Tag: dreams
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Valentine’s Ride
A hot date The Baroudeur Big Ride is like a hot date that keeps coming back for more. Created for new riders, seasoned athletes, or simply the curious; the BBR is a great way of enjoying a chilled Sunday on your bicycle. February’s BBR is the first of many for 2014. It brings together a cheery…
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I just wanna Fly – The Fly6 Way
I took this image and it’s terrible. Yes, in some ways it tells a story, but it lacks any focus and won’t win any prizes, or help us prove anything had there been an accident. Thankfully, there’s Fly6. Taking safety and image quality to another level is this latest innovation from Australia. Perth…
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You Me Bike Ride Now
Quite simply, the sweetest five words you could say to a cyclist. Add a few more people to this and it becomes a party well worth celebrating. Welcome to a ride with the Baroudeurs! Please note, the rides are currently only for Road Cycling. Like all good parties, there are some basic ground rules for group riding…
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Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?
No, not us hungry Baroudeurs, but Shimano. Supposedly as good as a GoPro? I’ll believe it when I see it!
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Baroudeur Big Ride – You vs. Your Gorilla
Fact: riding with a club is more fun than riding alone. Especially in winter. Fancy a ride to Box Hill with the Baroudeurs? Don’t let riding alone drive you up the wall. Come and join us on a Baroudeur Big Ride, an open invite, sociably paced ride with a stop for cake. The next Big…
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95 Miles and No Queen
“This rain, I’m bored of it now,” says Steve, and I nod in agreement. Tough, lean and at 6 foot 3, my physio, Steve, would make an awesome rider. He just looks like he’d smash it on a bike. That’s what I’d like to think. As I sit there waiting for him to return with…
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WHY THE BIKE HATE?
We all know the premise: angry drivers honking, passing aggressively close, shouting from rolled down windows and worse, often with no apparent cause. The defining feature of these encounters is the face looking out from the car wearing a twisted mask of hate. Why? What’s happening? True, some cyclists are d*cks, Cyclists are just people…
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Baroudeurs aren’t always liked
“Baroudeurs aren’t always liked. ‘Again!’ the peloton says to itself when they attack. It is the Baroudeur who hand out the leg ache. Deadly accelerations are their standard. There is no set format for a Baroudeur. Neither a true sprinter, nor a true climber, nor exactly a rouleur, the Baroudeur is all those at once.…
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Cross, but not angry birds
It’s September. The leaves are brown, whilst the mud underneath is soaked like a squishy upside-down cake. So what do you do? As for Ben and Jude, they successfully introduce what their rugged bikes to what they were created for – off-off-road cycling! …
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Singapore Slingers
Call it spontaneity, or a moment of madness; whatever it was, I take a plane to Singapore (SG). Without the bike. Ever since meeting Glenn, the latest member of the Baroudeurs team, I’ve been wanting to go riding around Singapore, Baroudeur style! Perhaps what attracts me is a change to heat, the combination of…
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Bon Anniversaire Le Tour!
Le Tour on the big screen, friends and barbecue. What more could you ask for? The climax to the 100th Tour de France would end for the pros in Parisian twilight. As for us, it is to be a celebration at London’s ‘Look Mum No Hands’ cycling cafe. We almost, almost, almost get side tracked with…
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A Night At The Races
Tuesday nights are racing nights at Hillingdon and the Baroudeurs are coming to the party. I can only imagine that it must be a pretty strange spectacle – a race track in suburban London. For many would-be racers coming in from town, or further afield, it can mean: navigating through the busy streets of Ealing,…
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Alp d’Huez – Twice As Nice
Today sees the Tour take onone of the most majestic mountains in the Alps, le Alp d’Huez. This alone should get cyclists excited. For organisers, ASO, to plan a double bonananza; now that’s got to be a recipe for something extraordinary. We hope. Yesterday’s Time-Trial proved that there’s still a lot to play for. No one seems…
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First Time Ventoux
Today is the one we’ve been waiting for: Stage 15 of the 100th Tour! For the London Baroudeurs it is part of the race we have been quietly anticipating. Nearly 5 years ago an intrepid band of brothers set out to southern France in search for this infamous mountain. Tales of Tom Simpson, and of…
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The Main Event
The first three stages of this year’s TdF took place on the stunning island of Corsica. Three Baroudeurs were fortunate enough to be there and witness the thrill of the 100th Tour and it’s Grand Depart! So when Glenn, one of our overseas brother’s followed this with a trip to England, we simply had to give him…
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Riders Of The North
No Surrey today. Nor Kent either. Instead, it’s a 15K warm up to meet Rob and Captain on the foot of Swains Lane, north London. Even in this sun drenched city, the neighbourhood is still fast asleep. It must seem quite peculiar for people waking up; drawing their curtains, and being greeted by smiling cyclists as they climb this little-big hill. …
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In The Air Tonight
Only Moments To Go It’s just gone midnight and to quote Phil Collins, “I can feel it coming in the air tonight, Oh Lord!” He may not have been singing about the Tour, but it sure is what I’m thinking right now, and I know I’m not alone. With only a few hours to go…
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Cake
The Goods One good thing about riding all year round, is well, besides riding all year round, is that when the summer comes, it’s certainly been worth it. If the Spring Classics herald a call to cycle, then the sunshine which hopefully follows, is a call to test oneself and explore new horizons with confidence. Layers…