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- 27 Jul 2019 07:43
- Forum: Pro Racing
- Topic: le Tour
- Replies: 9
- Views: 17705
le Tour
Is anyone interested ??????
- 11 Feb 2019 15:35
- Forum: Club Runs
- Topic: 184 mph on a bike
- Replies: 1
- Views: 6995
184 mph on a bike
I've just been reading an article in Octane magazine about a successful attempt on the world cycling speed record during which Denise Mueller-Korenek raised to record to 183.932mph/296.01kph. The writer of the article states that "Mueller-Korenek knew it would be practically impossible to accelerate...
- 09 Sep 2018 07:41
- Forum: Time Trials
- Topic: 2018 Time Trial Calendar - Open TTs, Club TTs, Team TTs and Hill Climbs
- Replies: 54
- Views: 173458
Re: 2018 Time Trial Calendar - Open TTs, Club TTs, Team TTs and Hill Climbs
I realise that I have left it rather late but what time does the hill climb start this morning ? I assume that it is the usual venue, namely Great Farley Woods.
- 20 Aug 2018 11:50
- Forum: Club Runs
- Topic: Club runs - 26th August
- Replies: 10
- Views: 9979
Re: Club runs - 26th August
Matt Clegg, who's back from Utrecht after a year away,
Matt, During your travels did you by any chance encounter Dr. Stabismus (whom God preserve) of Utrecht.
Matt, During your travels did you by any chance encounter Dr. Stabismus (whom God preserve) of Utrecht.
- 30 Jul 2018 21:14
- Forum: Pro Racing
- Topic: Tour de France
- Replies: 11
- Views: 19335
Re: Tour de France
Has anybody noticed that this Welsh chappy gas won the Tour de France. Wouldn't it be a good idea for the cycling community to get themselves organised and all vote for Gee when the Sportsview Personality of the Year selection comes round. I thing that most will agree with me that it's all a load of...
- 30 Jul 2018 21:04
- Forum: Cafe Stop
- Topic: Cycling in Croatia (Split)?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 7664
Re: Cycling in Croatia (Split)?
Laurence, this was a long time ago and the guy with the gun was security at Split airport. I had a bag of about 40 films and I asked if he could hand check it. He refused and told me to put it through the x-ray m/c. If there had been a problem seeing something in the bag the operator would just incr...
- 29 Jul 2018 13:42
- Forum: Cafe Stop
- Topic: Cycling in Croatia (Split)?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 7664
Re: Cycling in Croatia (Split)?
Anne and I flew to Split with bikes and had a great time on the islands of Brac, Korcula and Hvar. We didn't find the natives particularly friendly particularly when they tried to rip us off. I had to adopt my American persona on occasions. On one occasion when I was trying to negotiate a deal on a ...
- 21 Jul 2018 15:24
- Forum: Cafe Stop
- Topic: Cycling in Tuscany
- Replies: 4
- Views: 6639
Re: Cycling in Tuscany
Hi Ian, I know Tuscany quite well having been to the area several times. It's difficult to offer advice not knowing what you are looking for, do you want to visit the main attractions such as Florence, Pisa and so on. Alternatively do you want to tour and find interesting villages, hotels and restau...
- 16 Jul 2018 10:15
- Forum: Pro Racing
- Topic: Tour de France
- Replies: 11
- Views: 19335
Re: Tour de France
Dave, I agree absolutely with what you have said but would add that now that Chris Froome has been exonerated from any wrongdoing let's move on.
There are a lot of new names in the peleton and I think that the future of our sport hasn't looked brighter for more than 20 years.
There are a lot of new names in the peleton and I think that the future of our sport hasn't looked brighter for more than 20 years.
- 12 Jul 2018 15:58
- Forum: Pro Racing
- Topic: Tour de France
- Replies: 11
- Views: 19335
Tour de France
Is anyone following the Tour de France.
- 05 Jun 2018 11:13
- Forum: Technical Talk
- Topic: Bike Fit
- Replies: 27
- Views: 26576
Re: Bike Fit
The whole concept is new to me but has anyone tried the Boardman setup at Evesham. Interesting and worth a visit. They are at the Evesham Garden Centre at the northern end of the Evesham bypass.
- 01 Feb 2018 17:52
- Forum: Club News & Events
- Topic: Velodrome
- Replies: 57
- Views: 64727
Re: Velodrome
Dave. Am I demonstrating what you describe as "the sheer selfishness of the human condition" when, having been diagnosed as suffering from a life limiting condition I am denied treatment and medication because there is not the cash available. There is a drug which could improve my situation but it's...
