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Just going to leave this here. I couldn’t find the video where she wheelies through town.

A very rare Track 2 fork!?

That’s a nice piece of kit.

Not me either…

Maybe -was a bit out of the way - mostly industrial units.

I was in Stanford-no-Hope, just down the road. Swallow had a unit on an industrial park in Basildon with a small shop at the front.

My old local frame builder…must stop looking…

Failure isnt the issue for me with Alu - I am a light rider and have only broken two frames in my life - it’s the terrible ride characteristics. getting beaten up by your bike is the tail wagging the dog. It’s not so bad off-road - but on the road it’s just horrible given the time in the saddle...

It’s the part where you get to a minute or so in to the run and only then does he start breathing hard…really?

just received this from Chris King and it made me feel very old and slow…I am thinking new hubs will not make up the difference.

You are right. I should have said - no one on the inside with the evidence and ability to stop it - which was a lot of people - did anything. It went on for the best part of a decade.

Is it though? Not saying this is happening now - but it is exactly what happened in the past. I am not looking for an argument, but the Armstrong era had lots of doping, lots knew about it. no one said anything…

I feel really stupid for saying this, but I had assumed Pog was just superhuman - a Merckx of his generation. But now I think about it, his career trajectory has been a little odd and he doesn’t have the normal climbers build which should have set alarm bells ringing. To be a great all- rounder...

Yes - a junior in one of the WC rounds IIRC. Really ugly process vs the nod and a wink telling off and short ban if she had been knee deep in EPO and amphetamines.

That bike takes me back. I know Mike Kloser was the bigger star but Mike Kluge is who I always associate with this bike as the World XC Championship winner - well before the UCI got their hands on the sport.