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Ah, I was looking at the cumulative overall results rather than the individual stage times. My bad.

So how is Cav the best sprinter if he hasn't won any stages or whatnot? How do they get the points?

Nowhere near as much as Bradley Wiggins from what I've heard, in the overall standings anyway. Edit: Not that I have a single clue as to what the green jersey means...

Personally I was just thinking how awesome that hat he's wearing is...

1:05 on that first one... whaaaatt?!

Now I'm confused! Maybe it's just the way it's written down there- looked like you were making a comparison between feet and metres then jumping to square metres. Whatever, it's a lot of money and a 15 acre site is never going to be feasible without a lot of financial backing... Edit: 15 acres is 653,400 sq. feet. At £2 per sq. foot that makes it just over £1.3 million per annum.

There may be 3.28 feet in a metre but there are 10.7584 square feet per square metre...

Veeeery nice. Top marks for effort!

Soooo... have you actually paid Ali for it yet?

I was fairly close to getting one of these for a while: Until I emailed CRC to find out if they made spare axles for them. Apparently not, hence me making my own axle for the Echo hub.

Your best bet is to find a friend or someones dad or whatever who works in a machine shop... I'd have thought if you could provide them with the original aluminium axle to copy the geometry from and throw £10-£15 at them they would be fairly happy to oblige. Homers ftw!

Thought so Yeah, that'd work. Only problem is the aluminium axle although I don't know quite how beefy the ProII axles are...

They wouldn't fit in the dropouts though. You'd have to file the frame to get them to fit... (assuming you're talking about CK).

In theory yes however because CK HD axles are aluminium I don't think it would be that advisable... Also, because the funbolt threads are M12 you'd have to get 14mm pegs and then make some kind of sleeve or tophat washer to take up the 'slack' (Edit: which still wouldn't quite work due to the bolt reducing down to ~10mm at the dropout). It would also depend on how thick the 'base' of the peg and also the thickness of your dropout because of the design of the bolts. Edit: So yeah, probably no .

It wouldn't take much to make a new axle for the Onza hub- I just copied all the dimensions for the bearing shoulders etc and simply had longer M10 threaded ends instead of the drilled and tapped M6 screw holes in the stock axle. Easy to change and you can still run the modified axle when you remove the peg. If you know anyone who works in a machining place it would be worth an ask- think I made mine in about 2 hours (and I'm not exactly skilled on a lathe and the one at work doesn't have any of the right tools so it was all bodging and guesswork!). Edit: Forgot to add that when I ran the M6 screws in the standard axle I also turned up a little aluminium tophat thing which took the 10mm hole in the peg down to 6mm for the screw and located everything correctly. Ran it like that for a while (in fact that Youtube vid was done with the standard axles and M6's) but eventually decided it would be a better idea to go for the new axle.

Fair enough. It's just that looking at the beef already in the dropout it looks like it would be fairly easy to extend them slightly to accept a mount and for the extra 50g it would add to include the option to run a disc it may've been worth their while. But having said that I've never run dual disc on a stock so don't know how yucky it is compared to mod.

It's definitely possible. The reason I didn't run one on the front is that I use a disc and grind to the disc side so it was a no-go. I did consider not running a front brake but I like ups to front too much! The rear one was just a standard 10mm BMX one (first tried a G-Sport PLEG but it lasted about two rides so went for an Odyssey Jpeg Lite). I initially ran them on a standard Echo singlespeed hub with a longer than standard Unbrako screw but decided that was asking for trouble so instead turned up a stainless steel axle at work which used proper 10mm nuts instead. Worked just fine and was good fun for experimenting with! I'm currently running without because the peg wasn't being used enough but there's no reason why you can't go for it!

I want to stab Konnie Huq in the face.

Nowhere near as impressive as the Arc De Triomphe New Year jump.

Would still prefer it in a single colour but for £5 of spray paint Bob's your uncle anyway so meh! Still quite surprised at the lack of disc mounts though...

Yeah that was a bit pants compared to the Arc De Triomphe New Year one. Danny Mac could've actually done that with a tow in .

My guess is that what Robbie's planning is a little more impressive than anything a pushbike rider could do. Youtube Video -> ">" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350">

There just seems to be something wrong with painting such a nice, smooth, swoopy frame with such a stop/start colour scheme. I think a single colour with some nice graphics would've been much better... Sorry Joe but your designs are nice. The colour schemes and graphics not so much!

I didn't realise the World was France. It really is. I never bother watching it unless I catch a snippit on the news where there's a big pileup or whatever. Does nothing for me although I think as athletes what they do is really quite amazing. Well, the ones who aren't on drugs that is...

Just noooooooooooooooooooooooooooo... Why bother with tights?