#5846

8k cal of pizza and beer though

#5847

your speed over these distances is going up and up

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#5848

Just commented to my dad about that. He’s very impressed @plasticniki and wants to be updated of your PBP ride. You have a new fan

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#5849

this was flat, tho…

#5850

anyway. we nearly did a sub-16 hour 300.

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#5851

Absolutely livid they’ve called this the hereward the wake audax and it doesn’t even go to ely. Ffs.

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#5852

Im afraid you’re going to have to try again.

Immediately.

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#5853

I’m a bit of a lurker in this thread and only catch up infrequently, but feel the need to say that I have a 2016 Croix de Fer and I absolutely love it. Would be great to hear how you get on. What tyres are you going with?

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#5854

what are some good cycling books please? (as usual, can’t be bothered to search, sorry).

Pro cycling yes, but I do like Bryson style travelogues as well, I can’t help it. (sorry again)

#5855

Have you read the tim moore tour, giro and iron curtain books?

#5856

Tour yes, I have Giro on the kindle ready to go but not started.

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#5857

This is well good

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#5858

Giro ones the best.

Iron curtain one is well worth reading too if you like his style.

#5859

I did like the Tour one, but being familiar with France a lot of the tales I could tell were…embellished (putting it kindly), more so than with your usual travel writer.

I’ll try the Giro and report back :+1:

#5860

I think I have this one on the kindle too :roll_eyes:
somebody bought a load of cheap books to read on holiday last year and didn’t get round to it.

#5861

Ok so in answer to your question - read the many cycling books you already have.

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#5862
  • Christophe Bassons book
  • The book by Alisdair Fotheringham about the 1998 TdF
  • William Fotheringham’s book about Bernard Hinault
  • you may have read it, but Slaying the Badger is great
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#5863

When I was young I used to live in Cambridge. I owned a bike. One Sunday morning I woke up and decided on a whim to go for a ride. I set off, with nothing on me but a bike and my keys. About half way to Ely it started raining. When I got to Ely it was raining and I was hungry. But I didn’t have any money. So I stayed hungry. On the way back I ruined the jeans I was wearing (no mudguards).

Great story.

Fuck Ely.

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#5864

Good. Typical cambridge arrogance, thinking you can ride to ely and back without ruining your jeans.

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#5865

This is a Tour de Force. @harru, read this mate

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