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		<title>Bike security: the home front</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Oct 2011 16:27:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two-thirds of bikes get stolen in or around the home. What&#8217;s the best way to protect yours when it&#8217;s off duty? http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/bike-blog/2011/oct/12/cycling-theft-home-security<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sotyred.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9196575&amp;post=1099&amp;subd=sotyred&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Southend Bikeathon 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Sep 2011 15:44:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A quick mention for a great end of season sponsored ride.  And one that is dear to my heart as it was the first sponsored ride I did when I got back in cycling several years ago.  As you will see from the photographs, this is not a ride I use my road bike for, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sotyred.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9196575&amp;post=1065&amp;subd=sotyred&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cycling worth £3bn a year to UK economy, says LSE study</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Aug 2011 20:19:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Article found at: http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2011/aug/21/cycling-3bn-uk-economy-study Cycling generates nearly £3bn a year for the UK economy, according to a report from the London School of Economics. The figure includes £51m in revenue for British manufacturers from the 3.7m cycles sold in 2010 – a rise of 28% on 2009. The gross cycling contribution of £2.9bn for the economy [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sotyred.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9196575&amp;post=1048&amp;subd=sotyred&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Guide to Energy Drinks and Foods for Cycling</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jul 2011 23:44:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not mine but found at: http://www.bikes.org.uk/guide-to-energy-drinks-and-foods-for-cycling/ Here’s a test, nip out on your bike before you read this but don’t do your usual prep.  Make sure you’ve not eaten for at least 3 hrs or taken any energy drinks or gel. Just go for about 20 mins and take no water either. How did that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sotyred.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9196575&amp;post=961&amp;subd=sotyred&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How to pass a horse on a bike</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jul 2011 21:26:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don’t know about you, but one of things I have never known is how cyclists should pass a horse.  I had (wrongly) also thought a horse got freaked out by a noisy, fast-moving car and quite cyclists could pass a horse without worrying.  Not true. The opposite may actually be true with a horse [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sotyred.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9196575&amp;post=955&amp;subd=sotyred&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>London to Southend Bike Ride 2012</title>
		<link>http://sotyred.wordpress.com/2011/07/22/london-to-southend-bike-ride-2012/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jul 2011 09:47:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I made my first post in this blog  just over four years ago primarily to keep track of my progress in training for my first London to Southend bike ride.  Since then it is has rambled on about various things relating to cycling although, selfishly, mainly about my own exploits.  It does seem amazing that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sotyred.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9196575&amp;post=943&amp;subd=sotyred&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>London to Southend 2011 &#8211; going to be wet but wild horses wouldn&#8217;t stop me doing it</title>
		<link>http://sotyred.wordpress.com/2011/07/16/london-to-southend-2011-going-to-be-wet-but-wild-horses-wouldnt-stop-me-doing-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jul 2011 10:32:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[: arm warmers]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have searched every weather forecast on the web and they all say the same thing, wet and windy (it will be a crosswind with a slight tailwind rather than headwind which helps a bit).  So it&#8217;s out with the waterproof and arm warmers.  Am I mad? Maybe.  But I love this ride and wouldn&#8217;t miss it for the world.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sotyred.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9196575&amp;post=937&amp;subd=sotyred&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Car driver madness  at the Tour de France</title>
		<link>http://sotyred.wordpress.com/2011/07/10/car-driver-madness-at-the-tour-de-france/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jul 2011 15:29:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SoTyred</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On what seems to be a year festooned with accidents, and one tragic death already, the Tour de France could have done without this.  I understand that the riders are ok but have no idea as to the fate of the car driver, but the car should be stopped by the police immediately and she (I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sotyred.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9196575&amp;post=930&amp;subd=sotyred&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>50 miles ridden &#8211; a rehearsal for the London to Southend bike ride</title>
		<link>http://sotyred.wordpress.com/2011/07/10/50-miles-ridden-a-rehearsal-for-the-london-to-southend-bike-ride/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jul 2011 11:44:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SoTyred</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cycling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Training Rides]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[With it being a beautiful Sunday morning and having just got my bike back from the bike shop with a new bottom bracket and tyres, a long ride was inevitable.   And I am pretty pleased at having notched up 50 miles at an average moving speed of 15.3 mph. Bring on the London to Southend bike ride next [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sotyred.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9196575&amp;post=925&amp;subd=sotyred&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Very wet, very windy and cut short</title>
		<link>http://sotyred.wordpress.com/2011/06/18/very-wet-very-wind-and-cut-short/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jun 2011 14:19:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SoTyred</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today was the first day of the London Cycle Challenge and I was keen to log up some miles.  A quick check of the weather forecast which said sunny intervals so I thought I would head off and do a 50 mile ride. But then I should know better than to believe the weather man.  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sotyred.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9196575&amp;post=897&amp;subd=sotyred&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Life just does not get much better than this.</title>
