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Fignon's Ponytail
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I have exactly the same problem! Bike?...paddle board?....bike?....paddle board?....
Madafwo
I'm probably being facetious.
- Nov 11, 2013
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Fignon's Ponytail
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Got to feel for Roglic in Paris-Nice....in the lead by 50+ secs going into the final day - crashes, dislocates his shoulder, pops it back in, crashes again, changes bike, and ends up finishing 3 mins down & outside the top 10.
Sensational finish to the race this year.
And as for MVDP over in the Tirreno Adriatico....absolute MACHINE.
Pogacar looking incredibly good though so far this season, & could be on for a decent defense of his TDF title.
Sensational finish to the race this year.
And as for MVDP over in the Tirreno Adriatico....absolute MACHINE.
Pogacar looking incredibly good though so far this season, & could be on for a decent defense of his TDF title.
1066familyman
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- Jan 15, 2008
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Fignon's Ponytail
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Desperately sad news this morning. One of the industry's finest gone too soon.
Another Sussex / Brighton based company that produces stunning machines.
Another Sussex / Brighton based company that produces stunning machines.
Fignon's Ponytail
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Volta e Catalunya starts today...a beautiful stage race.
Will be interesting to see how the Yates boys do against each other - but the start list is a "who's who" of climbing talent. Carthy, Woods, Martin, Kuss, Soler, Almeida, Carapaz, Kelderman, G, and Quintana to name but a few.
Should be superb.
Will be interesting to see how the Yates boys do against each other - but the start list is a "who's who" of climbing talent. Carthy, Woods, Martin, Kuss, Soler, Almeida, Carapaz, Kelderman, G, and Quintana to name but a few.
Should be superb.
Fignon's Ponytail
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Looks like we will have to wait another year before we see the Hell of the North again, as its highly unlikely the race will be on in a couple of weeks time due to a big surge of Covid in the region.
Fignon's Ponytail
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That Wout van Aert is a bit useful isnt he? Superb edition of Gent Wevelgem yesterday. Would love to head out to Flanders one year to ride the area forever linked to the "bergs & beer".
Not sure I would get up many of them after a few Duvals - but would be fun trying
Great to see Adam Yates top of the pile in the Volta a Catalunya too, as well as G picking up a decent podium place. Certainly looks to have better form right now than hes shown the last 2 seasons.
Not sure I would get up many of them after a few Duvals - but would be fun trying
Great to see Adam Yates top of the pile in the Volta a Catalunya too, as well as G picking up a decent podium place. Certainly looks to have better form right now than hes shown the last 2 seasons.
Fignon's Ponytail
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BTW - posted this on the book thread last week, and thought it was worth sticking here for any readers amongst us riders....well worth getting.
Riding in the Zone Rouge by Tom Isitt...."Circuit des Champs de Bataille".
A remarkable true story of a cycling race that was held (just the once as it was so tough) around the battlefields of WWI just 6 months after the guns ceased firing....organised by a French newspaper which needed something to boost reader numbers to pre-war levels.
Over 80 riders started, but the horrendous weather and lack of proper "roads" meant many gave up en route. Many riders were also ex Belgian & French soldiers that had only just been released from service after fighting in the same areas as they were now competing.
Extraordinary to read how they went through the Somme etc. past burnt out tanks, bombed out towns, makeshift grave sites etc...basically still "no-go zones", whilst riding approx 200km stages every day that could take up to 21 hours in some cases...with no assistance allowed, and one 5 minute official break along the way each day. Just horrific.
An excellent read so far. The author rode the route himself in 2016, so you get a first hand account of his ride, the facts and records of the actual race, interspersed with "scenes" that he has imagined may have happened.
And I thought riding the potholed lanes of Sussex in a damp winter were bad....
Riding in the Zone Rouge by Tom Isitt...."Circuit des Champs de Bataille".
A remarkable true story of a cycling race that was held (just the once as it was so tough) around the battlefields of WWI just 6 months after the guns ceased firing....organised by a French newspaper which needed something to boost reader numbers to pre-war levels.
Over 80 riders started, but the horrendous weather and lack of proper "roads" meant many gave up en route. Many riders were also ex Belgian & French soldiers that had only just been released from service after fighting in the same areas as they were now competing.
Extraordinary to read how they went through the Somme etc. past burnt out tanks, bombed out towns, makeshift grave sites etc...basically still "no-go zones", whilst riding approx 200km stages every day that could take up to 21 hours in some cases...with no assistance allowed, and one 5 minute official break along the way each day. Just horrific.
An excellent read so far. The author rode the route himself in 2016, so you get a first hand account of his ride, the facts and records of the actual race, interspersed with "scenes" that he has imagined may have happened.
And I thought riding the potholed lanes of Sussex in a damp winter were bad....
1066familyman
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- Jan 15, 2008
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I remember the good old days when I used to talk to myself on here about races.
Good to see someone else keeping the tradition alive
Good to see someone else keeping the tradition alive
Fignon's Ponytail
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I remember the good old days when I used to talk to myself on here about races.
Good to see someone else keeping the tradition alive
I do keep hoping it might ignite some sort of conversation....
1066familyman
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- Jan 15, 2008
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I do keep hoping it might ignite some sort of conversation....
You'll be lucky on here. I took my chat on such matters elsewhere long ago.
Fignon's Ponytail
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Do tell...wouldn't mind some cycling chat somewhere else as there seems to be FA interest on here these days!
1066familyman
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- Jan 15, 2008
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1066familyman
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- Jan 15, 2008
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That Wout van Aert is a bit useful isnt he? Superb edition of Gent Wevelgem yesterday. Would love to head out to Flanders one year to ride the area forever linked to the "bergs & beer".
Not sure I would get up many of them after a few Duvals - but would be fun trying
Great to see Adam Yates top of the pile in the Volta a Catalunya too, as well as G picking up a decent podium place. Certainly looks to have better form right now than hes shown the last 2 seasons.
Myself and another NSC'er have ridden both the GV and E3 Harelbeke sportives. I can thoroughly recommend both, especially E3. The GV one is not really worth doing the full length, unless you're set on killing yourself in the wind up to the coast and back. The short version still gives you both ascents of the Kemmelberg and the other bergs in Heuvelland. But in E3 you basically get a mini Tour of Flanders parcours but without the extra cost and huge crowds.
banjo
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I’m too busy trying to think up fish puns on other threads than talk about cycling.
maresfield seagull
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- May 23, 2006
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Bike repair vouchers More just been released
Oh bollox.
AITC haven't got the funding to run the BTEC course they had accepted jnr on too.
A bit shoddy but what can you do?
I'm just about to tell him his main motivation in life has just vanished.
Wish me luck.
AITC haven't got the funding to run the BTEC course they had accepted jnr on too.
A bit shoddy but what can you do?
I'm just about to tell him his main motivation in life has just vanished.
Wish me luck.