briztoon wrote:I love the Australian mindset. "You'll be right mate".
Pretty much what I've been thinking, but I don't want to let down the other riders on the tour, being the person at the back holding the group back.
you won't be, in my experience (which is 2 overseas cycling trips now, old hand i am) within every group there's always people of wildly varying abilities, the really fast strong ones, the slower ones and then the even slower ones, i have no doubt you'll find someone to cycle with who is around your ability.
also, if you go to the tour de france on a guided all expenses tour with rider support. . . going over all these famous climbs and cols and wot not. .and you don't cycle, you will absolutely KICK yourself for years to come.
in the following years when the tour goes over the roads, cols, mountains that you could have cycled over, instead of sitting there in front of the telly thinking "i remember the day i rode that mountain" you'll be thinking "i remember the day i could have ridden than but i didn't because. . . ."