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More weather for the committed – Club run report 13th April 2008
By Paul on April 13, 2008
I feel at a slight disadvantage in writing this week’s report as even the most arduous of club runs is going to sound like an outing for year-7 schoolgirls compared to [...]
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Serious mechanicals Sam Dyason represents VCB in the HONC (Hell of the North Cotsworlds)
By Paul on April 5, 2008
Last Sunday, over a thousand cyclists descended on the sleepy, quaint town of Winchcombe, with their fancy and not-so-fancy mountain bikes in tow. This would be the 24th edition of the HONC, an off-road 50K/100K ‘reliability ride’, whose name was first inspired by the Paris-Roubaix race. For those who think that [...]
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A festival of suffering – De Ronde van Vlaanderen/Tour of Flanders
By Paul on April 5, 2008
A festival of suffering
All week we had watched the weather forecast for Flanders shift from ‘OK’ to ‘apocalyptic’ and then to merely ‘unpleasant’. So the soft sunshine that greeted us on the morning of the big day was a nice surprise.
Despite having been woken from about 6.00am onwards by blinged-up Italians clacking down the stairs [...]
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