- 01 Feb 2018 10:12
- Forum: Club News & Events
- Topic: Velodrome
- Replies: 57
- Views: 64727
Re: Velodrome
On a more constructive vein than my last posting. The original Skol 6 track was installed at Wembley. It was then re-erected in a corner of the Cycle Show in Earls Court. I believe that this is the same track at Newport. I could be wrong about the Newport location but that is as I understand the sit...
- 01 Feb 2018 10:04
- Forum: Club News & Events
- Topic: Velodrome
- Replies: 57
- Views: 64727
Re: Velodrome
Tim and anyone who thinks that spending a vast sum of money funding the Commonwealth Games is a good idea. Birmingham is broke, skint, borasic they have no money, the cupboard is bare. What else can I say. I have a condition which after extensive and expensive tests at The Priory I was referred to a...
- 23 Jan 2018 14:30
- Forum: Club News & Events
- Topic: Velodrome
- Replies: 57
- Views: 64727
Re: Velodrome
Pete, You've said it all there. I think that the UK has 3 UCI standard velodromes, why spend money which the country can not afford on another vanity project. When Anne and I go to the ROH Covent Garden we travel down by a morning train and catch an early evening train back. An evening performance r...
- 21 Jan 2018 10:41
- Forum: Club Runs
- Topic: Club runs - 21st January
- Replies: 19
- Views: 15812
Re: Club runs - 21st January
The irony is that I've spent my entire life being largely undeterred by snow, continuing to ride on my ordinary winter road bike. Nowadays I have a bike with studded 34mm tyres and 30mm mudguard clearances... but fear I've reached too fragile an age to take any chances. George My knowledge of Latin ...
- 15 Jan 2018 16:00
- Forum: Club News & Events
- Topic: Velodrome
- Replies: 57
- Views: 64727
Re: Velodrome
The bid was made with London as the venue for track cycling not Birmingham. [/quote] Another con !!!!!!!!!!!! The host city is Birmingham. For those who don't understand it's B I R M I N G H A M not L O N D O N. I've always been opposed to things like the Olympic games but the Commonwealth Games are...
- 05 Dec 2017 16:46
- Forum: Club News & Events
- Topic: Jeff Gould
- Replies: 8
- Views: 9325
Re: Jeff Gould
I have many memories of Jeff and Jean in the early '60s. One of which is spending a wet Saturday afternoon in their flat in Stoke Newington listening to Richard Burton's "Under Milk Wood". Jeff introduced me to the work of Dylan Thomas and that is only one reason to have fond memories of the Beacon ...
- 23 Nov 2017 12:24
- Forum: Club Runs
- Topic: Club run ideas for 2018
- Replies: 10
- Views: 11813
Re: Club run ideas for 2017
Alan,
Why not in February. The A38 will be much quieter than in mid-summer and it's what we did 50/60 years ago.
Why not in February. The A38 will be much quieter than in mid-summer and it's what we did 50/60 years ago.
- 24 Oct 2017 18:46
- Forum: Cafe Stop
- Topic: Belgium campsite and accommodation recommendations
- Replies: 8
- Views: 7973
Re: Belgium campsite and accommodation recommendations
the last rights ................last rites surely. ( At my age one gets rather pedantic about such things)
I can recommend a camp site at Baale Nassau.
I clearly remember staying there, well fairly clearly due to the large quantity of genever consumed. It was in 1969.
I can recommend a camp site at Baale Nassau.
I clearly remember staying there, well fairly clearly due to the large quantity of genever consumed. It was in 1969.
- 26 Sep 2017 18:22
- Forum: Audaxes & Cyclosportives
- Topic: Velo Birmingham Closed Road Sportive
- Replies: 52
- Views: 143858
Re: Velo Birmingham Closed Road Sportive
Pete,
I thought that I was the only one in the world, nay the universe who thought this.
Totally agree
I thought that I was the only one in the world, nay the universe who thought this.
Totally agree
- 14 Sep 2017 18:32
- Forum: Time Trials
- Topic: hill climbchampionship Sat 17th Sept RESULTS
- Replies: 9
- Views: 9169
Re: hill climbchampionship Sat 17th Sept
Alan You have forgotten the two most important club championships namely the Conker Championship and the Penny Putting Championship. I can understand a certain amount of confusion regarding the Penny Putting, do the regulations state whether it had to be old pennies or these new fangled new pence. F...
- 08 Sep 2017 14:33
- Forum: Audaxes & Cyclosportives
- Topic: Velo Birmingham Closed Road Sportive
- Replies: 52
- Views: 143858
Re: Velo Birmingham Closed Road Sportive
I've just looked at the list of road closures in Worcestershire which are published in this weeks freebie newspaper. The whole thing is going to be a PR disaster as far as cycling is concerned.
