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3 weeks ago | 
road.cc | Steve Thomas |George Hill |Vecchio Jo |Ryan Mallon
My spangly new size 47 torture devices suddenly transported me straight back to a spring evening ride of 1981, when a young me traded his teenage kicks for a red village phone box while in near-tearful, excruciating pain. It’s strange, as I struggle to remember things from a couple of hours ago nowadays, but every teeth-grinding moment of that foot-crippling ride suddenly came flooding back in vivid technicolour.
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1 month ago | 
road.cc | Steve Thomas |Vecchio Jo |Ryan Mallon |George Hill
Scrapping the UCI Track Champions League, eye-watering pay-for-view price hikes, and more – has the UCI handed over too much power to Warner Bros. Discovery? There’ll be no more of those spangly glitter balls, alcopops-infused 1980s disco, swirling Ibiza rave lights, or shots of Lycra-clad Darth Vaders battling it out on the boards of the après dark velodromes of Europe.
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1 month ago | 
road.cc | Vecchio Jo |Ryan Mallon |George Hill |Steve Thomas
VecchioJo has an attack of the (not) blues Give me wind, give me rain, give me cold, give me heat, give me something to feel against my skin. I can’t ride into the bland indifference of grey any more. I am blithely cursed by being both English and a cyclist, so all I can talk about is the weather.
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1 month ago | 
road.cc | Ryan Mallon |George Hill |Steve Thomas |Vecchio Jo
The Ultimate Gospel Pass Audax is the first in the series I need to get less fat. There are many learnings from Saturday’s Ultimate Gospel Pass Audax, but that’s the main one, really. Back when I was staying in third cat races a few years back I was down to about 91kg, but now I’m well into three figures again, after telling myself I’d never let that happen. I’m not angry, just disappointed. I’m never going to fly up the hills but heck, that was hard work.
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1 month ago | 
road.cc | Ryan Mallon |George Hill |Steve Thomas |Vecchio Jo
“That’s that. And there was nothing we could do about it.”Uttered as the villainous Tommy DeVito lies face down and lifeless on a garage floor, the victim of his own frightening excesses, the film that line originates from, Martin Scorsese’s gangster epic Goodfellas, was shot in the spring of 1989.
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1 month ago | 
road.cc | George Hill |Steve Thomas |Vecchio Jo |Rebecca Bland
Before 2022 I lived in London, and it was bloody brilliant for cycling. I had routes and routes of high quality and well-thought-out cycling infrastructure. I was using the Q1 Quiet Route before it was Q1, and I was one of the first cyclists using the new bike lanes over Blackfriars. For anybody who complains that they aren’t used enough, all you need to do is sit beside almost any piece of cycling infrastructure in central London for five minutes and you will see dozens of cyclists using it.
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2 months ago | 
road.cc | Steve Thomas |Vecchio Jo |Rebecca Bland |George Hill
Bright lights were shone into my face, and as I struggled to roll my eyes sideways, I could see two masked and cloaked figures standing over me and speaking in a foreign tongue. One of them had a small hammer and chisel in his hand, the other grabbed a chuck key and locked a drill bit in place before revving up his Black & Decker. What the proverbial was going on, what the hell was I going to endure now?
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2 months ago | 
road.cc | Vecchio Jo |Steve Thomas |Rebecca Bland |George Hill
VecchioJo expounds upon the art of looking good on the bike There is a word that seems to have completely vanished from the cycling lexicon, and it feels like it’s not just the word but the entire concept which has been lost to the weeds in the verge. That word is 'souplesse'. It’s more than a word, though. It’s a concept, a value, an ideal... or at least it was.
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2 months ago | 
road.cc | Vecchio Jo |Steve Thomas |Rebecca Bland |George Hill
VecchioJo expounds upon the art of looking good on the bike There is a word that seems to have completely vanished from the cycling lexicon, and it feels like it’s not just the word but the entire concept which has been lost to the weeds in the verge. That word is 'souplesse'. It’s more than a word, though. It’s a concept, a value, an ideal... or at least it was.
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
road.cc | Vecchio Jo
Last Christmas, you gave me a useless bike part. But the very next day, I gave it away. This year, to save me from tears, please give me something special We may earn affiliate commission from some of the links on this pageIt’s that time of year again, when people try to hide their regret about having any kind of hobby behind the thin veneer of a grateful smile during the traditional giving of gifts, and it’s even more traditional mild disappointment.
