My Tour de France
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Re: My Tour de France
Postby toolonglegs » Sat Jan 26, 2013 5:30 pm
Foo, lights are pointless as it is too hard to see the black ice in the dark ... Bloody hard to see it during the day sometime too!. After last year's (idiotic) 6 hour ride at -15 I have got a bit more sensible with what I will ride in .
I will have to research the stem cap a bit... The aim is to get a tt frame soon and convert my System6 back into a training bike so I will have two identical frames geometries... Then just save this one for racing etc... I read somewhere someone makes a half size cap somewhere. As I think it needs a bit of flex in there..
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Re: My Tour de France
Postby foo on patrol » Sat Jan 26, 2013 6:24 pm
Foo
Goal 6000km
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Re: My Tour de France
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Re: My Tour de France
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Re: My Tour de France
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Re: My Tour de France
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Re: My Tour de France
Postby toolonglegs » Mon Feb 18, 2013 7:33 am
1570 grams bare... should be about 2100 glued up... looking forward to giving them a hammering, flattish courses only of course ... he is going to make me some light weight 38's or 50's for the big hills that will double for CX next season .
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Re: My Tour de France
Postby toolonglegs » Mon Mar 04, 2013 9:37 am
Going to be a good year .
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Re: My Tour de France
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Re: My Tour de France
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Re: My Tour de France
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Re: My Tour de France
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Re: My Tour de France
Postby twizzle » Tue Mar 05, 2013 4:58 pm
...real cyclists don't have squeaky chains...
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Re: My Tour de France
Postby toolonglegs » Tue Mar 05, 2013 5:08 pm
Plus weight really does matter in cyclocross where all the hills are 10 to 45 % ... running tubular CX wheels will drop me over a kilo on the set up I ran last season.
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Re: My Tour de France
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Re: My Tour de France
Postby toolonglegs » Thu Mar 07, 2013 7:14 pm
Spring is finally arriving and wouldn't you know it... I am sick .
Pretty chuffed with my big thighs in this pic though only meters before crossing the line... I lead out the sprint solo from way out of sight in this photo, pretty good up hill till the last 100 meters and only one person got round me ( he is on the left out of the frame )... haven't hardly done any sprint training this year yet . I am very well marked in sprints for some reason... maybe the free ride you get sitting behind me? .
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Re: My Tour de France
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Re: My Tour de France
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Re: My Tour de France
Postby toolonglegs » Tue Apr 09, 2013 5:38 am
Bloody hard work this soigneur gig though... 10 eighteen hour days in a row .
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Re: My Tour de France
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Re: My Tour de France
Postby toolonglegs » Tue Apr 09, 2013 2:58 pm
I was originally going to be the mechanic but glad I didn't as I enjoyed my soigneur roll much more.
Got lots of iPhone snaps... Will put them up soon.
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Re: My Tour de France
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Re: My Tour de France
Postby toolonglegs » Tue Apr 09, 2013 3:27 pm
Nah, no medical programs... I did spend a lot of time outside the Anti-dopage caravan though waiting for riders to pee . Sometimes that took up to 75 minutes . Having the leaders jersey from day 2 to the finish made it a lot more work... but no one was complaining too much .
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Re: My Tour de France
Postby toolonglegs » Tue Apr 09, 2013 5:25 pm
Building bikes 1
Building bikes 2
Heading out for leg stretch
Casablanca
Leg stretch
Sardine can
Day 1
Team USA lol
Day 1... number 1... not sure how we managed that
Depart day 1
Team CMI
Depart day one 2
On the road 1
flat for now
Phil at work
glamorous pool pic
hotel view
Depart day 2
The first of many black clouds...
quick stop after the "depart fictif"... just before the real start
after day 2
Mathieu after day 2... 180kms, 4000 m and 7 minute lead
Day 3
Med coast was spectacular...
But never flat!
Hotel were usually 4 or 5 star
up on the plateau
day 3 neutralized section ...
the wind was horrendous... we did the feeding!
Day 3 ... and in yellow
Day 3
Pretty
more pretty
Mechanicing by the pool
One of many podiums for our equipe
Day 3
Day 3 ... last day of the huge transfers
Day 3
Day 3 protest ... wind was so bad that riders and motorbikes were getting blown off the road... neutralized for 20 kms after this and aloud to sit behind the cars, but then a huge storm blew in and everyone got on the buses and bikes on the trucks, aim was to go to 60 kms to go and restart... but one of the trucks carrying the bikes rolled on a descent in the rain... luckily I picked the right truck to put the bikes on, Cristina Watche's Colnago's came off the worst... so the did the 3 staff in the truck, but they were all out of hospital that night... Africa!
Protest time
hiding from the wind
Day 3
Day 4 .... rain
More rain an greasy diesel covered roads
More rain... and my cockpit for the day ( keeping note of breakaways and time gaps )
yet more rain...
a brief dry spot
Horrendous conditions at altitude in heavy rain and thick fog... 15 riders abandoned, some due to hypothermia... a truely horrible 180kms!
Mathieu ... yellow and polka dot
Mathieu and Torku stage winner
DS sleeping with 20 k's to go
More pretty
and more...
Lots of podium time
Maroc
More great weather
waking up to pouring rain
oh the joy
rain...
Sun.... but always windy!
Up high
great roads!
even more pretty
Dirt
Podium
more dirt
school kids
dirt, sun & wind
sheep
depart.... day ? ... was all a blur by then
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