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Gerry, I have the Fondo now as well (after my Stealth lost a row with a pothole - Ribble replaced the whole show within 2 weeks, 2 year guarantee on the frame).  It's a fine machine, I went down a size on the frame and took a while before I got comfortable again.

Girl at work was in Kilkenny for a weekend, in a pub late on says the ashtrays were produced! Thought that eas a bit of a myth tbh.

High 5 zero tablets do the job for me in regards to cramp, just drop 1 or 2 into your bottles.

Walsh & Kimmages' musings should come with health warnings, Kimmage's recent tirade against Sky during the tour was a near word for word rehash of what Walsh was spouting a decade ago. It carried an element of pyschological blackmail - open yourselves to the media & prove you're not using drugs type nonsense. When i read that i actually thought he was a bit unhinged tbh.

Fairly damning charges here in the official documents, I guess he knew the writing was on the wall.
http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/armstrongcharging0613.pdf

It will be interesting to see if they will finally be allowed to test all that blood again and prove the fact that he had the transfusion done.

For those that dont know, right now they cant re-test old blood with new technologies for testing against the transfusions.

One of the main reasons I always thought he was guilty is because they asked his permission (a few years ago) to retest his old blood samples to clear his name for once and for all, and he refused to allow them to do so (they require his permission to retest old samples).

It is funny how people will seek something to justify their original opinion, even when the evidence clearly disproves it. Does anyone seriously believe Lance just got sick of defending himself??! If you were accused of this, would you ever get sick of fighting such an injustice??

No. The chap fought cancer and embodied the never say die attitude. He simply didn't do giving up so the only possible conclusion is he didnt want any evidence against him in the public domain.

The 'evidence' will come out anyway, USADA have said as much, plus They didn't take it this far not to get their Day in the Sun.

Life must have sucked the spirit out of you TB, V & B still rock.

It'll just become a PR war now, Contador refuses to admit his guilt & is none the worse for it. Officialdom claiming victory by way of Lance refusing to contest the charges know rightly it's the beginning of another phase in the war.  It's when the sponsors disappear that Lance will know he's screwed.

New show started in Channel 4 last night, a bastardised shooting stars, but was very funny in parts. Took the best bits of shooting stars (recreating Bits of tv shows) and ran with it. As With all things V & B you'll love it or loathe it.

The sport is probably over-regulated, all it's own fault obviously because of where it went, but for example the Contador  sample that got him a 2 yr (fudged) ban would not have been picked up in soccer or countless other sports, the chances of Contador smoking a fat one & then accidently forgetting to turn up at medical testing wouldnt happen. i'm guessing snorting coke & sticking mobile phones up his pipe would be frowned upon too.

Good to See the Mensa cycling team crawling out to give their opinions.

I doubt Lance will roll over and take it, undoubtedly another front will be opened somewhere, sometime. A change of tactics.

[INXS - Kick (album)]

1. First song ever bought?   INXS - Kick (album)

2. What song always gets you dancing? Born Slippy - Underworld (unfortunately for me & everyone else)

3. What song always brings you back to your childhood?
I have 2 distinct ones - Primary school years - Communards - dont leave me this way & Tween/Teen years Bluebells Young at Heart (prob 2nd time round for the song I think).

4. The perfect love song? Kate Bush -This Woman's work

5. What song would you want played at your funeral?  Green Day - Time of your life

6. One last song that makes you, you - Waterfall - Stone Roses

Newsroom has turned out a bit pants.

New series of wilfred started 2nite in bbc3, Top show.

Ogs won 3.16 to 8
Cross won 2.12 to 2.7

2.7 to 2.6 with 10 to go and Johnny Hanratty got a Red - we dared believe, but Cross stepped it up a bit, we missed another gilt edged goal chance late on to draw it level.  Cross deserving winners but I thought Harps played very well, played some great football, footered about a bit too much in the first half and didn't get the shots off when we were ascendant.  We've undoubtedly the makings of a good team.

Benny there is a 50km cycle on Saturday from Madden to Tyholland and back to raise money defibrillators. Are you doing it?

There's quite a few of the harps guys doing it, i dont  think i will be about.

You're coming into the period when it's a good time to buy a bike, (online mainly) stockists are already lining up 2013 stock and start to discount heavily in the next couple of months, so you could pick up a .£700 yoke for in around 500.

If I were you  I'd get some freebie advice  at a local bike shop, size etc...and then buy online - take a look at Evanscycles, wiggle,  winstanley bikes & the like.