Depends if there's locals in Nice thinking about riding and we can cache stuff at theirs?

There are, some loose offers of that sort of thing at each end. Will get a quick mail-out together with a link to here and/or I can put people in touch via email.

For anyone finding flights out a faff - London Victoria coach station to Turin is currently £70 with Eurolines coaches, bikes in bags or boxes booked in advance are no problem. Sept timetable and prices going up (edit, 'up' online rather than in price) on March 1st. National Express go to Victoria f...

.. riding from Bristol

That's pretty much in Wales already : )

https://www.adventurecycling.org/resources/portrait-gallery/following-the-troops/ Only the other day I saw this chap in the ACA's portrait gallery. He followed the 25th Infantry's route. Plenty of interesting stories in that ACA gallery, a refreshing lack of blog-polish and radavism among them. Reti...

I expect SON would be the choice if you wanted the best-rep dyno hub. None have lasted longer than 8 months in time or 6000km in distance. fwiw my SP (not Exposure, just direct from SP - same thing but again fwiw) has done 5,000 miles or more over 2 winters and is feeling fine, others using them I k...

Speedsters are a good tyre for mixed road/off road. The small holes in the centre strip are fiends for picking up little flints locally, regular flats from that, but if you don't have flinty roads and trails they're good. Used the 1.95s for the Turin-Nice trip last year.

Early July works well as I'm hoping to be somewhere in June that would take priority over a field full of blokes in wales, all due respect etc! Riding from home, scotch bottle bar roll addition at the ready. £20 for food/etc sounds very fair. Even more so if the band's any good : )

What time does this kick off on the 6th? No idea : ) early, unless there's a general desire to make it nearer lunch-time to suit flights. Or since we're in Italy .. There won't be any serious start line or timing so it's all open. TBC later but maybe good to plan for 9am. re cursing, I expect so, e...

Imagine being able to say you beat Guy in a bike race though

Yes, only until they realise that you're talking about a push-bike : ) He's got a pretty good track record for pedalling though.
Going to be a great year for UK dot-watchers.

I did wonder : )

Gairy, I don't think I'd get time to ride as far west as Chamonix, as much as I'd like to. Riding the Swiss Alps via the Furkastrasse to Brig then towards Lake Maggiore and SW from there. You could go that way via Aosta?
Scott, sure, if the route+time works out that'd be good.

I'd plan a road ride up to Turin over a couple of days Nice. Could be a few doing that. I'll be riding there from Friedrichshafen/Constance starting on the afternoon of the 2nd Sept, should anyone be going to Eurobike or flying to Geneva. A whole load more dirt roads and cols between the Swiss Alps...

You can get from Nice to Turin on the train in ~5hrs with one change, if that gives more flight options? That way you get the transfer faff done before the ride, finish in Nice, easy (Eze). Nice to Turin on the main NE-bound roads is only 140 miles. There are some people from Nice saying they'll be ...

Certainly, they need to be worth it!

Going well, enough interest and links floating around now that the basic site try-out is staying up ( http://torino-nice.weebly.com ) A couple of rainy weekends have been useful in getting the main puzzle link figured out, the bit of the first ride that I wanted to improve on. The direction works we...

^ seeing that reminded me of how much I wanted something like this - a summer/dry days SS with v-brakes, silver kit, 29er. As close to a practical and classic MTB as I could justify owning. And McClungs do it for me, love the forks. http://fcdn.mtbr.com/attachments/29er-bikes/202533d1160661448-prese...

Whitestone's covered it. I have a dyno hub and light with a B+M USB-Werk running from a wire up the steerer tube and held in a gas tank or bar bag that also holds whatever's being charged. Needs good connections but has run my phone and garmin w/o issue on a few rides. Charges fast on tarmac, often ...

My last wheel set used a Halo Spin Dr 6D on the back and chances are I'll buy another for the next wheelset. Prefer them to the Hopes, they're light and easy to service and they're cheaper than the DT 240. I've had a spare/BNIB 240s in all black for ~10 yrs ready for a wheel build but seem to be goi...

Winter bikes, yes, lovely. This one in particular, makes discs look right on a classic-looking road bike which I expect isn't easy



http://www.winterbicycles.com/projects/volante/

I used BMC and paid for racing coverage as I had concerns about the level of legal BS in the States as well as the cost of medical care. It's not a high-risk ride but if something does go wrong it's could be animal bite, drunk-driver or face-plant at 11,000ft related so I went for as full cover as I...

I am, no doubt about that : )

And this B+ beast is nice too I like that. Triton make some really great-looking stuff. If they were based in San Fran hipsterville and instagrammed with the radavist etc they'd have a far higher asking price. As it is I'd take a Triton over a Firefly, £ factored in. I don't have a good pic to post...

I really miss the irreverent bullshit of the Outcast. A kind of genius that chap.. he's partial to a bit of BP also but can't see him doing a version of it to suit a new market trend : ) Did you see 'The Earnest' magazine spoof in Outcast? Inspired. I can't read Sidetracked or Bunyan without that i...

Tough market now I suspect. Subscribed to Sidetracked as its a great use of print. Plus it's got a wider scope than just bikes, more interesting for it. Bike mags have some good stuff but its generally not what I'm after, Cranked is promising though. I liked Privateer also but don't see why bike mag...

I have a load of this sort of thing, was about to go to the skip for a new yr clear out. For postage costs you can have a load of chains or tubes that have had the valves cut out. MIP / PM to arrange. I can use myhermes so post shouldn't be too high.