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So what's happened with this forum? Only 2 posts in the last 2 weeks. Normally this forum is a hive of activity.

Quote: Originally Posted by dannyfrankszzz In the early stages of yesterday's tour stage, I noticed a rider breaking open a blister pack and handing out a pill to his team mate. The motorcycle camera was on them at the time and he looked sheepish, and didn't want the camera focussing on him. Surely drug taking can't be this blatant....

Letter in the local paper calls all cyclists terrorists and criminals. Links to the paper copy. http://www.flickr.com/photos/md451/2607598114/size s/l/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/md451/2607597290/size s/l/ online: http://www.thisisbristol.co.uk/disp...tentPK=20935 661

In other words, I want a "lightweight" lock which will withstand theft attempts. Thanks!

From the Manchester Evening News letter pages, 27th June 2008[1]: "The [traffic] congestion is the fault of the council in the first place, but they arrogantly put the cause down to the motorist." This one is is even better, and with added On-Topicness: Friday, 27 June 2008 [2] Idiots with bikes on cars WHEN is the government going to ban bicycles from being carried on the ...

I've not spotted any reference to the following cartoon here though I might be wrong.... http://ariail.niethestate.com/?p=309

I had a go at trying to remove the cassette on my road bike today, as part of a major clean up, and to try and learn a bit about bicycle repair and maintenance. I used a lockring tool, spanner and chain whip to remove the lockring and subsequently removed the two smallest sprockets and a spacer, but I could not remove the rest of the cassette. Once I have got the lockring off is there ...

How much would you expect to pay to have a wheel trued at your LBS? Also, is this a common service for an LBS to perform? This came up in a discussion with a friend. He reckons it would be hard to find a shop nowadays which would do it, and they would charge loads. I thought it was quite a simple operation and should be quite cheap. I suppose I could just phone my LBS but it is night ...

A Vietnamese restaurant owner who admitted causing the death of a cyclist in Greenwich Park by dangerous driving was fined £2,500 and banned from driving for five years at Woolwich Crown Court on Wednesday. Coong Duong Voong, 59, from Woolwich, had pleaded guilty on February 28 to the charge which arose out of a collision last June. The victim was Leonard Woods who commuted by cycle ...