This is what also sucks. We've already got loads of trips planned for the first half of the year. We're all meant to be doing the Tour of Flanders sportif ride in Belgium in April . It's about 90 miles and includes lots of steep cobbled climbs http://www.rvv.be/eng/parcours/hellingen.html and Phil also is meant to be going to Italy for a Gran Fondo sportif ride in Tuscany as part of my fiance's stag weekend in May.

Oh well, plans change. Funny how you suddenly get a new perspective on what's important and what's not. ...Apparently he was asking earlier if there were any bits that could be salvaged off his bike. 'Luckily' he was on his winter hack bike, not his very spiffy Colnago C50