Category: Cycling
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Tour de France 2014 Stage 1 – Yorkshire En Fête
Depart London 5am. Arrive North Yorkshire 9.30am. Get lost a little because of road closures, and then find a nice little place to park. Then take a three mile hike onto Grinton Moor (or Cote de Griton Moor as the French both renamed and mispelled it). Realise that you really should have brought your bike…
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Pantani: The Accidental Death of a Cyclist
Photo: A blurred image taken at the 1995 Tour de France. Pantani was in the peleton somewhere, although almost certainly not in this image. See below for more. A few days ago, I was watching a stage of the Giro D’Italia live on Eurosport. It was a mountain stage – one of three stages in…
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Women’s Tour of Britain – Stage 4 – Cheshunt to Welwyn (via Hertford)
In spite of the decidedly uncertain weather prospects, I headed out to Hertford this morning for the fourth stage of the inaugural Friends Life Women’s Tour of Britain. Hertford constitutes “on my doorstep” in terms of these things, and the obvious place to go was on the climb out of Hertford. I got there unnecessarily…
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Women’s Tour of Britain – Stage 2 – Bedford
On a fairly wet Thursday, I travelled up to Bedford to see the end of the second stage of the inaugural Friends Life Women’s Tour of Britain. Such has been the paucity of strong events (and lack of equality with the men), that this is already a contender for the biggest stage race in the…
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Mud in Trent Park
Mud in Trent Park from Adam Bowie on Vimeo. Here’s a short video I shot yesterday morning to test my Sony Action Cam with the Joby Action Clamp and Locking Arm. I bought the Sony AS15 last year in a cheap deal on Amazon. In many respects, it’s highly specced compared with the Go Pro…
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Blaze Laserlight – A First Look
Back in November 2012, I backed my first Kickstarter project – the Blaze Bike Light – and today it arrived fresh from manufacture in China. Blaze Laserlight – A First Look from Adam Bowie on Vimeo. Now known as the Blaze Laserlight, its description basically explains what it does. It’s a regular bike light with…
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Rapha Super Cross – Ally Pally
Lots of fun to be had watching the cyclocross at Alexandra Palace yesterday. I took a ridiculous number of photos, and cut them down to just 138 which are in the slideshow above.
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The Armstrong Lie
I’ve been watching the Tour de France for as long as I can remember. Back in the eighties, I readily adopted the new sports that Channel 4 brought to air – cycling, NFL, although perhaps not kabbadi. I certainly remember seeing Greg Lemond beat Lauren Fignon in a final stage time trial in 1989, to…
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space4cycling
Earlier this evening, while the House of Commons debated the Get Britain Cycling report, the LCC organised a massive cycle ride around the Houses of Parliament. The demonstration of something like 5000 cyclists was to make the case for road planning and traffic infrastructure to properly take cyclists into account. This certainly hasn’t happened to…
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London Surrey Classic
Some photos from Sunday’s Prudential London Surrey Classic men’s road race. Some more photos over on Flickr.
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Alpe d’Huez
In anticipation of today’s double ascent of Alpe D’Huez, I made this T-shirt last night. I did make a Ventoux one prior to the weekend too – no photos yet though.
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Olympics Day 5 – Wiggo
OK. I didn’t get to watch anything live today. It was a busy work day – but more of that later tonight. However I did manage to catch Bradley Wiggins’ awesome time trial ride. Coming 10 days after his victory in the Tour de France, he’s clearly an outstanding athlete. Wonderful Bradley leading the charge…