Monthly Archives: August 2006

Tour of Britain – This Weekend!

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Tour of Britain

Britain?s towns and cities play host to cycling?s elite between 29 August and 3 September as the Tour of Britain returns for another year. Sixteen teams will battle it out over six days of gruelling riding through spectacular and demanding countryside. The winner will be crowned on the podium in The Mall, London on Sunday 3 September.

If you are in London this Sunday Sep 3rd I’d suggest heading to one of the Royal Parks or Buckingham Palace to check out the final stage of the Tour of Britain.

Of course if you are in any of the other locations do the same (just that most Aussies don’t know Britain exists outside London).

I wont be in town so Mal, my roving reporter – with her flashy new Canon (can I have it.. please!?), will be covering the event for me. Nice.

www.tourofbritain.com

The JMC Story

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Jason McRoy

The short, but eventful, life of Jason McRoy ended tragically on August 24 1995, when his Harley Davison motorbike was in collision with a lorry at Woodhead Pass on the A628 in Derbyshire. Jason was more than a son to me, he was my best mate, he was my hero. When he died, a part of me died with him; but a part of Jason lives on in me, and is his inspirational life that has given me the strength to carry on.

This is Jason’s story: www.jasonmcroy.com

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Interesting List of Tour Cheats

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1924 – The first drug revelations, when Pelissier and his brother Francis quit. ‘Do you want to see how we keep going?’ Henri asks the journalist Albert Londres, taking a flask out of his bag. ‘That’s cocaine to go in our eyes, chloroform for our gums, and do you want to see the pills? We keep going on dynamite. In the evenings we dance around our rooms instead of sleeping.’

Party time!

1953 – At the summit of the Tourmalet in the Pyrenees, the tiny climber Jean Robic is handed a feeding bottle filled with lead, weighing 10kg, so that he can gain ground on the descent.

And riders today complain about the UCI’s minimum weight restriction. Pah!

observer.guardian.co.uk – pills, spills and bellyaches – a cheat’s guide to the Tour

Do I wait to be tagged? Hell No!

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Rather than looking for accomodation in Glasgow (other than sleeping at Prestwick Airport!) as I should be doing, I’m procrastinating. RA’s blog helped me waste some time tonight with this. Souvlaki and Sardines this may not be, but if I can just raise ?25k, I can buy the kebab shop for sale on Uxbridge Rd. No, I don’t know what I’m talking about either..

Rules:

1. Grab the nearest book.

2. Open the book to page 123.

3. Find the fifth sentence.

4. Post the text of the next 4 sentences

5. Don?t dare dig for that ?cool? or ?intellectual? book in your closet!

This quote comes from “Tour De France – The Complete Book of the World’s Greatest Cycle Race” by Margueritte Lazell which I kinda, sorta, accidentally-ish bought on ebay the other day and which happened to be sitting right next to my laptop.

Former winners Stephen Roche and Pedro Delgado were also ready for a crack at a second title, but it seemed no one could rise above the masses to earn the mark of pre-race favourite. Only the race itself could determine that. Lemond finished second in the prologue, giving him a 15-second advantage over Fignon before the real racing started. The Frenchman was not happy, and made a point of criticizing Lemond’s tactics to anyone who would listen.

I'm Back!!

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A very large claw hammer into the sphincter of the person/persons/bots responsible for bringing down my site!

Much has been happening here, but of course I lack memories of most of it. Life is happening too fast for my brain to take notes!

With that in mind, a brief look to the future:

– Bank-holiday drunken havoc at Sarah’s place (For the record, Sarah has taken over the title of Earth’s Coolest Boss)

– Followed next day by crazed-group action (note hyphen location) at Get Loaded in the Park

– The same mental cases (the lads at least) are flying the weekend after to Riga in Latvia for Shaun’s Bucks Party

– A few days later, Mal and I jet off to Makow Podhalanski in Poland for a week to attend her brother’s wedding.

– Around Sep 22nd, Mal and I jump onto another plane, this time bound for Glasgow where we meet Sarah, Dan and Renae, head to Lanark and provide joy and merriment for Shaun and Kat’s knot tying event.

– In between all this I must still attend the “work” thang but at least commuting is being made shed loads cooler riding fixed. The new road-going Raleigh is a weapon! (Aimed at me, yeah, but a weapon nonetheless!). I’ve got some tweaks planned but the main thing I want to sort is drinking on the bike – where do I put my pint glass (or water) on a track bike?!?!

Well, let us hope this site stays up a little longer now (Viagra anyone?)