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^^ cool fakt.
to be fair we didnt actually summit Zas on bikes. did take a scooter up to the carpark and walked up on a different day. the local goats climbing the cliffs all had bells on playing a surreally beautiful "goat music" as they hopped around eating sticks and spikey plants.
what kept you in feta and mythos whilst working on naxos?
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pearson 150 was really good, with the exception of two things:
1) headwind for the whole second half, particularly when along the really exposed ridge out of brighton
^ this.
I grossly overestimated how fast I could get around this. despite clocking a respectable time to the top of the beacon, I didnt take on as much fluid as I should have. compounded no doubt by the ten or so pints and pub mac and cheese for dinner the day before - I caught a bad case of the whippersnapper that gets chased down by the old boys.
I nearly got blown off my bike/the road coming down devil's dyke, and realising I was in for a massive solo effort into that wind I latched onto two chaps who were going for gold. Eventually the tall one that looked like Lars Back shed me going up an incline, and shortly afterwards I started cramping in both sides of my right quad.
I ended up with a poo time, but finished (at one stage I thought I was destined for a ride in the broom). Importantly, I think I learnt some important lessons about my metabolism - like how much shoving massive food in my mouth at a stop can impact my capacity absorb fluids (and even take them on).
Didnt see you jim - unless you were the guy with the tri-colour grey/green jersey and the black helmet / gunmetal bike. Did meet a nice chap named Mark who beat me round the course by one and a half cups of tea.
Shout out to the busdriver who pulled out on, and nearly flattened, me and the guy riding my back wheel about 800m from home - then grew a halo when I gave him the salt-shaker-salute.
A lot of very expensive bikes/wheels out there. Plus some nice smiles from everyone made it a good day out.
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Likewise to Benj's post...
Anyone doing the Pearson 150 tomorrow? Should be fun (other thab aformentioned turd weather). There's still places if people fancy a good Sunday ride to Brighton and back tomorrow.
I'll be doing it. hoping to hit 4.5 hours (dreaming) for the course.
I'll be the guy on a blue mercian (or de rosa if it's raining) with a bmx helmet and no form. Say hai (or dont if you're too embarrased).
I'll be riding out of west(ish) london tomorrow morning to the start. what time are you going to go down?
Alex
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Here's the Pearson 150 on bike route toaster.
There's one absolutely magical section of about 2 miles where they recently widened and resurfaced a farm road into something wide enough and flat enough to be a motorway. It's so good, it's almost surreal.
route starts at marsden hospital in surrey.
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299 BIN Dan Shotton. pretty bike.
![](http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/MzQwWDQ1MA==/$(KGrHqF,!oEE9ggNEJjwBPqpULpw5g~~60_12.JPG)
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grappling very hard with reasons not to try and buy this. someone tell me why I dont really want it...
![](http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/NzY4WDEwMjQ=/$(KGrHqFHJCsE905hZH!KBPoS3CVcew~~60_12.JPG)
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Lot of winter bike for onefiddy.
MERIDA ROAD BIKE XL
Link: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/MERIDA-ROAD-BIKE-XL-/251050900829
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oh yeahhhhhhhh!
http://www.segundamano.es/ceuta/colnago-bititan-titanio-decor-cuadro/a34323394/?ca=8_s&st=a&c=16Why couldn't that be bigger.
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I bawlked at a complete one of these in the perfect size for me at a pittance earlier this week. rationalised I could have spent the time travelling to pick it up working instead and therefore bought something nicer
but I think this might appeal to some
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Colnago CLX 2.0
pretty good price for a high spec 2011 carbon roadyLink: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Colnago-CLX-2-0-Road-Bike-extras-/251040974703
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Absolute bargain
Be quick
Link: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/VINTAGE-RALEIGH-EUROPA-ROAD-BIKE-/200746870264
Snigger
Unthanks you very lots.