rmw
Viscount
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Post by rmw on Sept 15, 2015 19:31:40 GMT
chilterncyclingfestival.com/veloclassique/
I rode this sportive in simply atrocious Bank Holiday weather. It was a super event, somewhat deluged, but the welcome was warm. I am very pleased with the official photographer's very clear picture of my Viscount. It's an Aerospace Sport, 1978. www.mightyquinnphotos.com/p322887419#h5593f431 I rode twelve miles from home (in the rain) and did the short ride, 30 miles (in the rain). Well signed route, and when reports came in of a sign missing, someone was straight out to rectify. Lots of lovely grub at the feedstop - bananas, flapjacks and malt loaf. Friendly, drenched people dishing out the grub and filling water bottles. Lots of families - as I toiled up the last hill to the finish line a group of cheerful boys offered encouragement "Keep going, you're nearly there" and "They give you a glass of wine when you finish". They were right, a glass of fizz was handed up to me.
I hung around the festival for a bit, and also took the tour of Chenies Manor, they had a special rate for wet cyclists. Then I rode home, and the rain had finally stopped.
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Post by velocipete on Sept 16, 2015 6:03:14 GMT
Excellent picture.Wet and hills,not my favorite combination.You did well to keep smiling! Cheers, Pete.
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Post by 54roadie on Sept 17, 2015 6:21:53 GMT
What a great picture! it does look as if you were having a good bit of fun in the rain, feeling like a kid again, maybe?
A while back I read a review of a new, UK only frame design by Kinesis. All aluminum, with just enough room for 700 x 25mm tires and full mudguards. The designer said that something to the effect that it's only UK frame designers who still know how to build a race capable frame that still has room for the mudguards. Your pic demonstrates why very clearly.
Frank
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Post by oldroadietehachapi on Sept 21, 2015 18:29:09 GMT
Great pictures of what must have been a great ride. Of course it looks very cold to a California boy; I think for me, hot coffee would have been better than the fizz. I must confess that I have not ridden in the rain since 1990. It was a metric century; the paper route instructions turned to soggy lumps, turns were marked by high tech paper plates (also soggy and limp). The result was a wrong turn which made my groups metric century more of a full century. I bonked, we did not have fizz or coffee; all in all, it was not pleasant. In my old age I even hide from the cold; I have become such a wimp :-)
Cheers Jim
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rmw
Viscount
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Post by rmw on Oct 27, 2015 18:32:39 GMT
The photographer was very droll, so I am actually laughing at his banter, rather than just giving my usual idiotic grin. The route map is in the plastic bag in the map clip on my bars.
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