Friday Night Ride to....Paris-Brest-Paris

[User482]

Vive le Frank!

 

[Aperitif]

Quick update to confirm that Rimas has been renamed Remus on two different threads by two different people!

Apparently he did it on a Velib...

 

[Mice]

Wayhayyyyyy Frank has finished it!!! Brilliant Brilliant

Well done Sir!

M

 

[Mice]

Les Stats du Frank

Depart SAINT-QUENTIN-EN-YVELINES Sunday 21-08 19:39hrs
Arrive SAINT-QUENTIN-EN-YVELINES Wednesday 24-08 16:42hrs
Total Kilomètres parcourus: 1230 Total hours 69h02

Chapeau! Chapeau!

That was so exciting!

Now looking out for Els and Louise.

M

 

[deckertim]

Wayhayyyyyy Frank has finished it!!! Brilliant Brilliant

Well done Sir!

M

Chapeux to both Frank and Remus.

 

[User10571]

COMEONLOUISEANDELS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!​

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*Uttered in a manner that only those who were near me at this year's Smithfield Nocturne will understand.*​

 

[Aperitif]

COMEONLOUISEANDELS!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!​

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*Uttered in a manner that only those who were near me at this year's Smithfield Nocturne will understand.*​

Fully understood - it takes one to ken one.

'Hummers' has broken into song.... 1230kms under his belt.

 

[StuartG]

Louise is now in VILLAINES-LA-JUHEL. Els shouldn't be far behind ...

Oooops mistyped the number! Not quite there yet.

 

[User10571]

Louise in Villaines-la-Juhel five minutes ago!!! 220km to go and just over 20hrs in which to do it!!!

 

[StuartG]

Els got in at 18/19:03 ...

 

[Mice]

Els has just tweeted

"Over 1000 done. Celebrating with a Kronenbourg."



Bravo and Cheers to you Els!! (I cant tweet back!)

And onwards for Louise.

Really impressive, both of you.

M

 

[dellzeqq]

Els has just tweeted

"Over 1000 done. Celebrating with a Kronenbourg."



Bravo and Cheers to you Els!! (I cant tweet back!)

And onwards for Louise.

Really impressive, both of you.

M

once a Belgian...........

 

[PpPete]

once a Belgian...........

Muppetry !
Kronenbourg is Alsatian not Belgian

 

[dellzeqq]

Muppetry !
Kronenbourg is Alsatian not Belgian

I was just thinking beer.........

 

[Aperitif]

Muppetry !
Kronenbourg is Alsatian not Belgian

Ideal 'hair of the dog' then, Pete!

I'm going to quote a bit of book at this juncture:
It comes from a book by Chris Sidwells and it's called 'A Race For Madmen', a history of The Tour de France. (Haven't finished it yet - form an orderly queue...) It is from the first page and continues...

"The noise of a racer's feet scrapes out of the darkness as he drags his bike to a halt outside Fougeres in eastern Brittany. It's September 1891, the racer is Charles Terront, one of 206 pedalling pioneers who set out from Paris nearly two days ago. They are racing non-stop from the French capital to Brest, the Atlantic port at the tip of the Breton peninsula, and back to Paris again, a distance of 1200 kilometres.
Fougeres is a control town. Terront must stop at a lamplit huddle of officials, have his race card marked with the official stamp, then hurtle off into the night again. Six hours will pass before his nearest rival, Jaques Jiel-Laval, arrives here, and Terront will be even further ahead by the time he reaches Paris, where he will win in a time of 71 hours and 22 minutes.
...Ninety-nine riders finished Paris-Brest-Paris behind Terront, the slowest only just beating the cut-off time of ten days, but that wasn't the point. The important thing for Giffard (Pierre Giffard the race organiser) was that they all came through unscathed, confounding prevailing medical opinion that human beings trying to cover such huge distances by their own power would damage themselves and maybe even die."

nice to be a part of history I reckon...