Anybody currently without a cycling club/team or thinking of changing? I'm trying to gather a canny bunch of lads together for next season. Ive been riding for...
Hi all - anyone wanna post anything on here? i know its december but surely there must be SOMETHING cycling worth talking about amongst 184 members? Micky sits...
Some very sad news just reached me from Tyneside, Russell Thompson formerly of GS Metro and last year a member of Berwick Wheelers, died in his sleep, last...
Hi Jason - thanks. Theres not much you can say or do in these situations. This is relatively new to me. Elderly relatives has been as far as its gone in my 30...
Hi Barry, thanks for that, funeral tomorrow at earsdon church 130pm. All welcome. The lads are all meeting at the Briardene in Monkseaton afterwards. If...
Hello Everyone I haven't posted here for a while, but I am hoping to have a good cycling 2006. Anyway, this is just to wish you all a truly wonderful, Happy...
Hi Dave - thanks for that. And i hope yours and everyone else Christmas and New year went fine. Bit of a dampener on things for me this year. Since the day I...
Hi all. How is everyone doing? British Cycling calendar out with all the dates for the year. So time to start training and getting excited. I dont really...
Please contact me if you might be interested in an organized 7 night tour in Corsica May 20-26. Several friends are going and actively looking for more...
A quick well done to one of our members' daughters - Ian Bury. His 11/12 Year old daughter, Melissa has racked up a win and a 2nd in Under 12's cyclo cross...
Hi all - just added a file to the group. Its a preliminary design given to us by bioracer today. I dunno if it maybe has a bit too much black in it over the...
Sorry to sound a bit thick here, but does anyone recall what happened to the Tyler Hamilton case? Did he get exonerated or what? I know his ban was quite close...
The last I heard was that the case was still being deliberated by the authorities. I know Tyler is still riding quite a bit, but not sure what his intentions...
Hi rodney and welcome to the groups beacse I dont believe you have posted yet. So does anyone think Tyler will achieve anying? evne thoug he will b (35??) ...
I always had good feelings toward Hamiltaon and I wsa surprised that he was implicted in a doping scandal. Saying that, I never considered him a real contender...
When I first heard about Tyler, I absolutely could not believe it - I thought he was one of the most upstanding racers out there(staying on the bike...
Ok I'll throw open the pandora's box and ask this question. Should we just legalise drugs and let them take what they want? Maybe even having 2 different types...
Interesting, and in part I agree that it COULD work. Eddy Merckx said you cant win the tour de france on just mineral water and ham sandwiches. BUT the...
I say that doping in cycling should never be tolerated much less sanctioned. Cycling is the most beautiful sport because it requires strength, strategy,...
So what should happen then is like in the Tour Of Malaysia, all aero machines are banned on the time trials as not all teams can afford them, to level out the...
As to bikes, I'm willing to accept whatever the UCI rules to be a legal machine. I assume all the teams and manufacturers have some opportunity to comment...
......which is the way the sport is at the mo and I would NEVER cheat myself. Used to worry that 2 cups of coffee before a race was one too many! but It will...
... I don't accept the notion that doping will always be with us. Cycling has an image problem because of doping and the solution is not to throw up our hands...
Oh man, looks like his career is now over. Total bummer too......he was a great rider. But part of me wonders if he should have just stayed with the Postal...
With T of California and now the Paris-Nice under his belt things are looking up for Floyd and Phonak. Its great the season is getting going, seems like last...
Still think Basso will be a contender for the Tour De France, just not sure he can do both the Giro and Tour De France. Jason ... [Non-text portions of this...