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Once you have a UK address you can order free bike maps from Transport for London and they will mail them to you:
https://www.tfl.gov.uk/roadusers/cycling/11682.aspx

Local shops: Condor...

If you still have the left-hand Sora shifter, use that.

A normal commute in, until I heard a nearby 'chufchufchuf...' as I was approaching a railway line I bike under, and thought that diesels sounded a lot like steam trains these days. Just as I got...

I have a bike like Sky King's and similar to what the OP wants. Can't fault the reasoning - the one problem I had was getting sufficient clearance for fat tires and fenders. I think the various Surly...

Cheers for the info on the videos on the Hope site, lph! I used it to see how you properly install a Hope headset, esp the Head Doctor (HD) thing. Tbh I can't see the advantage of the HD over a star...

Over here (NW England) there was one race just after Xmas and the last race of the season was on 15th Jan. First race was the first Sunday in September, so not too bad.

Happily, some CX leagues...

You pick up inner tubes at the side of the trail and see if they are fixable. I found three on Sat in different locations. One was wrecked (snakebite) so I will make a frame protector from it, one...

Slighty OT, but Bicycling Magazine did a short article on the steepest climbs in the lower 48 and all bar one (Onion Valley Road in CA) were in the eastern US.
IIRC the steepest 1-mile climb...

No idea how far I rode in 2010 but had some great rides. At one time I did log all my rides but was beginning to feel like a rat on a treadmill with a quota to fill - I have enough of that at work....

Nice commute this AM, just enough light (with the headlight) to avoid iced-up puddles. Very pretty with the sun just coming up and I enjoyed the crunching of frost under the wheels. Had to hop onto...

Thanks for the tip about the pedal spacers, gidget. I'll try and find them for my partner whose right ankle consistently hits the crank...

Far as CX goes I had a very strange race on Sunday on...

Did about 3kms entirely on grass in the local park yesterday. Took about 30 mins including warming up and down. Need to stretch more. The park is far from flat so attempted some interval training up...

I use Mavic A319s ims for commuting/light offroad. Not light but they are inexpensive and fairly tough. I have re-used the same spokes when replacing an Open Pro rim with an A319 - they were DT...

Chamois cream! Does he know about that?

Just saw little packets of same appearing in my LBS so you can re-apply midride. Better than carrying a bottle of it.

I don't find them any better than metal pans. Best bread pans we have are two tin ones in very heavy-gauge pure tin. Never used glass, worried about dropping it.

I don't offer a wave or greeting, but will return one. I get irrationally angry if I get ignored if I do offer a greeting first, so no longer bother. I am also a little paranoid about looking at...

+3 re local food. Added to that, at a Farmers' Market you are paying the farmer direct rather than a supermarket. I get my eggs direct from a lovely farm with free-range chickens everywhere, put £1...

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No, I don't have any issues, even on centuries & use split saddles, more for perenium relief than anything else.

this should be re-titled the Yummy Bread Thread!

I make sourdough from a home-made starter that's about 18 months old and lives in the fidge in an old mayo jar. I had authentic San Francisco...

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don't try and be so vain to try difficult climbs on a MTB without stopping when you're spent but carry on instead, fall off and cut your knee open on the rocks. Twice.

& don't...

About 30 hilly miles as a 'recovery' ride from a 100 miler in the Scottish Borders the previous day.

Checked out a few bridleways to try and do on the Audax bike, they varied from okay to...

slam on v-brakes after missing a turn (ended up in the ER after that one)

catch the kerb with the descending pedal while riding fixed - bent a pedal in 2 planes doing that

hold the bars so...

ta! I have bookmarked the site.
One year we were sat in a campsite in NW Wales and were listening to live Tour de France commentry (from RTL I think), it was clear as a bell on the car radio!

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Cheers for that. What I meant to say: is there live radio commentry (in French) during the Tour of Flanders? It would be nice to do that for the Flanders races... I have a decent Roberts...

Thanks for your advice, papaver! One thing I wanted to ask though: is there radio station commentary in French for the Tour of Flanders and/or Ghent/Welvelghem? I know there is for Paris-Roubaix but...