		<link>http://sotyred.wordpress.com/2011/06/12/life-just-does-not-get-much-better-than-this/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jun 2011 15:45:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was up with the larks this morning duly eating my porridge before setting out for the Orchid Essex bike ride.  The weather forecast was not good and I was expecting to get wet before I finished.  The sun was shining when I left the house at 7:00 am and it still looked pretty good [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sotyred.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9196575&amp;post=887&amp;subd=sotyred&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Quite Excited (Understatement)</title>
		<link>http://sotyred.wordpress.com/2011/06/11/quite-excited-understatement/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jun 2011 18:11:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SoTyred</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Essex Orchid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Events]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Orchid essex sponsored cycle ride]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sotyred.wordpress.com/?p=879</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The training is done, my bike has been cleaned and serviced.  All I need now is an early night and a bowl full of porridge at 6:30 in the morning and I’ll be ready for the off.  Off for what?  Why to cycle 75 miles for the Orchid cancer charity that’s what. This is the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sotyred.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9196575&amp;post=879&amp;subd=sotyred&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>1,000 miles done this year</title>
		<link>http://sotyred.wordpress.com/2011/06/05/1000-miles-done-this-year/</link>
		<comments>http://sotyred.wordpress.com/2011/06/05/1000-miles-done-this-year/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jun 2011 22:27:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SoTyred</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cycling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[LEJOG]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sotyred.wordpress.com/?p=870</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I am quite pleased with myself at having cycled for more than 1,000 miles so far this year.  It might not be much by some people’s standards but then I am not ‘some people’. I have gradually increased the distance I have ridden on each outing and if I continue to progress at this rate, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sotyred.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9196575&amp;post=870&amp;subd=sotyred&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The world’s most comfortable bike saddle</title>
		<link>http://sotyred.wordpress.com/2011/04/30/the-world%e2%80%99s-most-comfortable-bike-saddle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Apr 2011 17:47:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SoTyred</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sotyred.wordpress.com/?p=846</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Ever since I restarted cycling four years ago, I have had one problem that I have found it impossible to do anything about – sore sit bones!  Yes sure, regular cycling makes it easier as they are beaten into submission, but they are always the first thing to suffer on a ride. I have tried [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sotyred.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9196575&amp;post=846&amp;subd=sotyred&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Nine steps towards safer cycling</title>
		<link>http://sotyred.wordpress.com/2011/04/15/nine-steps-towards-safer-cycling/</link>
		<comments>http://sotyred.wordpress.com/2011/04/15/nine-steps-towards-safer-cycling/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2011 05:23:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SoTyred</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Cycling safety]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The London Cycling Campaign, which promotes safer cycling in the capital, has produced a nine-point-plan for reducing the toll of death and injury among cyclists: Enforce speed limits and clamp down on drivers who use mobile phones. Crack down on hit-and-run drivers, who account for a large portion of serious road injuries. Introduce 20mph speed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sotyred.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9196575&amp;post=841&amp;subd=sotyred&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Building up the miles</title>
		<link>http://sotyred.wordpress.com/2011/04/03/building-up-the-miles/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Apr 2011 13:34:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SoTyred</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Training Rides]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bike ride]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cycling]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sotyred.wordpress.com/?p=834</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, this was certainly a great weekend to be out on the bike.  I managed to get out on both Saturday and Sunday and racked up 59 miles.  I’m very pleased with that although my sit bones are complaining a bit. I have also extended my usual training route from 25 to 33 miles by [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sotyred.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9196575&amp;post=834&amp;subd=sotyred&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How Cyclists Should Stretch</title>
		<link>http://sotyred.wordpress.com/2011/04/03/how-cyclists-should-stretch/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Apr 2011 07:52:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SoTyred</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Training tips]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sotyred.wordpress.com/?p=827</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Maintain flexibility in muscles prone to tightening through a simple set of key stretching exercises for cyclists which should be practiced everyday for maximum benefit. All these stretching exercises for cyclists are best done after a ride when the body and muscles are still warm. They are performed as static stretches, a method created by [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sotyred.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9196575&amp;post=827&amp;subd=sotyred&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cycling to work is one of the biggest causes of heart attacks</title>
		<link>http://sotyred.wordpress.com/2011/02/24/cycling-to-work-is-one-of-the-biggest-causes-of-heart-attacks/</link>
