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Idea? My only video on the trip around GB. You can tell, I think. My first and only YouTube upload. Recorded the climb on Strava - look at the contours! 2,000ft in 6 miles. Middle cog up to 4.4 miles, then I crest the shoulder and it's only then th…
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Transport 09:52 train from Baldock gets in at 11:08 or via KK at 11:25. 15 min walk from the station. Means you don't need to drive. Just a thought. PS - My Olympic & Paralympic book / coverage of the Games.
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Good to catch up with you, put some names to faces. I was tempted to join you for a meal and chat some more, but I want a ride in the mid-morning and I foresaw the beer goggles getting an outing if I lingered!
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Can this be completed on Strava? I will not be riding oft' with CCA, but can prove the mileage via Strava. Will this still count since I will be able to prove the daily mileage? I re-commence my 'round GB ride at Ipswich on the 26th Dec for a week…
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He's in his 50's. Sean: You personally rode an average of 132.69 miles a day for a straight 26 days, 3,450 miles. How was your body after this endeavour? I am thinking about my own rides and my own recent mileage (5,500-ish thus far) and thinking …
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? That's a HUGE ask of the body. Every day. No disrespect, but doing one action, cycling, for 205 miles a day, every day, for a year, RSI will creep in. What, I wonder, are your thoughts? I note that the CCA have removed the Audax section of this …
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Gaining the 500 badge sounds like it might potentially create some friction on the Home Front. Club cycling can be viewed from "outside" as a somewhat selfish activity by those not riding, so it will be interesting to see whom, if anyone can, be Bad…
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44 miles, but the sun went in after 13:30, good visibility, dry with 10mph winds, but it's all good training after all. Roads are in a poor state but with 38 section tyres, you can take liberties not encouraged by 23/25 tyres, plus it's harder graft…
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Tim. Darnit!I was going to join you but it's thick fog up here in Roe Green, can't see 75m, so will take my exercise when the murk clears .
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A sign of our times Geoff, when the NHS tells us that a Gastric By-Pass is a wholly acceptable & cheaper option than the genuine spectre of the ever mounting bill that is the care for the tsunami of Type 2 diabetes patients (& the associated …
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Since you have given a link from The Daily Torygraph : Telegraph, there being two sides to every debate. Next year: eat according to your blood type, I'm sure others have had similar life-changing experiences on that too as this is is not a polemic. …
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There is a theory that we are meant for the "long haul", not speed, but being able to manage long distances such that we can hunt down prey for food. That is why we, along with horses, have sweat glands covering our entire body (as opposed to animals…
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Here Pics are on several SD cards, this is only one thus far. Back to the thread...
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Not the club with whom he rode. I am only suggesting, were numbers not filled, he be given an opportunity. I will chaperone him gladly, though I can not keep his rear wheel in sight once he "goes"! PS - working on the CCA Clan meet at Le Grand Depa…
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Can I invite a V promising youth rider, non-club, should the numbers not work out? James joined his local mtn bike club earlier this year, finally, and won the invitation open day, everything. I have been badgering his father to get James into a clu…
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Thanks. I've been in touch with James, but until I have some issues resolved, am going to miss this round, but will endeavour to join you in a future round soon. Aside from anything else, I have to learn to dismount on the non-drive side, something…
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One fly in the ointment being...."(a) judging panel of Hertfordshire County Council Members", that well known international photographic jury. If you know anything about (any) county council decision making, or have any direct experience of such co…
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Still trying to clip-out smoothly from Candy or SPD's without tying my legs in a Granny knott, likewise the remount in one movement, my crown jewels do not like the look of this swift remount at all! Think I'll start at the very rear of the field an…
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Dropbox link This link should take you to the Dropbox folder where I am hoping to upload 1x pdf per day of my bike ride around Britain. There are four thus far, including two existing pdf's which may hold an image or two to consider (?). I will con…
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Thinking about riding my 1st CX event, on the mtn bike, this being the most obvious choice of event in which to dip my toe. Being in my 50's, I was a little confused with whom I would be racing against and if I can buy a ride on the day. Thoughts? …
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Dave's Book Shop survives and thrives against all odds, quite a trick to pull off in today's economic climate, selling books, vinyl records and a cuppa, plus evening talks such as this. I am already booked in.
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All Small images. No2. Hill. All Small Images No1 Hill Climb Download at your leisure. Thanks for the kind comments. I am away Monday- Tuesday pm.
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Hill Climb No1 pdf. Perhaps the best things is, should there be any images you wish to have in this pdf, email me your request(s). My email in the upper L corner of the pdf. Tell me the size, S, M or full sized & I will email you back the pictu…
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Ha! America next. Trying to decide just where, as it's a huge country, likely starting in the south in Jan / Feb'. I want to tie the images into a theme, along the lines of the American Road Trip, with a litteral historical start point being " The A…
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After yesterday's trail ride up Chalk Hill, on thighs that were, in hindsight, less than fully warmed through, resulting in a reemergence of an old quad' injury, I will, on Sunday, bring my cameras along and get one reasonable shot per rider per hill…
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I rode the first one, maybe 8yrs ago, though it wasn't in Thetford, somewhere on Salisbury Plain, the weaker half of a Men's Vets Pairs team. That then spawned several years riding M.Mayhem, Bonty 24 (my favourite), Sleepless, Kielder 100 & other…
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It being a winter hack, do you need 23/25? Why not sacrifice some speed, or the perception of "some speed' and buy a slightly wider tyre, perhaps a 30 (?) just for the extra confidence it brings with it, which after all is a valuable asset on winter…
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Exit Baldock going out towards the dual carriageway, Tescos on your R, and behind you, out towards the A1(M) southbound junction & Letchworth. As the homes finish on the left, in the 40mph zone but prior to the George pub, that's where the first …
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I feel very confident with my own Vittoria tyres, though mine are 38's! eBay purchase, 2nd hand and I have put on 4000 miles since then, so I feel confident in recommending them.
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OK. If I have uploaded to Flickr, should this also not be perfectly possible? I am clearly missing things here, so please, enlighten me further. It's odd, but just this time away, and woking with an iPad Mini and iPhone whilst away, my MacBookPro no…