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Live from France
France 2010: Final Day – the Aubisque and Marie Blanque
Sadly our last day was upon us. I’d not had anywhere near enough riding so was glad to be heading out for a final long hit out in delightful warm France. I keenly felt the approaching return home as I’d been told it was miserable, cold and wet in Melbourne. Yuck. We made the plan to hit [...]
2010 TDF: Stage 18 from the road
After the let-downs of Stage 16 and Stage 17 (at least in terms of photos, and compared to last year), we headed into Salies-de-Béarn for the start of Stage 18. We dropped Andrew off at the Pau train station (which by the way has the BEST croissants I have ever had, EVER – read more here [...]
2010 TDF: Stage 17 from the road
Well, sometimes you plan and make allowances and things just go wrong. Our plan this day was to get to the Col du Marie Blanque, the first climb of the stage and only 30km from where we were staying, and a reasonably steep climb. This would allow me to get good photos (due to the grade) [...]
Le Tour 2010: Stage 16 live from the road
Stage 16: 2010 Tour de France Well, the irony is impressive. After I wrote in my Guide to Cycling in France, for Tour stages, where you plan to ride up a mountain, you MUST ride up a few hours before hand. I also wrote that you can ignore the gendarmerie. Both of these insights proved true yesterday. After driving [...]
Sprint Video from Le Tour
So, our friend Andrew Clark, who rides under the assumed Dutch name of Oondreuw Klook, won a solo sprint into Bielle yesterday, blasting everyone away in the process. It was a sight to behold and the excellent commentary (in Dutch) lends a certain extra excellence to Klook’s solo sprint breakaway win.
L’Etape Du Tour 2010 Report and Video
June 2010: Cold, raining Melbourne. “Boy, I can’t wait to get to France for L’Etape. We should be able to improve on last year’s 1800th position. It’s going to be so warm, with lazy days filled with riding, Le Tour and croissants”. July 18th, 2010. 5AM. “Awesome, I can’t wait to see the broken souls on the [...]
