Category: Ride Reports
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Baroudeur Big Ride – October 2012
The clocks are going back an hour to mark the return of Greenwich Mean Time. Everyone is excited, including the news-readers, as most people in the UK have an extra hour in bed! That is, everyone except me. The Baroudeur Big Ride returns, and despite the nippy weather, the ride is always much fun. I…
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Ride of the Falling Leaves
Taking on the Ride Of The Falling Leaves (ROTFL) is an ever popular event that takes in some of the best Kent has on offer. It commences a week on from the legendary ‘Giro di Lombardia’ of northern Italy. This British escapade is a tribute to that ride. Organised by the friendly parish of the…
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New Forest Epic
I’d done this New Forest ride before, but it was new to DC and Disco. It was also to be our first 80mile+ ride of the year so far – an uncomfortable fact with Nustu’s logistics indicating some very big miles in the Pyrenees this summer… Early rising all round led to the inevitable very…
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Hell of the North
I had hoped to provide a feast of images to illustrate Rapha’s third annual Hell of the North ride yesterday; but in the event I was too busy hanging on to both wheels and my own handlebars. Wheels, because my instinct is always to ride just that little bit faster than I’m capable of sustaining,…
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Sydenham Wheelers Reliability Ride
This morning was the annual Sydenham Wheelers Reliability Ride. The name alone should have flagged up the need for organisation, resourcefulness, grit. In reality, what transpired was a farce of near tragic proportions. Arriving nearly 40 minutes late after a faffy departure from Dad’s and a journey with many three-point-turns, we were delighted and surprised…