tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72740220180347065642024-03-13T16:10:20.760+11:00tourdelygonAn occasional cycling blogAdrianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14941863851645900919noreply@blogger.comBlogger980125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7274022018034706564.post-25191298192277686202017-08-08T13:08:00.004+10:002017-08-08T13:08:44.151+10:00Rapha bought by Walmart family<ol>
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News that Rapha has finally been sold for a cool $200 mil has been reported. <br />
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Not everybody is happy it seems judging by some of the social media responses:<br />
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"I’ve been a Rapha fanboy for a long time. I am an RCC member, and am eagerly anticipating the opening of the club here in Los Angeles. But, this with the Waltons..they’re the family that begs for deregulation in every sense, fights any kind of unionization, pushes back on any increase in wages for their workers via minimum wage increases, and then has the audacity to fight the higher taxes that then subsidize the social safety net needed to buoy their underpaid employees lives and keep them solvent.<br />
The capital for this deal was made entirely on the backs of those folks. 1,500,000 of them that work for an average of $13.69 an hour. <br />
The Waltons suck for reasons that are much bigger than cycling."<br />
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Many thanks to all for the good riding and good company throughout the year.</div>
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Looking forward to more of the same in 2017!</div>
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<br />Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16494948918863703619noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7274022018034706564.post-12204056862826200142016-11-21T08:14:00.002+11:002016-11-21T08:14:25.609+11:00Scenes from Reverse Giro della Donna 2016<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16494948918863703619noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7274022018034706564.post-90964224302957046862016-11-17T13:11:00.001+11:002016-11-17T13:11:55.175+11:00Summer appears....finally!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16494948918863703619noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7274022018034706564.post-62457396040346923312016-11-14T09:09:00.000+11:002016-11-14T09:09:02.252+11:00Bass Coast Challenge 2016<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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From Red Kite Prayer: <a href="http://redkiteprayer.com/2016/11/the-bucket-list/">http://redkiteprayer.com/2016/11/the-bucket-list/</a><br />
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One of the hallmarks of first-world life is the bucket list. Only people living in the first world can contemplate a list of great accomplishments that their lives will somehow be incomplete without having experienced. For most of the rest of the world, just living a life free from poverty and food insecurity is pretty darn good. If you can add a good education for yourself and your kids, you’ve done awfully well.<br />
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For many of us, there’s this list of Forest Gump-like accomplishments that when aggregated would have been unthinkable for most Americans and Europeans just 30 years ago. Nothing against that list. I want to see the world and its incredible diversity.<br />
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What ought to make up that list? That’s a fair question. For cyclists, it’s frequently dominated by the big. Climbing l’Alpe d’Huez, the Col du Galibier, the Telegraphe, the Tourmalet. It’s hard to knock that desire. Certainly, I succumbed to it. The siren song of the Col de l’Iseran gave me one of the most uncomfortable days I’ve had on the bike. The snow, the hoarfrost, the bitter cold, they make for a great story, but it’s not a ride I want to do again … at least, not in those temperatures.<br />
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I’m as guilty of selling the suffering as anyone out there. It’s in suffering, in our supplication to a larger effort, the effort to strip the world down to its least denominator that we learn startling truths about ourselves. Those efforts can reveal much about how we define ourselves, the achievements that give us satisfaction, the terms we use to define our lives. So while there’s a real and valuable place for those pursuits in our lives, I admit that there are times when I wonder if it shouldn’t be balanced with other exploits that demand not quite so much of us.<br />
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This notion has been rattling around in my gray matter for almost 20 years. When I was younger, I wanted nothing but the toughest challenges I could throw myself at. Anything less seemed like a wasted opportunity. Then one day on a climb in the Vercors tour company owner Glenn Erickson confided in me, “The high Alps are what people come to ride. It’s the gentler rides here in the Vercors that get them coming back.”<br />
It made no sense to me at the time.<br />
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Fast forward a couple of years and the final day of yet another Erickson trip saw me climbing mountains in the Cote d’Azur. These climbs, compared to the leviathans of the Tour, were more modest in both elevation and grade. Rather than three hours in ascent, these more modest mounts required but an hour, and on the drop, their grades, which never top six percent, made descending a playful exercise where gravity seemed not so deathly.<br />
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The same experience played out a few years later in the Pyrenees. While climbing the Tourmalet and Marie Blanque sold the trip, the most enjoyable riding was in the Basque Country near the coast, where the climbs didn’t pierce the sky, the sloping roads looped and wound back toward town and velocity seemed not so terminal.<br />
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I’ve just returned from a week of riding in Corsica and I find myself asking the same thing yet again. Why don’t more cycling vacations focus on a really enjoyable riding? I respect that many tour providers out there try to keep the rides short enough so that they don’t become death marches over multiple <em>hors categorie</em> climbs, but what I don’t understand is why more tours don’t focus on the Western Pyrenees, the Cote d’Azur, Corsica.<br />
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The Corsican terrain was the sort of breathtaking that only happens when mountains drop into the ocean. And steep, a term that’s as relative as spice, isn’t how anyone describes these roads. The velocities aren’t terminal, the turns consistent, cambered.<br />
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As valuable as it is to take time off to stretch oneself, there’s something to be said for heading out for a ride in a foreign place in simply reveling in its beauty, relishing what it means to have the good fortune to be alive and riding a bike in a place of unfamiliar charms. There’s as much to be gained by recharging as there is to discharging.<br />
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Proving there's still some sun to be had at the end of the Euro Summer. #happytobehere</div>
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<br />Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16494948918863703619noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7274022018034706564.post-12731693273663521492016-09-14T21:38:00.002+10:002016-09-14T21:38:50.922+10:00Somewhere in Italy...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Stevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16494948918863703619noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7274022018034706564.post-31503718290342508862016-09-14T08:39:00.004+10:002016-09-14T08:39:59.059+10:00Next stop Stelvio...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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No my friend it’s not mountains or valleys</div>
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It’s not broad sweeping views or cobblestoned alleys</div>
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No my friend it’s not Pinarello or Bianchi Pista</div>
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Whom we awkwardly strive to emulate after?</div>
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Is it Coco Chanel or Amani we trust?</div>
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Is it Rapha or Jaggad, Volero and such?</div>
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Excellent lunch in a very modest establishment.</div>
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San Remos version of Crown Casino</div>
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A magnificent 2km bike tunnel on the old rail line</div>
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Another arrow in the climbing quiver</div>
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Ian resting up post lunch...preparing for the afternoon climb</div>
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Beach scene when we arrived last night in San Remo</div>
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First climb of the day...to another hill top village</div>
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Main street San Remo</div>
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View from the road from out of Potas</div>
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Quite cool at the top of the climb</div>
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All ready to tackle the last big climb in Spain.....Angliru</div>
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Tonight's home..the beautiful waterside town of Riano.</div>
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Rugged but beautiful countryside</div>
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A very pretty little town in the Picos de Europa region of Northern Spain</div>
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First climb of the trip...a gentle 20km leg warmer...</div>
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A bunch of Podium Pretenders.</div>
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The Great Contini just looks a little dark.</div>
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