What Amateur Sport is All About

[Smokin Joe]

My type of guy, loads of guts, no glory but a true cyclist -

https://www.cyclingweekly.com/news/...ove-box-one-farmers-national-hill-climb-story

 

[Ian H]

I think that is the same person who rode our hill-climb a few years ago. A bit of a character.

 

[Ian H]

I think that is the same person who rode our hill-climb a few years ago. A bit of a character.

No it isn't. There's more than one of them about.
Mr Rowe

 

[DCLane]

He'll probably be doing the Old Shoe in Wales this year in exactly the same way - https://www.cyclingtimetrials.org.uk/race-details/23349

We'll be there

 

[Toshiba Boy]

They make 'em tough down here in West Zummerzet, especially the Exmoor farmers

 

[Ming the Merciless]

They make 'em tough down here in West Zummerzet, especially the Exmoor farmers

Exmare is in Zummerzet?

 

[ColinJ]

Exmare is in Zummerzet?

That surprised me when I cycled over it... Most of it - yes!

The rest of it is North Devon.

 

[Toshiba Boy]

Exmare is in Zummerzet?

Indeed, about two-thirds of it. Most people think of Somerset being the levels they drive through on the M5 on their way down to Devon and Cornwall. Some of the toughest climbs in the country here in West Somerset

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Indeed, about two-thirds of it. Most people think of Somerset being the levels they drive through on the M5 on their way down to Devon and Cornwall. Some of the toughest climbs in the country here in West Somerset

I always thought it was Devon. Well there you go, learn something new every day.

 

[cougie uk]

Blimey 8 hours of driving for under 5 minutes of hell. Rather him than me !

 

[Toshiba Boy]

I always thought it was Devon. Well there you go, learn something new every day.

Ming, before I moved down here 16 years ago (being a Midlands boy) I thought exactly the same.