Cycling: issues/noticeboard

[Ladymuck]

OK...

This thread here (it's in the What's On section).

He's a really nice guy too. Has quite a following.

[Sandperson]

Try La Marmotte. Col du Glandon, Col du Telegraphe, Col du Galibier and a jaunt up Alpe d'Huez to finish :)

[Ladymuck]

These are just names of French restaurants!

[Sandperson]

I cried all three times I climbed the Galbier, it's a terrible restaurant.

[Ladymuck]

But did your eyes bleed?

[Sandperson]

I was sweating blood.

[Ladymuck]

As you say, a terrible restaurant. Yet you ventured 3 times. Places you in the category of "freak" I'm afraid.

[felt-tip]

here you go (from Wiki):

Every year there are amateur races to climb the mountain as quickly and often as possible in 24 hours, the Ventoux Masterseries and "Les Cingl?s du Mont Ventoux". On May 16, 2006, Jean-Pascal Roux from B?doin broke the record of climbs in 24 hours, with eleven climbs, all of them from B?doin.

Each climb is about 20km with 1.7km of ascent. That is like climbing Everest on a bike in 24 hours - TWICE.

[Ridgley]

It works both ways ImpetuousVrouw, some cyclist think that stopping at the lights does not apply to them and then they go on and all most hit a pedestrian I have had a few altercations with cyclist because of this and they have the gall to have a go at me and they are in the wrong for jumping the lights, also my biggest bugbear is cycling on the pavements I thought this was illegal.

[Pearson]

Ridgley Wrote:

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> It works both ways ImpetuousVrouw, some cyclist

> think that stopping at the lights does not apply

> to them and then they go on and all most hit a

> pedestrian I have had a few altercations with

> cyclist because of this and they have the gall to

> have a go at me and they are in the wrong for

> jumping the lights, also my biggest bugbear is

> cycling on the pavements I thought this was

> illegal.

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^ what is that all about.

Were chatting about big hills!

[Ridgley]

It was regarding a previous thread he wrote Pearson

[taper]

Some idiot cyclist this morning at 8:45: heading north, goes through a red light on the top of dog Kennel Hill at full tilt, very nearly hits a DKH schoolgirl crossing on a green man. Apologises as he continues over said junction. A few weeks earlier, a similar stripe of idiot heading south across the same junction at roughly the same time goes through a red, hits a van and piles into the barrier outside DKH school.

Lots of idiots out there, on foot, bike and motorised transport. Something in that junction brings it out of them.

Stop at freaking reds. And slow down.

[Ladymuck]

> Each climb is about 20km with 1.7km of ascent.

> That is like climbing Everest on a bike in 24

> hours - TWICE.

Sounds bonkers to me, but whatever cranks your engine...

What about altitude sickness and all of that? Doesn't it affect you? I remember climbing (on foot) in the Peruvian Andes and frightening hubby by suddenly passing out for several minutes and subsequently being very, very sick. Horrible.

[Ladymuck]

> my biggest bugbear is

> cycling on the pavements I thought this was

> illegal.

It most definitely IS illegal Ridgley (except where it is not - if you know what I mean).

[Pearson]

Wao, check this out, looks like a bundle of fun:

Scalextric Track Cycling

[felt-tip]

LM - it has already claimed one cyclist but not through altitude sickness I dont think:

"The mountain achieved worldwide notoriety when it claimed the life of British cyclist Tom Simpson, who died here on July 13, 1967 from heat exhaustion caused by a combination of factors including dehydration (caused by lack of fluid intake and diarrhea), amphetamines, and alcohol, although there is still speculation as to the exact cause of his death. He began to wildly weave across the road before he fell down. He was delirious and asked spectators to put him back on the bike, which he rode to within a half mile of the summit before collapsing dead, still clipped into his pedals."

[Ladymuck]

Gosh - how dreadful.

I'm willing to bet that the amphetamines affected his heart and were more than a minor contributing factor in this. Very sad.

[John247]

Tom Simpson was a household name in the 1960s. He was a winner of the BBC's Sports Personality of the Year. This link to the Telegraph has more info about him - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/columnists/brendangallagher/2316933/Tom-Simpson-haunts-Tour-40-years-on.html and I can recommend the following book - http://www.amazon.co.uk/Put-Me-Back-My-Bike/dp/0224080180

['bout now]

Death on a mountain was on bbc4 last night. Should be repeated soon I would have thought.

[Ladymuck]

I'd never heard of him until this thread. The only famous cyclist I really know of is this guy.:-S

[Sandperson]

I've got a copy of the Tom Simpson book if anyone wants a read. Barry Hoban was his team mate and went on to marry his widow! Hoban was a legend too.

[Ladymuck]

Is it a biography?

[Sandperson]

Yes, wrapped around the story of his death.

[Ladymuck]

Sounds interesting...but not a touch morbid?

[Sandperson]

Ok, well I'm not forcing you to read it. ::o