- 08 Sep 2017 07:21
- Forum: Audaxes & Cyclosportives
- Topic: Velo Birmingham Closed Road Sportive
- Replies: 52
- Views: 143858
Re: Velo Birmingham Closed Road Sportive
Am I missing something ?
Why pay a hundred quid to ride roads on a Sunday when one can cycle the very same roads the previous day for nothing and spend the money saved on a rather good lunch ?
Why pay a hundred quid to ride roads on a Sunday when one can cycle the very same roads the previous day for nothing and spend the money saved on a rather good lunch ?
- 07 Jul 2017 18:36
- Forum: Pro Racing
- Topic: Tour SPOILER
- Replies: 14
- Views: 17422
Re: Tour SPOILER
My error I should have said sprint stage. Dave, Track sprinting is rather different to road sprinting. I'll give you a clue $$$$$$$$ $£££££££££££££££££ €€€€€€€€€€€ As for playing right up to the rules, Is there anyone out there who doesn't do just that when filling in there income tax return. :D :D ...
- 06 Jul 2017 13:36
- Forum: Pro Racing
- Topic: Tour SPOILER
- Replies: 14
- Views: 17422
Re: Tour SPOILER
I'm watching today stage on the tele and I understand that the lawyers have now got involved. The claim is that it was a "racing incident". My arse it was. Tim, As far as penalising Arnaud Demare. Arnaud is FRENCH. His team is FRENCH. It's the Tour de FRANCE. The stage was in FRANCE. FRANCE hasn't h...
- 06 Jul 2017 12:37
- Forum: Pro Racing
- Topic: Tour SPOILER
- Replies: 14
- Views: 17422
Re: Tour SPOILER
There's no doubt in my mind that Peter Sagan should have been thrown off le Tour. He would have known where Cav was and that one way of stopping him coming through was to come down on him and to stick his elbow out. I have great respect for PS as a rider but in just about every other respect I find ...
- 01 Jul 2017 06:22
- Forum: Pro Racing
- Topic: TdF Early Predictions?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 13295
Re: TdF Early Predictions?
Pete,
Without being political after what's been happening in the world over the last few weeks and months you could be right on all counts !!!!!
Without being political after what's been happening in the world over the last few weeks and months you could be right on all counts !!!!!
- 15 Jun 2017 09:20
- Forum: Cafe Stop
- Topic: Clent Incident 14/06/2017 -
- Replies: 9
- Views: 8384
Re: Clent Incident 14/06/2017 -
Philip,
I agree absolutely with you the only problem is that nothing is done until some poor innocent sod is killed.
I agree absolutely with you the only problem is that nothing is done until some poor innocent sod is killed.
- 15 Jun 2017 09:15
- Forum: Cafe Stop
- Topic: Clent Incident 14/06/2017 -
- Replies: 9
- Views: 8384
Re: Clent Incident 14/06/2017 -
Why am I not surprised at this. From long experience there are two types of vehicles that I always try to avoid. 1/ Black Range Rovers particularly if they have darken windows. 2/ 30 something women in large BMWs. As I have said I have found that there is a fair chance that the person behind the whe...
- 05 Jun 2017 20:10
- Forum: Cafe Stop
- Topic: Graham Webb 1944-2017
- Replies: 3
- Views: 6727
Re: Graham Webb 1944-2017
Another Graham Webb anecdote. It involves another Webb, Tony this time. At this point I will say that Tony can tell the story much better than I but the gist of it is the time that Tony signed on at a race in Belgium or Holland. This was shortly after GW had become world road champion. After appendi...
- 04 Jun 2017 14:14
- Forum: Cafe Stop
- Topic: Graham Webb 1944-2017
- Replies: 3
- Views: 6727
Re: Graham Webb 1944-2017
Sad news indeed. I have many memories of Graham but one stands out. It was the Ivy Wheelers "30" many years ago. GW was my minute man and as we waited to start I said to Graham "When I catch you I don't want you hanging on to my back wheel" :lol: To which he replied "You'll not XXXXXXX catch me" Do ...
- 17 Apr 2017 18:50
- Forum: Club News & Events
- Topic: Beacon Little Mountain Time Trial
- Replies: 29
- Views: 21399
- 08 Apr 2017 09:24
- Forum: Time Trials
- Topic: K8 10T
- Replies: 5
- Views: 7155
The road was 'improved', some years ago,to make it safer, with hatchings in places preventing overtaking. I used to marshal some events there, and i think the consensus was that the improvements had actually made itmore dangerous for time'trialling. A far cry from the 1950's when the A449 was a sin...
