fancy being our Mallorcan support vehicle over easter?
No monies m9
Scotland could be tempting, friends
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five days in a car with someone she hasn’t met before, has she thought this through properly?
how are we all saying Deceuninck then?
or we just calling them quickstep?
Quickstep because our entire flat has Quickstep flooring and I refuse to believe they’ve left the pro peloton.
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They’ve not left the pro Peloton. Theyre co or secondary sponsors, not the title sponsors. Everyone will call them QS regardless as nobody will CBA to call them Deceuninck-Quick Step
Here’s a thing:
Last year occasionally we were joined on rides by a guy who we suspect isn’t a proper Penge member but instead is just a member of the Facebook group. He was fast and fit in quite well and seemed nice on the surface. HOWEVER. At some point last year on a big bike ride things turned a bit weird. We stopped for some food somewhere and he, well, got a bit racist and was chatting a lot of shit about Tommy Robinson and how the media’s recent depiction of far right rallies in Poland wasn’t accurate (he’s Polish). I got a distinctly racist vibe from him that afternoon and everyone got a bit uncomfortable. Then on the way back through Penge he lost his shit at a close-passing car and started getting violent with the driver and swearing. A terrible look for the rest of us in Penge gear. One of my pals who was cycling nearest him at the time had a go at him, rightly so. Anyway our hope was that he’d go away after this. Which he did. Now he’s reappeared asking to ride with us at the weekend.
This isn’t cycling specific at all, but how the fuck do you tell someone they’re no longer welcome to ride with you? An easy way is to just arrange riding in private but it created cliques and there are already enough in the club.
FFS.
Send him this gif
like in an advert for second hand furniture
“aye, it’s in decent nick”
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Brilliant
Ask him to become a member of the club. If he breaks your club rules, kick him out. Alternatively, tell him he can’t with you until he’s a member due to public liability or some bollocks
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wow
| Stage | Cumulative Distance (km) | Control | Stage Distance (km) | Ascending (m) | climbing per km (m) | Av. Speed (kmh) | Duration (h:m) | Arrival | Break (h:m) | Depart | Control Close | Time In Hand (h:m) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | RAMBOUILLET | 0 | Sun 20:00 | |||||||||
| 1 | 118 | MORTAGNE-AU-PERCHE | 118 | 1117 | 9.5 | 20.0 | 05:52 | Mon 01:52 | 0:45 | Mon 02:37 | Mon 04:48 | 02:56 |
| 2 | 216 | VILLAINES-LA-JUHEL | 99 | 937 | 9.5 | 20.0 | 04:56 | Mon 07:33 | 0:45 | Mon 08:18 | Mon 12:13 | 04:39 |
| 3 | 306 | FOUGÈRES | 89 | 864 | 9.7 | 20.0 | 04:27 | Mon 12:46 | 0:45 | Mon 13:31 | Mon 18:55 | 06:08 |
| 4 | 360 | TINTÉNIAC | 54 | 354 | 6.5 | 20.0 | 02:42 | Mon 16:14 | 0:30 | Mon 16:44 | Mon 22:58 | 06:44 |
| 5 | 445 | LOUDÉAC | 85 | 848 | 10.0 | 18.0 | 04:42 | Mon 21:26 | 5:00 | Tue 02:26 | Tue 05:20 | 07:53 |
| 6 | 521 | CARHAIX | 76 | 810 | 10.6 | 18.0 | 04:14 | Tue 06:41 | 0:45 | Tue 07:26 | Tue 11:04 | 04:22 |
| 7 | 610 | BREST | 89 | 777 | 8.7 | 19.0 | 04:41 | Tue 12:08 | 0:45 | Tue 12:53 | Tue 17:45 | 05:37 |
| 8 | 694 | CARHAIX | 84 | 1077 | 12.9 | 18.0 | 04:38 | Tue 17:31 | 0:45 | Tue 18:16 | Wed 00:01 | 06:29 |
| 9 | 780 | LOUDÉAC | 86 | 961 | 11.2 | 18.0 | 04:46 | Tue 23:03 | 5:00 | Wed 04:03 | Wed 06:28 | 07:25 |
| 10 | 866 | TINTÉNIAC | 87 | 765 | 8.8 | 19.0 | 04:33 | Wed 08:36 | 0:45 | Wed 09:21 | Wed 12:58 | 04:21 |
| 11 | 920 | FOUGÈRES | 54 | 412 | 7.6 | 19.0 | 02:50 | Wed 12:12 | 0:30 | Wed 12:42 | Wed 17:01 | 04:48 |
| 12 | 1009 | VILLAINES-LA-JUHEL | 89 | 955 | 10.7 | 18.0 | 04:56 | Wed 17:38 | 0:45 | Wed 18:23 | Wed 23:41 | 06:02 |
| 13 | 1093 | MORTAGNE AU PERCHE | 84 | 906 | 10.8 | 18.0 | 04:40 | Wed 23:04 | 4:00 | Thu 03:04 | Thu 06:00 | 06:55 |
| 14 | 1171 | DREUX | 77 | 640 | 8.3 | 19.0 | 04:03 | Thu 07:08 | 0:45 | Thu 07:53 | Thu 11:47 | 04:39 |
| 15 | 1215 | RAMBOUILLET | 44 | 299 | 6.8 | 19.0 | 02:19 | Thu 10:13 | Thu 14:00 | 03:46 |
some great bunch of towns and villages on that list
brittany 
So fucking lumpy though.
Went on a holiday near Fougeres once as a kid. Bored out of my mind.
when you can drink beer and that there it is mint
apparently it’s a very big party the whole way 
If you’re not riding.
anyone ever used one of those companies who pick your bike up and ship it overseas?