VSP PICKS: 1. Tejay van Garderen 2. Andy Schleck 3. Jonathan Tiernan-Locke 4. Ryder Hesjedal 5. Luis León Sánchez Gil »

@frank What cages can maintain the sound of silence?  The only noise my steed makes is the bidon rattling in the cage over rougher roads and it is driving me insane.  I need, no must, rectify this post haste! »

VSP PICKS: 1. Bradley Wiggins 2. Vincenzo Nibali 3. Robert Gesink 4. Michele Scarponi 5. Ryder Hesjedal »

@Yannersan Delgado’d.  Serves me right for taking my new steed for an extended spin lat night rather than making choices.  Would have been fine had we not ended up spending 3+ hours in A&E after one of the group fell.  »

VSP Picks 1. Henao 2. Porte 3. Quintana 4. Rodridguez 5. Betancur »

I’ll admit the constant doping issues had led me to move away from cycling a few years a go and I could have left it behind for good but a strange thing happened.  I was surfing the web one day when I found a link to some “rules”, which were good, and a h… »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_JCm33WSAs Clear shot of the golden ticket at 1:35, I wouldn’t even have been looking without this article, now I had to double check. »

@eightzero I did that too.  I’ve chosen to see it as a good thing, my metabolism is highly tuned and when the time comes it shall help me by summoning reserves of energy when I am about to bonk. In the short term it does mean a fight with hunger as I g… »

@Unica has thrown down the sodden sock; a cogal and a bike show all in the greater Bristol, Bath environs. Rest assured the malted beverage recovery beverage will be excellent. The Bristol area has the “Gianni, pissed as a rat” seal of approval. A day of riding followed by a bike show in Bristol, a weekender, a brilliant plan here, ladies and gentlemen, mark your calendars. 

VLVV, Gianni

The ride itself will be on Saturday 13th April and will take in Bath, the Mendips and Somerset Levels before heading back to Bristol. After suitable malted beverage recovery consumption on Saturday evening, it will be off to the Bespoke Bristol bike show (www.bespokedbristol.co.uk) on Sunday 14th April – I’ll try and line somewhere up for breakfast on the Sunday if there’s enough interest.

I’m still working on the exact route, but it’ll be around the 160Km mark and Casually Deliberate.

I shouldn’t be drawn by Campag stuff as I prefer function over form, and prefer utilitarian to fluffy Italian, and yet I already know that when I get my new #1 it won’t be adorned by groupsan or Bro-Set but by a majestic and beautiful Gruppo.  I haven’t e… »

@frank She may have talked about it being a calculated risk but, with my own eyes, she didn’t mean to go that wide and give the opposition that much lead. She, along with the other pro’s, remembers things differently to the way us normal folk remember… »

It’s sad that she felt the need to retire at such a relatively young age, I hope she doesn’t make a comeback when it is too late. I remember watching the Beijing road race and the amount of ground she lost after loosing her line in the final bend, to lay… »

I’ve touched Pantani’s climbing machine from the 1998 Giro and it’s pared back to the bone so as to not obstruct access to his V meter. Front mech shifter on the downtube to slightly reduce weight; he only climbed on the big ring so didn’t need it.  Low … »

For pure aesthetics nothing beats the look of the power rider on a steel frame laying down The V. »