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Pendle 600 really is a cracking ride and is highly recommended. It is a hard ride, no doubt, but rewarding with some great views.
There is also the Pennine 1000 rerunning next year. This uses many of the same roads, with the added bonus of a trip up to Scotland as well. Just hope for better weather this year as it was truly awful this year.
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I haven't stopped thinking about Rufus and their boys since I was told the terrible news.
Carmen was one of life's true superstars. She will be missed hugely by all who knew her.
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I have ridden so little this past few weeks for various reasons. But I managed to get out and ride 90km at a reasonably vigorous pace today.
I decided to take the bike that has the D1 on it and see if it got hot with no load on it. Pleased to say it did not even feel warm at any point.
I am looking forward to giving it a test touring next month, that will be with a SON28, but the pace will be leisurely.
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Magnums as your main food group?
Where do I sign up? I am really, really good at eating ice cream.
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32/32 on our tandem.
Mainly driven by the Rohloff (I believe there are 36 hole variants out there, but they are rare).
Alpine III spokes from memory.
We are a light team (120kg), and work on travelling reasonably light.
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On tap no less.
We have several options for German beer and food here; with the big German school, there is a huge German community in Richmond.
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That is an eye-watering figure. I can not imagine it in a single day - about the highest climbing/distance figure I have ever done in the big mountains is 6700m in 190km and that was a hard day.
Amazing and utterly inspiring.
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Time to go and do something somewhere where they can deal with the numbers and you have a better chance of not having to stop for hours and walk lots and only get to ride 75% of the course!
aukweb.netCool - I will go and check that out. Sounds really good!
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Machine gun nests every 5 miles to deal with cocks with no numbers.
Watching in Kingston in the afternoon, I was shocked by how many of them there was and that they were, largely, riding like cocks. By the afternoon, you had all the slower, wobbly, tired riders coming through (and that is not meant to be patronising - they are the people that the ride is about; I couldn't really give a toss about about those who can ride it in a quick time, I am more interested in those for whom the ride is a real step into the unknown). Anyway, mixing it up with those riders were plenty of cocks with no numbers, who probably only joined the ride in Esher, riding crit style and weaving through the riders. Fuck'em.
Mrs. JB's third RideLondon 100 and she is yet to actually get to ride 100 miles. This year was the worst and after the various crashes, she was diverted (via open roads, with no warning to riders that they were now mixing it up with cars!), no hills at all, and about 25 miles cut off the course. She was so pissed off.
Time to go and do something somewhere where they can deal with the numbers and you have a better chance of not having to stop for hours and walk lots and only get to ride 75% of the course!
Rant over.
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