I love the sound of all these tiaras - especially some girlies all covered in mud but also with lovely sparkly tiaras. Would make a great picture!

I think when girlies are on the podium receiving their flowers, medals etc they should also crown winners with a nice shiny tiara. That would be cool!

Just wanted to add my bike shop story. This isn't actually too much of a rant about the shop because they're normally very good.

My boyfriend took his fleet of bikes in to be serviced and the next day we went out for an easy ride, only to find he couldn't change into the big ring. Confussed he looked down and saw the mechanic - an Aussie named Bruce - had forgotten to replace the cable from the gear leavers to the big ring!

Ben couldn't believe it! Luckily we were only on a small local ride, but he felt a bit of a fool for not noticing the cable was missing.

He took it back to the shop and they were so embarrased and apolgetic. They're quite a well known shop with a very good reputation in the South of England - they sponsor a team and a lot of their customers are very demanding. They couldn't do enough to make ammends. The gave him another free service, free bar tape, some energy drink...

While this was quite a blunder Ben's a very laid back guy and wasn't too het up about. Not sure he's have been so chilled if it had happened at the start of a race though.