- Jul 7, 2003
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For which all us bike commuters are little stars, but we hadn't ridden over The Tourmalet the day before.
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For which all us bike commuters are little stars, but we hadn't ridden over The Tourmalet the day before.
Sorry I did think (just) it was a little strange.I was only kidding, I do recognise that
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You can marvel at [MENTION=3697]sten_super[/MENTION]'s 36 feet of climbing every day.![]()
Never say never Sten, you'll only have to do your commute to work 166.6 times, without stopping, to match climbing the Tourmalet.I'll have you know that the cycle home has a whole 140 feet of climbing!
It is a bit of a bugger when it comes to training though - going from my commute to my first (albeit short) sportive-style ride in Cheltenham was quite a culture shock. Don't think L'Etape is going to be on my agenda any time soon!
Yep. I was imagining it on a dry day throughout - particularly when descending the Tourmalet.
I'll check out my time in a minute - thanks for the heads up. And thanks for your gentle persuasion last year - it set the ball rolling at my end, and I 'gently' persuaded 4 of my friends...but more of that later.
I am, sort of, excited about next year, but hugely envious of you and the holiday that you've built around it. I am a teacher, so bound by school holiday dates - I was grateful that I was given Monday off for travel, but that was as far as it was ever going to go. I also have a wife and two kids (well, late-ish teens) so ten days away in the summer is never going to work.
I am contemplating looking for something different, at a time more convenient.
And well done to you, again. Isn't it time you joined the NSC Geeks Club on Strava?
Seeing IL's post reminds me of a ride I was going to do 3 or 4 years ago, but circumstances changed keeping me off the bike.I am contemplating looking for something different, at a time more convenient.
Seeing IL's post reminds me of a ride I was going to do 3 or 4 years ago, but circumstances changed keeping me off the bike.
I assume it'll be even less convenient but hey:-
http://www.marmot-tours.co.uk/Road-Cycling-Holidays/raid-pyrenean.html
Seeing IL's post reminds me of a ride I was going to do 3 or 4 years ago, but circumstances changed keeping me off the bike.
I assume it'll be even less convenient but hey:-
http://www.marmot-tours.co.uk/Road-Cycling-Holidays/raid-pyrenean.html
It would appear you can also get a lift home in a nee-naa.That looks incredible. Impossible, probably, but brilliant.
Surely it's the marmotte - the biggest of them all!
It would appear you can also get a lift home in a nee-naa.
What's not to love.
Chapeau Pogue Mahone and manintheblackpajamas!
Sounds great, despite the weather. I wonder how many casualties there would have been had it been 39 degrees though?
I've penciled in next week as full strip down, clean and re-grease week, for both bikes.
If I don't tell you what colour bar tape I've just bought, you can all assume both packs were black, right?
When added to the tyres and saddle I've bought, Stat Towers is going to look like an explosion in a celeste factory.Of course it's black. A sensible and logical assumption to make.
Only an idiot would select some other random colour, like, I don't know, celeste or something.