Tag: crazy
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Faster! Faster!
How can I get faster? This is a general topic for discussion whenever a group of cyclists get together, and this is true of any conversation held on our club rides out to the countryside. Various topics are discussed first, like circling the drain, with an inevitable ending point – how can I get faster?…
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LBL and still chilling
A Brigther? London – Brighton – London I can’t for the life of me comprehend why one would want to ride to Brighton and back. That was until, riding to Brighton one sunny morning and making the unwise decision to return by coach; I saw the all too familiar sight of cyclists weaving through the Sunday traffic and getting…
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Pure Gold
World Champion, Michal Kwiatkowski – can he win at Amstel Gold in Rainbow Colours on Sunday? Image credit to Michal Kwiatkowski Episode 2 of the Spring classics kicks off this Sunday in the form of the Dutch Classic, the Amstel Gold. We were all witnesses to the incredible scenes of Episode 1. At the start…
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The Rescue Plan
The Rescue Project – a woman’s plan to rescue our best friends (images via The Rescue Project) Athletes with a love for animals I don’t know if you’ve ever been lucky enough to be brought up with, or around animals. From my earliest memories, we had dogs, cats, chickens, and goats as companions. Not your usual…
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3 Reasons why DEGE rules the Classics
DEGE has an excellent diet… DEGE’s too cool for hats, he wears cycling caps… DEGE knows that bicycles are almost as good as guitars for meeting girls Congratulations, DEGE. You rule the Classics 🙂 NB. DEGE has won a Classic or two, just like a famous Irish Cycling icon. *All images via John ‘DEGE’…
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What makes a Classic, a Classic?
The Family Baroudeur at Roubaix – images by Rob ‘Crazy Legs’ and Denis ‘The Gunner’ It’s that time of year again! The Monuments are rolling by this spring. E3, done, Gent-Wevelgem, completed, Sanremo, sorted. Flanders, fulfilled. What could possibly wrap up the Classics Season in style? Pars-Roubaix, naturally. Last week I was asked why did I…
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Ronde Van Vlaanderen Ride Report
Will ‘The Red Baron’ on RVV 2015 “We begin in Oudennarde…” …I tell my brother and his three less experienced cyclist friends that it’ll be fine. We are after all only riding the last 80 or so miles of the course. Surrounded by pretty much every Western European nationality, Belgians, Germans, French, Dutch, Spaniards and…
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Fla-Fla-Flanders
Time Travel is possible in Flanders – Image, courtesy of ‘CyclinginFlanders’ 19 Climbs on Cobbles. 264KM and it loops back! Lost in the thrill of it all; one can easily get carried away with arguably the most popular/greatest one day race of them all, ‘The Tour of Flanders’. Better known in the region and amongst hardy…
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The Spartacus Monument
Spartacus may be out of the Classics, but he’s in for a Monument! Just to remind you who we’re talking about… https://youtu.be/j7xjsPqHg3o It’s no accident we wear ‘red’. Get well soon Fabu!
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Life Paint
Fizz This Fizz. That’s the sound of a life being saved. I heard it, or should I say, saw it take place on an ad to help save lives. Nothing unusual about that, except it comes from a car manufacturer, Volvo. Nice, if not no surprise, there. Tonight, maybe one more cyclist will be safer, and…
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Audax-cious
Audax Spotting – but not as you know it You’re right, ‘Audax-cious’ is a funny word. It is in fact a combination of two very genuine words: ‘Audax’ and ‘Audacious!’ The latter you know as a way of rising to a challenge. The former is an organised cycling event where people prove themselves to be ‘Audax’ (audacious)…
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The Fourth Grand Tour
The Big Deal As we quickly approach April, with all the order, and mayhem, that comes with clock-changes; we also welcome back the ‘Flanders Fields’ that signals Pro racing in the northern hemisphere. Described as the ‘Fourth Grand Tour’, in that there’s a race almost every other day, just like a GT of the Giro, Tour…
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Milano Sanremo 2015
Milano-Sanremo 1992, Sean Kelly nips Moreno Argentin to the line The Risk of Being Alive One day it’s cold, dark and wet. You wake up the next day, and it’s the same. In fact it goes on like this week after week, and month after month. You risk it and go out for a ride…
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My Cornwall
Let’s Get Out There For any bike rider who has spent time in London will appreciate the monotony of lapping Regents and Richmond park, along with the excitement that sells up inside you at the mere prospect of being able to get out into the countryside…New countryside no less! One catch, London to…
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The Icemen Cometh
Keeping the Winter at bay Riding to King’s Lynn is an fascinating journey. A mix of: suburbs; sharp-climbs through north London; open roads, seemingly used only by cyclists; quintessential English villages; emptiness and gales that want to knock you off your bike. Add to this freezing conditions that create snowflakes to your eyelashes. Icing up your…
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Bootie Power
With or without your Booties When in doubt, bling it out! There are booties, and there are ‘booties’. Before you reach for your phone and call out “discrimination”, just bear in mind we’re talking about what’s on your feet, not your behind. Velotoze is a new kind of bootie. Firstly, there’s no zip, nor velcro in…
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It never happened
Ouch! That’s gonna hurt. John pulls over and discovers he’s lost metres, forgot to record them, on his bike computer. The disaster isn’t physical; it’s virtual. Justified Self It’s something that happens often and isn’t confined to cycling only. Debbie recently acquired a Garmin which she used on the Berlin Skate marathon. The monitoring chip distributed…
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Baroudeurs in Roubaix
Our Christmas party and 5th Year Anniversary had lots of surprises. One of them included this: A special thanks to all the London Baroudeurs and the Cowbells. Great work, everyone!
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Biblical Herts and Heroes
Weather Bomb, ba-bomb, bomb, bomb It’s Sunday; there’s 6 of us; it’s a little wet; how bad can it get? Pretty bad from what I recall. Meeting up with DC was the easy part, but clearly the communication needs some tweaking. Daddy Cool rolls up in his blue-fixie, only to discover that I’m on gears, with mudguards.…
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Access your city
I drove the car on the weekend and loved it. It shrunk the distance to our destination, kept us together, keeping warm, and was convenient for getting us back from the party. So what’s the problem with having a car in London? Perhaps there isn’t one, but there is a growing concern about sharing the…
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We Noel a good party
We want to say a big thank you for everyone making it to the Baroudeur Christmas/5th Year anniversary party. It was a terrific night celebrating both team and individual accomplishment. A special thanks to everyone’s significant others, Baroudeurs who were here in spirit, and to Look Mum No Hands for hosting the party. This is…