Ladymuck Posted January 26, 2011 Author Share Posted January 26, 2011 OK...This thread here (it's in the What's On section).He's a really nice guy too. Has quite a following. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/11392-cycling-issuesnoticeboard/page/18/#findComment-404506 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sandperson Posted January 26, 2011 Share Posted January 26, 2011 Try La Marmotte. Col du Glandon, Col du Telegraphe, Col du Galibier and a jaunt up Alpe d'Huez to finish :) Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/11392-cycling-issuesnoticeboard/page/18/#findComment-404509 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ladymuck Posted January 26, 2011 Author Share Posted January 26, 2011 These are just names of French restaurants! Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/11392-cycling-issuesnoticeboard/page/18/#findComment-404515 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sandperson Posted January 26, 2011 Share Posted January 26, 2011 I cried all three times I climbed the Galbier, it's a terrible restaurant. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/11392-cycling-issuesnoticeboard/page/18/#findComment-404517 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ladymuck Posted January 26, 2011 Author Share Posted January 26, 2011 But did your eyes bleed? Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/11392-cycling-issuesnoticeboard/page/18/#findComment-404521 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sandperson Posted January 26, 2011 Share Posted January 26, 2011 I was sweating blood. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/11392-cycling-issuesnoticeboard/page/18/#findComment-404528 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ladymuck Posted January 26, 2011 Author Share Posted January 26, 2011 As you say, a terrible restaurant. Yet you ventured 3 times. Places you in the category of "freak" I'm afraid. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/11392-cycling-issuesnoticeboard/page/18/#findComment-404537 Share on other sites More sharing options...
felt-tip Posted January 27, 2011 Share Posted January 27, 2011 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. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/11392-cycling-issuesnoticeboard/page/18/#findComment-404622 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ridgley Posted January 27, 2011 Share Posted January 27, 2011 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. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/11392-cycling-issuesnoticeboard/page/18/#findComment-404633 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pearson Posted January 27, 2011 Share Posted January 27, 2011 Ridgley Wrote:-------------------------------------------------------> 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.______________________________________________^ what is that all about. Were chatting about big hills! Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/11392-cycling-issuesnoticeboard/page/18/#findComment-404641 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ridgley Posted January 27, 2011 Share Posted January 27, 2011 It was regarding a previous thread he wrote Pearson Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/11392-cycling-issuesnoticeboard/page/18/#findComment-404649 Share on other sites More sharing options...
taper Posted January 27, 2011 Share Posted January 27, 2011 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. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/11392-cycling-issuesnoticeboard/page/18/#findComment-404669 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ladymuck Posted January 27, 2011 Author Share Posted January 27, 2011 > 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. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/11392-cycling-issuesnoticeboard/page/18/#findComment-404674 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ladymuck Posted January 27, 2011 Author Share Posted January 27, 2011 > 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). Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/11392-cycling-issuesnoticeboard/page/18/#findComment-404676 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pearson Posted January 27, 2011 Share Posted January 27, 2011 Wao, check this out, looks like a bundle of fun:Scalextric Track Cycling Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/11392-cycling-issuesnoticeboard/page/18/#findComment-404677 Share on other sites More sharing options...
felt-tip Posted January 27, 2011 Share Posted January 27, 2011 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." Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/11392-cycling-issuesnoticeboard/page/18/#findComment-404689 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ladymuck Posted January 27, 2011 Author Share Posted January 27, 2011 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. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/11392-cycling-issuesnoticeboard/page/18/#findComment-404700 Share on other sites More sharing options...
John247 Posted January 31, 2011 Share Posted January 31, 2011 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 Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/11392-cycling-issuesnoticeboard/page/18/#findComment-405942 Share on other sites More sharing options...
'bout now Posted January 31, 2011 Share Posted January 31, 2011 Death on a mountain was on bbc4 last night. Should be repeated soon I would have thought. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/11392-cycling-issuesnoticeboard/page/18/#findComment-405955 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ladymuck Posted January 31, 2011 Author Share Posted January 31, 2011 I'd never heard of him until this thread. The only famous cyclist I really know of is this guy.:-S Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/11392-cycling-issuesnoticeboard/page/18/#findComment-406030 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sandperson Posted January 31, 2011 Share Posted January 31, 2011 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. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/11392-cycling-issuesnoticeboard/page/18/#findComment-406039 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ladymuck Posted January 31, 2011 Author Share Posted January 31, 2011 Is it a biography? Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/11392-cycling-issuesnoticeboard/page/18/#findComment-406041 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sandperson Posted January 31, 2011 Share Posted January 31, 2011 Yes, wrapped around the story of his death. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/11392-cycling-issuesnoticeboard/page/18/#findComment-406050 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ladymuck Posted January 31, 2011 Author Share Posted January 31, 2011 Sounds interesting...but not a touch morbid? Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/11392-cycling-issuesnoticeboard/page/18/#findComment-406058 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sandperson Posted January 31, 2011 Share Posted January 31, 2011 Ok, well I'm not forcing you to read it. ::o Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/11392-cycling-issuesnoticeboard/page/18/#findComment-406059 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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