		<comments>http://sotyred.wordpress.com/2011/02/24/cycling-to-work-is-one-of-the-biggest-causes-of-heart-attacks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2011 20:52:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SoTyred</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cycling in cities]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[So here you have it, cycling kills.  A report from the Daily Mail about how cyclists risk life and limb at the wheels of other road users?  Well no, not quite.  But how cycling causes heart attacks.  Or does it? Well the article opens with a pretty convincing statement: As any city cyclist will know, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sotyred.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9196575&amp;post=802&amp;subd=sotyred&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Boris Bike Virgin No More</title>
		<link>http://sotyred.wordpress.com/2011/02/23/a-boris-bike-virgin-no-more/</link>
		<comments>http://sotyred.wordpress.com/2011/02/23/a-boris-bike-virgin-no-more/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Feb 2011 20:55:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SoTyred</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sotyred.wordpress.com/?p=792</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Ever since Boris announced the launch of London cycle hire scheme, I have been umming and ahhing about whether to join-up or not.  Well, I finally took the plunge and today was my first ride on one. I had expected the bike to weigh a ton and although it undoubtedly was heavy, I was rather surprised [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sotyred.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9196575&amp;post=792&amp;subd=sotyred&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>That was one very blustery ride.</title>
		<link>http://sotyred.wordpress.com/2011/02/06/that-was-one-very-blustery-ride/</link>
		<comments>http://sotyred.wordpress.com/2011/02/06/that-was-one-very-blustery-ride/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Feb 2011 11:14:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SoTyred</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cycling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Training Rides]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sotyred.wordpress.com/?p=788</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The weather forecast wasn’t too bad, 10C, white cloud with the odd bit of sun, but I hadn’t reckoned on the wind.  Blowing at a steady 24mph with gusts up to 34mph. As soon as I turned onto the seafront I know it was a non-starter.  Cycling into a headwind is one thing, but trying [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sotyred.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9196575&amp;post=788&amp;subd=sotyred&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>History of the bike. No 1 in a random series of articles</title>
		<link>http://sotyred.wordpress.com/2011/02/01/history-of-the-bike-no-1-in-a-random-series-of-articles/</link>
		<comments>http://sotyred.wordpress.com/2011/02/01/history-of-the-bike-no-1-in-a-random-series-of-articles/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Feb 2011 00:01:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SoTyred</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sotyred.wordpress.com/?p=779</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[So just who did invent the bike? Well some would claim that it was Gian Giacomo Caprotti, a pupil of Leonardo da Vinci who is said to have drawn a sketch which was later installed in a church window in Stoke Poges in the 16th Century.  This shows a naked angel on a bicycle-like device [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sotyred.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9196575&amp;post=779&amp;subd=sotyred&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Good to be back in the saddle</title>
		<link>http://sotyred.wordpress.com/2011/01/30/good-to-be-back-in-the-saddle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Jan 2011 12:43:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SoTyred</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sotyred.wordpress.com/?p=771</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It felt good to be back in the saddle today after an enforced layoff due to snow, ice and illness.  Quite a chilly morning with the temperature around 3C but at least no ice to be seen.  And it didn’t take long to work up a sweat and stay warm as toast (with a thermal [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sotyred.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9196575&amp;post=771&amp;subd=sotyred&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Garmin-Cervelo prove 100% clean means 100% clean</title>
		<link>http://sotyred.wordpress.com/2011/01/23/garmin-cervelo-prove-100-clean-means-100-clean/</link>
		<comments>http://sotyred.wordpress.com/2011/01/23/garmin-cervelo-prove-100-clean-means-100-clean/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Jan 2011 20:29:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SoTyred</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[100% clean]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It must  have been a bitter-sweet day today for Garmin-Cervelo. On the day that Cameron Meyer wins the Tour Down Under his team, Garmin-Cervlo, sack their directeur sportif, Matt White, after discovering that he referred Trent Lowe to the former US Postal team physician Dr. Luis Garcia del Moral at the Sports Institute of Valencia in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sotyred.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9196575&amp;post=756&amp;subd=sotyred&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How to clean your bike</title>
		<link>http://sotyred.wordpress.com/2011/01/17/how-to-clean-your-bike/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jan 2011 20:50:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SoTyred</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This blog from the London Cyclist will tell you just about everything you will ever need to know about cleaning your bike &#8211; including what not to do!  And as every roadie knows if your bike isn’t 15 percent cleaner than when you bought it, you are a slovenly ne’er-do-well who cannot be trusted. http://www.londoncyclist.co.uk/maintenance/bike-clean/<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sotyred.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9196575&amp;post=754&amp;subd=sotyred&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cycle events for 2011</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[So that&#8217;s the main events for this year sorted out, just need to find something for May and August: 26 March &#8211; Cambridge to Shoeburyness Starting in Cambridge, this 74 mile on road bike rides takes you through the beautiful Cambridgeshire countryside, through the villages of Great Shelford, the stunning Finchingfield and Rettendon. With various [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sotyred.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9196575&amp;post=741&amp;subd=sotyred&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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