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« Reply #1410 on: Tuesday, April 29, 2014, 18:58:34 »

I might just have swung myself a place in one of the following cars for the Bath stage in the Tour of Britain! VERY excited!

I managed to swing it a couple of years back,  gives you a whole new view on things.

We were in a VIP car driven by a guy who had ridden to a reasonable standard, his first question to us when we got in the car was 'you don't have anything to do with the UCI or British Cycling do you?' When we said no he turned his radio from official race radio to race control radio which had all the control messages.

I didn't realise how many time checks that are passed to the riders are calculated by using roadside features such as an attractive blonde by a farm entrance!
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« Reply #1411 on: Tuesday, April 29, 2014, 19:55:36 »

Will you be in charge of the sticky water bottles?
Ha, I wish. More likely sat in the back buried under spare wheels.
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« Reply #1412 on: Tuesday, April 29, 2014, 20:03:40 »

Ha, I wish. More likely sat in the back buried under spare wheels.

Can you nick us some??
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« Reply #1413 on: Tuesday, April 29, 2014, 20:03:54 »

I managed to swing it a couple of years back,  gives you a whole new view on things.
I bet. With the in-car coverage you occasionally see on tv it gives you an insight as to what goes on. That's only a fraction of it, I'm sure.
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« Reply #1414 on: Tuesday, April 29, 2014, 20:05:25 »

Can you nick us some??
Bottles? Sure. Wink
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« Reply #1415 on: Tuesday, April 29, 2014, 20:12:59 »

Bottles? Sure. Wink

We managed to blag absolutely nothing.... although did manage to give two buffets a damn good going over!
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« Reply #1416 on: Tuesday, April 29, 2014, 20:18:53 »

Bottles? Sure. Wink

That'll do
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« Reply #1417 on: Thursday, May 1, 2014, 21:29:52 »

cor, this is pretty, and light!
http://www.rosebikes.co.uk/bike/rose-xeon-rs-3500-2014/aid:669601
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« Reply #1418 on: Thursday, May 1, 2014, 21:37:43 »


Had a look at Rose last year at the bike show (still use my Rose pen on site visits! Smiley). 

Fantastic specs, pretty bikes and shit cheap. Was chattering to the guy on the stand about the show bike and he quoted me a price which was seriously about 50% what we thought it was going to be!
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« Reply #1419 on: Thursday, May 1, 2014, 21:56:54 »

...but not a Triban!
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« Reply #1420 on: Friday, May 2, 2014, 06:06:49 »

...but not a Triban!
exactly! very light
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« Reply #1421 on: Friday, May 2, 2014, 21:03:29 »

probably a bit late for it, but a few of us are going for a nice long ride (don't tell sam) tomorrow morning. holler at me if you fancy joining in,
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« Reply #1422 on: Friday, May 2, 2014, 21:03:56 »

also, it'll be interesting to see how i fare having drunk a fair bit of wine
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« Reply #1423 on: Saturday, May 3, 2014, 12:36:22 »

I'm going to hurt tomorrow.
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« Reply #1424 on: Sunday, May 4, 2014, 15:11:33 »

A good day for British cycling.

Froome retains the Tour de Romandie title. Cav wins the last stage of the Tour of Turkey and with it the green jersey and Simon Adam Yates wins overall.
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