Winnersaint

Nor me. Simply the best!!!

Of no consequence, but got 55kph today going down Star Hill into Hartley Wintney.

Indeed. Daughter's stuff currently all I can seem to lay my hands on in the car, Found Foo Fighters Greatest Hits CD

Lovely stretch of road between Barkham and Bearwood on a bike. A spiky hill followed by a false flat past Bearwood Lakes. Downhill past the college entrance is the only place I routinely get over 50kph without descending in the Chilterns. You're right it's not that posh. Two teachers unable to hack it in state school in Bracknell currently teaching there speaks volumes for it's standards.

Obviously football. Besides Saints I look out for Athletic Bilbao in Spain and Panathinaikos in Greece. Cycling. Love doing it. Watch long hours on Eurosport/ITV4 especially the Grand Tours but also the Spring Classics. Would love to watch the TdF for real but the interesting bits are in term time so will have to look upon that as a retirement activity. I know it has a dodgy reputation as a sport but at its best it is sheer drama of the highest order. Hanker towards favouring Sky Pro Cycling. Rate Cavendish very highly and would love to see a Brit win the tour, giro or vuelta. Step forward Bradley Wiggins????

FFS this sort of thing used to bother me when I was 18 (75-76) but I kind have grown out of it. football fans are a broad church!

OK I'll set the record straight. The two lads who told me about Sharp to Reading with such certainty were both 16 (Year 11's are aged 15-16) Both are Reading fans. They reckon we're crap based on one recently televised game. They think we sold our best player in the summer (Oxo) ignoring the fact that Lallana and Lambert played a much more important part in the run in last year than the injured Oxlade-Chamberlain did. They think that now Madejski is selling up they are convinced they are going to be right up there in the football rich list. They neither know nor care about our financial situaton but like a lot of fans from other clubs think we must be poor because of going into admin. What does all this prove? Basically your average 16 year old is remarkably ill informed, blinkered, judgemental etc. etc. so no different from your average fan then. Given how close to London Bracknell is I always find it refreshing the number of kids who support their local club instead of Chelsea. There are also Brentford, Wycombe, Palace and Saints supporters at the school also, as well as couple of Skates. Putting one of them on report was a laugh.

Signing for Reading according the Year 11's at my school. Reckon they are the Man City of the Championship. christ teenagers are so full of sheeite.

OK not really on topic but can't start new thread. Colleague at work CCFC fan wants to know the best place to park for game. I usually do West Quay and walk but haven't done evening games at SMS due to family commitments.

As Alps posts go. this makes sense

Indeed. Watching saints in the rain while Shilton scored. Losing to wrexhanm in the cup in 74 and getting relegated. 01/05/76. Keegan. 5 (was it) England captains playing for Saints. Moran's goal against the Skates. Adrian ****ing Heath. The Wallaces Le Tiss and Shearer. The great escape. losing to Tranmere from 3-0. Cardiff 03. Boro when saggy chops was first in charge. Capitulation at Nottarf Krap etc.etc. Some people really need to get a sense of perspective. we may go up, we may not. get used to the unpredictability that goes with supporting Saints. Even the in the good times things will never run truly smoothly.

Just have to accept our bare bones are just not as good as their bare bones. I'm afraid we were always likely to ship goals. Oh well

David Armstrong around 600K when bought from Boro

No knee jerk reaction here but I genuinely don't think we will go up this year. Maybe in 2012 tho! whatever pans out a big thanks to Nigel and the players for a fantatstic calendar year

When you spend your working days banging on to young people about the importance of attending school and getting qualified, about community values and life not being just about the individual as well as to their parents about not taking them out on holiday during term time and valuing ediucation for what it is. it seems hypocritical to take strike action. So I am in school as are all the other senior staff. No students here so am able to look on here, while I use thetime to catch up on things that get lost in the hurly burly of a normal working day.

Chris Boardman did indeed wear the yellow jersey on a number of occasions 1994, 97 and 98. This was as a result of success in the prologue TT (he crashed out in 95). Boardman on his Lotus bike was a phenomenal rider. In 1994 his speed over the 7.2 km prologue course in Lille was in excess of 55kph, a record that still stands. Later in the team TT on Stage 3 he was simply too quick for the rest of his GAN team and it was this that saw him out of yellow. However, Cav was in green in Paris at the end of the TdF as was Millar in the polka dot.

The Manx Missile for me. First Brit to win the World Road Race Championship since Tommy Simpson in the 60's. The first Brit to win the points classification at the TdF. Another 5 stage wins at this year's TdF. The first Brit to win a TdF jersey since Robert Millar in 1984. His youthful arrogance seems to be mellowing. He is always quick to praise the contribution of the team to his successes HTC/British WC team etc. His achievements to date are up right up there.

Space Truckin, closely followed by Child in Time. Remember seeing them in Feb 1973 at Bournemouth Winter Gardens with Nazareth as the support band. Lets just say that was one loud gig!

just checked model on the Ridely it's a Fi'z:ik Arione VS around £100 from a lbs but cheaper from Wiggle. don't buy from Wiggle as they are from that smelly filthy place along the coast. Btw you shouldn't need to wear two pares of shorts to make riding bearable. get thee to your local bike shop and get it sorted with a fitting.

As Huffton said you have a decent bike with a good level of equipment. You don't say if you were fitted for your bike. my advice would be if you weren't get to your lbs and see if everything is set up right. I've got two bikes Cube Peloton and Ridley Excalibur Flandrien (different geometries etc) both set up perfectly because I was fitted for both. FWIW the Fi'zi:k Arione I've got on the Ridley is a great saddle on the road, but doesn't feel anything like as comfy on the turbo. it really it comes down to getting the right shorts, possibly using chamois cream getting everything set up absolutely correctly and then just getting used to it through acclaimatisation. waht sort of milageare you doing?

A Place Called Armageddon by CC Humphries. A fictional account of the seige of Constantinople in 1453. Also Racing in the Dark the autobiography of cyclist David Millar. Charts his rise and the conflicts he faced as a pro trying to compete without doping. before he eventually gave in. Here was a young bloke who had everything, lost it, and had to rebuild his life as a pro rider. Fascinating stuff, although not as much of an expose of doping in cycling as Paul Kimmage's Rough Ride which is generally regarded as the book which blew the lid off drug use in the sport. Found the strained relations between the Kimmage and Millar alluded to in the latter's book interesting.

Wife and daughter went to see it in London last week, as latter is using the themes of War Horse as part of her GCSE Drama course. Both were utterly blown away by the production, so much they want to go again, this time with me in tow. As for the film I just hope the whole matches up to what is a very stirring trailer. Also I've just taken the book out the school library having seen the trailer.

Nuns clogging up the match threads!!!

They'll need to rob Halfords then.

Not being funny, but how the fook do you know this? I was going to post something less abrasive, but quite frankly I can't be arsed.