The event lasted til gone teatime, then I went home to wait for a pro cycling team manager to call round to sign me up..
50 years later i'm still waiting...
Was I a selfish rotter?
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The event lasted til gone teatime, then I went home to wait for a pro cycling team manager to call round to sign me up..
50 years later i'm still waiting...
Did they not gave shops in the old days
Their were no shops on the countryside course, but i suppose the starving scroungers could have nipped into the fields to munch on potatoes, brussel sprouts and carrots like Bugs Bunny if they wanted to.
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Non, je ne regrette rien..
PS- the scroungers tried to get their own back on me later that year; we'd arranged as a club to ride together from our Leicester clubhouse to a cyclists rally at York (140 miles), but I was the only one who turned up at the start on a beautiful summers day!
They sent a spy to give me lame excuses about why they'd all chickened out, and no doubt they thought i'd back out myself rather than ride alone, but not on your nelly, I simply hopped on me bike and started pedalling and was in York by the evening, Dick Turpin would have been proud of me..
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Yes I vaguely seem to remember there was an option for the nippers and suckling babes to sign up for a shorter distance.
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T4tomo
Legendary Member
It was a Sunday and 10 laps of a 10-mile circuit in the countryside and not a shop or anything in sight.
If people hadn't got the simple commonsense to bring a ruck, stuff 'em, it's not rocket science..
It sounds.like a very boring ride, and you seem well suited to it 🤣
Nah mate, it had the whopping big South Croxton climb on every lap, and as I'm a climber it was my natural environment..
It was only the pancake-flat events that I found to be-
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Dunno bout that mate, and come to think of it there were no females in the event, virginal or otherwise..
PS- seeing as you're obviously a holy man, this verse may interest you which all runners and cyclists should take on board-
"Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one gets the prize? Run in such a way as to get the prize" (Bible: 1 Corinthians 9:24)
Slick
Guru
Dunno bout that mate, and come to think of it there were no females in the event, virginal or otherwise..
PS- seeing as you're obviously a holy man, this verse may interest you which all runners and cyclists should take on board-
"Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one gets the prize? Run in such a way as to get the prize" (Bible: 1 Corinthians 9:24)
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Cyclists should never run, and if they do, it should just be fast enough to evade capture.
Also, see rule 5.
AndyRM
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I was thinking about Blazed.
classic33
Leg End Member
He crossed my mind as well, but he never said he was a member of a cycling club. Especially one that never existed.
Seek help.
derrick
The Glue that binds us together.
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Its 100 miles, you dont need loads of food for a little ride as long as you have water, have done loads of 100 mile rides on not a lot of anything, A good meal the night before and a light breakfast, our group share everything. Dont think i would want to ride with someone so selfish.
Dogtrousers
Kilometre nibbler
Sounds terrible. I wouldn't have entered in the first place.
And if I'd entered by mistake I'd have bailed on the second lap and headed off on my own for a decent ride.
