Tourmalet today...

A few snaps from cafevelo's photo album to get you in the mood for tour de France stage 9, which features the double-billing of Col du Tourmalet...







...and Col d'Aspin




Enjoy the stage. To follow the action online, visit www.cyclingfans.com

Eggs beaten, rebuild kit required

Crank Brothers candy pedals have given up after 5 years. Right one fell off last weekend.

Time for a rebuild.

Howies t-shirt of the week

Cafevelo is all set for summer.

Photo shoot: British road cycling championships 2009

And the winner is...

House wins the national championships after epic race in Wales [Cycling Weekly]

Rob Hayles bags Southend win

Photo shoot: Tour series, Southend, UK

A stage, a ship and a rider...



Riders heading for the start...



Off they go...



It's over, who won?



Team Halfords Bikehut...on the line!



Tour series champions!!!

Petal power

www.riversidegardencentre.com

Lane lowdown: Lower Failand

impRSSive

RSS junkies will love the INQ1's feed widget. Scrolling cycling news on the go. Perfecto.

Lane lowdown: South Widcombe

Whoooooooooooosh...

www.nocturneseries.com/smithfield/

Beans by Backstedt

All proceeds from Magnus Backstedt's mail order range of coffee help fund team Cyclesport.se-MagnusMaximusCoffee.com. So, if you want to support riders from Sweden, the UK and USA, then drink up.

Right: 500g of Viking blend

[Update 1] It's Monday morning and the beans have passed the (stove top) espresso test with flying colours, but how will they get on with milk? Tune in tomorrow to find out.

[Update 2] Cafe latte gets top marks. Happy to try cappuccino format too if anyone's got a deluxe coffee machine going spare.

Cycling pix: file under photos

The RSS revolution rolls on. Get the full picture by adding photo feeds to your RSS reader. See David Millar win the Edinburgh Nocturne, Emma Pooley breaking away, all the action from the UK's Tour Series city centre bike races, portrait shots of the stars of cycling, snaps from the Giro d'Italia and more.

Andy v1.2

Dan Barham

Ken Conley

Jered Gruber (PEZ)

François Hogue photostream

Simon Keitch photography blog

Simon Keitch photostream

Chiara Lalli photostream

RAPHA's photostream

SRAM photostream

VeloDramatic

Koen Verlinden photostream

The Pixel Mer©hant (Geoff Waugh)

No RSS feeds for the following, but well worth a visit to admire the lenswork -

Carson Blume

Timm Kölln

Camille J McMillan

Fallen apples revisited

Cider insider

Cafevelo's taste testers wasted no time in checking out new cider on the block, "fallen apples". Dry, but not too dry, this tipple should have mass appeal. Get yourselves down to Bristol's Tobacco factory to find out more.

Bike shops of the world: Brighton, UK

Sydney Street Bikes, North Laine

Freedom Bikes, Kemp Town

Sunrise Cycles, Seafront

(More) RSS feeds at your fingertips

Hincape, Zabriskie, Basso, Leipheimer, Landis and more...all on RSS

Check out - http://mashable.com/2009/02/26/twitter-cyclists/

[update] And it gets better...to the tune of 653 cycling related feeds -

http://www.bikebiz.com/news/29866/Bike-trade-tweeters

RSS feeds at your fingertips

Got a mac and love cycling? Then download Newsfire. The time is now!



Here are some RSS feeds to get you started -

PezCyclingNews.com
http://www.pezcyclingnews.com/include/rss.asp

RoadCyclingUK
http://www.roadcyclinguk.com/news/rss.asp

Road Magazine
http://www.roadmagazine.net/rss.php

Cyclingnews.com
http://www.triton.studver.uu.nl/cyclingnews/rss.php

Rouleur
http://www.rouleur.cc/news?format=feed&type=rss

Cycling Weekly
http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/feeds/rss/news.xml

BikeRadar.com
http://feeds2.feedburner.com/BikeRadar/Road

VeloNews
http://www.velonews.com/feed

BBC Sport, Cycling
http://newsrss.bbc.co.uk/rss/sportonline_uk_edition/other_sports/cycling/rss.xml

Team Garmin-Slipstream
http://www.slipstreamsports.com/feed

Yahoo! Eurosport - Cycling
http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/eurosport/tickerdb/sport/18.xml

Road.cc
http://road.cc/all/feed

SRAM Road Diaries
http://www.theroaddiaries.com/?feed=rss2

Twitter / lancearmstrong
http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/16727535.rss

Culinary Competitor Blog
http://feeds.feedburner.com/CulinaryCompetitorBlog

Telegraph - Cycling Listings
http://rss.blogs.telegraph.co.uk/rest/svcLeague?action=getLeagueContent&nodeID=201610&contentType=blog_post&RSS=1&name=Cycling

Virtualmusette.com
http://www.thevirtualmusette.com/posts/rss.xml

cafevelo
http://cafevelo.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss

Twitter / mcewenrobbie
http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/22127864.rss

Twitter / Danfleeman
http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/19583833.rss

Feel free to drop any others in the comments box...grazie

Chips with that?

Today, laptops are as much a part of cafe culture as coffee and panini, which gives cafevelo the perfect excuse to write about IT. Check this...ever fancied upgrading the RAM on your iBook G4? Cafevelo finally bit the bullet after seeing way too much pizza wheel...



...and got hands on with a mighty useful slab of silicon that goes by the name of KTA-PBG4333/1G. The geek in Fabio is alive and strong!

First things first, disconnect the battery and then you're ready to lift up the bonnet.



Here, Maplin's £1 multi-driver gets top marks for unscrewing the RAM plate.



Ease in the memory chips.



And reverse your steps by screwing down the RAM plate, putting the Airport card back in position and reconnecting the antenna - job done.



Did it work? YES...phew.



Worth the hassle? DEFINITELY.

We've just fired up a whole stack of applications and no sign of the pizza wheel ; )

Bike shops of the world - Florence, Italy

Liquid lunch

Fabio's favourite?

Number 1: Business as usual

To discover yours, visit:

www.derbybrewing.co.uk

Bike tarp: 9 days in July

Bivvy bags for the riders, tarpaulin for the bikes.

Zen and the art of...

When your rear hub decides to freewheel in BOTH directions, it's time for a spot of servicing. Enjoy the photo story.

Photo shoot: Super C saddlebag

Unwrapped and snapped, enjoy the pix.

Route 10 out of 10

To download a route map, visit the Sustrans website.

Cupset upset

Five years of singlespeeding takes its toll on cafevelo's bottom headset cup. Top marks to Zero G for having a replacement 1" headset in stock.

Top top

Lane lowdown: Tormarton, UK

Spin cycle: wash 'n ride 2009

Menu of champions: campagnola

Don't fancy turkey this Christmas? Try pizza.

26 miles of pain ends here