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Must Be The Season of the Mud
The grand tours are over. The smaller races have been pigeon-holed between the end of the season and the first heavy rains.
So it must be the time of year for riders to be training for cross rides. So what's up Doc? |
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Must Be The Season of the Mud
Tom Kunich a écrit profondement:
| The grand tours are over. The smaller races have been pigeon-holed | between the end of the season and the first heavy rains. | So it must be the time of year for riders to be training for cross | rides. | So what's up Doc? Well most noticably, there's Paris-Tours (Or Tours-Paris, depending upon which way they run it but strangely never change the name) and Tour of Lombardy. And we're lucky that at least a large part of the "old time high end" calendar is still reasonably intact. But I can remember, as a lad headquartered in Antibes, being able to race every day in a race paying reasonable prizes and within riding distance of Antibes, But not any more. Portugal, whence I moved eight years ago, fares better but suffers from a lack of top grade races. But at least there's a Bullfight on Friday nights in Summer to compensate, Cyclo-Cross has held up well, particularly in Flanders, but Six-Day, where I sometimes got roped in as Stayer, has nosedived until there is nothing left but a shell of the former calendar. As Tennyson wrote: "The old order changeth, yielding place to new,,," and I wouldn't mind betting that in the not too distant future, having regard to demographics and Cultural Enrichment, the Tour de France will be ridden on Camels. -- Davey Crockett aka SlackRat http://inconnu.freeshell.org/Sig/slackware.jpg |
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Must Be The Season of the Mud
On 20/09/2017 6:02 AM, Tom Kunich wrote:
The grand tours are over. The smaller races have been pigeon-holed between the end of the season and the first heavy rains. So it must be the time of year for riders to be training for cross rides. So what's up Doc? Well, I believe there is the World Road Racing Championships on at present. Seen nothing here about that! |
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Must Be The Season of the Mud
Gerrit 't Hart a écrit profondement:
| Well, I believe there is the World Road Racing Championships on at | present. | Seen nothing here about that! Lookee he https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2g-PKcggpnk There's about 20-30-40 Hours Coverage on this URL That's if anyone is interested. Just be watchful - there are prior years here too.... (Davey isn't) However, Davey will be back in Portugal January 1 for next season and promises to post daily race coverage on RBR in advance as much as possible. -- Davey Crockett aka SlackRat http://inconnu.freeshell.org/Sig/slackware.jpg |
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