I've got the Cosmics. If you're planning on spending that sort of coin & are looking at Deep dish, I'd be going for the Zip 404's. I only use the cosmics for TT's & flat road races or the occaisional crit that doesn't require jumping out of corners. The Cosmics are probably to heavy for everyday race use

you can't go wrong with the ksyrium's. If I was in the market for some new ones, I'd be going with the ES special edition. Can be had from PBK for around $1100AUD

TDF is underway, first MT rubbush out of the way, and now SBS is covering LAST YEARS final stage?!??!!! WTF?? Have they been infected by the programming mentality of 7, 9, & 10? Do they think they can score browny points for not showing it last year by showing it this year instead of showing the first stage?

For anyone interested there are 50 riders home, GRABSCH leads with 8:31.9 (~50kmh).

Faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaark. Gabriel Gate is back with his poncy recipes. Arrrrrggggghhhhhh.

Anyway, back in the cycling LANG leads with 08:21.8 (about 51kmh) with 70 riders home

I know! I guess it's for the non-cycling fans

Speaking of "MT" and the "fancy accent SBS boys", there was a beauty from Andrew Orsati last night. He couldn't just say "Hambourg" like the rest of us, which is "Hamberg"; oh no, he had to say "Hambor-erg", with a bit of an accent! Height of pretension!! Tosser!!

Almost as bad as Tomalaris pronouncing "Merckx" as "Mee-airkxs", with a Western Euro accent!!
Crikey!!

O'Grady just misses out on taking the intermediate lead by a whisker (08:21.9), Karpets in 3rd

...and finally SBS catches up with reality

respectable time for robbie. good form on the bike

Landis misses the start time - DOH!!!

Hushovd!!!!!!!

Good ride from Cadel for prov 10th

Jock, get some sleep!

Rogers also respectable in prov 5th

Hushovd wins.

+1 for the guys whose names end in OV (even if there's a silent D on the end! )

...You know he's not even French , don't you?....His real name is Garry Gatt & he comes from ballarat.....allegedly!

OGrady, Rogers, Evans and Wiggins make 3 1/2 Aussies in the top 20.

Next stage he's doing lamb on the barbie!

It's pronounced 'lom'

Zipp 404's all the way. I can get them for about 2k, for the record. If you're after a custom frame existence, you really should give me a bell. Have a new carbon/ti monster in the pipeline that you may find interesting, and most parts I can get for under AU wholeslale, so buying parts like that in dribs and drabs is only costing you money.

Have you got fitted up and all that yet?

I'm no longer a v*rgin...I just shaved my legs for the vey first time. They feel funny, but smmmooottthhhh.

The wife is gunna get a surprise when she gets back from the US!

Did ya get a Brazilian?..........I saw some dude on the soccer telecast in one of those 'town square' crowd scenes. he had a T-shirt that said "I'll show you my Australian, If you show me your Brazilian!'

No longer a Viiirrrrgin

With your heartbeat, next to mine

Oh Oh Oh ow oww oh

Feel so good inside...........

(apologies to Madonna)

I considered a wax, but too many chicks warned me off the pain. Also you basically have to get naked for the waxer person to get into the nooks and crannies.

Feels funny though!!

Even worse, you will keep doing it. Hubby decided to do it "just once, to see what it feels like" and now I have to hide my razors to save them from being blunted.

I think it is my duty as a fellow female to warn your wife of this potential threat to her razor supply - does she have an email address?

Go Thor! Go the OV riders!

I'll take the mountains points on my new lightweight plastic bike for Team TAT. I will need to swap out the 23 on the back though.

Yellow pedals look stoopid on a red and white bike