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Love the visual twists and the tight focus shooting. Really clean piece of work.

Via the fantantically dapper 00o00 blog

Via @mattseaton and Nowness.

Matt is still waiting on his Marcelo (I forget whether it was that or a Responsorium he was getting), which he was sure he'd see by summer when I asked him about it at Herne Hill before Christmas. You can't really hurry these things though, can you?

He's known round our house as "Wee Bert Contador" on account of someone once describing him as "that wee lad who rides with Armstrong" last year.

2010 is going to be a bugger of a year for him if you believe some of the more partisan pieces of criticism of him, such as these two beauties from Versus:

Armstrong vs Contador - Wisdom vs Knowledge - Joe Parkin

Mass Exodus Leaves Team Astana in Shambles - Bob Roll

I can see where Joe is going with his piece, not that I entirely agree. Bob's I've gone long on salt with. Cyclocosm has done a great analysis, thus saving me the typing: Versus' War on Contador.

Which leaves me more time to marvel at the wheels on Wee Bert's new ride in Specialized's promo reel (neat use of CC subtitling btw) which I clocked over on Bianchista

De-badged Zipp 1080s is my guess. An utterly preposterous wheel to be be out on a training ride on. But he's Wee Bert, so he can get away with it.

I really hope he gets to this year's TDF in full form and without all the ball-ache of 2009. Not easy when co-habiting with Vino in a Kazakh team, but it can't be any worse than last year is supposed to have been, can it?

Ooooh to the eeM to the Gee!

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Here's a short Youtube clip from yesterday's stage 21 finish in Paris on Les Champs Elysees. We were in the press area up near the 100 metre board and I've never been so excited to be at a bike race.

Didn't see the mistake by Garmin or "Big" George Hincapie derailing their effort to break the Columbia train along Rue Rivoli but Cavendish's gap as they passed us was outrageous, at least ten metres and still growing.

Video never quite communicates just how fast they are travelling. It's only when the team cars come screaming past that you realise how insanely fast the peloton is travelling.

They cruise at the same speed that plenty of people descend big hills, faster than my flat out sprinting in a Tuesday night crit race.

Will try and get my photos from the Tour D'Honneur up later today. Annoyingly we had to leave before Garmin, Saxo Bank, Liquigas and Astana did their lap but I did get a great shot of Lance on his Damien Hirst.