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Great, cheers. Similar set up to Calshot then, but saying that I last went there about 5 years ago!
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Stupid question? Maybe.
Attending the track training at Herne Hill this Saturday. Does anyone know if I simply bring along a pedal spanner to put my pedals onto one of their track hacks?
Cheers!
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Whilst out on a (geared) ride a few months back, I approached an old chap pushing his fixed bike up a nasty hill, when I drew level with him I said that if I had a gear like that I'd also be walking up the hill. I think he actually appreciated the fact that I knew he was on a fixed!
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Rassmussen has to attack. With another TT of similar length left, this time pancake flat, there's no way he can keep the 1 minute gap to Evans, let alone anyone else.
Really hoping that Evans has a bad day in the next 3 days, I laid the sh1t out of him on BetFair at the start of the Tour.
Saying that, I might go and lay him a bit more :0)
Big up to Vinokourov, and a great ride by Wiggins in what looked like wetter conditions (apart from the start apparently).
Anyone see the motorbike wipe out after 30 yards?? Brilliant!
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Well perhaps they should have pulled the listing from one guy in the week who was selling an old Peugeot with a postage cost of £100! Unsurprisingly (although with a few hours to go as I didn't see the auction end I admit) there was just one bid of 99p.
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Doesn't seem to work at the mo :0p
Looks good though!
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Hmmm, completed a track induction at Calshot around 5 years ago during a training session with Glendene CC, but have nothing to prove this! I assume my word would not be good enough??
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Used to be a starch Eurosport fan back in the day (starting with Mssrs Duffield and Roche) but now prefer the magazine style program that ITV show - quick run down of the previous day, rider interviews, etc. Some of the emailed-in questions are a bit gay but I can quickly ignore them!
The final nail in the coffin was Eurosport showing about 40 seconds of Millars break on Sunday with included ZERO footage of any of the main climbs of the day.
Will still probably watch Eurosport live at the weekends though.
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Trouble is, towns pay top dollar (or is that Euros?) to host a stage finish. They're not exactly going to want it to finish miles outside town on some dual carriageway bypass shit.
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World = small place etc.
DId I try to run you over in a green Mini Cooper? (a proper one, none of this BMW wank). If I did, I apologise, I was in a hurry to get home to see the finish!!
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You're way too fucking rock and roll for your own good, Brett!
Bike Ok?
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Was also in Goudhurst, the atmosphere was buzzing!
Got a few pics here, I'm the gimp in the London-Canterbury Cyclosportive tee. No shots of Millar, me being the doofus I am, I only worked out how to use the camera once the breakaway had passed.
Fecking well annoyed with Eurosport, they showed about 4.81 seconds of Millar's break, nothing of the other climbs of the day. Short of streaking down Goudhurst high street I was trying me fecking hardest to get on the tele!
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Great stuff!
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Hippy, WTF are trousers??
I'll get me coat.
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I'll be in Goudhurst, plan to get there at 12pm. The caravan passes through at 12:15pm, followed by the riders at around 1:45-2pm.
Should be the busiest spot on the day!
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The most perfect day? Yeah right.
The Tour is in town. So what has the missus got planned for me?
7:30am: wake up and feed the boy (don't mind)
9am: wash the car and cut the grass (don't mind)
12pm: Go out for the afternoon to see all her friends (yeah, MIND!)
6:30pm: get home just as the prologue had finished (see 12pm)Just gotta dodge the radio/tv news/text messages all afternoon so I can sit down to the highlights show in the evening with a couple of tins.
How much hope do I have of not finding out the result? I think the words 'Bob' and 'No' spring to mind....
Enjoy it all you lucky, lucky bastards.
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Beaten to it by 37 seconds!
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As said above, Italian BB cups both tighten clockwise, therefore the drive side should get a good tightening from the pedalling motion. So just locktite the l/s otherwise you'll never get the driveside one out again (unless you want to damage things), and just use plenty of elbow grease for the r/s.
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As above really, although both Tom Simpson books are good ('Put Me Back On My Bike' and 'Mr Tom: The True Story Of Tom Simpson').
Currently reading the Matt Rendell Marco Pantani book.
Which leads me on to something else, I've got a copy of the Ray Pascoe Tom Simpson DVD if anyone would like to borrow it. Or indeed, both Tommy Simpson books, or The Graeme Obree Story, or even French Revolutions (if Brett gets off his arse and actually reads it).
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Could well be up for this, on my Brompton!
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Oh dear!
Although it looks like I'm overtaking him, he's (probably) just undertaken me!
My brother offered his hand to shake it, I think I just punched him instead.
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"You ever been in a cockpit before?"
"No sir, I've never been up in a plane before."
"You ever seen a grown man naked?"
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Think I'll be there (spectating). Not too far from me anyway!