Day 6 and I have started tapering down for the Paris Roubaix sportive on Saturday. Todays distance was a much shorter 76 km from Laon to Caudry via the sleepy Busigny the start of the Paris Roubaix challenge on Saturday. It has gone bitterly cold now but is remaining dry while the rest of France…
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Bourg d’Oisans to Bristol Day 4, a set on Flickr. Day 4 Saulieu to Troyes – 155km Todays ride looked fairly easy – the profile suggested it was all down hill to Troyes – so definitely a stage for the sprinters. How wrong could I have been. The first 40km to Avallon proved to be…
Bourg d’Oisans to Bristol Day 3 , a set on Flickr. Day 3 from Macon to Saulieu – 146km Dave Brailsford would have been proud of me today. I followed his mantra of marginal gains and saved myself 2km by ignoring the GPS system. I saw an old road snaking up the side of the hill…
bourg d’oisans to bristol day 2, a set on Flickr. It was raining when I started off this morning an hour later than planned due to it being the first day of spring. The first 30km were pretty much all up hill peaking at 695m on the Col du Banchet. By the time I had reached the…
bourg d’oisans to bristol day 1, a set on Flickr. Day 1 of my trip from Bourg d’Oisans to Bristol started a day earlier than first planned. With snow due in Bourg d’Oisans on Sunday I decided to get away today and put in a few banker kilometres and a farewell lunch with the family in…
Today was spent servicing the PROMPT D902 for my trip back to Bristol via the Paris Roubaix Challenge. With about 1500 km to cover I have replaced tyres and cables and completed a once over of the bike. Tomorrow will be the first proper test of the panniers that I fitted at the weekend. Unfortunately the weather…
Its not long now until the Paris Roubaix Challenge and I finally got to practice on some cobbles near us in Grenoble. It was a fairly small section just over 10 metres long – pretty straightforward not sure what all the fuss is about really ! Mind you they were a lot flatter than the…
Over the last couple of months we have been talking to Mosquito bikes about helping them out at the Bespoked Bristol show in April. My next thought was how to get there, and a plan was hatched – lets cycle it and not only cycle it but compete in the Paris Roubaix challenge and watch…