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No, I don’t take money for ads. But I would take one of these..

That’s a grand for a COMPLETE bike by the way!

Britain?s towns and cities play host to cycling?s elite between 29 August and 3 September as the Tour of Britain returns for another year. Sixteen teams will battle it out over six days of gruelling riding through spectacular and demanding countryside. The winner will be crowned on the podium in The Mall, London on Sunday 3 September.

If you are in London this Sunday Sep 3rd I’d suggest heading to one of the Royal Parks or Buckingham Palace to check out the final stage of the Tour of Britain.

Of course if you are in any of the other locations do the same (just that most Aussies don’t know Britain exists outside London).

I wont be in town so Mal, my roving reporter – with her flashy new Canon (can I have it.. please!?), will be covering the event for me. Nice.

www.tourofbritain.com

www.engadget.com – the HumanCar puts your passengers to good use: pedaling

“The whole contraption can hit speeds in excess of 60 mph on the downhill, and is steered by “body angulation of the two front operators,” which sounds entirely unresponsive for speeds like that.“

1924 – The first drug revelations, when Pelissier and his brother Francis quit. ‘Do you want to see how we keep going?’ Henri asks the journalist Albert Londres, taking a flask out of his bag. ‘That’s cocaine to go in our eyes, chloroform for our gums, and do you want to see the pills? We keep going on dynamite. In the evenings we dance around our rooms instead of sleeping.’

Party time!

1953 – At the summit of the Tourmalet in the Pyrenees, the tiny climber Jean Robic is handed a feeding bottle filled with lead, weighing 10kg, so that he can gain ground on the descent.

And riders today complain about the UCI’s minimum weight restriction. Pah!

observer.guardian.co.uk – pills, spills and bellyaches – a cheat’s guide to the Tour