explain how the EPO test worked in 2001, a year after Armstrong returned a ‘suspect sample’ at the Tour de Suisse, which had been tested in Lausanne.
Speaking in an interview with Showtime’s 60 Minutes Sports programme on Wednesday evening, Tygart recalled meeting Saugy at a dinner in 2010 and discussing Armstrong’s sample from the 2001 Tour de Suisse.
“He [Saugy] sat beside me and said there are samples from Lance Armstrong that indicated EPO use. He also told us that he had been instructed by the UCI to meet Lance Armstrong and Johan Bruyneel to explain the EPO testing process,” Tygart said.
“I asked him: ‘Did you give Lance Armstrong and Johan Bruyneel the keys to beating the EPO test?’ And he nodded his head yes. He explained it to the two of them. As far as I know, it’s unprecedented. It’s totally inappropriate to bring in an athlete with a suspicious test and explain to them how the EPO test works.”
Swiss Cycling president Richard Chassot, meanwhile, moved to defend the reputation of Saugy and the Lausanne laboratory. “In many cases, notably the Landis affair, they haven’t been afraid to put themselves in danger,” Chassot told 20min.ch. “Martial Saugy is a good and serious guy, who has often taken a strong position against doping.
“Regarding the samples tested, there are only numbers on a tube. At the laboratory in Lausanne, they couldn’t say to themselves, ‘This is Armstrong’s sample, he can’t be positive.’ If something happened, it’s at UCI level.”
Elsewhere in the 60 Minutes interview, Tygart confirmed that USADA had rejected an offer of a donation from Armstrong in excess of $150,000 in 2004, saying: “It was a clear conflict of interest for USADA and we had no hesitation in rejecting that offer.”
Tygart also discussed the responsibilities of heading up USADA’s investigation into doping at Armstrong’s US Postal Service team, which continued after a federal investigation of the squad was shelved in February of last year. Tygart said that USADA had a duty to make full and correct use of the funding it received from the US government.
“We’re always concerned about the grant we get from the federal government,” Tygart said. “If we’re unwilling to take this case and help this sport move forward, then we’re here for naught. We should shut down. And if they want to shut us down for doing our job on behalf of clean athletes, for clean competition, then shut us down.”
jts1882
Dean Richards
It will be interesting what Armstrong admits to.
I can't really imagine him confessing or apologising. Given his choice of venue I assume he will admit to something vague, cry a bit, and present himself as the true victim, trying to get on with his life and lead the fight against cancer.
I can't really imagine him confessing or apologising. Given his choice of venue I assume he will admit to something vague, cry a bit, and present himself as the true victim, trying to get on with his life and lead the fight against cancer.
Danishfurniturelover
the prettiest spice girl
7 count them 7 punctures in 3 and a half weeks completely fudged off with the roads round chichester right now, if i see anyone dropping a bottle in the road and cutting the brick out of my tyres with the broken glass i will seriously flip out.
Done 40 miles a day every day for the last 10 days though i walked about 12 miles as well today as i did not have a spare inner tube, honestly never had a period like this for punctures, usually only get about 7 in a year. It is the chavy tacos who think it is funny dropping bottles in the road, i fuciking hate them.
Feel like an old man now as i have slept through dinner and the wife said she could not wake me so left it in the oven. I love that sleep you have after a workout it is the most intense sleep ever. Good for someone like me who is basically only usually sleeps a few hours at a time.
Done 40 miles a day every day for the last 10 days though i walked about 12 miles as well today as i did not have a spare inner tube, honestly never had a period like this for punctures, usually only get about 7 in a year. It is the chavy tacos who think it is funny dropping bottles in the road, i fuciking hate them.
Feel like an old man now as i have slept through dinner and the wife said she could not wake me so left it in the oven. I love that sleep you have after a workout it is the most intense sleep ever. Good for someone like me who is basically only usually sleeps a few hours at a time.