Now then, a very interseting site about headlights, and racks. Pay attention, this might save your life.

In Lincoln the winters are long, cold, and sometimes boring. Unless you know how to creatively bide your time.

This just in from our UK distributor, Dickon over at STIF.

" Just back from the land of the cobble, and a weekend checking Paris-Roubaix and all that goes with it.

It was 30 deg C for the race on Sunday which combined with the previous 12hrs of drinking Stella on a large boat made for a very special sort of carnage.
Amongst tales of forgotten passports, delayed ferries and 120mph motorway chases – we have the attached.

The house band on the 12hr ferry crossing (or should that be boat band?) - appeared from behind velvet curtains at Saturday nights cabaret performance in the attached jackets, presuming that the wild and rabid cheering from the bar was an unexpected but loyal fan base.

Whereas in fact it was due solely to the fact that their jackets are almost uncannily cut from the same cloth as the Daryl.

I’m almost certain that one of them was also called Daryl. Although this may have been pushing it...

It did however provide almost endless photo ops.
(I did try to get Boonen in the cap too, but he was a bit sweaty)

Dickon"

Oh good god..... They all kinda look like theyre named Daryl.

Now then, a bunch of bike race goodies from all over.

Spring has sprung, and theres lots to do. I expect this is still just the tip of the iceberg.

Now then, a bit more from N@ in South Africa.

"Tokai National Park, Cape Town, South Africa

In the middle of the city, fire road up single track down and just to make sure your on your toes the biggest troup of baboons in the cape....

plus the guys at the continental tires stand were giving away free beer at the Cape Argus expo
N@"

Ive heard tell that the Mountain biking in South Africa is amazing, but security concerns are unparalleled. The homes there are much like small compounds, and some have non lethal types of measures to ensure the occupants safety. Paint ball cannons that fire out shot gun blasts of tear gas pellets are as common place on some homes as alarm systems are here, but by the looks of the photos, the riding is incredible.

Ok, on to other news. Its story time. Scott Berg, who was one of the original orange jump suited trouble makers, once told me this tale, and Ive adopted it as my own. He used to work at a sign shop in Sacramento, and as per his usual habit, while he worked, he liked to play some air guitar every now and again. Well, one of his co-workers noticed his skills, and asked, "so, do you play the guitar?" Scott answered, "Well, yeah, you know, air guitar, but I put it down some place, and now I cant find it." His co-worker offered, "You know, my cousin owns a guitar shop. He could probably get you a new one", to which Scott said, "but it was an air guitar". The co-worker paused, and then said "Dont worry, hes got Ibanez, Gibson... He can get you whatever you want..."

He obviously wasnt aware of this.

Now a spy shot of the bike industry illuminati sporting wood. Cottonwood that is.

..And a note from El Corpo.

"Heading over to the East Coast today. NYC, Boston, etc. We'll be opening up a few dealers, so look for things to start to appear in stores over there. We're still heavily limiting the distribution, so don't expect it everywhere. Only a few places will get it."

So now you know.

And now finally, and in a totally unrelated bit of spew, I was attempting to change the background picture on an unnamed co-workers computer this morning, and after scanning Google images for 'monkey in fez', I found this-

which then linked me to The Soiled Chamois.
It kinda figures that out of all of the images I could pick, the one that most struck my fancy was something found by one of our friends.
Its true, great minds do think alike.