- 14 Mar 2017 07:47
- Forum: Beacon Road / Track / CycloCross Racing
- Topic: Road/circuit race reports 2017
- Replies: 79
- Views: 109042
- 04 Mar 2017 18:45
- Forum: Pro Racing
- Topic: Jess Varnish
- Replies: 0
- Views: 7185
Jess Varnish
In view of the fact that British Cycling and Team Sky are right up to their necks in the smelly stuff, wouldn't it be a good PR exercise to reinstate Jess Varnish into the development programme ?
- 15 Feb 2017 09:27
- Forum: Beacon Road / Track / CycloCross Racing
- Topic: Blast from the past
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5578
OK, OK yes I did forget the link, just being a bit of a drama king, building up suspense. (Note that lack of sexism there?) https://spinwell.wordpress.com/tag/race/page/9/ Dave Dave, I've just found this, brings back memories. I remember racing at Handsworth Park in the 60s. There were also a lot o...
- 09 Jan 2017 09:12
- Forum: Cafe Stop
- Topic: Something completely different
- Replies: 0
- Views: 2825
Something completely different
In view of the fact that the weather forecasting wallahs are predicting the end of civilisation as we know it, from a meteorological perspective that is, there is something which might be of interest to those with an interest in photography. This week Smethwick Photographic Society are holding their...
- 10 Dec 2016 11:25
- Forum: Club News & Events
- Topic: Volunteer Deficit - Any advice?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 6125
My village in France has a fete day every year. It starts around midday with aperitifs in the village hall followed by a 3 hour lunch. At 15:00 everyone decamps to watch the Course Cycliste. For the first few years Anne and I tried to help in any way but we were told that everything was organised an...
- 26 Oct 2016 14:02
- Forum: Club Runs
- Topic: 'Cycling Weekly' Club run
- Replies: 61
- Views: 190032
- 26 Oct 2016 11:25
- Forum: Club Runs
- Topic: 'Cycling Weekly' Club run
- Replies: 61
- Views: 190032
- 26 Oct 2016 08:41
- Forum: Club Runs
- Topic: 'Cycling Weekly' Club run
- Replies: 61
- Views: 190032
Might I make a couple of observations. 1/ A freelance journo is interested in selling an article not necessarily promoting the Beacon RCC The next article he produces could be about breeding canaries or the ethnic diversity on the Isle of Wright. 2/ Cycling magazine is interested in printing an arti...
- 04 Oct 2016 19:24
- Forum: Audaxes & Cyclosportives
- Topic: Velo Birmingham Closed Road Sportive
- Replies: 52
- Views: 143858
Putting aside the Marmite qualities that divides opinion, I thought it would be interesting to examine the process required for the road closures. In summary: - The legislation providing authority to conduct the event is Road Traffic Regulations Act 1984. - Velobirmingham will need to meet the loca...
- 17 Aug 2016 12:36
- Forum: Club Runs
- Topic: Club runs - 21st August
- Replies: 17
- Views: 14617
Following a request yesterday, we will see a return to matters philosophical and intellectual during cafe stop discussions. Phil Richards and club run participants will discuss Renaissance Mathematics . As with so many areas of European thought, mathematics in the Renaissance was a question of reco...
- 16 Aug 2016 10:03
- Forum: Pro Racing
- Topic: SPOILER Omnium
- Replies: 3
- Views: 8852
Re: SPOILER Omnium
So should Cav have been disqualified? I think yes, I thought he would have been, but if yes so should Viviani for identical maneuver into the French guy, who just saw him coming and managed to move. So many laps and the type of racing I'm amazed there aren't more crashes Great race anyway. Cav lost...
- 07 Aug 2016 13:33
- Forum: Pro Racing
- Topic: European road championships Nice
- Replies: 1
- Views: 7827
Re: European road championships Nice
I see the road championships in Nice have been cancelled due to security fears, which where meant to take place next month. Did anyone notice that many/most of the access roads which led on to the TdeF finishing circuit in Paris had a large truck parked cross to prevent vehicular access to the circ...
- 02 Aug 2016 09:17
- Forum: Audaxes & Cyclosportives
- Topic: 2016 Prudential RideLondon-Surrey 100
- Replies: 29
- Views: 26920
- 01 Aug 2016 14:38
- Forum: Audaxes & Cyclosportives
- Topic: 2016 Prudential RideLondon-Surrey 100
- Replies: 29
- Views: 26920
James, your observations don't surprise me at all. For the last 2 or 3 years I have been working on a project photographing cyclo-cross events and the level of rudeness and aggression directed at me has been, sadly, unbelievable. These were without exception events in the UK. At one event a youth sa...
- 15 Jul 2016 10:06
- Forum: Beacon Road / Track / CycloCross Racing
- Topic: Dave Hughes Road Race successes
- Replies: 12
- Views: 7932
- 07 Jan 2016 17:53
- Forum: Cafe Stop
- Topic: Unemployed
- Replies: 10
- Views: 8253