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just checked model on the Ridely it's a Fi'z:ik Arione VS around £100 from a lbs but cheaper from Wiggle. don't buy from Wiggle as they are from that smelly filthy place along the coast. Btw you shouldn't need to wear two pares of shorts to make riding bearable. get thee to your local bike shop and get it sorted with a fitting.

As Huffton said you have a decent bike with a good level of equipment. You don't say if you were fitted for your bike. my advice would be if you weren't get to your lbs and see if everything is set up right. I've got two bikes Cube Peloton and Ridley Excalibur Flandrien (different geometries etc) both set up perfectly because I was fitted for both. FWIW the Fi'zi:k Arione I've got on the Ridley is a great saddle on the road, but doesn't feel anything like as comfy on the turbo. it really it comes down to getting the right shorts, possibly using chamois cream getting everything set up absolutely correctly and then just getting used to it through acclaimatisation. waht sort of milageare you doing?

A Place Called Armageddon by CC Humphries. A fictional account of the seige of Constantinople in 1453. Also Racing in the Dark the autobiography of cyclist David Millar. Charts his rise and the conflicts he faced as a pro trying to compete without doping. before he eventually gave in. Here was a young bloke who had everything, lost it, and had to rebuild his life as a pro rider. Fascinating stuff, although not as much of an expose of doping in cycling as Paul Kimmage's Rough Ride which is generally regarded as the book which blew the lid off drug use in the sport. Found the strained relations between the Kimmage and Millar alluded to in the latter's book interesting.

Wife and daughter went to see it in London last week, as latter is using the themes of War Horse as part of her GCSE Drama course. Both were utterly blown away by the production, so much they want to go again, this time with me in tow. As for the film I just hope the whole matches up to what is a very stirring trailer. Also I've just taken the book out the school library having seen the trailer.

Nuns clogging up the match threads!!!

They'll need to rob Halfords then.

Not being funny, but how the fook do you know this? I was going to post something less abrasive, but quite frankly I can't be arsed.

+1.

MTFU all of you disbelievers, and Alpine you are just a K U N T. You self centred t o s s e r. I've kind of sussed it's all about the wind up with you. Btw I don't have tourettes (****. ****, ****). If I were you I would seek medical/psychological help, failing that I'd chuck yourself off the nearest high mountain. there are plenty around in that Saints supporting stronghold of Austria. Tbh this is not a serious post. Alps you do keep me entertained even if you seem to know F C U K all about football. If you've been a saints fan for 40 odd years you kind of get used to all of it.

Was channel hopping last night and saw accident as it happened. Horrific doesn't even begin to describe it. The most chilling thing since was seeing in car footage just seconds before a person's life was lost. Not a petrolhead or particularly interseted in motorsports, but it strikes me that it takes some kind of courage to race on the edge at 220mph RIP.

**** off you troll

Well I never saw that coming. There are lots of comments here about his proposed and now eventual move. http://www.cyclechat.net/topic/89711-wheres-cav-going/page__pid__1878427__st__180#entry1878427. Interestingly there is an awful lot of negative b o l l o c k s on them with only a few sane posts. Remind anyone of somewhere similar? Seriously though it is going to be interesting. Having Bernie Eisel as captain on the road may well take pressure off Wiggins as well as piloting Cav through the mountains in the autobus.

Sainsbury's because it's near enough to be like a corner shop. Other than that do it by t'internet and get it delivered. using ASDA and Sainsbury;s on alternate weeks. ASDA much cheaper btw.

Yes, the "clueless gypsy" has once again been positive about us; says we're the real deal and it would be foolish to write us off

I've only caught up with the programme in the last 24 hours even though I was told I needed to watch it by my colleagues on Friday. Almost all of what I do day to day involves working with young people in a Secondary School in similar type of place (ie in one of London/South East's postwar new towns) so a lot of what I saw and heard from them was very familar to me. The same sorts of values, attitudes and challenges.I found that I agreed with Mr Drew about most things which make working in a school perhaps more challenging and less simplistic than it used to be. He obviously has the interests of those he works with at heart and clearly enjoys his job. I agree with other posters who questioned the cake incident and other inconsistencies, but what particularly grated with me was the way the situation with Carmelita (the girl who got excluded) was handled. The girl was clearly a challenge but the whole thing seemed to escalate very quickly to the point where she swore at him and got excluded as a result. Although he appeared calm and non-confrontational I was left with a distinct feeling he was pressing buttons. He picked the fight and probably knew what the outcome would be.

End of April. Then I'll believe.

The Charlie Sheen of professional football. Always liked him as a player. Him and Colin are made for each other.

I was leaving work having been working with a colleague who was going through capability proceedings. I first heard what was happening on the car radio as I drove home on the car. I was particularly concerned as my wife was on business in Belfast on that day and was due to fly back to Heathrow in the middle of the afternoon. Rather scarily she watched the whole thing unfold live in an airport lounge in Belfast. She got home very late that evening. Trying to make sense of it to my then 5 year old daughter who had seen some TV footage at the childminders was difficult.

Heard via my daughter that youths were allegedly trying to start a riot in the Oracle in Reading yesterday. Running through the shops trying to scare and intimidate people. It speaks volumes about these people that they completely avoided Waterstones

Enjoy it. Just don't get too uptight if it doesn't go to plan. hope things improve on health front.

Heard the news from a Saints fan while on holiday in Egypt. Genuinely stunning news at the time. Such a shame he wasn't around in May. RIP

Leicester????

I though KP was fookin cricketer!

Glad you got your bike sorted. Still hard when it comes to a choice between equally good'uns in your price range. sometimes it comes down to looks and colour more than anything. I've had a similar problem deciding between the Cube Agree GTC Pro and the Ridley Orion. Although the Ridley is slightly better kitted the Cube is IMO a better looking bike, but it is predominantly white, which from the experience of my existing Cube bike is a b u g g e r to keep clean, whereas the Ridley is mainly black. Tough decision! Anyway enjoy your new bike, but beware it can become addictive. Before you know where you are you'll be applying the bike ownership equation. This is the number of bikes already owned + 1. It's a slippery slope. It's only taken me a year to go from a good quality entry level aluminium frame with carbon forks and Shimano Tiagra groupset to wanting a carbon framed machine.

Sounds like a brilliant trip Sandwich. Glad you enjoyed it. Hope to get out there with bike someday myself. In the meantime I'll have to practice around the Chilterns and Berkshire Downs.