Taking the Pros on a training spin

HungryCol
HungryCol Posts: 532
edited July 2007 in Pro race
This may have been posted here already but I just can't stop reading it...

About a guy who took the CSC team on a training spin around his club route last weekend before the race... Magic stuff... Click on the link below...

http://www.addiscombe.org/members/ph...er=asc&start=0
Every winner has scars.

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  • andy_wrx
    andy_wrx Posts: 3,396
    That link doesn't work for me - says page doesn't exist.

    I note it's in 'members' sub-area of the Addis site though ?
  • Bronzie
    Bronzie Posts: 4,927
    It was in Pro Talk "Check this out" last Friday (see that's why we don't need separate sections for Race / Pro Talk / Pharmacy!!)

    http://www.addiscombe.org/members/phpBB ... sc&start=0
    It's a Lifestyle! -+-+- Coggan Training Levels
  • Bronzie
    Bronzie Posts: 4,927
    ..................and yes, it's just about the coolest thing I've read in a long while. Bet you think "Lucky sod" to yourself when you read it :D
    It's a Lifestyle! -+-+- Coggan Training Levels
  • andy_wrx
    andy_wrx Posts: 3,396
    Hmmm, and I thought I'd done well to get myself Village+Mall passes on Sunday morning...
    :cry:
  • squired
    squired Posts: 1,153
    It even made the local papers:

    http://www.croydonguardian.co.uk/news/l ... roydon.php
  • PeteinSQ
    PeteinSQ Posts: 2,292
    I love that thread and story. What a dream for any amateur club rider!
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  • Bronzie
    Bronzie Posts: 4,927
    Our club went out en-masse to watch the Four Days of Dunkirk finish in Mont Cassel this May. We had to scarper back on the bikes as soon as the race ended to get back to Calais to catch our ferry. Most of the riders had only just finished, and indeed, the "laughing group" was still on the road..........but the gendarmes let us through anyway.

    Riding back out of town, I found myself sat behind Roger Hammond riding back to his team car...........I just couldn't bring myself to overtake him........it just felt wrong! He was only doing 12mph so I just sat behind him until he turned off 8)
    It's a Lifestyle! -+-+- Coggan Training Levels
  • Toks
    Toks Posts: 1,143
    HungryCol wrote:
    This may have been posted here already but I just can't stop reading it...
    Yep neither can I. Its absolutely the coolest cycling post this year. Lets be honest even if you got past the security guards what would be the chances of attending a Man United or Real Madrid training session. Chapeau to Addiscombe 3rd Cat Adam C and best of all 2nd cat George Brent
  • ajohn9
    ajohn9 Posts: 260
    Met a guy at the tour in london who took liquigas out for a ride, he was rather pleased, as i reckon most of us would be!
    was it just members of addiscombe who took teams out?
  • PeteinSQ
    PeteinSQ Posts: 2,292
    Still can't believe those stories. Great photos with liquigas too.
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  • ajohn9
    ajohn9 Posts: 260
    fantastic!, im proper jealous
  • Monty Dog
    Monty Dog Posts: 20,614
    Read the CW story about the guy taking the Caisse d'Epargne team on a 3 hour ride through the Surrey Hills, complete with team car and support wagon and him getting totally blown-out on Box Hill - he'll drink-out on that story for years.
    Make mine an Italian, with Campagnolo on the side..
  • timoid.
    timoid. Posts: 3,133
    I know the fella and he's gone on my old club run (I used to be an Addiscomber), so it was surreal even reading about it. Couldn't help grinning though.
    It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired. You quit when the gorilla is tired.
  • knedlicky
    knedlicky Posts: 3,097
    AJC_Prima Donna Sprinter writes at the end of his wonderful story:
    "the weekend was young, there were beers to be had on Whitehall, Duffers and JaJa to meet, A girl to chat up, and then a fantastic jaunt through kent"

    Well I hope he did meet JaJa to add to his great experience.*

    When JaJa (Laurent Jalabert) first retired, he became a rep for Look, whose bikes he'd ridden for many years. In 2003, as part of a campaign to increase Look sales, he visited a bike-parts wholesaler hereabouts for a couple of days, who privately invited a few local enthusiasts to a ride with JaJa one Sunday morning.

    About 20 invitees turned up. After the ride, JaJa then had coffee and cake at the nearby bikeshop of a friend of mine.
    During the ride, JaJa mostly took it easy, climbs included, but on the one real descent, a drop of only about 600 ft, he went down at such a pace that no one could hold on to him.

    As souvenir of that day, I have a musette (a car with another Look rep accompanied everyone and about halfway along gave out food musettes).



    *and get the chat-up in too.
  • Toks
    Toks Posts: 1,143
    Monty Dog wrote:
    Read the CW story about the guy taking the Caisse d'Epargne team on a 3 hour ride through the Surrey Hills, complete with team car and support wagon and him getting totally blown-out on Box Hill - he'll drink-out on that story for years.
    Keep up Monty! the George Brent chillin with da pro's story has been done on two different threads now.Thats why they call us ACC members the agreeables :wink: George's autobiographical account is much better than CW's write up of his one in a life time ride!

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