Tag: cycling
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Happiness and a Bicycle
Hello July! We are delighted to turn the page on the calendar and welcome July 2017. The London Baroudeurs calendar is designed to celebrate team achievements and motivate members for the year ahead. This month we look to fellow Baroudeurs and the Grandest Tour of them all for inspiration. It’s July and it’s Tour de…
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Grant ‘Papa G’
Papa G and Didi the infamous El Diablo Cycling name? Papa G. I obviously had no involvement in it. It’s on account of me being a…. and having loads of kids. It could be worse. Cycling history? Used to take old BMX’s apart and put them back together with my mate Shane as a teenager…
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Una Semana de le Tramuntana, Part 1
The Fabulous Five on tour – with one more joining, to make it the Sensational 6! Baroudeurs on Tour With qualification races for the UCI world championships just around the corner, a group of Baroudeurs upped their training with a week of big miles in the cycling paradise which is Mallorca. Five of us flew…
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I say shut up legs. Do what I tell you to do.
Hello June! We are delighted to turn the page on the calendar and welcome June 2017. The London Baroudeurs calendar is designed to celebrate team achievements and motivate members for the year ahead. This month’s contributor is a hero whose energy transcends all sports – the man who literally formulated the art of the modern…
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Bike Fitting – Swift
Mr Bionic getting hooked up at Swift This is a series of bike fit reviews from members of the club. We hope it will give sound and independent insight so you can enjoy more time on the bike. Fourth in this series we ask Kostas of his experience of the Retul fitting at Swift Cycles,…
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Non-Stop Windsor (with 2 stops)
10 Sweet B’s space That Sunday Rhythm The Club’s WhatsApp group suggests a non-stop Windsor ride for Sunday Morning, setting off from Richmond Park at 8am. A smattering of interest is shown and the forecast promises that rain will clear before departure. The thought of having Sunday afternoon off to sit in the sun is…
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The Tour of Ayrshire, Part 1
space “But I would walk 500 miles (and I would walk 500 more) Just to be the man who walks a thousand miles To fall down at your door – Da da da da (da da da da) Da da da da (da da da da) Da da da dun diddle un diddle un diddle…
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Giro 2017 – Week 1 Video Round up
Described as the most beautiful of all the Grand Tours – Il Giro (image by La Bicicleta News) Pink makes a statement It is suggested, but not substantiated, that ‘blue’ was originally the traditional colour chosen for baby girls, and ‘pink’ was the popular choice for baby boys. Perhaps this goes a long way to…
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The Shoe Set To Change Them All – Part 1
This floor is yours – Jack Lee makes custom moulds for the best fit possible in a cycling shoe Start Dancing Think custom cycling shoes and one name comes to the fore – Adam ‘Hanseeno’ Hansen. At the time of writing, he is racing in the 100th edition of the Giro d’Italia, and on his…
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Life before Strava – did it even happen?
Gone riding and loving it. The conversation revolved around replacing a bike computer. There were the helpful tips and advice you would hope for. Much later in the same conversation, a comment was made along the lines of “I don’t need another piece of equipment that tells me that I belong to a cool cycling…
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The Happiest Boy in Liverpool, maybe the world
Hello May! We are delighted to turn the page on the calendar and welcome May 2017. The London Baroudeurs calendar is designed to celebrate team achievements and motivate us for the year ahead. This month a certain Beatle, John Lennon, shares his experience with us: “When I got the bike I must have been the…
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Herts for Heroes
The team and the results A Favourite Test “North. Swains?” is Baroudeurs shorthand for a 90km route out of North West London via the infamous Swains Lane and interminable A1000 out onto the country lanes of Hertfordshire. It involves the kind of punchy, gnarly mixed profile riding that belies its modest miles and makes this…
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One More Tom
The hardest and the most beautiful Classics Race on the pro-calendar – the Paris-Roubaix, and Tom’s won it 4 times. Here comes the Boonen In the early days there was nowhere to watch live pro-racing . We had very little in the way of choice. So, in the springtime, we’d ride to a little known…
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RVV Tribute 2017
What’s in a name? – Well, these usual suspects. space Roaring Lions The Ronde van Vlaanderan (RVV) is where roaring lions look for cobbles and hard climbs to devour. It is a race day celebrated by half a country. Some would say, the whole country, especially when it rains. It is the pride of Belgium…
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It’s b*ll*cks this race
Hello April! We are delighted to turn the page on the calendar and welcome April 2017. The London Baroudeurs calendar is designed to celebrate team achievements and motivate us for the year ahead. This month former pro-racer, and Rabobank team manager Theo de Rooij, shares his observations with us: “It’s b*ll*cks this race…” Yeah, just…
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Thanks for the feedback
We’ve been given the green light – Image by Baroudeur, Hernan Gonzalez Clot. All Change, Please. All Change. Thanks for the feedback. Having discussed with team members and consulting with stakeholders, we have decided to go ahead with the club name change and ethos. The team will now be known as the London Baroudeurs Pedalbus…
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Mike Hall Tribute
Described as a quietly inspirational man and phenomenal endurance rider, Mike Hall sadly passed away today doing what he loved most outside his family – riding his bike fast. Fellow cyclist, Chris Shue was so inspired by Mike’s adventures, that he put it this way: “By all accounts, he (Mike) was just a ridiculously fast…
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Bicycles that can save the world
Hello March! We are delighted to turn the page on the calendar and welcome March 2017. The London Baroudeurs calendar is designed to celebrate team achievements and motivate us for the year ahead. This month the designer Grant Petersen, shares his wisdom with us: “Think of bicycles as ridable that can just about save the…
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International Women’s Day 2017
Smoke and Arriba, giving it a ‘V’ for the weekend! “Let me tell you what I think of bicycling. I think it has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world. It gives women a feeling of freedom and self-reliance. I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by…
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The Mumbai Mess
One hot country, two slick wheels, and three of the best bike messengers in the world. It can only be lunch time in Mumbai: Video © of WeLoveCycling Films – funny how the team car manages to find a cinematic free-road Three Baroudeurs With three of our very own Baroudeurs returning from a recce in India, it’s…
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Like a Bat out of Hell
Who’s idea was this?! An alarm going off before 7am is barely a pleasant thing on weekday, but when it went off on Sunday 19th Feb, it meant only one thing – a journey through Hell. I won’t let you down The “Hell of the Ashdown” sportive is an annual test of the legs through…